The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #108

The 108th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, featuring an exclusive live session from Stuart Chalmers.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 18th December 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Luar Domatrix - Bocadinho de Alentejo (Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol.1 / Discrepant, 2017)
2. Barbara Ess/Peggy Ahwesh - Four (Radio Guitar / Ecstatic Peace!, 2001)
3. Filipe Felizardo - Sede e Morte(Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol.1 / Discrepant, 2017)

4. Toshi Ichiyanagi - Music For Tinguely (Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.5: Music For Tinguely / Edition Omega Point, 2006)
5. Pauline Oliveros - Deep Listening (for LMC) (Resonance CD 7.1 / London Musicians’ Collective, 1998)

6. Stuart Chalmers - Untitled #6 (Live Session for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Crow Versus Crow, 2016)
7. Stuart Chalmers - Untitled #4 (Live Session for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Crow Versus Crow, 2016)

8. Berger of Jealousy Mountain Duo - Get in the Van, JA (The Daft Tapes / Previously Unreleased, 2016)
9. Sun Skeletons - Maybe (Get It Up Yers Trio / Cruel Nature Records, 2016)
10. Caught In The Wake Forever - Durham (Archives | Soundscapes Vol. 1 / Archives, 2016)

11. Alocasia Garden - Movement 2 (Dysphagia / Strange Rules, 2016)
12. Moss Harvest - Rose Rust (Entwined / Strange Rules, 2016)
13. Porter Ricks - Harbour Chart (Shadow Boat EP / Tresor, 2016)

14. Stuart Chalmers - Untitled #5 (Live Session for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Crow Versus Crow, 2016)
15. Stuart Chalmers - Untitled #3 (Live Session for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Crow Versus Crow, 2016)

16. Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Mass Hysterism IV (Mass Hysterism In Another Situation / Jinya Disc, 2006)

Thank you

Call for Submissions: Visual and Sound Works: Materials, Process, 'The Landscape'.

I'm currently in the process of organising an exhibition of visual and sound works that relate to 'landscape', however that may be interpreted, comparing the emphasis on 'material' and 'process' in the making of both kinds of works within the 'No-Audience Underground'.

If I can lay a little context...

 I have recently been developing a series of paintings that place emphasis on making explicit the process with which they have been made, declaring their own material properties - the paint is definitely paint; the mixing of colours is evident within the layered, heavily textured surface. Although there is nothing illustrated in a figurative sense, the works seem to relate in some way to 'the landscape'. I don't think is necessarily a subconscious thing. I soak up the, often overwhelming, colours, textures, shapes, forms, smells and sounds of my immediate environment and don't doubt my internal recording of this stimulus manifests itself in the paintings.

I always make these works listening to music, often the work of artists loosely collected under Rob Hayler's 'No-Audience Underground' umbrella. This is music that is rich in material properties - tape hiss, static, tones, drones, clicks, scrapes, feedback. It's often a very tactile sound; a minimal music that doesn't hide, nay accentuates, it's method of construction. The use of field recordings is prevalent too - and particularly interesting when considered in relation to the idea of 'the landscape'. I don't necessarily mean this in an overtly Romantic, pastoral way, as recordings of daily existence, urban banalities, documents of the city, are just as interesting. A Brutalist library is as much a part of the landscape as a withering oak.

Whilst working on the paintings, I began to make comparisons between my work and the music, the tactility, the emphasis on material properties, the assumed environmental influences of... and lo! the idea for an exhibition combining the two was born.

There's a lot of visual work being made within the No-Audience Underground, whether that's conventional art objects or visual works that are given a utilitarian purpose, wrapped lovingly around a cassette, CDR or large slab of plastic. Or, works that exist somewhere in between the two. I feel a platform to collect and present these works, and to make explicit the connection to the music produced within the extended No-Audience community, would be a really interesting thing: Presenting visual works in the gallery space along with various No-Audience sound recordings.

So, I'm putting a call out for interested visual artists and musicians, or sound artists, for lack of a non-icky term, who's work relates in some way to 'LANDSCAPE', however that may be interpreted, and places emphasis on PROCESS and MATERIALS. 

