Well sort of. volcano! proved their true worth as a rock band with two impromptu performances in Paris during their European tour this summer.
Captured on video and posted on the excellent La Blogothèque website, The Leaf Label have only just unearthed this extraordinary rendition of 'La Lluvia' (from the album Beautiful Seizure), and felt they needed to share it with you.
The other video is an ad-libbed number, thought to be a musical match report on the France v Togo World Cup game. You can find the clips at La Blogothèque, and also, predictably enough, at YouTube.
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Hello everyone
Just to let you know you can find me at the rather more sensible www.myspace.com/scanner URL so please update your links, browers, connections, etc so you can always find me there in future.
Best wishes
Robin Rimbaud
Scanner
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Efterklang have finished a mini-album of five new songs... 30 minutes of entirely new music.
They're taking a short breather and will soon resume work on their new full length album. The mini-album and full length won't share any songs on their track-listings, so there is a lot of new Efterklang music coming your way in 2007.
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Rumraket have uploaded "Piracle Pa" by Cacoy as a free mp3 to their server at www.rumraket.net
The track appears on the brilliant Human is Music album, released February 2006. You can download the song here.
Enjoy!
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Dan Snaith of Caribou (formerly Manitoba) will be DJing at long time friend Kieran Hebdon/Four Tet's show at Plastic People on Oct 5th in London.
Unfortunately, Four Tet being as popular as he is, the show is already sold out but if you have a ticket you'll be pleased to know you're getting more bang for your buck.
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Triosk's acclaimed second album, The Headlight Serenade, will be released in Japan on 21 October as a special edition double CD. The second disc features six stunning live tracks from Triosk's recent session for Australia's national broadcaster ABC, four of which are new tracks and otherwise unavailable.
Outside of Japan, this edition will be available exclusively from PostEverything, while the six tracks will be available as a download exclusively from iTunes.
"At last, a jazz album which reflects the momentous impact that new technology has had on our lives"
The Observer
"A slowly unwinding, shimmering set of lethal beauty"
Sydney Morning Herald
"hovers beguilingly in the formless spaces between ambient music, electric jazz and electronica"
The Guardian
Triosk's Website
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Comets on Fire are playing a handful of live dates in Ireland and the UK in October. Dates as follows:
October 6th London @ The ICA
October 7th Nottingham – venue TBC
October 8th Glasgow @ Monno
October 10th Galway @ Roisin
October 11th Belfast @ Black Box
October 12th Dublin @ Whelans
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Wire - Early
Fresh Air, on America's National Public Radio, broadcast a feature today on Wire's early years, concentrating on PostEverything's chart topping WIRE: 1977-1979 box set.
The feature, put together by NPR's rock historian Ed Ward, is archived on the NPR website.
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Cecile Schott, aka Colleen, now has an official MySpace page where you can listen to tracks from all her releases, including the forthcoming 'Colleen Et Les Boites A Musique' EP. There was a fan page on MySpace (which made no mention of the fact that it was unofficial, and that no messages would reach Cecile), so if you were signed up to that you may wish to visit the new page and get yourself added. The new page will feature regular news updates.
'Colleen Et Les Boites A Musique' hits the shops on October 2nd, and is comprised of 14 short pieces created using only music boxes, originally commissioned by France Culture's Atelier De Création Radiophonique. The CD will be available at a special low price, and includes a video by Jon Nordstrom for 'I'll Read You A Story' from Colleen's The Golden Morning Breaks album.
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Hello everyone!
My band is doing a free show this at Zentrale Randlage, at Schönhauser Allee 172, Berlin. We'll play at exactly 11pm, so get there on time, eh?
Oh, and it's FREE, and it's relaxed, and the drinks are cheap, and it'll all be friends and good times, so why the hell not, right? Please pass the word to your friends and bring some people eh? This is the reason why we live here, right?
Hope to see you Thursday!
Jason Forrest
(aka Donna Summer)
The venue site/maps:
www.zentrale-randlage.de
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27#11
The latest version of Graham Lewis' (of Wire) He Said, 27/11, continues it's monthly residency at the Notting Hill Arts Club on Monday 25th.Sept.
27/11 will open the evening approx. 21.30 and be followed by fellow Swedish residents Sci-Fi SKANE.
