Feedback Moves returns with a reissue of Pat Thomas’ 1997 album New Jazz Jungle: Remembering.

2 x 12" vinyl w/ liner notes and interview by Edward George (The Strangeness of Dub, Black Audio Film Collective).

Edition of 500.

Mastered by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven.

Distribution by Rubadub.

Pat Thomas - New Jazz Jungle: Remembering

Feedback Moves kicks off 2023 with a new record by @xcrswx and Lolina. @xcrswx are Crystabel Riley (drum-/human-skin) and Seymour Wright (saxophone), they released ‘Call Time/Hard Out’ on Feedback Moves in 2020. Lolina is an electronic and digital musician, who has previously released music as Inga Copeland and was a member of the band Hype Williams. 

Their collaborative relationship stems back to 2020. Lolina invited @xcrswx to contribute new work to a radio residency on NTS. They made 3 pieces played across 3 episodes. After these were broadcast, further ideas were exchanged which led to a collaborative audio-visual piece, streamed on Cafe Oto’s website in February 2021. They also performed as a trio live at Café OTO in 2022.

The artists now present a split 10” vinyl. @xcrswx weave the above-mentioned pieces into a 10 minute piece titled ‘FIXES’. The duo strip their sound to bare components. Beginning with the sound of fireworks, the pair then work through stuttered snare shots and warbled, interplaying saxophone.

Lolina presents ‘FM’; some of her strangest and most subtle work to date. Echoing and furthering the abstract turntablism found on previous records ‘Who Is Experimental Music?’ and ‘Fast Fashion’. We hear found sounds, close and distant, rhythmically gathered and dissolved in a swirl of dub tone and timbre.

Lolina & @xcrswx

yPLO - ob TRU

Perhaps a drum is a space wrapped in material.
With some excitement the space and the material interact to produce
vibrations, which we hear. Separately, yPLO prepared some sounds in
advance of a performance based on the components of a speculative
drum kit

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ob TRU was performed and recorded live on 6/8/18 at Cafe OTO.
During this live performance yPLO used amplified mylar, floor tom
bass drum, mixers, audio recordings and microphones.
The recordings were mixed and edited into 8 discrete tracks.

yPLO (Paul Abbott & Michael Speers) is a project about imaginary drums and rhythms, using acoustic percussion and synthetic sounds.
Michael Speers is a musician from Northern Ireland who works with various sound materials — using drums, computer, microphones, feedback — in performance, installation and composition. Other collaborators include John Wall, Louise Le Du, Olan Monk, Niklas Adam, Lee Fraser and Seijiro Murayama.

Paul Abbott is a writer, sound and performance artist. He has played at venues and festivals internationally and was a resident at Cafe OTO. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Florian Hecker and Nikki Moran, and is currently undertaking research at Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. He is also the co-founder and editor of Cesura//Acceso, a journal for music, politics and poetics.

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ob TRU

Recorded by Adam Asnan & James Dunn
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Artwork by Louise Le Du

Released 12/1/24 - 12" & digital)
Feedback Moves 2024
FM4

yPLO - ob TRU

You can hear it before it’s been said, and before you hear it, the space for its anticipation is someplace you’re already in. And if you were there, you would have seen it, taking place, taking shape, becoming, between them, an event, no less a body than a route, no more a method than a calling or a having been called, an affirmation of the phantasmatic nature of the divide separating the arrhythmia of improvised music from dance music’s foundational investment in the number four. An affirmation which is also an affective, questing, generative disinvestment in this opposition, a negation set in motion by a trialogical listening and playing into materiality new conjunctures of space, time, thought and sound.

(Edward George, 2024)

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YESYESPEAKERSYES is the first vinyl release of the remarkable collaboration between Chicago foot-work founder Kavain Wayne Space (aka RPBoo) and London duo experiment XT (drummer Paul Abbott and saxophonist Seymour Wright). The trio’s synthesis of rhythms, sounds, strategies, technologies and traditions collapse genre, distance, boundaries and preconceptions into a total, and totally unique, brain-body music.

Its two 15-minute vinyl sides are cut from a 60-minute live set at Cafe OTO, London on Friday 8th October, 2021 also available as digital download. This was the fourth meeting of the trio followed, instead of being followed by*, an RPBoo DJ set.

