A Lover's Disc-ourse

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Enjoy! (:

Much love, xo

'Eros' For CCMC Radio: 001

Back in my hometown, at my favourite place - 9pm until 2am. 
Here's a 3-hour extract from beginning until peak.
It was made with love (and Amaretto); 

Enjoy! xo

Live at Sousami [extract from 18.12.2013]

Picking up after Randomer at 2am with a bit of a 4-deck experimentation.
Here's the full set! :)

Enjoy, xo

Live at 'Animaux' [full set - 20.2.14]

Buzz Sessions involve intimate after-party plays.

Press play and enjoy! :) 
xo

Buzz Session: 001

I was feeling pretty moody when I recorded this at The Nook, a quaint little bar in the heart of York. Good vibes all around, I can't thank the staff enough for allowing me to play there on a regular basis! x

Enjoy, xo 

ps. Tracklist available, just request one! :) 

Live At 'The Nook' [28.2.2015]

from William Shatner
image:  Wolfgang Tillmans, Blautopf Landscape, 2001

Blue Nile - Mulatu Astatqe & The Heliocentrics
Monolith - The Beta Band
MoneyMaker (Al Dobson Jr Reprise)- Reginald Omas Mamode IV
Robot Dancing - Woo
The Spirit - Pile
Benko - Rocket Juice & The Moon
Melody - Serge Gainsbourg
ya.mahmud [ej jadida mosque mi] - Indiadrop
Elysium - Portishead
Flat Of The Blade feat. Guy Garvey - Massive Attack
Lost In The World [a-rpia-r Edit] - Kanye West
Flowers in May - Kassem Mosse / Simone White
Sun Harmonics - Jon Hopkins
Male Intuition - Melody as Truth
I Carry Your Heart (I Carry It In My Heart)- E.E. Cummings 
Dp - Dan Bodan
Ayllu - The Myrrors
I Am Sky - Laraaji 
Megumi the Milkyway Above (Live)- Connan Mockasin
Treefingers - Radiohead
Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo)- The Beatles
Love's a Bitch - Pierre Adenot
True Love Will Find You In The End - Daniel Johnston 


it hasn't happened yet

post-you, 
post-them, 
post-Athenian.

Image: taken from the sky

Clouds - Lunar/Solar (Joel Anthony Patchett)@bluexiii
I See Who You Are (Mark Bell Mix) - Björk
For My Bird - Elsa Hewitt @elsahewitt
Storm - Rare Silk
On Jupiter - Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra
Seigfreid - Frank Ocean
Pavane pour une infante défunte - Maurice Ravel
House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own - DJ Sprinkles
Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake Remix) - Radiohead
Snowshoe - Dntel
Casyam_59#02 - Gold Panda
Reckoner - Radiohead
Reversing - Four Tet
Coconut - Fever Ray
From the Valley to the Stars -El Perro del Mar
Blackbird - The Beatles
I Had a Dream - Daniel Johnston
Horn - Nick Drake

that could think about dreaming a dream

Finally played on home turf at Sousami after returning to the island for a few weeks! 
It was special :) 

Enjoy, xo

when on home turf, 21.07

Back on the island, playing at my favourite place, my second home - indeed, what would I do without you? 

Thank you to all dancers of the evening, download link is for you x

what would I do without you, 28.12 at Sousami

A recording of my show for QueerPhonie Radio featuring only women and/or queer/non-binary musicians. 

Image: taken on my way to you


Tracklist:
Love Yourself - Ola Szmidt
Blood Orange - Elsa Hewitt
Mustn't Hurry - Fever Ray
Raw Silk Uncut Wood - Laurel Halo
Masseducation (piano version) - St. Vincent
Beat And The Pulse - Austra
Envelop - Julianna Barwick
Billie Holiday - Warpaint
Taking Time - gayphextwin
Never Created, Never Destroyed - Jlin
More Than A Woman - Kelly Lee Owens
No Limits - Angel Haze
Lossy - Ikonika
Senegal Seduction - Charlotte Adigéry
I can mend your broken heart (Kassem Mosse Remix) - Machine Woman
Gladly - Tirzah
Send To Robin Immediately - Robyn
Chanel - Frank Ocean
Viz - Le Tigre
Make Me Feel - Janelle Monåe 
I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix) - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Slow (Subcuts Version) - Yves Tumor
Birdland - Patti Smith

QueerPhonie Radio: i can mend your broken heart

Recording from a warehouse party at Low Profile Studios on the 11th of October 2019; full dancefloor, sweaty bodies. 

