You could make too much of it, clearly. But still it seems significant that LMYE's Labels of 2011 (like our picks in 2010 & 2009 , for that matter) base themselves in somewhat out of the way locations. Geography surely helps explain these exemplary curators' distinct, even singular aesthetics. So too do the double lives of this year's double choice (linked by one exceptional artist). Neither is simply a conventional [...]
This mixtape is something of a stream of consciousness, a kind of echo and reflection through sounds that seemed to have resonated for me in 2011. Music from friends, collaborators, conspirators and inspirationalists (new word for the day). A testament to the year that was, could have been and forever will be....2011.... My Dreams Of Sunday Mornings Are Your Nightmares Of Saturday Night - Lawrence English Mixtape 1. Andy Stott - Signature 2. Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet - Eureka 3. Jim O'Rourke - [...]
(Experimedia, 2011) The Peregrine is a concept album, an audio homage to the J.A. Baker book of the same name, but I haven't read that book and you don't need to read that book to appreciate and utterly sink into English's work here. Why? This may be Mr. English's quintessential composition. And for those well ingrained in the history of Lawrence English, in the wide ranging discography and collaborations, to make a quintessential claim at this point in the game is saying a lot. Without saying much (I never do), I [...]
Re-up for aggregation... Clearly you can't compare a compilation with a single release like the astounding Peregrine . But even if it necessarily lacks the same coherence & singular artistic vision the new Experimedia label sampler (which includes a chunk of Lawrence English 's instant classic, incidentally) is still one of my albums of the year. I don't even know if the sampler 'exists' as a formal release. Perhaps its only life is digital - as an online [...]
A companion piece to yesterday's look at Experimedia's outstanding label sampler - previews of the seven released albums included in LMYE's picks, which if we're being completist also included future releases from Celer , From The Mouth Of The Sun ( Jasper TX & Aaron Martin ) & Sean McCann ... Anyway, below hear Black Swan 's wispily playful but more often saturnine 8 Movements (a movie [...]
Clearly you can't compare a compilation with a single release like the astounding Peregrine . But even if it necessarily lacks the same coherence & singular artistic vision the new Experimedia label sampler (which includes a chunk of Lawrence English 's instant classic, incidentally) is still one of my albums of the year. I don't even know if the sampler 'exists' as a formal release. Perhaps its only life is digital - as an online curation of streams [...]
Ahead of an imminent-ish look at a great Australian artist whose raft of essential forthcoming releases includes one for Room40 , it'd be rude not to acknowledge another essential forthcoming release by another great Australian artist - & R40's label head. Is The Peregrine Lawrence English 's best since the magnificent, monstrous Kiri No Oto ? Or even his best, bar none? Probably not a particularly [...]
"Believed to be a world first, soundslikebrisbane (SLB) is bringing together the city's indie labels under the one banner - already 17 independent labels are represented, with more to join the fold soon. They are giving you a taste of the collective with a free Brisbane music sampler available online now. Covering every genre from garage rock and indie, to jazz, hip-hop, country and pop, the labels define the creative melting pot that Brisbane has become. Together these labels work with dozens of artists, promoting close to 100 [...]
Unless you've rabid venture capitalists or Premier League clubs in hot pursuit, a better offer than the great & now venerably double-digited Room40 's anniversary compilation - the baldly titled 10 - is unlikely to come your way any time soon. Like an LMYE fantasy festival line-up ( Chris Abrahams! Andrea Belfi! Richard Chartier! Greg Davis! Taylor Deupree! Ben Frost! Koen Holtkamp! Rafael Anton Irisarri! Pimmon! [...]
Last year, thanks to Philadelphia Grand Jury and the Paper Scissors , I was convinced Australia was yet another untapped, rich musical resource that was just waiting to be discovered. (And I'm not just talking about the Temper Trap 's quick rise to fame when I say this.) Sounds Like Brisbane is a collective of labels from that Western town in Australia that have chosen to band together for marketing and promotional efforts, with the main goal of getting music out to the masses. Just like with [...]
