doug sessions

From a split 7" with King of Cats 

coming out on Reeks of Effort on the 9th of September. 

Pre-order here http://reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/album/i-like-what-you-say

Listen to King Of Cats' side here https://soundcloud.com/kingofcats/bright-lightbulbs

Chokehold

ambient, weird, spunkshine, vintage samples, retro-future,

Clean Bodies

Signs ft Aes Dana

taken from sick of hits vol.2 also featuring Lone Omi and Something coming out on cassette

order here https://reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/album/sick-of-hits-vol-2

Trust Fund - No Surprise

King of Cats - the project of Brighton-cum-Oxford songwriter Max Levy - will release a debut album, 'Working Out', on 29th September through Art Reeks, the collaborative label by Art Is Hard and Reeks of Effort Records - pre order is available from https://artreeks.bandcamp.com now.

Recorded by Johnathan Coddington in a big room with crystals, 'Working Out' is influenced variously by Internet radio, indeterminacy, Reeks of Effort (bands and people), the ability to buy guns from the internet, the muscular form and the village of Eynsham. It is a complex, frustrated and often very funny record. Lyrical and sonic comparisons can be made to Stephin Merrit, Scout Niblett, Alisdair Roberts or Frankie Cosmos and elements of the D.I.Y indiepop and punk scenes King of Cats inhabits often shine through. But the sound and personality of “Working Out” lacks a derivative quality, partly due to Max’s totally distinctive, powerful singing voice.
 
While not a wholly conceptual record, “Working Out” does centre on a few things which have been present in Max’s writing of late. “Most of the songs have something to do with the fear of being trapped in a feeble body, dreams of a muscular form and the relationship between one’s environment, one’s body and one’s being an idiot. I don’t work out a lot, but I think about it often”. Friction between ideas of bodily perfection and emotional satisfaction is something that he was trying to understand in the years writing these songs. “I didn’t get very far”.
 
Taken from the album, 'Dead Lamb' is streaming online now with Levy and bandmates Owen Williams (Joanna Gruesome, Grubs) and Adam Cave playing a number of live dates in the UK through September.

King of Cats - Dead Lamb

Angel Olsen "All Right Now" from the deluxe edition of Burn Your Fire For No Witness, out November 18th 2014, on Jagjaguwar. 

Pre-order in iTunes:  http://smarturl.it/angelolsendeluxe?iQid=pre.sc

More info on Angel: http://jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=olsenangel
Tour dates: http://bit.ly/ao_tour

Angel Olsen: 
Website: http://angelolsen.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelolsenmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AngelOlsen


Angel Olsen "All Right Now" from the deluxe edition of Burn Your Fire For No Witness, out November 18th 2014, on Jagjaguwar.

Pre-order in iTunes

Angel Olsen - "All Right Now"

Taken from debut album 'No one's coming for us' out through Turnstile on 9 february
Vinyl: po.st/TFpreorder
Tape: reeksofeffort.bandcamp.com/album/no-ones-coming-for-us
Digital: https://trustfund.bandcamp.com

Trust fund will be on tour in the UK in February:
Sat 7th Feb - BRISTOL @ Roll for the Soul, w/ The Jelas, Ides
*sold out album launch 2*
https://www.facebook.com/events/1676614325898691/?fref=ts
 
Sun 8th Feb - BRISTOL @ Roll for the Soul w/ The Jelas, Ides, Raviolo Me Away
*sold out album launch 2*
https://www.facebook.com/events/886193318091637/?fref=ts

Mon 16th Feb - LEEDS @ Wharf Chambers, w/ Joey Fourr, Autobodies
https://www.facebook.com/events/758549897553763/
 
Tue 17th Feb - GLASGOW @ Nice 'n' Sleazy w/ Froth, Chrissy Barnacle
https://www.facebook.com/events/1518116455119411/
 
Weds 18th Feb - DURHAM @ Empty Shop, w/ ONSIND, Spoonboy
https://www.facebook.com/events/1523190534597606/
 
Thurs 19th Feb - NOTTINGHAM @ JT Soar, w/ Lost Pets, T-Shirt Weather
https://www.facebook.com/events/1544764729100813/
 
Fri 20th Feb - BRIGHTON @ The Joker, w/ Slum Of Legs
www.seetickets.com/event/trust-fund/the-joker/841127
 
Sat 21st Feb - LONDON @ The Montague Arms, w/ The Jelas, King of Cats, Oh Peas
https://www.facebook.com/events/1392194887740732/

Sun 22nd Feb - MANCHESTER @ Gullivers
https://www.facebook.com/events/1525548921029997/

Fri 20th March - SCARBOROUGH @Corporation Club 

Sat 21st March - LEICESTER @ Firebug (Indiepop all-dayer) 
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299048) 

Sun 22nd March - BIRMINGHAM @ Hare & Hounds (w/ The Jelas)


No-One's Coming for Us

Cut Me Out

From the album Ivy Tripp, out April 7, 2015 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/ivy-tripp

Ivy Tripp

Buy from Merge

Waxahatchee "Air"

banales trauerspiel - anachronistic ghost

https://sevenism.bandcamp.com/album/semi-random-meditations-v1

Snippets of my new extended LP (about ten hours long).

