Touch Newsletter #260
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #260. Touch: Displacing continues with Robert Crouch’s sound threnody for a lost friend, “A Drowning”. You can subscribe at touchdisplacing.bandcamp.com. All the income from subscribers goes to support the artists, whose activities are still being disrupted by the global pandemic.
“Touch: Displacing”
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Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK, Touch: Displacing is a new subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, released on a monthly basis over the coming year and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work. Contributors thus far: Sohrab, Olivia Block, Bana Haffar, Chris Watson, Richard Chartier…
Robert Crouch
“A Drowning”
“A Drowning” is dedicated to the memory of Michael Harper.
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham, 27th January 2021
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Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck
“Stardust”
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The next physical release on Touch is Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck’s collaboration, “Stardust”. They first met in Seattle at Chapel Space on 7 May 2016 during Touch Conference, which also featured Daniel Menche, Mark Van Hoen, Bethan Kellough and Simon Scott.
You will be able to pre-order “Stardust” on CD in April for May release.
Long Wave
“Long Wave 9.7”, titled “Mirare” and hosted by Mike Harding and Bana Haffar, broadcasts on Friday 12th March at 2PM PST on Dublab, Los Angeles. The broadcast features Yann Novak, Yenting Hsu, Geneva Skeen (whose music has recently been used by Adam Curtis for his latest BBC series “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”), drøne, fennesz sakamoto, Simon Scott, Anna von Hausswolff and more… The second hour is dedicated to the music and words of Miles Cooper Seaton, a traveller and teacher that left us too soon. Listen in on dublab.com. The full series is archived at mscharding.net
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 fifth year and have just posted episode 135…
Guerrilla Audio
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