Name: Locust 'Strobes' (eMEGO 162) by Editions Mego in x
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: Taken from the album 'You'll Be Safe Forever' released as LP, CD and Download.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3h7fVy1cpBBd8rSHjfFErI

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Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch.

Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of these. Like the primitive visual illusion it’s named for - Pepper’s Ghost is a projection of a thing, it’s not the thing.

The Nuke Watch method - like that of Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos’ other primary project Beat Detectives - leans almost entirely on live improvisation, with some advanced studio alchemy in post. Where the Beat Detectives palette draws from club music tropes, Nuke Watch blends recognizable tones (hand drums, woodwinds, keys, fretless bass) with sounds of providence unknown, the line between organic and synthesized instrumentation unintelligibly smudged. What is real and what is projection? It’s hard to say. What do our ears tell us? This is where we arrive at Pepper’s Ghost.

Warped as the sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have their craft honed. Their friendship and psychic connection enhances the ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk. They’re wonderfully complemented across several tracks on this set by Cole Pulice’s levitational, sublime saxophone.

As unhinged as this might all appear, once the mind and music meet on the same wavelength this is profoundly moving, energizing and uplifting Alive Music that recalibrates the sense of what music can be. 

Nuke Watch is Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos, with an array of friendly guests. They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph. As Beat Detectives they’ve released records on Not Not Fun, 100% Silk and their own studio imprint NYPD Records.

Pepper's Ghost was written and produced by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos. Additional instrumentation on these recordings by Cole Pulice, Leonard King, Eric Timothy Carlson, Chris Farstad and William Statler. It was mixed by Chris Hontos and mastered by Jack Callahan. Painting on the cover is “The Unity Of Being” (2020), by Ry Fyan. Design and layout by Aaron Anderson.

RIYL - Musical illusions, puzzles and magic tricks, downtempo, music of the spheres, good journey, Eddie Harris, Ketron, "world building", orange sunshine, suspension of disbelief.

Nuke Watch - Pepper's Ghost (IMPTNC07) - Previews

Beautiful, entrancing set from highland bagpiper, composer and improviser, Erwan Keravec.

In seeking out the more unusual sounds, and ways of playing and listening to his instrument, far from its original cultural setting, Keravec explores improvised music, free and ‘noise’ jazz. With an interest in movement and in settings associated with reinvention, he also writes, plays and improvises for dance.

In this performance, recorded in October 2022, Keravec lets the breath ebb and flow over 40 hypnotic minutes. Dense tones buzz and drone, woozily circling the room, occasionally breaking into brief peels of light before building up into rapturous hamonic clusters and almost-giddy uliulations. With a sound that seems to perfectly fill the room - and make full use of its own sonic idiosyncrasies - Keravec utilises a dizzying range of techniques that makes this solo instrumental set one to savour.

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Recorded by Billy Steiger
Mixed and mastered by James Dunn
Cover photograph by Nicolas Godin

Erwan Keravec - 23/.10.22 [excerpt]

Gerhard Potuznik: Guitar, Vocals
Martin Sovinz: Oscillators, Bass


"NightFalls" by GD Luxxe

Heart Piercing

https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/six-crossings

Reidemeister moves

This time around, we have put together a cassette tape of works by artists from Japan and all over the world.The label is proud to announce the release of Secret Stairs vol. 2, which features the work of several up-and-coming producers including Anitta, Funktor, A/Filatov, Jaquarius, CH415, as well as Methodd, JIN-CROMNYON, lee, and Caramel Chameleon, who have all released or remixed on the label, and Yuki Tosaya,Yuki Tosaya will also participate.The acid and electro based tracks are sure to inspire you.Designed by SUNTRA, as in Vol. 1, the content is even funnier than last time, and is a wonderful addition to the collection that you will want to have in your home.

Secret Stairs vol​.​2

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A1. lee - Wanderer

Pulse - 1

Totally beautiful and rare piano performance from Loren Connors, joined on guitar by long time collaborator Alan Licht. 
Celebrating thirty years of collaboration, Loren Connors and Alan Licht performed for two nights at OTO on May 5 and 6th, 2023. On the second night, with the stage lit in blue, Connors took up a seat on the piano stool whilst Licht picked up the guitar. What followed was the duo’s first ever set with Connors on piano - one of only a few times Connors has played piano live at all - here captured and issued as The Blue Hour. Its spacious warmth came as a total surprise live, but makes complete sense for a duo whose dedicated expressionism takes inspiration from a vast spectrum of emotion.

