Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #205. At the end of September, The Tapeworm celebrates its tenth birthday with two London concerts.
On Thursday 26 September “XWORM – The Tapeworm x Iklectik” will feature performances from Blood Music, Zeno van den Broek, Dale Cornish, Ken Hollings x Howlround (for the first time as a duo), SavFrost, Tears|Ov and a People Like Us screening. Tickets now on sale. Further details below…
On Sunday 29 September “XWORM – The Tapeworm x Cafe OTO” will feature performances from Laura Agnusdei, Stefan Goldmann, Jay Glass Dubs, Philip Jeck x Jana Winderen (for the first time as a duo), Marta de Pascalis, Simon Fisher Turner and Zerocrop. Tickets now on sale. Further details below…
The night before, Saturday 28 September “Touch presents… Live at Café Oto” will feature performances from Jana Winderen (a rare UK performance), Philip Jeck, Bill Thompson (making his debut) and Mark Van Hoen, freshly over from Los Angeles. Full details can be found on the Cafe OTO website. Further details below…
Bana Haffar’s debut CD/DL for Touch, “Genera - Live at AB Salon, Brussels” is out now.
Its a busy autumn… Hildur Gudnadottir, after Chernobyl for HBO (EMMY nominated), where she worked closely with Chris Watson, has scored “Joker”, which is released 4th October worldwide…
26.9.19 | XWORM – The Tapeworm x Iklectik
Blood Music
Zeno van den Broek
Dale Cornish
Ken Hollings x Howlround
People Like Us
SavFrost
Tears|Ov
Thursday 26 September
Doors 7.30pm / £8 advance / £10 on the door
Buy tickets from tickettailor.com
On Thursday 26 September, The Tapeworm celebrates its tenth birthday at Iklectik — AV performances from Zeno van den Broek and Blood Music, plus a People Like Us short. Splendid trio Tears|Ov premiere their forthcoming album on The Wormhole, ‘A Hopeless Place’. Savage Pencil and Barbara Frost launch their new Bookworm paperback, ‘Cuckoo Head Cool Dog’ with a book singing. Collaborating for the first time, The Howling is a Ken Hollings/Howlround soundclash. To end it all, Dale Cornish will be banging out a ‘Dale on 45’ megamix of his greatest worms.
Further details at iklectikartlab.com
Buy tickets from tickettailor.com
28.9.19 | Touch presents… Live at Cafe OTO
Philip Jeck
Bill Thompson
Mark Van Hoen
Jana Winderen
Saturday 28 September
Doors 7.30pm / £10 advance / £8 Cafe OTO members / £12 on the door
Buy tickets from cafeoto.co.uk
Touch is delighted to present live at Café Oto, London on 28 September 2019. In no particular order, playing live will be Jana Winderen (a rare UK performance), Philip Jeck, Bill Thompson (making his debut) and Mark Van Hoen, freshly over from Los Angeles. Full details can be found on the Cafe OTO website.
Further details and tickets at cafeoto.co.uk
29.9.19 | XWORM – The Tapeworm x Cafe OTO
Laura Agnusdei
Stefan Goldmann
Jay Glass Dubs
Philip Jeck x Jana Winderen
Marta de Pascalis
Simon Fisher Turner
Zerocrop
Sunday 29 September
Doors 6pm / £13 advance / £11 Cafe OTO members / £15 on the door
Buy tickets from cafeoto.co.uk
On Sunday 29 September, The Tapeworm celebrates its tenth birthday at Cafe OTO — Jay Glass Dubs plays live, with a new tape titled ‘Two Devotional Songs for Spaceman 3 in the Style of Love Inc.’ available exclusively on the night. Philip Jeck and Jana Winderen will perform as a duo for the first time ever. Splendid saxophonist Laura Agnusdei premieres her forthcoming album on The Wormhole, ‘Laurisilva’. Marta de Pascalis will blow your mind, while Stefan Goldmann is gonna go all acousmatic. Simon Fisher Turner is playing piano and life-sounds. The interim minstrel will be Zerocrop.
