Streamline Light

Charlie and the Fox are back , this time with Greg Willis , a knockout Sax player , we hope you like it ! We're busy working on a 60s Wall of Sound style song , it's coming together nicely ! In a couple of days me and Greg have a new one out , The Right Time . After that it's me and Gaz on the 18th , a busy time , thank you so much for giving us the time of day !

Don't Say That It's Over ( Charlie and the Fox feat Greg Willis )

Remixed, tweaked and remastered versions of the first three tracks my lockdown project from back in 2020... Originally mixed on very cheap headphones so I thought it would be interesting to revisit with some better kit. I'l upload the rest of the tracks at some point...

Separation

Who crosses whose line? 
Track inspired by 'Axis Crossline'...an old piece reflecting on an incursion of two 'out of town' poisoners in Salisbury a few years ago. 
A line was crossed....but it carries on....

 https://soundcloud.com/windscaleblues/axis-crossline?in=windscaleblues/sets/axis&si=30a0967228ff44c0831e40632caa9cd7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Pic from denofopulence c/o Pinterest.

Crossing Lines


 method: mostly digital, btw her name is Hazel and I met her in a Balabolka engine  room where she hid from one of Bill Gates' younger clones
narration: the history of voice recreation and vocoding  is not only shrouded in the cold-war kind of truth but also a token of man's technological preoccupation with mirrors 
image: copyright jo richter, also using sections from my photo of a mural dating back to 1569 

poem / copyright jo richter:

time has slipped below the dial  
into an interstitial zone -
an abyss marking mass‘ modal 
iterations, as interference-prone 

as any mental skill held in a vial 
made of human flesh and bone -
meta-breathing arbitrary model 
citizens, grouped in groups and cloned alone

predictive voice encoder

Call from Space

Precious Heart

Birdland Spring Remix

Telhas em pó - 12 - 5 - 2024

This track is part of my Anthology series 2015 CD1 track 01

Above And Beyond (2015) Anthology 2015 CD1 Track 01

Recorded in Hamburg's Windrose Studio for Vertigo label, 1972.
ODIN are:
Stuart Fordham - drums
Ray Brown - Bass
Jeff Beer - Hammond
Rob Terstall - guitar

ODIN

Turnpike Lane

I am overjoyed to partake in sounds beautiful:
https://youtu.be/1TnalFltP_Q?si=VidMVZ9VDKGZiNUm  by Dan and
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out by Jeff.

Jeff also gifted me a visiting role on his previous album: 
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/quintessential

On his bandcamp page, Jeff points out: "This is the page where you can give some monetary support to me and the StonerJazz experiment."

.... and here is my own test account:
https://sonicstructuresandsilentstretches.bandcamp.com/track/eliza

POETRY IS VITAL

This threshold space exists for those who feel like listening to some of my quite professional poetry embedded in rather amateurishly recorded but judiciously arranged sound, a modicum of purely acoustic work notwithstanding.  Fortunately, some other artists have also transformed the symbolic expression of my words into the tangible beauty of real songs and soundscapes - just listen to Sympoetic Ultrasounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/sympoetic-ultrasounds !

SOUND, SPACE AND TIME

Tend your listening senses gently. Even though my general approach welcomes and embraces lo-fi concepts like the precision of spontaneously occuring imprecisions, headphones worth their membranes are recommended - unless you like your sounds flat, mangled, battered and helpless. You don't, do you? Be kind to these soundscapes.

STRUCTURING IMPULSE

Due to the nature of "poetry soundscapes", your listening expectations regarding traditionally structured "songs", sonically purified "raw wildlife soundscapes", keyboard-laden "ambient recordings" or voice-centered "readings" might not be met. You will find some of those in my list of /likes/. "Noise" is a recurring structural element like any other. This is what this sounds like - within its own rights, limitations, tangents and interconnections. Sonic structures. Silent stretches. Poetry emerges from the gaps between the ruts, seeps in from the undergrowth, sweeps down.

CARVING, CHISELLING, KNEADING, MORPHING

A quick glance into my toolshed rests on Zoom recorders, Samplitude software and a dizzying array of diverse sonic machinery.

LARGE AND SMALL GIFTS

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Small Gifts

the less to remember, the more to listen
gifts from the ice age reverberate
a simple story, a forest, a coastline
entangled in silence, one starts to relate
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In case you have read up to this point, you might be a sonic creator yourself. May I ask you for a helping ear? Above, there is a tiny poem of mine that I do not understand how to translate into sound. If you do - please act on it. It is a matter of common decency, of course, to keep the title (Small Gifts) and to credit the lyrics to me (jo richter). And please do notify me of your version via a soundcloud message. One bewilderingly beautiful version crafted by mono-lux has already gone public, as well as an amazing version by cthonicist.  You'll find both in my playlist Sympoetic Ultrasounds. This is just a small gift, not a challenge - life already has more than enough of those on offer, doesn't it? Treat it this way.

POETRY IS VITAL
sound, space and time
structuring impulse
carving, chiselling, kneading, morphing
large and small gifts
poetry is vital

GENERAL POLICY regarding the use of LIKES, REPOSTS and FOLLOWS:
I like what I like and want to hear again.
I only repost what I've had a hand in creating.
I follow when I see directions or arrivals I like, not when followed (though I might peek in to get an idea of what your sounds are about). I have set myself a limit of accounts I follow not to be all too overwhelmed. Not following does therefore not mean I do not appreciate what you contribute to the enjoyments of soundcloud.
Do not expect other behaviour from me.
(jo richter)

predictive voice encoder

sonic structures and silent stretches