The first 27/11 release will be "Were Ever/Oh How To Do Now" a track on the tribute double CD for the legendary Monks, "Silver Monk Time" released by Play Loud! (Ger), in support of the documentary film "The Trans-Atlantic Feedback", others contributing include The Fall, Faust, Chicks on Speed, Alexander Hacke, Mouse on Mars and Jon Spencer.
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Rhymesayers Entertainment have artists nominated for the Minnesota Music Awards (MMAs) and Atmosphere has been nominated for "Woodie Of The Year" at the MTV Woodie Awards too.
Wanna vote for Atmosphere? You can vote as many times as you like via woodies.mtvu.com - Just click on the "VOTE NOW!" image, then click on the red vote box to vote for your favorite artist in each catagory... You're required to vote for all catagories in order for your vote to be submitted.
At the MMAs several Rhymesayers artists have been nominated. Here's the run down of nominations by category:
Hip Hop Artist/Group
Atmosphere
Brother Ali
P.O.S.
Hip Hop Recording
P.O.S. - Audition
I Self Devine - Self Destruction
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Nationally Released Recording
P.O.S. - Audition
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Song Writer Of The Year
Stef Alexander (P.O.S.)
Song Of The Year
"P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life" - P.O.S.
"Smart Went Crazy" - Atmosphere
Artist/Group Of The Year
Atmosphere
P.O.S.
Latin Artist/Group
Los Nativos
Minnesota Music Media - Online
Dunation.com
The 26th Annual MMA's show info:
Sunday, October 1, 2006
FIRST AVENUE
701 First Avenue N
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Doors @ 6:00pm/Show @ 6:30pm
$10/$12 18+
To see all nominations check out www.minnesotamusicacademy.org
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THE MEMORY BAND live at the ICA 23rd September CHILD
A reminder that next Saturday The Memory Band will be popping along to the ICA on the Mall to perform live at their regular Roots & Shoots event, supported by James Raynard and Paul the Girl. It should be a great event. Full details can be found here.
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Psapp's "Hi" has been nominated for best animated video for this years MTVU Woodie Awards.
They say:
Best Video Woodie Animated (Best Animated Video)
The music video that makes all of your favorite Sunday cartoons look foolish.
Nominees:
Against Me - From Her Lips to God's Ears (Fat Wreck Chords)
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Downtown / Atlantic Records)
Gorillaz - El Manana (Virgin Records)
Mark Ronson - Just (!K7 / Rapster Records)
Psapp - Hi (Domino Records)
Here's the blurb:
The 2006 mtvU Woodie Awards will debut on November 2nd at 8pm ET and mark a significant multi-platform milestone, as the show premieres simultaneously on mtvU, mtvU.com and mtvU Mobile, as well as Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs and Media Center Extenders including the Xbox 360. Timed to the simulcast, the entire show will also premiere on demand at mtvU.com giving viewers the power to experience every moment in whatever order they wish, remix it, save it to their setlist and e-mail it to their friends. In addition, for the first time, a special half-hour version of the Woodies will also air on MTV and MTV2, with the MTV premiere set for November 4th at 10pm ET, and an encore performance on MTV2 scheduled for November 5th at 11pm ET.
You can watch the full video here:
www.youtube.com
or here:
www.ifilm.com
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Eric Scott has kindly updated his Swim~ classic screen savers. Based on original Swim~ graphics and featuring the classic 12" series these screen savers are a real treat for anyone using Mac OS X or OS9 or Windows XP/2003/ME/2000. We'll get round to putting up a preview page on the Swim~ site but those who fancy can download them directly from here:
MAC
WINDOWS
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Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) has assembled a band for recording and performing... At the moment it's just called "The Jason Forrest Band", and while they know this sounds lame, they're too busy to think up something better. It's a power rock trio; Ethan Schaffner on guitar, Elisabeth King on keyboards, and Jason on Laptop and - get ready- vocals.
Jason is writing the music and continues down the musical path he's established with his past 2 releases on Sonig, "Shamelessly Exciting" and "...Post Disco Crash", with the new music being a bit more prog/hiphop/rock sounding. That's actually a bad description, but guaranteed it realy rocks. Anyway, they're busy making a demo now and it's possible that an Mp3 will be available in the near future.
