Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #197. We are now taking pre-orders for Simon Scott’s new album, “Soundings” - available on compact disc and also as a strictly limited cassette featuring an alternative, extended mix to the CD edition. “Soundings”, his debut studio album for Touch, finds Simon Scott, the composer and sound ecologist, using field recordings from various cities around the globe; modular synthesizer treatments; live strings and laptop electronics to create an album of transition and shifting time zones. The recordings were edited and composed in hotels rooms across the world as Scott was constantly on tour as the drummer for Slowdive, who successfully reformed in 2014.
Touch Tip for February: Geneva Skeen, following “A Parallel Array of Horses” on Lawrence English’s ROOM40 label, has a new album out today on cassette and download on Gabie Strong’s Crystalline Morphologies… (see below for further details).
TO:112 | Simon Scott “Soundings”
CD/CS/DL
Mastered by Denis Blackham
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Track listing:
1: Hodos
2: Sakura
3: Santori
4: Mae
5: Grace
6: Nigh
7: Baaval
8: Apricity
We are now taking pre-orders for Simon Scott’s new album, “Soundings” [Touch # TO:112, released on 22nd February 2019]. Soundings, his debut studio album for Touch (he previously released the live album “Floodlines” in 2016 and re-issued “Below Sea Level” in 2017. “Insomni” was released on Ash International in 2015), finds Simon Scott, the composer and sound ecologist, using field recordings from various cities around the globe; modular synthesizer treatments; live strings and laptop electronics to create an album of transition and shifting time zones. The recordings were edited and composed in hotels rooms across the world as Scott was constantly on tour as the drummer for Slowdive, who successfully reformed in 2014.
“Hodos”, the album opener, begins with 85 mph Storm Barney recordings, ending with the fading sounds of bellbirds and cicadas recorded in Brisbane 2018. “I took a home recording I made of Storm Barney in Cambridge, listening to it on repeat when I was flying from continent to continent. I wanted this to be the starting point of the process of musically documenting how much travelling I was doing”. This album was created from the US to Asia, South America to Europe and the Arctic Circle back to the UK via California. “Working in hotel rooms and on flights, listening to and editing the recordings I’d made from all of these distant cities formed the basis of the album. It’s the soundtrack to four years of my life in flux with constant change, jet lag, excitement and the seeming perpetual motion of travelling”.
Available on CD and also as a cassette in an edition of 100 featuring an exclusive 60 minute extended version of the audio with a different mix from the CD… two tracks, representing sides A and B of the cassette edition.
Buy the CD on Bandcamp
Buy the limited cassette on Bandcamp
www.simonscott.org
Geneva Skeen
Touch Tip for February: Geneva Skeen, following “A Parallel Array of Horses” on Lawrence English’s ROOM40 label, has a new album out on cassette and download on Gabie Strong’s Crystalline Morphologies… "Dream State" is out today! Highly recommended! Geneva is also touring the west coast of North America this month...
12th February - Center for New Music, San Francisco, with William Fowler Collins
14th February - Gallery 1412, Seattle
15th February - Quiet City, Vancouver, with Alex Moskos, Exeunt
17th February - Coaxial, Los Angeles, with William Fowler Collins and others
Geneva Skeen is part of the Touch Mentorship programme, which recently added Bana Haffar to the roster.
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.
guer·ril·la
ɡəˈrilə/
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 3rd year and have just posted episode 83…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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