A psychedelic journey in sound and vision, through the collaboration of anotherAntidote and Blackswitch Labs. anotherAntidote is Peter Wullen, Kyra Pearl and Dean Richards. Directed by E Gabriel Edvy, production Blackswitch Labs. ©2017 anotherAntidote/Blackswitch Labs
Track list
01 TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv - Morgenspazierngang IV
02 Deison - The End of Everything
03 Quiet American - Lalitha Mahal Lawn Watering, Outside Mysore, India
04 :zoviet*france: - Light Abrasion
05 1Home - Nocturn III
06 Peter Wullen - Windpipe (Globoscuro Edit)
07 Zach Zinn - Ice Silent Gleam
08 Atom Earth Mother - Firmament Mix – Earth Mother
09 Jim O'Rourke - Flat Without a Back
10 Ben Ponton - Pretzel Seller and Street Ambience, İstiklal Caddesi, Istanbul
11 Ernesto Molinari, Roberto Fabbriciani - Luigi Nono: 'A Pierre. dell'azzurro silenzio, inquietum'
12 Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Einsichten In Die Wirklichkeit
13 David Daniell - Shiho-hiru-tama
An Invisible Octave: This week’s edition features a track from Deison’s new album, ‘Any Time Now’, on Manyfeetunder, and recordings by TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv; Quiet American; :zoviet*france:; 1Home; Peter Wullen; Zach Zinn; Atom Earth Mother; Jim O'Rourke; Ernesto Molinari, Roberto Fabbriciani; Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck; and David Daniell.
Sunday 07 August, 21.00 Italian time - UTC/GMT +1 UNEXPLAINED SOUNDS GROUP web radio transmission
The Recognition Test # 32, curated by Sonologyst.
Streaming: http://mixlr.com/unexplained-sounds/
CYLS
dramavinile
Ernesto Schmied
Fastus
Glove of Bones & Peter Wullen
James Lowe
Nada
Silo Portem
Siyanie
Wilder Gonzales Agreda
Pink Floyd
Artwork: Tim Ritchie
track list
01 [unknown artist] - Ecoutez
02 Leafcutter John - Bella
03 Kshatriy - Cosmonoise [extract]
04 Queazel - Digest
05 Vanessa Rossetto - I Cut my Own
06 Peter Wullen - The Drop
07 Thomas Gardner - Lipsync [extract]
08 John Magill - Faye Wray's Lungs
09 Altered:Carbon - Retina
10 Flavien Gillié - Nonante-neuf fragments harenois [extract]
11 Darren Hayman - Changing Room at Parliament Hill
12 mutanT.R.I. - Winterpretation
13 Lori Beckstead & Dave Rose - Dawnchorus
14 Jim Wylde - Pulled Under
15 Miquel Parera Jaques - nxH37a
The :zoviet*france: radio show. This week’s edition features tracks from new albums on the Unfathomless label by Flavien Gillié and Vanessa Rossetto, and from a new album by Kshatriy. Unexplaining themselves in and around those are recordings by Leafcutter John, Queazel, Peter Wullen, Thomas Gardner, John Magill, Altered:Carbon, Darren Hayman, mutanT.R.I., Lori Beckstead & Dave Rose, Jim Wylde, and Miquel Parera Jaques.
Sunday 17 July, 21.00 Italian time - UTC/GMT +1
UNEXPLAINED SOUNDS GROUP web radio transmission
The Recognition Test # 29, curated by Sonologyst.
