Various Artists

Track list:

Vlora

1. Unknown Artist: Tana’s Legend – Legenda e Tanës

Pastoral improvisation. [Male polyphonic group from Lapharda]

2. Unknown Artist: If I Had Your Body – Unë të kisha trupin sënd

Love song. [Youth group from the city of Vlora]

Shkodra

3. Drita Metushi & Pretash Nikaj: Fairy of the Highlands – Zanë bjeshke

Song extolling the virtues of highland life.

4. Unknown Artist: Blessed Albania, Her Leadership Illuminates Her Road – Lum Shqipnia ku merr dritë

Song in epic form dedicated to the recent leaders of the Albanian people, The Party of Labour of Albania. [Folk group of Grumeria]

Gjirokastra

5. Unknown Artist: In the Dropull Plain – Në fushën e Dropullit

Epic song of a slain hero. [Polyphonic song of the Greek minority from Terihat]

6. Unknown Artist: Karaguna

Dance from the Greek minority in Vrisera about a characteristic black dress from the time of the Turkish occupation

7. Unknown Artist: Untitled Melody – Melodi me fyej, dyjare, zile e imitues

Instrumental piece with flute, bells and ‘imitators’ – vocal imitators of natural sounds (the wind, birds etc.). The free musical style is typical of the region of Labëria.

Korca

8. Fatmir Dandlli & Endri Fifo: Let Us Sing to the Brave Men – T’u këndojme trimave

A tribute to those killed defending Albania during the National Liberation War 1939-1944. [Polyphonic song performed by Fatmir Dandlli, first voice and Endri Fifo, second voice]

9. Eli Fara & Luiza Míça: Mule-Driver of Grebene – Qeraxhi i Grebenesë

Relating the exploits of a mule-driver. [Performed by Eli Fara, first voice and Luiza Míça, second voice]

10. Sofika Babliku & Ferit Shkëmbi: Korca, Your Son Has Come to See You – Korçe moj të erdhi djali

Song dedicated to the erection of a statue of Enver Hoxha in the city square of Korca in October 1988. [Polyphonic song in the Toskëria style performed by Sofika Babliku, first voice and  Ferit Shkëmbi, second voice]

11. Folk Orchestra Of Korca: Untitled Orchestral Melody – Melodi orkestrale

[Folk Orchestra of Korca with baglama [bakllama] played by Tomor Selimi and clarinet by Nevrus Nure]

Dibra

12. Myfterim Kupa & Fatmir Duka: I Am Waiting for You at the Sheep-Pen Gate – Po te pres te shtrunga e vathes

Pastoral love song. [Myfterim Kupa and Fatmir Duka of Kala e Dodës]

13. Unknown Artist: Bride’s Dance – Valle e nureve

Lyrical wedding dance. [Group of young girls from Sllova]

14. Myfterim Kupa & Fatmir Duka: The Sun and the Moon Don’t Shine – Dielli e hana s’po bajnë dritë

After the death of the hero Skanderbeg in the 15th Century, historical lament for those Albanians who served in the ranks of the Turkish army during the four centuries of occupation. [Myfterim Kupa and Fatmir Duka]

Tropoja

15. Ibrahim Muça & Islam Mustafa: There Where the Avalanche Stops – Ku pushon orteku I borës

Epic song telling of the beautiful mountainous landscape of the region and the hospitality of the inhabitants. [Performed by Ibrahim Muça and Islam Mustafa]

Compiled by Mike Harding, Liam McDowall & Jon Wozencroft
Notes revised by Mike Harding, May 2018

For one week in every five years, two thousand singers, dancers and musicians along with fifty thousand spectators make their way to the small town of Gjirokastra in southern Albania for the Festivali Folkloric Kombelar. In the great castle overlooking the town, they participate in the incredible National Folk Festival of Albania, hoping to attain the highest level of interpretation and win one of the many awards available the festival… the banner, even.

Considering the comparatively small size of the country (just over three million inhabitants) the range of instruments, styles and costumes seen at the festival is exceptional, sustaining a folk tradition that dates back to ancient Illyria.

