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Outsiders: Ujikaji w/ George Chua @ Kiosk Radio 29.04.2021

Two years after the release of The Observatory's Catacombs comes the Singapore band's first remix album. Widely regarded as The Observatory's darkest and angriest release, Catacombs is a texturally complex and viscerally emotional album, a study in delusion, insanity and obsession. Now, 11 respected artists from Singapore, China, Norway, Thailand/Japan, and the US, have been invited to enter the vortex of The Observatory and rebuild their own sonic worlds from the detritus of that landmark album. Titled after a key lyric from <em>Catacombs</em>, <em>Behind These Eyes</em> sees these 11 visionaries steering the trajectories of the original album in different directions, resulting in a sprawling double LP that is by turns more violent, calming, morose, euphoric, abstract, and elegiac. While listeners new to The Observatory will find in these disparate tracks a strange but certain unity of spirit borne from passionate experimentalism, fans of the band may find, over the four vinyl sides, a lingering sensation of familiar displacement and the uncanny. An album forged out of friendships and collaborations, Behind These Eyes is jointly released by The Observatory and Ujikaji.

Evan Tan is a sound designer for TV and film and has been involved in the local music scene since 1998. He was also a member of The Observatory from 2003 to 2011. Since 2002, he has been active in laptop music and the sound art scene, exploring field recordings, digital noise, electro-acoustic and electronic music.

"I wanted to remix 'Headworm' but it was already taken so I chose 'The Argument' for its fast tempo. I wanted it to be an abstract noisy affair at first but it was going nowhere so I changed the idea to a more beat-centric remix. I was listening to some new wave and industrial music and wanted some of the tacky elements like in Laibach, a Slovenian band."

Evan Tan - The Argument (Hard Truth Remix) (sample)

Singaporean artist weish of .gif does a cover of Shirley Nair & The Silver Strings' 'You're The Boy', together with the original members of The Silver Strings. 

You're The Boy by Weish & The Silver Strings

Hauntology: The Past Inside the Present - audio version of a Rouge's Foam blogpost (omitting discussions of visual art): <a href="http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/10/hauntology-past-inside-present.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/10/hauntology-past-inside-present.html</a>


Rouge's Foam - Hauntology: The Past Inside the Present

half of my life

This ballad was originally recorded and released in 1987 by Dick Lee in his 'Connections' album, featuring Chris Ho on vocals, who also wrote it with Tan Tiang Yeow. Chris Ho re-recorded an updated version circa 1992 before he officially changed his name to X'ho.

Deeper (A Dick Lee and Chris Ho Duet)

Sarron

Young men die for their countries everyday in war.
Some men died, for this country’s make believe play at war.

Don’t die young boys.
It’s not worth the sacrifice.
Just run and hide.
It’s not worth the sacrifice.

Don’t forget all the young ones, who could not take the pain.
It’s not by choice they had no voice. What does their dying gain?

Don’t die young boys.
It’s not worth the sacrifice. 
Just run and hide.
It’s not worth the sacrifice.

Spark up, light up the night.
As we extinguish the flame with fumes.
Spark up, light up the night.
As we extinguished the flame with fumes.

Hell Low - Vocals, Acoustics Guitar, Synths
Anise - Vocals, Violin, Glockenspiel
otochthon - Vocals, Synths
Victor Low - Bass, Percussion, Effects

All Music and Lyrics - Hell Low
All tracks recorded and mixed by Victor Low at Affixen 
Produced by Victor Low, Hell Low, Anise and otochthon
Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks

Sarron

Now playing on Jam88.3's Locals Only!

Recorded at Malabong Lababo, 2019
To be released on Middle Class Cigars' cassette reissue of our album CELL-O-PHANE 
Art: "Dangerous Discontent" by Mariano Batocabe

But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

That's the problem when you get to specifics
I fixate on the small details
I forget the bigger picture
At least that's what my horoscope says

And I guess I don't believe in constellations
Seeing the future only gets you so far
All I need is rude warm blood in the night
And some shelter from the dark

But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

[dom facemelting solo]

That's the problem when you get to specifics
I fixate on the small details
I forget the bigger picture
And I close the door instead


But my room's so small
that the headboard hits the ceiling
and I can't even stretch out my legs
What more room for someone else's pillow
on a single unmade bed

Room So Small (Big Version)

Nadya speaks with Wang Zineng, Founder, Art Agenda, S.E.A. and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art, Asia at Bonhams. In this conversation, they discuss the auction landscape in Southeast Asia, the rapid rise of the regional art market from the mid-2000s, and how houses keep nimble to cater to increasingly eclectic tastes of collectors.

Episode 1: Wang Zineng on Auctions

Couldn't ask for better person to revive our mix series! Radio presenter [@intotheblue-bfm] and label head [@botanicrecords] Tim Sharp delivers a lovely hour through his personal stash for AV012 - an all analog (cassettes + records)affair, an ode to digging and discovery. Lock in & press play! Recommended timing: right before the sun goes down.

Read more at: https://theanalogvault.com/blogs/news/av-mix-series-tim-sharp

Info + Tracklist

AV012 - Tim Sharp

BlackKaji Radio was devised during the national lockdown as an alternative to BlackKaji - our regular series of live gigs and presentations. 

Produced by The Observatory and Ujikaji, this radio programme features new and unreleased work from local and international musicians, conversations as well as interpretive readings of text paired with music and sounds. 

Consisting of four episodes that will be released fortnightly, each episode comprises of four segments titled The Black Box: Unreleased Works, Unpacking the Pecking: Interviews and Conversations, House Works: Music from Things at Home and Making Audible.

Evan Tan - The Argument (Hard Truth Remix) (sample)

Ujikaji Records

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