Touch Newsletter #293
Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #293. 2022 has been the year of Touch.40 beginning with the continuation of Covid restrictions across much of the world, already fading from collective memory as the cost of living crisis bleeds into winter.
From Berlin to California, London to Chicago, we have curated 10 hugely successful events with our artists playing out of their skins and the audiences who attended playing a vital part with their continued support and generosity of spirit. We have long insisted upon the power of listening as a creative force and this has been a wonder to witness and an honour to behold.
Travelling, playing, being there, going the extra mile, none of this would have been possible without a concert of commitment and the feedback we received has made it more than worthwhile. We continue.
2023 sees new releases on vinyl from Bana Haffar, Ozmotic | Fennesz and Jana Winderen, and CD albums from Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla (with Travelogue [Bali] - the second in the series after Travelogue [Nepal]), Richard Chartier, Zachary Paul and Claire M Singer. We will be issuing Michał Jacaszek’s “Gardenia” on vinyl for the first time later in the year.
Philip Jeck left us this year, but his powerful presence remains; a collaboration with Chris Watson, “Oxmardyke”, and a tribute CD featuring Faith Coloccia, Fennesz, Jana Winderen, Cris Cheek and others, including a solo track by Philip himself.
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Ash International
Ash International had a quieter year; first reissuing Carl Michael von Hausswolff’s “As Quiet as a Campfire” (originally on vinyl 25 years ago, now DL-only), then part two of Bill Thompson’s “Blackout” series. “Moloch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” won the best music for film award at the Netherlands Film Festival and Ash was delighted to issue its first motion picture sound track by Ella van der Woude. “Flash 須臾” by Yenting Hsu was part of the continuation of the Relight+MUSIC project collaboration with zhēnzhēn Stained Glass lab in South Korea.
Physical saw IHVH (Mark Van Hoen and Zachary Paul) with their CD “The Agnostic” and just out is Stefan Goldman’s momentous “Call and Response” CD, crafted entirely from artificial reverb and nothing else!
Beyond Marta de Pascalis and Strom|Morts releases on Ash International and Ted Reichman, with organ samples from vinyl records, on Spire, we honestly don’t know what next year will bring…
Oh, and there’s a new vinyl on Pomperipossa by drøne, “The Long Song”…
The Tapeworm
In 2022 The Tapeworm released tapes by Ken Hollings, Opal X, Alex The Fairy, The Howling, Blood Music, Superior London Pulp, Robert Takahashi Crouch / Yann Novak, Marsha Fisher, Itchy Spots, William Fowler Collings and Stonecirclesampler – those still in-stock are featured below. Tapes from Alvars Orkester and Lightning In A Twilight Hour will be released early in 2023…
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
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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 177…
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Long Wave
“Suspending time and immersing the listener in a widescreen of sound.”
Each month on the second Friday, Mike Harding and Bana Haffar present two hours of audio for dublab, Los Angeles.
You can catch up with the dublab archive on dublab.com, and for the entire Long Wave history (12 series so far for dublab and resonancefm) visit mscharding.net
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