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https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/teygja-part-b

Pre-order is now available for "Teygja Part B" - the continuation of the previous Teygja issue - handmade CD wallets, hand-bound from vintage hardback books, the hand-stamped CD's sit inside found ephemeral manila sleeves. A hand-made mini collage and print come with every edition. Each edition is hand-numbered and limited to 50 copies, packed in glassine bags.

Teygja, from Old Norse, translates to "s t r e t c h".

01 One Day
02 Mutability
03 Antwerp Expedition
04 Dust Cycle
05 Mazingarbe
06 Interludes
07 Book One
08 Waiting for the Moon
09 Shira
10 Ember 
11 The Open Door
12 Lira

Please note: just one copy of the cassette and CD issues are available per order, due to the limited nature of the both releases. Thanks for your understanding.

Maps and Diagrams - Teygja - Part B [s4mpl3r]

Handstitched* preview for the track "House Of Light" from the forthcoming album by Bill Seaman & Stephen Spera, titled- "Architectures Of Light"

Pre-order available now:  https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/architectures-of-light

Released: April 22, 2022 - Handstitched* [HS43]

After following each other in differing capacities, both musically and visually, the two have connected for the new Handstitched* release "Architectures Of Light". As with all good collaborations, Seaman and Spera found a method that worked best for their musical-output, an organic flow and process that allowed the songs to breathe naturally with time and space.

Sending each other libraries of potential ideas, then building up layers of sounds, adding to each other's work as time progressed. Multiple iterations created by each artist on the album formed the audible backbone and it was added-to, and/or broken-down to form alternative viewpoints, resulting in moments of slowly formed movements which evolve without escaping the focus of the audience's attention.

There is a depth in the work of Seaman and Spera that is noticeable in the form of languages and interpretation, using found-sound, evocative vocal samples from past archives and degraded/fluctuating tape loops. Two songs have accompanying visual works, one produced by Seaman and one by Spera, both videos marry the visual and musical language found inside the music with dream-like and organic representations for each respective work.

Heraclitus And The River: vimeo.com/692095710
(video by Stephen Spera)

Tswana Dreaming: vimeo.com/687494408
(video by Bill Seaman)

Bill Seaman & Stephen Spera - House Of Light [preview]

Maps and Diagrams - Mountain Ash

Hardly approaching an Italo-Western, but I wanted to depict a scene with only guitar and bells....

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A Cowboy's Life

I have again the immense pleasure of presenting you a piece by Jean-Pierre Dubois (JiPé) which was composed by him back in 1985 when he was 38 years old....he had the kindness of sharing this composition with me which is more in a style of the Romantic era....
I hope you will enjoy listening to my performance of it.....