In 2016, the laconic singer-songwriter Olin Janusz released the first album of the experimental project Bare Wire Son. The artist's second LP was released in 2020 and went unnoticed, but even then it became clear that his skill had grown, and the music itself began to evoke genuine emotions. In the start of 2021, we heard the full version of the upcoming album "Off Black" and realized that it was worth paying attention to. Musicians from different countries of the world, including Russia, took part in the recording of the new work, and it was mixed by Douglas Henderson (Swans, Angels Of Light, The Necks).

More information about the artist is available on his social networks:
https://barewireson.bandcamp.com/
https://vk.com/barewireson
https://www.instagram.com/barewireson/

Tracklist:
01 Maria W Horn - Epistasis
02 Billy Bragg - Rumours of War
03 Lambchop - Chelsea Hotel #2
04 Townes Van Zandt - FFV
05 Σιδηρόπουλος Παύλος - Το μπλουζ του αποχωρισμού
06 Matt Elliott - Lone Gunman Required
07 Autistic Daughters - Richest Woman In The World
08 Alonso Lobo - Versa est in Luctum
09 The Durutti Column - Darkness Here
10 Sairie - Silent O Moyle
11 Randy Duke - Fallin' Down
12 Big Star - Holocaust
13 Bernard Herrmann - Starlight
14 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Girl In Amber
15 Christoph de Babalon - Brilliance

The interview was prepared and partially translated by: Ilya Eremeev
Design and help in preparing interview: Alexey Pavlikhin
Help in translation: Sergey Tyapkov

Preview-video with Bare Wire Son:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N_kvRrjENU&ab_channel=moistur%D0%B5podcast

Read the exclusive interview for [moisture] in the attached Google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ot7hGd_39Tm29mzP5-SVfVyfH30jJn3VyNwNmFtbW4o

[moisture podcast #021 - bare wire son]

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TRUE NAME FINDER


2005
LP, colour gatefold sleeve
Artwork: Enrico David
Edition of 500

Bonnie Camplin is a musician, artist, dj and club organiser from London. Featuring previously on DEC 01 Nova Popularna, as a member of donateller, Decemberism are proud to present this, her solo LP. It's a collection of electronic compositions, working with samples and simple programmes. She deconstructs optimistic, familiar music, and remodels it with a sleeker and more autonomous soul. She shows with Cabinet, London, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015.


Bonnie Camplin Heavy Epic Side 2 Track 01 - Pearl And The Hanging Judge

don't let it

you were covered in semen

Taster of the new album by Richard Skelton, entitled 'Four', forthcoming on digital via Aeolian Editions.

Richard Skelton ~ Four (Excerpts)

Phoning It In

Some folks make hasty decisions
They live their life on the go
I can’t be bothered to give a damn bout anything and
Some people say I’m a pro

You’re busy climbing the ladder
I’m busy lying in bed
It doesn’t matter if anybody calls me names and
I’m gonna fuck off instead

Because

We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
Don’t care just phone it in
Get bored just phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in

You busy yourself with fashion
I busy myself with fun
I’m busy painting these mini metal skeletons and
You say I’m dressed like a bum

You say that you’ve got a passion 
About what you’ve gotta do
You say you can’t wait to buckle down and start your day and
I’m less excited than you

Because

We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
Don’t care just phone it in
Get bored just phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in

We are the ones
The ones who never give a damn
We are the ones
Without even a basic plan
Out in the sun
We are the ones enjoying it
You work too hard
I quit
I quit
I quit
I quit and

I’m tired of people complaining
My best is not good enough
I’m only doing the minimum to get me through and
If you don’t like it then tough

Because

We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
Want pizza phone it in
Hate work just phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in

