GAGARIN is a solo project by musician Graham Dowdall who has a long career of performing and collaborating with the likes of Nico, Pere Ubu, Roshi ft. Pars Radio and Suns of Arqa among others. Starting off as a drummer, his music crosses boundaries of sound art to dance music to free improvisation to ambient. His next EP, ‘Phenomenology’ is out today on Courier Sounds and features four tracks based or featuring an event, a sound or a thing. Comprised of field recordings from the five hills in Surrey, tiny birds and his back garden during Hogmanay - the EP is a dynamic and personal collection of work. 

Providing the sixteenth mix in our podcast series, GAGARIN says, 'the mix features lots of music that I am connected to artistically and in other ways. Some of the tracks are from the Courier label who are releasing Phenomenology my new EP, some are other projects I have been involved in and other stuff I also admire. Lots of the tracks feature in some way field recordings or might have aspects lyrically or sonically that connect with the loose concept of Phenomena – ranging from nut allergy to sunspots to cicadas etc.'

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Tracklist:
HOLMBURY HILL FORT – GAGARIN
SOLAR ECLIPSE – EUMIG
SUNSPOT LOOPS 4 – ISNAJ DUI
3 ALMONDS & A WALNUT – ROSHI FEATURING PARS RADIO
BULKHEAD – GRAHAM DUNNING
BLACK LAKE - FABRIK
BRAINSTAR – NOW
ANGUK – WIL BOLTON
12” POLYCARBONATE DISC – BOWDITCH
LEARNING TO FLY – GAGARIN
I CAN STILL SEE – PERE UBU
HANGING GARDENS – NICO AND THE FACTION
TORTINA-TAORMINA – GAGARIN
A SOUND, A PLACE, A TIME – KEVIN BUCKLAND

Untitled 909 Podcast 016: GAGARIN's Phenomena Mix

From my newly finished album 'Sight Seeing' - a musical theme and variations depicting different eye conditions.  Using an initial theme, the melody and harmony are taken away, distorted or otherwise changed to musically depict a number of common visual disturbances and conditions, from the sparseness of peripheral vision loss to the hallucinatory Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Release date etc TBC...

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Gagarin is the solo incarnation of musician Graham “ Dids” Dowdall - who has a long career of performing and collaborating with the likes of Nico, Pere Ubu, Rothko, Roshi ft Pars Radio, Suns of Arqa and much more. Originally a drummer, as Gagarin he creates music that crosses boundaries from sound art to dance music to free improvisation to ambient.

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"This features a few of my own pieces alongside several tracks released recently on Courier Sounds who released my own Phenomenology EP as well as songs that felt they fitted the quickly warming up early spring."

TRACKLIST:

Gagarin - Hogmanay
Viridian - Running From Solomon
Milky Genes - Faint infection
Eumig - Rotating Lens
Bowditch - 12” Polycarbonate Disc
Kevin Buckland - A Sound, A Place, A Time 3
Isnaj Dui - Sunspot Loop 3
Gagarin - Winterfold
Mesmerist - Bus Station at the bottom of forever
Robert Logan - Sentient Machines
Bowditch / Kipps - Proscenium
Roshi featuring Pars Radio - Girl from Boyerhmadi
Pere Ubu - Irene

Loose Lips Mix Series - 218 - Gagarin

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/silences-chem-trails-over-southend-pier-wil-bolton-remix

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[via XLR8R] - Silences EP

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Download: Silences - Chem Trails Over Southend Pier (Wil Bolton Remix)

Each of these tracks is a response to a recording made by Stuart Bowditch of a Silhouette Cameo 3 plotter cutter in Nick Dawson’s studio as it was creating a sleeve for ParcelC01, Graham Dunning’s Keg/Bulkhead cassette release.

The original recording can be heard by downloading the digital version, which also features two extra tracks by The Spermaceti Organ and Forelight.

Courier ‘confetti’ has been saved from previous Courier releases.

Mastered by Simon Scott

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Micro label based in Suffolk, England.

Upcoming releases in 2019 from Belly Full of Stars, Furrows, Lunar, Rorquals & Dead Circuits, Forelight, Bowditch and more.

Our slowly growing catalogue of releases on CD, vinyl and cassette, all housed in covers individually cut from recycled card stock and hand assembled.

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