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Under Branch & Thorn & Tree was recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, with John Vanderslice (The Mountain Goats, Spoon), who also helmed last year’s Kid Face. “We both like spontaneous creation and analog sound,” Crain says. “We recorded straight to two-inch tape on a Studer 24-track machine and mixed down to 1/2-inch tape on an Ampex machine.  The pre-amps were tube and we never used a computer.  Our effects were done manually through tape looping and manipulation.  Most of the arrangements happened in the moment, as we recorded.  My guitar and vocals are all first or second takes.”
 
These intimate vignettes are marked by Crain’s careful attention to the tiny details that often escape us, supported by the subtle musical settings she crafted with Vanderslice and the backing musicians. Jesse Aycock’s (Hard Working Americans, The Secret Sisters) lap steel mimics the smooth, icy sound of a country guitar to compliment Crain’s high-spirited vocal on “Big Rock,” the album’s most exuberant track. Anne Lillis adds rhythmic tension with her stop and start fills on the chorus. Bright, chiming keyboards from John Calvin Abney sprinkle “Kathleen” with stardust, as Crain’s heartfelt vocals drift through an expansive soundscape that suggests the comforting warmth of a long summer night.
 
The Magik*Magik Orchestra’s plush strings (led by Minna Choi) and Crain’s bluesy acoustic strumming fill “When You Come Back”  (featuring vocals from the Dodos’ Meric Long) with an aching melancholy as Crain describes the pain of seeing an old flame with his new spark. “Buried heartbreak can become very public in a small town,” she says. Crain’s propulsive fingerpicking, long sustained notes created from looping tape recordings of Aycock’s pedal steel and the sonorous strings of the Magik*Magik Orchestra bring a poignant sadness to “Elk City.”  The song describes the fate of a working class woman left behind when a boomtown goes bust. The album’s overall tone may be somber, but Crain’s vocals and the sensitive, striking arrangements bring unexpected flashes of light to even the darkest scenarios.

“This album is definitely social on many levels,” Crain explains.  “Much of it is about the plight of the working class woman.  We are multi-dimensional individuals, not silly emotional creatures who depend on men.  And it baffles me that I feel the need to bring light to that in 2015 but I feel strongly that the truth of that message is still hushed.”

“I wanted to be a writer in high school, but then I heard [songwriter] Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Co., Songs:  Ohia). His songs use plain-spoken language, but they’re pure poetry.  I wanted to learn to speak in that language and wanted to see the world, so I naively threw myself into a wayfaring sort of life and started booking my own tours with barely 10 songs under my belt.  I fell in love with the troubadour’s life and ten years later, here I am.”
 
She began performing as a guitar and drum duo with fellow musician and at the time, roommate, Beth Bombara. She moved on to a full band, Samantha Crain and The Midnight Shivers, getting attention for her dark vision and unique singing style. She signed with Ramseur Records and made Songs in the Night (2009) with The Midnight Shivers, before going back to being a solo artist for You (Understood). She worked with Vanderslice on the “Simple Jungle” seven-inch and then on Kid Face in 2013. The album created a dense, sorrowful atmosphere and set the stage for the expansive emotional expression of Under Branch & Thorn & Tree.  “It’s important that art is still being made by the folk, the common people.  This album focuses on being a part of and continuing that tradition.”

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A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Eden rehearsal cassette

CPU is proud to release the new studio album from acclaimed artist Bochum Welt - ‘Seafire’.

For this new album, Gianluigi Di Costanzo, aka Bochum Welt, devoted himself to the pursuit of creating new sounds, using old monster synthesizers to produce original compositions.

This album is an evolution of the electronic style which characterized Bochum Welt’s releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. ‘Seafire’ collects futuristic electro / ambient tracks, alternated with cinematic soundscapes.

Gianluigi Di Costanzo says of the release:
“Since ‘Seafire’ is an evolution of the electro sound I worked on in the past, it seemed natural to release it with Central Processing Unit, the very cool British record label which is continuing Sheffield's strong electronic music heritage.

"I've always been inspired by the Sheffield electro scene, many keyboard players I listened to in the past are from Sheffield: Martyn Ware & Ian Marsh (founding members of the Human League), Cabaret Voltaire and Mark White.”

