Hey friends
There's a new Cacoy video online at www.rumraket.net. The song is called Mo ma W Maw and the direct link is: http://www.rumraket.net/Cacoy-Mo_ma_W_Maw.mov - it's 36Mb so it can take some minutes to load depending on your connection.
I hope you like the video and if you're a writer of any kind and wish to mention this video somewhere then be kind to credit UFX (www.ufx.dk) who are the friendly and talented guys from Copenhagen & Aarhus, Denmark behind the video.
The Mo ma W Maw song is from the album Human Is Music that's just been released in Scandianvia, Benelux and the UK, plus digitally in the rest of Europe. Cacoy are Saya and Ueno from Tenniscoats and DJ Klock. Their album is a sparkling beauty of strange pop. It takes you from processed sounds and cut-up guitar pieces, to almost trippy underwater hip-hop played with found sounds in a very personal, melodic and organic way.
The album was originally released in Japan in 2003 on Clockwise Records, and is now available in Europe via the little label, Rumraket, that's owned and run by the Danish band Efterklang. This marks the second release on Rumraket and we hope that people will welcome it as warmly as they did our first release, Grizzly Bear's Horn of Plenty.
There have already been some really nice reviews. All of them can be seen at rumraket.net.
Flux Magazine said: "For lovers of eccentric beauty everywhere!"
Angry Ape said: "Human is Music is a glorious escape into broken pop, trip-hoppy beats and easy electronica!"
New-Noise.net said: "Human Is Music by Cacoy is a treat to listen to!"
Take care and thank you!
Rasmus
(Rumraket & Efterklang)
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John Chantler will be presenting a one hour radio special on upstart electronic label of the moment, ::room40::. The programme will be broadcast this coming Monday April 3rd for Frequenzen on ResonanceFM. The show goes out from 10.30pm on 104.4FM (Central London) or online via www.resonancefm.com
The programme will feature upcoming new releases, out of print limited editions and some words from label boss Lawrence English.
Future editions of the programme will feature specials on Lampse and First Person and a live session from Greg Davis & Sebastian Roux.
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Hello everybody
If you like, you can watch our new video for our single, Tricycle here.
It's a stop-frame animation directed by Thorsten Levin who also directed
About Fun. It tells the story of a mouse smitten with a disinterested
bear. As with all Psapp videos, it features some cat drawings by me, too.
Love Gal xxxxxx
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Murcof has won the award for 'Most Promising Artist' at this year's French Quartz Awards. You can find more info here: www.quartz.org
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In a slight return to its roots, The Leaf Label has relocated to Yorkshire:
Horsforth near Leeds to be precise.
Leaf founder Tony Morley is a Yorkshireman born and bred, so it was only a
matter of time before he returned to the motherland...
The new address for demos, etc, is as follows:
The Leaf Label Ltd
PO Box 272
Leeds
LS19 9BP
United Kingdom
Also, the US office address has been changed to:
The Leaf Label US
336 State Street
Top Floor
Brooklyn
NY 11217-1707
United States
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For those of you in London this weekend, we will be popping along to the In The Pines afternoon session at The Harrison on Sunday. Full details are here:
http://www.inthepines.org/
We are also pleased to announce that we have signed a deal with Peacefrog Records, who look after Jose Gonzalez amongst others, to release our next album Apron Strings. We are really looking forward to working with them and will have news of releases soon. Peacefrog will be handling the release around the World with the exception of North America, where we will be hooking up with Dichristina Stairway, who also release records by Vashti Bunyan and Vetiver.
all the best
Stephen
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volcano!'s debut album, Beautiful Seizure, will finally be in UK shops in next week (March 20). Following three shows at SXSW later this week, the group embark on an East Coast US tour in April, and are currently planning a UK (and hopefully mainland Europe) tour for May. Leaf will release a limited edition 7" single featuring a newly recorded Otis Redding cover version around the time of the UK tour.
