Gig #148: Of late 52: Ale-Hop, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Time Cow & RTKal, Reinhold Friedl & Eryck Abecassis, Leyden Jars, The Night Monitor, BORIS WITH MERZBOW, Yvette Janine Jackson, Flora Yin-Wong, Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs, Whirling Hall Of Knives, Little Annie Anxiety & Hiro Kone, Sockethead, Crystal Axis, Seppuku Pistols

Ale-Hop
Ghost Funk Orchestra
Time Cow & RTKal
Reinhold Friedl & Eryck Abecassis
Leyden Jars
The Night Monitor
BORIS WITH MERZBOW
Yvette Janine Jackson
Flora Yin-Wong
Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs
Whirling Hall Of Knives
Little Annie Anxiety & Hiro Kone
Sockethead
Crystal Axis
Seppuku Pistols

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Ale-Hop Untitled
‘Ale Hop (aka Alejandra Cardenas) is a Berlin-based artist, researcher and experimental instrumentalist from Peru. She composes electronic and electro-acoustic music, by blending strains of noise, pop, avant-garde, ambient and extended techniques for electric guitar and real-time sampling devices – a sound vocabulary to craft performances of astonishing physical intensity, layers of distortion and stunning atmospheres.’ — Sonic Acts

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Ghost Funk Orchestra Toujours
‘It’s clear Applebaum knows what he wants as the ensemble’s new album, A Song For Paul, really nails a certain sound that falls somewhere between Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Free Design and David Axelrod […] Can you describe an album as an awesome hang? Well, Ghost Funk Orchestra have made it.’ — Brooklyn Vegan

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Time Cow & RTKal Elephant Man
‘”Elephant Man” serves as a debut of Time Cow’s deejay flow as he steps from behind the boards to pass the mic with Birmingham-based rapper RTKal in a tribute to the comic book-sized personas of dancehall’s recent past. True to the form established on Bird Sound Power, the pulsing riddim (also released in a dub version titled “Making Love To Volca”) stands up all on its own.’ — okay africa

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Reinhold Friedl & Eryck Abecassis animal électrique 5
‘In retrospection it seems significant that Reinhold Friedl and Eryck Abecassis met for the first time in Marseille, a brute and operatic melting pot of cultures and sounds and noises. They idea of a common project came up, but it took almost ten years to be realized. Finally, François Bonnet (GRM artistic director) supported enthusiastically the collaboration and invited the two composer-performer to the Akousma Festival 2019 at Radio France in Paris. Intense rehearsal periods in Vienna and at la muse en circuit in Paris defined the compositional directions: precise transitions between accurately defined musical states: the raw furious energy textures of animal électrique 1 and 5, the contrasted calm with shaking fog horns “à la Lucier“ of animal électrique 3 and 6, noise & notes in the astonishing fusion of animal électrique 2 (which could also be titled “Tsunami and minor thirds“), and finally the delicate non-tempered vocality of both piano and synthesizer in animal électrique 4, a detuned operatic aria.’ — Editions Mego

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Leyden Jars London Gone
‘‘Gone’ is the new album by London based duo Natalie Williams & Mark Courtney aka Leyden Jars, a work of fragmented musicality, electro-acoustic emission, disembodied dub, radiophonic interference, and revelatory DIY poetics.Shaped over the course of a two-year period and drawn from expansive, improvisatory recording sessions, these ten tracks comprise the duo’s entire output during this time: a comprehensive document, born out of a consequential and fertile creative cycle.A fully formed body of work that grants both access and submergence, ‘Gone’ is a captivating window into the uncanny sound world of Leyden Jars, encompassing the myriad facets that underpin the project.’ — With Guitars

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The Night Monitor The Silver Giant
‘With titles that read like lost episodes of ‘Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World’, ‘Spacemen Mystery of the Terror Triangle’ combines the wobble and dust of 1980’s documentary with the synthesiser bombast of the decade’s TV shows. In doing so, The Night Monitor – aka Neil Scrivin, Blackpool musician and mastermind behind the Fonolith label – pitches the record into the Venn intersection where modern folklore, mass media and pseudoscience merge.’ — Spenser Tomson, Electronic Sound

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BORIS with MERZBOW Boris
‘“Boris”—which is actually a Melvins cover—is the band laying out their trudging doom/sludge card, complete with massive slowpoke riffs and crashing percussion elevated by jarring shards of mainframe explosions that are surprisingly musical. Merzbow’s howling discord triumphantly fills the anticipatory between the crashing power chords and funereal drums.’ — Metal Injection