The band will begin it's live adventures starting on Sept 17th with a show in Berlin with Austrian singer Gustav as special guest. Then the band will do a US tour in mid-October and early November, around the CMJ fest in NYC. If you want to book them for an amazing show, get in touch at cockrockdisco@gmail.com
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Cock Rock Disco and Load Records (home to the likes of Yellow Swans, Noxagt, Kites, Khanate and, of course, Lightning Bolt) will team up to make a collaborative CMJ party in NYC on Nov 2nd. No more details at the moment but that's gonna be one hell of a party...
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XLR8R have named Cock Rock Disco among their top 25 indy labels on the planet. Others in there are such little labels as Sub-Pop, Domino, Sublight, and DFA... no bad, eh? Now let the buying frenzy commence! Haha
Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) himself is on the COVER of fancy French art mag Art Press. It's on the magazine stands now... Look in the art section... Granted, theres about 60 words total about him in there, but he's still on the fucking cover, holmes.
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You can watch an extremely drunken interview with Psapp at www.toazted.com.
Gal passed out immediately after filming.
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::Highpoint Lowlife September 2006 Newsletter::
aii-ght!
Loads of releases and free mp3 goodness for you this month...
Releases:::::
Marshall Watson and Mandelbrot Set CDs should be in stores in a few weeks, tho as ever, you can pick them up now direct from us via our store at www.posteverything.com.
We've had a couple of early reviews on those:
*Marshall Watson - Math and Other Word Problems [hpll019]*
"Wrapped in gentle dub, crisp minimal techno and lush electronica, Watson's compositions become wonderfully fluid and evocative as he punctuates this album with cinematic moments and intricate sequences. While Watson's debut album was a rather promising offering, Math And Other Word Problems steps up the mark and delivers with every track. His focus is much clearer and concise, and the delivery much more polished and full of class."
The Milk Factory Blog
*Mandelbrot Set - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated [hpll021]*
"Mandelbrot Set is a drone rock band, playing walls of sound, employing all the pedals required (mainly live sampling and overdubbing the guitars) and furious drums banging beneath. Whatever Melisa adds is around this: her sounds become the pictures on this wall of sound. Stoner rock? Shoegazing? It's all there, but Mandelbrot Set gets away with it. Of course because they do something entirely different than 90% of the acts usually to be found on this label, but also because they play a dam fine tune, not caring about any hype or trend, they do their own thing, and at such perhaps not so new under the sun, but I thoroughly enjoyed it, just because it was so different. Great, furious one."
Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly
You can download a track from each at:
marshallwatson_ruleoffalsepositions.mp3
mandelbrotset_rocketsredglare.mp3
And also listen to full streaming previews of the albums at last.fm:
Marshall Watson - Math and Other Word Problems
Mandelbrot Set - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated
Two new free web releases updated on the site this week:
* v/a - The Ice Depositates EP [hpw021]
Three tracks of dark nasty electronics from Fisk Industries, Bovaflux and randomNumber. These three tracks were compiled together to form our inclusion in the recent Robots And Electronic Brains covermount disc, which is still available (and with some ace music from other labels also), but we thought we'd also offer mp3 versions on the site, to reach a wider base of fans.
Download page at http://highpointlowlife.com
Track Listing is:
01 - Fisk Industries - The Azimuth At Zero Degrees
02 - Bovaflux - Blind (Grime Mix)
03 - randomNumber - Thoughts So Loud You Can Hear Them
And, oo, this next one is an interesting one, our new signing from Nottingham. Not the happiest kid in the world, kicked out of school at 15, and works literally in a mcjob at Burger King's. He got started making music about a year ago when he got access to the computers in the internet cafe where his friend works. Since then, in his after work hours, he's been busily knocking out his angry paens... Jamie Edwards, aka Broken Future presents here, his debut recordings:
*Broken Future - Statis [hpw022]
01 - Stasis
02 - Creeper
Download page at http://www.highpointlowlife.com
Live News::::::::
Coming up this week, Keung will be playing a show at Bardens, in London, with his solo project, Mandelbrot, trying not to drink to much before the show so he can remember in what order he's meant to use his 27 guitar pedals! Also on the bill are Small Town Boredom and Rothko.