Streaming: http://mixlr.com/unexplained-sounds/
This week in order of appearance:
Kshatriy
Kyrmaan
Peter Wullen
Idlefon
Nyctalllz
Tehransmission
Patrick Wiklacz
Igor Bardo
Umchunga
nobodisoundz
Artwork: Peter Kertis
track list
01 Id M Theft Able - There Were Two People Smoking, There Was a Little Bit of Snow on the Ground [extract]
02 Peter Wullen - Haunted Forest in the Rain
03 Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Beyond Belief
04 Ultra-red - 990614 Los Angeles River and 134 Freeway at Bette Davis Park
05 Filipo Laresca (Rizomas) - Taxonomía
06 [unknown sound recordist] - Dooropen
07 Freiband - Vrijdag [extract]
08 Ivan Black - The Wandering
09 Harold Nono - Otōsan
10 Snezhana Reizen - IceExp (Act I)
11 Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo - Anthracite
Another one for the digitalDIZZY MerzBarn funder: www.facebook.com/MerzmanProject. A new collaboration with Globoscuro. My poem Seed of the Cosmic Horse read by Talkbot voice. Cut-up: Peter Wullen. Voice: Talkbot. Sounds: Emiliano Pietrini. I used a mash-up of an anti-copyright text by Peter Lamborn Wilson with elements of the RG Veda as a mantra to repeat endlessly.There's also a video for the track here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bitAghi9D8
Made for the digitalDIZZY MerzBarn funder. Featuring sound voices from Peter Wullen. Subtitle, 'Kurt in Douglas'
tracklist
01 Dramavinile - Ropes
02 Emmanuel Mieville, Cheri Gao & Peter Wullen - Epilogue – Varuna's Complaint (Emmanuel Mieville Edit)
03 Karhide - Old Alabama (Karhide Version)
04 Jonáš Gruska - Valve Dances III
05 Codespira1 - Case #3
06 PBK - They Only Love Lies
07 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant - Moyens Fantômes [extract]
08 Goodiepal - 33_Side_Ø_Havet [extract]
09 Corrado Altieri / Gianluca Favaron - Vertical Features
10 Nikita Golyshev - Siberia
11 Restive - 01000010
12 Dramavinile - UP-Nea
Announcing 5th Dzejnieka Asinis / The Blood of a Poet Festival 4-5 June, at Kaņepes Kultūras centrs, Riga - more than 30 participants from 10 countries: Janis Rokpelnis, Edvīns Raups, Henriks Eliass Zēgners, Toms Treibergs, Semjons Haņins (Орбита), Edgars Sondors, Krišjānis Zeļģis, Marija Luīze Meļķe, Andrejs Vīksna, Raimonds Ķirķis, Dmitry Kuzmin, Andrew Levkin, Vladimir Ermolaev, Anuar Duisenbinov — with Eriks Naivo, Peter Wullen, Anna Tolkacheva, Андрей Черкасов, Ian Kubra, Nastya Denisova, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, Raimonds Ķirķis, Alexander Skidan, Anuar Duisenbinov, Sergey Sdobnov, Marija Luīze Meļķe, Andrew Levkin, Kiwa Noid, Toms Treibergs, Janis Rokpelnis, Henriks Eliass Zēgners, Edvīns Raups, Edgars Sondors, Krišjānis Zeļģis, Xenia Zimmerman, Madara Rutkēviča, Andrejs Vīksna, Agnese Rutkēviča, Dmitry Kuzmin and Vladimir Ermolaev.
track list
01 Mean Flow - Paradiso Love
02 Audio Obscura - To Be Held for a Long Time
03 Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Glen Glasow [narrator] - Terry Riley: 'Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders' [extract]
04 Una Lee - Les Impressions Marocaines
05 Una Lee and Peter Wullen - -lalia (Emmanuel Mieville Remix)
06 Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - (Tests + Training) Studioarbeit / Feldforschung
07 Modal Voices - Substructures
08 Artificial Memory Trace - Hmizz, Sikada, Ptaki a Fiano
09 Richard Chartier - (typeof) 06
10 Four Tet - First Thing
11 Rehberg & Bauer - Supa Zwei 10
12 Akira Rabelais - (void) 01
13 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Stainless Steel, Manufacture, Making Gas Fired Ladle Pre-Heater
14 Massimo Amato - Tortured Rose
15 prefabGout - Dripping Green
https://archive.org/details/petroglyph438Una_Lee_and_Peter_Wullen-interstices_reworks
"¡nterst¡ces" is a collection of soundpoems based on original poems by Peter Wullen set to music by sound artist Una Lee. These are reworks of "¿nterst¿ces" made by experimental artists: Tom Smith, Emmanuel Mieville, Gintas Kraptavicius and Dalglish. Cover art by Marta Revillas
#godporn by Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wullen is now featured on the Unfamiliar 12 podcast by David Nemeth, http://www.unfamiliar.cc/unfamiliar-12/. #godporn is a track from the 5#Poems album by Globoscuro/Una Lee/Peter Wullen released on the Hortus Conclusus Records. #godporn features words by LaMetàFisica aka Alessandra Zerbinati.
