Touch Newsletter #270
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #270. Touch is pleased to announce pre-orders for CM von Hausswolff and Chandra Shukla’s first in their new Travelogue series, Nepal. The premise is quite simple: the two galavant around the globe… more information below. Next up, we are promised Bali… “Travelogue: Nepal” is released on 13th August 2021 and you can order your copy from Bandcamp, with shipping commencing almost immediately if you order now…
Long Wave 10.4 broadcasts on the same day and features a track off the album. Bana Haffar has again collaborated on the show and this monthly series on Dublab will continue until Mike and Bana are told to stop. Guerrilla Audio, Simon Fisher Turner’s twice monthly series of field recordings, archive and other material has reached episode 145, which is totally epic. He will also continue in the same vein, making a nuisance of himself until he decides not to. Next up in the Touch: Displacing subscription series is a 20 minute contribution from Bethan Kellough, with Philip Jeck’s “This is the Hour of Lead-” just released, which drops late August…
“At A Moment’s Notice” by Stefan Goldmann and .es is released today. This album compiles three tracks of instantaneously formed music by Goldmann, an artist whose work typically involves carefully sequenced and layered integration rather than real-time spontaneity.
CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla’s Travelogue
“Nepal”
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CD in DVD case + DL - 4 tracks - 54:51. Buy “Nepal” on Bandcamp. Photography by CMvH. Design by Jon Wozencroft. Mastered by Denis Blackham.
1. PharLoKora 19:00
2. Anadu 10:43
3. Annapurna 10:33
4. Sagarmatha (Chomolungma) 14:35
Travelogue [Nepal] is the first in a series of collected international audio diaries. The premise is quite simple: the two galavant the globe with field-, EVP- and phone recorders and other devices where they record the essence of everything from the tiniest microcosms of nature on up to the polluted, diesel–fuelled roars of postmodern globalization. What surfaced are soundtracks that act as sonic documentaries of their travels.
In September 2019, CM von Hausswolff and Chandra Shukla met in Kathmandu, Nepal, over the course of 7 days. Recordings were made at the Bagh Bhairav Temple and Chilancho Stupa (Kirtipur), Durbar Square, Boudhanath Stupa, Swayambhunath Stupa and Shri Pashupatinath Temple (Kathmandu) and at The World Peace Pagoda, The Shiva Cave, Devi Falls and Phewa Tal Lake (Pokhara).
Buy “Nepal” on Bandcamp
Stefan Goldmann & .es
“At A Moment’s Notice”
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CD in an edition of 250 copies plus digital. Buy “At A Moment’s Notice” on Bandcamp. Mastered by Phil Julian. Photography by Stephen Wrench, with thanks to Jane Plüer.
1. 29-09-2019
2. Echoes Of An Era
3. 12-07-2012 (featuring .es)
Produced by Stefan Goldmann. Track 1 recorded live at Cafe OTO, London, by Adam Matschulat. Written and mixed by Stefan Goldmann. Track 2 written, recorded and mixed by Stefan Goldmann. Track 3 recorded live at Nomart Gallery, Osaka. Written by Takayuki Hashimoto, Sara Dotes and Stefan Goldmann.
“At A Moment’s Notice” compiles three tracks of instantaneously formed music from an artist whose work typically involves carefully sequenced and layered integration rather than real-time spontaneity.
After two individual sets performed by improv duo .es and electronic composer Stefan Goldmann at Nomart Gallery of Osaka, Japan, the event’s curator invited the three musicians to play together – an announcement made in front of the audience, without prior notice and with seconds to go… Goldmann met this challenge by loading a set of samples from an earlier release on The Tapeworm, “Haven’t I Seen You Before”, and firing them off through a delay unit while shifting time and pitch settings, creating a three-way conversation with Sara Dotes on piano and percussion and Takayuki Hashimoto on alto saxophone, shakuhachi, guitar and harmonica.
“Echoes Of An Era“ is a previously unreleased piece based on guitar improvisation channeled by a long-form looping device, originally recorded during the sessions for “Haven’t I Seen You Before”.
By contrast, the recording from the Tapeworm label’s 10th anniversary at Cafe Oto employs a rich base of prepared layers, whose temporal structure is constructed on the spot and performed without the aid of a premeditated temporal grid.
Stefan Goldmann writes: “In 2012 I met two very special musicians while performing at gallery NOMART in Osaka – Takayuki Hashimoto and Sara Dotes, aka .es. After individual sets, we were invited on the spot to perform together – without any preparation at all. It speaks of the extraordinary sensibility and range of these musicians to find ways to not merely move forward in unknown territory, but to build spontaneous structure that would prove worthy of rediscovering almost a decade later.
It is with great sadness that I learned that Takayuki passed away in May. Luckily I had the opportunity to discuss this recording, restoration and mastering with him earlier this spring. It now appears through The Wormhole and I hope it will allow new audiences to discover the art of this unique voice in improvised music.”
Read a review of the album at furtherdot.com
Buy “At A Moment’s Notice” 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 145…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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