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One of the tracks from the upcoming Zvuku LP on Heat Death.

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Zvuku - Coldsong

'Penelope On The Boredom Bridge' by FareWell Poetry
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'(...) Light crawls up the buildings like fast and gilded ivy,
Fireworks to the foggy eye, fencing the fickle season,
My mind still buoyed in alcohol.
Penelope on the boredom bridge: decision severs the withered extension, and I am a little lighter, lighter and a little lonely, wed to my wise words.'
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Jayne Amara Ross : poetry
Frédéric D. Oberland : harmonium, banjo, piano, e-bow, field recordings
Eat Gas : electric guitar &amp; bass
Colin Johnco : mpc, analog feedbacks
Stanislas Grimbert : cymbals &amp; percussion
Gaspar Claus : cello
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All instruments were recorded &amp; mixed by FareWell Poetry @ Magnum Diva studio, Paris, France, during the Fall of 2010
Field recordings were captured in Ísafjörður, Iceland, Summer 2010
Mastered by Pierre Favrez
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http://www.farewell-poetry.com

Penelope On The Boredom Bridge

I took these photos at a big second hand/junk market in Camberwell, Melbourne.

The photos were taken on the ubiquitous iphone, using the hipstamatic app. Bit wanky that, using a (now superseded) phone to replicate analogue photography...but all the cool kids are doing it and it somehow links into what I consider the themes are of this small photo collection and track.

The photos are, I suppose, reflective of a number of overlapping interests that I think are shared by many visitors to fluid...music creation and consumption, technological and cultural obsolescence, and the handmade aesthetic.

The track uses an old piano loop I made, feeds it through a couple of effects, then blurs the sound until it becomes a drone that underpins a different progression made out of chopped and changed sounds from the new scissors and sellotape release. It's sort of recycling I suppose...

I sort of want to babble on about themes of recursion, reminiscence, and aging technologies but the slightly less pretentious bit of me is winning the battle this morning....so I'll let you make your own links.

- John

View the images for the session over at the Fluid Radio web site here:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/10/underexposed-scissors-and-sellotape-piano-recycling

Underexposed: Scissors and Sellotape - Piano Recycling

hello sweet friends out there. i got a little nostalgic and listened to the tapes from my portable tape recorder. i record my ideas on there and everything i like to remember when i am traveling. i found my first scratch tracks from the song "familiar" from my album "felt". i had to laugh so hard when i listened to it...enjoy!

The Making of Familiar

THE FREEMARTIN CALF (an original soundtrack) 
original music by Frédéric D. Oberland with Gaspar Claus
poetry & film by Jayne Amara Ross 

Out on Deluxe LP+DVD & Digital - September 23th 2013 via Gizeh Records
ORDER: https://fredericdoberland.bandcamp.com/album/the-freemartin-calf-ost

FILM TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/14898901

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“An arresting film narrative and  a provocative stand-alone soundtrack. Moments of beauty are many." Textura

“Delicate and very effecting. A comparison would be the spoken elements of Swans and lyrically it shares much with the film noir cool of Enablers." Nine Hertz

“Shot in stark black and white and imbued with a mesmerising dreamlike fragility, the film’s look brings to mind some of the great Expressionist movies of 1930s Germany as well as Tarkovsky’s Stalker and the work of modern masters such as Béla Tarr”. Decoder Magazine

“Elegant, harrowing, and consistently captivating." A Closer Listen

“Deeply evocative and dangerously sensual.” Fluid Radio

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The film The Freemartin Calf was shot on super 8, hand-processed and edited at home by Jayne Amara Ross between 2009 and 2010.

The music was composed and recorded at Magnum Diva Studio by Frédéric D. Oberland with Gaspar Claus /// Mixed on an analog console at Le Fresnoy by Maxime Champesme /// Mastered to tape at Durton Studio by Nils Frahm /// Jayne Amara Ross: narration /// Frédéric D. Oberland : electric bowed guitar, fender rhodes, piano, kalimba, harmonium, theremin, bowed glockenspiel, bells, electronics /// Gaspar Claus: cello /// Maxime Champesme: sound design, field recordings

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www.fredericdoberland.com
www.jayneamaraross.com
www.myspace.com/gasparclaus

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