The exhibition will be held at South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford and will take place March through April 2017.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal of works to be exhibited then please email me at crow_versus_crow (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk, including a brief summary of your work and links to relevant examples of work.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #107

The 107th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, featuring a special focus on the MERZfunder fundraiser compilation which is raising funds for the Langdale Merzbarn. More information on that project can be found here: https://merzfunder.bandcamp.com/

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 27th November 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Glove Of Bones - Radio Merzman Ursonate Babblogue (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
2. Broken Shoulder - There Are Good Moments (Hashiridase / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2016)

3. Stef Ketteringham – Divide (Guitar Arrangements / Romac Puncture Repairs, 2016)
4. Bird People - Lahn Sunset Drone (Part 2) (Excerpt) (Lahn Sunset Drone / Cruel Nature Records, 2016)

5. Tlön – Death of a Planet (Chapter II / Aphelion Editions, 2016)
6. Leyden Jars – The Big Crunch (The Nature & That / Mordant Music, 2016)

7. Pauwel De Buck – Untitled (Tape Your Skin / Smeltkop, 2014)

8. Saxon Chambers – Bokwus (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
9. Isharok – Sunsplat (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
10. Damno Te - NoizMetal Plaster Relief (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)

11. Rasalasad – Nerve (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
12. Lost Trail – Looptape (Excerpt) (o u t d o o r g a m e s / Third Kind Records, 2016)
13. France – Untitled (excerpt) (Live à l’Ottfest / Ana Ott, 2016)

14. Posset - Chummed Heat (Posset / Yokonono / Cruel Nature Records, 2016)
15. Yokonono – Skull (Excerpt) (Posset / Yokonono / Cruel Nature Records, 2016)
16. Shareholder – Crossways (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)

17. yol – Pylon (MERZfunder / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
18. Nitkowski - Burn Wood, Make Lye (Effortless Charm / Dinner And A Show Records, Triple Jump Records, Vacant Fulfilment, 2016)

Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #106

The 106th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 23rd October 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Sonic Youth – Compilation Blues (Geffen Rarities Vol. 1 / Geffen, 1994)

2. Grey Guides – Just Burned Down a Care Home (Beast Mask Supremacist / Crow Versus Crow, 2016)
3. Richard Scott's Lightning Ensemble & Jon Rose – Trio (Auslanders: Live in Berlin / Vernacular Recordings, 2016)
4. Papal Bull - Brassy Exit Burrs (In Is In, Nrmeegecy Is Emergency, Uyo Is You, Cna Is Can, Siht Is Shit, On Is On, A Is A, Polihs Is Polish, Tiancvdseetas Is Sedevacantist / Chocolate Monk, 2016)
5. Alan Courtis / Cyrus Pireh – Coils On Malbec (Excerpt) (Coils On Malbec / Shinkoyo, 2016)

6. Hole House - Was She a Tape Recording? (A Stranger in Town / Aetheric Records, 2016)
7. Embla Quickbeam & Graham Dunning - Active Agents (Inside Memory's Head / Third Kind Records, 2016)
8. African Ghost Valley – OXND8 (Uccide / Czaszka Records, 2016)
9. XAM Duo – The Test Dream (XAM Duo / Sonic Cathedral, 2016)
10. William Ryan Fritch - A Tense Spiral (Ill Tides / Lost Tribe Sound, 2016)

11. Alocasia Garden - The Fire Burning in Glass of Red (Falling Softly on the Heads of Those Responsible / Strange Rules, 2016)
12. Cremation Lily & Kevin Sanders - Heather, Shining Light (Falling Softly on the Heads of Those Responsible / Strange Rules, 2016)

13. James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk – Venant (The Watchers / Important Records, 2013)

14. Blutiger Jupiter - 3rd Movement (Europa / Ana Ott, 2016)
15. Non - Romance Fatal Dentro De Un Auto (Rise / Mute, 1982)

16. Lichens - Heilagur Draugur (Lítió Fólk / Morc, 2012)
17. Elizabeth Cotton - I'm Going Away (Shake Sugaree / Folkways, 1967)
Thank you

Grey Guides - Beast Mask Supremacist (CVC003)

It's an absolute pleasure to be able to present you with Grey Guides' Beast Mask Supremacist, available as a limited edition cassette and digital download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.