Each time the trio play it pushes further into new technical, emotional and creative space. The collaboration needs ears, instruments, imaginations and bodies to be used in new ways. This need is transformative. Together they – and we – learn. This unique trio combination is rooted in deep conceptual foundations, that push into real and imaginary spaces of innovation and learning in a creative practice of 'interruption' far beyond genres or what is supposed to be. And what emerges each time is a trio technology - a total dance technology for any and all bodies.

Kavain, Paul and Seymour share a fascination with the musical history of Chicago – a source of which is of continual nourishment to their ongoing practice. While Kavain’s pioneering footwork work develops the rhythmic structures of Chicago house and the samples, grooves and melodies of 60’s/70’s Chicago soul, disco and R&B, Seymour and Paul share a fascination with these musics, and bring to this lineage a long-term engagement with Chicago’s jazz traditions, from Baby Dodds to the AACM through their unique prism of club, dance, free-jazz and improvised club structures, technologies and musics.

*A first digital-only release of the second NYE-party meeting is available at soundcloud.com/cafeoto/ds134-xt-rp-boo-311218 .

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Kavain Wayne Space/XT (Paul Abbott + Seymour Wright) – Trio

Kavain Wayne Space – CDJs

Paul Abbott – real and imaginary drums

Seymour Wright – actual and potential saxophone

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Recorded live Friday October 8th, 2021, at Cafe OTO, London
Recorded by Shaun Crook
Mixed by Billy Steiger
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Cover paintings by Benedict Drew

Thank you – Fielding Hope, Jackson Burton.

Feedback Moves 2024 - FM5

Kavain Wayne Space & XT - YESYESPEAKERSYES

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW ON BANDCAMP - OUT 4/10/24
https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/album/estrada-longa

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Feedback Moves returns with the reissue of Estrada Longa by Vasco Alves, originally released in 2021 on Cafe Oto’s digital label, Takuroku.

Built in the 1940s, Estrada Nacional 2 is 720km long and spans the length of Portugal, from Chaves in the north to Faro on the southern Atlantic coast. Vasco Alves cycled the route in summer 2020, across 8 days and documented the names of each town and village by recording them on his phone. The tracks are named in accordance with the distance travelled each day and the town name presented in chronological order.

These words are set against a utilitarian set up of synthesis and rhythm. We hear a familiar set of sounds across each track, though Alves has a way of adding, subtracting and layering them, to create new spaces and situations for each composition. The music clicks and stutters, like the sound of a bicycle changing gears. The tracks are awash with bass tone and static texture, which recall his earlier, radio focussed work. It’s hard to draw comparisons with this music, moments from of Mika Vainio’s Ø project and Muslimgauze’s ‘Azzazzin’ come to mind, though Alves has conjured a unique world of absorbing sound which exudes a sense of focus and introspection.

Vasco Alves is a musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His work explores the physicality of sound through the use of electronic and acoustic processes, including synthesis and amplification techniques, and the gaita de fole (Portuguese bagpipes). He is a member of VA AA LR with Adam Asnan and Louie Rice, known for their electroacoustic works and radical performance - live shows have included the use of distress flares and wheeling the PA through the audience. His solo music has been released by We Can Elude Control and After Action Review, who in 2020 released Gaita Contra Computador - a set of works for gaita de fole and computer. For this album Alves pares back his tools, using synthesiser and voice across 8 pieces, which act as an imaginary audio diary to his cycle journey along the Estrada Longa.

"Part experimental audio diary, part road movie and part psychogeographic meditation, Estrada Longa is an absorbing work of chiselled, enveloping sound and haunting textual exploration" - Fielding Hope, Cafe Oto 


All tracks written and recorded by Vasco Alves
Mastered by Amir Shoat

Originally released digitally on Takuroku, July 2021
Feedback Moves 2024

Vasco Alves - Estrada Longa (0-88km)

Li Song, Regan Bowering and Conal Blake create work spanning improvisation and performance scores. Their music explores different combinations of snare drums, amplifier feedback and sine tones layered and manipulated through portable speakers.

Two Movements extends the ideas which underpinned their previous release Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers (Infant Tree 2023) by incorporating motion in two distinct ways.

