Track list:
1. Cambrian: Upper And Middle – 530 to 495 Million Years Ago (4:49)
2. Ordovician: Upper – 430 To 420 Million Years Ago (7:18)
3. Devonian: Upper – 375 To 360 Million Years Ago (6:40)
4. Permian: Upper – 258 To 245 Million Years Ago (4:32)
5. Triassic: Upper – 229 To 205 Million Years Ago (5:10)
6. Jurassic: Lower And Upper – 205 To 130 Million Years Ago (6:22)
7. Cretaceous: Upper – 95 To 65 Million Years Ago (7:25)
8. Tertiary: Oligocene And Eocene – 58 To 23 Million Years Ago (6:08)
9. Quaternary: Pleistocene – 2.3 To 0.01 Million Years Ago (5:33)
10. Quaternary: Holocene – 0.01 Million Years Ago (7:22)
Catalogue
TO:19 – Strafe FR “Lufthunger”
TO:13 – z’ev “One Foot in the Grave”
Track list:
CDOne
1-01 Z’EV Forbuki
1-02 Stefan Weisser Book Of Love Being Written As They Touched, As Is As, Instill, 9 Feathers Floating, Oomoonoon #1, Spatial Poetics, Oomoonoon #2
1-03 Stefan Weisser The Mountain Looked At The Mountain… And Slipped Away To Sea
1-04 Stefan Weisser OK, Get Rid Of That
1-05 Z’EV So
1-06 Cellar-M Bleedfat
1-07 ‘TO’ Big Wave
1-08 Stefan Weisser Sound Of Wind And Limb
1-09 Yoel Live At The ‘Fab Mab’
1-10 Rax Werx In The Compound
1-11 Z’EV Radio Station KPFK
1-12 Z’EV Shake Rattle & Roll
1-13 Z’EV First 30 Minutes
1-14 Z’EV Metal Bizondere Plastik
1-15 Z’EV Hottest Night
1-16 uns BRC
1-17 Z’EV Lust/Unlust 1-4
1-18 uns Strange Girl
1-19 Z’EV Flew Ting
CDTwo
1-20 Z’EV Documenta
1-21 Z’EV Light Of Metal Sounding
1-22 Z’EV Gronigen Mix
1-23 Z’EV Under The Hammer #1
2-01 Z’EV Short Wave
2-02 Z’EV Pieces
2-03 Z’EV The Erl King
2-04 Z’EV Beautiful Music
2-05 Z’EV Lightning Music
2-06 Z’EV Following In The Footsteps
2-07 Z’EV Under The Hammer #2
2-08 Z’EV Bel’s
2-09 Mother Tongue Words
2-10 Mother Tongue Conches
2-11 Z’EV Tattoo
2-12 uns Aldo’s Bar
2-13 uns Says
2-14 Magneet Bond Magneet For Organ And Bond
2-15 uns Boxes
2-16 uns Past 2 Days
2-17 uns Save The What?
Tone 2 – Etant Donnés “Royaume”
Track list:
1. Royaume (7:16)
2. Matin (3:46)
3. 4 (3:15)
4. Bleu (7:41)
Tone 1 – The Hafler Trio “Masturbatorium”
Track list:
1. Masturbatorium
Artwork – Jon Wozencroft
Featuring – Annie Sprinkle
Photography [Back Cover] – Les Barany
Notes: “This recording utilises elements from various pieces, most being initiated with this project in mind, amongst which are: Psychological Astronomy – Psychophysicist (Newton, McKenzie), The Threat That Cannot Be Obeyed – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), SPIRICOM – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), Tesselation – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), A Luna Kanula – Asburd (McKenzie, Ponton), I Remain, Yours… – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie, Karkowski), Tantric Resonance – The Anti Group (Newton, Baker, Dennis), The Ames Room – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie), Imsak – The Hafler Trio (McKenzie). Every other sound was constructed especially for this Goddess Ritual accompaniment.
Back cover photograph of the Goddess herself during this ritual taken by the legend that walks like a man, Les Barany. Front cover photograph © Annie Sprinkle. H3O logo by Mark O. Design: Jon Wozencroft. Much more that thanks are due to Annie, Ellen and Anya for above all, faith. To all everywhere – “we’re all somebody’s baby”. Dedicated to Marthe (she’ll know why – eventually).”
