from April 2004

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Inquiries >> tmk@o-o-o-o.org (I'm not checking soundcloud messages)

Songwriter, guitarist, singer, bassist.  
The Bon Mots, Decoy Prayer Meeting, Penthouse Sweets, classical guitar.  


Ruslan Yusipov is a sound artist based in Moscow, Russia. His algorithmic compositions create a new dimension of music listening perceptual emotions. He used his long-time approach to techno music for a Compositor application, which he made in MaxMSP. It facilitates his sound producing and can be used for live performance as well. His passion for machine sounds is strive for creativity, because every sound scape he creates is based on unique representative approach. But the only need he has is to fulfill the niche of algorithmic techno music. And this way to pronounce the whole genre of new musical field, based on predetermined approach.

Julian Grant is a composer, writer, educator, music journalist and broadcaster. He has composed 18 operas of various lengths and sizes which have been performed by English National Opera, The Royal Opera, Almeida Opera, Mecklenburgh Opera and Tétè-a-Tétè, and has won the National Opera Association of America’s New Opera prize and been nominated for an Olivier Award. From 2002-7 he was Director of Music at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, London, a post previous occupied by Gustav Holst and Vaughan-Williams. In Hong Kong, he hosted a classical music radio show and has also lived in Tokyo. From 2007-10 he lived in Beijing, where he worked with the Beijing New Music Ensemble, and attempted to master the Yang Qin (Butterfly Harp). In 2012, his Cultural Olympiad commission ‘Hot House’, devised by Gareth Malone, was premiered at the Royal Opera House. He currently lives in Princeton and New York where he is collaborating with Mark Campbell on a new work for Brooklyn Music Theatre Projects. Forthcoming premieres include a work for Buskaid Soweto Strings based on dances by the 18th century British-African Ignatius Sancho. 


Inquiries: ✉ info@bureau-b.com ✉

Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.

In the mid-2000s, a house in West Oakland was commonly referred to as “8 Dirty” by its inhabitants. Among these inhabitants were bassist Josh Chase, drummer Don Walters, and four additional housemates. Chase introduced former roommate and guitarist Nick Warwick to Walters at an 8 Dirty backyard barbecue in the spring of 2007, later gathering in their small basement studio to play music together. The trio began regularly playing and recording fully improvised sessions under the moniker Originality owing to the bizarre and unclassifiable sound emanating from the basement of 8 Dirty.

The name Originality gave way to The Land Philharmonic following the inclusion of Grey Gentlemen vocalist/keyboardist Charles Names in 2008, signifying the structure and thematic style influenced by Names’ guidance. Their sound shifted from loose ideas found in the ether to one of purpose. What that purpose may have been seems to vary with each member, but the combined result is best described as the soundtrack to a non-existent psychological thriller. 

At times, Walters sits in the dot of a yang of with no yin, acting as the warden at an asylum. His spacious rhythms corral the ominous synth and sinister expositions of Names, the layered stuttering of Warwick, and the menacing tones of Chase. The anxiety and unease pervading their sound eventually succumbs to fatigue just long enough to hint at the concept of resolution. Whimsical jaunts and dulcet drones occasionally boil to the surface and quickly evaporate. The intensity at the core of The Land Philharmonic (one that can especially be heard in later works such as “Power Play”) ultimately led to the group disbanding in 2011.

Charles S Names is following