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Tukio Radio - July 8th 2021

Artist: Trip Shrubb
Album: Trewwer, Leud und Danz
Label#: faitiche 25
Format: LP/DL
Release: Oct 22nd 2021

Faitiche is excited to present, for the first time on vinyl, a selection from the 84-track (!!) remix project originally released in 2013 as a three-tape set by Trip Shrubb aka kptmichigan aka Michael Beckett. Known to many from bands like Tuesday Weld or The Schneider TM Experience, Beckett remixed his way through Harry Smith’s famous Anthology of American Folk Music – a compilation of American folk, blues and country recordings released in 1952, soon to become key point of reference for the emerging folk revival movement. Having translated the title into the local dialect of the part of Germany where he lives, Beckett began reinterpreting all of its 84 tracks using sampler, effect pedals and loops – sometimes making several tracks in a single day. A colossal undertaking whose results are beyond accomplished and that is summed up in the selection of thirteen tracks on Trewwer, Leud un Danz.
  

Murray Royston-Ward writes about Trewwer, Leud un Danz:

“Total sacrilege... 
A collection of remixes of tracks from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music which was originally released in its entirety. The album is titled Trewwer, Leud un Danz (sorrow, song and dance) which is drawn from an endangered ‘Low German’ dialect (lippisch Platt) and is poetically approximating Smith’s volumes Ballads, Social Music and Songs.   The hardware employed encompasses analogue, virtual analogue and digital. A primordial soup of electrical fields, striated granulation, micro-circuitry, molecular oscillations and mathematical manipulation; communicating directly with the guitars, zithers, mountain dulcimers, fiddles, jaw harps, banjos, harmonicas and human voices of 1930’s America: itself a reterritorialization of African and European folk traditions that reach back farther and farther into our collective pasts. (…)” 

faitiche 25, 2021
Music by Michael Beckett
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Design by Tim Tetzner
Published by La Chunga
Label image by Giant Fox

Trip Shrubb: Wach Up, Jakob

Lying on our bed in the privacy of our room, music is the expression of our thoughts and reflections, ideas, flashes and sometimes our deeply buried feelings. This second show is about how music is sometimes the best bandage for a soul tired of after-party moods and deep questioning.

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Flinch & bones - hymns of woe
Dissolves in mouth
Mopes denounced

Spreading grey
Draft, limestone
No beat after beat
Dread, lone

Lung branches - hold still
Sink below, fleets 
As the fossil trails afield
As the rot curves unreeled.

Farewell has merely become a part of life we already live. Standing in front of fading realms, fragil, as it is ephemeral. Fleeting memory, monody, chromatic grief, maladies - from warm skin to cold stones. De-seeding the stasis that allows the uninterrupted heartache to go on.

'Only Autumn Returns' captures bittersweet remembrance as a poignant tribute to the the depth of human transience and the enduring power of impermanence.

Only Autumn Returns

Appropriate Savagery - Indomitable, Worn Out by a Decade

ALBUM OUT NOW:
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CR-22: Hollow Gem - Bloom

Dérive lente et aléatoire à travers des paysages où se rencontrent folk mus-ique, abstractions synthét-iques et expérimentations idiomat-iques.  


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Peaking Lights - Birds Of Paradise (Maria Minerva's Ooh Aah Eh edit)

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

Easy Man

Vu du Dôme released by Editions Gravats the 6Th april 2018

Èlg - Hourra - from "Vu du Dôme" LP - Editions Gravats - 2018

Sylvia Monnier - Hard Edge (side a - excerpts)

ewbeats - tonight

Ewbeats - feelings

https://www.nts.live/shows/total-stasis/episodes/total-stasis-1st-december-2020

LAILA TOTAL STASIS  - NTS RADIO - DEC 2020

"i am a room with a big glass window" 
@perila

from a self-released collection "reflections"
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

perila – everything aligns in gentleness

https://sylviamonnier.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/Sylvia-Monnier-527133830827267/
https://shrinefuchsia.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/mickaelperezilvia/

Sylvia Monnier - Hard Edge (side a - excerpts)

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