TO:17 – Andrew McKenzie & John Duncan “Contact”
Track list:
1. Set
2. Source
3. Direction
4. Act
5. Meld
6. Track
7. Target
8. Trajectory
9. Change
TO:16 – Etant Donnés “Aurore”
Track list:
1. Untitled (1:52)
2. Untitled (3:16)
3. Untitled (9:17)
4. Untitled (4:22)
5. Untitled (4:08)
6. Untitled (1:44)
7. Untitled (8:26)
8. Untitled (4:27)
9. Untitled (1:01)
10. Untitled (2:30)
11. Untitled (3:58)
TO:14 – Soliman Gamil “Ankh”
Track list:
1. Dance Of Ka
2. Lamentation
3. Pharoah Funeral Process
4. Isis Looks For Osiris
5. Supplication
6. Echoes Of Memphis
7. Dance Of Gaiety
8. Shadows In The Desert
9. Alexandrian Dance
10. Cairo At Dawn
11. Dance Of The Campaign
12. Village And Town
13. Ghost Dance
14. Dervish Dance
15. Clown Dance
TOC:2 – The Hafler Trio “Kuklos”
Track list:
1. Kuklos
Intention, attention and duplication
Soundtrack to “The Graphic Language of Neville Brody”
Design: Jon Wozencroft
T33.9 – Bezhad “Myth”
Track list:
Side One
Myth (Mish)
Love (Mitre)
Spring (Bahaar)
Friend (Doust)
Free (Azad)
Moving Sky (Nielofar)
Side Two
Change Bringer (Kavian)
Sun (Korsheed)
The End (Payan)
Apocalypse (Rastaxis)
Against Gravity (Afarin)
Mish
All arrangements of original songs are based on pre-Islamic music from the Sassanian and Achamenian eras (100 BC to 500 AD). Instruments used on this recording are: TAMBOUR – the first documentary evidence referring to this 3-stringed acoustic long-necked lute occurs in Susa, an ancient city in South West Persia. In ancient myth, Soroush (or ‘The Muses’) played the tambour to awaken humans with the sound of love as they slept after the creation of the world. Originally the lutes were called ‘star’ or ‘setar’, meaning ‘sound producer’. The sound of the tambour represents the planet Mars, or ‘the Iron Planet’. In Sufi music (ie post-islam), a tambour is usually played with the DAF – this tambourine represents the Sun and means ‘beat’ or ‘tap’ (the same root as the word ‘tabla’), which is the sound of the heart. Together, the tambour and the daf represent the planets revolving around the sun, and the combination of the rhythms symbolises the secret of creation. The daf also represents femininity and the tambour masculinity (as Yin and Yan). TOMBAK (featured here on Spring) is the most common drum to be found in Persian music. In the Sassanian era (the last dynasty before Islam), ‘tombak’ meant poetical rhythm, or the skilful use of the fingers to produce a wide range of sounds. It has the same linguistic derivation as ‘tambour’, and is made from wood and goat or sheep hide.
Inspiration for the songs comes from a desire to preserve pre-Islamic melodies and rhythms. More dynamic, they combine the immediacy of popular folk songs with an ancient classical spirit – the Iran that does not appear on television. In spite of ‘World Music’, Iranian pop is destroying Persian culture by ignoring traditional values and beliefs. Why should this be “inevitable”? A healthy tree has healthy roots.
Audio notes:
Recorded and engineered by Behzad Blourfroushan and Olivier Abitbol, to whom grateful thanks are due. [Kensington, Summer 1989]
T33.11 – There Where the Avalanche Stops – Albanian Music Vol. 1
Track list:
Vlora
1. Unknown Artist: Tana’s Legend – Legenda e Tanës
Pastoral improvisation. [Male polyphonic group from Lapharda]
2. Unknown Artist: If I Had Your Body – Unë të kisha trupin sënd
Love song. [Youth group from the city of Vlora]
Shkodra
3. Drita Metushi & Pretash Nikaj: Fairy of the Highlands – Zanë bjeshke
Song extolling the virtues of highland life.
4. Unknown Artist: Blessed Albania, Her Leadership Illuminates Her Road – Lum Shqipnia ku merr dritë
Song in epic form dedicated to the recent leaders of the Albanian people, The Party of Labour of Albania. [Folk group of Grumeria]
Gjirokastra
5. Unknown Artist: In the Dropull Plain – Në fushën e Dropullit
Epic song of a slain hero. [Polyphonic song of the Greek minority from Terihat]
6. Unknown Artist: Karaguna
Dance from the Greek minority in Vrisera about a characteristic black dress from the time of the Turkish occupation
7. Unknown Artist: Untitled Melody – Melodi me fyej, dyjare, zile e imitues
Instrumental piece with flute, bells and ‘imitators’ – vocal imitators of natural sounds (the wind, birds etc.). The free musical style is typical of the region of Labëria.
