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Been a little quiet since busting out the most recent hellosQuare releases and putting on Abstraktions last week but last Saturday, I spent most of the day recording Pollen Trio doing a whole series of improvisations for a collaborative release with the awesome 12k artist Seaworthy and for a new record on hellosQuare sometime after July this year. It’s not the next album but more a collection of super loose explorations with a rough as guts vibe.
I’ve spent most of this week mixing and mastering it and I can say the boys had some great ideas going to put together a nice and very individual collection of pieces. They did a long spacious piece that features Cameron Webb’s field recordings while I did some minor electronic interventions on a couple of the other pieces including one where as I’ve been saying, it sounds like the music is taken over by some sort of audio virus before a climax and punchy cut. I was inspired by Grizzly Bear’s beautiful production on Yellow House as well as some choice dub productions and the Laughing Clowns’ earliest tracks.
I took some photos on my kinda grainy camera, which you can see via Flickr on the left but I also took a short (and yes, grainy) video during recording which you can see below!
Records Of Choice
Been listening to a lot of things from the past but it’s been great to hear some seriously good new stuff because I don’t have a radio anymore where I can listen to new releases and sometimes I feel like I might be missing out…maybe?
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
Mogwai – Government Commissions
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
The Balky Mule – The Length Of The Rail
Swervedriver – Juggernaut Rules ’89-’98
Rip Rig & Panic – God/I Am Cold
New Age Steppers – New Age Steppers
Maximum Joy – Station M.X.J.Y.
Weekend – La Varieté
Soul Jazz Records – Singles 2008-2009 (3CD compilation)
from Low Point:
Gareth Hardwick – Aversions
Chris Herbert – Diluted
Stuckometer – Beta Carotene
Freiband & Machinefabriek – Oahu
from Room40:
For Barry Ray – New Days
Ueno – Sui-Gin
Robbie Avenaim – Rhythmic Movement Disorder
Tomasz Bednarczyk – Painting Sky Together
Janek Schaefer – In The Last Hour
Tenniscoats – Temporacha
Lawrence English & John Chantler – Live At Smallfish
So much stuff heard but none missed on my ears eh!
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