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Jazzy Influence  5

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South Strand

Produced by Tyler Major, Gary Wilson, & Pyramid Vritra

WaterColours Feat. Gary Wilson

You Better Know It!!!

A Taste Of Honey

Complex Simplicity: 15th Anniversary Edition

Be Your Girl

Hold On

Heaven In Your Arms

KONRAD SPRENGER - Stack Music

Format: LP / Digital 
Cat. No: PAN 78 
Release Date: 2 June 2017

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purchase: bit.ly/2rdmu6S

Released by:
PAN
Release date:
1 July 2017

Having felt restrained by the limits of traditional instruments and the techniques tied to them, composer, music producer and artist, Konrad Sprenger (b. Joerg Hiller), spent years developing various algorithms and custom instruments to realize his work. His recent focus has been on rhythmic patterns based on the Euclidean algorithm, using a computer-controlled multi-channel electric guitar.

The unique system can create complex rhythmical patterns whilst tuning the strings during performance - sounding at once like an electronic instrument, a drum computer, a guitar, a harpsichord, even at times as a full orchestra. Hiller has long collaborated and performed with minimalist Arnold Dreyblatt, and musician/instrument builder Ellen Fullman amongst others, and first built primitive acoustic mechanical instruments, gradually developing a more complex, digitally-controlled system. “My guitar gives me the possibility to discover almost every aspect of the sound produced by the excitation of the string – as if scientifically under a magnifying glass.” He says. “I can control such parameters as the speed and time, length of the attack, the intensity, the pitch (allowing the use of different tuning systems), and the location of each string in space by the use of 6 speakers.”

Early on, Hiller realized that the harmonically complex sound of strings are impossible to reproduce digitally, and therefore became interested in the development of mechanical instruments, visiting European collections of Pianolas, Orchestrions in Belgium and Holland. Within his live performances and on this new recording, his music is influenced by the insistent rhythms from Minimalism, Krautrock and Techno, and their shared focus on transcendence through a propulsive, full-spectrum sound.

Informed by early American folk music and its descendants (John Fahey et al), his new album Stack Music presents a selection of recordings over the years from residencies and live performances, such as ’Opening’, an early live performance of the digital guitar system recorded in New York and composed at Phill Niblock’s Intermedia Foundation Loft, whilst ’Rondo’ consists of recordings of the guitar played by a motor with shoelace exciters, horns, and piano harp. In ‘Largo’, he utilises the software Melodyne to generate midi notes from a original guitar system recording.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Konrad Sprenger - Opening (PAN 78)

An interview I did with Pat Flegel of Cindy Lee and Women, one of my favorite bands of the last decade, for my show The Sound Between that airs on wnyu.org. The interview originally aired on November 6, where I had to cut some small parts out. Here it is uncut and uncensored, I hope y'all enjoy it!

Interview With Pat Flegel of Cindy Lee for WNYU Sound Between

DARE YOU 

Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone 
Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone 
Yell at me 
You’re in need 
You and me 
Fall down on my knees say you’re loving it 
Yell at me 
You’re in need 
You and me 
Ooh 

Ooh 
We’ve done some bum things and I look through 
Never had my head naturally 
Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone 
Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone 
Yell at me 
You’re in need 
You and me 
Fall down on my knees say you’re loving it 
Yell at me 
Oh 
Ooh 

My name’s Annabel ain’t over today 
B-b-better no one’s here 
I’m Miss Annabel Hockey-Smith 
Ain’t over today 
B-b-better no one’s here
Hmm are you gonna make it better? 
Are you gonna make it happen? 
Hmm are you gonna make it better?
Are you gonna make me happy? 

Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone 
Dare you for my love, say it for my love, sing it for my love 
Been living all alone

Dare You

Krista

Space Tom Test

MIND PALACE ZONE

one of the funnest ways to learn a new tracker is by covering or remixing a favorite track of yours so i did a two for one:

this is a loose remake/interpretation of J Dilla's "Inhuman Nature" instrumental which samples Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" made with the M8 Tracker

i made myself an 8bit mono version of a section of "Human Nature" and used the SLICE parameter set to 16 along with detuning the sample to approximate how it was chopped in the J Dilla version, alongside the included SLICE112 drumkit included with the M8

i also used the monowave sample for the little synth line 

played and recorded live into bitwig

inhuman_nature_m8_test

Preorder link: https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/various/late-works-of-noise

6 groups of musicians created tracks with 6 sculptures/instruments built by artists Mathilda Bennett-Greene, Jonas Pequeno, Angus McCrum & Joseph Bradley Hill. Each group had 6 hours to create a track sampling only the instruments and vocals.

