Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #200; a new release available for pre-order, live events across the globe and a brand new episode of Touch Radio… Plenty to get your ears into, so here goes!
TO:113 | UnicaZürn “Sensudestricto”
Release date: 26th April 2019 - now available for pre-order on Bandcamp
Vinyl LP + DL - 4 tracks - 39:08 + bonus track
Composed, recorded and produced by Stephen Thrower & David Knight
Mixed at Wolf Studios, Brixton, with Dominique Brethes
Cut by Jason @ Transition
Artwork & Photography: Jon Wozencroft
Track listing:
Side One [18:24]
1. For the Dark Planets
2. Into Burning Labyrinths (Fuse-Fire-Seed)
Side Two [20:44]
3. Stems of the Shadowmind
4. A Gulp of Moss, a Breath of Stone
You can hear a medley here and pre-order on our Bandcamp page here
Has there ever been a better time to fuck off to the stars? Is a prison breakout ‘escapism’? Crisis carve some wound-space to let the dreams back in. In nights we turn to fire, in flight we burst into stone, where are the exits in this theatre of the damned? Strict luggage allocations – guitar (D. Knight), saxophone (S. Thrower) – and all the electronics your thoughts can carry. Headspin echoes, round and around, tilt wind-sails at a dark horizon, cut a stutter through the distance barrier. In to be out through the structure of the eye, encrusted with rotor-slime, pushing on through border erosions as everything melts into smoke, burning objects may be closer than they appear. Nebulae dazzle the shadows, tunnel through memories and
the pulp-mass of neurons, forwards heading backwards, end of tether snapped, slide into the earth like ancient worms and breathe.
UnicaZürn’s core instrumentation blends analogue synthesiser, mellotron and electric piano with electric guitar and saxophone. Knight is reknowned for his pioneering multi-textured fretwork with Danielle Dax and Shock-Headed Peters, and his ambient guitar settings for Lydia Lunch, while Thrower’s reed playing provided rage and melancholy in Coil and turns to electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe.
And you can hear them perform the album live on 28th April, where copies of the album will be for sale…
Buy UnicaZürn “Sensudestricto” on Bandcamp
www.unicazurn.com
28.04.2019 | Touch presents… Live at Iklectik
UnicaZürn
Mark Van Hoen
Touch
Doors: 7pm
Film*: 730pm
Concert: 8pm
*Film: Stargazers Assistant – Resurgam II (An Audio Visual work by The Stargazer’s Assistant and Maurice Burns). Taken from the 2018 LP Resurgam I, Resurgam II by The Stargazer’s Assistant. Duration: 19mins 52sec
The Stargazer’s Assistant is:
David J. Smith
David J. Knight
Michael J. York
Click here to purchase tickets
03.05.2019 | Touch presents… Bana Hafar live at Ancienne Belgique
Bana Haffar
Touch
Live at the Salon, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, May 3rd, 8pm.
Touch label protégé presents a live modular set. West Coast artist Bana Haffar has been a part of the Touch “mentorship programme” since early 2019. The former professional bass-player swapped her stringed instrument for a modular Eurorack-synth a few years ago and has since become one of the most interesting artists on the scene at the moment.
Her most recent release “Matiere” came out in 2018, on the modular-synth label Make Noise Records.
[Bana is also appearing at Bleep43 at The Crypt, Clerkenwell on the Green, London on April 27th]
Click here to purchase tickets for Bana Hafar live at Ancienne Belgique
14.05.2019 | Touch presents… Live at Zebulon, Los Angeles
Carl Stone
Kid606
Geneva Skeen
Zachary Paul
Click here to purchase tickets
Facebook Event page
Tone 67 | Zachary Paul “A Meditation on Discord”
CD/DL
Mastered by Simon Scott @ SPS Mastering
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Track listing:
1: Premonition
2: Slow Ascent
3: A Person with Feelings
You can listen to an extract of “Premonition” here
…and a reminder that just out is Zachary Paul's debut album, “A Meditation on Discord”,
about which The Quietus wrote: “Zachary Paul proves one human being alone on stage with a violin can still conjure up a whole world” and Chain D.L.K. said: “a rewarding listen, and the fact it doesn’t overstay its welcome is an impressive feat.”
Buy Zachary Paul “A Meditation on Discord” on Bandcamp
www.thezacharypaul.com
Touch Radio 146 | Stuart Bowditch
10.04.19 - Stuart Bowditch – “Noon bells in Sicily” - 1:00:00 - 320 kbps
Whilst on holiday in Sicily Stuart wanted to capture the sound of the local church bells. Choosing to record at 12 noon every day seemed a reasonable way to record more elaborate bell combinations whilst also fitting in other holiday plans with his travelling companion.
An edit of ten minutes from each location is included here, with 12 o'clock being positioned in the middle at five minutes to afford some context of the local area. Sicilian dialect has been used to indicate each day. Church names have been used to indicate location rather than street names, and bells from nearby churches can also be heard as the timing on each church is slightly different. Some churches ring twice, and one church not at all. The bird sounds were made by an old man hiding behind the tree that I was recording under.
Recorded using a Sound Devices Mix-Pre 6, and a stereo pair of LOM Uši omni-directional mics attached to a coat hanger.
Màrtiri – San Francesco di Paola, Palermo
Mèrcuri – Cattedrale di Palermo and Parrocchia Ss Maria Assunta
Iòviri - Parrochia San Girolamo, Mondello
Vènniri - Chiesa di San Domenico, Palermo
Sàbatu - Cattedrale di Monreale
Dumìnica – Chiesa del Gesù, Palermo
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Play “Noon bells in Sicily”
www.touchradio.org.uk
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 90…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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