Brisbane is located on Australia's Gold Coast. Brisbane was also devastated by the recent floods this winter. It's on the recovery, thanks to the hearty spirit of its residents. The southeast Queensland city is also a treasure trove for indie music, and you can explore it on the FREE compilation, Sounds Like Brisbane . This is a rich and diverse collection of artists who currently dominate Brisbane's music scene. There's something for everyone-hip hop, indie pop, rock, punk, soul, folk, electronica, and so much more. Check out: I Heart Hiroshima - Washed [...]
Stephen Vitiello & Lawrence English : two greats from the LMYE pantheon for the price of one - The Christening of the Blackbird 's slo-mo modular sear leaves these ears longing for time with the rest of the pair's new Acute Inbetweens (Cronica, out tomorrow), & anticipating a shoe-in for the albums that mattered most to us in 2011 come the year's end [ 2010 ]. [...]
Minamo + Lawrence English A Path Less Travelled (2010, Room40) RIYL = Chihei Hatakeyama, Sawako, Stars of the Lid The album title for Minamo and Lawrence English's collaborative effort, A Path Less Travelled , doesn't seem wholly accurate. This path is well trodden. In fact, the music itself, a minimalist drone, actually mimics in a way a heavily worn path, a trail ground down into dust, nearly into disappearance. It's something I've touched on before (something I feel I almost always think of when listening to a new drone album), but, as is [...]
In its (first) ten years, the Australian Room40 label has built up an impressively diverse catalogue of experimental music; it would be asking too much for this year's Open Frame event, held for the second year at its spiritual home-from-home Cafe Oto, to do justice to that breadth. There was no place for Japanese avant-pop this year, or for abstract sound recordings, for example. Instead, the first night focused on the more improvisational end of their output, featuring percussionist Andrea Belfi, a quintet made up of the I/O3 trio with David Toop and Scanner, and Necks pianist Chris [...]
At 7.45pm, John Chantler was playing drums to accompany Richard Skelton and his score for a Charles Linehan dance piece in Greenwich (I saw it on the Wednesday; very lovely indeed. Quite stripped back for Skelton, but with a huge, chaotic finale. I don't really "do" contemporary dance, but Linehan's interpretation of the piece seemed suitably dark, even violent perhaps). After an hour of scraping and rumbling, and a cab ride across the city, he was playing modular synth with Lawrence English in Dalston as Holy Family, in support of their fellow Australian Oren Ambarchi. That is quite a night, [...]
Xela : black lazer echos in rusty warehouse, harmonic ghosts haunt drippy caves, tectonic plate shift, mouth of hell opens wide, crumbling apocalypse Taylor Deupree : yellow leaf drone, gauzy uphill water, muffled papers shuffle, forest heartbeat, distant birds, suspended dust in a sunset lit attic Lawrence English : eye of the tornado, glass bottles & cellar doors bash your skull, visceral static bliss, squawking puffins, waves crash, fucking loud as fuck Xela Taylor Deupree [...]
E chegou a quarta hora... Depois de Pedro Tudela, o outro lado dos @c , Miguel Carvalhais. É a "Futurónica 4", quarta e última hora de um longo programa de quatro horas transmitido na Rádio Futura do Porto durante o Festival Future Places 2009. Nesta, é possível encontrar peças de Marc Behrens, Durán Vázquez, Gilles Aubry, Enrico Coniglio, Heitor Alvelos, Lawrence English, Paulo Raposo, Ákos Garai e @c. Livre, como sempre. Download livre [...]
Lawrence English certainly wasn't treating this trip to the UK as a holiday. After playing with the Touch crew at Oto on Monday, he managed to squeeze in a couple of nights with his own Room40 label before the return flight to Australia. I missed the first night, which featured performances by Steinbrüchel and [...]
Touch's series of Atmospheres events, of which this is the third installment, has an increasingly loosely-framed agenda to explore the sounds of the natural world. In previous years they have set up camp in the Museum of Garden History in Lambeth, with its fine old trees and historic garden. The move across town to Dalston, [...]
MP3: Lawrence English- and clouds for company The edge of the town sloped away into an ornate wooden place near the precipice of a cliff. Everything, all the buildings, shops, even the road itself, had the quality of being carved and painted into weathered old wood, giving the impression of boat decks or old funfair rides. There were no hard edges at this end of town. Objects were curved and made smooth by the weather. I could see that the things in the town had been painted brightly in block colours once. [...]
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Anti-Gravity Bunny
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I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
Video: Dreamers - "Appaloosa"