Upcoming Releases:::::::
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls' debut full length, Halfway Into The Woods, has been through the Twerk/Audibleoddities magic treatment stage and is sounding absolutely perfect. We'll be finishing up artwork and sending that off for pressing in the near future.
Coming up just before that, we're be releasing our first digital-only paid download release, available through all online download stores. This is a stunning collection of exclusive tracks from each of our artists and a few friends, coming in at a whopping 1.7 hours worth of music.
Tracklisting is :
v/a - Analog For Architecture
(Brutalist)
1 - Fisk Industries - Into The Lungs
2 - The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Faulty Perceptual Apparatus
3 - Production Unit - Panatone
4 - Izu - Twinge
(Deconstructivist)
5 - Mandelbrot - Effect / Delay
6 - Calika - The Nervous Bird
7 - Rose And Sandy - Map One
8 - The Village Orchestra - ALA
(Expressionist)
9 - Tigrics - Dalston Kingsland Bonus Chicken
10 - Bovaflux - Bleak
11 - Marshall Watson - Walkding Down To Teletubby Park
12 - Like A Stuntman - Japanese, Japan
(Metabolist)
13 - n.Ln - Queen Of the Moths
14 - Matthew Rozeik - Laugh It OFf
15 - randomNumber - RG Smash
16 - Achrid - Morello
17 - Si-cut.db - Estuary
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thanks!
till next month...
Highpoint Lowlifers.
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Club Kama Aina, the fifth album from talented Japanese solo artist Kama Aina, will be released across Europe on November 6th on the Efterklang driven label Rumraket.
The album was recorded, mainly, in Tokyo and Glasgow and features guest appearances by such luminaries of Scottish music as Bill Wells, Isobel Campbell and The Pastels. You can download a song from the album at www.rumraket.net.
Takuji Aoyagi, the man behind Kama Aina, lives in Tokyo where he, together with Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Tenniscoats, is one of the main figures in the gleaming, innocent, and often heartbreaking, Japanese DIY folk-pop scene. Kama Aina's contribution to the scene is an organic and harmonic, yet peculiar and indefinable form of music. An intriguing beauty. In 2004 Kama Aina released Music Activist, on Geographic/Domino, a compilation of, and a great introduction to, early works.
Club Kama Aina will be released on CD and digital download. Visit www.rumraket.net for more information about Kama Aina and a good selection of downloads.
Out now on Rumraket:
Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty
debut album with a bonus remix cd
Cacoy - Human is Music
trio of Tenniscoats and DJ Klock - highly recommended
Upcoming Rumraket shows:
23 SEPTEMBER
LAB - Komponent, Copenhagen:
DJ Klock with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and The Dead Scientist
10 OCTOBER
Huset i Magstraede, Copenhagen:
Tenniscoats with Tape and Ass
NOVEMBER Scandinavia:
Grizzly Bear - dates coming soon
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ADAADAT's Horatio Pollard is part of the line up for the Summer Go Bye Bye all-nighter later this month.
Summer Go Bye Bye is an all night end of Summer party curated by the Cacophonic Organisation. Live acts, DJs and laptop sets in a beautiful underground venue with garden. It happens on 16th September 2006 from 9pm - 9am.
The following acts will feature (amongst others)...
Trencher
- a masterful grasp of structure, an articulation to their chaos that is hard to argue with. And to counterbalance the heaviest, sludgiest sawtooth bass guitar there are 'House Of Horrors' keyboards: cute little stabs of Casio; clean and direct frequencies, foregrounded and hilarious. Trencher are all about surreal. It's like post-everything ridicule of every aspect of not only rock music but also our mundane little world.
Agaskodo Teliverek
- mixing trashy jazz guitar leads with twisted electronic hard-rock jungle-bebop breakbeats and any vocals he can rope in his mad circle of friends to
contribute. Producing this musical comedy-filth since 2003, the Accountant began his live performance career playing alongside Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert and Ceephax Acid Crew at one of Seed Records' famous Aldwych Tube Station parties. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, playing with DJ /rupture, DAT Politics, Donna Summer, Hrvatski and Lightning Bolt.
Screaming Tea Party
- Psychedelic punk with lashings of effects one minute and stripped down cute melodies the next. Male and female counterpoint vocals. Beautiful. You
can read more about them here (ctrl+F Screaming Tea Party).
