You can hear the BBC Radio 1 Session that Vessels did for Huw Stephen's show (Wed 28th March) on the BBC website. The band recorded 4 songs, including 2 completely new ones. The show is streamable for a week and can be found here.
The band have also announced some tour dates around the UK with more coming soon!
20 Apr 2007
Hi Fi Club, Leeds - Stateless single launch
25 Apr 2007
Brixton Jamm, London w/ UpCDownC (onstage 21:45)
26 May 2007
Live in Leeds Venue TBC w/ Biffy Clyro and loads of great bands all day
9 Jun 2007
Chalk @ Scala, London
28 Jul 2007
Notting Hill Arts Club - Drowned in Sound daytime show - FREE
12 Aug 2007
Rainbow Spirit Enlightenment Fayre w/ Bonobo, Courtney Pine and the Welsh National Opera! Chepstow Racing course, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Following the release of his debut album 'Cognessence', Robert Logan is set to play another London show. Just 19 Robert has already been championed by Grace Jones, producer Ivor Guest and Radio One’s Mary Anne Hobbes with press interest growing apace. His next show will be at Jamm in Brixton on the 19th of April.
If you missed his recent performance at The Adelaide, Camden, London then we suggest you get along to this one. Failing that just buy the album, you won't be disappointed either way.
Thursday 19th April 2007
8pm
Brixton Jamm, 261 Brixton Road SW9 6LH
www.brixtonjamm.org
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New stock in 30/03/07: ADAADAT & THE LEAF LABEL image
As of today we are back in stock of the following from ADAADAT...
Agaskodo Teliverek
Germlin - Youth Pixxel
DJ Scotch Egg - KFC Core
..and from The Leaf Label
Caribou - Marino: The Videos
Sutekh - Born Again: Collected Remixes 1999 - 2005
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Various Artists - Delivery Room
Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
We've also got the new Efterklang mini album, Under Giant Trees in stock as well. Remember, spend over £20 (not including postage & packing) on any of the Leaf catalogue and you'll get a free copy of the double CD compilation Check The Water.
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Following the release of their second album, Losing Stones Collecting Bones In The Country will be playing at the Bath Festival.
Saturday 26th May Bath International Festival (Pavilion) £10 or admission by Jazz Pass 2pm
www.bathmusicfest.org.uk
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NEEDLE SOUP news and related events
--Needle Soup – debut release of new micro label – 20th April 2007
Jenny and I have created a new micro-label with the intention of releasing very limited numbers of special releases by artists working on the outskirts of conventional music. The debut release is by Sudden Infant and is titled '3 Puppets EP'. It's quite an astonishing piece of bristling sound. Sleeves are silk-screen printed and will be strictly limited to 100 copies only. There will be no re-releases or re-prints so once all the cds sell, that's it. Artists on the roster so far include The Rebel (aka Ben Wallers - the main man behind Country Teasers), Scalper, Les Natrels and the beautifully disquieting Germseed
www.needlesoup.com
--Scrap Club – destruction night at Electrowerks – 27th April 2007
In collaboration with New Toy, we've decided it was high time to create a destruction night. A club with no background music, no foreground music. Audience members will be given sledge hammers, baseball bats and various other tools to destroy a variety of worthy objects - tv's, computers, pianos, a car. You are invited to bring along whatever you want, your own personal hated object. View the event as you wish - either as a sonic art night or as a way of venting spleen.
Opening night is at the Electrowerks venue in Angel, London and will be on April the 27th. Doors open 10pm and action starts at 10:45pm. There will be a cap on the number of people allowed in and will be 120 people maximum....reserve your tickets at the site : www.scrapclub.co.uk
--music for 'The White Room' piece by Suka Off at The Torture Garden - 18th May 2007
We've been asked to create the soundscore/music for the latest performance of 'The White Room' by the Polish performance group Suka Off. The performance will be at the Torture Garden / New Body Art event and will be in collaboration with Trauma Unit
www.sukaoff.com
--'Ear Cinema' at The Burst Festival – BAC – May 20th 2007
We will be creating a cross-collaborative pieced titled 'Ear Cinema' as part of the Burst Festival at the Battersea Arts Centre. This piece will include ambisonics (3D sound), multi screened projections showing animations created by Paul Barritt and live theatrics. Audience members will be experiencing sound in a way that has rarely been presented outside of academia. Information about the event will be posted up on BAC's site and the Uniform site in due course.
www.bac.org.uk
--'Spaces Between' – Royal Festival Hall – July 2007
commissioned by the Southbank to create the soundscore/music for a piece titled 'The Spaces Between' to be directed by Athina Vahla to tie in with the re-opening of the RFH.
