Lend Me Your Radio - Oct 17

Taken from the album 'Modern Methods For Ancient Rituals' released as 2LP and download

Modern Methods For Ancient Rituals

The Transcendence Orchestra 'Upper Windrush' (EMEGO 246)

In contrast to America’s current obsession with post-apocalyptic narratives, electronic musician Marc Kate considers the concept of non-being for his Dragon’s Eye debut. As we sink deeper into an increasingly nihilist world of suicide bombers and Trump politics, the anthropocene and anti-science, Kate suggests a music neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but rather outside of these perspectives. Using drone and sound synthesis to mimic existentially static states of non-being, 'As If We Were Never Here' asks the questions: what is absent, what is missing, and what is lost?

The fourth track - 'Corpsed' - was recorded in an abandoned department store basement in Portland, OR. The track plays with microphone placement throughout the space, picking up variations of the endless reverb and resonance through the space that vibrates the decaying architecture.

As If We Were Never Here

Marc Kate – Inorganic

part I

Howlround live at Iklecktik celebrating the occasion of the Tapeworms 100th release 'A Can Of Worms'. The entire performance has now been released as a split LP alongside another set from the same evening by Italian composer and fellow tape-enthusiast Marta De Pascalis. 

Order your copy here, while stocks last: http://www.tapeworm.org.uk/who12.html

Special thanks to Marta, Phillip, Mike, Eduard and Ilya.

Howlround - Hard Core *Extract from new split LP with Marta De Pascalis

BABEL - 10 channel audio in 60sq.m maze (2017) http://www.recordedfields.net/installations/babel/
Tongue twisters in 30 languages ecorded in Cork, 2017, with 60 participants (duration variable) exhibited as part of Locate Yourself, 8-30 September, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Babel builds on the concepts of spoken language as cultural signifier, mode of communication and it’s direct physiological expression via the body as resonator: particularly the mouth, nose and sinuses. Language conveys a range of information, ranging from the syntactical to the cultural. Tongue twisters, often played as a game around in the kitchen table, present an ideal means to combine cultural information within a discretionary syntactical framework which also serves to express the unique physiological and regional expression of a speaker’s learnt and developed approach to spoken language. The installation re-presents the mythical concept of Babel as a maze, a spatial complex to be negotiated, which functions as a lateral counterpoint to the tower of legend and its vertical and hierarchical architecture. The maze, beginning from the entry to the gallery, transforms the architectural and our experience of it, while the tongue twisters within the maze present a further spatial transformation that navigates regional, cultural and personal vectors of individual and collective articulations of ontological experience, albeit in a playful and engaging manner. The speech varies from intimate to declarative, the frequency distribution of the spoken words also playing upon our hard-wired neural processing of the navigation of our personal space and proprioception, further impacting on our ability to navigate the maze, gallery and broader cultural frameworks.

BABEL Extract

From "Bluffs" - out Oct 20th on limited cassette

Channeling - Doves

Cascadian Mind

The IIlness Of Modern Environments

https://sequel-label.bandcamp.com/album/append
@ullastraus

[SQ016] Ulla Straus - "Air"

PRE ORDER: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-5

VA/Meditations 5 ( 瞑想/熟考/熟慮 )

Meditation...."瞑想" (meisou), To think deeply...."熟考" (jyukkou), or "熟慮" (jyukuryo)

releases October 31, 2017 
Format: CD/Digital

Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Different colour wallets with envelopes.
Photo's, transparent bag.

Track list:
1. Bålsam - You'll Be Safe Here (Long Version)
2. Invented State of Mind (ISM) - Beyond Us
3. Be - Ing [Alternative Mix]
4. Murkok - Akbara 
5. Metta - Sayak
6. Snufmumriko - Chimera 0612 (Mandla Jamela's White Crayon Remix)
7. Ando Laj - Carmelia
8. Holy Family - Breakfast of Champions
9. Rhucle - Aqua

Mastered by Early Reflections
Shimmering Moods Records 2017

Various Artists / Meditations 5 ( 瞑想/熟考/熟慮 )- Preview

Excerpt of the accompanying music track to the Cubby's Tarn series of photographic work by Joseph Wright

Cubby's Tarn

Cubbys Tarn (Excerpt) by Richard Skelton

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

Tape delay, feedback and live sampling - no additional overdubs but some slight editing to even out the large dynamic variations. 

Strymon El Capistan (feedback), Moog Ring Modulator (colour), OP-1 (live sampling), Eventide H9 (space), Mackie 1202 (feedback and live mixing)

Feedback Work #3 (28 october 2017)

"N County RD" by Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet, taken from the Various Artists compilation Meditations 4 ( 瞑想/熟考/熟慮 ) 

https://soundcloud.com/thetliturgiskeowasendet

Meditation...."瞑想" (meisou), To think deeply...."熟考" (jyukkou), or "熟慮" (jyukuryo)

Buy: 
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-4

releases October 31, 2017 
Format: CD/Digital

Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with black envelopes.
Photo's, transparent bag.

Track list:
1. Faunethic - AMB Muezzin from city mosq at night from a roof top
2. MATJAMI & VictorYibril - The Place
3. Macheteoxidado - Canyon Sequence 3
4. Sage Taylor - Waltz in D
5. Elsa Hasselgärde - Blå 
6. Toothlessbobby - Ig
7. Elsa Hasselgärde - Hitta hem
8. The Laborer - Once its gone, its gone
9. Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - N County RD 
10. Sačquiel Måtaton - Re(creation)
11. Gipsi - Du Art
12. Laura Beatriz Rosenkranz - Green Meditation
13. Maiya Hershey - Elegies for Time Feelers
14. Olan Mill - Anthoe (version)

Mastered by Early Reflections
Shimmering Moods Records 2017

Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - N County RD

Photo: "Sunset in a day at late nineties"

Lend Me Your Radio - Oct 17

Julian / LMYE