Anne-F Jacques, Ryoko Akama, Takamitsu Ohta
The Magic City
C42 (XIX-I)

Release date: April 2019
www.hasanaeditions.org

The Magic City

XIX-I - Anne-F Jacques, Ryoko Akama, Takamitsu Ohta - Chris in the magic city (excerpt)

First Terrace Records have the honour to present an album of new work by influential and idiosyncratic artist K. Leimer. 

His second outing for First Terrace, following his part on FTS001, the album finds the composer working in a solemn & focused mode, rendering deep sonic landscapes that shimmer, sink into themselves and play host to a slowly emerging carousel of auditory apparitions - dynamics delivered through his mastery of textural manipulation. 

Emerging in opposition to the sunless days & countless distresses of current US politics, each track is imbued with a refreshing sense of equanimity - in Kerry’s own words, he “does not profess that music - especially an experimental, lyric-free music - can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world.” 

The album is released worldwide on July 5th, on LP & digital formats, with artwork featuring images from Richard Misrach’s series of photographs documenting American petrochemical landscapes. 

Kerry includes this transcript to accompany "Irrational Overcast": 

"Authoritarian ideas that have persisted somewhere in the depths of human nature for millennia have resurfaced at a crucial moment for the environments we all inhabit — natural, cultural, intellectual and economic. The power and influence of this ideology will again prove catastrophic, as it already has for many people in many parts of the world. Authoritarianism, along with the refutation of our shared responsibility to one another and to objective knowledge in favor of personal gain & gratification consistently lead to disaster. Yet, somehow, a significant number of people seem to feel that this time will be different. To some extent they are right. It will be infinitely worse. 

Irrational Overcast is preoccupied with the perpetual failings of human tribalization, of assuming dominance over nature, of choosing belief and ideology over objective reality. The impetus was brought into immediate focus by the destructive impulses and actions of such excrescences as the Trump Administration and his republicans, as well as the blatant dishonesty and bigotry of thousands more retrograde, ill-informed nihilists operating in and outside the pubic sphere. 

I do not profess that music — especially an experimental, lyric-free music — can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world. Music, to my mind, can not clearly express anything so literal, or metaphoric, or allegoric — but Irrational Overcast makes the effort to articulate the problems created by some enduring and banal aspects of human behaviour. Which is the reason it is built of lo-fi, deformed emergent or regressing or fragmented phrases, subsumed by distortion, noise, wow and flutter… and played with the understanding that there can be no more bedtime stories." 

K. Leimer has been recording and releasing experimental and electronic music since 1979. Irrational Overcast is his first full length record for First Terrace Records, and his 20th solo album. His work can also be found on the Palace of Lights, RVNG, Origin Peoples, Invisible Inc., and Les Giants labels as well as through The British Library.

Irrational Overcast

K. Leimer  'Weather On The Fen'

A Field of Social Tension, taken from the forthcoming album Unabled Form by Li Yilei. Pre-order now at https://www.ltrrecords.com/buy/unabled-form-lp

Unabled Form

A Field of Social Tension

Li Yilei - A Field of Social Tension

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-a-shell

Time exposed (VAK17 - Life In A Shell)

John Foxx And The Maths - Howl 
Exclusive download is available from https://johnfoxx.tmstor.es/
And on the John Foxx Bandcamp page https://johnfoxx.bandcamp.com/
www.johnfoxxandthemaths.com
www.metamatic.com

John Foxx And The Maths - Howl (Single Version)

free download. you're welcome.
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/

presented by Amplify 2020: quarantine

Your Bones Will Be My Home

I was inspired to share this track from the album The Second Continent as it was used as the closing track in a short film called Fledgling that was released earlier this year. In terms of arrangement it's probably the cleanest track from the album and, for me personally, stands out as one of the most heartfelt. 

Watch out for a new album dropping later this year on Esc.Rec.

The Second Continent

My Empathy Creaks

Reading This Message

Splinters as a composition has a dream like quality, dark and enigmatic. Electronic noise colours the drone and bubbling soundscapes of a somewhere. Repeating musical phrases mix with recognisable sounds from life - a spoken utterance, a rumbling train. As a listener you drift with the current through misty scenes, on a journey down a river towards some marshland on the edge of an urban sprawl.

Made in response to an invitation from TACO! - an artist space in Thamesmead in South East London - Splinters documents Kate Carr’s relationship with that space, and the area of London it is located in. Over an 18 month period Kate kept a growing sonic diary of her journeys to the space from her home, her construction of work in the gallery, her wanderings around the green spaces and urban architecture, the coming and goings of visitors and the artistic material from other artists and musicians working at the space. This work is a sonic portrait of a time and a place, and the actions and events within it.


Splinters includes audio samples from concerts and exhibitions held at TACO! Featuring material from live sets by Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe, and audio material from the exhibitions Scratch! by George Barber, and Heavy View by Laura Yuile.

Mat Jenner, director, TACO!
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Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering.
Design by Louise Mason.
A huge thanks to Liz Helman, Tom White, Rebecca Lennon, Pouya Ehsaei, Jonathan Higgins and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe for permission to use short excerpts of audio material from their wonderful live sets, and to George Barber and Laura Yuile for access to audio from their installations. 
Also massive thanks to Mat Jenner for inviting me to TACO in the first place!

Detritus Clouds from Splinters out Sept 3

Noksidam::::::
https://soundcloud.com/user-302613679

Noksidam - Are You Here? (Senglar R U There? Rmx)

Pascal Comelade and Richard Pinhas met in Paris in 1974, when Pinhas was beginning to go on stage with his group Heldon. With Heldon and, afterwards, solo, Pinhas became the pioneer and accelerator of electronic music in France, and a fundamental reference throughout the world. Comelade’s electronic period was much shorter, from 1974 to 1981. From 1983 on, he developed his policy of instrumental, strictly acoustic music.
Comelade and Pinhas met again in 2020 for this LP album, "Le plan de Paris". It contains six titles that were either previously unreleased or completely revisited, developed, remixed.

Le plan de Paris

Pascal Comelade / Richard Pinhas: Third

This is a label for UK artist John Foxx. Metamatic Records also releases Foxx collaborations with Benge (The Maths), Harold Budd, Louis Gordon, Robin Guthrie, The Soft Moon, Matthew Dear, Gazelle Twin, Mira (Ladytron), Tara Busch, Xeno & Oaklander, Hannah Peel, Serafina Steer, Ruben Garcia, Steve Jansen and Steve D'Agostino. 