#03 magic

from the album 'virgins' available 10/14
on kranky [world] and paper bag records [canada].

tim hecker 'virginal ll'

birds of passage  + Leonardo Rosado - your lullabies

"Amps, Drugs, Mellotron" by Tim Hecker

Download this track for FREE at adultswim.com/singles beginning July 8.

Tim Hecker - Amps, Drugs, Mellotron

Leonardo Rosado - Descent

Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect

e and i - an inch of air
david newlyn - reconnection  
ido govrin - the salon
ruhe - oral cues
the humble bee - 23 jan 2010
pawn - the book that is never read
astatine - Initial confirement
john supko/ bill seaman - the clicking
whisperer - shimmer
emmanuel witzhum - with strings v.2
relmic statute - tapeloop 2
 
"It’s kind of difficult to pick a favourite Cotton Goods release. Not necessarily because all releases are equally great, but more as a result of the fact that the back catalogue hangs together so perfectly well that it’s hard to consider such a consistently realised aesthetic (despite a disparate array of artists) as having been formed from individual releases. The catalogue almost demands to be considered as a whole. The same aural flavourimbues all the releases and creates a distinct label identity that is unmistakeable amongst a fairly saturated field. Of course this consistency is no accident and is clearly the result of a craftsman-like approach to curation on the behalf of label founder, Craig Tattersall. It is, therefore, probably no surprise that my personal favourite from the back catalogue happens to be an album of Craig’s own output; the humble bee – “morning music”. Across four discs, this album explores every last crevice of those themes that tie the whole label’s output together: disintegration, happy accident, antiquated technology, the details of the everyday, and a wistful melancholia. All the more impressive to me, is that, as the label website states “each cd contains 7 songs, one for each day of the week, one hour was allotted to write, record and document each song”. So, not only is this album a strong personal favourite of mine (not just from this label, but across the entire genre), but it was put together with such strict guidelines and on incredibly tight timeframes. Thanks to Craig for making such great stuff and for offering me the opportunity to contribute to the label myself. It’s been a rare pleasure."

(John McCaffrey)

John McCaffrey - Cotton Goods retrospective selection

Release date 29.04.16 
www.fac-ture.co.uk

“Work with the intention of slowly fading from sight.”

Returning to the light from the darkness of 2012’s ‘In a Lonely Place’, The Tape Loop Orchestra and Facture present ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’, a landmark intersection of music and visual media. Interrogating the contradictory dualism in the life that inspires art, this unique project displays the panoramic influence of Ozu, Neuer Deutscher Film, Weldon Kees and Yves Klein, as well as forming of a larger arch with TLO’s ongoing body of work.

“Distortions are inherent to representation.”

Examining the multiple philosophical strands found 'In Search Of The Miraculous' - Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s intended trio of art actions, P D Ouspensky's book of the same name, Gurdjieff's early teachings - TLO pay homage to the artist’s continual search, even when the camera isn’t looking; searching for miracles, or simply an answer to the metaphysical why...

If life is art, can the artist decide where art ends and art life begins? Can they co-exist in one form? Do we celebrate the art or the artist?

“Death isn’t about judgement, it collects us all.”

As with all TLO releases, the material was recorded after development in live performance, with the new approach of using multi-track control over trademark tape disintegration for the first time. Edited, sequenced and mastered by James Plotkin for both CD and vinyl, with both formats offering different versions of the same work, ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’ is an ambitious and densely rewarding entry in a sequence that fiercely questions the collective human failure to unravel complexity.

Performed by Tape Loop Orchestra with Beth Roberts, aus and Cuushe... Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Azra Haracic
Design: Craig Tattersall
Inspiration: Bas Jan Ader 

With love to:

Craig, Beth, Yasuhiko, Cuushe, Dan & Jess, Alice, Danny, Dean, Miles, Thomas, Michael, Russell, Richard, Joe, Masami and team Bookman

Packaging:

Deluxe 4 panel gatefold covers printed on reverse board Printed inner sleeves
Clear vinyl
Letter-pressed CD cover
Glass mastered (not CD-R) CD
16 page photographic booklet
2 x limited edition prints
CD/Booklet/Prints all rest inside hand stiched/sealed oversized glassine bags Hand Tagged/Typed/Individually numbered
All of the above rests inside sealed oversized black metallic photographic bags Download code
Scent
CD and vinyl hold different recordings of the material

Tape Loop Orchestra - Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love

Track taken from the upcoming album 'In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep' by Aaron Martin and Leonardo Rosado...

