Time is Away

Out on 2LP/CD/digital November 10, Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo + Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured fusions of fugitive sounds + reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them an ardent audience. Following from Ballads (A Colourful Storm, 2022), Searchlight Moonbeam is an autumnal dreamscape, intimate + vespertine, pensive + irresolute. An imagined community where differences drop off + resonances emerge – between Maher Shalal Hash Baz affiliates Kasumi Trio, Taiwanese score composer Chen Ming Chang whose ‘Rainwater’ (written for Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1986 film Dust In The Wind) is exquisitely heartbroken, + the plangent improvisations of self-taught French pianist Delphine Dora. 

Revelations are frequent: the bedsit isolationism of Bo Harwood + John Cassavetes’ ‘No One Around to Hear It’ (from The Killing of a Chinese Bookie); the narked minimalism of Klang (an early 2000s band formed by ex-Elastica guitarist + featuring prize-winning experimental novelist Isabel Waidner on bass); the etude-grooves + echoic wobble of below-the-radar French avant-gardists Omertà; the beautiful, plaintively dubby ‘Is It You?’ by Slapp Happy; a psych-tinged reimagining of PiL’s ‘Poptones’ by Simon Fisher Turner (one half of Deux Filles, + here, recording for él as The King of Luxembourg) that's as perverse as the cover of 20 Jazz Funk Greats. 

Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Time Is Away’s first broadcast, Searchlight Moonbeam is the musical analog of an Italo Calvino novel or a medieval fable. Associative, intuitive, borderless. Emotional + mysterious. Endowed with the tactility of Braille. A private language that is both unknowable + understood. It is a record of the seasons, for the seasons. Featuring an evocative essay by writer Jeremy Atherton Lin + disarming cover art by Penny Davenport, it showcases Rollo + Tierney’s still-unrivalled talent for gloaming melodies, disques du crépuscule + ensorcelled storytelling. Compiled by @timeisaway Art by @pennydavenport Liner notes by @jeremyathertonlin Design by @steelebonus Release bio by Sukhdev Sandhu

On July 2nd come to @spanners.club and hear Esse Pi Enne (@allnightflightrecords ) play live with DJ support from us and Kiran Sande (@lostdomain_____ ) tickets are £13 from the link in bio.

Early Bird 15/05 Ben Vida Guest Mix Mattheuu - Non-Human Love Song helen franzmann and nick huggins - slow moving waters Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - Perpetual Colette Roper - Untitled 1 The Fall - Birthday Song David Sylvian - Answered Prayers Amina Claudine Myers - Song For Mother E A La Ping Pong - Nordlaut 1 Coin Newman - Not to Horace Andy. - Government Dub Ephart Mujuru - Bangidza Ra Mutota Mahikwami Makhuvele - Hayilolosa Amale Ye Ma Tshangane Jessie Mae Hemphill - Feelin’ Good The Fall - C’n’C-s Mithering Bullwackies - Kicking Scott Robert Wyatt - Age of Self Philip Cohran - Unity Play Time - Waves Within Waves Jeux de Flutes des Berger Peuhls - Danse des Fraternite Bengt Berger - Chetu The Gladiators - Stick A Bush Lukę Cowan - Walworth Road Ben Vida - Unmake A World (feat. Felicia Atkinson) IAO - Helium IIIs Blue Communications - Australian Summer King Tubby - Heavy Duty Dub Junior Kimbrough - Release Me Barre Phillips - Amos Crow’s Barn Susanne Lewis - My Genessee Imugem Orihasam - Nek Noyujin Michael Cashmore - Sleep England

From the department of Euterpe… Priscilla – Priscilla Sings Herself York 1967 M/O: 6753.2289.621

