Touch Newsletter #228
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #228. A further two new tracks, from Zachary Paul and fennesz sakamoto, are now available to subscribers of Touch: Isolation – a project that is still evolving. We continue to upload new pieces twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays… Since Easter Monday we've received superb new tracks from UnicaZürn, Philip Jeck and Strafe FR, with more in the pipeline. There is still time to support independent music and its numerous support systems.
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Addressing the distance between the micro and the macro – scenes that are familiar and universal, with forensic attention to the suspended nature of our time now. The bark is peeling apart from the trees.
BJNilsen writes: “Amsterdam is emptied of tourists and 19 million a year does make a difference. I am making a recording a day during April together with a Polaroid from the place chosen.” This personal documentation, of a city sounding different to in its usually busy mode, is titled “Pending” and will be updated daily. Listen to “Pending” on SoundCloud.
Touch and The Tapeworm are still shipping physical stock (albeit slightly slower than normal – at least twice a week) for any orders from our Bandcamp stores – touch333.bandcamp.com / the-tapeworm.bandcamp.com
Mask up and stay safe!
“Touch: Isolation”
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Touch: Isolation – A promise of at least 20 new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists. A photographic counterpoint, the view from Hampstead Heath during the London lockdown. Addressing the distance between the micro and the macro – scenes that are familiar and universal.
Subscribe at any point. Eight tracks are now available including, as of today, two new tracks from Zachary Paul and fennesz sakamoto. We plan to upload the series twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays…
Zachary Paul
“Aeolus”
“Keeper of the Winds, to still and to rouse whatever one he will” [Homer, 8-7th C BCE]. 47 tracks of violin recorded on September 5th, 2019.
fennesz sakamoto
“Kizuna (Touch: Isolation version)”
Ryuichi Sakamoto: piano. Christian Fennesz; guitar. Written by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Recorded by Tetsushi Mase at Niki Club in Japan, 2011. Thanks to: Niki Club, Hitomi Kitayama, Hiroyasu Sato.
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Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
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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 114…
Guerrilla Audio
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