www.volcanoisaband.com
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K&A (Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies of Project Dark) will perform 'Sonic Knitwear Live', supporting The Tiger Lillies and Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten) and Mountains of Madness as part of Ether 2006, on Friday 17 March 2006, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1. Doors open 7.15pm, K&A onstage 7.45pm
more information and tickets at http://www.rfh.org.uk/main/events/113759.html
PROJECT DARK are working on a new live CMN project: The Photophonic Experiment. A collaboration with Birmingham's finest purveyors of lunar exotica: PRAM and twisted high-voltage mechanical music makers: BLISSBODY, the project will tour the UK in the Autumn and will be accompanied by a new album release. More information soon. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/aboutus/project_detail.php?sid=16&id=439&page=3
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THE MEMORY BAND live image
Just a reminder that we will be taking the full band down to City Folk this coming Sunday. Also on the bill are Piano (ex Hank Dogs), Alexander Tucker and Matt Stravick. It starts at 7 and is a mere £3 so we hope to see you there.
We've confirmed that we will be appearing at this year's Big Chill festival and we will be announcing some exciting news about our new album very shortly.There are more details of forthcoming shows on our website and our myspace page which has been updated with some new recordings which we hope you will enjoy.
We are looking for an extra percussionist to join our live show, so if you know anyone send them our way!
all the best
Stephen
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Due to an unfortunate turn of circumstances, involving database corruption, the pinkflag mailing list & backup files have become unreadable so unfortunately we are going to have to rebuild the list from scratch.
Signing up is simple. There is a page about it here alongside an archive of past mailings so you can see what you get!
Thankyou for you continuing support & patience.
Colin Newman
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This month will see boy genius Klaus Ammitzboll taking his Symptoms project out on tour with critically acclaimed Danish prog rockers MEW.
The Dates are as follows.
MARCH 2006 ~
12th: Helsinki House Of Culture (Finland)
13th: Helsinki House Of Culture (Finland)
15th: GothenburgTrädgår'n (Sweden)
20th: Stockholm Fryshuset (Sweden)
21st: Oslo Rockefeller (Norway)
22nd: Oslo Rockefeller (Norway)
23rd: Trondheim Studentersamfundet (Norway)
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Eh, it's all heating up now!
We're very excited about Marshall Watson's first UK trip, he's going to be arriving next Monday, and on Tuesday, we'll be hosting his live show at the first of our Not Clickable events for 2006. With Expanding Records' Stendec, Audiobulb's Calika on the bill, and Remote_ from Smallfish DJing also, its going to be an amazing evening of headmashingly technologi-ca-cal electronics and minimal glitch-tech noise! A rather spiffing flyer can be found at: http://highpointlowlife.com/notclickable.php
We've got a whole lot of other shows coming up this month also... randomNumber is continuing his run of UK shows with gigs in Glasgow, and
Liverpool; Bovaflux is down in Brighton next Friday for a Wrong Music ext-rave-aganza alongside Toecutter, DJ Floorclearer, Mully and many more. Later in the month is Bleepfest at Christchurch Spitalfields, which promises to be a really fun and original event (interviews with some of the artists involved at
http://mstation.org/bleepfest_interviews.php) You'll find links and more details of all shows on our homepage over at http://highpointlowlife.com ( the site should also now display properly in Internet Exporer. *shakes fist!* damn Microsoft!)
On the release front, you should find randomNumber's Golden Acre Sleeps pretty much everywhere now, including iTunes, Warpmart and Boomkat. ("the kind of beat-heavy laptop symphonies that up the ante for atmospheric digitalis." Boomkat)
The fetchingly coy Fisk Industries 10" is pressed up, release date April 24th, but now available for purchase from the UK's top shops - PostEverything, Smallfish, Norman Records, Phonica and Rub-a-Dub. They've all had a few nice words to say about it:
"Atmospheres are dense and superbly implemented and, to be honest, this
is the sort of music you wish Skam would do, but don't see to manage any
more." Smallfish
"This beautifully artworked 10" is filled to the brim with warm analog
electronic sounds that have been exquisitely mastered by the mighty
Twerk. Wicked!" Phonica
Sample a taster track at:
http://highpointlowlife.com/downloads/fiskindustries_moieties_pt2.mp3
Izu's masterpiece of fucked-up beats and industrial sized melody is also pressed up now and in our hands - "Going Salamander". We literally received that at the weekend and have yet to get it into any stores, but expect it on PostEverything and at Smallfish by the weekend. You'll also find a track from the album on the covermount CD of the new issue of ace Scottish music mag Is This Music?