Early Bird 08/05/26 with the Sleeves live Michael Jon Fink - Vocalise Popol Vuh - Spirit of Peace Eddie Marcon - あめのうた ame no uta The Heath Brothers - Warm Valley (feat. Stanley Cowell) Michael Jon Fink - Bells Jessie Mae Hemphill - I Wanna Be Ready Love, Claire - The Lonesome Marauder Veronica Dajani - Carole’s Summer Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, Jürg Frey - Landscape of Echoes The Radio Dept. - The Absence of Birds (Civilistjävel! Untitled Version 2) Laurence Crane / Apartment House - Bobby J Michael Jon Fink - Bells Giacinto Scelsi - Alleluia Petr Kotik - Plains at Gordium (Drums) Laie - Tonabfolgen mit Flächen I The Sleeves - Door Swings The Sleeves - Empty Thoughts The Sleeves - You, Now, Again Chas Smith - Scircura Barefoot - Olēka Seefeel - Ashime Joan La Barbara, Jacqueline Humbert — Via Dolorita, street of sorrows, street of sighs Celer - Mouthfeels of Capreae Ayami Suzuki - Unrealized Memory Jacob Ohrberg - Things I Can Be Helped to Do John Cage, Amelia Cuni - Solo for Voice 58 Raga 3 Giacinto Scelsi - Alleluia Loscil & Lawrence English - Vermillion Pataphysical - Integument Michael Jon Fink - Bells The Sensualists - Endless

From the department of Euterpe… Arturo Stalteri – ...E Il Pavone Parlo’ Alla Luna Lynx 1978 K/A: 4506.3332.670

Early Bird 01/05/26 Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - The Breeze/My Baby Cries (Live) Lulu Jackson - Careless Love Blues Demetrio Stratos - Scena, Fiaba, Pantomima (Scene, Tale, Pantomime) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Something (The Goutelas Suite) Frank Emilio Flynn - Danza para Piano Gilles Hekimian - Ballad pour G Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki - 6 Jeanne Bovet, Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: IV. Sarabande Tenniscoats - To Do First = 最初やるには Alessandra Novaga - Poppies in the Morning Sexteto Habanero - Como Esta Miguel Tara S’appart - Full Moon Song Jean-François Gaël & Pierre Buffenoir - Mosquée Mauve Eliana Glass live Sun Ra - Spontaneous Simplicity\ Valentina Ponomareva - Дремлют плакучие ивы François Tusques - Cococorico Camberwell Group - Driftglass Susanne Lewis - Don’t Care Partsong Alyssa - Frostad Frank Emilio & Guillermo Barreto - Tres Palabras JJJJJerome Ellis - Fountain #3 William Hooker - Mud Cloth Photek - T’Raenon William Parker - A Tree Called Poem (feat. Morley) Whitney Johnson - Dawn Pulse

Time is Away - DoE (Can a Tape Machine Improvise?) ‘This recording is the only surviving long-form tape collage made by Kurt Rapp during his time at the the Department of Euterpe. Identification of some of its constituent parts suggests it cannot have been made earlier than 1987. Research is ongoing.’ Greta Monach - Fonergon 77 Jeanne Bovet, Claude Debussy - Jimbo’s Lullaby Masabumi Kikuchi & Masahiko Togashi - Dreams Michael Byron - Marimbas in the Dorian Mode masami shinoda - heart, soul and mind 〜 ghosts (Ayler) Jack Treese and Steve Waring - À L’envers Andrea Centazzo - Etude sur le Tubophone Tamia Valmont - Appels Idea Vilariño - Todo Es Muy Simple Sebastian Maroto - Leyenda Marion Brown Quartet - November Cotton Flower Charles Amirkhanian - Mugic Franco Tamponi - Submarino Jean Schwarz - Keeping Still Tûkak’ - Ajajjaa Albert Giménez - La Chistera d’Erik Satie Jeanne Bovet, Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: IV. Sarabande Bob Cobbing, Francois Dufrene - Computer Poem, Paris, 1968 Andrea Centazzo - Rattling for a Vision Peter Zinovieff & Harrison Birtwistle - Birthday Song Leo Brouwer, Harold Gramatges - Pequeña Suite “Homenaje a Ravel” Karlheinz Stockhausen - Interstellar No. 2 Smith-Glamann Quintet - September Song

