Artist: Groupshow
Title: Greatest Hits
Cat#: faitiche 29
Release: Jan 27th 2023 (digital single: Nov 25th 2022)
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche presents Groupshow’s Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
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In improvisation there are no mistakes, only missed opportunities. Groupshow found their first opportunity in the routines of live performance and they used this opportunity to break with these routines. The trio consisting of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler came together in the context of Kosmischer Pitch, playing live versions of the music from Jelinek’s 2005 studio album of that name. During this project, the musical interaction between the three participants quickly emancipated itself from the original programme, departing from fixed roles and finding a distinct form in constant change.
Groupshow sessions – rehearsal, concert or recording – are always improvised. The interplay of the various sound sources, converging from the directions of “electronics”, “percussion” and “guitar”, does not follow the Krautrock wave logic of crescendo and morendo. Jelinek, Leichtmann and Pekler have established a method of transparent density in which links and breaks are not concealed but remain audible. The music works through attraction and repulsion, with a loosely organized structure that always leaves enough room for the next intervention.
The principle here, repeated even in the smallest units, is that of duration. Groupshow think of their music in terms of an installation: no starting point, no dramaturgy, and ideally no end. Concerts take place not raised up on a podium, but in the middle of the room on a level with the audience, who only enter the space with the musicians and instruments once their interaction is already underway. In 2008, Groupshow used this approach to create a live soundtrack for Andy Warhol’s film Empire, over the full length of eight hours and five minutes.
Recordings in general and the “Greatest Hits” format in particular are another key aspect of this ongoing work on a collectively modulated continuum. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow, recorded between 2005 and 2018, document the ephemeral capturing of opportunities that were not missed. Extracts and essences of an endless movement of searching. The sprawling form of the whole, suspended in succinct, separate units.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu and Roland Barthes, one might say: Once their work is done, they are no longer attached to it. And because they’re not attached to it, it will remain. (Arno Raffeiner, 2022)

Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press

Echoes

Fire! Orchestra - ECHOES: I see your eye, part 1

By popular demand, I made a longer version of https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/33a. 

Basically, this one takes more time developing things, discreetly adding select guitar/OBNE Dark Star sounds while keeping true to the essence of the original recording.

Featured on Resonance FM London: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/sonic-imperfections-25th-march-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2X0iKykGsyyIofsfWA09Q43j3pjJ1oPKlrh8JZMAPC2BS-UYDx1VYsy40

Both tunes are now available as name your price downloads through the "Buy" link above.

Enjoy!

3:3 (pillow mix)

Extract from The Necks live at ISSUE Project Room in 2010  (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Necks/Live_at_ISSUE_Project_Room_1225/) under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

The Necks - ISSUE Project Room (Night 1, Set 2 extract)

trying to incorporate a sampler into serge feedback patches.

noprmax

Julianna Barwick - Circumstance Synthesis (THERE002)

Julianna Barwick - night

Recording courtesy of The Verb on 3.
Commissioned by The Verb. 
This is a new piece I made and performed live at the BBC's Manchester studios last month. 
It was for The Verb's episode on loneliness, and for it I asked people to read a sentence from a love letter and send it to me for this piece. A huge thanks to all of those who sent over something. This piece is voiced by (or includes love letters supplied by) Paula Garcia Stone, Kjersti Andvig, Jurgen Ots, James Webb, Nick Ferguson, Tim Plaisted, Maud Ok, Sarah Lamble, Nicola Carr, Jeannette Rehnstrom, Siobhan McAlister, Gail Neill, Flavio Derbekannte + Jimmy Peggie. A huge thanks to all of these people, and to everyone who sent fragments I was not able to include. 
Also special thanks to Salomé Voegelin whose text score for writing a love letter is included in this piece, and is read by her.

I'm Listening (live on The Verb on BBC Radio 3)

Eighteen months on from his last solo release, Vancouver-based singer/composer Ian William Craig returns with a brilliant and powerfully emotive new album. His first for a long while to be centred around the piano - and also one of his most pared back - the record was made through an intense period of personal loss and environmental catastrophe. 
Recorded over two cataclysmic weeks in August 2018 in Kelowna, British Columbia, whilst the city was encircled by forest fires, it was captured from start to finish in the living room of a small house owned by his grandfather who was residing in a care facility across the street, having been afflicted with dementia for the past decade. Midway through Ian’s recording, his Grampa passed away, his lungs filled with fluid as a result of the smoke.

Performed using his voice, his grandfather's piano and shortwave radio set, several modified tape decks and a bunch of tape loops, Ian notes how events helped force the shape of the record and a tendency toward a less layered, more spartan expression. “Everything felt raw, I didn’t want there to be anywhere to hide in this record. My parents and I were cramped together in a small house while my grandfather slowly died across the street in a world filled with smoke, after all. So, in this record, more than most, there exist a great many things straight to tape without any effects because there really was no space.”

Red Sun Through Smoke

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Ian William Craig - Weight

Warm Winters Ltd. is pleased to announce JC Leisure’s (@jcleisure) latest solo release, 'Mutations For'. The album is built from the artist's collection of mixtapes from circa 1992 onwards that distil the counterculture of rave, free parties and pirate radio broadcasts. 

For the last couple of years this archive has formed the basis for JC Leisure’s hybrid DJ cassette sets, a handful of which are archived on Bandcamp. Aware of each cassette's cultural legacy, with 'Mutations For' JC Leisure sets out to give the archive a higher form of autonomy. Similar to the audio-to-midi processes he developed with his band Raft of Trash (where they use the world-building game Simcity3000 as raw material) the cassette tapes are sampled live and fed to synthesizers, software patches and samplers; allowing them to write their own melodies and rhythms. Leisure has worked with and alongside these results and offers them up on 'Mutations For' as an alternative future to a counterculture's unstable history. 

These ideas are explored further in collaboration with designer Afonso de Matos on the poster that forms the physical realization of this work.

Full release coming March 20, 2020.

Mutations For

JC Leisure - Soft-Paste Porcelain (ft. Dialect)

Track from the new album "A Figure of Loss" releases 24 April 2020. Preorder now from Midheaven and Boomkat

A Figure of Loss

Cautery

MIDHEAVEN

A FIGURE OF LOSS : CAUTERY

Unreleased track included on the Lobster Theremin compilation, Music For Your Mind.

Music For Your Mind Vol.1 is a 22 track compilation from Lobster Theremin artists and our extended family, to raise money for UK mental health charity Black Minds Matter providing therapy and mental health support to black people in the UK - www.blackmindsmatteruk.com

Music For Your Mind Vol.1 is a compilation of electronic music from a number of Lobster Theremin artists past, present and future. Plus artists from our extended network and family, made in various styles of black-rooted electronic music - house, techno, breakbeat, acid, electro, jungle, drum 'n' bass, garage, bassline and ambient.

The Necks - ISSUE Project Room (Night 1, Set 2 extract)

Julian / LMYE

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