--Dirthole studio sessions and US dates - September 2007
We're about to go into the studios to record a new Dirthole 7" titled 'There's Nothing Left' to tie in with some US dates planned in september in New York, Memphis and Nashville...for those of you not in the know, Dirthole are a 'take your hands out of your pockets, stand up straight and pay attention rock'n'roll with a 60s bent and an 00s crease in the trousers' sort of band....current line-up includes members from Tindersticks, Headbutt, The Membranes, Spectreman, Pulkas, Project Dark, and at least 50 other projects between us....4 drummers, 3 guitarists, 1 bassist, 1 occasional brass gent and vocals courtesy of myself
www.myspace.com/thelondondirtholecompany
Wajid
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COLLEEN French tour dates image
Cécile Schott has confirmed a French tour to coincide with the release of her third long player, Les Ondes Silencieuses. The album will be released on May 21st.
The extremely intimate Paris date on April 26th is a recording session for Radio Campus/Iastar which kicks off at 7.30pm and is free, but the places are limited to 50 on a first come, first served basis, so turn up early if you want to make this one!
Schott is also to appear live in Geneva and St Ouen (near Paris) on the same bill as Swiss-French dancer and choreographer, Perrine Valli for the "Série" dance performance. These two dates will consist of the dance performance with pre-recorded music followed by a live show by Schott.
Renditions of the dance alone (without Colleen live show) can be seen on April 18, 20, 25, 26 and 27 in Geneva, and May 10 in St Ouen and Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris on May 24.
www.perrinevalli.fr
Colleen's French tour dates are shown below.
Thursday 26 April
Radio Campus/Iastar Session (live recording), Galerie En Marge, Paris
Friday 11 May
Mains D'Oeuvres, St Ouen
Sunday 13 May
Le Mandala, Toulouse
Sunday 20 May
La Malterie, Lille
Wednesday 23 May
Sonic, Lyon
Saturday 26 May
L'Epicentre, Cherbourg
www.colleenplays.org
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A Hawk And A Hacksaw and The Hun Hangar Ensemble will release a strictly limited CD/DVD package to coincide with their first tour together.
There will only be 4,000 individually numbered copies of this release made available worldwide, in special gatefold card packaging. It will hit the shelves on May 7 in the UK (later for rest of the world), but you will also be able to buy as a digital download worldwide from April 30. The EP will also be available on the UK leg of the tour, which begins on May 5 in Oxford.
The 8-track EP includes the first recordings by AHAAH with The Hun Hangar Ensemble, a group of extraordinarily talented Hungarian folk musicians. Most of the tracks were recorded in Budapest, and finished back home in Albuquerque, and the sequence is designed to showcase the individual skills of all six musicians, playing both traditional Hungarian, Serbian and Romanian pieces, and new compositions by AHAAH's Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost.
The bonus DVD features "An Introduction To A Hawk And A Hacksaw", a 20-minute insight into life on the road with the duo. The film covers the band's exploits across Europe and the States, including live footage of songs from this and their previous albums.
You can find all the tour dates at the following link and download the very fancy e-flyer for the AHAAH + HHE UK tour here.
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Seb Rochford, Alice Grant, Pete Wareham and Nick Ramm play a host of shows following the release of their acclaimed debut album Count Herbert II on Pickled Egg.
