Name: The house where it is impossible not to fall in love by ZoeSkoulding
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Description: Zoë Skoulding with Alan Holmes live at the Berlin Poetry Festival, 2nd July 2009.

A vocal and electronics performance by Zoë Skoulding of poems in her collection A Marginal Sea (Carcanet, 2022).

A Marginal Sea (sound performance Belfast Book Festival June 2023)

Zoe Skoulding - From The Rooms

Exploring textures, simplicity, noise and repetition without using looper pedals.

Aspiring towards hypnotic and meditative.

This is a follow-up to the Looms album from a couple of years ago.

Equipment used: Eastman T486; Roland JC20; SM57 mic; Chase Bliss: CXM 1978, Dark World, Tonal Recall RKM; Boss: RV-6; JHS: Pulp ’n’ Peel.

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Adam Walton - Corona Borealis

For my dad, Graham, who's been gone too long, and for anyone missing their dad today, or any day.

Dad took us all to Italy in 1977. He borrowed John Selby's Maxi and we drove from Nannerch to Lucca. It took three or four days: three or four days of a leaky tent; little bro Danbles demanding fish 'n' chips from bemused French, Swiss and Italian waiters; me completely refusing to go to the toilet. 

It was the most exciting holiday I've ever been on. Sometimes the smell of the Tuscan hillsides comes back to me, or the feeling of absolute contentment reading my dinosaur book by candlelight in our rickety, leaking villa.

And there were scorpions and lizards... SCORPIONS AND LIZARDS!!

Love you and miss you dad.

There is a new album coming soon. This isn't on it.

Thanks for listening.

Written and played by Adam Walton
Drums by Rachel Williams (Peaness)  https://www.facebook.com/rachelwilliamsdrummer
Produced by Adam Walton & Russ Hayes
Recorded at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes.
Field recording courtesy of Eliseo Di Malto & Roberta Musillami
Artwork by Adam Walton

Adam Walton - On a Hillside (With The Fireflies)

Programme for Montez Press Radio in association with Oriel Mostyn
30.08.20 https://www.mostyn.org/montez_30august

Zoë Skoulding with Alan Holmes: Footnotes to Water: Sounding Hidden Rivers
Zoë Skoulding's poetry collection Footnotes to Water, winner of the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020, imagines a river as a transverse section, cutting through urban and rural spaces, connecting places that are themselves in flux. It traces the mysterious path of the buried Afon Adda in Bangor, North Wales, entering conversations with the city and its past as well as with the sound of the river itself, half-heard under the metal plates of the observation chambers along its route. In an unlikely twinning of two very different cities, this journey leads to Paris and to the Bièvre, a lost Parisian stream that once ran through streets of tanneries and past the Gobelins tapestry factory, where the quality of a famous red dye was attributed to the river’s polluted water. This performance, in collaboration with sound artist Alan Holmes, combines poetry with field recordings, looped vocals and interview fragments, and includes a poem in Welsh from special guest Siân Melangell Dafydd.

Footnotes to Water

Zoë Skoulding with Alan Holmes live at the Berlin Poetry Festival, 2nd July 2009.

The house where it is impossible not to fall in love

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