- lamin fofana brings percussive chamber atmospheriks for the new year with a three track EP on sticks and stones records. vinyl forthcoming on 30th jan. digital on 27th feb. (there's a soundcloud link and a youtube link. which to post?) the head of audio at the bbc thinks radio should offer more visual content . this is kind of reactionary. phones and tablets have screens so radio should use screens. but what do we put on the screens? a dozen bbc executives dip [...]
-- Big up the BBC and Brook Lapping Productions. Erykah Badu presents two half hours of radio on the Black Power movement and the aesthetics and music that accompanied it. Great montage and interviews with Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, Ornette Coleman, Sonia Sanchez, Lloyd McNeil and Talib Kweli. Kweli describes a situation from around 10 years ago where he booked a plane ticket over the phone. In the background he was listening to Stokely Carmichael speeches. When he turned up at the airport the authorities were waiting for him. The lesson he takes from this is [...]
- Anne Briggs, heavyweight vocalist of the 60s/70s English folk revival sings an acapella rendition of 'young tambling', a song about a woman who is ravaged by a mysterious man in the woods and left pregnant. Later, as she ventures out again to the woods to pick a herb which will abort the baby, the man reappears and reveals he has been trapped in the wood by the vicious and capricious queen of elves. However, tonight being Halloween the elfin horde will ride out across the countryside. If the lady can pass a test then she can win [...]
-- York Hall, an old boxing gym in East London was bathed in darkness for Amadou and Mariam 's 'Eclipse' show on Tuesday night. The audience sat surrounded by audio roosters, fragments of speech and trains recorded in Bamako, Mali's capital. Amadou and Mariam are blind and the blacked out venue was designed to re-create their experience of their career. Spaces in between songs were filled with a booming narration (muddy in the large hall, near empty for this dress rehearsal) describing stages of their lives: schooling, marriage, touring Europe, getting three encores in Rennes [...]
Since April 2011, myself and Alyssa Moxley have been recording people who keep bees in London, their hives and the soundscape around... We spoke to people from Capital Bee , the Golden Company , Walworth Garden Farm and the Southbank Centre and recorded them tending to their hives and discussing what the practice of beekeeping and the organisation of the hive mean to them and to the wider urban environment. The programme was broadcast on Resonance FM on Tuesday 27th September. -- [...]
right now, lots of things are on fire. most of them are shops. a few houses are on fire in croydon. people have been evacuated from clapham junction. north london is kicking off. everywhere is kicking off. places with a stong sense of community (and local enfranchisement) have come out to defend. the turks & kurds in dalston, bangladeshis in green street. this video of a woman (fantastically!) mouthing off is adding 100,000 views every hour: - nick clegg, now in coalition with the ruling tories, [...]
Akio Suzuki is a Japanese composer, artist and inventor of instruments. he's interested in the sounds of nature, stripped down pieces of noise and their resonances in a given landscape. David Toop fetes him as "a kind of magician". In the sleeve notes to the ' Odds and Ends ' double CD, Yamantaka EYƎ of the Boredoms, writes "Hearing this music I remember many things, including playing in a puddle as a tiny kid. Play makes all things one. Those who are able to play in the true sense of the word are able to live in eternity. You [...]
"At the death of Francis I in 1547, a meal was served to the king's coffin, while a wax effigy (complete with moving parts) was set up in a salle d'honneur , where it was ritually fed until the king was buried." from Carolyn Steel - Hungry City p.223 - Keep eating. Hype Williams on _tube is unfuckwithable:
alex macpherson just published a great article on lil b, tyler the creator and sexuality in hip hop. in case you're unaware, lil b has announced his new record will be called 'i'm gay'. he's not gay, but he does play with his sexuality, calling himself that pretty bitch and freestyling "niggas on my dick cos i look like a princess / bitches on my dick because i look better than them" ( 4:28 ). a lot of this comes down to taste, but in terms of swag, lil b kills absolutely everyone. if we are [...]
samgeall links to an article on the relationship between occult practices and cyberfraud in ghanaian popular culture... Sakawa: On Occultic Rituals and Cyberfraud in Ghanaian Popular Culture by Joseph Oduro-Frimpong [ pdf ] this may sound obscure but let's just think of occult practices as means to an end. when riki lake or oprah tells guests they must love themselves before they can love others, that is a form of re-imagining, a means toward an end which is itself a form of magic. maybe this is a way to achieve success in the [...]