The works presented here in volume one are all live recordings made at the Gjirokastra Festival, taken from six of the 26 participating districts: Vlora, Gjirokastra and Lorca from the south, and Shkodra, Debra and Tropoja from the north (see map).

The original compact disc, released in 1990, was a collaboration between The Institute of Popular Culture, Tirana, The Albanian Shop Ltd. and Touch.

Edited from the original 1/4” tapes, mastered and produced by Touch

Cut By Jason @ Transition

Design: Jon Wozencroft

With thanks to Liam McDowell & Don Bey and also to Spiro Shituni, Institute of Popular Culture, Tirana

Track list:

Side One
1. Glas

Side Two
1. Ustá

In 1932, a group from the remote town of Pik Grandisonyy, situated in the Vostochnyy Sayan near the Mongolian border, set out to escape the Great Famine and headed west. Having eaten their livestock, the villagers were forced to walk.; the journey would take two years. This collection represents some of the songs they sang on their way.

Design: Jon Wozencroft

Track list:

Side One
Pece Atanasovskog – Postupano Oro
The Musicians of Zagreb – Drmes (trad.)
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Come All Ye Sons of the Earth
Pece Atanasovskog – Zetovsko Oro
Pece Atanasovskog – Berance
The Folk Orchestra of Albania – Vallje E Nuseve me Sharki
The Folk Orchestra of Albania – Dite E Zeze Ish Kone E Honja
Pece Atanasovskog – Staro Tikvesko Oro

Side Two
Capella Ragusina – Himna Sv. Vlaha(trad.)
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Polieleos Servikos
Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle – Kratima Terirem
Bells of Chilander
Himna Sv. Vlaha (instrumental)

Audio notes:
The Folk Orchestra of Albania was conducted by Qamili Vogel.
Narodna was mixed 11.11.88 by Tezak and de Galantha, with thanks to Dragoslav Aksentijevic Pavle and the Serbian Orthodox Church of Zagreb.
The cassette, which was packaged in a Magnam Products Microcase, contained a folded card [see above].

Design: Jon Wozencroft

Tracklist:

Side AA: Touch 33 – Departing Platform 5
Side A: Various – Touch Ritual / Radio Cut-Up
inc. DunDun Ensemble, Gilbert And George, The Hafler Trio, Last Few Days, Renaldo & The Loaf, Strafe Für Rebellion…

Notes:
Matrix / Runout (Side A): AA – PLEASE LET THE PASSENGERS OFF FIRST
Matrix / Runout (Side B): A – A STRAIGHT LINE HAS TWO SIDES’

Track list:

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Within Living Memory
Regular Music – Purcell Manœuvres
Margaret Sambell – Metal Harmonics
S/Z – Call It Power
Gilbert And George – The World Of…
Biting Tongues – Feverhouse
Einstürzende Neubauten – Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel
Kent and Sayer – Memory Ground
The Nocturnal Emissions – Um Eh Eh Eh
Renaldo And The Loaf – Extracting the Re-Re
Kill Ugly Pop – One Minute Of Pure Venom
Strafe Für Rebellion – Rauperaha (Song Of The Maori Rebellion)
Fast Forward – Mamba
David Cunningham – Two Different Places
Touch 33 – North Star

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Autocue
The Residents – Theme For An American TV Show
Gilbert And George – Shadowed Valley
Camberwell Now – Daddy Needs A Throne
Wolfgang Wiggurs – Casting Of The Skin
Cabaret Voltaire – Diffusion
Gregorio Spini – Passing
Japanese For Monks
Last Few Days – Too Much Is Not Enough
Zazou And Bikaye – Signorina
Val Denham/tape treatments by A.M.McKenzie – I Touched The Memory
Gilbert And George – Another World Of…
Ricardo Mandolini – Canción De Madera Y Agua (Song Of Wood And Water)
Greater Than One – Urban Psychology
S/Z – Who Is The Author
Touch 33 – Greenhouse Effect
Silent Tongues – Sadhu Ritual Chant

Edited by Jon Wozencroft; Published by M Harding; Designed by Panni Charrington. Thanks to Rob Keyloch for editorial and production directions on mastering the cassette in April and November 1985.