DANIELE SANTAGIULIANA and PETER WULLEN
Handmade Horse (2015)
Testing Vault aka Daniele Santagiuliana is one of the most prolific and known cult figures in Italian and Post-Industrial Music. Born in 1983 he ran his little label, Looney-Tick Productions from 2013. He worked with many other artists and under many different monikers.
Peter Wullen is a poet and a writer. He also works in the field of audio and video poetry. Videopoems by several international artists can be found on Vimeo . Sound releases on SONM, KSV, BLOSSOMING NOISE, HAZE, PETROGLYPH RECORDS.
Music: shortwave radio loops, broken turntable, micro death synth and vocals
Poems:
1. Handmade Horse: cut-up of a recipe of kazy karta found somewhere on the net
2. All My European Friends... : cut-up from an interview with John Duncan, with kind permission of John, interview was published in the book Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century by Thomas Bey William Bailey
© 2015
All the tracks are written and composed by: Daniele Santagiuliana and Peter Wullen
Cover art and graphic design by: Linda de Luca
"¿nterst¿ces" is a collection of soundpoems based on original poems by Peter Wullen set to music by sound artist Una Lee. Their collaboration started after they got to know of each other’s works online in late 2013. These tracks were made in 2014.
Tracklist
1. Story I
2. Black Canary
3. Persian Cat Blues
4. Wonky Alice
5. Hoplitis Spoliata
6. Story II
7. Maimed
8. Hollow Head
9. Incestuous Sisters
All Poems by Peter Wullen
Piano - Una Lee (Track 9)
Violin - Hyo Jung Kim (Track 9)
Artwork by Marta Revillas, http://www.martarevillas.com/
https://archive.org/details/petroglyph385Una_Lee_and_Peter_Wullen
Original poem from the >>4 Poems<< cycle was published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html)
Original poem from the >>4 Poems<< cycle was published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html)
The >>4 Poems<< cycle that is now published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html) also exists as a limited edition booklet. Art edition created by L'Ane Qui Butine. It contains words by Osip Mandelstam, John Duncan, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Kyrgyz manaschi, Michel Faber (Under The Skin), Celia Green, Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi, Peter Lamborn Wilson and an excerpt from the Rg Veda... More info: lanequibutine@gmail.com.
Unfinished sympathy. First part is great. Cioran's youth in Rasjinari. But Ilinca Zarifopol passed away before she could finish the full biography. So, the rest is really some unfinished parts put together by her husband Kenneth R. Johnston. Two chapters about 'Romania's Transfiguration' and Cioran's so-called 'fascist' sympathies. And then there is the part about Ilinca visiting Emil in the hospital. An ailing old man with Alzheimer. Cringeworthy. It gets better when she travels herself to Romania. Not to find out stuff about Cioran, but to look for her father and her uncle Paul. It's all very sketchy. That's the part where i am now. She does write a lot about the republication of 'Romania's Transfiguration' in 1990. But Emil was not stupid. He quickly hurried to republish the book after the Romanian revolution in 1989. Opportunistic? She hardly makes that link though. Yes, in the 2nd part of the book. She plays on sentiment. But Cioran was never about 'sentiment'. Notes written by a woman in love. My conclusion is that we need a biography of his lifelong partner Simone Boué. She was the complicated part in the life of Cioran. Looking after the master with care for 40 years. For whatever reason. Love, maybe... Her story is a tragic one. She killed herself 2 years after his death. Drowned in the sea.
PS: Just skipped to Appendix 2 'Articles by Cioran Reflecting His Experiences In Germany', on E.M. Cioran's very outspoken and Nietzschean 'sympathy for a young Hitler' in 1933-1934. Shivers!!!! He was wrong! So wrong! And he knew it! What does the author want to proof by publishing this 'wrong' article though? In perspective: it was hard to see what was going to happen in 1933 and 1934. A lot of people stepped willingly or unwillingly into the mass hysteria of the moment as Cioran explained later as an apology. It was hard not to be swept away by the fascist tsunami that was about to come. But the fact that Cioran gave permission to republish the book in 1990, meant that all through the years he clung to the same ideas. So, no apologies...
