Tequila Mocking Bird

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RELEASE DATE:
27th November 2015

RED AND BLUE, the startling new release from Simon Bookish, is a collision between digitally-processed brass and distorted synthesizer drones; atonal electronic pop and drifting field recordings; and spoken word and unearthly vocalisations. Taking as its subject the Cold War ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK governments, it is by turns sinister, strange and mordantly witty, compressing a landslide of musical ideas into a single, 16 and a half minute long track.

Simon Bookish is the pseudonym of Leo Chadburn, British ‘avant-pop’ cult figure and experimental classical composer. In the last ten years, his unpredictable work has found champions in the likes of DJs Stuart Maconie (BBC Radio 6 Music) and Mara Carlyle (BBC Radio 3), and the London Symphony Orchestra (of whom he is an associate composer). RED AND BLUE is his first solo release under the Simon Bookish moniker in seven years, following on from his three concept-driven albums Unfair/Funfair (2006), Trainwreck/Raincheck (2007) and Everything/Everything (2008).

RED AND BLUE can be seen as either a hyper-condensed album, comprising twelve fragmentary songs; an extended, kaleidoscopic single; or an abstract, experimental radio play. The text is inspired by the correspondence between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the twin icons of right-wing politics throughout Chadburn’s 1980s childhood in a UK East Midlands ex-mining town. Thatcher and Reagan's words are fractured and half-remembered in the surreal ‘libretto’, which imagines the two politicians as a pair of ‘televisual spectres’.

RED AND BLUE is also a sister project to artist/director Jennet Thomas’ 2015 film THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE, for which Chadburn wrote the score. Thomas’ film, commissioned and exhibited by the Grundy Gallery in Blackpool, is a darkly funny science fiction fantasy, based on the idea of a futuristic ‘cargo cult’ of Mrs. Thatcher. It was threatened with a ban and temporarily postponed by local councilors (citing purdah and political bias), provoking a debate about censorship across the UK arts press. RED AND BLUE deploys soundscapes and recordings not included in the film, besides expanding on certain musical themes from the score.

LABEL:

Library of Nothing (www.libraryofnothing.com)

FORMATS:

Digital (iTunes / Spotify / Bandcamp / Etc.)

Red and Blue [EP]

Jellyfish Reflection Of The Moon In June

A lot of questions and burst of wonders.
I was choking.
I peeped into the room to hear what the candidates in the Salon of Kalon Kagathon were discussing, 
with a faint hope to find some answers and to give order to the world.
The room was grand and bright but it started to shrink and spin. Thousands of colours were mixed in and created a pattern of marble.
The room has melted down. Time and space are left where only the marbles of aporia stand.
Natalie Mason (viola)
Dean Brodrick (piano)
Atsuko Kamura (vocal, vocal effect)
Robert Storey (arrangement & produce)

Dialectic among the Candidates

Faron Brooks Sings
Paddy Steer Electric and Double Basses and mixing
Tony Burnside guitar 
Graham Massey auto wah saxes

KEEP WAITING early Homelife reject mix 14th December 2001

In her performance, Antye Greie aka AGF critically examines texts by Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858), who claimed to be the first European woman to travel around the world unaccompanied. With her composition, AGF attempts a sonic “overmapping” of the colonial travel diaries of Ida Pfeiffer. Confronting Pfeiffer’s descriptions with music and sound recordings from regions the author had visited, AGF invites the audience to an exercise in “unlistening” (decolonising through listening) White feminism.

Tracklist:

