Kumo

New Release Soon...

The point of this album... it's a tip of the hat, in memory of... all those Artists/Musicians in Bedsits/Squats (any kind of Hovel somewhere between Castle & Mansion...) up and down this country, (England) around the world.. (Earth).. those who made Music/Art ... for no gain at all except the love of it... the people who ran the Fanzines...the Radio Stations that played those cassette releases.. those that bought and listened... long before the internet there was a worldwide community of Artists & People who appreciated something other than the media has to offer... something real...

An Anti Art Production

Not For Fame, Not For Glory (Echo From A Subterranean Youth Rebellion)

Anti Media Foundation & Gypsy - Not For Fame, Not For Glory

Well, it's a remake of my track called Madhouses Sanity from 2019. Did it for fun! Enjoy this one too

Madhauses Sanity 7

This is a taster of the cassette releases on 2nd July...this Friday!

https://sound-space.bandcamp.com/album/sound-space-mixtape

sound~space mixtape-1

Mixtape - 1 taster and cassette mixed by Kumo

This is a taster of the forthcoming album by Kumo - Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) written, and produced by Kumo AKA Jono Podmore.

Over 15 years ago, while working on an album of music based on the dance rhythms of the time, my old friend Uli Gerlach asked if I'd ever thought of investigating earlier dance music, the Foxtrot, Charleston, and so on. The idea stayed with me and, as it has been for so many of us, the lockdowns provided a chance to finally research this music and apply the findings to my own work.

My first discovery was that the essence of this music is a far cry from the superficial glitziness of Strictly Ballroom or the geriatric end-of-pier dancehall. The truth is that these are all slave dances. They all derive from African American culture of the late 19th and early 20th century and carry with them the trauma of slavery and treasured remnants of African culture. 
 
The work culminated in  Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) and an accompanying full-color zine available here:

http://www.psychomat.com/slave-dances-seven-portraits-zine

"Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is an immensely pleasurable, brilliantly sourced weave of rhythm, texture and repurposed, reworked sounds doctored up in his
South London home studio. It is, however, a vital tool for reflection on the
connective history of Black music, remaking connections which have been erased by the habitual omission by whites of black agency in music history and its origins.

There is the sensibility of the gallery of these pieces; one could imagine them as hanging sculptures, or mixed media works incorporating diverse visual elements and materials. However, there is none of the gallery’s white-walled, silent sterility about Slave Dances (Seven Portraits), which is bristling and teeming, kinetic, and, despite the sombre subject matter, joyful, playful even. Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is as delightful as it is educational."

David Stubbs

Slave Dances

Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) Taster

Intro by my good friend Nic - (https://www.twitch.tv/bitterbits)

data mining

In this second volume of Between Lines, the duo Seuil Optique reenacts wanderings with closed eyes from electric flashes. This album is similar to the passage of the nocturnal hours which open imaginaries modulated by a principle of uncertainty. The plans, the lines, the hapax make us cross subtle borders dammed under the creases of the eyelids. Each piece retains the retinal imprint of a chance burnt by electronic transmissions. Between Lines 2 promises to be a trajectory that transforms each of our inner pulsations into so many refractory, impromptu and incandescent dialogues.

Sig Valax : Persephone, Modular System, Synths.
Nicolas Tourney : Drones, Synths, Pure Data System.

Seuil Optique - Between Lines 2 - Sampling The Flesh

samurai never dies (instrumental remix)

Signetare

2 - Euclid On The Block

3 - Thirteenth Euclid

1 - South African Euclid

Electronic Healing 2

First proper track utilising mx new Roland JX-08 synth.
Track arranged on the fly & mixed on Behringer Xenyx mixer.
Bassline: Roland JX-08
SH 101 style subtle melody: Roland JX-08
Prominent acid line: MAM MB33
Vox synth: Waldorf Blofeld
Drums: Elektron Model Samples
External Effects: T.C. Electronic Flashback & Behringer Xenyx mixer internal reverb.

Photo: Gianluca Grafton.

Die Himmelspforte

In ricordo del mio amico e maestro Claudio Coccoluto

SeA (Dedicated To Claudio Coccoluto)

Written and produced by Matthew Spring (Unisis)

Time Frame

sound~space emanates from a world seemingly on the edge of collapse, where empathy is all but extinct, language has failed, interaction reduced to ‘diss’ and ‘cuss.’ Using discarded frequencies, a sonic resistance creates militant meditations designed for spirit renewal, punctuated with pulses to facilitate bodily propulsion. Tonal analysis reveals tools required for struggle, both internal and external. 
Though you sometimes walk like living ghosts, mourning the future, know that beauty exists in places you wouldn’t dare to look

1 - South African Euclid

sound~space

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