You can forgive a young man for having these ideas in 1933-1934. You cannot forgive a skilled writer & thinker for sticking to the same ideas in 1990. Then it's indeed Tschüss, Emil.
'Searching for Cioran', by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnson, edited by Kenneth R. Johnson, foreword by Matei Calinescu, Indiana University Press, 2009.
Valerio Tricoli - 'Miseri Lares'
Antoine Chessex - 'Chamber Works'
NO BULLSHIT - tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski
Scott Walker + Sunn0))) - 'Soused'
David Sylvian + Franz Wright - 'There's a light...'
Franck Vigroux - 'Centaure'
Mica Levi - 'Under the skin' (soundtrack)
France Jobin - 'Infinitisemal'
Yvan Etienne - 'La Lueur'
Zbigniew Karkowski + Tetsuo Furudate - 'World As Will'
Gintas K - 'Old man tales'
Otomo Yoshihide Quartet
A Singing Comet
Kenney/Kang/Park - 'At Temple Gate'
A-Symmetry - 'I Am Life'
reissues: Jon Hassell, Fripp + Eno, Eyeless In Gaza,...
The voices deliver the strangest music nowadays. First we had the wonderful Scott Walker album with SunnO))) and now here is one by the great David Sylvian. Not enough suffering in his music, said the one about the other once. But here is some suffering anyway. 'There's a light...' is a collaboration with long suffering poet laureate Franz Wright. I know many fans from the first hour were appalled because it is not David reciting the words but the old man Wright. And it is poetry, not songs. What can I say? A difficult album. And that's mildly put. But we love 'difficult', don't we? Especially the last 20 minutes are very captivating... "If you liked being born, you will love dying..." Did you spot the change in tone in Franz Wright's voice towards the end of the album? The humoristic and playful is suddenly gone. A crack in his voice when he starts to sound utterly desperate and lonely. It's a breathtaking moment. The cleverness disappears. Human warmth slips in. The piece almost becomes 'emotional'.... It's the best part of the album. I thought I heard Dai Fujikura somewhere, but he is not on the album. Sylvian is not the one to sit still. He is continuously looking for new adventures and collaborations. This time it is Toshimaru Nakamura and veteran Otomo Yoshihide delivering the samples. Musically, the album even holds out without the poet's voice which comes unobtrusively in the way of the freeflowing brushes of music once in a while. I can enjoy David Sylvian's new album to a certain level, but I'm sure he has become some kind of muscian's musician. There are certain aspects of 'There's a light...' that will forever escape me. That's normal. Is it really necessary to know where every note every snippet comes from? The whole history of contemporary music that was crammed into one piece of music? I'm surely not the one looking to understand everything. BTW, I seem to be a poet's poet myself. I know all about it. The things I put into my poems will not necessarily be recognised by readers. Maybe only by connoisseurs. And then what? I don't expect anybody to fully understand what I've written. Dedicated DS fans will be chewing on this. Ha...
PS: One would hope that Scott and David will work together one day. At least here is the whimsical proof that there is a lot of suffering in David Sylvian's work anyway.
FRANCK VIGROUX - CENTAURE from dautrescordes on Vimeo.
Listening to the music of Franck Vigroux is a musical experience comparable to reading Cioran. It's intense! I was reading and rereading 'Le Lyrisme Absolu' by E.M. Cioran from his book 'Sur les Cimes du Désespoir' and then inadvertently I switched to listening to Franck Vigroux's new album on the brand new Berlin based label Cosmo Rhythmatic. I suddenly saw it before me and I immediately made the link. Like an epiphany. Vigroux in 'Tempest' cooly hunched over his instruments while Antoine Schmitt projects ever evolving, stellar algorhytmical projections on the videoscreen behind him. Amidst all the bad art being made in the name of Cioran, this seems to be the real thing. It felt like a total experience and the absolute lyricism we are looking for and that Cioran wrote about. Then after that I took a look at the stunning 'Croix' videos and I had to think about the words 'le lyrisme absolu est celui des derniers instants' from the same chapter... On his new EP 'Centaure' Vigroux even goes one step further: the noise, the abstraction, the experiment on 'Centaure', '2024' and 'Vesuve'... I don't know if you ever read 'Le Bain de Feu' by Cioran? It's about the most intense hair-raising philosophical text ever written. I feel like that too when I listen to the new album. Vigroux puts you head down in a scorching bath of fire. Vigroux is probably the most intense musician of the moment. But then, in comes Shapednoise to scrape together your remaining ashes with different abstract shapes and forms of rhythms. Vigroux never lets us down exploring this experimental way or that noise way, but 'Centaure' is surely the most powerful thing we heard from him since 'We (Nous Autres)'. Brilliant! Video by Gregory Robin.
