Even by the usual standards of the Independent Music Podcast, this show reaches into the more extraordinary reaches of experimental sounds. From chopped up club bangers, through Brazilian field recordings, via techno abstraction and Russian trap/free jazz, this show gives your ears a really solid workout.

#318 - L’Orange & Namir Blade, Rosso Polare, Spooky-J & Ekhe, Numa Gama, Rob St John

Achromatopsia

Bad Tan

DJ Pitch presents the warped world of their TT label every month, with new and exclusive music from the bleeding edges of the internet and beyond: indefinable club mutations, zeitgeist-collapsing pop edits, & sounds as yet undiscovered.

https://www.nts.live/shows/tt/episodes/tt-28th-october-2022

TT w/ Channel Hole 281022

A beautiful journey through challenging compositions. Global and non generic transitioning through experimental sounds.

https://www.instagram.com/channelhole

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Channel Hole (*LDN x Marseille) - 09-Nov-22

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/large-house/

(photo by Susanna Majuri used here without permission)

When I called this piece “A Large House” it was a title I thought up in a hurry, for no specific reason, and it just seemed to fit. In retrospect, it fits because this piece more than any other made me feel like an architect. I was writing something that was a large space, open, but perhaps with huge pillars holding it up. The piece is stationary, it doesn’t move, it’s grounded in one place, and maybe it even resonates like something with a lofty ceiling. As for any other connection between this piece and a large house, you are welcome to make it as you like.

A Large House

Large House (full) - Janacek Philharmonic, Peter Rundell cond., premiere (2009)

From Another Mother launches a series of unique mixes presenting an idiosyncratic storyline deriving from each guest

The first mix is DJ Marcelle's Secret Recipe - a one hour shimmering of punk attitude, loco drum lines, deep basses and all sorts of tribal vs metallic things banging including opera hints, zips, haunting alarms and rotary phone rings, serving us a taste of her distinctive artfulness in the blending process

DJ Marcelle's Secret Recipe is a part of F.A.M.'s project 'Alloying' http://fromanothermother.xyz

From Another Mother: DJ MARCELLE

Big up:

Aba Shanti I, Disciples, Dubkasm, Mixman, Bush Chemists, Sis Rasheda, Ishan Sound, Gorgon Sound, O.B.F, Henry & Louis. Jonah Dan, Prince Green, Mark Iration, Rootsman and the all dubheads

Ossia "UK Dub Mix" For Berceuse Heroique's Noods residency

Fergus and Dee have never met in person, but through written correspondence and a shared love of songwriting and music, they have come together and continue to work remotely - writing and sharing. The album, MORNINGHAIRWATER was written under lockdown between May and June 2020. A fervent correspondence of lyrics, ideas and sounds between London and Glasgow, musicians Fergus Lawrie of cult band Urusei Yatsura and Dee Sada of NEUMES/An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump come together as Paper Birch to share their mutual feelings of despair, fragility and hope in this collection of nine songs.

The video was shot on 16mm by Scottish filmmaker Grant McPhee who has directed successful music documentaries, ‘Teenage Superstars’ and ‘Big Gold Dream’.

Fergus Lawrie is a guitarist and songwriter who was a founder member of fondly remembered '90s geek rockers Urusei Yatsura who emerged from the celebrated Glasgow 13th Note scene that also fostered bands such Bis, Delgados, Yummy Fur, Mogwai and Franz Ferdinand. Known for their ferocious live shows and burnt out noise pop songs such as 'Kewpies like Watermelon' and 'Hello Tiger' the band released 3 full albums and toured extensively in Europe and America and were Radio 1 favourites recording sessions for John Peel and the Evening Session. In the 00s he released the album Yoyodyne as the band Projekt A-ko with other former members of Urusei Yatsura. He also released three experimental improvised noise rock albums as Angel of Everyone Murder with fellow members Lea Cummings (Kylie Minoise/Kovorox Sounds) and Sarah Glass (The Fnords). As artist Obscure Desire of the Bourgeoisie he presented several large scale installations featuring guitars and electric fans at Northampton Fishmarket, Dundee School of Art and Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. He also co-produced a documentary about the Glasgow experimental noise scene 'Send/Receive' which was featured at Cardiff Arts Festival.

Multi-instrumentalist Dee Sada has created an eclectic and diverse collection of music over the last 10 years and has worked with a number of international musicians. Whilst in percussive noise band, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump, she recorded an album with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. She has also been in electronic duo, Blue On Blue and performance art band ORAL ORAL, which is an ad-hoc group of improv artists that began performing together after a request by artist Wolfgang Tillmans. Dee also performs in the London-based trio, NEUMES who recently recorded a mini album at 4AD studios and supported composer Colin Stetson at the Round Chapel in 2019. She has curated a range of multimedia events which include screenings, spoken word and performances with Raindance Film Festival, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Cafe OTO.

TR056 - Paper Birch - 'Summer Daze'

'Ray' is Ashley Paul's bright, sensual return to Slip: a lifting, delighting suite of yearning winds, loose beats, and cocooning, humid bass coming together and falling apart as songs. 

The LP airs Paul's new trio, alongside bass clarinettist Yoni Silver and bassist Otto Willberg, who fatten out and shine light on her singularly intimate, multi-instrumental with mystery and grace. 2018's 'Lost In Shadows' wrote into the bewildering ecstasy of recent motherhood with a tingling resolve. On 'Ray' - recorded remotely during lockdown - Paul's deliciously hesitant songcraft is an outpouring and an anchor in freshly tumultuous times. 

Says Ashley:

"Over the past six months I’ve found myself needing music in a new way, a way of coping. I found again albums I had loved in the past, full of melody and humour, to cancel out the barrage of terrible news happening outside. I think this album is a reflection of that need. There is the playfulness of spending my days with our four year old, and the hours spent tending to plants in the garden and examining bugs, and also the pain of missing family and friends. It’s hard for me to fully comprehend the breadth of emotion I've felt recently but maybe this is a small window.
The trio idea had been formulating in my head for months, and then lockdown happened. At first I was very disappointed and thought I'd be waiting forever to finally make it a reality, but time passed. I started working on a new album and could only hear it with these guys. We recorded remotely. I sent material in a variety of ways; written, aurally and verbal ideas/queues, sometimes with just a shell of a track and other times nearly completed. I wanted all our voices to be present, and to allow freedom in the parts for interpretation and improvisation. Maybe because we’ve all worked together in various situations and are friends, I’m not sure, but it came together naturally, magically and quickly."

'Ray' [SLP060] is available from November 2020 on LP and download. Painting by Gayle Paul. Design by Ashley Paul. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

LP/DL

Light Inside My Skin - Ashley Paul

It's the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate the occasion and as a welcome signal to the cold season, cellist Okkyung Lee created a spellbinding mix for us. We caught up with the South Korean artist, whose latest album 'Yeo-Neun' is in our list of the stand-out records of the year, to talk about what 2020 has been like for her. Read the interview here: https://www.electronicbeats.net/okkyung-lees-winter-solstice-mix

Winter Solstice Mix by Okkyung Lee

Now I'm floating away... I don't know when I'm going to land

Adrian Rew @ The Lot Radio 01 - 11 - 2021

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

TR056 - Paper Birch - 'Summer Daze'

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