Korca
8. Fatmir Dandlli & Endri Fifo: Let Us Sing to the Brave Men – T’u këndojme trimave
A tribute to those killed defending Albania during the National Liberation War 1939-1944. [Polyphonic song performed by Fatmir Dandlli, first voice and Endri Fifo, second voice]
9. Eli Fara & Luiza Míça: Mule-Driver of Grebene – Qeraxhi i Grebenesë
Relating the exploits of a mule-driver. [Performed by Eli Fara, first voice and Luiza Míça, second voice]
10. Sofika Babliku & Ferit Shkëmbi: Korca, Your Son Has Come to See You – Korçe moj të erdhi djali
Song dedicated to the erection of a statue of Enver Hoxha in the city square of Korca in October 1988. [Polyphonic song in the Toskëria style performed by Sofika Babliku, first voice and Ferit Shkëmbi, second voice]
11. Folk Orchestra Of Korca: Untitled Orchestral Melody – Melodi orkestrale
[Folk Orchestra of Korca with baglama [bakllama] played by Tomor Selimi and clarinet by Nevrus Nure]
Dibra
12. Myfterim Kupa & Fatmir Duka: I Am Waiting for You at the Sheep-Pen Gate – Po te pres te shtrunga e vathes
Pastoral love song. [Myfterim Kupa and Fatmir Duka of Kala e Dodës]
13. Unknown Artist: Bride’s Dance – Valle e nureve
Lyrical wedding dance. [Group of young girls from Sllova]
14. Myfterim Kupa & Fatmir Duka: The Sun and the Moon Don’t Shine – Dielli e hana s’po bajnë dritë
After the death of the hero Skanderbeg in the 15th Century, historical lament for those Albanians who served in the ranks of the Turkish army during the four centuries of occupation. [Myfterim Kupa and Fatmir Duka]
Tropoja
15. Ibrahim Muça & Islam Mustafa: There Where the Avalanche Stops – Ku pushon orteku I borës
Epic song telling of the beautiful mountainous landscape of the region and the hospitality of the inhabitants. [Performed by Ibrahim Muça and Islam Mustafa]
Compiled by Mike Harding, Liam McDowall & Jon Wozencroft
Notes revised by Mike Harding, May 2018
For one week in every five years, two thousand singers, dancers and musicians along with fifty thousand spectators make their way to the small town of Gjirokastra in southern Albania for the Festivali Folkloric Kombelar. In the great castle overlooking the town, they participate in the incredible National Folk Festival of Albania, hoping to attain the highest level of interpretation and win one of the many awards available the festival… the banner, even.
Considering the comparatively small size of the country (just over three million inhabitants) the range of instruments, styles and costumes seen at the festival is exceptional, sustaining a folk tradition that dates back to ancient Illyria.
The works presented here in volume one are all live recordings made at the Gjirokastra Festival, taken from six of the 26 participating districts: Vlora, Gjirokastra and Lorca from the south, and Shkodra, Debra and Tropoja from the north (see map).
The original compact disc, released in 1990, was a collaboration between The Institute of Popular Culture, Tirana, The Albanian Shop Ltd. and Touch.
