Dub Variations
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Monday, 18 February 2013
Leeds! Tonight! Not Sold Out!
Gizeh Records & Crow Versus Crow present...
AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE
Monday 18th February 2013
Wharf Chambers
Leeds
8pm
£5 adv
Come!
Saturday, 16 February 2013
The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #48
Depending on whether you listen to this episode via Mixcloud or Soundcloud, this is either a girthsome 186 minute beast or a 180 minute bastard. The reason for this difference in time is my terrible mathematics; my inability to plan a show to fit the 180 minutes of allocated time. To fit within the requirements of both 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) and my free Soundcloud account I have had to edit some 6 minutes from the end of Hanetration's Nae Troth.
This made me very uncomfortable.
Who am I to crop someone's artistic creation? To disregard a part of what is, for all we know, an incredibly specific composition, it's length intrinsic to it's function? (Unless it is cropped to serve a specific fiunction. Appropriated, maybe. Anyway...) Therefore, the full unedited version is included in the Mixcloud version, which I would encourage you to listen to, as Nae Troth is a damn fine work worthy of the 22 minutes it exists in.
Elsewhere in this episode, there are newly released tracks from Etai Keshiki, Wax Magnetic, Matthew Collings, My Bloody Valentine and Umez, amongst others; as-yet-unreleased tracks from Hookworms and The Thomas Family; along with dusty (Cold Suns, Ciccone Youth) and not-so-dusty (Haikai No-Ku, White Suns, Brutes) tracks, along with other gems from the DIY/independent world.
If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.
This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 17th February 2013 between 6 and 8pm.
1. Cold Sun – Here In The Year (Dark Shadows / World in Sound)
2. Wax Magnetic – Live In Gateshead 01.02.2013 (Not On Label)
3. Ciccone Youth – Platoon II (The Whitey Album / Blast First)
4. HaiKai No-Ku – Black Cloudbank Broken (Demo I / At War With False Noise)
5. White Suns – Footprints Filled (Sinews / Load Records)
6. Etai Keshiki – Shit Off (Not On Label)
7. Brutes – Head (Punishment / Not On Label)
8. Magnapinna – Rubberneck (Pedant / Not On Label)
9. Rattle – On Balance (Not On Label)
10. The Microphones – The Moon (The Glow Pt.2 / K Records)
11. The Thomas Family – Variation Three (Dub Variations / Unreleased)
12. Matthew Collings – They Met On The Subway (Splintered Instruments / Fluid Audio)
13. Hanetration – Nae Troth (Nae Troth EP / Not On Label)
14. My Bloody Valentine – Wonder 2 (mbv / Not On Label)
15. Hookworms – What We Talk About (Pearl Mystic / Gringo Records)
16. Hookworms – iii (Pearl Mystic / Gringo Records)
17. Umez – Hello Pt.2 (Good Bye My Friend / Liminal Noise Tapes)
Thank You.
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Gizeh Records & Crow Versus Crow present... AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE
Gizeh Records and Crow Versus Crow present...
AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE
Monday 18th February 2013
Wharf Chambers, Leeds
8pm
£5adv
(Tickets available from the Gizeh Webstore)
Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
http://www.brokenspineprods.com/
As a solo artist Aidan Baker creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical using the electric guitar as his primary sound source. Baker has toured around the world and released numerous albums both solo and with various projects (Nadja, Whisper Room, Infinite Light Ltd.) on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Robotic Empire, Important Records, and Beta-Lactam Ring Records.
A-SUN AMISSA
http://www.slowsecret.com/
A-Sun Amissa is a project formed out of Leeds, UK by members of Glissando and The Rustle of the Stars. Built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies. Richard Knox (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Of Thread & Mist) & Angela Chan (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Ten / Tomorrow We Sail) began forming initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. Long-time friend Owen Pegg was soon invited to join the project as the pieces developed to enable the songs the depth and intensity they require and more recently Gareth Davis joined, providing bass clarinet. The quartet produce a dense, drone-like atmosphere accompanying evocative, melodic string sections and intertwining guitars. The live show features sections of the recorded output combined with improvisation to unlock new movements and progressions in the music. The subtle, considered textures and the hypnotic interaction between players and instruments provide an intense live performance.
DEAN MCPHEE
http://www.deanmcphee.com/
Dean McPhee is a Lancastrian finger-picking electric guitarist now based in West Yorkshire, whose gorgeously liquid, pure-toned playing is supremely evocative of the small splendours and grand transitions of the natural environment. His magnificent debut album proper ‘Son of the Black Peace’ has cemented the reputation won by debut EP Brown Bear.
“The hallmark of McPhee’s style is a picked bassline and free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arab-esques… Son of the Black Peace is a 37 minute gem of an album” (The Wire Magazine)
Sunday, 3 February 2013
The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #47
'Punk-Rock should mean freedom: liking and accepting anything that you like, playing whatever you want, as sloppy as you want, as long as it's good and it has passion.'
This episode, the 47th (!), again compiles selections from the records I have been listening to between the recording of this and the previous episode. including new releases from blackened crusties Esoteric Youth (Church of Fuck), Black Mass and Unsacred (Invektiv); a couple of recent releases on the Sheepscar Light Industrial label from Sindre Bjerga and (sadly only an excerpt of a 20 minute work by) Phil Julian; tracks from upcoming releases on Gizeh Records in the form of A-Sun Amissa and Aidan Baker; along with a mix of other new, unreleased and recently dusted-off archived tracks.
If you are at all interested in the work of the artists featured in this episode, please support the artists and labels through purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.
This episode originally aired in a far inferior mono form on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 2nd February 2013 between 6 and 8pm.
1. Phil Julian – Hive Work (excerpt) (Hive Work / Sheepscar Light Industrial)
2. The Fall – Reformation (Reformation Post-TLC / Slogen)
3. Sunwolf – Untitled (live) (Unreleased)
4. Will Haven – Finest Hour (Carpe Diem / Music For Nations)
5. Black Mass – To The Cross (Of First And Last Things / Witch Hunter Records)
6. Esoteric Youth – Instinct (Split with Prelude To The Hunt / Church of Fuck)
7. Unsacred – Abasement, Loss and Regret (Three Sisters) (The Three Sisters / Invektiv Records)
8. Xasthur – Souless Elegy (Defective Epitaph / Daymare Recordings)
9. Peste Noire – Gisant dans la Putrefaction (Les Demos / La Mesnie Harlequin)
10. Talvihorros – Etude III (Some Ambulance / Denovali Records)
11. Tindersticks – Frozen (The Something Rain / Lucky Dog Recordings, City Slang, Constellation)
12. A-Sun Amissa - Part One (edit) (2013 Sampler / Gizeh Records)
13. Aidan Baker – Already Drowning (Clara Engel) (2013 Sampler / Gizeh Records)
14. Sindre Bjerga – Part Two (Misdirection / Sheepscar Light Industrial)
15. Animal Collective – Leaf House (Sung Tongs / Fat Cat Records)
16. Forgets – We Are Joke Man (We Are Joke Man / Not On Label)
17. Collections of Colonies of Bees – Fun (Hospital / Polyvinyl Record Company)
18. Rejections – Storm (Receding Zones / Reject And Fade) Hogwash #4 Facebook event
19. A Silver Mount Zion – Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs (He Has Left Us Alone But Shards Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner of Our Rooms… / Constellation)
20. Mount Eerie – The Mouth of Sky (Wind’s Poem / P.W. Elverum & Sun)
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