What else have we got to report? We're mostly busy working on all these new releases, which will be coming out in a steady stream between now and the end of summer. They're almost all ready to go, so its just a case of timing their releases so they arent competing with each other. Looks like the release/pressing order is going to be:
Like A Stuntman - Stan Places 10" and CDEP
Mandelbrot Set - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated CD album
Marshall Watson - Math And Other Word Problems CD album
Marcia Blaine School For Girls - not yet titled CD album
Tigrics - Synking CD album
And then, *drum roll *** ... the 7" boxset we keep promising - "The (Commercially Suicidal) Beautiful Tactile Objects Series" - well, we can finally reveal the final lineup...
Leafcutter John
Die Munch Machine
Jefre-Cantu Ledesma
Mandelbrot Set
Bugs Eat Books
n.Ln
Tarentel
Hard to guestimate, but I would imagine it should be due for around October or November...
OK, take care and hope to see you out at one of the upcoming shows...
-Highpoint Lowlifers...
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March 2006
Hello
The months speed past as always, seemingly faster and faster, though the climate confuses too, as if it’s autumn in London already. I have just returned from the rather glacial minus twenty-degree temperature of Minneapolis where I performed at the Spark Festival alongside the legendary figure of Alvin Lucier, which was very agreeable, and a chance to shop until I dropped at the Mall of America, the tackiest and allegedly biggest shopping mall in the world. My feet cannot disagree with that idea.
And as the days grow lighter and hence longer, my Night Haunts project, (nighthaunts.org.uk), continues to explore the underbelly of the city at night. This month, it will explore the Night Cleaners, as my collaborator Sukhdev Sandhu writes:
“The night cleaners of London don’t think of themselves as cleaners. They’re sure, or at least they fervently hope, that stooping for a living while the rest of the city sleeps is just a temporary phase...Cleaners strive to make early-commute Londoners think that there has been an overnight snowstorm. Every day should be a new day, a tabula rasa rather than a palimpsest. They try to abolish all traces of the previous day. If the city is a text, then cleaners do their best to erase the jottings and doodles that have been inscribed on it.“
Launching on 11 March, this next episode continues this yearlong project in collaboration with Artangel.
My work will also be featured this month as part of scopeNewYork fair, at the Armory, which runs March 10-13, 2006. The mission of -scope art fair inc.(www.scope-art.com) is to demystify the buying process of contemporary art by producing international art fairs that nurture cutting-edge art and emerging culture. The fairs bring together up-and-coming dealers, curators and artists in a relaxed atmosphere. The exhibitions, in combination with -scope Programs (e.g., Cinema-scope, -scopeSound, panel discussions, Performance-scope), cultivate a unique forum for contemporary art and emerging culture.
In collaboration with free103point9.org, a special space will be located where a narrow hallway will display prints representing each artist as well as the Dispatch Series and other multiple items (CD, DVD, LPs, etc.) A single radio frequency will transmit live performances as well as prerecorded works by the Transmission Artists to radios throughout the fair. Additionally the shuttles transporting people from the Armory will be tuned to the free103point9 frequency, so there’ll be no escaping the exploratory radio works of various artists.
Recently I’ve been occupied coding and uploading my back catalogue to iTunes as well, so it will soon be an opportunity to pick up some very rare and many unreleased gems from the past, as well as the earliest Scanner recordings, with those controversial and often perverse scanned phone calls. There is a massive archive of material that has never otherwise been available, live albums, collaborations, one-off 7” singles, compilation tracks, etc that will be made available for download, so keep checking back to see what’s available.
I’m just off to Milano Italy this weekend to play as part of the amusingly titled Alvin Curran Filharmonia in collaboration with Alvin Curran and DJ Olive, with the enticing title of “Scelsi incontra Luc Ferrari da King Kong,” our tribute to the playful master of musique concrete Luc Ferrari, who passed away last year. Some guaranteed laughter there!
