My first ever track - built around the ritual of sex magick 
Given that full horror treatment in 2021 for the Earth Mothers vinyl - 
little clip - out spring 2022

Earth Mothers

A witches bedroom chimes (Magick vinyl edit)

CLAIR A Witches Bedroom Chimes Magick vinyl edit (short clip)

One take. 

Sounds taken from the Isles.

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Loops, Granular, Keys, Recordings etc

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https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-lights-are-on-but-no-ones-home-2

Text c/o Boomkat.

At long last a spotlight is shone on NWW and C93 affiliate Diana Rogerson with Optimo’s maiden vinyl and digital edition of her hallucinatory, previously CD-only, 2007 album, co-produced/engineered by her bandmates (and former husband) Steven Stapleton with Colin Potter, plus irr. app. (ext.)’s Matt Waldron

Of cultish repute due to her unsettling 1985 solo debut ‘The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record’, Diana Rogerson hails among the true matriarchs of original industrial musick with a discography that begins in early ‘80s extreme noise act Fistfuck and spans dozens of credits for NWW’s United Dairies and the legendary likes of L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords and Dirter. An early encounter with her work via a mention in Smash Hits would twig a 12 year old JD Twitch to her work, and subsequently the whole NWW microcosm she was instrumental within, leading to JD’s lifelong obsession with industrial musick and its secretive binds with underground sound. It’s fair to say that beyond the most ardent industrialists, Rogerson’s work hasn’t received the retrospective acclaim afforded to many others of her cohort, but this reissue should hopefully rectify that matter and leave an indelible impression on newcomers, while jogging the traumas/memories of original industrial fiends. 

Although naturally bearing traces of her early work, ‘The Lights are On But No-One’s Home’ finds Diana subtly adapting her moniker and adopting a more sensuous sound decades later, after she had raised a family in the rural west of Ireland. In terms of her spoken word delivery and the musick’s shapeshifting backdrops, we can’t help but hear this album as a precedent for the wanderings of Teresa Winter or her near namesake in Laila Sakini’s Princess Diana of Wales, with Rogerson’s lyrics conjuring richly occultist imagery matched by the slow-burn swirl of vaporous electronics and her nose for oneiric, extended melody. From the dream-breaching drone opener ‘Behind the Curtain of the Sun’, thru the mutant exotica of ‘Cupboard Re-Nude’ or ‘Mother’, to a cover of Ash Ra Tempel’s ‘Asphalt Kiss’, the guttural thrum of ‘Mirage Man’, and her 15 minute parting piece of collaged inception, ‘Chant D’Amour/Da Mort’; it’s not hard to hear why JD Twitch saw fit to give this album a 2nd lease of life, and likewise hear Diana as an original priestess of England’s Hidden Reverse.

out now on vinyl / digital

A Bad Diana - Chant D'Amour (from the album 'The Lights Are On But No​-​One's Home') *OUT NOW*

Sean Johnston Christmas ALFOS at Phonox Dec 23

Sean Johnston ALFOS Phonox Dec 23

A splendid story of stupidity and idiotic behaviour that ends well.

It Was A Grand Day (Summer 2)

Frequency Consortium w/ Dan Lurinsky - Radio Buena Vida 04.02.24

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/new-meridien

In 1994, UK ambient pioneers O Yuki Conjugate recorded their landmark Equator album. To mark the 30th anniversary of this musical milestone, many of the same personnel – Roger Horberry (co-founder of O Yuki Conjugate), Dan Mudford (ex-Sons of Silence and co-creator of the Shaun of the Dead soundtrack), Joe Lamb (ex-Sons of Silence) and Malcolm McGeorge – came together to make New Meridian, reflecting the range of influences they’ve picked up over the intervening years.   

Generously described as “almost like normal music”, the eight tracks of New Meridian feature instrumentation ranging from classic analogue to actual wooden logs. The result takes you on a rain-drenched, open-top ride from Electronica Avenue to the drone caverns of Uranus, with various Fourth World ambi-dub diversions along the way. File under: duress.

Dark Blue Trees

Open Yellow Circle / O Yuki Conjugate  - Dark Blue Trees (from the album 'New Meridien') *OUT NOW*

Mixed by Simon Heartfield - February 2024

PYE CORNER AUDIO  Phantom Orchid
SURGEON Golden
JO JOHNSON  Don't Stand In The Way
BRIAN ENO  On Some Far Away Beach
MORAY NEWLANDS  176 Seconds 
ROBERTA FIDORA  You Live Alone
65 DAYS OF STATIC  The Undertow
SIMON HEARTFIELD  Drakelow
SLOWDIVE  Andalucia Plays
TONY HANCOCK Secret Life of Tony Hancock (Intro)
SCANNER Circumstances Records Remembering
DRIFTING FT ANDY WILSON  Song of Peckham Rye
KEITH SEATMAN  Clip Clop To The Shops (Simon Heartfield Remix Two)
WRECKED LIGHTSHIP Hex
EUAN DALGARNO  Coasting
CLAIR  Queen Bee Prelude
SIMON HEARTFIELD  Only Imagine A Century
JILK  Cope Lake Void
ARRAY ACCESS Variation 2 (Eomac Mix)
TONY HANCOCK The Threatening Letters (Outro)

DECK CHAIR MIX

Deck Chair Mix: Beachy Head Radio

As a nation, the Irish have always had a profound relationship with the people of Palestine.

“Whether born from our own history of British colonialism and occupation, which has cost thousands of innocent lives or through our Connexxion of struggle for civil and human rights, which came to prominence in the North of Ireland in the late sixties just about the time that 20,000 Palestinians were murdered in the 1967 6 day war in Palestine. Ireland will always stand with Palestine and with other oppressed people around the world!  Whether you’re Palestinian, South African, Jewish , African American, Indian, Vietnamese, Iraqi or Afghani – Irish people will always be on the side of good– fighting against oppression and the removal of civil liberties and rights. But at this moment in time, it’s not about nationality or religion it’s about humanity – as an entire people stand on the precipice of extinction. 
 

As a proud Irish man and a citizen of planet Earth, to be silent (as we all bear witness in real time to the genocide of the Palestinian people) is not an option. It’s estimated that to date 35, 000 people have been slaughtered – 15,000 of them woman and children not including the bodies under the rubble and with more than 600,000 are on the brink of preventable starvation.

Our own Irish ancestors experienced a devastating famine exacerbated by the British occupation – when 1 million people starved to death and 1 million more emigrated. So as the Israeli government uses starvation as a weapon of war, I am not going to forget our past, as those who do so and stand by, are surely doomed to regret their inaction.” David Holmes

ALL 3 CHAPTERS

David Holmes – Humanity As An Act Of Resistance - Chapter 1

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/channeling/episodes/channeling-26th-march-2024

Channeling w/ Ivan Smagghe & Nathan Gregory Wilkins 260324

Boomkat
'"Earth Mothers" is a quiet revelation, combining new age
 minimalism with mbira improvisation and luscious cinematic soundscaping.'

 Quietus (Featured in: Music of the month & Spools out) 
'Clair's tracks sift delicate layers into stunningly intricate
 sound worlds'

Clint
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(film composer Black Swan / requiem for a dream / Ben Wheatley
 films)  'I really like your music' 'there's an ache to
 Kelvingrove and a euphoria to Catnip' 'work shows breadth':

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