Featuring members of black midi, 404 Guild, Sorry, Powerplant, Impromptu & Curl Recordings, the groups were as follows:

1 - DJ Dairy & MC Spritz (black midi), Aga Ujma, Silkarmour & Beth Dawson
2 - Bathwater 404, Devenny 404, Eliot 404 & Sonny 404 (404 Guild)
3 - GG Skips (Glows & Sorry) & Felix Raman 
4 - Martha Skye Murphy, Kiran Leonard, Corpse Boy (Impromptu) & Cajm (Powerplant)
5 - Bianca Scout, Jacob Samuel & j. b. glazer (Curl), Cam Molloy, Harald Smart & Elena Isolini 
6 - Clottie Cream & Rosy Bones (Goat Girl), Richard Limper (leather.head) & Horse Whisperer

The concept for 'of Noise' by Joseph Bradley Hill takes its inspiration from Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto “The Art of Noises” and his six classifications of noise: 

1 - Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing Roars, Bangs & Booms. 
2 - Whistling, Hissing & Puffing. 
3 - Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering & Gurgling. 
4 - Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Humming, Crackling & Rubbing. 
5 - Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery etc. 
6 - Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death Rattles & Sobs.  

The entire EP was recorded at Slow Dance HQ in London Fields, between the 25th & 29th February 2020  - the studio rules were as follows:

1. Musicians may only bring things that modify sound, not make sound themselves.
2. Vocals are allowed, but any lyrics must be written in the studio time.
3. The tracks must only use noise sampled from the sculptures and the voice.
4. The tracks must be completed within each respective six hour session.

Late Works  is a permutable collective of artists, musicians, film-makers, writers, dancers and designers who populate a nomadic series of live intermedia events of the same name. Since September 2018, over 135 artists have collaborated with founder Joseph Bradley Hill to put on 8 different events across London, alongside their monthly radio show on  Resonance Extra , the experimental wing of the #1 arts radio station in the UK. Initially aiming to examine the concept of the gesamtkunstwerk, Late Works has developed into a set of heavily process-based experimental events united by an ethos of indeterminate intermedia improvisation.

https://lateworks.co.uk
Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/lateworks_ to stay updated with our latest events!

Slow Dance, founded in 2016, is a profoundly DIY label and arts collective made up of artists, musicians, designers, A&R scouts, managers and filmmakers. The collaborative nature of the organisation means that lines between art, music and industry sensibilities are blurred and evolved into something entirely new. The current core members, founder GG Skips (who also releases music under the name Glows), Darius Williams and Maddy O’Keefe, are surrounded by a satellite of like-minded creatives who are at the forefront of London’s underground music scene.

Slow Dance’s live event curation has seen them provide a platform to a variety of experimental and burgeoning artists, many of which are now very commercially successful (the likes of black midi, Jockstrap, Sorry, Goat Girl, PVA, Squid and more). It is these events that caught the attention of bookers from Knee Deep, Test Pressing and The Alternative Escape, leading to their involvement in curation, and the label are now partners at the upcoming Brockwell Park festival Wide Awake.

https://slowdance.co.uk
https://instagram.com/slowdancerecords

Geordie Greep, Cameron Picton, Lottie Pendlebury & Rosy Jones all appear courtesy of Rough Trade.

Slow Dance Presents - Late Works: Of Noise [SD040] -  12" Sampler

Closer

Lush Islands

The official James Pants Intl. Entertainment outtake collection.

My Dad was a Jazz Musician so I grew up with an ear and deep appreciation for good music.
Hope you enjoy my selections as much as I do! Thanks to all the artists through the years who have painted the memories of my life!

Space Tom Test

James Pants

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