Further details and tickets at cafeoto.co.uk
Tone 71 | Bana Haffar “Genera; Live at AB Salon, Brussels”
CD/DL + bonus track, “Bird’s Eye”
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Recorded by Mike Harding, 3 May 2019 at AB Salon, Brussels
Mastered by Simon Scott @ SPS Mastering
A lifelong expatriate, Bana Haffar was born in Saudi Arabia in 1987 and spent much of her childhood in the GCC. Through her switch from 10 years of electric bass, preceded by classical violin, to modular synthesizers in 2014, Bana is attempting to dismantle years of institutional conditioning in traditional systems of music theory and performance. She is interested in exploring sonic disintegration and coalescence into new forms and synthesized experiences. Bana lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Instruments used – Eurorack modular: Make Noise René 2, Make Noise Tempi, Make Noise WoggleBug, Make Noise Morphagene, Make Noise QMMG, Make Noise tELHARMONIC, Make Noise Maths, Serge Resonant EQ, Mutable Instruments Shades, Mutable Instrument Clouds. Non-modular: Field recordings made using a Zoom H6 and LOM mikroUsi microphones, GE 35383 Micro Cassette Recorder
Buy Bana Haffar “Genera; Live at AB Salon, Brussels” on Bandcamp
www.banahaffar.com
TTW#114 | Davide Luciani “Calming Counts”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies. Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering. Artwork by Anna von Hausswolff.
Tracklist:
A1: Asleep
A2: Awakening
B: Death To The Other Side
Davide Luciani is an Italian electronic music composer and media designer, based in Berlin since 2011. He has a background in the Italian noise-rock scene with projects dating back to 2005. “Calming Counts” is Luciani’s first solo release.
Buy Davide Luciani “Calming Counts” on Bandcamp
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.davideluciani.com
TTW#115 | Moon RA “GCT”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies. Artwork by SavX.
Tracklist:
A1: Intro
A2: Need To Fight Inside And Outside The Windows Of The Inverted Spirit
A3: Acid Casual Caustic
A4: Apex Domina
B1: Caustic First Shot Of Fire In My Arms With The Questions In My Hands And In My Back
B2: Digital Answers / Analog Answers
B3: TACRMN
B4: Obviously Disoriented About The Opinions Of The Main Roads Of The Happy Prince
B5: Chiusa
B6: About 40mg
“I am a musician and in this moment of my life I am dealing with pain and all that follows… This is an album based on the concept of physical pain, its title taken from the name of a famous theory about it.
I have attempted to communicate – through the sound synesthesia and its movements — the same sensations and disorientation that we can try in times of difficulty and suffering. However, in every track there is a strong dose of energy and struggle, obtained from the timbre and dynamics of many analog instruments (not least the Buchla at EMS in Stockholm). I also used sounds from acoustic instruments, effects, tapes, Walkmans, reel-to-reel recorders, a modular synth and more…
My aim is to work on the perceptions of the listener, making them participate with the emotions – main actors in the relationship between suffering and struggle.” – Marie e le Rose, Florence, 30 May 2018.
Buy Moon RA “GCT” on Bandcamp
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
@marieelerose
TTW#116 | John Macedo “Left Behind”
Cassette only – limited edition of 100 copies.
Tracklist:
A1: Church the Light of the World
A2: Sixty-four Sine Waves (D Aeolian)
A3: Sixty-four Sine Waves (C Major)
A4: Sixty-four Sine Waves (G Minor)
A5: Sound for Animation That Never Happened
B6: No Input Mixer Improvisation
B7: Warm Room
B8: Modified Portable CD Player
B9: WORM
“Left Behind” is a collection of studio-based works, improvisations and sound studies from 2006-2013. They were all intended for release but for one reason or another never made it out into the world.
Buy John Macedo “Left Behind” on Bandcamp
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.johnmacedo.co.uk
Guerrilla Audio
Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner, 64 and still working.
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 97…
Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com
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