a journey through a fog so dense you lose track of the hours, familiar forms surfacing, crystalizing for a moment before they are absorbed back into the haze

two special mixes from:

Hi-Vis (Beyond/Below, Chicago)
[59:45-end]
composed in early february 2021 with a gentle prompt of cocooning love energy and deep winter hibernation. conjuring an isolation tank experience...

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Shorn Silk (Iowa City)
[beginning-59:50]
a hypnagogic tape mix of deep cut favorites and original recordings made for headphones in an expansive ambient unfolding...


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mix photo courtesy of Hi-Vis <3

Ep.9: Shorn Silk + Hi-Vis

An intimate glimpse seemingly into Malvern’s own home, complete with warmups, soundchecks, voices from the other room. A straying mess from left to right, shut the blinds, turn the telly on.

Outhouse Mix: Malvern Brume

composed by Martin Arnold (1994-95) performed by:
John Abram - sopranino, alto and bass recorders, Casio DH-100
Martin Arnold - melodicas, drawbar organ, string bass
Nic Gotham - alto sax, baritone sax
Craig Hoskins - trombone
Elissa Poole - traverso
Kevin Turcotte - trumpet

Burrow Out; Burrow In; Burrow Music (movement 1)

We do not have audio recordings of musicians who knew Brahms' performing this intermezzo. 

Anna Scott has imaginatively reconstructed how Intermezzo in B might have been played by performers of his generation. By replicating exactly how Brahms' contemporaries and students played his work on extant audio recordings, Anna inhabits long-forgotten performance styles such that she can play pieces we do not have recording for in ways they might have been a century ago.  

Brahms, Intermezzo In B Minor Op. 119 No. 1 (Anna Scott)

"Jammed by the Soviets," from Marcin Barski's "Wanda's Dream" LP
Released on Reading Group (RG12), December 2018
www.readinggroup.co/rg12.html

Marcin Barski, "Jammed By The Soviets"

http://www.recitalprogram.com/the-claviorganum/
Limited LP Edition of 250
8-page booklet with program notes and scores
OUT ON JUNE 7th
Pre-order here: www.recitalprogram.com/purchase

R63 - Michel Samson & Rebecca Samson - "Sonata Seconda 1631" from The Claviorganum & the Violin LP

Reading Group is carrying a small supply of Juan Hidalgo's classic "Rrose Selavy" (1977) for US / Western hemisphere distribution. 
New re-issue by Discos Transgéneros (2018)

Small supply. Limited vinyl edition, no digital release.
www.readinggroup.co/hidalgo.html

Juan Hidalgo - Rrose Sélavy (Solo)

Penultimate Press is pleased to present A Sunset for Walter, the first duo release from long-time collaborators Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras. Having worked together in a number of different collaborative contexts over the years, the pair used Pateras’ 2018 residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart as an opportunity to develop a major durational work for Steinway piano and multiple Revox tape machines. Presenting four excerpts from a three-hour concert, the LP’s opening moments immediately establish its distinctive sound-world: an austere sequence of octaves slowly sounded by the piano gradually develops into passages of fragmentary lyricism as Noetinger’s tape manipulations dilate the sonic space with rumbling sub-bass, distant echoes, and hints of uncanny backmasking.
 
A Sunset for Walter was conceived as a loose tribute to the piano works of Walter Marchetti, particularly the slowed-down subaquatic expanse of Nel Mari Del Sud. As Marchetti described his own work, A Sunset for Walter is ‘music without beginning, or end, or development’, where the lack of obvious structural divisions creates something like an endless present. But where the monochrome surface of Marchetti’s work – in its willingness to descend, in his own words  to the ‘pits of aesthetic poverty’ – often approaches total stasis, A Sunset for Walter is calmly immovable in its overall texture but perpetually changing in detail, as the performers respond intuitively to each other, their instruments, and the environment. Noetinger’s tape manipulations range from nearly imperceptible shadowing of the live piano to anarchic bursts of rewinding tape, floating wisps of feedback, and dreamlike concrète interjections of children’s voices and splashing water. Pateras’ piano performance moves from single pitches left hanging over a backdrop of silence to almost Messiaen-esque sequences of complex chords and arpeggios, all sounded within a temporal framework that seems to follow internal rhythms of breath and bodily movements.
 
Caught in this hall of mirrors, the listener is often unable to distinguish the live piano from its tape-manipulated reflection. Like the sunset of the title, here outlines blur into a crepuscular haze, as fleeting effects of light and shade catch our attention just as they disappear.

A Sunset for Walter

Jérôme Noetinger and Anthony Pateras - 19h39 / 19H46

Playlist and other information available at: http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-148/

FFFoxy Podcast #148

Playlist:

CPE Bach

"Sonata W.61,no.2"

played by Gustav Leonhardt

(Sony)


Junior Kimbraugh

"Baby please don't leave me"

from Meet me in the City

(Fat Possum)


The Pastels

"Frozen Wave"

from Unfair Kind of Fame

(Domino Records)


Lizzie Higgins

"Laird O' the Dainty Doonby"

from Princess of the Thistle(Scots Songs and Ballads)

(Topic Reords)


Blossom Dearie

"More Than You Know"

from Blossom Dearie

(Verve Records)


The High Llamas

"Bacaroo"

from Can Cladders

(Drag City)


Atrium Musicae de Madrid,Gregorio Paniagua

"Anakrousis"

from Musique de la Grèce Antique

(Harmonia Mundi)


Carman Moore

"Love Trouble"

from Personal Problems

(Reading Group)


Takashi Masubuchi

"Dissapearing Foliage #1"

from Dissapearing Foliage

(Senri Records)


Marcin Barski, "Jammed By The Soviets"

Reading Group

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