March
Wednesday 28th, EXETER, The Cavern 8pm
Thursday 29th, LEICESTER, The Basement 8pm
Friday 30th, CARLISLE, Brick Yard, 8pm
Saturday 31st, ABERDEEN, The Tunnels, 8pm
April
Sunday 1st, GLASGOW, Note Cafe 8pm
Monday 2nd, NEWCASTLE, Cumberland Arms, 8pm
Tuesday 3rd, MANCHESTER, Klondyke Club, 8pm
Wednesday 4th, LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club 8pm
Thursday 5th, LIVERPOOL, 8pm
Friday 6th, LONDON, The Luminaire, 8pm
May
Saturday 5th, CHELTENHAM, Pillar Room, 15.45
Tuesday 15th, BRIGHTON, Komedia with Leafcutter John
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Still picking up praise for Melody Mountain, and its collection of cover versions, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra will be returning to the UK for a one off appearance at the Women’s Arts International Festival in Kendal.
22nd May Kendal Brewery Arts Centre
www.womensartsinternational.co.uk
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After a number of months waiting we finally have copies back in stock of Volume 2 the third An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music series on Sub Rosa
Therefore we are once again able to offer our special offers on volumes 1-3 and 1-4. Go here for more information. Quickly now, stock is limited and we know a lot of you have been waiting for this.
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EFTERKLANG live track on YouTube image
Check out a live recording of Jojo, from the upcoming mini album, Under Giant Trees, on Youtube. The video was filmed on one 16mm camera at Nalen in Stockholm, Sweden, in November 2005. It was directed by Robert Nylund and produced by Christian Rehnfors from Social Club.
www.socialclub.se
Under Giant Trees is available from April 2, but you can see the video of
Jojo here.
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The title-track from Adrian Klumpes' solo album 'Be Still' was filmed at the album launch event in Sydney and has been uploaded to YouTube.
The show was held at the Stone Gallery in Sydney, Australia, in February. You can see Klumpes perform his solo set live at Netwerk in Aalst on 30 March and at the Domino festival in Brussels on 15 April. Both these dates are part of the Triosk European tour.
You can see the video here.
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Vessels have a warm-up gig Tuesday 13th March at the Metro Club in London in advance of their session for Huw Stephen's show on BBC Radio 1, that is due to be aired on 28th March.
The Leeds band have put up A side of the recent single, Yuki, on their
myspace. You can hear Forever The Optimist, the AA side, on Cuckundoo's
myspace.
13 Mar 2007
Metro Club, London with Love Ends Disaster!, They Don't Sleep and Youmetheswitch
15 Mar 2007
Escobar, Wakefield with Red Stars Parade
23 Mar 2007
The Library (upstairs), Leeds with O Fracas, Quack Quack and more
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The Leaf Label has made tracks available by A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Colleenand Efterklang for ThinkSync Films competition for independent filmmakers.
The competition, in association with the Raindance Film Festival, Blowback and Plan B magazine, requires entrants to produce a short film incorporating one or more tracks from a list submitted by independent labels and publishers. Five finalists will have their films screened at a special event in June which will also include showcases by some of the musicians involved. Full details can be found here.
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Triosk are touring Japan for the first time and return to Europe for the second occasion. It will also be the first opportunity to see an Adrian Klumpes solo set in the northern hemisphere, when he supports Triosk at the Netwerk Festival in the Netherlands and the Domino Festival in Belgium.
We recently brought you news of The Leaf Label's UK tour featuring the Australian 3-piece and Colleen, but the full list of tour dates can be seen below. Keep an eye out for updates to this list!