Ambient meditative music made from random synth tones and random note progressions, improvised then slowed down.

video here: vimeo.com/sevenism/typebark

I wanted to explore randomness and control on this piece. Also, I wanted to make a really long album. All these old tunes from electronic artists surfacing, suddenly hours and hours of stuff to listen to, I felt I was getting an idea of a period of time and personality beyond the tracks themselves.. Generalizing the listening.. And there was that nostalgia of the ambient bits on old rave.. (The strings on sweet harmony!..) and i got deep into the the new weird ambient stuff only released on tape - digitalis stuff, analog concept, gorman, emuul, celer, 0pn, mark mcguire..

There was this program on an old coldcut album called playtime, it cut up the samples and automated the music then you could fiddle with these faders and change it but it was never clear what they did exactly. I spent hours on that, I can't get it working now as I haven't got Windows 95 anymore (not that there's much difference). I do some data management and colleagues are often dumbfounded when my computer is doing work on it's own - i set up mouse recorders for repetitive tasks.. then let it get on with it. When i was a kid i liked listening to 45s on 33 and vice versa.. there was an old Bukem release that i swore was downtempo that turned out to be DnB and then getting back into the slowdowns with the chopped n screwed stuff..All these things were percolating with what I wanted to do here.

So I did a quick formula on excel to give me a random sequence of 4 notes and another to tell me how many note progressions will be in each track. Then i searched for a synth plugin that had a randomize function and used the first one i found (acidrack). So, the notes i play and the sound is pretty random*.

But then I do have an element of control - i play the notes and can change the volume. However, there's a reciprocity because i'm improvising the music and this is based on how the notes sound together, the reverberations in and between the notes, how i feel at the time, and I play for as long as I feel like.

Also, I've got the choice.. i mean, i've given myself the choice, of whether to play the different note progressions in the same tone or press random again.. so if it's a harsh tone I can do an additional one (as long as excel said i was allowed to). Of course it might give me an even harsher tone and the note sequence doesnt go, but it was a risk i was willing to take. In addition, i found that acidrack doesnt randomize the octave selector or the lfo2/arpeggiate selector so i was allowed to choose those too.

Then to randomize it further I stretched the track to 30 minutes long. This also hopefully made it sound more ambient (control) and meant that each track could be seen as an album in it's own right. i like that fractal recursion idea of an album made up of a load of albums. Of course, i got better at learning how the track would sound slowed down by how long I played for in the first place.. control control control.

If I didnt like how the track sounded after all this I overdubbed with a different pitch, re-amped with self-feedback generating digital guitar fx, or just tried to accept it. I never discarded a track.

semi random meditations v1 (cassette/DVD/digi)

Our very first Stratos Ensemble recording session with Jazz/progressive-rock, industry-legend bassist, Doug Lunn. The whole set is temporarily available as a free download. Just click the download icon.

Personnel:

Coco Roussel - drums
Daniel Coffeng - guitar and guitar synth
Dean De Benedictis - keyboard/synth and embellishments
Doug Lunn - fretless bass

(photo by Marcin Majkowski https://www.facebook.com/marcin.majkowski.16)

Live Set - 1st Doug Session - The Stratos Ensemble

Carrier Bag Music is a new series of sonic fictions inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Reimagining the mixtape as container, medicine bundle and chronometer telling the time on another world, artists and producers explore Le Guin's articulations of holding, gathering and caring. With Laurel Halo, Elysia Crampton, Jenna Sutela and Victoria Sin.

Week Two: Elysia Crampton Chuquimia
 
“A medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
 
For the second episode of Carrier Bag Music, Elysia Crampton Chuquimia responds to the concept, image and process of the medicine bundle — a collection of sacred items with spiritual significance, held in a special carrier, in Indigenous American cultures. Spanning over seventeen years of the artist's life, this episode comprises original music and edits by the artist and includes the premiere of a previously unreleased track ‘Stars Over Riparian Corridor’ and features music released under the artist's Jaqi name, Chuquimamani-Condori — the name given to her as a form of honour and recognition from the elders of her nation.
 
Elysia Crampton Chuquimia is an American artist and musician belonging to the Pakajaqi Aymara nation. Her eclectic music is the flashpoint of myriad influences opening upon the complexity of Aymara becoming. Underscored by radical and queer politics and touching upon themes of science fiction, faith and ontology, Crampton’s experimental work gives sonorous form to contemporary expressions of Aymara resistance and survival: a project of 'becoming-with', in the shades given this term by Donna Haraway via prison abolitionist Che Gossett. 
 
“Although it’s possible to contextualise Crampton’s work among that of her contemporaries, hers is a truly singular style…she’s able to synthesize numerous musical forms, crashing timbres, dense percussion, mauled samples, pretty synth lines, club music structures dismantled from within, and much more, into bold music rich with purpose and feeling.” — The Wire
 
Curated by Ignota in partnership with Camden Art Centre and Haus Kulturen der Welt.

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction is published by Ignota with an Introduction by Donna Haraway and Images by Lee Bul https://ignota.org/products/the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction

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