Music: Aaron Martin / Leonardo Rosado
Mastering: James Plotkin
Label: Fluid Audio

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

In The Dead Of Night When Everything Is Asleep

Aaron Martin and Leonardo Rosado - I Can Still Hear The Humming Of Life

available for order NOW on SUN ARK RECORDS

www.sunaraw.com/OWL.html

first 100 orders get free bonus cassette: NOBODY ON THE HIGH MOUNTAIN!



"The No. 2 Pussycat (excerpt)" from THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (2016) by ROB MAGILL

ECTOPLASM GIRLS FEAT. MARIAM WALLENTIN 
'HA NA O' 
FROM NEW FEELING COME LP 
iDEAL RECORDINGS 2016

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New Feeling Come

HA NA O FEAT. MARIAM WALLENTIN -- NEW FEELING COME LP 2016

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/patrick-cowley-candida-royalle-candida-cosmica-ep/

Patrick Cowley is an electronic music trailblazer and a revolutionary in the canon of disco music. He created his an original brand of Hi-NRG dance music, "The San Francisco Sound." Born in Buffalo, NY Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time, Patrick, along with his classmates Maurice Tani and Art Adcock, would create electronic pieces using the school's equipment: first a Putney, then an E-MU System, and finally a Serge synthesizer. The Lab was interested in creating sounds that mimicked nature, like drops or birds, and also very unnatural sounds unattainable any other way. Patrick was a young alchemist discovering new elements all around him. He would layer experimental soundtracks by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer. 

In 1972 Patrick was living in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with some friends from back east. Through these roommates he met Candice Vadalla, a singer, actress and art student from Queens, NY. Candice would later take the stage name Candida Royalle becoming a pornographic film actress, a producer and director of feminist erotic films, and a sex educator actress before passing away on September 7, 2015. Candice was performing in shows with Cockettes splinter troupe The Angels of Light as well as performance projects Warped Floors and White Trash Boom Boom she formed with friends. Patrick arranged, embellished and recorded music pieces for these theatrical performances in his bedroom studio. Candice, meanwhile, played both musical muse and sex goddess to Patrick. Playfully enamored with each other, the pair became occasional lovers, the sexual energy fueling their musical collaborations and improvisations. In the collection of pieces compiled here, Candice’s sweet, melodic and playful voice hints at the more public persona she would cultivate as Candida Royalle. Influenced by Tomita and Wendy Carlos, Patrick crafted his electronic sound from synthesizers (Serge modular, Electrocomp system, Arp 2600), percussion, modified guitars, and hand-built equipment. Candice’s multi-octave range chirps, soars, and growls, going into operatic staccato runs a la Yma Sumac and ‘Illuminations’ era Buffy Sainte-Marie. The vocals add an organic, human element and at times lyrics can be deciphered such as in alchemic adaptation of the Latin hymn “Tantum Ergo.” As a bonus included is the sultry, jazzy “Tomato Song” that Candice sang a capella for the Angels of Light ‘Kitsch-On Show’ in 1973. 

Featuring over 30 minutes of music recorded between 1973-75 found on tapes in Maurice Tani’s attic. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The jacket features an alluring photo of Candida seductively sprawled with a broken Virgin Mary statue around her head, originally commissioned by Jorge Socarras for an Indoor Life single, and shot by Arne Svenson. Each copy includes a 16-page booklet with never-seen-before photos, interviews and liner notes from Patrick and Candida’s friends, roommates and musical collaborators. Released on the week of Patrick (Oct 19) and Candida’s (Oct 15) 66th birthday, “Candida Cosmica” presents a glimpse into the liberated, playful wonderland that San Francisco was at the time. These recordings shine a new light on the early experimental collaborations of a disco legend and of a feminist pioneer who were taken too soon.


Candida Cosmica

Object Of Projection from the album Cruel Optimism by Lawrence English. Coming Feb 2017.

