Sam Wilkes - Pretty

Recorded in Athens, Greece, November 2021

Allon Kaye——Ambiance A

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (SLT-007)

Saltern’s latest offering marks the first-ever release of “lost minimalist” Terry Jennings’ visionary 1960 composition, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, as arranged in just intonation by legendary composer La Monte Young for renowned cellist Charles Curtis. Born in Los Angeles in 1940, Jennings was a close associate of Young, Terry Riley, and Dennis Johnson, and an early adopter of minimalist tendencies, creating slow, sustained music, influenced by jazz, modalism, and late romantic classical music. Jennings died tragically in his early forties, most of his work lost to a chaotic life; however, his forward-looking music quietly exerted a lasting influence on composers including Young and Harold Budd. Composed over sixty years ago, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, foreshadows a number of movements in postwar avant-garde music.

Despite the title, there is no saxophone on this album. At over eighty minutes, La Monte Young’s justly tuned realization of Piece for Cello and Saxophone for cello alone unifies and extrapolates Terry Jennings’ dense harmonies, creating an extended field of complex sonorities in motion, all brought to life by the immaculate playing of Charles Curtis. The recording captures Curtis in a performance from 2016 reflecting more than twenty-five years of dedication to the piece. Piece for Cello and Saxophone is released physically on double LP and digitally with kind permission from MELA Foundation. Mixed by Anthony Burr, mastered by Stephan Mathieu, and cut to vinyl via direct metal mastering by Hans Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics. Pressed at RTI and printed at Stoughton. Includes a four-page insert with liner notes by Young, Curtis, Burr, and Tashi Wada, and a download of the full recording.

Piece for Cello and Saxophone

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (excerpt)

Having fun testing out an awesome PPG Wave 2.2 Digital-Analog hybrid synth from 1982.  The Wave was one of the first commercially available wavetable synths offering wavetable sequencing and lead the way to the Waldorf Wave series and the Korg Wavestation.  Unlike the later derivatives, the early models definitely had a sound of their own thanks to their 8-bit DACs and SSM2044 filters.  The whole thing has a raw yet warm sound about it and can cover a surprising amount of sonic territory.  I have long since loved the unique sound of 8-bit digital audio into analog filters!

NB: This 100% all came out of a PPG Wave 2.2.. but not necessarily in the right order :-]

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2022.

1982 PPG Wave 2.2: Evolutionary Digital..

Discount Heaven House Band

Cassette $8.00
Here: https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/discount-heaven-house-band/

Discount Heaven House Band is an elegy for friends long made and suddenly lost. These are low-lit, ember-glowing vignettes captured during the hours between late night and early morning in Tijuana, Mexico. Played by Alfonso Azcaiturrieta, Ian Collins, and Brandon Ángeles with an appearance by Peter Gray Hurley, the recordings were made in memory of Kiva Ivey, taking on new depth and complexity following the death of Ángeles. Grooving but doleful, extended yet broken, they are loose, ludic, and ever-unfolding. Thick basslines bend under the shuffle of a rhythm box, pangs of melodica cut through glittering synth aureoles. Emissions from a celestial lounge act, misty and hypnotic, to accompany a final ascension.

Discount Heaven House Band - Live At Las Pulgas

Prestonian singer songwriter Rainy Miller presents the progress check, a bi-monthly show playing an hour of archived experiments and influences.

https://www.nts.live/shows/rainy-miller/episodes/rainy-miller-16th-july-2023

Fixed Abode w/ Rainy Miller 160723

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Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot

The first single from the new album by Melquíades (@soundsofmelquiades), titled ‘Keep A Seed’, which will be released on 3.05.19 on tape and digital.

Buy the limited edition C64 cassette with full on-body printing on Bandcamp: https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/keep-a-seed

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Music written/improvised and performed by Carlos Perea-Milla, except cello by Ailsa Tully, flute by Holly Cassidy and piano by Laura McCafferty.

Album artwork is a photo by the amazing Maya Beano (https://www.instagram.com/mayabeano). Album mastered by Adam Badí Donoval.