Friday 9 March, 2007
Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia
Friday 23 March 2007
Super-Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan with Takayuri Shiraishi (exclusive DJ set)
Saturday 24 March 2007
Rooms, Fukyoka, Japan
Sunday 25 March 2007
Indo-Yo, Yamaguchi, Japan with Same, Common Laughing Point, Tacit terminal, Fratenn and more
Friday 30 March 2007
Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium with Adrian Klumpes & Murcof
Saturday 31 March 2007
Rumor Festival 48, Utrecht, Netherlands with The Eternals & others
Monday 2 April 2007
Firlej, Wroclaw, Poland
Tuesday 3 April 2007
Klub:RE, Krakow, Poland
Wednesday 4 April 2007
Jazzga, Lodz, Poland
Thursday 5 April 2007
JazzClub Hipnoza, Katowice, Poland
Friday 6 April 2007
Mochvara, Zagreb, Croatia
Saturday 7 April 2007
Menza pri koritu / AKC Metelkova, Ljubljana,Slovenia
Tuesday 10 April 2007
Palac Akropolis, Prague, Czech Republic
Wednesday 11 April 2007
A4, Bratislava, Slovakia
Thursday 12 April 2007
Ballhaus, Berlin, Germany
Saturday 14 April 2007
Musikcafeen, Aarhus, Denmark
Sunday 15 April 2007
Domino Festival, ABClub, Brussels, Belgium with Priestbird & Adrian Klumpes
Friday 20 April 2007
Salla Vanni, Firenze, Italy
Saturday 21 April 2007
Feedback Club, Perugia, Italy
Thursday 26 April 2007
Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
Friday 27 April 2007
Theatro Circo, Braga, Portugal
Saturday 28 April 2007
Galeria Ze Des Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
Sunday 29 April 2007
FACT @ Picturehouse, Liverpool, UK with Colleen
Monday 30 April 2007
Arts Centre, Norwich, UK with Colleen
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PostEverything welcome along Leeds based and 'Fledgling experimental rock/electronic label', Cuckundoo Records. Their first release is from Vessels a 4-piece experimental and its released on old school 7 inch vinyl! Hurrah.
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PostEverything is proud to announce the arrival of Pickled Egg Records to the site. We are really pleased to be stocking their most recent releases from Fulborn Teversham and Dragon Or Emperor. Both albums are current office favourites and we're sure you'll love them too.
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'ODES' - TOUR AND BOOK / CD RELEASE
MID APRIL --> MID MAY 2007
Ted Milton is currently putting together a tour to co-incide with the release of a new book and CD.
BOOK / CD:
Collaborations (outside of Blurt) spanning the last 20 years, between Ted Milton and:
The BTN Orchestra,
Steve Beresford,
Sam Britton,
Andreas Gerth,
Loopspool,
Herman Martin,
Paddy Steers,
Yam Yam,
A Limited Edition of 250 signed and numbered handmade books containing the lyrics will accompany a 13 track CD and be released in spring 2007. A tour to promote the CD and the new performances is currently being put together.
PERFORMANCE:
Onstage, Ted Milton and computer musician Sam Britton perform new arrangements of the record. The performance will bring to life the songs from the record in fresh and intriguing ways.
PREVIOUS WORK TOGETHER - This is Ted Milton and Sam Britton's second collaboration on stage, after 2004's 'In Kharms Way', described by critics as:
"... a snapshot of an intensely absurd, mind-bending reality, animated and
shot into the present with unmitigated power." - (www.kultureflash.net)
Ted Milton - Founder member of Blurt! and, for over 25 years one of the most revered and critically acclaimed purveyors of contemporary counter-culture.(www.tedmilton.com)
Sam Britton - Founder member of critically acclaimed electronic group Icarus, with records released on Output Recordings, Domino and The Leaf Label amongst others. (www.icarus.nu)
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Friday, 23 March 2007
Blurt + The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers + Zip Boy
At The Montague Arms, London
From 8:00pm until Midnight
Price: £5.00/£4.00 students,concessions
The Montague Arms
289 Queens Road
New Cross
London
SE15 2PA
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The video for the new Akatombo track - "Cypher" - will be shown @ the Green Gallery in Milwaukee on March 9th, 2007, as part of their "Winter Screening" installation; A Film/Video Show w/ a Winter Theme.
For more information please go to the Green Gallery website.
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March 2007
Hello
I have just landed today from the USA, having traveled up the East Coast. Many people today are accustomed to Immigration and Customs at airports but nothing had prepared me for the surreal encounter on entering Philadelphia airport. Standard questions as 'what are you doing in the USA How long will you stay here? Where are you staying?' were greeted with my standard answers. Nothing could have prepared me for the additional questions from Customs though - with suitcase in hand I handed over my form.
'What would I find in your suitcase if I were to look inside?' the security guard asked. 'What would I find if I were to search your backpack?' Then looking me up and down, head to toe, he calmly asked, 'So...what are you wearing?'
