Here is our 12th instalment of Multiple Exposures, the series where we ask people to give us a list of their 15 favourite pieces of repetitive music.
This time we asked our favourite drummer in the world Valentina Magaletti from the great Tomaga, Oscillation, Raime, Shit and Shine etc etc and this is the great list she gave us:
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Glen Branca – Structure
This track taken from the seminal The Ascension had to be on top of my list of favorite piece of repetitive music. 5/4 is such a great time signature that enhances even more the power of this stellar riff. Lee Ranaldo and Glen Branca are at their best here.
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Sankofa
Toni Allen’s grove, hypnotic and elegantly tense never stops to intrigue me. He is not just an exceptional drummer, he is also a story teller, like one that you can’t stop listening to…
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William Basinsky – Disintegration Loops
I could listen to this forever. I consider this piece of music a real masterpiece. I remember reading about Basinsky literally composing it while watching the ash from his window on September the 11th; truly powerful stuff.
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Tony Conrad with Faust – Outside the dream syndicate
“Dear John, I am sitting here listening to the playback of this copy of Outside”. I can hear the tape making noise and dropouts”. I never met John Cale, but I did meet and had the pleasure to share the stage with Mr Conrad. What an incredible artist. This record is the ultimate mantra. Conrad teams up with Faust and manage to create the perfect match between Kraut rock and avant-garde galore. I struggle in fact to pick a side. Both tracks are legendary and every time I put them on I wish they never end.
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Terry Riley – You're No Good
This is just the best modernist prototechno jam ever. I don’t think I ever seen this on vinyl. I remember I almost felt sick the first time I heard that this was recorded in 1968. I thought: what is the point of djing, or playing in the studio for hours when perfection can be achieved with two reel to reel tape machines drifting in and out of sync creating a world of its own? Incredible stuff.
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Rob Mazurek – Alternate Moon Cycles
I picked this record very recently from a little pop up store at a festival were I was performing for two reasons. First of all because I heard very good things about this new San Francisco’s label International Anthem, but mostly because I red the following quote from Samuel R. Delany on the front cover: “A moon’s beauty is in variations of sameness” and I though YES! This is what my brain needs. An extremely blissful and pleasant listening highly recommended.
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Blutwurst – Yogurt
These guys are just phenomenal. They are radical impro ensemble from Florence and this piece in particular blew my mind. To me they are like the Italian version of La Monte Young, knowledgeable, atonal, and extremely prolific. I had the pleasure of working with them on some Tomaga’s material and me and Tom Relleen proposed to put this and few other of their compositions out on LP this year on Negative Days. Exciting times.
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The Residents – Kaw liga
This is a must for me every time I am on dj duty. It never fails to entertain me. I am big residents fan so I could have pick up a few songs who fits this list but this song somehow sums their message. A big cluster fuck version of Billie Jean, with a relentless repetitive killer bass line; groovy and dishonestly funny.
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Ellen Fullman – Woven Processional
I love waking up with this record in the morning. It charges me. I red that the recording of the Long String Installation was the result of looking for tonalities, which could not be achieved with traditional instruments.
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Jaydee – Plastic Dream
Because why the hell not? What a killer tune. When this came out in 1993 it restored my faith in dance music. I must admit though, I am still not a big house music fan so this is probably how far I can go.
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France – Do Den Haag Church
Great record from this Mysterious trio called France.
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Super Furry Animals – Some Things Come From Nothing
I love this SFA little tune, simple and effective progression of sweet chords and great analogue sounds. ‘Some things come from nothing Nothing seems to come from something Some things come from nothing Nothing seems to come from something. Some things come from nothing’.
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Stereolab – Percolator
A great example of a perfectly crafted pop song based on repetition. Tim Gane had always been a real master in creating circular grooves.
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Also, I was listening to a 50 minutes version of Tomorrow never knows by Andrew Liles on his sound cloud the other day an I thought it was terrific I can’t find it anymore on line have you heard that? If you can find it, it should be on this list!
