A:
Grind Away (5:27)
Immediate Communicator (7:02)
Satisfaction Theories (6:09)

B:
Life of Service (3:42)
Colorless Stone (4:31)
Here Appear (7:45)
Clear Light (4:33)

All songs written and performed by Eve Essex,
excluding “Clear Light”, written by Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom (1976) (BMI)

Recorded at Gary’s Electric in Brooklyn, NY by Al Carlson
Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Justin Q. Martin
2017

Cassette (ed. 100 w/ embroidered patch) and digital via Soap Library, New York
Vinyl (ed. TKTK) via Sky Walking, Berlin

Eve Essex - Clear Light

Here Appear is an invocation, a salutation, and a celebration — of past and perfect lives, forgotten and remembered, exchanged and borrowed.

Eve Essex’s solo debut is a multi-instrumental fea(s)t combining synthesizer, drum machine, alto saxophone, piccolo, electric organ/harpsichord, harmonica, slide whistle, bells, guitar pedals, and voice— composed, arranged, and performed by Essex herself. What began as an improv set at Berlin’s Harlekin bar developed, over the past two years, into a complete body of work evoking multiple time periods, genres, characters, and sonic landscapes. The seven tracks that make up Here Appear harness elements of classical, drone, avant-jazz, and distorted pop, coupled with an ambitious vocal delivery that draws on the phrasing and articulations of Essex’s own woodwind playing, to create a quasi-narrative mélange retaining the vulnerability of live performance. On the opening track “Grind Away,” otherworldly harmonica strains set the stage for lyrics citing Chinese sci-fi novel The Third Body Problem as source material. Saxophone and piccolo interludes “Immediate Communicator” and “Colorless Stone” move between medieval-tinged melodic inventions and textural noise, recalling a Pharoah Sanders-influenced fever dream, while the linguistic abstractions of Russian conceptual poet Lev Rubinstein guide the looped, layered, and textured vocals of title track “Here Appear.” The album closes with a languid take on Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom’s 1978 composition “Clear Light” from My New Music, recently reissued by Unseen Worlds.

Here Appear owes its minimal production to the conditions of its genesis, evidencing the restrained process of the solo artist; instrumentation is confined to what can be played simultaneously. True to the album’s avant-garde roots, each song involves an element of improvisation, often taking the form of prompts or variations on a melody rather than explicit compositions. Even its most structured pieces make use of live-sampled loops, which inject a spirited unpredictability into the songwriting process and subsequent performance.

Classically trained in bassoon at New England Conservatory before receiving a BFA in sculpture from RISD, Eve Essex has performed as a solo artist at Artists Space, Commend, Safe Gallery, Signal, Trans Pecos, and U.S. Blues, in New York, Harlekin/Mathew Gallery and StudioAcht in Berlin, and the PUFFERSS Festival in Providence, RI. In addition to her solo practice, Essex regularly performs as one half of Das Audit (with Craig Kalpakjian), as well as in trios Hesper (with James K and Via App) and HEVM (with MV Carbon and  Hunter Hunt-Hendrix), and has collaborated extensively with Juan Antonio Olivares as installation/performance-art duo Essex Olivares.

Here Appear arrives via New York City-based label Soap Library on March 9, 2018 in both cassette and digital format, mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Each tape includes a tactile complement — Justin Q. Martin’s cover artwork in the form of an embroidered patch. The LP release, from Berlin-based imprint Sky Walking, will follow in April 2018.

©2018 Soap Library // www.soaplibrary.net // www.eveessex.com

Here Appear

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"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong from the definitive "October Language" LP reissue due out Spring 2018.

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong

Saint Abdullah's (@saintabdullah) "hy.poc.risy" off of their 2nd album, 'Stars Have Eyes' - out early April on cassette and digital formats via PTP.

Mastered: Saint Abdullah and Jesse Munro Johnson
Artwork: Ghalamdar

Tracklist:
1. Taxi Ride Through Tehran
2. Children At War
3. I'm Sad, I'm Frightened, I'm Angry
4. hy.poc.risy
5. Friday Nights (Secret Song)

“We were in an angry state of mind when we made these tracks. It began around the same time the US condemned Syria and Assad for the use of chemical weapons. The events took us back to the Halabje chemical attack in Kurdistan, Iraq, where exactly 30 years ago, Saddam, with the blind support of the West, killed between 3000-5,000 and injured 7,000-10,000, mostly Kurdish civilians. Have we not learned anything? It feels like history is less a source for understanding and growth, and more so to be exploited, mined, in search of tactics that are sure to cause havoc on humanity. These tracks are dedicated to the next generation of Muslim kids who are left feeling sad, frightened, angry.”

Saint Abdullah is the sound project of Iranian-Canadian brothers, Mohammad and Mehdi. Motivated by the history of Western misconception and opposition towards Muslims and the Islamic Faith, they began writing music to serve as "cultural translators,” with the goal of challenging stereotypes, acting as “a conduit between unnecessary enemies." 'Stars Have Eyes' is their 2nd album – a weaponized narrative of field recordings from the streets of Tehran transformed into hulking instruments of information, then sunk into a dreadscape of sub frequencies and foreboding echo chamber clatter.

Stars Have Eyes

PREORDER CS/DIGI

Saint Abdullah - hy.poc.risy [PTP2008]

Live @ Dock11 - Berlin
Lime Rickey International & HIlary Jeffery (trombone)
9 March 2018

Wayn Inti:: Lime Rickey Intl & Hilary Jeffery

WEDNESDAY/ 1PM-2PM / MONTHLY 

Composer and Turntablist Shiva Feshareki presents her monthly show NEW FORMS. Using her own bespoke turntabling techniques, she re-imagines music and sounds from any genre - live - through warped, vinyl-only turntable manipulation. Allow each special-edition show to be a trip into an alternative perspective to that which already exists: A new form.

Shiva Feshareki - M.e.s.h 'Hesaitix' - Live Deconstruction 
Shiva Feshareki - Johanes Volk 'Saw Tooth Novel - Live Deconstruction
Shiva Feshareki - Eliane Radigue 'Feedbback Works' & Photek - Live Deconstruction

NTS: Shiva Feshareki presents NEW FORMS - Live Turntable Deconstructions 14.03.2018

short excerpt from Prisma Interius IX (52 minutes), New World Records recording made with Dedalus Ensemble, 

"Mahler moment"

Prisma Interius IX - Dedalus - (Mahler moment, excerpt) 2018

True Aether is proud to present the new album 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007] by the Iranian-Canadian brother duo Saint Abdullah (@saintabdullah). Listen to the first single "What A Tale This Is (feat. Travis LaPlante)" 

All profits for this release will go to support those affected by the Christchurch shootings in New Zealand (Victim Support Manaaki Tāngata).

'Mechanical Flirtations' is out June 13 via True Aether. 

Album art: On The Edge of The Spring by the U.K. based, Iranian born Parham Ghalamdar. 

Mastered by Jesse Munro Johnson in Portland, Oregon

http://travislaplante.com/

What A Tale This Is (feat. Travis Laplante) 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007]

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-154-2019-rewind-edition/

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