Edited from the original 1/4” tapes, mastered and produced by Touch
Cut By Jason @ Transition
Design: Jon Wozencroft
With thanks to Liam McDowell & Don Bey and also to Spiro Shituni, Institute of Popular Culture, Tirana
TO:12 – Strafe Für Rebellion “Vogel”
Track list:
1. Taste (3:50)
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
2. Rising Sun (4:13)
Cello – Markus Jansen
Guitar – Axel Grube
3. In Egypt In The Month Of May (6:13)
Bass – Axel Grube
Flute [Transverse] – Delia Gee
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
4. New Musicsister (3:54)
Guitar – Axel Grube
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
5. Soundless Message (7:43)
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
6. For Mao Folk And Religion (4:41)
Bass – Ka Marion Wedrich
Violin [China] – Hans Josef
7. Boston (3:24)
8. Love Bees (3:32)
Violin – Wolfram Schatz
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
9. Long March (6:59)
Guitar [Spanish], Castanets [Castañetas] – Ka Marion Wedrich
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
10. Kamerun (4:06)
11. Portuguese People (3:16)
Violin – Hans Josef
Vocals – Marion Rinke
12. Toryance (2:54)
Vocals – Makiko Tsuchyia
13. Windhuk (4:54)
14. Mastino (6:41)
Cello – Markus Jansen
Vocals – Makiko Tsuchyia
15. Abendhimmel (2:20)
Trombone – Andy Jansen
Vocals – Moira Kirstin Boyd
TO:11 – The Hafler Trio “Ignotum Per Ignotius”
Track list:
1a. Before
1b. Materia Confusa
2a. Calcination
2b. Aqua Ardens
2c. Sublimation
3a. Condensation
3b. Crystallization
4a. Albification
4b. Solification
4c. Nigredo
5a. Journey In The Dark
5b. The Inner
5c. Words Of Power
6a. Gold From The Blackness
6b. After
T33.8 – Glas/Usta
Track list:
Side One
1. Glas
Side Two
1. Ustá
In 1932, a group from the remote town of Pik Grandisonyy, situated in the Vostochnyy Sayan near the Mongolian border, set out to escape the Great Famine and headed west. Having eaten their livestock, the villagers were forced to walk.; the journey would take two years. This collection represents some of the songs they sang on their way.
Design: Jon Wozencroft
SPL:1 – The Hafler Trio “A Bag of Cats”
Track list:
1. Alternation, Perception And Resistance (4:50)
2. Kuklos (3:18)
3. Imsak (3:52)
4. Crucible (5:13)
5. Mesne (Kruis) (6:05)
T33.7 – Narodna
Track list:
Side One
Pece Atanasovskog – Postupano Oro
The Musicians of Zagreb – Drmes (trad.)
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Come All Ye Sons of the Earth
Pece Atanasovskog – Zetovsko Oro
Pece Atanasovskog – Berance
The Folk Orchestra of Albania – Vallje E Nuseve me Sharki
The Folk Orchestra of Albania – Dite E Zeze Ish Kone E Honja
Pece Atanasovskog – Staro Tikvesko Oro
Side Two
Capella Ragusina – Himna Sv. Vlaha(trad.)
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Polieleos Servikos
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Kratima Terirem
Bells of Chilander
Himna Sv. Vlaha (instrumental)
Audio notes:
The Folk Orchestra of Albania was conducted by Qamili Vogel.
Narodna was mixed 11.11.88 by Tezak and de Galantha, with thanks to Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle and the Serbian Orthodox Church of Zagreb.
The cassette, which was packaged in a Magnam Products Microcase, contained a folded card [see above].
Design: Jon Wozencroft
Codex 1 – Jean Baudrillard “Xerox and Infinity”
About:
Translation: Agitac, London, November 1988.
Originally published as Le Xerox et L’Infini, Paris, 1987
Design by Touchepas with the assistance of Critchley, Haswell, Elliman, Bell & Agitac.
P8: Randon text programme, version 47 / ∞
Touchepas
ISBN 0-33701-88-9
Printed in three editions:
1st edition – landscape A5, photocopied
2nd edition – landscape A5, photocopied, grey cover
3rd edition – portrait A5, black cover, printed, embossed still available (limited edition of 100).
T7:45 – Touch Ritual Cut-up
Tracklist:
Side AA: Touch 33 – Departing Platform 5
Side A: Various – Touch Ritual / Radio Cut-Up
inc. DunDun Ensemble, Gilbert And George, The Hafler Trio, Last Few Days, Renaldo & The Loaf, Strafe Für Rebellion…
Notes:
Matrix / Runout (Side A): AA – PLEASE LET THE PASSENGERS OFF FIRST
Matrix / Runout (Side B): A – A STRAIGHT LINE HAS TWO SIDES’
TO:10 – Mother Tongue “Open in Obscurity”
Track list:
Side One:
Geelgalayah
Side Two:
1. Who
2. Wind Carved My Face
3. Lying In The Desert
4. The Humble Man
5. Heart
Percussion, mixed & recorded by Z’EV
Tape: A.M. McKenzie
Voice: Doro Franck
TO:9 – The Hafler Trio “A Thirsty Fish”
Track list:
Side One:
1. A Thirsty Fish
2. The Dirty Fire
3. A Loud Egg
Side Two:
1. The Blind Table
2. A Hungry Stone
3. The Rubber Ice
Side Three:
1. A Deaf Stick
2. The Closed Bread
Side Four:
An Elderly Testament
Artwork by Jon Wozencroft & Neville Brody
Photography – Ben Ponton/Charrm