Dr Filth
- Angular guitar based 3 piece band, who have played with Mystery Jets in recent times. If Jimi Hendrix was in the Dead Kennedys, it would probably sound like this...
AManANIMAL
- Two piece song based band. Fast tempos quiet-loud dynamics with
improvisations. Recent ResonanceFM improv performances have seen them
taking to a rotating extra musician to give each performance a unique improvised section. Think Nirvana/Sonic Youth at drum'n'bass tempos.
Horatio Pollard
- Intelligent, intelligable noise. Horatio has played with Lightning Bolt and Hair Police amongst others. "Like acid, this is fast and exhilarating stuff, with a lot of vaguely comical, up beat and quirky melodies utilised."
16/09/06
9pm - 9am
£8/7 entry
Vertigo,
485 Grove Green Road,
Leytonstone
E11 4AA
http://cacophonic.org
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This Friday (tommorrow) sees a handful of ADAADAT artists grace an evening of musical artistry and entertainment, courtesy of Wonktronica at the Corsica Studios.
Silverlink, Ommm, Romvelope and Xylitol are all playing live alongside Trencher and a host of others from giants of entertainment such as Guns & Horses, Cock Rock Disco, Wrong and much much more across 3 seperate rooms at South Londons fashionable Corsica Studios!
08.09.06
Wonktronica
Corsica Studios,
Arches 4/5 Elephant Road,
Elephant & Castle,
London
£5 entry before 11pm and £7 after.
Silverlink,
Romvelope,
Ommm,
Trencher,
Xylitol,
Guns'N'Horses,
Pisstank,
DJ Wrongspeed,
Mr. Hopkinsons Computer,
Liberation Jumpsuit
and far too many more for me to bother including here.
Visuals are from weirdcore.
We suggest you visit www.wonktronica.com for the full line-up.
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Cecile Schott (aka Colleen) is to tour Japan for the first time in October.
Japanese label Windbell will release a special 2CD package to coincide with
the tour, including Colleen's 2005 album The Golden Morning Breaks as well as the new Colleen Et Les Boites a Musique EP. The Japanese 2CD will not include any new music, but will feature new packaging. The tour dates, from October 28 to November 4, can be found below:
Saturday 28 October 2006
Black Chamber, Osaka, JAPAN with Bridget St John, Kama Aina, Moose Hill &
Yuko Ikoma
Sunday 29 October 2006
Urbanguild, Kyoto, JAPAN with Bridget St John, Kama Aina & Moose Hill
Tuesday 31 October 2006
Tokuzo, Nagoya, JAPAN with Bridget St John, Kama Aina & Moose Hill
Friday 3 November 2006
Asakusa Art Square, Tokyo, JAPAN with Bridget St John, Kama Aina & Moose
Hill
Saturday 4 November 2006
Asakusa Art Square, Tokyo, JAPAN with Bridget St John, Kama Aina & Moose
Hill
www.colleenplays.org
www.windbell.info
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Dear all the people who are reading this,
Our video Hi will air on MTV2's Subterranean this Sunday at 1AM (GMT). The show is all new videos that have never before played on Sub or MTV2 and The New Pornographers will be the guest. Maybe there will be footage of cats mating. Check it out online at www.sub.MTV2.com.
Carim and I made a new song yesterday about ghosts and sidecars.
love
Gal xx
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September 2006
Hello
With the skies getting darker and rainfall on the horizon I’ve been fortunate to spend much of the past working month in the outdoors sunshine, and indeed the month began and closed around the theme of nature.
August began in collaboration with musician, composer, author and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg who plays clarinet with a band of birds and crickets and writes thoughtfully on the deep connections between humans and the natural world. I’d recommend his book ‘Why Birds Sing’ for an engaging and amusingly educational exploration of this very phenomenon, which the BBC are adapting for television broadcast and hence our collaboration, improvising around English bird song. Stay tuned for the broadcast and possible live performances later on.
Jumping forward the month closed with discussions about re-designing the sound world of the Coney Island Aquarium in New York, so let’s see where the whales and dolphins will take us all on this adventure.