Available as an edition of 50 cassettes, Beast Mask Supremacist is the third release from Leeds-based duo, Grey Guides, following two self-released CDRs, Back to Mucus and Songs from Grüppen Aleph-Aleph.

With Beast Mask Supremacist, the duo of Lynden St. John (vocals, tapes) and Matt Hurricane-Salt (guitar), accompanied by the presence of spiritual mediator Hogan, disseminate decrepit fragments of an abstract, non-linear narrative revolving around a cast of elusory characters perceptible only on the periphery of consciousness; Glimmers of structures emerge with a sense of uncanny familiarity from the ritualistic drone and ecstatic din, before becoming submerged once again within the complex void; Subliminal transmissions soaked in layers of whirling hiss and magnetic skree. A Burroughsian séance.

'The music staggers along bathed in hiss, echo, and garbled voices, sounding like aging tape recordings of a ritual or séance reassembled into chilling noise transmissions. This music creeps under your skin and deep into the recesses of consciousness. The titles are ace to boot, e.g. ‘Just Burned Down a Care Home’, or ‘Yoo Doo Rite’.'

Spool's Out


'Tuned into the Fortean Times this duo’s reification cacophony of subliminal and subconscious entities – messages from the damned and inter-dimensional – is a most unnerving soundtrack. Imbued in part by early Throbbing Gristle, Blood Stereo, and of course the archdeacon of strange macabre and strung-out visions, William Burroughs, Beast Mask Supremacist is an imaginary (we hope) field recording expedition beyond the ether. Whether they got out alive remains questionable; the found remnants sounding like a battle between complete immersion and total destruction.'

Monolith Cocktail


'Now this well might out weird even those impish chaps the truth about frank in terms of sonic hi-jinks that messes with your head...truly an unnerving and uneasy listening experience all squirelling tape manipulations, hissing howls, white noise terrorphonics and er – primitive chanting and something which we’d have to say and admire, features among the mayhem and melee some of the finest blood lusting wolf howls we’ve heard on a platter since UK Decay’s ‘rising from the dread’. Approach with due care.'

The Sunday Experience

Order Grey Guides', Beast Mask Supremacist from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Tor Fest 'Tape Roast' cassette-only DJ set with Natalia Beylis

Photo by Sophie Cooper

As part if this year's Tor Fest, I had the pleasure of collaborating on a DJ set of tape-only cuts with Natalia Beylis (Woven Skull, The Sunken Hum, Divil A'Bit...), improvising our unplanned selections in a 'call-and-response' manner. This was recorded and has aired, warps, pops, hiss, cuts and all, by excellent human Tristan Bath, as part of his Spool's Out show for The Quietus on Resonance 104.4fm.

During our set we featured excerpts, in varying lengths, of:

Dick Sutphen - Detach From Your Emotions (Probe 7) (Valley of the Sun)

Recordings produced by Nigel Tucker and Andrew Jones – (Weird & Wonderful Nature Sounds / BBC Wildlife Magazine)

Kink Gong – The Lisu (Excerpt) (The Lisu / Discrepant)

Natalia Beylis - The Sunken Hum Vol. 1 (Extract) (The Sunken Hum Vol.1 / Deserted Village)

Leyden Jars – The Heat of Darkness (Heat Death / Mordant Music)

Eddie Lenihan - The Dalcassians' Banshee (Six Terrible Women / Claddagh Records)

Gail Ghimp – ‘Fire’ Side (Excerpt) (Fire/Failure Soundtrack / Soft Corridor)

Dan Beckman - Full Gallop Number 8 Audiozine (Excerpt) (Full Gallop Number 8 Audiozine / Full Gallop)

Butthole Surfers – Kuntz (Locust Abortion Technician / SST Records)

Willie Stewart - Non - Plastique No 9 1/2 (Excerpts) (Non - Plastique No 9 1/2 / Not on Label)

Score – Heavy Low Concentration (Slump / Cruel Nature Records)

Posset – Zappa Excuse (Friction Rivers / Singing Knives)

Natalia Learning to Talk - home recording by Jeff Beylis

Unknown Artist - Our Favourite Bird Songs of Australia  (Our Favourite Bird Songs of Australia , with commentary by Harold & Audrey Crouch / Not on Label)

Unknown Artists - Ladring Sri Kondur (The Sultan's Pleasure: Javanese Gamelan & Vocal Music / Music of the World)

Miles Davis – On The Corner (On The Corner / Columbia)

Unknown Artist - Sawt El Badii Vol1 (Not on Label)

Thanks to Tristan / Spool's Out for the opportunity to share this with you. And thanks to Jake & Sof / Tor Press for having us contribute our magnetic wares in the first place. Viva Tor Fest!

