New music from XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) in the form of an exhilarating, super compressed, reflective re-assembling of a dozen years working together. Re-animating free improvisation with a Chicago house palette, Deorlaf X is made up of frenetic slabs of mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion, suspended in bouts of possessed reflexive quiet. 

Where the duo’s 2019 release Palina'tufa on Empty Editions focused primarily on a response to the real (and imagined) landscapes of Hong Kong, Deorlaf X is located in Dalston, and specifically at OTO. Wrung through Shaun Crook’s studio over three nights, the recordings dug from XT’s archive aren’t simply ‘duo’ - instead they actively draw on their public and social contexts, involving the influence of audience, engineers and other visiting musicians - Ghédalia Tazartès, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Senyawa, RP Boo and others. “A changing cast of OTO guests, audience and emotions hosted each time in a new London. XT structures sound an ongoing attempt to listen and learn about the rich and transformative affordances of the situations we occupy.” 

The resulting record puts a pin through a dialogue between Abbott and Wright, between histories, potentials, fact, fiction, ideas, friends, audiences, and spaces. The heavy use of referencing recalls the footwork or house traditions of sampling across all manner of influences; what’s recalled is primarily the structures of jazz - Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton - but also Ann Quin, Clarice Lispector, Anna Halprin. What’s created in recall is a kind of diary, a hyper re-membering - a blisteringly warped kind of future music. 

Recorded by James Dunn, Shaun Crook and Paul Skinner. Assembled, mixed and re-recorded 19, 20 and 21 January, 2020 by XT at Lockdown Studio, Cable Street. Engineer Shaun Crook. Sounds/design by XT. Cover painting Leon Kossoff Dalston Junction No.3, June 1973 oil on board, 20.5 x 25 cm. © The Estate of Leon Kossoff.

ROKU026
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Rose Petal Place - Francesca Heart on Sub/Neu

from https://weakmassive.bandcamp.com/album/confidence-breaks

Fullpass Noise

蓮香樓 (第三代)

香港中環威靈頓街160-164號
1996-2022

Recorded: 2019-10-29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Heung_Tea_House

蓮香樓 Lin Heung Tea House 2019-10-29

Flowers Along The Riverside

Bitwig 4, TAL Sampler. Cloud surfing/electrical transmission.

Combus

glamis castle

from the "Rules & Chance Vol. 3" CS (NNF399)
Not Not Fun / 2023

GO GOLD:
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Golden Hallway Music "Hallway River"

René Margraff - Hiccup

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King Of Detachement

marble silence

Marble Silence

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