Typesetting by The Printed Word, London. Printed by Sprinting. Colour reproduction by The Clifton Studio and Patina. Texts set in Albertus , Bodoni, Garamond, Futura, Zapf, Perpetua and Plantin.

A cassette-only version of the above was released in 1986 as:

TOUCH: RITUAL [T5c]

The celebrity is a person tuned into an abstract. Their status has little to do with their achievement (or lack of it) but everything to do with their ability to fit in with the demands of the new mass media ritual. This involves availability, accessibility, pliability and respectability – ‘shocking’ people are carefully dropped in to add spice or to populate ghettos. As they parade across the surface of the electronic media, celebrities become symbols (and, occasionally, victims), members of the televisual elite encouraging emulation and aspiration – the modern call to prayer. [Jon Savage]
Audio content and notes: T5c = T5

Track list:

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Within Living Memory
Regular Music – Purcell Manœuvres
Margaret Sambell – Metal Harmonics
S/Z – Call It Power
Gilbert And George – The World Of…
Biting Tongues – Feverhouse
Einstürzende Neubauten – Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel
Kent and Sayer – Memory Ground
The Nocturnal Emissions – Um Eh Eh Eh
Renaldo And The Loaf – Extracting the Re-Re
Kill Ugly Pop – One Minute Of Pure Venom
Strafe Für Rebellion – Rauperaha (Song Of The Maori Rebellion)
Fast Forward – Mamba
David Cunningham – Two Different Places
Touch 33 – North Star

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Autocue
The Residents – Theme For An American TV Show
Gilbert And George – Shadowed Valley
Camberwell Now – Daddy Needs A Throne
Wolfgang Wiggurs – Casting Of The Skin
Cabaret Voltaire – Diffusion
Gregorio Spini – Passing
Japanese For Monks
Last Few Days – Too Much Is Not Enough
Zazou And Bikaye – Signorina
Val Denham/tape treatments by A.M.McKenzie – I Touched The Memory
Gilbert And George – Another World Of…
Ricardo Mandolini – Canción De Madera Y Agua (Song Of Wood And Water)
Greater Than One – Urban Psychology
S/Z – Who Is The Author
Touch 33 – Greenhouse Effect
Silent Tongues – Sadhu Ritual Chant

The celebrity is a person tuned into an abstract. Their status has little to do with their achievement (or lack of it) but everything to do with their ability to fit in with the demands of the new mass media ritual. This involves availability, accessibility, pliability and respectability – ‘shocking’ people are carefully dropped in to add spice or to populate ghettos. As they parade across the surface of the electronic media, celebrities become symbols (and, occasionally, victims), members of the televisual elite encouraging emulation and aspiration – the modern call to prayer. [Jon Savage]

Track list:

North

ritual +
Cross purpose
PINK ELLN – Lice Skitt Frög
Traffic Noise
Screaming Leaf
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS – Metal Frames
A short jingle by SUDDEN SWAY
praise company
ELLIOTT SHARP – Black Rain
Greater Faith Cathedral Broadcast
SOVIET FRANCE – Ram
LOL COXHILL – 3/4
DET WIEHL – Play Sandwich

South

Satsumaimo man
SUNS OF ARQA – Sanskrit Hymn
GRAEME MILLER – Ash wei-ei-wah, Ash wei-ei-wah (Invocation of Past)
Snake Charmer
FRANK RICOTTI & BRIAN GULLAND – Pillow Under
GILBERT & GEORGE – Twisted and Aggressive
REGULAR MUSIC – Music For Film
WOLFGANG WIGGERS – Alluvium
Gregorio

Track list:

