I had an absolutely stunning weekend last week getting back to the garden at Fairport Convention's Cropredy festival with my lockdown housemates, Millie and Will - two years overdue. It was full of revelation and tears and some of the most profound live music experiences of my life, with a complete rendition of their 1970 album Full House, nestled into their 2.5 hour set. The album was a staple in that house, which feels a bit like an Edenic memory now: often decked out in seasonal flowers, or holly and ivy in the winter, lit up by candles with the smells of Bay and Rosemary drifting through the cosy living room, Fairport or Pentangle on the decks and Jan Svenkmeier, Kenneth Anger, or The Wicker Man on the TV. 

Hearing it played back under the Aquarian supermoon through our mycelial haze - by a band that are still at the top of their game despite their advanced years, and amongst a crowd who'd been back every year, some of them since the first one in 1979 - connected the solitary times in the house, with the endless weekends at The White Hotel, and a tradition of getting together to lose ourselves under the spell of loud music, singing, dancing, laughing, and hugging that stretches back not just over decades but millenia. A few of you know I'm about to start a PhD researching the relationships between folk and demotic music forms (like industrial and rave music), subculture, land rights, and communitarian politics. From the start my shows on Narr have been a practical expression of these ideas, trying to draw the same connections in sound. One of the tensions of studying subculture for me has often been a melancholy sense of detachment, always observing but never living an idea or a movement, but this detachment dissolved entirely for me last weekend. 

I wanted to try and capture some of the magic of old Albion and the centuries of wonderful sesh that we seemed to tap into for a few days. This one recalls images of merrie Englande since the Elizabethan years, including the out-of-body transcendentalism of Tallis' Spem In Alium, John Downland's more emo than emo lute music, the early 20th century pastoralism of the village-terrorising, orgy-hosting rockstar composer (and hated music critic) Peter Warlock, and plenty of 60s / 70s folk revival bits - featuring three variations on the Cruel Sister murder ballad, from Ireland, the north sea shore, and London. Gorgeous music that I really love, I hope it hits for you too.

Mike Smaczylo 21/08/22

Kabra for https://soundcloud.com/kklofinkk

https://kabramixdown.bandcamp.com/

https://www.retreatradio.net/we-lie-low

We Lie Low #6 w/ Kabra (29/08/22)

"Chien de temps" goes back to school and starts this new and second season with an immersion under perfusion with a moist and ethereal start where ambient and downtempo beats will cross swords with a more experimental, hard and abstract mood.
more infos at lyl.live/show/chien-de-temps
Picture : Yan Décamps

CHIEN DE TEMPS #6 w/Why Pink?

CHIEN DE TEMPS #6 w/ Why Pink? - LYL Radio (07/10/22)

Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-flo/episodes/the-breakfast-show-flo-26th-october-2022

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 261022

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @mmmowgliii

RRFM • Mowgli • 03-11-2022

Live recording taken from the desk at Chantry Hall, Norwich for the Even Launch event (22/10/22).
Make Noise Shared System.
Ciat-Lonbarde Sidrax.

Luke Sanger - LIVE @ Chantry Hall (Even Launch)

We're buzzing buzz buzz to have our good friend Jenifa break her hiatus for a session on O to O. A true creative in many frontiers, this audio-visual wizard has been playing all around Helsinki and has become known as a soulful selector of house-y house. With a keen ear for a more worldly avenue of said genre, Jenifa effortlessly weaves together emotional yet wonderfully groovy cuts. Here's an hour of music that Jenifa represent the fruits of a short break in active gigging in order to find some new inspiring paths in music.

TRACKLIST:

Jon Hopkins - Sit Around The Fire
Matthew Halsall - Mindful Meditations
AHO - Wave (Ripple or Gesture)
Gewächshausgärtner - Kind (Johans Brav Remix)
George FitzGerald - Further and Further
Palma Dulce - Metodologia do Encanto
Burial, Four Tet - Moth
Herbert - Fantasy (Floating Points Remix)
Tim Engelhardt - Third Place
DJ Seinfeld - These Things Will Come To Be
WAKON - Tokyo Is Dying
Supreems - Amygdala (John Beltran Summer Drive Remix)
Jon Charnis - Prophecy
Llewellyn - In the Realms of Fancy
Genius of Time - Sunswell
Jon Hopkins - Sit Around The Fire

O to O with Jenifa

Ocytocine #02 - Youcef & Nao Never (28.11.12)

Stores & Downloads

Dreamscape Echo

So Close to Heaven

House from the past

SNOWDAYS

OO Recordings is an independent label, run by @raule123, @djaleksialeksi and @handshaking. OO focuses on music with electronic and leftfield touches. O to O was a show on Noods Radio. And a club night at times.

OO vol. 1 - 2017
OO vol. 2 - 2019
OO Splits 1 - 2021
OO Splits 2 - 2022
OOR005 - January 2023
OOR006 - November 2024
OOR007 - TBA 2025

Sub-label releases:
OORFD001 - TBC 2025
OORFD - TBC 2025