PM me if you'd like a tracklist! 

Enjoy,
xo

Recording from Low Profile Studios, 11.10.2019

"This can't go on", defined as "insupportable / unbearable
The sentiment of an accumulation of amorous sufferings explodes in this cry : "This can't go on ... " 

"3. Once the exaltation has lapsed , I am reduced to the simplest philosophy : that of endurance (the natural dimension of real fatigues). I suffer without adjustment, I persist without intensity: always bewildered, never discouraged; I am a Daruma doll, a legless toy endlessly poked and pushed, but finally regaining its balance, assured by an inner balancing pin (But what is my balancing pin? The force of love?). This is what we are told by a folk poem which accompanies these Japanese dolls:

Such is life
Falling over seven times
And getting up eight."

Tracklist: 

Running up that hill - Chromatics
The Ballad of Keenan Milton - Devendra Banhart
Une barque sur l'océan from Miroirs - André Laplante
Can't Run But - Paul Simon
We Float - PJ Harvey
Adrift and at Peace - Nine Inch Nails
Home with you - FKA Twigs
No Surprises - Regina Spektor
Hotline Bling - Rockabye Baby! 
Cry Baby Cry - Ramsey Lewis
That Battle Is Over - Jenny Hval
Modern Romance - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Poster design by Adonis Archontides @ragnanox

Pilot first released on Balamii Radio (London), 08 December 2019

A Lover's Disc-ourse: This can't go on

"E lucevan le stelle"
souvenir / remembrance
Happy and/ or tormenting remembrance of an object, a gesture, a scene, linked to the loved being…

"It is a glorious summer, and I often sit up in the trees of Lotte's orchard and take down with a long pole the pears from the highest branches. She stands below and catches them when I lower the pole."... One day, I shall recall the scene, I shall lose myself in the past. The amorous scene, like the first ravishment, consists only of after-the-fact manipulations: this is anamnesis, which recovers only insignificant features in no way dramatic, as if I remembered time itself and only time: it is a fragrance without support, a texture of memory; something like a pure expenditure, such as only the Japanese haiku has been able to articulate, without recuperating it in any destiny. 

(To gather the figs from the high branches in the garden in B., there was a long bamboo pole and a tin funnel stamped with rosettes that was fastened to it: this childhood memory functions in the same way as an amorous one.)


Tracklist: 

I Get Along Without You Very Well – Chet Baker
Sun in the Morning – Dave Bixby
Oh Baby – LCD Soundsystem
The Feeling When You Walk Away – Yves Tumor
Famous Blue Raincoat – Leonard Cohen
Five String Serenade – Mazzy Star
Song On The Beach – Arcade Fire
Some Things Last a Long Time – Daniel Johnston
life + you – Infinite Bisous
Walk On By – Isaac Hayes
Desert Island Disk – Radiohead
The Suburbs (Continued) – Arcade Fire
Harvest Moon – Neil Young

Poster design by Adonis Archontides @ragnanox

A Lover's Disc-ourse: E lucevan le stelle

The World Thunderstruck 
derealite / disreality 
Sentiment of absence and withdrawal of reality experienced by the amorous subject, confronting the world. 

1.	I. "I am waiting for a telephone call, and this waiting makes me more anxious than usual. I try to do something, but without much success. I walk back and forth in my room: the various objects - whose familiarity usually comforts me - the grey roofs, the noises of the city, everything seems inert to me, cut off, thunderstruck - like a waste planet, a Nature uninhabited by man." 

II. "I leaf through a book of reproductions of a painter I love; I can do so only distractedly. I admire this work, but the images are frozen, and this bores me." 

Ill. " In a crowded restaurant, with friends, I am suffering (an incomprehensible word for someone who is not in love). This suffering comes to me from the crowd, from the noise, from the decor (kitsch). A lid of disreality falls over me from the lamps, the mirrored ceilings," etc. 