A busy month ahead too, premiering a new commission for /slab in the UK, Passing Beneath the Surface, which will re-imagine the City of Sunderland through archive recordings of its history, performing the works of Salvatore Sciarrino with contemporary ensemble Alter Ego and motion graphics artists D-Fuse in Lisbon, and continuing to work on this new British horror film Reverb amongst other things.
Meanwhile in the heady and glammy world of Rock ‘n Roll, Githead was recently praised by eminent critic Greil Marcus in the Village Voice in NYC, voting us in at Number 8 in his Top Ten favourite albums of 2005. Amazing J
www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop05/ballots.php?cid=302
And with deadlines in my sight, I pass along to other things…
Best wishes
Robin Rimbaud
::: listen :::
Thomas Stronen: Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)
DJ Olive: Heaps As, Live in Tasmania (theAgriculture)
Psapp: The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (Domino)
Thee More Shallows: Monkey Vs Shark (Monotreme)
::: read :::
Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations (JRP/Ringier)
M/M Paris: Inventory (Haunch of Venison)
Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book (TB A21)
Ali Smith: The Accidental (Hamish Hamilton)
::: film:::
Exotica, Atom Egoyan, Canada
Capote, Bennett Miller, USA
Favela Rising, Jeff Zimbarlist, USA
Mirror Mask, Dave McKean, UK
::: Diary Dates :::
2006
01 March-Lecture Middlesex University UK
04 March-Alvin CurranFilharmonia: Teatro Arcimboldo Milan Italy
10 March-Lecture: Chester University UK
14-19 March-Nemesis/Random Dance soundtrack: Adelaide Festival Australia
15 March-Scanner Scans Sciarrino: Lisbon Portugal
17 March-Lecture: Bath University UK
22 March-Nemesis/Random Dance soundtrack: Melbourne Australia
30 March-S-Lab: Performance Sunderland City UK
29 April-Threshold: E:vent East London UK
03 May-Parallax Beat Brothers: The Sage Gateshead UK
04 May-Parallax Beat Brothers: Norfolk & Norwich Festival UK
05 May-Parallax Beat Brothers: South Hill Park Bracknell UK
10 May-Parallax Beat Brothers: The Junction Cambridge UK
19 & 20 May-Move3: Under the Influence Conference: New York City USA
03 June-Les Territoires Electroniques: Aix-en-Provence France
17 June-09 July- Time_Place_Space Laboratory: Brisbane Australia
24 June-Occasional Offices: BBC Radio 3
21 July-31 July-Wave Farm Residency Greene Country New York
29 July-Wave Farm Green County NY USA
24 August-Waves: RIXC Riga Latvia
02-07 Nov-Ground Control: Copenhagen Denmark
30 Nov-Parallax Beat Brothers: Colchester Arts Centre UK
Exhibitions
What Sound Does A Color Make?
Centre for Art & Visual Culture
University of Maryland
Baltimore MD USA
27 January - 07 April 2006
The premiere of What Sound Does a Color Make? features contemporary and historical works by an internationally diverse group of artists who manipulate sound with image and image with sound. The show includes artists who likewise use technology to inspire a renewed consciousness of highly un-technological experiences -- physicality, human cognition, and perception. Featuring work by Scott Arford, Jim Campbell, D-Fuse with Scanner, Granular Synthesis, Gary Hill, Atau Tanaka, Stephen Vitiello, Nam June Paik and others.
What Sound Does a Color Make? is a travelling exhibition (2005-2007) organised & circulated by iCi, curated by Kathleen Forde.
www.eyebeam.org
www.ici-exhibitions.org
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
04 February 2006 – 04 February 2007
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site. If you would like to be kept informed as each episode is posted, join artangel‘s mailing list by clicking here.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
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Just added to the site are some choice releases from the Rhymesayers & Nature Sounds catalogues... damn fine hip hop from Boom Bap Project, Grayskul, Masta Killa and, in several guises, MF DOOM. More coming soon.
Some serious music. Enjoy.
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