In between this my work has taken me from outdoor musical festivals to the South of France, from recordings of Vietnam traditional dance to climbing mountains in North Wales in epic nine-hour bursts. I’m currently developing a new project for October 2006 to celebrate the anniversary of French artist Paul Cezanne, the extraordinary Impressionist painter who spent much of his life in Aix-en-Provence, and as such was drawn to the area to research and develop ideas. I was fortunate enough to get to visit Cezanne’s studio, his old lodgings, his summer house and the countryside, with rolling mountains and glorious views across the valleys. In such a picturesque environment one loses track of time and can easily become hooked on the hypnotic pleasure of sitting on a rock towering above the land and simply watching the world barely pass by.
I’d recommend any visitors also take a look at the Vasarely Foundation, a building that is a work of art in itself, built in 1976 and inspired by Bauhaus architecture, formed out of 16 impressive hexagonal units. Inside are 42 impressively monumental works by the artist Vasarely, the father of ‘cinetism,’ with works that constantly trick your eye in optical illusions. Colour, shape, materials conspire to produce an amazingly disorienting effect, an intelligently clean way of getting high without risk!
From France to Latvia, for the opening of WAVES at the Latvian National Museum of Art, where I was invited to install work and perform a concert at the opening. Organised by the dynamic team at RIXC in Riga, this exhibition and festival was conceived as a large-scale exhibition that looks at electromagnetic waves as the principle material - the medium - of media art. The WAVES exhibition itself brings together about 40 international works of (media) art by 70 artists from 18 different countries, in which electromagnetic waves are seen not just as carriers of information, but as the material and/or theme of the artwork. I was honoured to show work alongside such inspiring artists as Anthony McCall, Paul de Marini, Marko Peljhan, Radioqualia, Farmersmanual, Jay Needham, and then to perform with Atau Tanaka and Jacob Kirkegaard. The interruption of a stripping woman and man, naked in the audience, was enough to distract poor Jacob during his performance and reduce others to tears, but somehow no-one was inspired to get naked during my performance. What DID I do wrong?
The sixth episode of Night Haunts is on line now too, this time focusing on mini-cabs, where Sukhdev writes:
'Night cabbies claim they prefer to drive at night because the streets are quieter then and there is less of the pollution and pressure that has sent their colleagues to early graves. Others - laughingly, grudgingly - confess to being misfits. Their cars are secret caves into which they retreat to close out the disappointments and regrets of their daily lives. Night-riding allows them to live in London incognito, to lurk in the shadows away from the glare of family and friends.”
The adventures of the London night continue to inspire us all.
I recently composed the soundtrack to Vietnamese choreographer Anh Ngoc Nguyen’s new work which will premiere in London in September and hope that this will travel, whilst this will soon appear at iTunes for a special edition release, alongside other exclusive works.
If you still haven’t claimed your FREE Scanner CD, NightJam, then visit www.nightjam.org.uk, click on the link and request it, whilst stocks last. Remixes of this project will be forthcoming for free too, beginning with an extraordinary mix by Hakan Lidbo, who has released more than 180 records on labels all over the world, stretching from obscure minimalism on Mille Plateaux to cheesy house on Ministry of Sound. He has remixed and produced artists like Yello, Fatboy Slim, Si Begg, Ennio Morricone, Sophie Ellis Bexter, Rechenzentrum and Akufen, so it’s a honour to have him create exclusive new work for this project and generously agree to share it for free with everyone.
If not climbing mountains or cycling early in the morning for exercise, then you can pick up the new single by Dutch singer Lilian Hak, on vinyl and CD, ‘Faces,’ out on Steamin’ Soundworks, with mixes by Vector Lovers and two exclusive mixes I created. It finds a place between Madonna and Peaches with a reassuringly 80s groove. Pull up those legwarmers, tie back your hairband and get funky!!
Off to The Netherlands, Philadelphia, Wales and other surprises in September so hope to meet some friends in surprising places.