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #105

The 105th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 25th September 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Vile Plumage & The Burselm Community Radio Players - The Ghosts of Burselm Ghosts (Unreleased Radio Play / 2016)

2. Eddie ‘One String’ Jones - Walk With Me Lord (One String Blues / Takoma, 1996)
3. Yokonono - Haunted Head (Haunted Head / Beartown Records, 2016)
4. Posset - Side One (Excerpt) (Gratitude Vest / Invisible City Records, 2016)
5. Stef Ketteringham - Just a Thought (Guitar Arrangements / Romac Puncture Repairs, 2016)
6. Edward Hazelton - Mocking The Train, Mocking The Dogs (One String Blues / Takoma, 1996)

7. Antti Tolvi - Leijunta 2 (Leijunta / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2016)

8. Delphine Dora - Dans la Brume Chuchotante (Le Fruit de mes Songes / Bezirk Tapes, 2016)
9. Ten - VZ (Yukon Youth / Ten Recordings, 2016)
10. Shape Worship - An Exemplar (Eva Bowen remix) (A City Rewritten / Front & Follow, 2016)
11. Expose Your Eyes - Three Final Artus (Final Tales Of Artus / Fiend Recordings, 2016)

12. David Birchall / Colin Webster - Duo 2 (Gravity Lacks / Vernacular Recordings, 2016)
13. Neck Vs.Throat - One of Your Five a Day (Volume 3 / Not on Label, 2016)

14. G H - Angels And Doormen (Housebound Demigod / Modern Love, 2016)
15. Can - Smoke (E.F.S. No. 59) (Flow Motion / Virgin, 1976)
16. Leyden Jars - Foreground/Background (Heat Death / Mordant Music, 2016)

17. Micromelancolié - Hades Falls part 1 (Leaving Hades / Czaszka Records, 2016)
18. Alocasia Garden - Scars To Pave A Future (“Survival” / Vanity Pill, 2016)

19. Roji - The Hundred Headed Women (The Hundred Headed Women / Shhpuma, 2016)

Thank you.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #104

The 104th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 28th August 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Iggy Pop - I’m Bored (New Values / Arista, 1979)

2. Rattle - Boom (Rattle / Upset the Rhythm, 2016)
3. BigRoadBreaker - Medium (Disterplication (Collected Works 1995 - 2000 (Volume 2) / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
4. Grey Guides - One Eye Lower than the Other (TBC / Crow Versus Crow Records, 2016)

5. Social Junk - Those Final Seconds (Born Into It / Digitalis Records, 2009)
6. Musica Elettronica Viva - Spacecraft (MEV 40 / New World Records, 2008)

7. Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing (OHM - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music / Ellipsis Arts, 2005)
8. Isnaj Dui - Scatter And Drift (Dioptrics / F Box Records, 2015)

9. Z. Zsigo - Untitled (Parts I-III) (Untitled / Strange Rules, 2016)
10. Orgy of Carrion - Deep Eyes (Obscured Ceremonies Under Hell Moon / Defiled Light, 2016)

11. The Gerogerigegege - Anal Beethoven #2 (Senzuri Power Up / Vis A Vis Audio Arts, 1991)
12. Shareholder - Future Kind (Five Mile Throwdowns / Not on Label, 2016)

13. Wasp Bomb - Eagle Phase (Live at the Northy / Cruel Nature Recordings, 2016)
14. Piotr Cisak + Petar Stipsits -  Phonetics Of The Unspeakable I (Excerpt) (Phonetics Of The Unspeakable / Cruel Nature Recordings, 2016)

