Touch Newsletter #219
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #219. Simon Scott’s new digital-only release “Emergency Exit” was composed from field recordings of flood water and burning embers captured during 2019 in the Fens near Cambridge, where he is based. They are a microcosm of a much bigger global crisis - “climate change”.
The fourth album by drøne, (Mark Van Hoen and Mike Harding), is the third for Anna von Hausswolff’s label, Pomperipossa Records. Featuring Zachary Paul on violins, Charlie Campagna (bass and cello) and Katt Newlon on cello, the strings add lush, warm layers to a darker, edgier sound. Gabi Strong debuts on guitar and the voices of a host of vocalists inc. Claire Belhassine, Celia Eydeland, Bana Haffar, Pepa Ivanova, Nour Mobarak and Brisa Romero. “The Stilling” is available now on vinyl from Pomperipossa Records and as a download / stream from Bandcamp.
Many congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir! Last night she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Todd Philips’ Joker. Hildur created history with her win as she became the first woman to win this award as a solo composer.
Simon Scott
“Emergency Exit”
V33:20
2-track digital-only release. Buy Simon Scott “Emergency Exit” on Bandcamp. Mastered by SPS. Design and photography by Jon Wozencroft.
Tracklist:
1: Emergency
2: Exit
“Emergency Exit” was composed by Simon Scott from field recordings of flood water and burning embers captured during 2019 in the Fens near Cambridge, where he is based. They are a microcosm of a much bigger global crisis - “Climate Change”.
Buy Simon Scott “Emergency Exit” on Bandcamp
drøne
“The Stilling”
PRLP11
Vinyl LP, and on digital services. Buy “The Stilling” on vinyl from Pomperipossa Records. Download or stream “The Stilling” on Bandcamp. Recorded, edited and mixed by Mike Harding and Mark Van Hoen. Mastered by Charlie Campagna. Cut by Jason @ Transition. Photography and typography by Nico Van Hoen. Layout by Philip Marshall.
Tracklist:
A1: Mumming
A2: Influence Machines
A3: Vitula
B1: Sunder
B2: In The Eye
B3: The Stilling
B4: Hyper Sun (Including Every Day Comes And Goes)
The fourth album by drøne, (Mark Van Hoen and Mike Harding), is the third for Anna von Hausswolff’s label, Pomperipossa Records. Featuring Zachary Paul on violins, Charlie Campagna (bass and cello) and Katt Newlon on cello, the strings add lush, warm layers to a darker, edgier sound. Gabi Strong debuts on guitar and the voices of a host of vocalists inc. Claire Belhassine, Celia Eydeland, Bana Haffar, Pepa Ivanova, Nour Mobarak and Brisa Romero.
With the trademark drøne sounds of static, radio voices, field recordings, modular synthesizer and found sounds, recording chance sounds right up to the final mix add to the dynamism and energy of the album.
Scream — it’s all you can do now. Overwhelming, scatter-gun information delivery has us confused, bowel churningly fearful and appalled at the nature of the changing times. We are biologically, psychologically and emotionally able to cope with slow evolutionary change, but struggle with revolutionary, violent distortion or mutation. This leaves us anxious and even desperate for a firmer footing. Fight or flight.
“The Stilling”, a phenomenon whereby the wind speed on the planet seems to be slowing down for no known scientific reason, explores this state of discomfort and perplexion.
Time spins. The glass is falling…
This album includes a bonus track, “Black Stone”, featuring Zachary Paul and Gabie Strong, and a video which you can see here: field.nu/drone/blackstone
Buy “The Stilling” on vinyl from Pomperipossa Records
Download or stream “The Stilling” on Bandcamp
2019 Round-up — editions available on Bandcamp
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
ɡəˈrilə/
noun
noun: guerilla
a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.
Each audio edit will be posted for 14 days and then removed from the site, although the information about each guerrilla activity will be archived, but without the audio. There will be two postings per month with the first (also featuring Klara Lewis & Rainier Lericolais) on 1st August 2015, so please check in regularly to listen to the latest offering. We are well into the third year and have just posted episode 107…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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