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From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

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TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

Abstracting traditional music with a strung-up bamboo spear and unique, tremor-inducing vocals, the pair strike a thunderbolt between their avant-garde influences and strong connections to their cultural heritage. Black metal fans will rip the Venom badges from their jackets and techno-heads will weep for their mamas. This is high-grade bonkey tonks shizzle. £6.

DS033 - Senyawa (sample)

Taken from the album "Strangers" out on May 20th 2016.
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April 21 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown w. Black Mountain
April 22 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern w. Black Mountain
April 23 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge w. Black Mountain
April 25 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room w. Black Mountain
April 26 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah w. Black Mountain
April 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery w. Black Mountain
April 28 - Los Angeles, CA - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery w. Black Mountain
April 29 - San Francisco, CA - The independent w. Black Mountain

May 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool

May 24 - Brighton, UK - Prince Albert w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
May 25 - London, UK - St Johns
May 26 - Manchester, UK - Soup Kitchen w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
May 27 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
May 28 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
May 29 - Cork, IE - Cyprus Avenue w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
May 31 - Leeds, UK - The Brudenell Social Club w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
June 1 - Bristol, UK - Louisiana
June 2 - Lille, FR - La Péniche w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
June 3 - Paris, FR - Centre Fleury Goutte d’or Barbara w. Six Organs of Admittance
June 4 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Club
June 5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
June 7 - Hamburg, DE - Stubnitz
June 8 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega w. Wrekmeister Harmonies
June 9 - Berlin, DE - Roter Salon

Strangers

All the Colors of the Dark

From his album "Velvet Arc" - out now on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Chuck Johnson - Everything At Once

from 'A Requiem For Edward Snowden' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den255
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/matthewcollings]

MATTHEW COLLINGS is a Scotland-based composer. Not only being a solo recording and live artist, he collaborates regularly with artists from all kinds of fields including musicians (e.g. Dag Rosenqvist from JASPER TX and Denovali label mate TALVIHORROS), dancers and filmmakers. He’s responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco or Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for films includes a specially commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic, ‘The Man with the Movie Camera’ and an invitation to work on ‘The Invisibles’, a commission from Amnesty International.

'A Requiem for Edward Snowden' is a large scale live audiovisual performance piece that has been performed among others at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art and the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht. The piece focuses on a number of themes which are extremely relevant to our lives in the 21st century, based around the actions and decisions of whistleblower Edward Snowden; loss of faith and security, the hacking of digital media, invasion of privacy and personal sacrifice.

The documents released by Snowden reveal that we live in a world in which we are totally reliant not just on methods of communication, but on daily routines in which our privacy is completely compromised. The piece explores the consequences of this situation through a combination of electronic sound, acoustic instrumentation and live visuals. The gestures and performance from two live electronics performers, a clarinetist and string section are analysed and interact with real-time visual work by Jules Rawlinson (pixelmechanics.com), exploring the piece's central themes at sonic and visual levels.

'By turns politically muscular and poignantly nuanced, Collings' excellent piece is a heartening reminder of the quality of new music being created and performed in Scotland today' - The Herald Scotland

This album constitutes the entire musical part of the performance. However, as the piece was conceived as an audio-visual piece, the visuals are included as downloadable content.

A Requiem for Edward Snowden

Matthew Collings - Maersk Recorder

Melt Yourself Down - Jump The Fire
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Jump The Fire

Taken from the album 'It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry' released as LP, CD and Download

Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke 'I Just Want You To Stay (excerpt)' (EMEGO 221)

From the album 'Music For Falling From Trees' by Peter Broderick released in 2009 on Western Vinyl.  Available soon as a limited edition 180 gram 45 rpm vinyl EP.

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2009’s Music for Falling From Trees, a 30-minute piece in seven sections, was created for a contemporary dance by London-based choreographer Adrienne Hart at Neon Dance. Adrienne was looking for a score of piano and strings, so Peter left the guitar and his voice aside and focused entirely on those two timbres.

The dance tells the story of a man in a psychiatric hospital, and his struggle to maintain his identity. The music is sometimes melancholic, sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic, but with the combination of piano and strings, full of beauty, reverence and awe.

“In late 2008, Adrienne Hart contacted me about scoring her new work, Falling From Trees. In Adrienne's words, ‘the piece is set in a psychiatric hospital and centered around one man's struggle to retain his identity in the most extreme of circumstances.’ There are four dancers in the piece. One male playing the patient, and three female hospital workers.

I had been making music for a variety of film projects, but the thought of scoring a dance was very exciting to me. I was on tour at the time, so I wasn't able to start writing the music until I had a break in early January. The dance premiered on January 21st, so I had about three weeks to create the score. I camped out up in the top of my father's barn with some minimal recording equipment, my violin and viola, and an old broken piano.

Given the time constraints, I approached the music in a very open way. Rather than sit down and try to compose something, I just set up a microphone and started playing. After coming up with a couple of themes on the piano, I started recording, using those small themes and improvising around them. Most of the sections have a small core that is composed, and then the rest is improvised. Luckily for me this method seemed to work. I would work all day and then send a sketch over to Adrienne, and every time her response was positive. So in this way we worked very well together. I give my hugest thanks to Adrienne for trusting me to create the music for her wonderful work.

Adrienne told me from the beginning she was looking for a score of piano and strings. So I decided to take this literally and make a rule not to use any other instruments. In the script it called for the sound of a ticking clock. I made this sound by tapping on the body of the violin with my fingernails. The sound of an electric shock given to the patient is depicted by a quick, distorted piano chord. And all other droning and bass tones were made by extending and processing violin and/or piano tones, etc. Thank you very much for listening.” – Peter Broderick, March 2009

Peter Broderick - "The Dream"

not really trying. the sounds on here are mostly old and stupid.
write zine about food and music called CHEWn!.

This is what happens when I discover Radio 3's Late Junction

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