Side One

Eithne Ni Bhraonain – An Ghaoth O’n Ghrian (The Solar Wind)
Scene Two
General Strike – My Other Body
Clockface
Brian Gulland & Frank Ricotti – Journey
Swastika Bells
1000 Mexicans – Trans-Astrakhan (Seeing The World)
Body Talk
Old Silk Route – Pig Slaughter
3 Mustaphas 3 – Bam/Tsifteteli
Quimantu – Interview
Yanomamo Shamanism featuring David Toop
Köln Peals
Old Silk Route – Mule Bells
Eithne Ni Bhraonain – Miss Clare Remembers

Side Two

33 – Notes From The Underground
Scratch
Andrew Poppy – But Does Winston Own A Straw Hat (Part 2)
General Strike – Snowdrops
Quimantu – Despedida De Salta
Jon Keliehor & The Percussion Research Ensemble – The Trance Formations
Piedro Insipiedo – Creature Loves Sun
Corrugated Rain
Cremation Gamelan – Fires In Peliatan
Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart – Tribal
Mind The Gap

Produced by Harding/Mouat/Wozencroft. Design: Garry Mouat and Neville Brody.

Cassette production directed by Rob Keyloch. Master tapes supplied by The Playback Studios.

Contributors: Peter J. Bach, Neville Brody, Mooie Charrington, Panny Charrington, Kasper de Graaf, John England, John Forsyth, Yvonne Forward, Malcolm Garrett, Carrie Greenaway, Mike Harding, Rob Keyloch, Ben Mandelson, Norrie MacLaren, Andrew McKenzie, Chris Moretone, Garry Mouat, Jill Mumford, Ben Murphy, Fachtna O Ceallaigh, Tony Reason, D. Styme, Sheila Rock, Kevin Ward, Damian Wayling & Jon Wozencroft.

Track list:

Side One

“Day and Night”
Gending Gending
Suling
Degung Instrumental
Genggong
Cremation Gamelan
Dag combination dance
King Rama
Ramayana ll

Side Two

“Watermark”
One Language
Temple Gamelan
Frog Sound
Degung instrumental no. 2
Ducks
Tenun
Anjung
Garuda

Indonesians often use the name ‘Nusantara’, meaning ‘the islands in-between’, when referring to the archipelago that forms their Republic. This cassette covers only some of the cultural activity on Java and Bali, the best known islands out of the 13,700 counted by statisticians, so it is not intended to be in any way definitive. The selections are more like musical postcards of two cultures balanced between tradition and tourism.

legend: meridian 105º – 115º east

Audio notes:

King Rama, One Language and Garuda were written and played by Jon Keliehor and Orlando Kimber. © Bruton Music

Side one

There is no specific translation for ‘Gending Gending’. The term generally means ‘orchestra’ or ‘gamelan composition’. The Javanese word for hammer is ‘gamel’, and the music is said to encourage the growth of plants. ‘Suling’ – the end blown flute. ‘Degung instrumental’ – from the Sudabese region of West Java to the speakers of tourists cafes. ‘Genggong’ – the first Balinese instrument, a mouth harp made from the palm and played by Igusti Ngurah Togog at his homestay in Peliatan, Bali. ‘Cremation Gamelan’ – a portable ensemble plays while the cremation tower is raised from the death pavilion. Before travelling a mile along the Peliatan road to the Temple of the Dead, the tower is spun around on its bearer’s shoulders to confuse the soul, preventing its return home to trouble the living. The overture played as the tower is set alight (with a magnifying glass – matches are thought to be unclean), is recorded on ‘Touch Travel’. Dag combination dance – in Bali, individual dances are sometimes merged into modern adaptations, not only as a result of tourism – the gamelan elders think popularisation is the best way to attract young people to dance, though dividing lines are difficult to draw. ‘Dag’ is a combination of ‘Kecak’ and ‘Kebyar’, performed from the squatting position in a pantomime style very popular with children. Attention is focused on the facial expressions of the dancers which interpret man’s ever-changing moods. ‘King Rama’ – the story of the ‘Kecak’ (monkey) dance is taken from the Hindu Ramayana epic and portrays Rama’a search for his wife, Sita, who has been abducted to the monkey forest. Rama is an incarnation of Vishnu, The Creator, and serves as an ideal for the Hindu man. ‘Ramayana ll’ – the opening sequence of the gamelan acvcompaniment to the 4 part ballet held on the full moon-lit nights of June, July and August at Prambanan temple complex. The largest central temple is dedictade to Shiva, the destroyer. The voices that follow were recorded on a train at Bandung station at 3am, en route to Yogjakarta. Local sellers board trains whatever the hour, and every carriage becomes an indoor market.

