Self and Other (NTS Radio)

Enigmatic musician / composer / poet Jan Van den Broeke has been sharing music from his home in Gent, Belgium since the 1980’s. 

Through an array of projects and aliases [see absent music, June 11, the misz, canto de mudo, to name a few…] Jan has found space to express his own sound in the world. Recent retrospectives 11,000 dreams [stroom 2017] and lost and latest [ee tapes 2020] demonstrate the idiosyncratic sensitivity of his music – an endeavour he describes as ‘exploring a dream.’

This mix integrates field recordings and vocal samples with music from friends and inspirations past / present. Serene, it prompts introspection and catharsis. There is something indescribable and emotive here – perhaps arising from the pairing of songs and samples – either way, it’s an honest beauty.

jan van den broeke

jack and elaine’s mixes feature consistently in many of our lives. 

it means a lot to share a recording from them. I don’t know how to express it. maybe like diane once said, it’s a secret about a secret. the more it tells you the less you know.

this one features music that seems to capture the gravity of one place in exchange with a new space and force. a vaporous melange of melancholia and euphoria. metronomic and infinite. that dose of diazepam, guiding the slow death of a year.

time is away

Clyde Built Radio resident and co-founder of Somewhere Between Tapes Lizzie Urquhart is with us for the next hour playing a selection of hypnotic sounds - featuring artists such as VOX PopuLi!, Roland P. Young, Phil Stroud and Beatriz Ferreyra.

Lizzie Urquhart [18.01.2023]

‘Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.—As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.’

(Robinson Jeffers, Carmel Point)
Artwork by Natalie Whiteland

Self and Other: Anthropocene (NTS Radio 19-07-19)

The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors; Departed, have left no addresses. By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept…

(T.S. Eliot, The Fire Sermon)
Artwork by Robbie Warin

Self & Other: The River Speaks  (NTS Radio 12-05-20)

‘That charming time of year. It starts with a walk through the crunch crunch crunch in the early hours ice to the butchers, a Christmas temp job. Walking past off licenses, fish and chip shops, laundrettes — all closed; it’s an encounter with memories while the gradual disenfranchisement of one idea transforms into the attractive start of another; Orlando; an analysis of the vast chiller and the vast historical warehouse; looking at a painting; docks and the river. A picaresque of chillers. Journeys along lengths and lengths of brittle cold shelving units, buckling under the weight of the boxes they hold in the outskirts of cities, beside motorways, behind shops. A reckoning with the supermarket vis-à-vis ourselves and our quotidian.'
(George Leith, Cold Storage)

Self and Other: Conversations In The Smoke (NTS Radio 10-03-21)

'71. I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.
For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness).

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.'

(Maggie Nelson, Bluets)
Image by Miriam Matthiessen, 2021

Self And Other: Missed Of A Frozen Night (NTS Radio 05-01-22)

"The miracle: a window of time that had not previously existed. a slight pause between pain and reaction. the window is slim, no more than fifteen seconds, but in that crucial gap something can shift, and the hemispheres can spend a moment in conversation. I can move between meat and story. What I feel versus what I want. Then, I decide. a lot of the time, I still decide to go to sleep." 
(Elvia Wilk, Death by Landscape)
Image credit: San Diego Historical Society

Self and Other: Sleep Patterns (NTS Radio 29-10-22)

It is believed that life's four elements make the world whole. One must not be overwhelmed by them, instead should embrace all of life's dimensions gracefully.

Father Nature in collaboration with Ehab Ehab, present a rather philosophical audio/ visual tetralogy where Father Nature composed a depiction of life's four essential elements encrusted with Ehab Ehab's surreal vision of reality.

Ascension Of Oud

hyperreality

a float

a memory of summer 2021: belan live at strange brew

haunted recording of wind bruised and coast worn folk songs from cat and andy. the melodies that calmed pcr angst and rested lateral minds then, return to us now, at the death bed of 2023. 

thank you for your continued love and support.

Belan

Our mix for the NTS Early Bird show, 3 May 2024.
Covering for Jack Rollo <3

featuring unreleased/forthcoming music by @floriantmzeisig @sunfear1 @alliyahenyo @man_rei @leaf-miner

The Early Bird Show w/ Somewhere Press ~ NTS Radio 030524

"I'm rarely any good at describing mixes beyond a cursory 'these are some tracks that I'm feeling at the moment'. I just go through all my soundcloud/bandcamp favs, download a bunch of random bits and piece them together in a way that makes sense to my silly little brain."

In light of his 4 track, trance-euphoric EP released at the beginning of this year on @goddezztemple, we’re joined by Bristol rising star @Remotif with an hour long mix that dives into his illustrious and wonderful sonic universe/ an illustrious and wonderful tapestry of sound.

Read our full interview with him here:
https://www.hueandsaturation.net/blog/remotif

Hue & Saturation Mix #67: Remotif

Back again and with a mix from the hands behind all night flight. 

Tom has been thoughtfully curating the selection at his physical and online store for a few years now and has nurtured the anf concept into a highly recommended label, with a range of side projects like the tabi tape guerrilla mix series and  monthly (not to be missed) NTS excursion. 

Exiting from the mundane sameness of LD3.0 and reaching out into the mystic, this mix is an engulfing listen that intertwines the textured and tranquil with all out raw experimental jammers. Songs that somehow render the ongoing goings on obsolete, even if just for an hour, dive in!

all night flight

1/2 of self and other @ntsradio
1/2 of when do you sprout? @echoboxradio  - archive is here https://www.echobox.radio/shows/when-do-you-sprout

Self and Other: Conversations In The Smoke (NTS Radio 10-03-21)

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