Until next month
Best wishes
Robin Rimbaud
::: listen :::
Humcrush: Hornswoggle (Rune Grammofon)
Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia)
Easy All Stars: Radiodread (Easystar)
Susanna & the Magical Orchestra: Melody Mountain (Rune Grammofon)
::: read :::
Mary Gaitskill: Veronica (Vintage)
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Me (MIT)
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Vol III (Leeum)
Gordon Matta-Clark: Works & Collected Writings (Ediciones Poligrafa)
::: film:::
A History of Violence, David Cronenberg,USA
This Film is not yet Rated, Kirby Dick, USA
A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France
Destricted, Mathew Barney, Larry Clark, etc
::: Diary Dates :::
2006
08 Sept - LTD De Effenaar Einhoven The Netherlands
09 Sept - LTD Arnheim The Netherlands
14 Sept - Parallax Beat Brothers: Blackfriars Arts Centre Kings Lynn UK
19 Sept - Lecture, Temple University Philadelphia USA
06 Oct - Cabaret Aléatoire de la Friche Marseille France
20 Oct - Bios, Athens Greece
26 Oct - Parallax Beat Brothers: Alsager Arts Centre Cheshire UK
27 Oct - Parallax Beat Brothers: Miskin Theatre Dartford UK
04 Nov - Ground Control: Aarhus Denmark
11 Nov - 52 Spaces: Powerhouse Brisbane Australia
18 Nov - Blindscape, Beursschouwburg Belgium
21 Nov - Alphaville; Teatro Miela Trieste Italy
24 Nov - Nights of London Extravaganza Shoreditch Town Hall London UK
30 Nov - Parallax Beat Brothers: Colchester Arts Centre UK
03 Dec - Broken Blossom with Pierre Bastien: Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille France
2007
06 & 07 March - New work with Shobana Jeyasingh QEH London
17 March - Présences electronique Salle Olivier Messiaen: Paris France
19 May - Shots in the Dark with D-Fuse/Alter Ego, Wroclaw Poland
::: Exhibitions :::
Waves
Arsenal
Latvian National Museum of Art
Riga Latvia
24 August - 17 September 2006
WAVES looks at electromagnetic waves as the principle material - the medium - of media art. The exhibition is the main part of the "ART + COMMUNICATION" festival organised by the new media culture centre RIXC to promote the current issues and emerging experimental creative approaches in the new media, culture and communication.
The exhibition brings together works of (media) art that deal with properties of waves in imaginative ways, exploring, making visible or making us feel waves on a host of different bands of the spectrum. In this exhibition electromagnetic waves are not just seen as carriers of information, but as the material and/or theme of the artwork.
http://rixc.lv/waves
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
04 February 2006 – on-going
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
NightJam
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
20 July 2006. - on-going
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam resents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. A series of remixes by other artists will be available over the forthcoming months.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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Ted Milton's Blurt will be playing the White Heat at Madame Jo Jo's on Tuesday 3rd of October. If you've never seen Blurt live, we can't recommend them highly enough. They're awesome.
date: Tuesday 3rd October
doors: 8pm - 3am
artist: Blurt
night: White Heat
admission: £5
venue: Madame Jo Jo's, 8-10 Brewer Street, London W1F 0SE
phone: 020 7734 3040
tube: Piccadilly Circus
www.whiteheatmayfair.com
www.myspace.com/whiteheatmayfair
Their latest release The Body That They Built To Fit The Car, the second volume of the best of Blurt is available on PostEverything along with volume 1, The Fish Needs A Bike and Ted's handmade CDR series which employs his book binding skills, utilising only found objects to create the sleeves. Check out the 4 releases, Love Is Like A Violence, Where You End, Eat Up Your House and Violin Sherbet.
“Ted Milton seemed an interesting but minor figure in his early-'80s day. Retrospectively, however, as this second volume (The Body That They Built To Fit The Car) amply attests, he was hugely under-regarded. His use of the saxophone wasn't uncommon in the post-punk era, but it means he's been left alone by revivalists who draw the line at brass. This makes him all the more unspoiled, as Milton matches his deranged and impassioned thought patterns with squealing solo runs and multi-tongued vocals, while his band knock together intricately latticed backbeats for him to weave around.”
**** UNCUT
“When they first emerged amid the post-punk debris of the early-80's, Blurt were cast as eccentric subversives, and the arrival of this the second volume of The Best Of further cements their reputation as oddballs.
Dissonant, abrasive and unsettling, Blurt make for uneasy but rewarding listening, and, alongside it's earlier companion, this 16-track retrospective is the perfect departure point for rediscovering an uncompromisingly bohemian combo, who are still carving out their own little corner of the cosmos.”