‘Swinging’ (Side A) involved hanging three snare drums from the ceiling of Cafe Oto. The drums were amplified by attaching three different feedback generating set ups (a guitar amp and contact mic, a microphone feeding back between a sampler and a Bluetooth speaker, and a lavalier mic feeding back into another portable speaker). The score moves between sections where Blake, Song and Bowering interact with the equipment to change the sonic outcome, and long periods where the snares and feedback devices are left to ‘play themselves.’

‘Oscillating’ (Side B) was recorded in the intimate, resonant space at Hundred Years Gallery. This piece explored movement on two levels. First the rising and falling of three sine tones played through Bluetooth speakers, and second, the gradual, circular movements of the performers and the snare drums around the space. These subtle adjustments to the placement of bodies, sounds and objects in the space created an intense, fluctuating soundscape which was shared, yet unique, shifting and alive for each member of the audience.

Composed and performed by Conal Blake, Regan Bowering and Li Song.
Side A recorded at Cafe OTO by Billy Steiger.
Side B recorded at Hundred Years Gallery by Hunter Brown.

Released 2/8/24 on cassette and digital download.

Conal Blake, Regan Bowering and Li Song - Two Movements

Accidental

https://sunikkim.bandcamp.com/album/formenverwandler

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Beyond excited to announce the new album Formenverwandler by Sunik Kim, a Los Angeles-based musician, writer and filmmaker who has previously released music on Notice Recordings, Rope Editions and OTOROKU. Spanning almost 2 hours, Formenverwandler is a detailed and considered study on time and duration.

Drawing from her extensive research on composer Conlon Nancarrow, Formenverwandler sees Kim exploring the time or tempo canon, which can pull and project the listener's senses, melting the temporal and spatial perception of presented sounds. As in previous works such as 2022’s Raid on the White Tiger Regiment and 2023’s Potential, Kim deploys patches and tools she has designed for SuperCollider, which take raw, utilitarian General MIDI notes and multiply and spray them into frenetic webs and networks of spiraling sound.

It is within these networks that sounds, recognisable and familiar, are placed, scattered and gathered into new structures that appear to shapeshift, constantly morphing in meter. The album's title Formenverwandler (German for shapeshifter, taken from the classic Der Zyklus track) perfectly encapsulates this collection of pieces that are in constant motion and in a state of reflection and restructure. The four pieces are mirrors and refolds of one another, both stretched and condensed in various directions and examined to the point of near exhaustion.

Along with the music, Kim has written an essay which outlines the thoughts, actions and reflections that make up this body of work. Reading the essay—and rereading it—is an endlessly insightful way of entering and understanding the headspace that produced this deeply considered music and its inner ecology. Along with rationale and reasoning, Kim interjects quotes from writers, poets and thinkers—from Lenin to Woolf—who have ruminated on and have existed within the confines of time.

The album will be available physically and digitally, with a copy of Kim's Formenverwandler essay available with both and available to read freely at the link below and via a free downloadable .pdf.

https://sunikkim.com/formenverwandler

Sunik Kim 'Fast Money Blues' from Formenverwandler

Feedback Moves launches with ‘Call Time / Hard Out’ by @xcrswx.
 
@xcrswx are London based artists Crystabel Riley (drum-/human-skin) and Seymour Wright (saxophone), who alongside performing as a duo have appeared in projects such as أحمد [Ahmed], GUO, Maria & The Mirrors and RP Boo & XT.
 
Call Time / Hard Out presents us with a contrast of opposing recording techniques - the LIVE and the ANDROID. Call Time is largely made up of phone recordings, mashed up to create a layered mix of mini aural breaks, which scatter barbed sax and motoric drum patterns through a cloud of bass tone and feedback. Hard Out is an edited in-house live recording from Cafe Oto which sees the duo communicating through a live language of repetition and interplay. Sparse, rotating snare and sax blows are met with pulsing subs as the mix gradually folds back on itself.
 
Call Time / Hard Out will be released as a 7” and download on 15th June 2020
7” comes with folded @xcrswx artwork, A4 insert by @xcrswx with words by Janina Pedan and label business card
150 copies
Call Time recorded by @xcrswx 
Hard Out recorded by Shaun Crook, with reflections from Amy Gwatkin and Billy Steiger
Mastered by John Hannon

@xcrswx - Call Time

Vasco Alves 'Estrada Longa' LP and Conal Blake 'Two Movements' out now:

https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/album/estrada-longa

https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/album/two-speed

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