Name: Petrels - Characterisation Level by Floating Limb in Petrels
Duration: 20 min 14 s
Description: From the album 'Onkalo' (Denovali Records 2013)

Petrels

Saru are very pleased to announce that Trichromatic Moiré, a new double CD featuring realisations of a graphic composition by Thomas Martin Nutt, is now available. 

Martin’s work with the physicality of interference takes place within the beating patterns of a multi-sensory field, a Moiré, and to celebrate his wonderful compositions, SARU invited a number of artists from around the world to realise his work.

The release features interpretations by Tetuzi Akiyama, Harriet Butler, Sarah Hennies, Ryu Hankil, Ko Ishikawa, David Lacey, Sally Ann McIntyre, Will Montgomery, Joseph Clayton Mills, Shirley Pegna, Rie Nakajima & Marie Roux, Samuel Rodgers, Lo Wie, and Keiko Yamamoto.

www.sonicartresearch.co.uk

Sarah Hennies

'brace, brace' is Julia Reidy’s soaring Slip return: a dread-tinged incantation unfurling from breath-down-the-neck field recordings, auto-murmured voice, synthetic hum, and irrepressible guitar kinetics.

Reidy's signature 12-string playing - precise, burrowing, rhapsodic - dominates the LP's outer cuts, framing a plaintive electric centre. Blooms of arpeggiations and desolate strums re-inflect slow-moving pitch sequences; the music feels at once on fire and graceful, inevitable.

Perhaps most surprising is how organic 'brace, brace'’s expanded palette feels. Reidy's electronics are subtly eerie extensions, alien resonances of her playing, both embedding her instrument and making it somehow unreal. This strange smear of body and apparition is neatly nailed in Reidy's sung-to-herself vocals, coaxed out and encroached upon by autotune.

Succeeding issues of her work by Feeding Tube and Room 40's A Guide To Saints, 'brace, brace' is a definitive statement from a blazing, restless talent. 

The LP tours with visuals from Suze Whaites. Whaites' projection environment is built from the coruscant light sources and surface reflections with which her video footage is made, creating mutable vistas at once microscopic and panoramic, domestic and sublime.

'brace, brace' [SLP046] is available on vinyl LP and download from February 2019. Mixed and recorded by Sam Slater. Mastered by Joe Talia. Artwork by Suze Whaites. Distributed by Boomkat.

www.julia-reidy.com
www.slipimprint.co.uk

LP/DL

of neither [excerpt] - Julia Reidy

“a note
a voice, screams
a battery
sounds, grating noise, scratches
here it starts
Music, music
You who shudder
Who makes you dance, sing
Who moves the butt
and now begins Humming Dogs” - Florence Decourcelle, Humming Dogs 	 
	
An absolute pleasure to present ‘Les Borigènes’ - the first LP from France’s Humming Dogs. Born from the radical ‘Oiseau Mouche’ (Bird-Fly Company) - a troupe of actors and comedians who focus on the theatre of gesture - Humming Dogs make joyful, avant rock music, which pooh poohs the po-faced in favour of a party. 

Humming Dogs are made up of eight members - David Bausseron, Mathieu Breuvard, Florence Decourcelle, Thierry Dupont, Chantal Esso, Léa Le Bars, Florian Spiry, and Valérie Waroquier, who each write and create songs, swap instruments and sing collectively. Guitars, bass, drum kit, and keyboards mix with toy percussion, amplified pine cones, pot lids, iPads and a zither. ‘Ha Ha Ha’ opens the record with the group dispersed and growling at one another, only to break out in infectious laughter, a free word riot and a thick bass melody. The traditional French song, ‘Karnaval’, gets totally sent by keyboards and a heavy guitar scrawl egged on by the bands hooting and hollering. ‘Ça Me Gratte’ haunts, grates, until it splits with a rising synthesizer, squeaking toys, vocal drones and spitting, near exhausted vocals from Chantel Esso. 

‘Les Borigènes’ contains the self taught, simple charm of the Shaggs ‘Philosophy of the World’, performed in the spirit of village revelry and recorded and edited beautifully in the tradition of the GRM. Democratized experimentation, low ego rock’n’roll - Les Borigènes is a truly joyous, remarkable and wild record. It arrives in an edition of 500 140g black vinyl LPs, with artwork from London’s Submit to Love Studios and Taylor Silk. Humming Dogs have performed at Sonic Protest, Cafe OTO, and Counterflows and are due to tour again in 2020. Anyone wishing to help organise a show should contact Abby Thomas (UK) on info@bisonrecords.co.uk, or David Bausseron (FR) davidbausseron@gmail.com. 

