p*dis sampler 2019.09

From the album Only The Now released October 2015. Produced by Gerry Diver.
Written by Tom Robinson, Gerry Diver, Andy Treacey, Adam Phillips)
(p) BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited

"Changes in Legal Aid have come into force... removing funding from family cases, advice on welfare benefits, employment, debt and some housing problems. Lawyers say the cuts will significantly affect access to justice." 
BBC News 2013

Whore:  /hɔːr/  n.
A person considered to have compromised their principles for personal gain, usually money. 
THE FREE DICTIONARY

A Protest March Carnival Song written in 2013 for The Justice Alliance. With outstanding contributions by Billy Bragg, Lisa Knapp, Martin Carthy, Colin Firth and Frank Rollock (TR)

Tom Robinson: lead vocal
Billy Bragg: vocals
Martin Carthy: vocals 
Lisa Knapp: vocals
Colin Firth: newsreader
Gerry Diver: various
Frank Rollock: steel pan

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My Daddy did his articles in 1954
When he began soliciting 
The work stuck in his craw
Enforcing for the bourgeoisie 
He very quickly saw
There's one law for the rich 
And another one for the poor

Rebekah's friends and fortune
Defended her in court 
The shredder lives in luxury 
His millions have bought
But Doreen Lawrence 
had to wait for 18 years and more
There's one law for the rich 
And another one for the poor

The mighty sword of Justice 
Stands high above us all
All citizens stand equal 
Before her mighty laws 
But even mighty Justice 
Has one almighty flaw
There's one law for the rich 
And another one for the poor

Our leaders meet in secret 
Behind a thick blue line
When cops protect the wealthy 
The cost is yours and mine
They infiltrated Occupy 
And crippled them with fines
There's one law for the 1%
And another for the ninety-nine

The mighty sword of Justice...
etc

Now Justice wears a coronet
But Justice is a whore
She puts out for rich gentlemen
Who love to pay her court
And kicks away the crutches 
From beggars at her door
There's one law for the rich 
And another one for the poor
 
The mighty sword of Justice...
etc

There's one law for the rich 
And another one for the poor


TOM ROBINSON - Mighty Sword Of Justice (ft Billy Bragg, Lisa Knapp, Martin Carthy)

On Your Own is the second single taken from Boat to Row's forthcoming album 'Rivers That Flow in Circles'. Arriving as a breath of fresh air at the start of spring, 'On Your Own' takes the listener to sunnier climbs, invoking the laid back vibes of Laurel Canyon in its prime.

The song is an indication of the ambition the band have shown with their new album, following previous single 'Spanish Moss' in propelling the band's song writing and arrangement into new unexplored territories. Breezy guitars are underpinned by a meandering bass line, with the song winding its way through a crescendo of vocal harmonies and drawing to a close with a flurry of brass.

On Your Own features contributions from Birmingham's rising folk star Katherine Priddy on backing vocals, and local brass talent Alexander Polack and Claire Dawes, and arrives in advance of Boat To Row's second album 'Rivers That Flow In Circles' which is set for release on 24th May 2019.

'Rivers That Flow in Circles' follows the release of their 2015 debut album ‘I Found You Here’. Since then Boat to Row have garnered support from BBC 6 Music, Radio 2 and many local stations, as well as receiving glowing reviews from websites as diverse as DIY, The 405, Counteract, Folk Radio UK and Gold Flake Paint. They have toured extensively appearing with acts including Slow Club, Johnny Flynn, Willy Mason, Ryley Walker, Kate Rusby, Tom Williams, Sweet Baboo and graced stages at many of the country’s favourite festivals including Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk, Green Man, Truck, Wood, Moseley Folk, Y Not and No Direction Home.
 
"It's great to hear they're back in style" -
Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"I love this band...glorious stuff" -
Janice Long, BBC Wales

On Your Own

from the album 'equivalents' available aug16

equivalents

loscil 'equivalent 7'

REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

"Skin Game" is the first single from DIIV's forthcoming album, 'Deceiver', out October 4th, 2019.

Deceiver

DIIV // Skin Game

Premiering on @selftitledmag

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2019/07/22/petra-aunis-album-injazero-records/


Pétra is a new collaborative music project from Brian Allen Simon (aka Anenon) and Chantal Chadwick.

The duo’s debut album ‘Aunis’, released 20th September via Injazero Records, incorporates electronic and acoustic instrumentation which draws the listener into dream-like soundscapes and blends ambient sounds, modern composition, and abstract vibrations.

Primarily written, performed, produced, and recorded on the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece in late 2018, Pétra means ‘stone, rock’, and the name of the project was inspired by a chance encounter with the photography of Daniel Boudinet as well as the geological formations of Nisyros. With additional work on the album completed in Loire, France and Mexico City, Mexico, the music is a site-specific reaction to all locales and was arranged in a free-form variety of methods with an improvisational energy being the driving force.

Compositions such as the reverberating ‘Aunis’ rely on ethereal sounds and deep repetition while the fluid ‘Landes’ is a weightless moment of sonic beauty and emotional depth.

Elsewhere, the reactionary ‘Fuzz’ and the meditative, hazy sound explorations of ‘Obsidian’ are hauntingly beautiful, while ‘Tavel’ is reminiscent of the melodic repetition of minimalist pioneers like Steve Reich. 

