To mark the tenth edition of Tanzen und Denken on LYL Radio, we're honoured to host guest appearances from two sublime practitioners of selection and mix. For the first 30 mins, Isis invites Parris, and for the second, Rupert invites Coline Cornélis...

https://soundcloud.com/parris_dj

https://soundcloud.com/colinecornelis

Full tracklist here: https://lyl.live/episode/tanzen-und-denken-9

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 10 - Parris and Coline Cornélis

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 11

Feb 18th on @laura-lies-in 

Pre-order: https://rupertclervaux.bandcamp.com/album/zibaldone-iv-of-cvx

06. Departure from England

Feb 18th on @laura-lies-in

Pre-order: https://rupertclervaux.bandcamp.com/album/zibaldone-iv-of-cvx

03. Chthonic '97 (K1CVX)

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.

07. Chatsworth '17 (BVCVX)

05. Thylias Moss #2

04. Does Pop Culture Interest You?

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

01. Mutual Aid

Improvisation from on high, fraternising with elevated explorations of the grid (and momentarily providing a setting for a Derridean meditation on the former).

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 13

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 14

This is an excerpt from a forthcoming cassette release on https://soundcloud.com/paralaxe-editions... 

...which will also feature performances by https://soundcloud.com/ylia, https://soundcloud.com/dania-detakon and https://soundcloud.com/perila

Every Tyrant in History (Live at Cafe Oto)

A selection of tracks from Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon's 'Studies I-XVII for Samplers and Percussion'. 

Available on LP and as a download.  All LPs come with the download included.

XIII – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

XI – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

X – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

VI – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

III – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

II – by Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon

BEATRICE DILLON - Drum programming, electronics, synthesizer, bass guitar, field recordings

RUPERT CLERVAUX - Vibraphone, drums, percussion, field recordings, additional drum programming


A Different River Once - Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux

BEATRICE DILLON - Drum programming, electronics, synthesizer, bass guitar, field recordings

RUPERT CLERVAUX - Vibraphone, drums, percussion, field recordings, additional drum programming

and EBEN BULL - Pocket trumpet and zither

The Same River Twice - Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux

ZI.1 - 'Imitazione' (reading by Mara Cimatoribus)*
ZI.2 - Titled
ZI.3 - 'Menschenbeifall' (reading by Anne Tetzlaff)
ZI.4 - Ulyssean Time
ZI.5 - 'Imitaciones' (reading by Rupert Clervaux)**

Available as a 12" with a foldout poster by Coline Cornélis,
and as a download.

Rupert Clervaux: drums, percussion, vibraphone, piano, synthesizers and samplers, 
with Stephen Warrington: piano on ‘Imitazione’, and Eben Bull: saxophone on ‘Titled’.

Artwork by Coline Cornélis.

*translation by Jonathan Galassi
**translation by Jason Weiss

Zibaldone I of CVX

ZII.1 - This Harp of Nerves
ZII.2 - An Incredible Quantum of Aggressiveness
ZII.3 - I on Crack
ZII.4 - Memories Don't Live Like People Do

Rupert Clervaux: drums, percussion, samplers 
Eben Bull: saxophone on ‘I on Crack’ 
Alexis Taylor: vocals on ‘I on Crack’ 

This record is available digitally, in return for a charitable donation at Bandcamp, and as a pre-order-only dubplate. 

Each dubplate costs £50 plus p+p, and features hand drawn artwork by Coline Cornélis. The price includes a £5 donation to Mind, the mental health charity.

Please contact @lauraliesin, to place an order. Delivery time is 2 - 3 weeks.

Zibaldone II of CVX

Rupert Clervaux & Ben Vince - at The Old Dentist (Excerpt)

This track is a dedication, with respect and admiration, to the poet Thylias Moss. It appears on 'Sports' - a compilation on @youth1234567890

CVX - Thylias Moss #1

In the same way that Herbert Spencer simplified and misrepresented Darwin’s theory of evolution into his bleak and dangerous vision of social competition, so the spirit of Anarchism has been actively misrepresented and vilified by the collusive vortex of conservatism and political socialism. As that vortex gradually spins off its axis, asserting Anarchism’s real meaning might be the best possible defence against the dire wave of populism sweeping through the Euro-Atlantic world—even simply as the philosophical foundation from which organised political institutions can be formed to replace ineffective and corrupted representative electoral processes with truly democratic systems of deliberation and random selection. Here’s a less-than-random selection of tracks that hopefully capture a little of that spirit, and its disdain for the status quo––collected from the ongoing audio-bibliography that helped inform Rupert’s ‘Zibaldone III of CVX’ release on the great Berceuse Heroique last year… bookended by two of Soledad Bravo’s stirring ‘Cantos Revolucionarios’, we also find a recital of ’The Death of Kropotkin’––Herbert Read’s poem remembering Emma Goldman’s account of the Russian anarchist’s passing, along with other fragments of the ‘black and scarlet banner’.

Every Poet Knows Time: Part III on LYL (31.05.19)

This track is a contribution to 'FORTUNA', a new mini-album by https://soundcloud.com/luttolento, released on https://soundcloud.com/dunno-recordings

FORTUNA

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CVX - Here I Go

147.

someone will remember us
                                           I say
                                           even in another time

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