Music by Franck Vigroux, Label Cosmo Rhythmatic, boomkat.com/vinyl/1147530-franck-vigroux-centaure, boomkat.com/downloads/1147497-franck-vigroux-centaurelife 1 - A-symmetry: I Am Life 2014 from agf Pro on Vimeo.
Here's a splendid video from A-symmetry, the collaborative project of Georgian based Natalie Tba Beridze and AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti). The track is from their forthcoming album on Morr Music called 'I Am Life'.
'NO BULLSHIT - A Sonic Tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)' is ready for release. It's an audio DVD of 5 hours commemorating one of the greatest experimental artists of all times. The piece I sent for the DVD was made together with Korean experimental artist Una Lee and is called 'MUTATIONS'. It was loosely based on 'Mutation', a relatively quiet soundpiece by the late great Japanese sound artist Aube and by Zbigniew Karkowski. They are two giants of noise music who passed away last year. The spoken poem itself is a mashup of parts of Armand Marie Leroy's book 'Mutants : on the form, varieties and errors of the human body'. For more information about the upcoming release check here: http://sonmarchive.es/index.php?option=com_muscol&view=album&id=4114&lang=es
Flame Schon & Sheldon Rochlin made the delicious 'DOPE' film in 1967 with rare images of early Pink Floyd in the UFO club in London. We worked with this 60s legendary filmmaker on a brand new videopoem with sounds by Una Lee and a rework by Gintas K. It's an hommage to the rippling still Mylar images by our mutual friend, the late poet, artist & filmmaker Ira Cohen. In the end, we made something different...
" it's / as real as anything else / so it's just as absurd to critizice
anyone with such a limit as being / personally / or / socially /
/ weak / "
(John Duncan, excerpt from an interview in the digital version 'MicroBionic - Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century' by Thomas Bey William Bailey, A Belsona Books publication, 2012)
Antoine Chessex: "Ritournelle Fulgurante (for Leo Mingrone)" from Physicofsounds on Vimeo.
Antoine Chessex special on Saturday 3 May between 6pm and 8pm on university Radiocampusbruxelles. Tracks will be featured from the new MONNO album, Chamber Works, Dust, Errances, Multiple (live at Cafe OTO) and lots more... www.radiocampus.be
Is everybody already running wild about the new Swans song 'A Little God In Our Hands'? Haha... Me, I'm more impressed by this new album by the combo Monno. Here's a crazy & ultraspeedy track produced by Roli Mossiman, the former Swans drummer....
'Idioticon', videopoem by Kris J. Y. Verdonck. The soundtrack is 'Koladé Spirit' by David Toop, with kind permission. 'Koladé Spirit' is a track from 'Mondo Black Chamber', the new David Toop compilation album on Sub Rosa. The original was included on 'Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead'. A Raudive celebration including unpublished material by Scanner, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky/That subliminal kid, Calla, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Ensemble, Ramdom Inc., David Toop, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Brett Dean. They have all composed an exclusive piece of music based on the Raudive material. It goes from a close examination of the material itself (CM Von Hausswolff, Lee Ranaldo) to a more evocative mood (Calla, Scanner, dj Spooky). The last piece, for viola solo, is a global homage to all the explorators of the unknown.
