Epuisement du sujet

By David Fulford and Mark Vernon.

Out now on Gagarin Records. Available to buy here:
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/time-deferred

Followers of the artist Mark Vernon will note a subdued and pensive mood on this new record. Monochrome and sepulchral, these tracks are in a minor key, a key which opens the door to a damp cellar of the imagination. Too-many legged spiders crawl over dusty violins. Time lurches, loops and echoes like excursions on slow motion railways in reverse. Concrète noir sombre séances for non-believers. Tauntological voices from the past provoke us. Half guessed ghosts, magnetic phantoms from funereal-to-reel tape recordings. The sibilant persistence of the deceased evokes the exhausted dread of waiting for a medical test result. Enigmatic messages thrown to the werewolves with nothing but cheap medication and some breathing exercises for support. 

Caution: this record can cause dreamless nights. 

“Psychedelic visions, blackouts and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality... here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun.” 

Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up (Feb 2022)

Time Deferred

Athanasia

QM006 Daniella Ljungsberg - We Are Not Going To Drive Anywhere

Ljungsberg’s long awaited long player which she modestly calls a collage of field recordings is in fact of subtile symphonic quality featuring refined spatial arrangements and dynamics. A collection of passionate transformations of sound and noise keeps reinventing itself: Exciting, crisp, organic and fluid forms which occasionally make you remember french „Musique Concrete“ pioneers and such. Sit back and listen.

This is an online release & pre-release on cassette, vinyl release T.B.A.

Recorded and mixed by Daniella Ljungsberg, Jerusalem
Mastered by Will Killingsworth @ Dead Air Studios, Massachusetts

EENE

Johanna Vargas, soprano
Ensemble Linea
Carolina Santiago Martinez, piano
Keiko Murakami, flute contrebasse
Louis Siracusa, double bass
Jean-Philippe Würtz, conductor

IV. Gradual Abruptness
ooo –– ooo –– oo –– o 
gradual abruptness 
french 		(mr., rhythm acuto intros.) 
ital 		(riposante musica, ritmo meno acuto, adattabile)   
                 o                   –– 
non avete da mostrarmi un’altra macchina? (repeat rhythm) 

[…]

(– oooooooo – )

[…]

tu pensi:   
 –  o o  –  o o o  – o o o  –  o 
ha una macchina ancora da mostrarmi? 

Un poco di buon ordine feroce
Aspettare in tempo

	Évidemment

		si tu ne peux
Poétiser
	il te faudra
Cohabiter
Rime e accenti allineati
Évidemment 
Si tu ne peux
		analyser
Il te faudra
		coaliser
Io vado di solito a letto alle undici
o – o o – o o – oo – oo
La poésie du succès 
Le succès du sexu

Bisogna sfruttare i buoni momenti
o – oo – oo – oo – o
– o oo – o ooooo –

Autumn is a season of which I am very fond [about]

Regarde
Au moins
Ce qui est
Écrit
Sur le bout
De ta langue chérie
In nous faudra
Que tu y vas
(synthèse-douleur)
tu parles en prose  

V. Allons, plongeons
Allons, plongeons dans le réel (il le faut)
l’Esthétique Jaune dans son lit de Mort 
l’Esthétique Jeune dans son Lit Subtil
ou bien  
Nous sommes 
[dans son lit de la mort subtile
dans le lit de son jeune mort
dans la mort du lit du son
dans le son subtil de la jeune mort] 
 
(dans la gaze de la réalité). 
Nous passons dans la gaze du réel. 
Arrive l’enfer. L’impératif 
de la[…]
[…]réalité
(nous sommes en communication).

4. Gradual Abruptness 5. Allons, plongeon

Live recording (excerpt) of 'Wildfires' as performed at the WFS festival on June 5th, 2022 in the New Music Lab at Sonology. 

Stereo reduction from the 192 speakers used during the performance.

Wildfires - (Live WFS, excerpt)

Det Förgångna VI

Variations. Strockes. Speak. Sound.

Well. P.A.M.G.

Friction n° 20

Canticum Ostrava, Ostravska Banda-S.E.M. Ensemble
conducted by Joseph Trafton,
choir master Juri Galatenko
live from St. Wenceslas church 29th August 2017, Ostrava Days 2017

WINGS for voices and 4 string ensembles (Ostrava Days 2017)

Recording from the world premiere of VÍDDIR, February 19th 2020 in Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen.

Performers:
Bass Flute 1: Björg Brjánsdóttir
Bass Flute 2: Marie Sønderskov
Bass Flute 3: Flavia Huarachi
Bass Flute 4: Sofia Kayaya
Bass Flute 5: Beata Preisaite
Alto Flute 1: Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir
Alto Flute 2: Marina Cyrino
Flute: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir
Piccolo: Christine Elizabeth Clancy
NEKO3: Fei Nie, Kalle Hakosalo, Lorenzo Colombo
Bass Guitar: Skúli Sverrisson
Double Bass: Bára Gísladóttir

Recording: Alma Hede and Yangyadi (Chloe) Deng
Mix: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Photo: Therese Precht Vadum

WINGS for voices and 4 string ensembles (Ostrava Days 2017)

Liisa Hirsch

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