Side two

‘Watermark’ – nightfall by a bridge near the Monkey Forest, Ubud. ‘One Language’ – there are c. 300 different languages and dialects in Indonesia. After independence in 1945, Bahasa Indonesian became the universally accepted language, though its use had already been encouraged by Nationalists as a political tool against the Dutch colonisers, and sanctioned by Japanese invaders who wished to spread propaganda to the villagers. ‘Temple Gamelan’ – musicians play while women bring ornately prepared offerings to the temple shrines on auspicious days of the Hindu calendar. Spirits and demons cannot live without food and drink, so the women fan the essence towards the divine recipient before offerings are placed on the ground to waiting dogs. Smaller offerings made daily, are left at strategic points around the house and alongside the ricefields. ‘Frog Sound’ – the sound comes from the reed mouthpiece of the genggong harp. Played by Togog and his son. ‘Ducks’ – every morning young boys and old men direct the family ducks out of their pens and along narrow paths into ricefields that are wet enough to paddle in. ‘Tenun’ – the Balinese weaving dance depicting women working at this traditional craft. ‘Anjung’ – the name given to the hordes of semi-wild dogs that roam Bali’s villages, barking instinctively at any approaching white man. ‘Garuda’ – Indonesia’s national symbol is the Garuda bird. Vishnu’s chosen vehicle and thus the king of flight associated with creative energy. Garuda is a dominant motif in Indonesian art, the name of the national airline and the seal of the official state coat of arms, beneath which appears the words ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’ – literally ‘many are there but there is only one’.

Mastered 22/23 April – use noise reduction. Edited by Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding. Design: Jon Wozencroft

Track list:

Side Three

Wendy Chambers – Star Spangled Banner
400 Blows – 399 To Go
A Certain Ratio – Si-Fermir-Ogrido
masse;rebel (behind the front line)
Deux Filles – Airium
The Nocturnal Emissions – Body Count
Jean Tinguely – Meta-Harmonie 11
Derek Jarman – Archaeology of Sound
Matador! – Mother Earth Film Music

Side Four

John Foxx – The Quiet Man 3
Bruce Gilbert – Children
Virginia Astley – When the Fields were on Fire
Gorp – Give Me the Moonlight
Pure – Disconnected
Touch 33º – ai
Mulligan & Smith – Walk on By

Audio notes:

400 Blows are Andrew E. Beer & Alexander S. Fraser. Courtesy of Concrete Productions. Deux Filles are Gemini Forque & Claudine Coule. Saxophone on ai – Geoff Blyth. Walk on By – Bacharach & David, arranged by Mulligan & N. Smith – courtesy of De Stijl.

Visual content:

Contributions by Panny Charrington, Neville Brody & Chris Moretone, Graham Elliot, Russell Mills, John Foxx, Peter Saville, Tom Aldam, Wolfram Jacob, Caroline K, Mooie Charrington, Linder, Brett Wickens, Steven Appleby, Jon Barraclough and Malcolm Garrett & Roger Cleghorn.

“Touch can be anything it desires, from words to music to images. Each medium received equal opportunity and the only necessary pre-item is conviction with tolerance. No two items are alike. Sameness is anathema. Quality is only born of change and that stimulus is the real motivation.”

