No Torches

Based on an interview with a friend about his experience of having acute tinnitus.
Co-composed and performed by myself and Steve Truman, Dave Insua-Cao and Kath Ord.

Tinnitus

A commission for Fabienne Hollwege. This piece is included in her multimedia book and performance 'Life, Love and Fragments'.
Original poem by Fabienne Elaine Hollwege
Translated and recited by Wiebke Acton
Music and Production by Brian Acton

Book Commission

Maja English Mix

Goodbye Deutsch Mix

My version of Beck's song from his amazing new album 'Song Reader'.

Please Leave A Light On When You Go

Featuring samples from;
Flaming Lips 'Slow Nerve Action
Pixies ‘Where Is My Mind?’
The Jungle Book ‘Monkey Chase’
Kinderlieder 'Hab ‘ne Tante aus Marokko’

Dumb Luck (the accidental admission of an idiot into paradise)

It's late at night. The moths have found their way into the workshop, and I have limited time to finish my plans before they eat the parchment.

The crunchy sound is a crisp packet.

Rain On The Rusty Workshop Roof

This is a KO joint- ONLY using the PO-33 from Teenage Engineering.
All percussion is recorded from my friend's cottage.
The voice 'Pick it up' is John Wayne, obvs.

The Forester's Step PO - 33

Punk Acid Punk

This track produced exclusively on the OP-Z with a little help of some monks from the PO-33. The OP-Z is such a powerful little machine!
Percussion is a sample pack I recorded of pots and pans being bashed and scraped, with a crumpled plastic bag unfolding for ambient crackles.

The track finishes with a poem by David Whyte entitled 'The Bell and the Blackbird'.

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD
The sound of a bell
still reverberating,
or a blackbird
calling from a corner of a field.
Asking you to wake
into this life
or inviting you deeper
into one that waits.
Either way takes courage,
either way wants you to be nothing
but that self that is no self at all.
Wants you to walk to the place
where you find you already know
how to give every last thing away.
The approach that is also
the meeting itself,
without any meeting at all.
That radiance you have always carried with you,
as you walk both alone,
and completely accompanied in friendship
by every corner of the world,
crying Allelujah.

The Bell and the Blackbird

Another filthy jam from the jaws of the ocean.

Oceanjaws

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