SUNUN – LIGHT EP

Posted on 2020-09-14

Bristol based artist, Sunun with a killer 6 track EP – the first 12″ of the year on Idle Hands (ran by Chris Farrell) . A member of the city’s Young Echo collective she has made waves with her abstracted take on dub for Bokeh Versions and Cold Light Music, gaining praise from Adrian Sherwood along the way. Her most recent release was a collaborative EP with Giant Swan’s Robin Stewart. Over these six tracks we are invited into her sonic world, described by the artist herself as “a step towards rhythm tracks, with shallower themes and confidence, with priority to the ancient components; the drum and voice” Adventurous, brooding and unique – this is an EP you need to hear

idlehandsbristol.com

  

LESS BELLS – THE FANG

Posted on 2020-09-14

The Fang is the Debut video from the new Less Bells record “Mourning Jewelry,” launching Aug 21st 2020. Surreal landscapes and kaleidoscope-like images explore death and rebirth in the natural world accompanied by shimmering, choirs, violins, cellos and synths.

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ASHER – ARRANGEMENTS II VII

Posted on 2020-09-14

From Asher

“The compositional tool which has been at the center of my working methods for many years is the loop. A loop repeating, either alone, with other loops or against them, or over a non repeating structure.

I made each of the tracks on this release using four loops. A set of long tones at low frequencies makes up the first loop, which I played and recorded again for the second loop. The third loop is a set of long tones at midrange frequencies, which I repeated for the fourth loop. Thus there are two doubled loops phasing with themselves and each other.

In the process of recording, my ability to recreate the same recording twice was never perfect. Each loop starts out with its shadow close by but always moving away at some rate. This gives the frequencies a chance to be heard alone and in ever changing combinations.

Working with sine waves and loops for as long as I have, you feel like you’re repeating yourself sometimes. As I return to sounds and compositional techniques, chord voicings and phase relations I am trying to bring something new to these old ideas and patterns in the hope of uncovering something new and unexpected. Loops set a limit but also open up an unbounded space from which to extract possibilities.”

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PHEW – THE VOID

Posted on 2020-09-07

From the album Vertigo KO, out September 4th, 2020 on Disciples.

“This was recorded in 2019 at the request of the radio station WFMU in New Jersey, USA. They had compiled covers recorded today of tracks from 1979 debut albums and asked me to contribute, because Aunt Sally was released in 1979. Since the album with Ana had been released just a few months ago, I had chosen “The Void” from the first album of The Raincoats. I wondered how to install this song, recorded in 1979, into the 21st century. I wanted to represent a multi-layer time axis separated by forty years, considering the context of punk, post-punk and new wave. Specifically, the beat of this song uses a sequence of four slightly different tempo rhythms to create one groove.” – Phew

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GILROY MERE – APPENDIX 2

Posted on 2020-09-07

Throughout Adlestrop, Gilroy Mere manages to maintain an air of hypnagogic wonder even as he moves between a variety of musical modes. Bibio-style modern folk lilts, dreamy electronic composition in the Plone mould, Dalham-esque downtempo delights and abstracted ambiences can all be found throughout Adlestrop, and many of the album’s timbres have a gorgeous softness to them. Adlestrop is largely an instrumental affair, but the moments where voices enter are quietly arresting – the recollections of the title-track could pass for an old BBC radio broadcast, so potently evocative is the combination of poetic spoken word and Radiophonic Workshop-style soundscaping.

Drawing its inspiration from lost British railway stations, Gilroy Mere’s Adlestrop is a fascinating hauntological work to file alongside the organic electronics of Belbury Poly, The Focus Group and Bibio.

www.claypipemusic.co.uk