[ … ] But you always chatter that Charaxus is coming, His ship laden with cargo. That much, I reckon, only Zeus Knows, and all the gods; but you, you should not Think these thoughts, Just send me along, and command me To offer many prayers to Queen Hera That Charaxus should arrive here, with His ship intact, And find us safe. For the rest, Let us turn it all over to higher powers; For periods of calm quickly follow after Great squalls. They whose fortune the king of Olympus wishes Now to turn from trouble to [ … ] are blessed and lucky beyond compare. As for us, if Larichus should [ … ] his head And at some point become a man, Then from full many a despair Would we be swiftly freed.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/30/read-sappho-new-unknown-poem-papyrus-classical
Black Canary from chris h lynn on Vimeo.
The aim of a poet is not to win prizes. To be famous. To be popular. Even not to produce books. That's left for the others to decide. The aim of a poet is to leave as much traces as possible during a lifetime. Like seeds we blow in the wind. Like water we flow in all directions. We project fire. We consume everything before we are consumed ourselves.
We have our contribution to the 'NO BULLSHIT' tribute to ZK. It's loosely based on the piece 'Mutation' by ZK + Aube. I wrote the cutup poem 'MUTATIONS' as a starting point. Una Lee created the startling soundscape with sounds she found in Belfast. There's a dramatic breaking point in words and sounds in the middle of the sound poem which makes it breathtaking. It's a blast. It's LOUD. It's NO BULLSHIT....
"Een verhaaltje vertellen is een oeroude drift, maar het is helaas niet meer van deze postpostpostmoderne tijd. Om een groot publiek te bereiken moet je nu eenmaal een verhaaltje vertellen. Dat zie je ook in de gedichten van de jonge generatie van dichters. Er wordt weinig afgeweken. Maar ik wil daar resoluut van af."
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"Many say they are sorry to hear of Zbigniew Karkowsky's death. I, for one, am not.
I still hear Zbigniew's infectious laugh, hear his voice, see the sparkle of mischief in his eyes. Ripping a poster of an exhibition that my piece BLIND DATE was in off the window of a packed Yamanote-sen in Tokyo, then showing it to a suited salaryman and encouraging him to take his children to look for it in the show. Both of us laughing hysterically when the train was gone.
Zbigniew always seemed utterly without fear. His final gesture, traveling for hours in a canoe into the Amazon jungle directly after flights from Europe lasting nearly 24 hours, to be treated by a Shipbo shaman is perfectly in keeping with everything else he did. All the way, no compromise. His final wish, if the treatment failed, was to be left in the jungle to be eaten. No ceremony, no grave. If it succeeded as he hoped, he said he would bring back stories of the adventure. Somehow, I still expect to hear them.
A Karkowsky concert often meant that we would see smoke rising from the burning speakers of the overdriven PA, fumes clearing the room. As much as he seemed to enjoy it when that happened, frankly I doubt that this was ever done for effect: he simply demanded that his music be heard with the power that he intended, that he himself heard. During a residency, one of several, at The Compound in San Francisco, director Naut Humon proudly remembered that Zbigniew played lower frequencies at volumes so high that they shattered the toilet bowl. Musicians who worked with him often spoke of him with unabashed admiration, said they looked forward to a chance to do it again.
Yes, Zbigniew was often cruel when drunk, plenty of those stories to go around. So far, I have yet to meet anyone who isn't. Alcohol is a seductive, motherless bitch to anyone who lets her have her way. She slams doors of friendship shut and, under her influence, Zbigniew slammed a few more than his share.
When Zbigniew moved to Tokyo, he was fortunate enough to meet Atsuko (I never did hear her last name), who stayed together with him for fifteen years, travelled to Greece to spend a last several days together, saw him off in Paris for the flight to Peru. If she and I never meet, here I send her a huge, heartfelt Thank You.
So today, and many more days like it, will be spent thinking of that laugh, that love of entertaining friends, that cavalier and uncompromising sense of daring. One of the first phrases in Japanese that Zbigniew said he learned was 'Omanko wa oishii' -- 'Cunt is delicious'. Here, too, he was absolutely right."
(John Duncan, 13.12.2013.)
The whole idea is to play this album extremely loud with ultra powerful loudspeakers. So loud that the plaster falls off the wall. Something you can't do at home, I suppose, unless you want to rebuild your home very cheaply. I played this at low volume. The low rumble caused some anguish downstairs.