I was stunned. After a long pause all I could do was sleepily point to myself and mutter '...er...clothes.'. He looked at me again, smiled coolly, and repeated, 'yes but what are wearing?' pointing at my Vexed Generation outfit. He then told me to move on, leaving me thoroughly bewildered. Are there now fashion restrictions on entering the USA?
A very busy time working with Peregrine Arts over in Philadelphia, installing and premiering The Order of Things project at The Wagner Free Institute, with two live shows using the Latin names of some of the 100,000 objects in the building as a kind of litany and memorial to this extraordinary collection. In addition I performed an adaptation of Gavin Bryars classic 'Sinking of the Titanic' with violinist Todd Reynolds as a prelude to future projects, which proved to be an elegant adventure.
As the snow fell and softly landed so I traveled up to New York City to record a session with clarinetist and writer David Rothenberg for the the legendary John Schaefer show at WNYC. We composed music with recordings of nightingales, grasshoppers, crickets, beluga whales and an orgy of copulating animals! This arousing adventure was then expanded on at a live show at Tonic. We both agreed it was a cheap alternative to Viagra.
I seem to have spent a lot of time working on composing for images recently too - everything from the tv advert to the forthcoming San Francisco International Film Festival, Dead Bird, a new British short film premiering in London in March, and The Games, a short film that constructs a surreal document of a changing city through an alternative Olympics staged on the wasteland of the 2012 Olympic site.
On a grander scale it looks like the promising British horror movie, 'Reverb,' is beginning to make the rounds of festivals. It showed recently at the Berlin EFM festival and so you'll soon be able to experience some unsettling sound design I'm responsible for. Curiously the film is set in a recording studio, with a terrifying voice hidden in the music. Starring Leo Gregory and Eva Birthistle the band try to unravel the truth behind the hidden plea of "help me" on the record, leading them into to a life or death battle with evil. Book the edge of your seat now!
March is a busy month too. Off to Rio Brazil for the Hipersônica Festival alongside Kode 9, and then to Paris for the GRM Festival which is remarkable in that its completely free entry and features performances from Alva Noto, Mouse on Mars, Matmos, Edgard Varese, Blixa Bargeld, The Books and many more.
So to close with another amusing incident. Whilst recently over in Groningen for the bewilderingly entitled conference, European Multiple Choice Identity, I was sitting in my hotel room watching a television documentary when suddenly I recognized some of my music on the soundtrack. Pleasantly surprised I kept watching to see what else they might use, and during the ad break switched channels for a moment, only to discover that they were also were using my music on another channel. Now confused I muted the volume of the television only to discover that in fact 'my music' was the vibrating air conditioning behind my bed! Ah, the delusions of grandeur.
On that non-note I bid farewell.
Until next time.
Robin Rimbaud
::: Diary Dates :::
2007
01 & 02 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Mac Birmingham
06 & 07 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh QEH London
12 March-Dead Bird-Film Premiere Curzon Soho London
15 March-Riff-Stratford Circus London
17 March-Présences electronique Salle Olivier Messiaen: Paris France
20 March-Faultline with Shobana Jeyasingh Sherman Cardiff Wales
24 March-Hipersônica Festival Rio de Janeiro Brazil
27 March-Plexus/Praxis-Les Ondines Changé France
30 March-Plexus/Praxis-Théâtre la Licorne Cannes France
30 March-Riff-Greenwich Dance Agency London
07 April-Sugar Factory, Amsterdam, Holland
10 April-Cie Illico, soundtrack for dance, Roubaix France
12 April-Future of Sound Queen Mary’s College London
13 April-Live Lenz Teatro Parma Italy
28 April-Open Ears Festival, Kitchener Ontario Canada
05 May-Störung Festival Barcelona Spain
09-12 May-Blindscape at Elektra Festival Montreal Canada
19 May-Shots in the Dark with D-Fuse/Alter Ego, Wroclaw Poland
20 May-Light Turned Down with D-Fuse at Wroclaw Poland
24 May-Slomo:100 Minutes show Radiokulturhaus Wien Austria
02 June-Girona Spain
23 June-Riff Ipswich UK
22 August-Duet with DJ Olive Chapelle des Brigittines Brussels
10 Nov-William S Burroughs event Paradiso Amsterdam
Exhibitions
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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