excellent my very dear apprentice. 💀💀💀👍😎😷

a short ep of stuff i've been working on the past couple months

credits:
beats and chops by jayshu
mixed by jayshu & d apprentice
mastered by d apprentice

venus waltz

The Asa-Branca of the title, is a "White Wing". With its departure, the desolation of the parched sertão (the arid backcountry) is complete, and the protagonist of the song, unable to make a living, must leave the sertão and his lady-love Rosinha. The song closes with his promise to return.

Asa Branca - (texel) - (now on spotify)

White Wing - (texel)

Closer - (texel)

Urban environments determined to be interchangeable.

Switchable City

This is an extract from the full-length oral history POLARI/2 which was conducted as part of the Polari Mission by Jez Dolan and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2013-2104. You can listen to this interview at Manchester Central Library.

The project used Polari as a starting point to examine how contemporary LGBT groups and individuals view, understand, appreciate, utilise, or see reflected in their own ‘communities of language’ the influence of Polari, and its impact on how we communicate today. The project produced a series of exhibitions, performances, visual artwork and audience participation.

Polari Mission was a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the artists and specialists in the fields of linguistics and computer science including Professor Paul Baker (Lancaster University) & Tim Greening-Jackson.

The classlessness of gay life in Manchester before 1967

Brian Ferneyhough (*1943)

Unity Capsule for flute solo (1976)(fragm.)

Rafal Zolkos - flute
live recording (Concours Nicati, Bern, Switzerland)

Brian Ferneyhough (*1943) - Unity Capsule (fragm.)

Equanimity

For Clarinet and Computer (6’50”) - Clarinet performed by F.Gerard Errante

Taking a moonlit night on a beach in Majorca as its inspiration, Equanimity is an attempt to convey a sense of delicate balance between different environmental and sonic factors: a certain stillness in the air; the sound of different nocturnal creatures blending in harmony; the ocean shifting in the darkness.

I have tried to exploit the different elements that make up the sound of the clarinet, at the same time relating these to the natural sounds on the recording. A delicate balance is set-up between stillness and movement, knowing and unknowing. Is the listener hearing the sound of the clarinet or cicadas? Do they hear the performer’s breath or the sound of waves gently lapping against the shore?

Through the use of live electronic processing, the sound of the clarinet is subtly extended to aid this blending of instrument and nature. The through-composed nature of the piece reflects a gradual unveiling of the natural scene, shifting from the different harmonics contained in the clarinet to the sounds of insects and birds communicating on their own narrow bands of frequencies.

Equanimity was composed for clarinettist F.Gerrard Errante in Scarborough and Las Vegas (with support from the University of Hull and the great hospitality of D. Gause and Gerry Errante). A recording is available on the CD Delicate Balance published by Aucourant Records. It can be purchased on-line at http://www.aucourantrecords.com/catalog.php?op=detail&cid=72

Equanimity

Perfect House

Part of Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas livestream 2020
Everything recorded by people at home at mixed in my garage.
This is a cover but I'm pretty sure Sufjan says it's ok
Find the video here (and enjoy all 5 hours of livestream nourishment!) at 2hrs 37mins 9secs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72vrXyekd8&t=5375s

Voices

Rosa Francesca
Iona Lane
Caroline Taylor
Hugh Nankivell
Ben McCabe

Wils Wilson - Cello
Hugh Nankivell - Viola
Paul Swannell - Violin
Joe McCabe - Bass
Iona Lane - Guitar
Gordon Walker - Piano
Rob Daniels - Drums
Dave Shooter - Electronics
Bess Shooter - Flute and Tenor Saxophone
Matt Robinson - Flute and Clarinet
Chris Dowding - Trumpet
Ben McCabe - French Horn

Lonely Man Of Winter

Songwriter, Composer, Multi instrumentalist and creative practitioner

Perfect House

Jack Marc Williams

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