We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
We’re gonna phone it in
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Phoning It In. I’ve always loved the phrase and I was just inspired to write a song with it. To keep in spirit with the title of the song, I made sure not to try too hard on any one element. I wrote the riff quickly, wrote the lyrics quickly, we got the guitar sound quickly, and there was no overthinking or really changing anything. My only complaint about it is that I think it is a little too fast, so it forces me to sing harder to keep up, and it doesn’t fully sound like I’m phoning in the vocals. So I thought about slowing it down and delivering a more laid back vocal take. Just ever so slightly. I played the guitar, sang, No bass yet. Doug programmed the drums. Every once in a while we will have someone play drums on the songs, but usually only when we are finishing something for release. Otherwise, all the drums in the demos are programmed by Doug, and I think he does a really good job of making them sound kind of real and natural. I get attached to them. All of Hesitant Alien started as demos with programmed drums by Doug. He and I have a cool relationship, and have evolved together over the years since he engineered Black Parade, Danger Days, and engineered and produced Hesitant Alien. We work in the same space, the studio at my house, called Milk Friends. I just let him have the space I’m not using and he brought in all of his gear and works on various projects, recording, and mixes, and I would be in the other room, the office, writing comics. And every so often, when neither of us is too busy, we record things. I like sharing artistic spaces with people, especially Doug. It’s nice to have a friend that can record you when you have an idea, because I’m terrible at recording and I barely even know how to use Garage Band. So all the singles you have gotten from me over the last couple of years have been done with Doug and I, and then various musicians who would replace certain things, making them real, and sound better.

Distraction Or Despair

Phoning It In (2) VOC

This is one of maybe five tracks of me messing around with this Crate amp I got off of Reverb for cheap. It has a mysterious stain on the front that looks like someone had put a candle on top of the amp and the wax just dripped down the front. In the listing, the stain was described as “a stain that mostly comes off”. One of the things Doug and I were experimenting with for the last three months was how bad we could get stuff to sound. That’s not me trying to diss on Crate amps, as the very first amp I had— the one I wrote Skylines and Turnstiles with— was a Crate amp with built in distortion. But they do not have a reputation for being high quality amps, at least in the musical circles I was in. A lot of people get kind of snobby about them. But I think a lot of metal or thrash metal musicians swear by them. They are very crunchy, so I think that is why, since some metal has a lot of crunchy distortion. But we would turn the amp distortion on, and then run a distortion pedal through it, to see how fucked up we could get it. I’ll probably put the rest of the jam tracks up, but I think it’s a lot of the same riff over and over, since I didn’t know when Doug was in record-mode and I wanted to make sure I got the two or three parts down once I discovered them. This is just me playing guitar meandering through ideas, sloppily. Maybe some of these riffs will become songs.

Crate Amp With Mysterious Stain Jams

Crate Amp_02

This was something Doug and I threw together for the release of Umbrella Academy Volume Three: Hotel Oblivion. Just something short for an instagram video. We did this really quick, didn’t give it much thought other than trying to make something that sounded a little like The Stooges. A few months later, I actually wrote a verse and some new lyrics and a new vocal melody for the verse, and then I kind of wanted to finish the song. Someday. Like most of this stuff, it’s me playing guitar, bass if there is bass, doing the vocals, and Doug programming the drums.

Welcome to the Hotel

To step up in April we present Ben Vince (@vince21music), a British music creator who swings with his saxophone within multiple textures and approaches to experimental scenarios. 

His technique is outstanding in the electronic processing of sound and his capability to adapt to different audible collaborations with the likes of Joy Orbison, Micachu, Rupert Clervaux, Valentina Magaletti, and Merlin Nova. 

To his eave is got releases on labels as Blank Editions (@blank-editions), Where To Now? (@where-to-now-productions), ThirtyThree ThirtyThree Records, Hessle Audio (@hessleaudio), and more. 

'This is a mix with a lot of friends' music as well as some stuff I'm really feeling on a more laid back tip, some light, some dark, a transition’, Ben Vince.

At the end of the first track, we can hear a piece of poetry made by a friend of Ben, Nasim Luczaj, on our times in enforced isolation.

Recorded in London 31/03/20. 

Artwork x @iq94

FR057 Ben Vince (London, England)

Track list

E.Myers – I am Alive 

Bonnie Camplin – Pearl & The Hanging Judge

Primavera – Before I fall asleep 

Naomi Mitra Ruby – Thinking of me [co-prod Charles Verni]

Jordan Mouzouris - Chadwick Road Wings Remix Pt.1 & 2 

Art of Noise – Realisation

Susu Laroche – arise move appear

Charlie Fox  - Nod III, Zonked Mix

Stan Iordanov – toni2 77.46bpm 

Charles Verni – That-04_157

Exotic Sin [Kenichi Iwasa & Naima Karlsson] – Canis Minor, Customer Copy (side B)

Marco Passarani – Zep Teti

Lanark Artefax – Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)

Nico – The End [Reims Cathedral – December 13th 1974]

Matilda Tjäder – The Ghost Piano

you were covered in semen

Tom Hardwick-Allan

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