The whole piece burbles away a bit. But when you sit long enough into the music, something incredible happens around the 30th minute. The composition starts to move... Hear for yourself! Not on YT of course. The real thing. Play it really loud so the foundations of the house start to shake... That's the whole idea! Play it as loud as you can.
BJARNI GUNNARSON - Processes and Potentials (3Leaves) - Einóma man releases a very intricate and organic solo album on field recordings label 3Leaves.
DALGLISH - Niaw Ot Vile (PAN) - Chris Douglas aka O.S.T. aka Dalglish gets picked up by the PAN label for an excellent and eclectic album.
C. SPENCER YEH/OKKYUNG LEE/LASSE MARHAUG - Wake Up Awesome (Software Studio Series) -Ubercellist Okkyung Lee teams up with Yeh and Marhaug for an album that really has it all, it's funny, it's clever and it's moving.
IRA COHEN feat. TESTING VAULT - Fungoid (or the Multimedia Shamanic Poetry of Ira Cohen) (Looney-Tick Productions) - Dani from Testing Vault took some spoken word tracks by the late Ira Cohen and gave them the shruti or Coil treatment in a very respectful manner, it works and it is a nice tribute to one of the greatest poets.
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (feat ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE) - Nerve Cell_0 (for cello and computer) (Sub Rosa)- This one was lying on my desk the whole year since it came out, I even managed to play an excerpt on university radio. What can I say? The man died recently in one of these human tragedies...
XOPHER DAVIDSON + ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - Processor (Sub Rosa)- This one too to remember the late great Karkowski.
FRANCK VIGROUX - Prisme (D'Autres Cordes) - The busiest experimental musician of France got it right again with his new album. I wrote somewhere that'Ressac' feels like concrete beats falling on your head. A beast!
GINTAS K - Slow (Baskaru) - Underrated but lovely album by Lithuania's finest experimental artist.
SOLAR BEARS - Supermigration (Planet Mu) - Overlooked but brilliant album by the best Irish band of the moment.
UNSUNG MINDS - Soundpoem Remix Project feat. Tom Smith, Emmanuel Mieville, Gintas K and Dalglish (unalee.bandcamp.com).
Excerpt from the album 'Fungoid (or The Multimedia Shamanic Poetry of Ira Cohen)' by Testing Vault featuring the voice of Ira Cohen, A Looney-Tick Productions, 2013.
Lucrecia Dalt – Glosolalia (from 'Syzygy')
OHNE – Track 7 (from OHNE-1)
Scott Walker – Pilgrim (from 'Bisch Bosh')
Peter Wullen & Una Lee – Societies Rust Suns (Tom Smith rework)
Dalglish – Ciaradh (from 'Niaw Ot Vile')
Peter Wullen & Una Lee – Incestuous Sisters (Dalglish rework)
Franck Vigroux – Ressac (from 'Prisme')
Einóma – Minióma (from 'Tvenna' EP)
Bjarni Gunnarsson – Concomitance (from 'Processes and Potentials')
Bérangère Maximin & Richard Pinhas – Carnaval Cannibale (from 'No One Is An Island')
Reinaldo Laddaga – excerpt from 'Things a mutant needs to know' (from Unsounds book + 2xCD)
Linea Aspera – Kinabalu (from 'II' EP)
Francisco Lopez & Reinier Van Houdt – Untitled #275 (Movement 1)
Zbigniew Karkowski – Nerve Cell (feat Anton Lukoszevieze)(excerpt from 'Nerve Cell_0)
Gintas K – Reik (from 'Slow')
Dajuin Yao – Words without a song (feat Jerlian Tsao) (from 'Cinnabar Red Drizzle')
Dj Cheb I Sabbah & Ira Cohen – Song to Nothing / Letter to Caliban / End of a Line (from 'The Majoon Traveler')
T/SMS – Unreleased (from the forthcoming T/SMS album)
Phill Niblock – Feedcorn Ear (featuring Arne Deforce) (from 'Touch 5')
broadcast dedicated to the memory of Ira Cohen and DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Lucrecia Dalt's music might sound frail and fragile at first listen but titles and lyrics are full of references to art, literature and films. Like a philosophy student dabbling with music. You don't need to know all that though to enjoy her soundscapes. Here's 'Inframince' from her new album 'Syzygy'.