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14 September
Bar Brooklyn, Stockholm
STARTRACKS & LAZY OCTOPUS presents:
Strikt Struktur (members from Union Carbide Production)
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Flowers Must Die
Free entrance
18-01
More info here
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Excited to announce that Gnoomes are playing a Shoegaze showcase at Moscow Music Week:
18.09.16
Venue 'Dich/ДИЧ'
19.00
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It reads:
Delicately dark, slightly stony and beyond brilliant band Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are about to release ‘Mirage’, the hypnotic and nocturnal chic sequel to last year’s hyped debut album ‘Horse Dance”. We’re psyched to hear it tonight, as the dreamy pop act kick off their European tour with a free concert in an old paint factory in Stockholm. And we actually have Josefin right here, let’s take a moment and hear her out on the details.
THE PINEAL POST: Your new single is called The State I’m In. What state is that?
JOSEFIN ÖHRN: I think the state I’m in is a sort of bardo, an in between state. I guess I was reflecting up on what comes after cutting ties. When you’ve left something behind but your future isn’t clear, it’s a great unknown in front of you.
TPP: And what about ‘Mirage’, what does the album title mean to you?
JÖ: We felt that the album was, in many ways, about that bardo state. One’s future, dreams and subconscious like a flickering mirage.
TPP: You’re constantly traveling, how has that influenced your sound do you think?
JÖ: We recorded the album both in Bristol and in Sthlm. In between playing live around Europe. I think the movement and the fact that the album was made quite fast and intense, that kind of motion can be felt on the album.
TPP: You’re about to go on an extensive European tour, what venues are you most excited about performing in?
JÖ: I’m really excited about the whole tour, playing in a different city each night. It feels extra exciting to be playing in Manchester’s Albert Hall, at Berghain in Berlin and at Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.
See the full interview here: The Pineal Post
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UNITY
GIANT SWAN - TEETH OF THE SEA - STEVE BERESFORD - KREOL LOVECALL - MARK DICKER - COLDNOSE - SLAGS - JOHN DORAN PRESENTS OUTERNATIONAL DJ - HEATHER WEIL (BLACK IMPULSE) DJ - CHRIS REEDER (ROCKET RECORDINGS) DJ - NORTON FOLGATE APPROACH DJs - MORE TBA
We know we weren’t the only ones feeling upset, angered and terrified by the surge in hate crime not to mention the emboldening of existing racist and bigoted tendencies in the wake of the Brexit farrago, and we felt that it was time to strike back at political apathy. UNITY is a funds/awareness raising event where all proceeds go to anti-hatred organisation Hope Not Hate. We’re thrilled to welcome a plethora of delights to New River Studios, one of our favourite new venues in London, along with what may well be our last London show of 2016. Come and get righteously loud with us and our friends. Advance tickets are £9 (plus 10% booking fee) and will be £12 on the door (availability allowing).
More information here: Unity
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We are excited to reveal the debut album by the band Kuro is to be released on Rocket on 11 November – you can listen to the first track to be revealed from their S/T album above.
Preorder LP/CD here: Bandcamp
Preorder digital version here: iTunes
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The press release reads:
Kuro take their name from the Japanese word for ‘black’, and their debut release for Rocket Recordings marks an experimental union between two diversely storied yet inherently like-minded musicians. Agathe Max, who hails originally from Lyon, is a classically-trained violinist with a varied back catalogue of studio and live work - running the gamut from spectral ambience to stately soundscapes and adept at summoning dreamstates and drama alike, her emotive and engaging work has found admirers at a number of UK festivals such as Supersonic and Raw Power.
The Bristol-based Gareth Turner, meanwhile, maintains a busy schedule performing and recording with Rocket Recordings trio Anthroprophh (alongside The Heads guitarist Paul Allen) bass/drums duo Big Naturals, and his solo double-bass project Salope, as well as working as a touring tech for Melvins on their trips to Europe. Yet despite both of these artists’ multi-faceted artistic lives, their partnership was both a natural progression and reflective of an intuitive chemistry. The result of their initial spark is perhaps both artists’ most coherent and captivating work to date.
