It’s safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic industrial figures Zoviet France on Signals From The North and the classic ‘Hizou’ on Claremont 56 back at the turn of the decade.
 
Now, this Firecracker Recordings release highlights a fully realised body of work, only hinted at by the aforementioned projects. Starting life as a performance in Turkish Baths located in Newcastle upon Tyne’s City Pool, one of the last remaining civil saunas in the country, Legget has created a textured, melodic and immersive eulogy to the woozy, slow motion, drug free endorphin rush of the bath house. Pieces from this performance, alongside field recordings collected on the islands of Paxos and Loutro, South Crete are reimagined as a luscious ambient music. Accompanied by cello and electronics with real attention paid to musicality, vast and gaseous cinematic compositions are submerged beneath waves and drenched in steam and condensation.

All tracks produced by Steven Legget. Field recordings collected on the island of Paxos, and Loutro (Crete).
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 co-written by Laura Reid.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 cello performed by Laura Reid.
Track 7 co-written/produced and performed with Suade Bergemann (Sine Bass) and Mark Hand (Fender Rhodes Stage 88 Piano and Jen SX1000 synthesiser).

LP Mastered by Suade and Cut by Keith.

For Sacha x

All profits from the sales of this LP will be donated to the charity Waves for Water:
http://www.wavesforwater.org/

• 2x12” vinyl album
• Double gatefold, screen printed, 2 colour sleeve
• Strictly limited press
• Silkscreened artwork by Al White

Worldwide distribution exclusively by Rubadub.

FIREC024LP Steven Legget - Bathhouse

Going Good 14 incoming.

Artwork - Ville Hiltunen & Brian Not Brian

Written & produced by - Vesa-Matti Kivioja

Djembe / Percussion - Masi 

Distributed by: GGHQ Distro

A1 - Red Eyed Wood Lizard
A2 - Seven Lined Ameiva 
A3 - Tree Runner
B1 - Wandering Grass Lizard
B2 - Solitary Anole 
B3 - Bogota Anadia

Mastered by - Keith Tenniswood

https://soundcloud.com/ljudverket

GOOD-14 - Vesu's 'List Of Lizards EP' Snippets

A PVC 7" made for our Good Morning Family Jam at Acud Macht Neu in Berlin on 27/07/19.

Features the tracks "Magnolia Shade" by Innsyter & an edit by 2Morph taken off their recent release titled "Panaceum".

Only 30 copies made!

Purchase here:
https://www.goodmorningtapes.com/collections/vinyl

Innsyter / 2Morph - 7" Sampler (Snippets)

Since 2017, Deathstar has been a project about the microphone — in Marina Rosenfeld’s hands, a void, a mirror, an unruly instrument of transformation and mediation. This music is heard in traces, through thickly amplified silences punctuated by momentary eruptions of noise or a voice at the threshold of intelligibility. The sculpture at the center of the action—a plexiglas orb housing a 7-microphone array originally installed as part of an exhibition the artist mounted at Portikus, in Frankfurt Germany— performs a recursive operation, listening to and recirculating sounds continuously morphed by feedback and reflection. This machine music repeats itself in seemingly endless versions, abstractly and in an evolving relationship to the grammars of reproduction and performance, presence, absence, and accumulation. Later, recorded traces of this installation rendered as musical notation produce a series of events—concerts that explore the outcomes of the acts of amplifying, writing, and listening.

The four sides of the album Deathstar follow four such events: first, the installation of the Deathstar in exhibition space; then, a piano performance, also within the Deathstar’s machinic environment, of a recording of the installation that Rosenfeld notated on paper; then, her re-notation of these recorded traces in the form of a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, all aggressively amplified through a wall of guitar amps; and finally, the orchestration’s reduction to something like chamber music, with acoustic instruments tasked with the representation of an ever more attenuated body of traces. Throughout, the extraordinary virtuoso pianist Marino Formenti and ensembles MusikFabrik (Cologne) and Yarn/Wire (New York) extract a dazzling variety of sounds from their readings of the work’s written and acoustic forms. Deathstar is a complex and monumental work from a composer who has long explored the limits of form as an artist and as a listener.

Deathstar

Installation

MARINA ROSENFELD - Installation (SP124)

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Music is an innately social activity, even music created in the interest of self-reflection and meditation. Early in 2020, Australia's response to the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic had the music community close its doors not only to the outside world, but to each other. By order of a government directive, all social gatherings - including live music performance, group rehearsal and collaborative recording - were to cease around the country.

It was unclear at the start of the pandemic what role peer-to-peer interaction played in the lives of Australian composers. Many already worked from home, well versed in the art of creating spaces of solitude in cities, of building environments conducive to self-reflection, innovation and creativity.

But how much do we really depend upon our community? In a world where self-isolation is no longer a personal choice, will creativity flounder, or flourish?

The recordings in this series are a document of these months and these reflections. A meditation on the way we exist and create, both together and in solitude. As with any creative work, it is up to the listener to draw what they will from these works, and to carry this forward into the world they now inhabit.

New releases will be added ongoing 1 by 1, fortnightly from October. Depending on how long this V2 lockdown goes, we may add even more. Who knows, we may continue this until 2022, forever in hibernation and isolation, yet not isolated. 

Check back every month --> https://private-eyes.bedroomsuckrecords.com/

Blue Divers - Closely

Taken from 'It's Worse', out on Cafe OTO's digital label Takuroku

TR083 - Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - 'Slows O'er'

FOURTH SHOW ON STRANDED FM
THIS IS A SERIES FOCUSING ON GLOBAL DANCE MUSIC / THANK YOU FOR LISTENING =)

ZALIVA-D - SKY SINGING
BLACK SEED - EAST OF WANCI
JONQUERA - MDMP 1
ISRAFIL - BOLE WATERFALL KE NEECHE
ZHU-XIAO-LIN - THE ICE-LANTERN FESTIVAL
DAYAN ANCIENT MUSIC ASSOCIATION - WAVES WASHING THE SAND
GUZZ - 锦鲤 KOI
GROUND - OSAKA NATIVE
SABLA - FIRE-WIRE
MARIO BATKOVIC - QUATERE
MOHAMED ROUICHA - BIN LHAQIQA O LHKAYAL
JON BLACK - TRES MILLIONES DOLARES
AZU TIWALINE & CINNA PEYGHAMY - VIOLET CURVES
RIZAN SAID - ELECTRIC MAWWAL I

20201124 STRANDED FM: PROTRO

1000 Years of Good Luck out 12/4 on Umé Records
https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/1000-years-of-good-luck

p2p.waves

https://socialharmony.bandcamp.com/merch/dj-michel-gentil-le-retour-des-d-moniaques

DJ Michel Gentil - Le Retour Des Démoniaques / A - KANT

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