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Gagarin is the solo project of Graham “ Dids” Dowdall  - member of avant-rock legends Pere Ubu and former collaborator with Nico & John Cale and prolific collaborator. As Gagarin, he produces instrumental electronica with a sound of its own it sits astride multiple genres and styles. He has released a series of solo albums which have gained increasing acclaim.
 
“Eskil” is a track taken from his current album The Great North Wood which has been played on BBC6 music, Resonance fm, Reverb Radio alongside numerous premieres ,  a special feature on Bandcamp Daily,and lots of great reviews including:
 
"filmic, mysterious, rich in compositional depth" Mix Tape
 
“wonderfully earthy, a heartfelt and musically moving, God is in the TV
 
Gagarin has created his own extended remix of “Eskil” (Green Shoots mix) as part of a series of “ virtual 12s “ taking the opportunity to develop some key elements in the original drenched in distressed melody and glitch beats. He has also commissioned long term ally Prophane to bring a DJ’s approach to his rework
 
Prophane is a legendary French DJ and promoter on the left-field, chill-out scene. He came over to the UK in the early 21st Century and established the now iconic Moon Palace club night/day which ran for several years in Camden, Shoreditch and Paris and became the Sunday after-club favourite of many on the ambient and chill-out scene. Andy Weatherall, Casper Pound, Mixmaster Morris, Tunng and many more all graced the stage or the decks. Now running Camberwell’s famous Rat Records , Prophane is a master selector and curator. Having turned down many requests, this is his first commercially released remix due to his perfectionism and particular tastes.  Prophane adds a found sound vocal sample to the stripped-down beats and snatches of the original melodies to create something that sits between the dance floor and the chillout room.


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Eskil

Premiere: Gagarin "Eskil" (Prophane's Dark Angeline Mix)

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Premiere: GAGARIN - Eskil (Green Shoots Mix) | Geo Records

An edited jam from the some time in the late 90s. Graham Dowdall (Gagarin) - percussive digitalia. Keith Moliné (Mesmerist)- guitar synth, editing.

"Fissure" - Mesmerist Meets Gagarin

04. REYNARDS

among the sirens

January 2018 is the 15th Year or our Dark Januaries project. "Beards getting thicker, and hair a little thinner!". We meet again for 2 days, to rekindle energies spark off new ventures, and start the year with a piece of artistic research and reflection.
This year we arrived independently at the same idea; to revisit our 1st ever Dark January in 2004 which focused on voice and horn. At that stage we'd just emerged from the break up of E8, directed rather too much towards short, undeveloped vast ideas for us and we felt liberated by the joy of exploring 1 note for a 20 minute duration. Thus this year, we adopted a more performance mode of creating the work, and largely because now our new studio is completed we have a glorious acoustic to play with. This years play results in a series of improvisations with live voice, flugelhorn and live electronics, that have emerged into 6 pieces, totaling 45 minutes of music.
The Visible Breath ...... 14:55"
Skirr..................................7:04"
Mulch ...............................5:09"
In the Air..........................4:46"
Pithy Pithy Pear.............3:1"
Berry's Are Few .............5:37"

We have chosen 1 track to load up here, running out of souncloud space......  
Title: "Skirr" which means: to go into for the purposes of discovery. 

We are also trying to work out how to make all 6 parts available to anyone interested, and muse with the thought: could we make a bit of money out of it?!!  We always talk about what troubles us each year, and this year its the crushing affects of austerity. No work for artists. One sentence captures it all from 1 reluctant payer this year who'd given us £350 for 2 shows. "You've had enough!" Then other people of our age, with the difficulties inherent in a proper job; how many years to run before final salary pensions can be cashed in, eeking out redundancy pay outs, and the difficulty of managing 2nd and 3rd homes. We've laid down nothing there, only a life in sound; surely if we'd started a collection sooner we'd have pennies in the pot for next years marmalade!!
We ponder.......

January 2018. Part 2 Skirr ........7:04"

Seasoned music journalist Joe Muggs glides through an hour of itchy club experiments that come inspired by the philosophy of 'b-boy continuum".

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Hyp 328: Joe Muggs

A piece composed for the painting shown in the attached image.

Part of an exhibition called Sounding Images at the Barber institute of fine art in Birmingham; opening next weekend until the end of June.

A Work In Red

Afraid Of The Dark

Isnaj Dui & Hybernation - Something More

Edit of "Waterhole" from "Samsaminia". Full track at https://siloportem.bandcamp.com/album/samsaminia

Waterhole

This is the home of Gagarin and other projects. Gagarin is the solo project of Graham “ Dids” Dowdall.  He makes instrumental electronica that doesn’t adhere to any particular scene or style and draws on influences ranging from contemporary classical to techno and every point in between and beyond. The music is atmospheric, melodic and sometimes beaty. 
 Graham also creates more sound art focused work with an emphasis on using field recordings and other source material to create installation based pieces  reflecting particular geographical or other environments. A particular obsession is birdsong and interfaces between rural and urban sound worlds. In 2014 he released a cassette Outside Broadcast through Touch’s Tapeworm imprint  based on sounds sourced from analogue radios - a eulogy to that dying format. In 2016 he was commissioned to create 5 sound pieces for 5 hills in Surrey for project Inspiring Views .
Currently a member of avant rock legends Pere Ubu and Welsh-Iranian folktronica duo Roshi ft. Pars Radio, Gagarin has a long history of left-field musical promiscuity. Including a long period of collaboration with Nico ( Velvet Underground) and many dalliances along the way include John Cale, Ludus, Eric Random, Suns of Arqa, Band of Holy Joy, Low Bias, Zor Gabor and many more.
As Gagarin he has released several albums and contributed to numerous compiIations and remix projects.

His last album Aoticp received widespread acclaim and was described by Boiler Room as " sparkingly new " and " magnificent genre hopping " in Impulse as well as great reviews in Wire, Quietus and airplay across Europe including repeated BBC Radio 3 plays.

His latest album Corvid was  released in late 2017and has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and BBC6music, Electronic Sound Magazine and lots of European and US outlets.
All Gagarin material including new album Corvid can be bought here - https://gagarin.bandcamp.com


Gagarin gigs regularly in UK and Europe with a hardware combination of drumpads, samplers, iPad and FX.