Keep A Seed

Keep A Seep

Ltd Edition Cassette

Melquíades - Immapancy

In these pretty frightening times we're really happy to be able to share this half hour assemblage of completely original tracks by our OG, Smasharelli. An artist and one half of the Glasgow based comedy duo 'The Big Boys', Lee has been a pretty permanent fixture in the wider 12th Isle world since before it even had a name, so it's a good feeling to now have him front and centre here on the Forecasts. It's a calming listen and one that's perfect to have on while you disinfect door handles or make your own sanitizer out of lighter fluid and pumice stone dust. That being said, we hope you enjoy it however you want.
Please take care of yourselves and those around you!

Forecast 046: Smasharelli

Artist: Frank Bretschneider
Album: abtasten_halten
Label#: faitiche21
Format: LP/DL
Release: Sept 18th 2020

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Frank Bretschneider. abtasten_halten was made as part of the raster.labor installation first presented at CTM Festival in 2019. It is perhaps the most radical work in Bretschneider’s distinctive oeuvre: abtasten_halten is a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations – all random, without repetition. The album resembles a meditation on infinite rhythmic variation. abtasten_halten is Frank Bretschneider’s first release on Faitiche.

"One sound can give birth to thousands of tones through self-fertilization." Pierre Henry, 1982

Frank Bretschneider on abtasten_halten:
abtasten_halten (sample_hold) is a largely self-generating composition for a modular synthesizer system. Self-generating here means that as soon as a current flows, the various modules interact, but within limits set by the composer via the connections between the modules (patches): timing, tempo, timbres, dynamics. These conditions are kept variable to a certain extent or left to chance, so that the composition created is always similar but never the same. On the one hand, the use of random generators opens up possibilities that would not otherwise have been considered. On the other, it offers the fascination of the unfinished and the unique: totally unexpected musical events that you might hear only once.
abtasten_halten combines my preferences for percussive music in general and electronic music in particular. Largely avoiding repetitive structures, the piece is more like a free improvisation, quiet and diffuse, but also extremely dense, in ever-changing contrasts and transformations.
The tone generators are two modified VU meters whose needles, driven by trigger impulses, create a simple one-bar pattern by hitting against a metal spring that is connected to a piezo element (thanks to Gijs Gieskes / Gieskes.NL). The tempo is continuously varied over a period of about ten minutes by several mutually modulating LFOs, ranging from about 0.06 Hz up to the lower audio range of about 18Hz.
The percussive sounds thus obtained are then passed through low-pass filters with moderate resonance and random frequency modulation to additionally colour the sound. Further processing is then executed by an echo module whose tempo and repetitions are again determined by random parameters. Finally the audio signal is occasionally enriched with reverb to add more spaciousness to the sound.
The concept for the installation raster.labor was developed by Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and David Letellier. Many thanks to raster - artistic platform.

On Frank Bretschneider:

Frank Bretschneider works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin, making mainly electronic work based on complex rhythmic structures and interlocking textures, whose many-layered sound is inspired by the experimental set-ups of modern physics, often supplemented by perfectly synchronized computer-generated visualizations. In 1986, he founded AG Geige, one of the most influential underground bands in East Germany. In 1996, he co-founded the label raster-noton and has since released many solo albums.

Frank Bretschneider: abtasten_halten C

Digital Download, 7" Lathe and Limited Edition Cassingle available here: https://tinyurl.com/398end7y

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Slump b/w Cuatis", official label debut of the illustrious Mister Water Wet. From a small pile of foraged ephemera, audio homesteader MWW sculpts two new works of wood floor creakings, earthen bass plucks, hollow phantom voices, crude string twangs and dusty jazz-kit thumpings... assembled, as always, with craftsman-like precision, Mister Water Wet continues to polish and perfect their singular brand of outsider exotica... this time, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

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"Slump (Raw Mix)" - Mister Water Wet

Int. cassette label, now in Madrid
canigourecords@gmail.com

Melquíades - Immapancy

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