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Yvette Janine Jackson Cannot Be (Unrung)
‘Borrowing strategies for immersion from American radio drama, in particular John Cage’s The City Wears A Slouch Hat, Jackson’s Radio Opera’s performatively combine music concréte, spoken word and field recording, and are designed to be experienced in darkness, in order to animate the theatre of the mind. Jackson’s work has involved the search for an African American aesthetic for electroacoustic music that speaks to all people in order to foster conversation about contentious subjects.’ — Fluid Radio

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Flora Yin-Wong Terra
‘Flora Yin-Wong’s Holy Palm is a travel diary in sound, one where temple bells and voice notes replace passport stamps and ticket stubs. The London-born electronic musician sourced its contents from her frequent peregrinations, gathering abstracted rustling and rumbling from all sorts of exotic and mundane places: a supermarket in Tokyo, an airport in Bali, a street festival in Buenos Aires, weddings in Hackney and Thessaloniki. Buddhist monks chant in Cantonese in Hong Kong’s Po Lin monastery; a Greek Orthodox priest is recorded on a car radio in Crete; whales sing off the coast of Trømso. In many ways, her album is a record of motion itself. Not only do many of its sounds come from the actual act of travel—journeys by plane, train, and automobile; transit via tunnel, aqueduct, and escalator—but it is sequenced in a way that emphasizes forward motion. Sounds tumble together, sometimes layering into complex harmonies, but just as often, shoving and bumping into one another, like restless tourists in line for the Pompidou or the Taj Mahal.’ — Philip Sherburne

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Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs In The August Dream
‘Multi-faceted psychedelic experimental duo Daniel O’Sullivan and Richard Youngs have teamed up for a new album, Twelve Of Hearts. Due to be released this month via Tim Burgess’ O Genesis label, the album was made in adherence of a strict set of rules: “Each song has four chords. No more. No less. They cycle without variation. They never change key.”‘ — The Quietus

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Whirling Hall Of Knives Those Tracers
‘Whirling Hall Of Knives is a collaboration between Magnetize and The Last Sound. Collectively they have amassed some decades of experience in creating diverse, mostly electronic music under many guises and bring no little of this knowledge to the table of WHOK. WHOK originated from an invitation to do a one-off collaboration performance at the 2006 Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. This sparked further work on the sonic ideas generated and since then, data has been flung back and forth over a distance of 49km, with additional bytes gathered and manipulated at either end until, eventually, the digital dust settles.’ — Nute Records

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Little Annie Anxiety & Hiro Kone Burnt Offerings
‘A New York City native, Annie Bandez was a fixture in the downtown scene in the late 1970’s with her punk ensemble Annie and the Asexuals, during which time she established her nom de plume Annie Anxiety (later known as “Little Annie”). Relocating to England a couple years later, she found herself at the doorstep of the famed anarcho-commune Dial House, headed by Penny Rimbaud. It was here that Annie Anxiety established herself as a singular artist and voice with her debut 1981 single “Barbed Wire Halo” on seminal Crass Records. Little Annie’s artistic range has always been evident through a wide array of collaborations, some of which have included label On-U Sound, Kid Congo Powers, Anohni, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Marc Almond, and most currently Paul Wallfisch.’ — Dais Records

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Sockethead Chaos Portrait
‘Manchester-based painter, artist, DJ and producer Richard Harris, aka Sockethead, has crafted a DIY album for the ages. Transcending genre and mood, his idiosyncratic creations are said to have been conceived in a caravan on the Scottish West Coast. The outsider vibes translates into a record which wears its outlandish attitude on its sleeve. Off-kilter drum hits, looped vocals, punk spirit and a deconstructed turntablist sensibility. Imagine a meeting of psychedelics, hiphop beat smiths, Steve Reich’s vocal experiments and a Northern sense of humour, and you have something close to Harj-O-Marj.’ — Bleep

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Crystal Axis Take The Throne
‘Nairobi based anti-colonial afropunk rockers Crystal Axis’s test single Take The Throne is a call-to-action to dismantle harmful systems designed to suppress and frustrate people all over the world while only benefitting a select few members of the ‘elite’. 2020 has illustrated that there must be a major shift in the world and Take The Throne is a reactionary song that highlights the disillusionment of people the world over. The single also addresses issues of police brutality and corruption in Kenya and the use of government forces to suppress protestors and people the world over.’ — Moonplug

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Seppuku Pistols Live at Sakazume
‘Japanese traditional drum punk group Seppuku Pistols performed at punk fes Sakazume GIG in Niigata Prefecture, Both of members and audiences exploded emotions in heavy rain.’ — ドキュメンタリー「切腹ピストルズ」公式

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