00:00 Johann Strauss (cuts) - Radetzky March, Vienna 1846
00:20 Pablo Salaün - On the boat Arquipelago
00:35 Ship - old fog horn recording from rockdoctor 
00:58 Caroline Claus - North Atlantik Fronting
01:30 Jongo community groups from the film “Jongo - Levanta Povo”
Feat. Jongo community drumming groups from Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo 
in the video by @RiseUpAndCare's #ReimagineRio 
03:28 Felix Blume - rainforest Picapauforetin, Brazil
04:28 John Ginzrich - hydrophones napping shrimp Valparaiso, Chile
05:36 Violeta Parra - El Rin Del Angelito 
06:32 John Ginzrich - Habour, Valparaiso, Chile
07:53 Udo Noll -  Valparaiso Laguna Verde
08:09 Tamarii Uturoa - Drumming at Heiva, Tahiti
09:00 Nonosina - Polynesian Dance (peformers unknown)
09:29 Sidorjak - sound of Coqui's tree frogs, Hawaii
10:28 Heikura Nui - Tahiti DRUM HURA Heiva  2009 winner orchestra category
10:35 Tamarii Raautahi Orchstra - Drumming at Heiva, Tahiti
11:06 Drum Orchester Tamarii Raautahi at Heiva 1986 
11:16  Drumming and Pani Didier for the solo competition at Heiva, Tahiti 1986
11: 45 Unnamed Women Group - Water Music Vanuatu Gaua Island:
11:58 David M - Mid Pacific Albatross Colony
12: 38 Chinese unknown women drummers and fighters - lion dance
12. 58 Chen Xiaohan - Visiting the Beauty at Night (cantonese opera)
13:38 Drums of the World - Chinese Music of Bejing
13:55 Xue Ying Guo - Guangdong Music School of Arts and Culture
14:16 Drums of the World - Drum Music of Yunnan China
14:26 Pt. Bhawani Shankar - Tihai - Pakhawaj (Instrumental)
16:06 SYMBIZ -  Broken Chinese EP 1
16:59 Vani Jayaram - Kowsalya Maindhain  Tamil chant
17:37 Angel Perezgrandi  - Colombo BalconyRetreatRdSinhalaTamilAngelPerezgrandi
19:35 Girija Devi & Amjad Ali Khan-Jugalbandi Kajri -Jhiri Jhiri Barse Sawan Ras Bundia
20:10 quen1982 - sail the ocean - from Penghu to Kaohsiung 
20:33 Gunkali on Vichitra Veena, Dr Ragini Trivedi with Chitrangana on Pakhawaj
21:00 Madhumitha Sowndararajan - playing Jalatharang with water bowls & small sticks
21:48 Vidushi Zarin Daruwalasharma
21:54 Kazuo Okanoya - scientific recording of Bengalese finches
22:05 Rajrupa Sen - sarode recital, midnight raga
22:40 Unknown Pakistani man - playing traditional Rubab instrument
23:55 Asal MalekzadehIran - plays DAF on a Balcony in Iran
25:10 Balaklavas - Prayer, Maldives
25:22 The World of Drums - Egyptian Dumbek Belly
26:05 Sherine Tohamy - playing Oud in Dubai state TV (no title mentioned)
26.55 Rafeef Ziadah Shades of Anger (poem)
29:28 Pablo Sanz - Dead Sea Waves
30:28 Unknown - Ancient Egypt
32:44 Viyan Peyman (Kurdish Female Fighter) - Kobani song
33:10 Dilar Dirik - speech at New World Summit in Utrecht 2016
33:20 Steven Rowell - Wonder Valley wind storm & salt cedars, Iraq
36:38 Kamilya Jubran - Palestine OUD player, poem, singer in Exil in Paris
37:44 unknown female throat singer - 1 Mill views on youtube
39:30 Carsten Stabenow - dronelog bukitteresek, Malaysia
40:12 Bunyi - Nocturnal Beach, Rainforest World Music Festival 2007
40:29 Carsten Stabenow - dronelog bulone circadas, Malaysia
41:18 The Answers Project: The Dayak Ma'anyan of Borneo
41:37 Teresia Teaiwa - Bad Coconuts (feat. Matsuoka & Hamasaki) album Terenesia
42:45 spacwax - Men drinking and spitting Kava, Pacifics 
43:44 Seismograohic recording of a nuclear testing in the pacifics
44:34 unknown women - Water Drumming, Vanuatu islands
45:44 VJ Rhaps - Savaii; Samoa, tapa making
45:50 Nature Sound of New Zealand - Kalaone Reef - pacific islands

#UnlisteningWhiteFeminism

Live Recording of Bata Kusai for shakuhachi & electronics at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2018.

shakuhachi - Jim Franklin
electronics - DJR

Bata Kusai for shakuhachi & electronics

taken from our new album 'Kill the Lights'

Kill the lights 

Shadow and Dust

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/phew

Japanese musician, vocalist, and avant-garde royalty Phew presents her first ever recorded mix for Inverted Audio, ahead of her forthcoming 'Vertigo KO' album on London's @d_i_s_c_i_p_l_e_s

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Welcome to the world of eco-surreal music of Kamura Obscura, exploring experimental original cross-genre composition with improvisation. Fronted by Atsuko Kamura, former member of Mizutama Shobodan (Polka Dot Fire brigade) and Frank Chickens. This music project is performed as Atsuko Kamura's solo or duo with Natalie Mason, multi-instrumentalist and composer.

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