Cruel Optimism

Object Of Projection

Lawrence English - Object Of Projection

Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo (Ft. Motion Graphics)

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Video by Brenna Murphy. From Reassemblage
©2016 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

Reassemblage

Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo (ft. Motion Graphics)

Equiknoxx are one of the hottest, most innovative dancehall squads from Jamaica right now; Bird Sound Power is their debut collective show of strength, packing 12 avant, crooked riddims by core members Gavsborg and Time Cow, plus Bobby Blackbird and Kofi Knoxx, with vocals by Kemikal, Shanique Marie and J.O.E. (R.I.P).
The set was parsed and pieced together by Jon K & Demdike Stare , and now thanks to link ups via Swing Ting’s Balraj Samrai (a longtime livicated supporter), it is issued on Demdike’s DDS imprint, replete with Jon K’s sleeve design.
Easily identified by the squawking bird idents peppering their cuts, Equiknoxx productions have been big in the dance since Gavin Blair a.k.a. Gavsborg produced Busy Signal’s billboard hit Step Out in 2005, followed by key instrumentals for Beenie Man, Aidonia, Masicka, and T.O.K. - with many released on 7” thru their Equiknoxx Musiq label, and some of which, such as Aidonia’s Negative, are included in this set.
Bird Sound Power arguably marks up the most striking riddim album you’ll hear from JA in 2016, weighted with the potential to open up perceptions of current dancehall thanks to the mad character and broad reference points of its producers, encompassing King Jammy’s foundational digi-dub and Dave Kelly’s Mad House sound as much as rugged New York hip hop and the wigged-out, feminine pressure of Virginia Beach’s Timbaland or The Neptunes.
The oldest tune inside dates to 2009, but the rest are relatively recent dancehall mutations, including a number of exclusives produced in the last 12 months. Each one reps for Equiknoxx’s unique aspects, such as Jordan Chung a.k.a. Time Cow’s brilliantly bizarre, layered arrangements of film samples, sawn-off hooks and digi-tight beats, whilst also a result of as their distinguished family vibe,
Bird Sound Power exists in a paradox, contemporary but classic, and with as much potential to turn new heads onto current JA sounds as Mowax’s Now Thing set back in 2001, which remains a key touchstone for all fwd looking producers..

Bird Sound Power

Someone Flagged It Up!!

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Under Blankets'...

Audio: Caught In The Wake Forever
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

Mailing List:

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Under Blankets

Caught In The Wake Forever - Under Blankets

Taken from the recent album: Instrumental Transcommunications

Full review:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2017/02/tape-loop-orchestra-instrumental-transcommunications/

Instrumental Transcommunications was originally commissioned by Shimmering Moods for their Red Light Radio Show. This edition also includes a track recorded during The Invisibles sessions.

A collection of fragments and reference points from my audio notebooks. Voices from the other side, soundtrack re-edits, the wisdom of Sun Ra, faulty toned radio transmissions, cult leader shout outs, TLO experiments and a few other audio morsels. An esoteric guide to the inspirations that have helped form the foundation to current and future TLO works.

There are other dimensions beyond the material world and the people there are holding out their hands to us.

www.ourotherideas.bigcartel.com

TLO - Instrumental Transcommunications

Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

Arthur Russell - Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

Track 1, titled 'Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante Es Imposible Desobedecer' taken from Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri's album, 'La Equidistancia'. Available April 10th. Pre-order now available: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/la-equidistancia

ASIPV008 - Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri / La Equidistancia

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante...

Bohren und der Club of Gore - Prowler

pre-order here: http://heartandsoullabel.blogspot.pt/2012/05/pre-order-has005-easychord-not-in-my.html

"Texturally minimal, lush and soothing, Easychord music is a sort of ambient music, droney, with use of tape loops music defined with marine mood whereof the favourite format is mid-lenght suites and large wavy soundscapes composed of swinging drone textures" 

written and recorded by Easychord @ Two Desk Studio 
mastered by Gianluca Becuzzi @ Kinetix Lab 
photography: Sara Bracco

An Inkling Of Hurricane by Easychord

• More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. (Joan Miró) •

#03 magic

THE SEED