IV. " I am alone in a cafe. It is Sunday, lunchtime. On the other side of the glass, on a poster outside, Coluche grimaces and plays the fool. I'm cold." (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an aquarium; I see everything close up and yet cut off, made of some other substance; I keep falling outside myself, without dizziness, without blur, into precision. as if I were drugged . "Oh, when this splendid Nature, spread out here before me, appears as frozen as a varnished miniature . . .")

2. Any general conversation which I am obliged to listen to (if not to take part in) appalls me, paralyzes me. As for this language of the others from which I am excluded, it seems to me that these others overload it absurdly: they assert, object, argue, show off: what have I to do with Portugal, affection for dogs, or the latest Petit Rapporteur? I see the world-the other world-as a generalized hysteria. 

3. To escape disreality - to postpone its advent - I try to link myself to the world by bad temper. I discourse against something: "Landing in Rome, I see all Italy coIlapsing before my eyes; not a single item of merchandise attracts me in the shop windows; walking down the entire length of the Via dei Condotti, where ten years ago I had bought a silk shirt and thin summer socks, I find nothing but dime-store items. At the airport, the taxi driver wanted 14,000 lire instead of 7,000 because it was Corpus Christi. This country is losing on both counts: it is abolishing the differences in tastes, but not the division of classes," etc. Moreover, it suffices that I go on a little further for this aggressiveness, which keeps me lively, linked to the world, to turn to dereliction : I enter the dim waters of disreality. "Piazza del Popolo (a holiday) , with everyone talking, is showing off (isn't that what language is, showing off?), families, families, maschi strutting up and down, a grim and bustling populace," etc. 1 am de trop here, but - and this is a double grief - what 1 am excluded from is not desirable to me. Still, this way of speaking, by a last thread of language (that of the fine Sentence), keeps me on the brink of reality which withdraws and gradually freezes over, like young Werther's varnished miniature (Nature, today, is the City). 


8. Sometimes, in a flash, I wake up and reverse the direction of my fall. After I have waited anxiously in my room in some unknown huge hotel in a foreign country, far away from my habitual little world, suddenly a powerful sentence surfaces within my consciousness: "But what the hell am I doing here?" It is love which then appears to be disreal.  

Tracklist

Boys Don't Cry – The Cure
some limited and waning memory – Christina Vantzou
The Word Love – Gigi Masin
Jay  – Group Listening
Blue Moon (Take 9/M) – Elvis Presley
Your Pond – Emily A. Sprague
She Loves Me That Way – Grouper
Parachutes – Coldplay

Poster design by Adonis Archontides, @ragnanox

A Lover's Disc-ourse: The World Thunderstruck

Self isolating on a Saturday night? 

We did too, with a bit of music on a Facebook live stream.  

Barlic Gutter B2B Gina Piperi B2B Boumaza
Barlic Gutter B2B Gina Piperi B2B Boumaza
Barlic Gutter B2B Gina Piperi B2B Boumaza 

Recorded on the 21st of March 2020 in light of COVID-19.

PM for tracklist! 
xoxo

quarantine, καραντίνα, quarantaine: 001

Boumaza & I clocking in for a Sunday afternoon session whilst in quarantine lockdown! 

Tracklist available, just PM me :) 

Enjoy,
xoxo

quarantine, καραντίνα, quarantaine: 002

I had the pleasure to play with a beautiful cohort of womxn for Our.Ora's livestream in Limassol - 11 pm to midnight spot / closing. 

Check them out here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/our_ora/

DM me for a tracklist & enjoy, xo

Our.Ora Live Stream

Barlic Gutter, the artist formerly known as Kineza, has been making mixes and garlic butter since 2011. Originally from Cyprus (a country not usually known for its garlic butter), you can count on her to entice your dancing rhythm. Often exploring the relationship between genres, she presents the finest of whatever the affair calls for - whether it’s for the two lone survivors of an afterparty or to the masses of a dance-floor. Expect wild drumming, soothing synths, and an open portal to your bleeping ethereal musical cosmos - because everybody likes a bit of garlic butter, even when it’s dairy free.

Having played in Cyprus, the UK, Lebanon, Greece and various radio stations across continents, she’s also shook the crowd several times at the notorious Cypriot festival Afro Banana Republic Festival as well as Fengaros 2022 and induced sweat at various warehouse parties and at venues in London such as the Pickle Factory, The Glove That Fits, and the queer sanctuary that is Dalston Superstore.

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