Early bird 24/03/26 from La Becque with love. With @luc_meier and @horasse Mahar Shalal Hash Baz - stone in the river TARA S’APPART - Faces of the moon pt.3 O Sobre Blau - Tottenham father Andrea Centazzo - Rattling for a vision Alex MacFarlane - Reason Burst Open (And Out You Tumbled) Long edit Thomas Brett - cresting Tamia - Appels Penguin Cafe Orchestra- Chartered Flight Alessandra Novaga - The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Little Piano Rivers Jenna Sutela - Pond Brain bela - To Follow the Heart That Pulls Away Stephen O’Malley - Spheres Collapser Phase II Organ Judith Hamann & James Rushford - Midmeste Joshua Abrams - Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation (brief immersion) Lea Bertucci - The Oracle Keiji Haino - Falling apart Matmos - The Chrome Reflects Our Image Yara Asmar - sounds from home Debit - Cholombia, MTY Los Thuthanaka - Quta (capo-kullawada) Kali Malone & Stephen O’Malley - Siren Song (HTRK cover) Leila Bordreuil & Kali Malone - Endless Dance of Eternal Joy Brian Conniffe, Suzanne Walsh & Diarmuid MacDiarmada - Holy ground long edit Tamia - Appels Thomas Brett - cresting Sympletic - space 42 Gramm - Type Zwei Mick Karn - Land Utsav Lal - Raga Jog Sun City Girls - 3D Girls

We’re delighted to welcome back former residents Time is Away (@timeisaway ) to La Becque. Artist Jack Rollo and cultural historian Elaine Tierney are currently working on their upcoming exhibition at the Warburg Institute (@the_warburg_institute ) in London, opening mid-June. Time is Away’s work spans radio, research, sound art, and DJ sets. Since 2013, they have hosted a monthly show on NTS Radio (@nts_radio ), weaving together music, spoken word, and field recordings into compositions that feel both like soundscapes and radio essays. If you’re around Geneva this week, the duo will host a listening session on the Bongo Joe (@bongojoerecords ) sound system this Thursday, April 23, from 7 to 10pm. Credits Time is Away, La Becque, 2026, photo Aurélien Haslebacher #labecque #labecqueartistresidency #timeisaway #2024residents #labecquehighlyrecommends

Early bird 17/04/26 with Han @boosterhooch Montagnana Trio, Daniel Lentz - Song(s) of the Sirens Seen Through - Slow Slide Gemma Blackshaw With The Dengie Hundred - Rising Tide The God Machine - Piano Song Asko Schönberg, Reinbert de Leeuw & Katrien Baerts, Robert Zuidam - Mi quam een schoon geluit Bob Desaulniers - Guess I’ll Go Away New North Wales - The Moon and One Star Will Bolton - Between the Railway and the Cemetery Prick of Conscience & Off Brand - Live at McNeils (Excerpt) Matt Robin & Princessa Mangione III - QUERLS Spine - Change Your Heart Lying Down Han - For Some Reason I Know His Name is Neil Cindy Islam - There is no discharge from war James Marrs - Yan tan tethera Grim Lusk - It’s Happening Ailie Ormston - Gliss Tony Morris - A Big German Lene Otis Finn - Side B (Excerpt) Masa Nazzal & Ilyas Titaou - untitled moments of borderless-ness Nakul Krishnamurthy - Side B (Excerpt) chizu nnamdi - may the townspeople rejoice! huzzah!! Uzganc Choir - John Suzannah Stark & Band - Ceistean gun freagairtean Lugh - Brigid Han - I Consider My Hairbrush L - Depersonalisation Radio Banter - Growing in Love Cancer House - The Moth Bizarre - Peroxide Paperclip Minimiser - TT A2 Pascal Schäfer - Mystére Flore Laurentienne - Régate Post Industrial Boys - Raindrops Bill Wells Trio - D.A.D.E Painting Petals On Planet Ghost - Honoo No Ko

From the department of Euterpe… Shirley and Dolly Collins - For as Many as Will Topic 1978 K/A: 4810.2225.781