Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Currency of Dreams

May 30, 2007

Graham Lambkin (formerly of The Shadow Ring, natch) sends his latest report from the inner recesses of his curlicued mind, in the form of new CD Salmon Run (KYE 02). Interestingly this is the second-only release on his own label, the first one being a solo LP of extreme tapework called Poem (For Voice...

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One Hour of Jazz and Noise (TSP radio show 25/05/07)

May 25, 2007

Herbie Hancock, ‘Oh! Oh! Here he comes’ (1969) From Fat Albert Rotunda, WARNER BROS MASTERS 9362-47540-2 CD Chuck Bettis, ‘Night on Fire’ ‘P.I.E. / L.I.T.L’ ‘Light in Extension’ From Sonic Sigils, USA SCARCELIGHT RECORDINGS SLR22 3″ CD (2004) The Art Ensemble of Chicago, ‘Ouffnoon’ (1972) From Bap-Tizum, USA ATLANTIC 7567-80757-2 CD (1998) Hvratski, extracts...

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The Halls of Bedlam

May 23, 2007

The Fun Years are a couple of guys Ben Recht and Isaac Sparks, who suffer from Life-Sized Psychoses and want to share them with the world, in shape of a CD by the same name, on the Brooklyn-based label BARGE RECORDINGS (BRG 002). Enduring a psychosis isn’t quite the same as being a paid-up...

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Tymon Dogg (TSP radio show 18/05/07)

May 19, 2007

Special guest Tymon Dogg, live performance on air, with records and chat. Tymon played Spanish guitar, electric violin, and drone box, and of course sang. Many thanks to Tymon and our engineer Nina Kehagia. Live songs were… ‘Oil’, which appears on the Guantanamo EP ‘Beyond This Frontier’, which first appeared on The Frugivores’ New...

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Ark of a Diver

May 16, 2007

Couple of far-out percussion records to contend with today, sports fans. Moe! Staiano plays 10 tracks of solo percussive energetic nutsoid hedgehoggery on The Absolute Tradition of No Traditions (PSYCHFORM PFR06), released on Stan Reed’s label which has been home to some real corkers of dementia. Unlike some releases in that catalogue though, the...

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English Pastoral (TSP radio show 11/05/07)

May 11, 2007

With a tip of the Sound Projector trilby to David Thomas Pickett Virginia Astley, ‘Love’s a Lonely Place to Be’, UK WHY FI RECORDS WFIT001 12″ (1982) Richard Rodney Bennett, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ From Far From the Madding Crowd, UK MGM SUPER 2315 033 LP (1967) Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, ‘Wind...

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My People Were Fair and had Sky in their Hair…but now they're content to wear a beard of snails

May 9, 2007

KTL are the duo of Stephen O’Malley from Sunn O))) and Pita Rehberg, back with a second full-length release called simply 2 (EDITIONS MEGO 085). Haven’t even heard their first CD yet, but I’m very much looking forward to exploring their joint sound-worlds, which promise to be a fascinating and rich combination of electronic...

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Rice Is Nice

May 9, 2007

Mark Wastell is the English improviser who has a fair claim to being one of the innovators of the ‘quiet’ movement (such as it is) that’s been seeping across the world of improvised music for many years now. A string player by nature, at one stage he might have been drawn towards a virtual...

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Omnis hora est hora nobis

May 9, 2007

Another box of delights flown in from the Opalio Brothers who call themselves My Cat Is An Alien. This Italian duo use anything they can get their hands on, from guitars with FX setups to live electronics and percussion, to create long-form droney abstractions, often packaged and titled with fanciful outer-space exploration themes to...

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A Vinyl Verstricht (TSP radio show 04/05/07)

May 4, 2007

Zu, ‘Observing the Armies in the Battlefield’, USA IMPLIED SOUND IS005 7″ SINGLE (2007) Michael Gira, ‘Promise of Water’ From Songs for a Dog, UK LUMBERTON TRADING COMPANY LUMB004 LP (2006) The New Humans, extract from Undercover, SWITZERLAND CIRCUIT 004 LP (2007) Kuupuu, ‘Onnenkuolaa’ From Unilintu, GERMANY DEKORDER 018 LP (2007) The New Blockaders...

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