P.V.C. wallets by P.R. Hunter (Plastics) Ltd. Screen printing by Art-O-Matic. Typeset in Clarendon, Optima & Palatino by Focus Photoset Ltd. Full colour printing by Miter Press Ltd. Cover printing by Owlhouse Partnership.
Produced by Harding/McKenzie/Mouat/Wozencroft

Track list:

Side One

Matador! – Nowever, Ornever
AC Marias – The Whispered Year
sigil one
Pascal Gabriel – Machu-Picchu
mother earth film music
Touch 33º – Oral Tradition
Graham Lewis – He Said “Argh…”
John Foxx – The Quiet Man 4
Simon F. Turner – Wash

Side Two

sigil two
Current 93 – Salt
Touch 33º – The Crucible
Test Department – Efficiency
S/Z – Text
The Pathfinders – Long Shadows
NOTi – Diagnosis
sigil three
Ludus – Corpse Candle

Produced by Harding/McKenzie/Mouat/Wozencroft

Track list:

Side One

The THIRD MIND
mobile
Koto Numariya : Nakano-xu
Andy Ross : Bush / Xylatymbou
1000 in the one
S. Eritrea : Chant
a clean mirror
Gamelan music from Bali
Soliman Gamil : Music Dialogue
return of paradise
Fasili Kassa : East of the river
Bamyali : Sheep
The Children’s Hour [read by Arthur Storey McKenzie]

Side Two

The LAST WAVE
Touch 33 / Andy Warhol : Orange Disaster
Flesh : Box [extract]
Terry Fox / Touch 33 : Internal Sound
Empty Words : Sign Language
NOT I : Triptych: i. The Blue Wind ii. 4 Doors iii. Painted Faces

Touch 33 ::: Lines in pursuit of the trinity achieved through a union of Eastern and Western consciousness within one medium
Edited by A.M.McKenzie and Jon Wozencroft. Design: Garry Mouat
Mastered at the suitcase studios 23/24 Jan 1983

Track listing:

Side One

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Final Verse, “Last Poem”
New Order: Video 586 – 1
Soliman Gamil: The New Nubia
Robert Wyatt, from an interview
The Death & Beauty Foundation: Song of the Houseproud Ghost
Hans Eisler/Mayakovsky: Subbotnik
Eric Random Meets the Bedlamites In Cassette Conference

Side Two

Simple Minds: King Is White
Tuxedomoon: Shelved Dreams
Shostakovitch: Waltz from ‘The Bedbug’
New Order: Video 586 -2
Flesh : Hesitate

Audio notes:

“Last Poem” read by Ian McCurragh. “Video 5-8-6” written and produced by New Order, initially as soundtrack to the opening of The Hacienda in Manchester, England. “The New Nubia” courtesy of The Egyptian Cultural Embassy. The Death And Beauty Foundation by Val Denham and A.M.McKenzie. Hans Eisler and Vladimir Mayakovsky recording courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The Bedlamites on this occasion were Wayne, Dids and Lyn Seed. Simple Minds produced and engineered by Peter Walsh; licensed by Virgin Records Ltd. Tuxedomoon-Peter Principle, Steven Brown, Blaine L. Reininger-mixed and engineered by Gilles Martin; text by Blaine L. Reininger. Shostakovitch arranged by Gerard McBurney; performed by Kathron Sturrock (piano), Horoutune Bedilian (violin), Elizabeth Wilson (cello), and recorded live at the Riverside Studios. “Hesitate” composed and recorded by George Handleigh and A.M.McKenzie.

Visual content:

A5 32pp booklet featured the work of Keith Breeden, Neville Brody, Panny Charrington, Malcolm Garrett, Hipgnosis and Ian Wright, with manifestos by The Death And Beauty Foundation and The Temple Ov Psychick Youth (written by David Tibet). Also published were The Rozztox Manifesto (by Gary Panter / The Residents), “Vladimir Mayakovsky” by Alan Reid, Norrie MacLaren’s “Video Column”, “The New Nubia”, and Your Guide To Naming A Pop Group, “Nominal Success” by Shirley Ellis. Cover photography by Panny Charrington.

Feature Mist was produced by A.M.McKenzie, Garry Mouat and Jon Wozencroft with the assistance of Michael Harding. A cassette-only edition was remastered in March 1986.