Touch Newsletter #264
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #264. We are now taking pre-orders for a limited edition CD by Philip Jeck & Faith Coloccia, “Stardust”, to be released worldwide on 21 May 2021. The CD comes in DVD-format packaging with artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft. The audio was mastered by Denis Blackham.
The next Touch: Displacing contribution will be posted later in May…
Long Wave, Mike Harding's radio show on LA-based radio platform, Dublab, kicks off the 11th series, broadcast on Friday 14th May at 2PM PST. Co-hosted with Natasha Pirard, the show will feature tracks from Vvbvs, Lina Tullgren, Melissa Pons, Zachary Paul, Yenting Hsu, Charlie Campagna, Richard Chartier, Machinefabriek, Judith hamann, Jacob Kirkegaard and Lea Bertucci, amongst others.
Philip Jeck & Faith Coloccia
“Stardust”
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CD in DVD case + DL - 11 tracks - 59:43. Buy “Stardust” on Bandcamp. Photography and design: Jon Wozencroft. Mastered by Denis Blackham.
1. Stardust
2. Archaea
3. Acquire the Air
4. Creosote
5. Seeds Planted in the Heart
6. Mycobiont
7. Usnea
8. I Feel As if the Grass Was Pleased
9. Speaking Stone
10. Mycorrhizae
11. Sun
From Philip Jeck: “After first meeting at a concert of mine in Seattle, (on the Touch Conference tour of 2016) I was asked if I'd like to work on some recordings of Faith that would be sent to me as dubplates. I liked them a lot and started to work on them but without much success, I couldn't at that time come up with anything that I thought added to Faith's pieces. Last year in covid lockdown Faith asked again if I felt like reworking again her dubplate recordings. Second time around I really enjoyed reshaping and finding a place in them. It then took about one month to complete the tracks to my own satisfaction and sent them to Faith (hoping that she would also like them!).”
From Faith Coloccia: “Philip and I met in Seattle WA at the Touch Conference in 2016. It was the first time I had seen him perform live, the experience was beautiful, full of emotion and magic, I knew I had to become friends with him! I kept in contact with Philip, and asked if he wanted to collaborate on a music project with me, to which he agreed. I recorded my tracks when my son was a newborn during his nap times. It was an interesting process to think about someone else's creative practice beforehand, knowing that I would be making sounds for him to use and change. Part of this process was preparing dubplates to be sent to Philip, which was a first for me. Philip worked on the music for a while and then took a break, while I continued with my other music. Then during the shutdown and pandemic of 2020, I asked Philip if he was still interested, and by then he had plenty of time, and created the mixes that became “Stardust”.”
Originally sourced from Faith’s cassette recordings from 2015-2018, some songs (in different form) appear on the Mára recording “Here Behold Your Own”.
Buy “Stardust” on Bandcamp
Simon Tassano & Eddy Sayer
“Waterglass”
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Digital download, 44m45s. Remastered by Simon Tassano, 18th February 2021 at Rumiville, Austin, Texas. Original recording mixed at Elephant Studios, July 1984. Design and photography by Jon Wozencroft.
“Waterglass” was originally conceived as a soundtrack for artist Sheila Stewart to paint seascapes at Studio One and a Quarter North London in 1984. Originally released on cassette in 1984 as SAYNO PRODUCTIONS. Each cassette inlay card contained a colour photo from North Wales taken by Simon Tassano – a different one each time, from hundreds of gloss ‘snappy snaps’, cut in half at the printers. “Waterglass” is now available digitally on Bandcamp.
Buy “Waterglass” on Bandcamp
“Touch: Displacing”
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Touch: Displacing is a new subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, to be released on a monthly basis over the coming year and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work. It follows on from Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown period in the UK.
Twelve new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch or Touch-affiliated artists for one year’s subscription, with contributions from Sohrab, Olivia Block, Bana Haffar, Chris Watson, Richard Chartier, Robert Crouch, Geneva Skeen and others – all mastered by Denis Blackham, to whom once again grateful thanks are due. Receipts will, as with Touch: Isolation [the collection is still available], be shared amongst the artists. A time to support independent music while it still exists!
Each of the releases will be mirrored by a cover/counterpoint by Jon Wozencroft – not fixed to one location, as they were with Touch: Isolation.
The subscription costs £33 for twelve tracks – please support the artists by investing in the Touch: Displacing project, and expect surprises – good ones for a change.
Subscribe at touchdisplacing.bandcamp.com
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 139…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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