Both opening with single notes to start, it doesn't take long before a surface rises and begins to shimmer. A run up the keys, the drop of a feedback layer on a sustained and bent note. The two begin to exchange notes in tandem and brief touches of melody and chord hover. After a while, Connors picks up the guitar, stands it in his lap and sweeps a wash of colour across Licht’s guitar. Sharp, glassy edges begin to form, open strings and barred frets darkening the space. When his two pedals begin to merge, Licht finds a dramatic organ-like feedback and it’s hard not to imagine Rothko’s Chapel, its varying shades of blue black ascending and descending in the room.

When Connors goes back to the piano for the second side, the pair quickly lock into a refrain and light pours in. It’s a kind of sound that Licht says reminds him of what he and Connors would do when the duo first started playing together 30 years ago. It’s certainly more melodic than some of their more recent shows, and the atonal shards of At The Top of the Stairs seem to totally dissolve. What is always remarkable about Licht is that his enormous frame of reference doesn't seem to weigh him down, and instead here he is able to delicately place fractures of a Jackson C Frank song (“Just Like Anything”,) amongst the vast sea of Connors’ blues.

Perhaps it's the pleasure of playing two nights in a row together, or the nature of Connor’s piano playing combined with Licht’s careful listening, but the improvisation on The Blue Hour feels remarkably calm and unafraid. There’s nothing to prove and no agenda except the joy of sounding colour together. Totally beautiful. 

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Saturday 6th May 2023 by Billy Steiger
Mixed by Oli Barrett
Mastered by Sean McCann
Artwork by Loren Connors
Layout by Oli Barrett
Screenprint by Tartaruga

 Edition of 300 standard LPs, 100 LPs with screenprinted artwork inserts and 200 CDs.

ROKU037 - Loren Connors & Alan Licht "The Blue Hour" [excerpt]

3rd Monday of the month on Netil Radio, from 7 to 9 pm, NICHE is a space to explore recent and forthcoming releases: slowfast, abstract, quasi-danceable music from the fringes, played by local and translocal heroes 🍄

Tracklist soon

NICHE w/ Ikävä Pii 20.05.24

from the "NAP" CS (NNF418)
Not Not Fun / 2024

STREET DATE: JULY 19

PRE-ORDER:
https://multi-surface.bandcamp.com/album/nap

Multi-Surface "One rat"

R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler) 'USA' LP, 2011. (PAN 18)
All sounds by Peter Rehberg & Marcus Schmickler.
http://p-a-n.org/shop/

R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler) 'Chicago II' (PAN 18)

R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler) 'USA' LP, 2011. (PAN 18)
All sounds by Peter Rehberg &amp; Marcus Schmickler.
http://p-a-n.org/shop/

R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler) — NYC (PAN 18)

The second show in the series is an exclusive mix by Peter Rehberg (a.k.a. Pita) (b. 1968, London). Peter is an Author and Performer of electronic audio works. He also runs the influential Editions Mego label, formerly known as Mego, one of the catalysts for the emergence of the ‘Extreme Computer Music’ sound in the early 1990′s. 

Phurpa - Introduction (Ideologic Organ, 2011)
South Wales Striking Miners Choir &amp; Test Dept - Shockwork (Some Bizzare/Ministry Of Power, 1985)
Doris Norton - &nbsp;Norton Apple Software &nbsp;(Durium, 1984)
excerpt &nbsp;from The Conversation (1974)
Bruce Gilbert - Eline Cout II (Editions Mego, 2011)
Mist - Twin Lanes (Spectrum Spools, 2011)
Mark Fell - Materialisation epic razor chord and LatelyBass version with found voice (Editions Mego. 2011)
Evil Madness - Cafe Eindhoven (Editions Mego, 2011)
Bill Orcutt - Lip Rich (Editions Mego, 2011)
Marcus Schmickler - Quasi-Segregative (Editions Mego, 2010)
Fenn O'Berg - Live in Beppu, Japan 11.2010 (unreleased)
Mark Stewart - Revolution Part One (unreleased)
Russell Haswell - Fallinhg Snow #4 &nbsp;+20dB (Extract) (Editions Mego, 2009)
Forma - Forma 230 (Spectrrum Spools, 2011) 

More info here - <a href="http://www.cyrk.org/v2/?p=1763" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.cyrk.org/v2/?p=1763</a>

https://www.facebook.com/Cyrkk
http://www.cyrk.org/v2/

Pattern Compulsions #2 – Peter Rehberg (Pita)

Taken from the album 'You'll Be Safe Forever' released as LP, CD and Download.

Locust 'Strobes' (eMEGO 162)

Written by Graham Lewis / Colin Newman
Produced and performed by GD LUXXE with THE HAPPY SUN

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Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools

Locust 'Strobes' (eMEGO 162)

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