Touch Newsletter #236
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #236. Next up in the Touch: Isolation subscription series, Rosy Parlane and OZMOTIC. For those of you who commented positively on our leader in 235, thanks for reading and responding, and to the couple who were negative, turn the telescope around…
Music IS political, technology is political – there’s no rock music without slavery, no electronic music as we know it without equal opportunity (Daphne, Delia +++) and international collaboration, no field recordings without low-cost air travel and the miniaturisation of electronics. WORLD music? There are no festivals without freedom of movement and no performance space of any kind without private or institutional funding.
All art is either adopted, co-opted, tolerated, manipulated, financed or suppressed by authority; musicians are tortured, have their instruments smashed (or worse), and while suffering many other deprivations they still write, perform, provoke and annoy wherever they possibly can.
An earlier introduction to one of the Touch: Isolation newsletters mentioned Brexit, to which one gentleman responded by refusing to subscribe as a result. Well, FFS but what do you think this is all about? The entire British government response to the pandemic has been based on Brexit ideology – fantasy politics, dogma and corporate propaganda – which got us into this mess in the first place. Restriction of cultural exchange and the rise of nationalism masks the return of eugenics as a key feature of governmental policies worldwide.
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“Touch: Isolation”
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Touch: Isolation – more than 20 new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists. Photography by Jon Wozencroft, Hampstead Heath, March to April 2020.
Subscribe at any point. 23 tracks are now available including, as of today, two new tracks from Rosy Parlane and OZMOTIC.
Rosy Parlane
“Awa”
Written and recorded in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. 2019-2020.
Thank you: Simon Lear, Torben Tilly, Paul Toohey, Rachelle Wood.
OZMOTIC
“Oxygen Particle”
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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 115…
Guerrilla Audio
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