Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #157. Announcing “Källan (Betatype)” – a new Anna von Hausswolff release. Two editions of 500 copies each are available – an Ash International edition and a Pomperipossa Records edition. The two editions feature differing screen-printed covers, both drawn and etched by Anna von Hausswolff. Each copy is signed by her and numbered by the label. Released on 18th November 2016, TouchShop is now taking pre-orders for the Ash International edition.
“Källan (Betatype)” is the second recorded version of Källan, after “Källan (Prototype)”, which was released on Touch in 2014 and is available as a digital download.
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Ash 12.1 | Anna von Hausswolff “Källan (Betatype)”
12" Vinyl + download if you purchase in the TouchShop (the digital version will be sent to you on the release date, 18th November 2016)
Screen printed cover with black on black insert, white label 12” in clear plastic sleeve. Strictly limited edition of 500. This Ash International edition is numbered 500/1 to 500/500 and signed by the artist.
Track List
Side A Källan (Betatype) pt 1 12’ 10"
Side B Källan (Betatype) pt 2 9’ 21"
Anna von Hausswolff - Acusticum pipe organ
Ulrik Ording - drums
Filip Leyman - synths
Karl Vento - guitar, zither
Joel Fabiansson - guitar
Written by Anna von Hausswolff, inspired by Walter Ljungquist’s Källan. Recorded, produced and mixed by Filip Leyman. Mastered by Hans Olsson Brookes.
This release is a split release with Pomperipossa Records, Anna von Hausswolff's Swedish-based label. There are two editions of 500: each edition has a unique screen-printed cover (drawn and etched by Anna von Hausswolff). Each copy is signed by her and numbered by the label.
“Källan (Betatype)” is the second recorded version of Källan, after “Källan (Prototype)”, which was released on Touch in 2014 and is available as a digital download.
Pre-order Anna von Hausswolff “Källan (Betatype)” in the TouchShop
www.annavonhausswolff.org
www.pomperipossarecords.com
www.ashinternational.com
Tone 45.6D | Anna von Hausswolff “Källan (Prototype)”
Now available as a digital release (previously limited edition of 500 vinyl)
Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft
Organ: Anna von Hausswolff. Recorded live at Lincoln Cathedral, 19th October 2013. Performed at Frequency 13 Lincoln Digital Culture Festival as part of Touch presents…, (which also featured Chris Watson & Hildur Gudnadottir). Recorded live by Mike Harding using 2 x dpa 4060s onto a Nagra Ares Pll digital recorder. This recording is unedited from the original raw file.
Though she now lives in Copenhagen, Anna von Hausswolff grew up in the once vibrant, bohemian neighbourhood of Haga in Gothenburg, Sweden, in a family who counted amongst their ancestors Bernhard Reynold von Hausswolff, an 18th Century governor of Falun, Sweden, who helped bring an end to the burning of witches. Although Anna has achieved acclaim with her song-based albums “Ceremony”, “Singing from the Grave” (both first released on Kning Disk in Sweden) and the latest “The Miraculous” (released on her own label, Pomperipossa Records), she has always had an ear for the radical approach, and this is the first step in a long-term collaboration with Touch.
Buy Anna von Hausswolff “Källan (Prototype)” in the TouchShop
www.annavonhausswolff.com
Tone 55 | Yann Novak “Ornamentation”
Limited edition CD + DL.
Photography by Jon Wozencroft.
Mastered By Lawrence English at 158.
Track List
1. Ornamentation 49:00
Presented live in Los Angeles at a small, private event. Source material includes field recordings captured throughout the United States and Canada from 2006 - 2016 and modular synthesizer recordings, all digitally altered.
Yann Novak is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. “Ornamentation” is Novak’s first physical release on Touch and continues his investigations of presence, stillness and mindfulness through the construction of immersive spaces, both literal and figurative. On “Ornamentation” Novak resists modernism’s problematic relationship to race, class and labour, and attempts to decouple contemporary minimalist sound work from this historical precedent.
Order Yann Novak “Ornamentation” in the TouchShop
www.yannnovak.com
TTW#87 | Acid Fountain “Sabina”
Cassette only – limited edition of 150 copies
Illustration – Simon Scott
Track List
A1: Dreaming/Drumming
A2: San Pedro
A3: Goodbye Industry
A4: Heavy Sand
B1: Terres Rares
B2: Étoiles Filantes
B3: Mujer Espíritu
Tristan Bath writes in The Quietus: “… Acid Fountain’s previously issued synthesizer-and-drum-machine albums on his own label, are built from similar base materials, though not recorded with such spontaneity. The limitations of the live takes on Sabina force Acid Fountain to bang harder than ever when doing the techno stuff, and evolve the melodies of those softer tunes organically. The results are spine-tingling.”
Buy Acid Fountain “Sabina” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
TTW#88 | Marta De Pascalis “Anzar”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies
Illustration – GDP (Untitled,1973)
Track List
A: Anzar
B: Emerso
All music by Marta De Pascalis – synthesizers, tape echo. Mastered by Francesco Donadello at Calyx Mastering. De Pascalis (b. 1987) is a musician from Rome, currently based in Berlin, who works primarily with synthesisers and tape loops.
“Anzar” and “Emerso” are two works composed using improvisation on a tape-loop system, in which patterns of repetition create a sense of a dense, dynamic and cathartic distance. “Anzar”’s cover art is from a series of black ink paintings made by Marta’s father in the 1970s.
Marta De Pascalis writes: “I see these pieces as tied in a cyclical motion with their sounds moving in different directions. In “Anzar”, sounds are constantly “falling” from the source, landing gently and staying on the tape’s surface until they fade out to be replaced by other sounds, finally reaching an austere resolution. In “Emerso”, there’s a different scenario: a persistent theme in the background with sounds that slowly emerge, interact and then dissolve, ending with an abrupt change of tone. Where is the centre of this cycle? Where is the centre of this tape? The centre is moving constantly; the centre is missing. Switch sides. Repeat.” – Marta De Pascalis, Berlin, 19th August 2016.
Buy Marta De Pascalis “Anzar” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
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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.
Guerrilla Audio
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