Touch Newsletter #265
As the lockdown partially lifted and the UK suffered its wettest May on record, we paused Touch: Displacing to focus on Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck’s excellent “Stardust”, about which Chloe Lula in The Wire writes “…a hypnotic fugue that alludes to the presence of something grand, like an impossible vista unfolding just beyond our view”. Copies are going fast…
Carl Stone recorded “Namidabashi” for May’s Touch: Displacing (a subscription project where the focus falls on longer-form compositions, to be released on a monthly basis from October 2020 and featuring artists for whom duration is a key feature of their work).
“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, Geneva Skeen…
Carl Stone
“Namidabashi”
“Namidabashi was composed in January 2021, almost one year since the onset of COVID-19 and the suspension of my touring and performing activities during the subsequent pandemic. Although initially stranded in California, I turned to my home base in Japan after 11 months, and this track was recorded at Radio Free Nakano in Tokyo. But although it was conceived for a recording studio and not as a stage work, in fact I performed it live and the recording you hear is almost entirely in real time, with just a couple of cosmetic edits.
As is always the case, it is better not to read anything in the title, which translates into English as “Bridge of Tears,” as suggestive of the nature of the music itself, as I continue to employ a random method for associating titles to my compositions.” [CS 2021-05-25]
Photography and design by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham.
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Philip Jeck & Faith Coloccia
“Stardust”
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CD in DVD case + DL - 11 tracks - 59:43. CDs going fast… 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
Boomkat: “Collocia’s source material was recorded when her son was a newborn and formed during naptimes, so the sounds embody a blissful peacefulness while swerving any corny lullaby signifiers. Jeck’s additions of reverb and vinyl treatment push the sounds into haunted landscapes, retaining the essence of Collocia's material but giving them new depth and texture. “Stardust” is a satisfying meeting of minds, and a perfect middle ground between both artists’ strengths. Collocia’s raw emotional weight and Jeck’s emphasis on sound and methodology is a match made in heaven.”
Buy “Stardust” on Bandcamp
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 140…
Guerrilla Audio
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