Original production from Kook Ellington, copyright Albemarle Records 2024

Paranoid

Humanity is addicted to time.
We chase it, hoard it, kill it, and mourn its loss.
We measure our worth in hours, our lives in years, our memories in moments.
Time has become our master, ticking, pulsing, reminding us always that something is slipping away.

And yet, time is not fixed. It bends with gravity, stretches with perception.
An hour in agony lasts a lifetime; a summer of joy slips by in a breath.
We treat time as a currency, but forget it is a construct 
a ghost we all agree to see.

Still, it matters.
Not because time is real, but because what we do with it is.
In the end, time is a mirror. It reflects what we choose to fill it with.

But time also decays.
It wears away at the body, at memory, at meaning.
It rots, it rusts, it erodes.
Nothing escapes its touch... not love, not greatness, not even light.

So if we must be obsessed,
let it be not with the ticking,
but with the living.

SKIM & JDAM - TIME. **FREE DOWNLOAD**

Bad Latitude

August 2025 . The residency has just finished, heading home soon to start work on developing a couple of long format works from all the sound captures. 
These are the 3rd batch of 3 short sketches using field recordings captured around Montegiovi, Tuscany. With these little works I am experimenting freely with what can be produced from each days sounds - manipulating them and stitching them back together with the aim of producing a long format work at the end of the residency. I have done maybe 20 or so  since the beginning of August. The idea is to have them done by the end of the day (or night) then move on to something fresh the next day.
I am truly thankful for this opportunity that has been provided for me by the Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania and Cultivate Projects/La Baldi residency in Italy and The USA.
And of course the wonderful people of Montegiovi !

Tuscany Experiments  8 - 10

DrillBore

Part 4 of the final track of Then She Reaches For The Gun's 2nd Album
released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel In Adelaide Part 4

liz.ok - Times A Player
Pramma Belafonte Dub

Times A Dub

Work in progress. I'm slowly progressing on my new album. This track started with an intense drone and bass-part, but so many verions later I think all of the original stems are left out, and replaced by these slightly distorted reverb guitar parts. Still some work to do on this one, but I like where it is going! 

Whereabouts

“A-tu-tu” is an energetic and unique piece that builds on the vibrant sound of pop rock. By fusing the edge of rock with the catchiness of pop, it delivers a light and buoyant rhythm that instantly draws the listener in.

One of the song’s defining features is its playful use of multiple languages. English, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, French, Chinese, Spanish, Thai, German, Swahili, Indonesian, Māori… The “1, 2, 3, 4” from around the world is woven into the melody, resonating like a borderless countdown. Different cultures and sonic textures blend seamlessly, embodying the universal message that “music connects the world.”

At the center of it all is the commanding presence of the female vocal. With a tight and sharp tone, her voice colors the entire sound with clarity and delivers emotion directly to the listener. That vocal performance elevates A-tu-tu beyond a simple pop song, giving it the weight of a work with a strong message.

“A-tu-tu” is a pop-rock anthem brimming with heat and momentum. With its playfulness and global scope, this track leads listeners into an uplifting energy that makes the body move naturally.

A-tu-tu

A-laise - A-tu-tu

This instrumental piece features a medium tempo of 85 bpm, swing rhythm, and a minor key (G# minor). The instrumentation includes a walking bass, drums with a brush snare, a clean electric guitar playing chords, and a lead violin with a clean tone playing the melody.

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