Es/Ist/Nicht/Wichtig

Excerpts from a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/

British Library sounds sampler

Soundscapes

Focus

We`re All Empty Space

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”― Philip K. Dick

Wistful feelings buried in your eyes, 
Secret yearning no one hears your cries, 
Who will help you? Where is all your might?
Lost all hope, this battle you can't fight.

You can't help but shed that lonely tear, 
Blissful feeling, nothing left to fear, 
One step closer to finding some light, 
Darkness somehow, never felt so bright. 

Take it easy, I know that you can,
For there is something else,
I know there's something else, 
There's always something else, 
Believe in something else. 

Cover art by: Inaiya



Something Else

Silence / Sound - Extract

Remix Zona Sul Bossacucanova

oak tree 
lit by the sun 

october fire 
into which 
a blue tit darts


All instruments played and recordings made by Benjamin Burns, apart from the following: 
Ocean: Waves crashing against a pebble beach, recorded in Hastings by Phil Burns. 
Storm: Banshee vocals meowed by my cat Salem. 
Quasi Adagio (Derrysallagh Remix): A remix of 'Quasi Adagio' by Béla Bartok, from his collection of pieces For Children. Piano played by Géza Anda , 1954. 
Polly Vaughan: This song is an old Irish song, sometimes called Molly Vaughan. Vocals were performed by the wonderful Sive. The harp is sampled from 'Dragonfly' by The Angels of Venice. And the Shakuhachi flute is sampled from 'Honshirabe' by Miyata Kohachiro. Big shout out to Tim Nairn for introducing me to some of the great folk music that inspired this version, including Anne Briggs take on the song. Watch the video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_x7y3g_Fgs 
October Fire: Thank you to freesound user SoundIntervention for the excellent fire-crackling sample: www.freesound.org/people/SoundIntervention/sounds/113510/ 

Special thanks to Ben Bix and Damien at iH! for all their help and support, to Molly Burns for her brilliant cover design, to Sive for saving the day with her wonderful vocals, to Maryam & Patrick & Ben Bix for their work on the video for Polly Vaughan, to Gregory & Cristina for their help and feedback, to my parents for all their encouragement, and to Ivan for his help in organising the launch night for this album. 
Love and thanks to all my friends and family. 

Copyright CC BY-SA Pandy Corporation, 2014 

Artwork by Molly Burns © 2014 Molly Burns 
www.mollyburns.eu 

iH!

April Shower

Typical song of a Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans; family Cotingidae), the bird perched about 20m in tree sub-canopy in prime Amazon rainforest. I was standing beneath the bird: at that distance, its song was painfully loud.
Recorded 1985 by Richard Ranft in the Tambopata Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Full-length recording from BL Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Listen-to-Nature/022M-LISTNAT00288-0001V0

Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans)

recorded with 2 x JrF d-series hydrophones placed directly in the 100 degree centigrade + mud pools at Krafla, Iceland, June 2014

Krafla mud pools with hydrophones (extract)

Annea Lockwood

CST088 Guitar & Voice 
Eric Chenaux

www.cstrecords.com/cst088

Eric Chenaux • "Simple Frontal"

An extract from Yannick Dauby’s ‘Arches’ – an atmospheric sound piece built around his winter 2010 recording of the wolves of Lozère, France. Full-length recording from the Touch Radio collection on BL sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/Touch-Radio/028M-C1428X0064XX-0100V0

Touch Radio -Yannick Dauby

This recording featuring filmmaker Derek Jarman was made in February 1984 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in the Mall, London. 

To mark the publication of his book of memoirs 'Dancing Ledge', Jarman joined theatre legend Ken Campbell for a lively on-stage conversation. In this excerpt, Campbell reads a passage from the book and Jarman shares some family reminiscences.  
The full-length recording from The ICA talks collection on British Library sounds: 

http://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/ICA-talks/024M-C0095X0085XX-0100V0#_

Derek Jarman and Ken Campbell in conversation

Recorded by ethnomusicologist Rolf Killius in 2001 in a Sora house, Tame Gorjang village, Orissa. 

The musical structure of the performance is interesting: the lead singer begins the song with the second singer following just seconds behind. This results in an 'echo' effect that seems unique to the Sora, though a similar style is used in forms of both North and South Indian classical music where the accompanist (sarangi or violin for example) follows the singer.

The full-length recording from the World and Traditional Music collection is on British Library sounds: 
http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Music-from-India/025M-RKDATX0008XX-0100V0

Music from India: Sora ancestor song

This is one of the earliest recordings of chamber music, recorded over 100 years ago, in 1905.  

In this performance of the Minuet and Trio from Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3, both the violinist and cellist were born in the mid 1850s.  In fact, the violinist was born only thirty years after the death of Beethoven.  The sound is remarkable clear for its age.

The full-length recording from the Chamber music collection on British Library sounds: 
http://sounds.bl.uk/Classical-music/Chamber-music/026M-9CS0011622XX-0100V0

Piano trio in C minor op.1 no.3 / Beethoven (1905)

Do It Again - Manufaktur Milo & VersOne

The "Liftoff" mix was created exclusively for Hard Candy as part of the Hard Candy X Mixtape Series (http://bit.ly/QjDv2u)

On this mix we will take a journey from your living room to the outer reaches of the solar system, the depths of the sea, and the heart of the jungle, all in the darkened warehouse of your imagination. Along the way we will rendezvous with my French Express comrades Perseus, Isaac Tichauer, Chris Malinchak, and Jonas Rathsman. Get ready to hear some unreleased tracks, familiar classics and (hopefully) new favorites...

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Tracklist: 

1. Alison Valentine - Peanut Butter (Moon Boots Remix) 
2. Jeremy Glenn - New Life (Perseus' Summer of '83 Remix) 
3. B.W.H. - Stop 
4. Love for the Sake of House - Cole Medina
5. Moon Boots - Sugar
6. La Royale - The Crush
7. Onra - Keep On Loving Me
8. Sharam Jey - Ain't Nuthin
9. Isaac Tichauer - Step Away
10. Den Ishu - High U Gonna Feel
11. Only Children - ??????
12. Rhyze - Just How Sweet Is Your Love (Walker & Royce Retouch)
13. The Establishment - Love Like This
14. Chris Malinchak - If U Got It
15. Luke Solomon - Say Something (Ashley Beedle Live at Wash House Mix)
16. Chez Damier (ft. Leroy Burgess) - Your Love
17. Mercury - Sweetness
18. Jonas Rathsman - W4W

Moon Boots x Hard Candy: Liftoff Mixtape

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928-2007) 
KONTAKTE (1958-1960)
for piano, percussion & tape 35 minutes

L’INSTANT DONNÉ 
Caroline Cren, piano 
Maxime Echardour, percussion

MOTUS
Vincent Laubeuf, sound projection
Olivier Lamarche, sound engineering



Stockhausen | Kontakte | live at La Marbrerie (Montreuil) June 2012

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After I travelled down so many roads the last couple of years I finally met this girl. 
To me she is beauty, she is inspiration, she is hope, she is love. She calls herself butterfly and since she fell in love with that song I dedicate it to her. So, this song is for you my butterfly, may you sit on my heart for a long and never forget how to fly !  


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First single from debut album "Hanging Gardens" (Coming May 14th)

Hanging Gardens

Classixx - Holding On

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