Good Tunes #64 [Sunshine's A-coming]

Lake From The Louvers is a new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford, who has spent the last fifteen years honing his singular approach to composition and performance through solo works and collaborations with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Will Guthrie, Graham Lambkin and Klaus Lang.

Created primarily during a stay at the La Becque, an artist residency on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lake From The Louvers draws inspiration from the play of shadow and light on both the surface of the lake and the window through which Rushford viewed this lacustrine landscape. While the lake is itself at times directly audible in the form of field recordings, the image suggested by the record’s title is less directly represented than translated into sonic structures inspired, as Rushford explains, by ‘the passing of shadow through a fixed space’. The movement of light across these two flat surfaces, lake and window, finds its sonic equivalent in these eleven pieces, in which fragments and particles of sound – highly amplified crunches, synthesized squawks and pings, harp notes – ripple across the length of each track. Fixed sets of elements define each piece, often moulded into ephemeral ensembles in which individual voices consistently fade away and reappear.

Rushford’s performances on various keyboards provide the unstable, wavering foundations of many of these pieces, with microtonal tunings adding a woozy, seasick edge to his stately, often stunningly beautiful playing. Each side of the LP ends with an extended keyboard work: the first for groaning, sighing church organ, the second for a psychedelic cloud of detuned synthesizer tones in which harmonic fragments sink into their own melancholic recollection. Elsewhere the record makes use of elements as varied as microtonal harp, skittering drum machines and synthetic marimba, establishing a sound palette remarkable for its breadth, as well as its sparkling, glittering quality. Where many of Rushford’s solo projects have taken the form of long works with a sombre cast, Lake From The Louvers is strikingly bright and accessible, a series of sonic glimpses in which, like a late Monet, the shimmer of light undoes the distinction between image and reflection, foreground and background, surface and depth.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, cut at D+M. Printed artwork on inner and outer sleeves by Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E).
Design by Bartolomé Sanson. Released in collababoration with La Becque Editions.

JAMES RUSHFORD 'U+25CF' (SP131)

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'For Wind Poetry' releases October, 2022.

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/for-wind-poetry-2

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Reborn (+ Felt)

from the upcoming album 'fields of this' releasing on 03/29
preorder via www.chattertonfamousband.com

God's Little Hands

god's little hands

"Lakes"
19/01/23 - 02/03/24

Lakes is probably one of my favourite songs I've ever made. It's about doubt? or grief? in a way, I'm not entirely sure how to interpret it.
There is definitely tinges of illness in there, and reflections on myself? if that makes sense?
The lake is a pretty simple metaphor for mental illness or just, mentality in general, interpret the quiet however you want, but for me it's that sense of dread or grief when you realise you don't feel anything at all, or that you simply don't care
again, this is what I think it's about; to be honest with you, I don't really know what my songs mean anymore, the lyrics just sort of came to me and I wrote them down, and I sang them, I work out what it means later on, but with all my recent work it just seems very difficult to pinpoint what it's trying to be or represent, and whether that's for better or for worse I'm not sure.

I feel like this is one of those songs that'll outlive itself, when im long dead and the internet is a giant wasteland of dead media, maybe someone will find this and appreciate it, maybe even tell their friends about it, and just enjoy this small piece of me from my little corner of the world, and even if that never happens, that's ok too.

oh well, as always the mix and master is rough, but I think it serves this track well

See you soon!
- Faith


Lyrics:

The lake's gone quiet, my friend
(and) I'm not going where the wind goes
(you look me, anyway)

Look me in the eyes, tell me "this is living"
cast myself out, to the main beams

the lake's still quiet
the lake's still quiet, my friend

Lakes

Renoise Beat 7

i broke up with the sun
ive had enough
ive had enough
i want to go to sleep
but theres something i need
to do
and thats a lot more than you do
and thats a lot more than you do

i go around and around
and i try to keep it down
so its black and white

init

Cue: repetitive bed for science / mystery, miniaturized percussion.

Taken from the first ever vinyl pressing of "Cue" since its original release by Kranky in 2007.
Available through: anost.net, Juno Records, Rush Hour Records, Bleep.com and many other stores...
http://muscut.org/Andrew-Pekler-Cue

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Steady State

AUDIO VISIT TAPE CARD 
Tokyo Sept 2017 C-12 
Praat5383

Xilo Obachia Que Tentenna

Taken from the album 'Ingrid' released as one sided LP and digital

Klara Lewis 'Ingrid (excerpt)' (EMEGO 270)

Artist: hironori nagatsuma
Title: Utökad kropp / Osynlig struktur
Label: The Collection Artaud (https://thecollectionartaud.com)
Cat #: TCA 31
Format: 12" Vinyl / Digital
Release Date: 16 Jul 2020

- TRACKLIST
A. Utökad kropp
B. Osynlig struktur

- CREDITS
Written & Produced by hironori nagatsuma (@hnagatsuma)
Mastering by Yu Miyashita at Underarrow (https://underarrow.com)

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hironori nagatsuma - "Utökad kropp /  Osynlig struktur" (Preview) [TCA 31]

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https://d-towards.bandcamp.com/album/crippled-concrete

Collection of tracks recorded in late 2019 - early 2020 at the moment of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and isolation

Mastering - Ivan Yerofeyev (@yerofeyev)
Special thanks to Nikolay Kozlov (@h09boi)

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Crippled Concrete (excerpts)

Dialect - Under~Between

From Under~Between.
Available March 19, 2021.

Learn more: https://smarturl.it/rvngnl67

Under~Between

Dialect - Under~Between

Tunemaking est. 2012

One half of https://soundcloud.com/joymachines

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Contact: maxrutter.music}@{gmail.com

Steady State

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