TwoMoreMixesMwoToreMixesMoMore Twixes MoMoreTwixes! Forwards! the first twix is one that's been in the oven for about 6 months. you know when you cook a moussaka and you leave it in the oven for ages and the lamb goes really soft? well this mix is tender. includes adesh samaroo singing about how cat meat tastes much better than dog meat. there is also an interview with myself and and man called hanu(man). he did half the mix. don't believe the hype - it wasn't a battle so much as a brokered ceasefire. big up abstractor and pacheko for [...]
while the international media get caught up in the high drama of a nuclear catastrophe, things remain very bad in the quake hit area, the extent of which is only increasing as the situation develops and relief efforts are stretched. i recently returned from living in Japan for two years. i was based in Osaka, far from the the disaster zone (the Chinese government moved their embassy from Tokyo to the consulate-general there a couple of days ago). my friends, including the ones in tokyo, remain safe. the real tragedy is happening on the ground in the north east. [...]
granular lamb from Whirring Cat on Vimeo . spring is coming. lambs get granular synthesised.
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one for january. creaking chairs. the tracklist looks like a liturgy... "one can recognise a great cold, she explains to me, by the bright shining mist that hangs in the air. when a person walks, a corridor forms in this mist. the corridor has the shape of that person's silhouette. the person passes but the corridor remains, immobile in the mist... here is a wide, low corridor with a distinct, resolute line - the sign that claudia matveyevna, the school principal, has already gone. if in the morning there are no corridors that correspond to the [...]
I just finished reading Pink Noises by Tara Rodgers , a collection of interviews with women who perform/improvise/produce/code electronic music and sound art. The book is out via a university press (Duke) and features amongst others... Kaffe Matthews, AGF, Mutamassik, Ikue Mori, Elaine Radigue and turntablist Maria Chavez ... ... "Records can be ruined intentionally; I've had some people ruin records for me, but I really don't use them very often. I have a couple that I ruined myself that I use maybe once every [...]
merry xxxmas. the shortest day and a menstral moon mark the end of a year of global slowdown. a screwtape for you and you alone. words from tom mccarthy whose new book is fattening stockings even as this robot types. cross posted to DuttyArtz ... drama screwtape Download audio file (whirring_cat_-_drama_screwtap e.mp3)
....context we don't do 4 year old synth tracks we do ruff sqwad - forwardish (instrumental) Download audio file (Ruff Sqwad - Forwardish (Instrumental).mp3) low deep - never see me fall Download audio file (low_deep-never_see_me_fall.mp 3) and up to the time.... metadata left Blazin Download audio file (metadata left Blazin.mp3)
AGF and Gudrun Gut combine as Greie Gut Fraktion. in case you don't know about AGF try the search bar or even, better, go to her website and get free things, like her cover of disturbia . Gudrun Gut has had a lot of records out over the years and runs monkia records/enterprises. the lead track on their album is a version of deutsh new wave band Palais Schaumburg's " wir bauen eine neue stadt " (we build a new town). there's a few different mixes floating about, but [...]
deuces has the most mournful synth of the season. plus chris brown in terrifying break-up mode. detuned drama. kat and alfie provide the dialogue and slamming doors i've got a ton of screws ready to go. either to be released in a pavement-top trickle or wrapped in some kind of digital bow and given away for xmas. keep watching the skies. chris brown - deuces (wordthecat eastenders screw) Download audio file (chris_brown_-_deuces_(wordthe cat_eastenders_screw).mp3)
1986. pripyat. atomograd. nuclear fallout. an unihabitable 30km radius exclusion zone is created (although around 300 mostly elderly residents remain). apparently wildlife is flourishing in the contaminated zone, high levels of radiation being less dangerous than the presence of humans... ... graffiti in pripyat inside the exclusion zone via jacob kirkegaard went to the exclusion zone and made recordings of room sound in a few different places. he chose rooms which would have been centres of social activity; a church, [...]
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