Los Angeles native Brian Allen Simon, aka Anenon, is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has received critical acclaim for his work from the likes of Pitchfork, The Wire, The Guardian, and more. 

Since his 2012 debut ‘Inner Hue’, Simon has continually and consistently proven his status as an innovator by co-curating an ambient music series at The Museum of Contemporary art in Los Angeles, and releasing critically acclaimed records such as 2016’s ‘Petrol’ and 2018’s ‘Tongue’. An officially sanctioned remix for Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2018 has only cemented this status further.

Chantal Chadwick is a musician, dancer, and founder of Assortment, an agency that supports artists working in photography, motion, and sound with an independent publishing branch for fine art books. 

Prior to founding Assortment, she was co-owner of a small gallery in New York City focusing on emerging contemporary artists. She has been quietly making music under the name Bed for close to a decade, but Pétra will be her first release. She is currently working between Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio.
Cover by Em Kei at Oddd Studio.

Pétra - Aunis

Erased Tapes present 'Handfuls of Night' — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album 'The Imperfect Sea' — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Handfuls of Night began life after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to help raise awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas . A fundraising evening at EartH in Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs named after their feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing contemporary folk inflected ‘Chinstrap’, the mournful and minimalistic ‘Adelie’, stoic and rhythmic ‘The Life of an Emperor’ and the wistful, string-laden ‘Gentoo Origin’.

“This record started with a core of pieces I wrote specifically about penguins in the Antarctic for a project with Greenpeace in autumn 2018. There are four native Antarctic penguin species – each with their own individual characteristics and natures. I carried on from there to envisage a whole anthropomorphised world, where these penguins had narratives and adventures that we soundtracked”, says Jeffes. But both the album and Penguin Cafe as a project have origins that reach further back:

“In 2005 I was asked to join an expedition re-creating Scott’s last Antarctic trip in 1911 for the BBC, using the same Edwardian equipment. I’m no explorer but I was keen, especially as there’s a family link – Scott was married to my great grandmother before she married my great grandfather. 

Antarctica by this stage being a protected environment, we swapped to the Arctic circle where we spent 3 months on the Greenland ice sheet, first dog-sledding and then man-hauling just short of 1000 km at 10,000 feet, across ice fields and glaciers. 

I had lots of time to ponder my life back home. It was then that I decided to get my Master of Music degree and focus on composing music, and also then that I realised that even in the most remote silent places, music can still be a huge part of one’s internal world and imagination.  Whilst on the expedition. I spent days playing things back in my head and also writing new things, which I would then try and write down at the end of the day.”

Handfuls of Night’s tones, textures and melodies evoke otherworldly expanses, which at different junctures are either foreboding, awe inspiring or peaceful. There’s subtly morphing rhythmic repetition throughout, somewhere between minimalism, krautrock and the piano-cascades of label peer Lubomyr Melnyk. Jeffes creates a kinetic, circling motion, which drives the album forward in the form of a musical trip that mirrors the physical journey it was inspired by.

Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. A full biography is available here.
Handfuls of Night is out this autumn amid a string of UK live dates, before taking the album on a worldwide tour in 2020 with more dates to be announced.

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Just in case you hadn’t noticed from the music industry bunker Pledge Music collapsed and took all the pledged music with it. This left many industrious artists adrift.  After the Static Brothers realized that local laurel canyon folkies Boat to Row were caught in this they stepped in to secure the release of their new (second) album.

 

Two years in preparation and working closely with long term collaborator Francis Gorini to mix and master the songs and realize the album artwork, ‘Rivers That Flow In Circles’ is an album that sees that band expanding their musical horizons, from the golden laurel canyon sounds of the latest single ‘On Your Own’, through the ever changing soundscapes of the four movements of ‘Fledgling’, the band have taken every opportunity to develop and redefine their songwriting. Written and recorded through a tumultuous period of lineup changes, corrupted recording hard drives and studio closures, ‘Rivers That Flow In Circles’ captures the band at their resilient best, refusing to know when to quit. Drawing on the talents of band members past and present as well as colleagues from their native Birmingham scene, Boat to Row have created an album which captures their musical explorations perfectly.

 

The last single before the release of ‘Rivers That Flow in Circles’ is 'Moth To The Light', a blast of psych folk that that opens the record, roaring into view with a wonky energy, slowing down just long enough to glide through a chorus or two before disappearing in an off kilter waltz, all in less than two and a half minutes.

'Rivers That Flow in Circles' follows the release of their 2015 debut album ‘I Found You Here’. Since then Boat to Row have garnered support from BBC 6 Music, Radio 2 and many local stations, as well as receiving glowing reviews from websites as diverse as DIY, The 405, Counteract, Folk Radio UK and Gold Flake Paint. They have toured extensively appearing with acts including Slow Club, Johnny Flynn, Willy Mason, Ryley Walker, Kate Rusby, Tom Williams, Sweet Baboo and graced stages at many of the country’s favourite festivals including Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk, Green Man, Truck, Wood, Moseley Folk, Y Not and No Direction Home.

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"It's great to hear they're back in style" -

Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

​

"I love this band...glorious stuff" -

Janice Long, BBC Wales

On Your Own

Boat To Row

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