Mike Shiflet - The Choir, The Army

MARCH 2013

Drone Home

meditative ambient 4

The final track from Low Fantasy EP, a forthcoming release by The Resource Centre on Geography Trip.

Slow Release Energy by The Resource Centre

http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/05/clay-stool-tv-theme-tune-klofracs.html

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjcn8_F3SA

The theme tune from "Clay Stool," a popular 1970s children's daytime TV programme for 4 to 7 year olds, was released as a single in 1973 under the title "Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes."

"Clay Stool" acquired its name from a form of medieval punishment for witchcraft. Originally, alleged witches were strapped to a wooden chair - a ducking stool - then plunged into a river. If they sank they were innocent, if they floated they were in league with the devil and summarily executed.

Samuel Revile, a local priest and freelance misogynist, wondered if ducking stools, which were traditionally festooned with dozens of inflated pigs' bladders, colourful helium balloons, and tethered albatrosses had something to do with the high numbers of people being found guilty.

Revile set about inventing the heavier "clay stool." A year after its introduction 100% of accused witches, mostly women, had plummeted to the riverbed where they drowned, proving their innocence.

Revile's work also alerted communities to the dangers of balloons. It was they, he maintained, not the women, that floated and were therefore in league with Satan. To this day, people who make balloon animals are considered unholy and are barred from church jumble sales.

Though Revile revolutionalised the justice system by inventing compassionate torture, he inadvertently caused widespread redundancies in the execution sector.



Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes (Klofracs Records, 1973)

Jon Brooks - Pond i

ANAHITA - TOURMALINE
Out may 12th, 2017
https://wearethreefour.bandcamp.com/album/tourmaline
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR039

"Out of the crystal clear and warm cosmic perennial waters comes forth another sparkling jewel from Anahita (Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Helena Espvall (Espers)). Two elves dancing amidst gnarled branches of ancient trees and fragrant herbs, concocting a magical potion for the mind of floating medieval cello spheres and melancholic ceremonial madrigals under the blinking eye of a pale moon and far off constellations of shooting stars."
Bart De Paepe, founder of the belgian tape label Sloow Tapes

Tourmaline

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Anahita - Catharus

Northbound - Music for Season One

Cloud Cover

Track taken from The Choir, The Army. 

LP due 2012.

Mike Shiflet - Zahlentheorie

A recording of the live performance given at The Outer Church, Brighton on 17th February 2012.

Live At The Outer Church February 2012

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

Track taken from the upcoming 'Lost Tribe Sound: One' on Lost Tribe Sound

Aaron Martin - Sea Wasp

Track taken from forthcoming album, The Choir, The Army.

Available Autumn 2012

Mike Shiflet - Omicron Serenade

Mike Shiflet - Asymptotes

This is for Halloween. One of my favorite Daniel Johnston songs. 
home recording
credits-
song/lyrics written by daniel johnston
me- guitar/vox/ harmonica 


Merch

Devil town

(image- Francesca Woodman)

Notes: 
This is a Richard and Linda Thompson song. Angel Olsen and I have been working on some cover songs which I'm very excited about.  This one is recorded Lo-fi but clean and clear.  

Stay tuned for more in the future.. and check out both her EP and her new record and go to her shows that are happening right now. 

My Dreams Have Withered and Died- Angel Olsen/Marissa Nadler

Hatis Noit and Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug share their paranormal first cut 'After the Storm' via The Wire, ahead of their debut live performance at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht on November 10.

The pair first joined forces during a Late Junction live collaboration session last year, resulting in four extraordinary pieces broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2018. 

“Hatis Noit’s impressionistic approach, tonal brilliance and kaleidoscopic spectrum, evoked voices I had loved in the past. Whether it echoed the mood of Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares or the beauty of Liz Frazer, it even navigated the eerie spaciousness of Japanese Gagaku traditions that I enjoy so much, so I just knew I was happy to collaborate with her, as she had outgrown her influences and blossomed into an extraordinary talent.

'After the Storm', was a track we first sketched at the initial radio session but was later fully formed in my Berlin studio. In these times of climatic turbulence and socio-political upheaval, its deep seismic sonic flow and haunting melodies are a hymn to the stranded, offering comfort to those in need of solace.” — Kevin Richard Martin

The meeting of Hatis Noit’s bewitching vocal explorations and Kevin Richard Martin’s sacramental synthesis of sound for a world exclusive live performance is sure to lift their respective virtues to perplexing new levels.

“As a solo vocalist and voice artist, I’d always dreamed of floating and being drowned in a beautiful sonic storm. And then I met Kevin Martin.” — Hatis Noit

Erased Tapes 十五

After The Storm

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Kevin Richard Martin & Hatis Noit - After The Storm

For the first single from a 6-track EP from Montreal's Clarian (who is also one half of Footprintz), the Canadian reached well beyond the border to collaborate with Tel Aviv-born, Madrid-based producer Guy Gerber on "Claire." Gerber has been a major player on Israel's electronic scene since 2006, running his own Supplemental Facts label and infusing traces of minimal techno, tech house, downtempo and deep house in his productions, while remaining singular in his approach. Clarian's vocal contributions were at the heart of Gerber's progressive house-leaning Fabric mix from last year, which joined the likes of Ricardo Villalobos and Omar-S of artists that turned in single-artist mixes to the series. "Claire" starts amid a queasy vocal snippet (with Clarian's French whisper lodged in at the midpoint) and threatens to go darker and deeper. But a steady handclap and glimmering melodic line uplifts and casts light across this seven-minute track.

Out now on Visionquest

Beatport

Claire - Clarian & Guy Gerber

Fainting by Numbers is Alexis Taylor and Justus Köhncke. 

They release their debut single - a double a-side of Watching The Wheels / A Stone in The Ground on 15th April on Moshi Moshi Records. 

Available on limited edition 12" vinyl and download. Available for pre-order here: http://bit.ly/133cupf

Pre-Order

Fainting by Numbers - A Stone In The Ground

HAIM - Falling

Falling EP Out Now -- 
iTunes: http://haaa.im/MIyC0K
Limited 10" Vinyl: http://haaa.im/MqtMwf
Music Video: http://haaa.im/qBfkWtThe debut album 'Days Are Gone' out now.
Purchase standard: http://haaa.im/DaysAreGoneFB
Purchase deluxe: http://haaa.im/DaysAreGoneDLXFB

'Days Are Gone' Available on vinyl-
US: http://haaa.im/HJ4qzm
EU: http://haaa.im/Uxfa

http://haimtheband.com
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Falling

Falling (Duke Dumont Remix)

Pye Corner Audio
Conical Space
1-sided Picture-Disc LP (Hybrid Vinyl)
Dekorder 066

Release Date: July 15, 2013

http://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/conical-space

Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series

Pye Corner Audio
Excepter
Le Révélateur
Experimental Audio Research
Vindicatrix
Black To Comm
Kemialliset Ystävät
Ensemble Economique
Alien Radio

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/10-year-anniversary-hybrid-vinyl-series

Mike Shiflet - Omicron Serenade

Under The Spire