Ah, I’ve been waiting for this to land.
“…like a late night journey through the British Isles” – DJ Food
He’s not wrong. This is your proper night music, and your proper radiophonic ritual evoking our haunted, lonely. doomed little island.
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Reader, I bring you good news from a better world. There’s a new Julianna Barwick record.
I’m damned if I’m buying a cassette tape, to be honest – having grown up with them and their fiddly-shit ways and too many instances of them getting chewed up in machines, I have no love or nostalgia for the medium. So this is an exception for me this year, in that I’m buying it digital-only.
Magnifcent.
… a church organ that dreamed it was a synthesiser. Each side of this cassette is a figurative depiction of a sunrise and sunset, rendered in live improvised church organ fired through a forcefield of FX.
This is organ music for astral projection. Ancient drones, wheezes and groans seep out of its hulking physical form in The Old Church, Stoke Newington and become… abstracted. The sound of the seasons solidifying. “Narcissus in metamorphosis.”
Remember that time in the early 80s when Kate Bush, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Cranes collaborated on a Christmas song for a Doctor Who episode where everyone was heartbroken and lost in an infinite snowdrift on a planet that orbited the afterlife? Well, that’s because it never happened, but this is the fugue delusion I sank into on the fourth replay of this wonderful little winter piece by Jodie Lowther, currently available as a free/pay-what-you-want stream/download. Lovely sound to come home to.
I’ve been following the WE GATHERED AT WAKEROBIN HOLLOW project by Mending for a while — I’m holding out for a massive CD set of the whole damn thing at the end. The final chapter releases in December, but they’ve let one track from it out today, and it’s gorgeous:
Go and discover the whole marvellous thing at https://mendingband.bandcamp.com/ .
It is fully GO TIME over here tonight but this wonderful nightmare cover of BAD MOON RISING is giving me life. Thanks for pointing me at the link, Tara.
God, I wish there was a CD of this. I found it and bought the digital release last night. A fifty-minute journey through a weird central European forest.
From their forthcoming record THE WORLD IS A BELL, the kind of low-tech drone pop I don’t hear much of any more, with riverine percussion that I find very elegant and charming.
Probably a nice change from what I usually play you, reader.
I’m not even in my body yet today, so here’s eighteen minutes of deep, resonant, sonically complex drone from Anna Peaker, which to me today is the sound of old England in winter. Beautiful and sonorous.
The piece was developed around recordings exploring registration and extended tones using the church organ at the Old Seacroft Methodist Chapel in Leeds. My aim was to explore the physical effects of the sonority of the instrument and somehow translate that. A heaviness and unease, then eventual lift.
From the artist otherwise known as Apollo Vermouth. Deep pulses in the mist. Very much helping me find my space today.