“The duet was born a couple of years ago when we first met to play a gig on the same bill at a ZamZam Records night at Café Kino in Bristol.” relates Agathe. “At the end of the show we decided to play a jam together, and the improvisation went very well - Gareth and I had already a very similar approach to the sound, textures and layers with our solo projects so it was easy to connect and create a wider range of frequencies playing together. We met a few other times after this first gig and we carried on improvising together whenever we had the chance to. At some point we decided to record something so I moved to Bristol in October 2015 to spend time practicing and composing music together.”
The result is Kuro’s eponymous first outing, an elegantly sprawling and richly textured work of tumult and transcendence recorded by Joe Garcia (live sound wizard for OM and many others) in the duo’s home city. “An amazing sound engineer” enthuses Agathe of Garcia “He's got a very good sense of space with sound. We used different sources of mics, with a room recording that would link all the others and give a warm and open touch.”
A unique, richly atmospheric and largely improvisatory record that stands proud and defiant of pigeonholing, Kuro is neither elegant chamber music nor intense drone-noise, neither psychedelia nor spiritual jazz, yet with elements of all of the above- dwelling perhaps atop a psychic hinterland between the shamanic vortices of Ashtray Navigations, the wild extrapolations of Sun City Girls and the melancholic richness of The Dirty Three. Yet what comes across strongest of all is the original spark of the partnership, summoning altered states, meditative vibrations and internal narratives by the power of eight strings.
“We wanted to create a journey for the listeners, to create an inner cinema with emotional landscapes, old time cults and stories of lost sailors” reckons Agathe. Indeed, though voyage appears to be only beginning, such is its momentum that any adventurous and self-respecting psychonaut would be well advised to hitch a ride.
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See all the photos here: Loud and Quiet
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Flowers Must Die are celebrating the release of their new EP 'Sista Valsen' with a special launch show.
The band say this about it:
"Flowers Must Die´s upcoming release on Rocket Recordings need some celebration! So on the day of the release the 16th of September the bands come together and do a show in the town where it all began, Linköping, Sweden. The venue is a beautiful theatre called Saga.
The EP called "Sista Valsen" (last dance) which despite the name, feels like a new start for the band. This is the first time the listeners get to hear the latest member Lisa Ekelund use her voice, violin and theremin. The record is the first one to be release on a label outside of Sweden and last month they did their first live show outside of the Nordic countries so the release definitely feels like a new start for the band.
Before the release show they have a date booked in Stockholm, supporting a new band called Strikt Struktur, with members from the legendary Union Carbide Production. This will happen on the 14th of September at Bar Brooklyn."
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They say:
It is one of those days when it might be tempting to write about the indomitable staunchness of the British festival audience – and the End Of The Road audience in particular – rather than the music they are here to see. As one more raincloud descends on the Larmer Tree Gardens, a great surge of people head regardless to pay homage to Goat, a band whose psychedelic mulch of ritual party music is hugely useful under the circumstances.
Much of the Swedish band’s taste for ethnomusicological forgery is played down tonight, with the desert blues, hi-life breaks and Ethiopiques shuffles generally overwhelmed by a frenetic blend of guitar grunge disco, copious wah-wah and some fruitful long term study of Maggot Brain. It’s a cunning and infectious blend, programmed to work well in tough environments: at one point, a bassline akin to “Block Rockin’ Beats” cuts through the euphoric murk...
Read the rest of the review here: Uncut
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It reads:
"You'd be forgiven for thinking that the golden age of the EP is well over by now, lost to the mists of time along with the sabre-toothed tiger and Lemon Tango. However, a few labels of late have nurtured the kind of extended plays/ mini-albums/ short LPs/ long singles that leave you wanting more without feeling short-changed. This column has previously praised Womb Of The Wild by Goat offshoot Capra Informis and other notable Rocket EPs have included those by Oneida, Teeth Of The Sea and the fruitful Collisions split 12-inch series.
This particular release will be of interest if you've ever wondered what might happen if you took Amon Düül II, Träd Gräs Och Stenar, Bardo Pond, Hills, Goat, Jackie-O Motherfucker and Sunburned Hand Of The Man, crammed them all into a lava lamp that's been converted into a blender by Professor Denzil Dexter from The Fast Show, turned the setting up to eleven, pureed the bejesus out of it, poured the resulting viscid mixture into a mushroom soup and funnelled it into ..."
Read the rest here: The Quietus
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