Credits:

Recorded and mixed by Peter Orins at La Cie De L’oiseau Mouche. Edited by David Bausseron. Mastered by Katie Tavini. Artwork by Submit to Love Studio and Taylor Silk. Design by Maja Larrson.

Humming Dogs "Karnaval"

"Weeping Idols" written by N. Carlisle & R. Horwood.
Featuring guest appearance from Emma Gatrill on harp.
Released 16th April 2019 on Upset The Rhythm Records.
Taken from the forthcoming album "Daughters Of The Sky", released 14th June 2019 on Upset The Rhythm Records.
Video for "Weeping Idols":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTcPF-Zc4oY

Weeping Idols

Weeping Idols (Single Edit)

from 'The Dusk Loom' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den320
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/petrels

Oliver Barrett returns with his first Petrels album in three years; The Dusk Loom. Having put out a steady album-a-year since 2011, culminating in 2016’s Jörð, Barrett decided to take a step back from the project for a while, not wanting to releasing albums out of habit and wanting to be sure that there was something new to say.

The result is at once the most expansive but also personal Petrels release to date. Three years in the making, The Dusk Loom builds on the eclectic sonic palette of Barrett’s back catalogue but brings these sounds into sharper focus than ever before. Those hoping for the all-enveloping dynamics and textures of past Petrels releases will not be disappointed, but over the ten parts of The Dusk Loom, Barrett puts this trademark euphoric aural scree to work in new and unexpected ways.

Drawing on myriad influences as fans of Barrett’s have come to expect, the resulting themes of the album are perhaps woven more intricately than before. In The Dusk Loom, Barrett takes an evocative approach to storytelling that asks the listener to draw their own meanings from the clues and references running through the sounds and words. Finding inspiration in mythology - both ancient and new, the work and writing of Remedios Varo and William Blake, memory, death and cosmology to name just a few, Barrett pulls these seemingly disparate strands together into something that is unmistakably Petrels but which also points the way to something new.

Petrels is the solo project of Somerset-based musician and artist, Oliver Barrett. Since releasing his debut, Haeligewielle, in 2011, Petrels has toured across Europe and shared a stage with the likes of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Demdike Stare, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster).

“Petrels sidesteps the chilliness found in much of the music of his peers, replacing it instead with an almost spiritual ecstasy, his ravishing synths and almost choral vocal treatments calling out in cosmic, wide eyed wonder at the universe.” – Paul Margree, Louder Than War

The Dusk Loom

Petrels - Tiny Specks of Light

Petrels - Surface of Last Scattering

Petrels - Telos

Petrels - The Hermit King

Taken from the album 'Four Bibles' (ALT47).

Order here: heycolossus.bandcamp.com/album/four-bibles

Four Bibles (ALT47)

Hey Colossus - It's A Low (ALT47)

"Basically I wanted to replicate the sensation of looking at a rotating Chinese vase. You can see the same motives again and again and again, but your perception is always different each time. You may notice a beautiful hidden detail here, a fine line there, then the irregular glazing, perhaps some cracks on the surface, its elegance, its purpose, its age, etc. Maybe you end up contemplating life itself? 
MING is just a "one-bar composition” that Michael Bonaventure repeats using the endless possibilities of the UTOPA organ at the Orgelpark. 
MING refers to the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) but it is also an homage to my dear friend composer Chao-Ming Tung who turned 50 this year." LHY


MING (2019) 
for solo organ (world première)

Michael Bonaventure, organ

THE FORMOSA CONNECTION 
28 APR 2019
Orgelpark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

https://www.orgelpark.nl/nl

MING, for solo organ (2019) - Orgelpark

All music K.barley 
Drums performed by Matt Davies

Bathe Pt3

Order - https://lauraliesin.bandcamp.com/album/onomatopoetico

@ragnhildmay & @kristofferraasted present Onomatopoetica, a sprawling chaptered piece released on Laura Lies In via cassette and digital.

Ragnhild May - Organ, modular synth & electronics.
Kristoffer Raasted - Vocal.

Mixed by Ragnhild May.

Mastering by Rupert Clervaux.
http://www.rupertclervaux.com/

Design by Hannah Marine.
http://www.hannahmarine.co.uk/

Order

Ragnhild May & Kristoffer Raasted - Onomatopoetico [LLI006]

From the album 'Onkalo' (Denovali Records 2013)

Petrels - Characterisation Level

Floating Limb

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