12" vinyl LP in shrink-wrapped printed sleeve with paper inner.

Seafire

Bochum Welt - Seafire

Taken from Dana's debut album "Yesterday Is Gone" out now! Buy / listen here: https://smarturl.it/yesterdayisgone
Dana is on tour later this year! Check out my dates here: http://danagavanski.com/#tour
Produced by Mike Lindsay, Sam Gleason and Dana Gavanski. 
Written by Dana Gavanski.

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Itinerant Dub 006 - Unreleased Plate (15.2.16) (12")
A side: Dubplate 1
B side: Dubplate 2
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The union of Bochum Welt and Central Processing Unit makes perfect sense. Here we have a principal figure from IDM’s 90s heyday linking up with an imprint that has brought the sound and spirit of Rephlex Records into the modern day. As such, it is unsurprising that Bochum Welt’s label debut, the 2019 LP Seafire, has quickly become one of the most vaunted releases in CPU’s extensive catalogue.

A few months on from the release of Seafire, the Italian artist returns to the Sheffield imprint with Seafire Remixes. As well as a pair of new versions from Bochum Welt himself, this five-track set also contains a trio of tunes which rewire Seafire originals - one remix apiece from EOD, James Zabiela and Telefon Tel Aviv.

One can think of Seafire Remixes as chronicling a night at the club in reverse - at least until its final track. ‘More Light (Radio Edit)’ and ‘G1 (Ambient Mix)’, the two Bochum Welt originals which kick things off, maintain the heady glow of Seafire. Both are lovely, wistful lilts, full of gently-pattering drums, pluming synths and keening keyboards. They recall the most cerebral end of Boards Of Canada’s output, flushing you with the warm afterglow of the party as you begin to bed down, dawn just starting to break through the window.

If these opening jams represent the night drawing to a close, the mid-section of Seafire Remixes rewinds to the thrill of the dance. bbbbbb recors mischief-maker EOD and British dancefloor veteran James Zabiela both tackle ‘More Light’ on their remixes, and each producer makes the same decision to gee-up the track with drums. The former’s version plumbs a load of IDM-techno beats into the floaty-light original to give it a buoyant positivity not dissimilar to Andrew Weatherall (RIP). Meanwhile Zabiela’s snapping broken-beat electro rework is pure peaktime euphoria, with 303s squirming gleefully under clattering drums and a needle-gun bassline. It’s a distillation in sound of some of the very best aspects of dance music culture - rhythm, communality, utopia.

Telefon Tel Aviv’s reworking of Seafire’s ‘Color Me’ ends this otherwise-uplifting EP on a more pensive note. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of the artist, Telefon Tel Aviv’s ‘Color Me’ flip is the most leftfield production on Seafire Remixes. Eerie, spectral synths clatter and churn away atop skittering drums which have a ghost of trap about them. This heady fug sounds very much like the morning after the night before, with Gold Panda, Teebs and TOKiMONSTA all recalled. 

Covering a large amount of sonic terrain - electro, IDM, techno, abstract hip-hop, ambient music - Bochum Welt’s Seafire Remixes EP is simultaneously one of the most stylistically diverse and most aesthetically unified Central Processing Unit releases to date.

Tracklist
A1 - More Light (Radio Edit)
A2 - G1 (Ambient Mix)
A3 - More Light (EOD Mix)
B1 - More Light (James Zabiela Remix)
B2 - Color Me (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)

RIYL: Daniel Avery, AFX, Boards Of Canada, Autechre

Seafire Remixes

Bochum Welt - Seafire Remixes

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Yesterday's K.N.Y.X. show : )

Played mostly at the same time:

Arv & Miljö ‎– Himmelsvind (Discreet Music)
The Music Of The Syrian Orthodox Church (UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World)
Arv & Miljö – Nothing Compares 2 U (Regional Bears)
The Music Of The Syrian Orthodox Church (UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World)
Various ‎– Buddhist Chant - A Recorded Survey Of Actual Temple Rituals
The Music Of Tibetan Buddhism (Bärenreiter-Musicaphon)

K.N.Y.X. RADIO 12.10.20

TTT BANDCAMP

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