**** RECORD COLLECTOR
“This is some of the most extreme, danceable music this side of the good Captain (Beefheart), this side of ESG, of the past three decades.”
PLAN B
“Stripped down and nicely punchy arty punk.”
ROCK-A-ROLLA
“Emerging in post-punk, Blurt released songs that involved saxophones, the most minimal percussion imaginable and inspired titles such as My Mother Was A Friend of an Enemy of the People. Milton, one of pop’s greatest living eccentrics, may well have been listening to Captain Beefheart and Charlie Parker – but it’s equally possible that he had never heard any music at all”
THE GUARDIAN
“This reviewer is in the main unfamiliar with Blurt's prolific past, but the dry thumping grooves, drive themselves home with a freshness and simplicity sadly lacking in other 'experimental' units. Milton plays with such an instinctive will over his sax that he is never less than fluid, yet his twisted version of (John) Coltrane's sheets of notes has a startlingly pungent sound, and to Milton's credit his harmonic inventiveness actually marks him out alongside Evan Parker et al, as a true innovator in his field. A band that have never dwelt on the past and remain a vivid force today."
JAZZWISE
“Blurt are to white funk and white noise what Towering Inferno was to beekeeping. Ted Milton says he’s not averse to wads of money. He says he used too shout his lyrics for fear of being mistaken for a singer. And he makes very odd, very interesting records. Why not treat yourself to one right now?”
NME
“Blurt are one of the most unclassifiable yet charming acts of the post-punk era.”
TIME OUT
“It’s so rare to see anything so single minded and achieved on stage, you have to remain watching. When the list is made of the authentic inheritors of Kurt Schwitters’s line of subversive nonsense – orators who question the power relations of rhetoric, and unleash weevils of humour and independent thought into the grain bags of wealth and power – Ted Milton will require a special place.”
THE WIRE
Blurt: Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel, 13.4.06
Sticking to the classic Blurt template, Ted Milton on sax and vocals, backed with guitar and drums, live the band lack nothing in the way of noise and attack. I've seen bands twice the size unable to whip up such a storm. The secret to Blurt, something many performers should take on board, is the discipline and precision of the execution - Blurt songs tend to cut out the flab, creating hard but concise structures and giving Mr Milton the necessary space to go mad. Think of a fusion between Ornette Coleman and Kurt Schwitters and you would be close. Freebop Merz, anyone? Sporting a natty white zoot suit and two-tone shoes, Mr Milton cuts quite a figure on stage - there's a pleasingly theatrical but threatening edge to his persona... stalking the stage, taking the occasional nip from a half bottle of whisky, he gives the impression of a man you wouldn't want to cross. There is a suggestion of barely suppressed violence bubbling away inside the Milton skull - he's ready to blow up at any time. The band ran through a good mix of Blurt material, none of which sounds like anything else on the market - in a musical landscape dominated by the anodyne and the anaemic, this band are to be cherished. Milton coped with monitor problems with good humour and multi-lingual sarcasm, and demonstrated his very particular vocal and saxophone techniques. What more do you want? The gig was, in part, a promotion for the release of the new CD, 'The Best Of Blurt, vol.2 - The Body That They Built To Fit The Car' - not only does it contain 16 tracks of prime Blurt, you'll also find a couple of wonderful videos -beverybody should run out and buy a copy. In fact buy two copies and give one to a friend.
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We have a new record coming out on october 9th. It's called The Way The Wind Blows and will be available on CD and LP. Yes. We're happy to have Zach Condon from Beirut as well as 4 members of the illustrious Fanfare Ciocärlia, (brass band from Romania), as guests. Yes indeed. We will be opening for Beirut this autumn in the US and heading over to the UK to open for Calexico as well. We will try to put the dates up soon, if we can be bothered...
All the best
A Hawk And A Hacksaw
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Harps Old Master, the second album by Phelan Sheppard, is available to order on PostEverything now. The album won't be in the shops until September 25th.
The duo, who also record as State River Widening, released their first album as Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard, 'O, Little Stars', on Rocket Girl in 2002. You can now get hold of this hard-to-find release and the accompanying singles on PostEverything, collected under the 'virtual label' banner of PSR Records and plans are to make more of their previous releases available soon too.
www.phelansheppard.com
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