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C7 - James & Vanessa - Yrt

The Fifth Season (Versions)

The Stillness (Moor Mother Version)

The Long Count

5th Night

Inspired by ancient rituals, pilgrimages, and their new context within the current social climate. A labour of love.

Cassette available /50

Severin Black & Vanessa Bedoret 'First Passage' [AV007]

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

05. Thylias Moss #2

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eReRgeP9P58

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mercy sidha | alice song (excerpt) Ft Vanessa Bedoret

Sending it out to the stunner in the fuchsia hijab with the light eyes - it’s straight hip hop, r’n’b and dancehall, rarefied with that Middle Eastern sparkle.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-gaza-strip/episodes/the-gaza-strip-29th-july-2022

The Gaza Strip 290722

Melbourne based producer YL HOOI share an hour of dub, electronics, postpunk and more every month...

https://www.nts.live/shows/yl-hooi/episodes/yl-hooi-20th-october-2022

YL Hool w/ Severin Black & Vanessa Bedoret - Live Recording + Line Music 201022

Can't Be Unstuck

Can't Be Unstuck (feat. Coby Sey)

'𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐌' - the 1st album fully made from text-to-audio AI samples. Out April 14th via 555-5555. Single 1, ‘Fly’ & AI video out now.
https://linktr.ee/patttten
«𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚»

Blues Alif Lam Mim In the Mode Of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new composition from Catherine Christer Hennix's expanded just-intonation ensemble, the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. The expanded ensemble includes vocalists Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer, Amir Elsaffan and Amirtha Kidambi, an expanded brass section with the addition of Paul Schwingesnschlögl and Elena Kakaliagou, and the additon of Marcus Pal and Stefan Tiedje on electronics. This new piece was recorded live at the Issue Project Room and was mastered by Dubplates + Mastering in Berlin. 
Live At Issue Project Room is packaged in a deluxe letterpressed sleeve and is being issued at the same time as Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku, a recording of Hennix's ensemble from 1976, also on Important.

Catherine Christer Hennix / Chora(s)an Time-Court Mirage - Live At ISSUE Project Room -

Fuck With Me

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SC: https://soundcloud.com/objectblue
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Burnt Peach (Object Blue Remix)

Official Video

Taken from the album 'Molocular Meditation' released as LP and Digital.
Words by Mark E. Smith

Jan St. Werner 'VS Cancelled' (EMEGO 265)

See here for more info: http://bit.ly/2T9VYI0

Recent Futures

Celia Hollander, 'Santa Ana Wind Burn' (2020). Leaving Records, Los Angeles.

Violin/Vocals/Electronic production

Debut album Eyes out now on Scenic Route

NEXT SHOWS:

- 20 June @ Brasserie Atlas, Brussels, BE

Past shows:

- 17 May @ ICA
supporting Lorenzo Senni

- 10 May @ Cappella Orsini, Rome
along Thea Soti

- 8 May @ Servant Jazz Quarters
Album release party
along Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki, Bianca Scout, Flora Yin Wong, Astrid Sonne (DJ)

- 5 April @ Lisa, Lisbon

- 7 March @ Loki Brixton
supporting Voice Actor

- 29 January @ Cafe Oto
supporting Mark William Lewis

- 8 December @ State51

- 30 November @ Spanners
along Chanel Beads + Marina Zispin + Tony Bontana

- 28 September @ FAWA, Paris
Walked & performed live for Monique Fei's Fashion Show

- 22 September @ Iklectik
along Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki, Philomène Pirecki

- 19 July @ Laylow
Supporting Nourished by Time

- 1 July @ ICA 
as part of Kahil El’Zabar conducts MOKI

Duo/trio for Astrid Sonne:
- 11 May 2023 @ CC Copenhagen
- 13 May @ Magnet Festival, DE
- 5 October @ Spiegelberg Festival, CH
- 2 November @ 3hd Festival, Berlin
- 3 November @ Jena, DE
- 8 November @ Pitchfork Festival, London
- 26 January 2024 @ World of Echo
- 3 February @ Trekanten, Oslo
- 6 February @ Copenhagen Distillery
- 8 February @ Aarhus, DK
- 16 February @ Casa Montjuic, Barcelona
- 17 February @ ZDB, Lisbon
- 27/28 February @ ICA
- 29 February @ Strange Brew, Bristol
- 1 March @ White Hotel, Manchester
- 2 March @ Flying Duck, Glasgow
- 7 April @ Rewire Festival, The Hague

- 30 March @ Spanners
along Time Is Away + Sanctuary of Praise

- 23 March @ Ormside Projects
along ⎤⎤⎤ + Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki

- 26 February @ Teatro Basilica, Roma
along Sara Berts + Low Gravity

- 15 February @ Two Temple Place
Wednesday Lates

- 5 February @ MOT
Loose Trax
along Excel DJ + Cliché Toupée + Twin / Kosty

- 27 January @ The Old Church
Duo with Severin Black: A Sonic Congregation
Civilistjävel!
ewa awe

- 18 January 2023 @ Below Stone Nest
Scenic Route Presents...
Support act for In Tongues + Anu

- 2 December 2022 @ Cafe Oto
Archaic Vaults presents: 
along John T. Gast & Serafina Steer + Nexcyia + Conal Blake 

- 5 October 2022 @ Iklectic (debut solo show)
along mu tate + Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki

05. Thylias Moss #2

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