Hand-made percussion and voice experiment track

Bedouin Barkhans

Sun, live at Maida Vale December 2013

April 24th at St John's (http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?572955)

Max Ballie (1st violin)
Phil Granell (2nd violin) 
Oli Langford (viola)  
Lucy Railton (cello)
Calum Gourlay (double bass)

Sun (String Quintet Live At Maida Vale)

In demand drummer for Melt Yourself Down and the Owiny Sigoma Band, Tom Skinner, steps out of the spotlight from his recent worldwide successes to rework Kit Grill's track "Velodrome" with an all live set up. Contrasting from the original's very digital tone, Skinny has brought in the help of his previous collaborator, Shabaka Hutchings. Aware that Kit wasn't too keen on having remixes done, Hello Skinny thought it would be more interesting to do a cover version. The idea was to replay some of the core melodic and rhythmic material but rearranged loosely for a more acoustic set up. Hello Skinny started off as a duo between Tom Skinner and clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings so it made sense to go back to this original format for the basis of this cover version.
The whole piece is built around a one-take performance of the main theme from Shabaka on clarinet. A feat of human physical endurance, he manages to maintain the repetition of the part whilst changing the timbre and texture through circular breathing and other extended techniques. We then overdubbed the counter melody and a bass clarinet part. Having the overall shape of the piece, Hello Skinny was able to play a live drum take along to it.
With a bit of extra percussion, liberal use of delay and some distortion the track was taken to close friend and collaborator Chris Morphitis to mix. The whole piece was bounced to 8-track tape and mixed to 2-track tape utilizing his beautiful Studer desk and gorgeous plate reverb. Job done.

Kit Grill - Velodrome (Hello Skinny cover)

Time’s relentless march
a cruel attack... 
Our wings clipped 
no path to backtrack... 
The gates are sealed, no homeward track 
Time’s up, there is no way back.

29 instances of Charlatan 3
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TSOM - Time Is Up - OSC#182

Mikael Seifu - Brass

From the upcoming album "Principe Del Norte" out February 19th on Smalltown Supersound!

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Prins Thomas - A2

Petrol (LP / Digital)
@FoFMusic, March 4, 2016

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Once

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

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Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

'Thousand Yard Stare Out Now' -
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Glass

Illum Sphere - 'Thousand Yard Stare'

From Kelly Lee Owens' self-titled debut album, out March 24th on Smalltown Supersound!

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Kelly Lee Owens - Anxi. (ft. Jenny Hval)

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

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