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The title refers to the Lugger in Polruan (https://www.luggerpolruan.co.uk/). It was named after this inn even before the first note was played, but how the Lugger influenced this track is no longer known.

This track was begun in June 2024. The main elements for an ambient track were used to create an uplifting electronic track. But this endeavour (as well as work on the original ambient track) was stopped in July 2024. In October 2024 I worked on the track again for a short time.

This week's Disquiet Junto Project finally motivated me to put some finishing touches to the track and release it.

More on the 680th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reverse Resolution — The Assignment: Finish something (musical) you started last year — at https://disquiet.com/0680/

The photography of The Lugger was kindly supplied by @the_robocat (more photos to be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_robocat)

The Lugger (Disquiet0680)

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, experimentation and the desire to merge and defy genres. Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged one phrase asks for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the participants in these works. The project is a celebration of experimentation, chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of early 21st Century contemporary culture.

I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You features the following artists

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar -  2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano 
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star

Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You

More on the 683rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Space Shot — The Assignment: Combine reverberant and non-reverberant — at https://disquiet.com/0683/

Glitch Wash (disquiet0683)

Anxiety - Nell'occhio del ciclone

The Haunt Frequency relates to the concept that certain subliminal pitches, created by naturally occurring resonances in walls, machines, plumbing etcetera, engender an unconscious atavistic unease in those exposed to them, perhaps related to our ancestral role as prey to large predators capable of generating such pitches in their growls, thus leading to sensations of supernatural fear. Created as a single pass live jam on the pictured modular case. Recorded and mixed in AUM on iPad. No keyboards or overdubs harmed in the making of this.

Haunt Frequency

Frisson

Pleistocene
Valhjim

The wind blows cold over the snow-covered plain. From the dense fog, a giant figure slouches out, its long, wavy tusks swaying menacingly, slashing the grey shroud of air as the woolly bulk treads on. In the distance, ice cracks and fractures, echoing in the valley. An eerie screech from above. Huge wings swoop down, sending the fur-clothed man behind a rock, where his hunt mates crouch in expectation, holding spears crowned with black volcanic glass flints. Slowly, the sun's golden rim begins to appear behind a cloud, dispelling the fog. When it's done, the bloody hunt will begin in earnest.
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Hope you like this experimental piece, my friends—a Pleistocene fantasy.

Thanks for listening
and for your always kind and candid comments.

Valhjim—synthesizers, samplers, electric guitar.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Pleistocene

A live stochastic experiment with four 
Yellow Jacket EDP Wasp synthesisers, 
a present from http://www.cherryaudio.com

Formic Acidum Mella

Crëusa

The Experiments: Dark Ambient. Hauntology. A Craft of Love.  

NEW ALBUM: ‘Norsecraftian’, links below. All tracks available free of charge for use in your own artistic works: videos, games, movies, theatre etc, in return for a namecheck. Request in the comments & I’ll be in touch.

All tracks composed on an IPad or modular,  arranged on iPad or Ableton.

Haunt Frequency

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