Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #201. Don’t miss People Like Us and Daniel Menche performing live at Iklectik, London on June 22nd 2019… Plus – a new live recording from Fennesz, new old releases on Bandcamp and a storming TouchRadio from Machinefabriek, making his debut...
TO:115C | Fennesz “Live at the Jazz Cafe”
2-track digital download, 61m 16s
Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft
Fennesz performed live at the Jazz Cafe in Camden, London on 12th March 2019. Recorded by David Ros. Mastered by Simon Scott @ SPS Mastering.
This recording was also released as a limited edition cassette of 200 copies. Touch have sold-out of our allocation, but copies might still be available from our distributors, Kudos (UK/EU) and Forced Exposure (USA).
Buy Fennesz “Live at the Jazz Cafe” on Bandcamp
T33.2 | “Islands In-between”
Recordings made by Jon Wozencroft in Indonesia, originally released on cassette in 1984 and later on vinyl. Now available to download on Bandcamp.
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
Buy “Islands In-between” on Bandcamp
TO:7 | Soliman Gamil “The Egyptian Music”
Available on download and cassette. Full colour artwork by Jon Wozencroft, with bonus track (not listed) "Solo Kanoun”. Cassette features original print from 1987…
Recorded in Cairo. Thanks to Suraya Moyine, The Egyptian State Information Service. Cover by P. & S. Charrington.
Buy Soliman Gamil “The Egyptian Music” on Bandcamp
Touch Radio 147 | Machinefabriek
1.05.19 – Machinefabriek – “Moving Noises 2015” - 22:34 – WAV
Sifting through his archive of live recordings, Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) chose this performance from 2015 (in a very cold church in Bochum, Germany) as a favourite. As with most of his gigs, the concert was improvised, using an analogue tone generator as the main sound source, a radio, a contact mic, and a selection of pedals. Always a hit-and-miss venture, but always exciting (though at times nerve-wracking for the artist).
Photo by Constantly Consuming
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Play “Moving Noises 2015”
www.touchradio.org.uk
22.06.2019 | Touch presents… Live at Iklectik
People Like Us
Daniel Menche
Doors: 7pm
Film*: 730pm
Concert: 8pm
A rare UK performance from Daniel Menche and a a new audiovisual immersive cinema performance “The Mirror” by People Like Us.
Click here to purchase tickets
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
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
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 93…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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