Album of the Day: Andreas Tschopp - What If We Align Our Breath ( @kitrecs )
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Pioneering Swiss trombonist and composer @andreastschopp marries contemporary jazz with South African horns and homemade ocarinas, creating a record quite unlike anything you've heard before. "What if We Align Our Breath" disregards the curvature of borders, genre, and time itself - tugging a thread through the history of wind instrumentation with ghostly agility.
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Barreleye's debut One Eye Glitters receives its first pressing on LP via @kitrecs . 300 copies. Only 100 online. Available for pre-order now on bandcamp, shipping internationally around mid June. Be sprightly!
Ribbons to discs. The spotty and dotty has crystallised. Featuring an updated mix by us and a fresh master by the one and only John McEntire.
Too many thank yous to cover them all, but most importantly, thank you Owen Cushing, Maz, everyone at 305, 2003 and 704, those who lended their ears, and thank you Richard for giving us a place in space for our dream of dreams!
Big announcement to follow : )
Our final track feature from βHyphaβ....
βSyntrophy I, II and IIIβ are the final pieces from our βHyphaβ project. Drawing on the concept of syntrophy β the mutual reliance between speciesβ metabolic processes β we, as performers, approach the piece as an improvised musical game. One performer begins with a musical idea that acts as a kind of substrate; the others respond by digesting the opening material (like microbial species would do), transforming it until it is unrecognisable. Then the roles within the trio switch, and the process starts again.
Listen to the whole βHyphaβ album on Bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.
Image credit: David Marks
New music from Martin Glass.
βToday With Martin Glassβ is the first of two mini EPs set to precede a full length record late summer.
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Martin was on the move now.
High above the Tyrrenian, the Lancia cut Gaussian curves in pastel and chrome.
The road hadnβt been clear before, but now it whistled with clarityβs electric heat.
βMartin,β Beatrice asked, βwhere are we going?β
βTo God, my dear Beatrice. This is the Road to Godβ
Laughter uncertain.
Eyes drifting from the road, Martinβs hand sank deep into the gloveboxβs dark leather.
βAmaretto, my love?β
Funny kind of pilgrimage, she thought.
I wrote βEnd Songβ many years ago now, a little bit while visiting London, a little bit near Salvador. Itβs travelled with me for almost ten years. On the βHyphaβ album, it continues the thread of sonic disintegration/recreation - how endings, romantic and otherwise, happen. The last bit features part of a sweet recording from the Hidden Years archive titled βDickman Reberio 1970β, in which John Dickman sings a Bob Dylan piece before the tape stretches and pulls his voice into a grainy mesh of buzzing frequencies.
Listen to the whole βHyphaβ album on Bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.
Image credit: David Marks
βSeamsβ explores decay as occurring in border zones and transitional spaces. The live performers occupy a more prominent musical role, while the background audio material is sewn together from the quiet moments of silent listening, in-between breathing, crackles, and anxious preparation of recording sessions in the Hidden Years Music Archive.
Listen to βSeams Iβ, βSeams IIβ and the full βHyphaβ album on Bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.
Image credit: David Marks
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βCodeβ is a graphic score based on three images selected from the Hidden Years archive (parts of these seen here) to serve as visual prompts for musical interpretation. Together, we read the images as a kind of visual code for performance, using a set of changing guidelines created by me. The piece is performed as three short movements and changed every time we played it.
Head over to @bandcamp to check out the full album.
Image credits: David Marks
The title track of our album, Hypha, draws its name from the long, branching filaments that make up the structure of fungi. I stitched together the bubbly moments of garbled text from some of the Hidden Years recordings and then wrote hesitant, chordal ideas that aimed to fill the gaps and cracks emerging from the prepared audio. Like the golden slivers used for patching in the Japanese practice of kintsugi and the strands of matter in this microscopic image, the played material stretches up through everything else, like little tonal filaments.
Listen to the whole Hypha album on @bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.
Image credit: David Marks
βHyphaβ opens with βGrain and Dotβ and, in this piece, I imagined the microscopic interactions between different species of mould and fungi within an archive. The piece is built up from processed experiments using decayed audio from Stellenbosch Universityβs Hidden Years Music Archive, hydrophone recordings of fish sounds and a tangled web of composed melodies for guitar, piano and violin.
Listen to the whole Hypha album on @bandcamp and on all streaming platforms.
Image credit: David Marks