15. Eastern Grain - Wake of Desert Fox (Coalition / Strange Rules, 2016)
16. Cathedral - Shalt Not (Totem / Strange Rules, 2016)
17. Ryan Loecker - 1006 (LRC/ Strange Rules, 2016)

Thank you

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #103

The 103rd episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 31st July 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. John Cage - Williams Mix (OHM - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music / Ellipsis Arts, 2005)
2. Phil Julian & John Macedo - Once More, with Feeling (Bind / Hideous Replica, 2016)

3. Blue Humans - Finally (Clear To Higher Time / New Alliance Records, 1992)
4. Sly & The Family Drone - Pine Overcoat (Split w/ Dead Neanderthals / God Unknown Records, 2016)

5. Dead Neanderthals - The Bell (Split w/ Sly & The Family Drone / God Unknown Records, 2016)
6. Ex-Easter Island Head - Six Sticks (Twenty-Two Strings / Low Point, 2016)

7. Discepoli-Barbiero - An Eclipse of Images: Atopos (An Eclipse of Images / Acustronica, 2016)
8. Kunaicho Gakubu - Seigaiha (Gagaku / King Records, 1990)

9. Michael Speers - ɑrkaɪv (Auto-Rot / Not on Label, 2016)
10. Embla Quickbeam - A Transparent Monument Dreaming of an Electric Breast (Not on Label, 2014)
11. Schoolhouse - Gran(D) (Fade / Bezirk Tapes, 2016)
12. Stuart Chalmers - pop plunder 47 (Loop Phantasy No.3 / Beartown Records, 2016)

13. Vile Plumage - One in the Attic and one in the Cellar (Return to the Vanished Kingdom / Burselm Crypt Recordings, 2016)
14. Littlebow - The Singing Sands (Three / Rural Colours, 2016)
15. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy (OHM - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music / Ellipsis Arts, 2005)
16. Ian William Craig - It Need Not Be Hopeless (Centres / 130701, 2016)
17. Beachers - Honey, You Can Drown Me Anytime (I Wanna Be Your Wall / Czaszka Records, 2016)

18. Townes Van Zandt - Lungs (Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 / Omnivore Recordings, 2013)

Thank you

Crow Versus Crow presents Posset's 'Beast Tapes of 2015' Beetmix for The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show

Continuing on the annual 'Beast Tapes' series, Posset (Chocolate Monk, No Basement Is Deep Enough, Singing |Knives, Crow Versus Crow) has put together a 'beetmix' of sounds culled from his favourite cassette releases of 2015.

In the words of the Eternal Master Himself,

'The working method was totally different this time. All composed on 2 track with the emphasis on sounds connecting from right to left rather than layered on top of each other (like I've done before). The snippets are shorter than normal too...more like breaths than anything. If that makes any sense? All the tapes came into my orbit or were released in 2015. There's a distinct lean towards voices rather than skronk...but I guess that's where my heads been at.'

Cassette releases included in the beetmix include:

Max Bentley - Red, Green,Blue (Vitrine)
Human Heads - Triggers (Tranzprocesz)
Robert Ridley Shackleton - The Cardboard Prince (Hissing Frames)
Duncan Harrison - Others Delete God (Reckno)
Unknown Artist - Alright Duckie (Hideous Replica)
Sindre Bjerga - Attractive Amplification (Tutore Burlato)
Tom White - Reconstruction (Alien Passengers)
Fritz Welch - Nothing to Offer (Singing Knives)
Ali Robertson - The Other Week (Giant Tank)
Smashed Cucumber - First Time in Space (SPAM)
Lovely Honkey - Sharp Intake of Breath (Tutore Burlato)
Acrid Lactations - Drizzling Quids a' Crepuscle (Total Vermin)
F.Ampism - The Ancient Wing (Ikuisuus)
Shareholder - Jimmy Shan (Know This)
Depletion - Null Data (Fairfax Industries)
Cannonbone - Live at the Old Police House (No Label)
G.J. de Rook - A & Bla (No Basement is Deep Enough)

This mix originally featured in episode #99 on the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, which originally aired on Sunday 13th March 2016.

Enjoy!

Crow Versus Crow Presents Neil Campbell's 'Domestic Mix for The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show'

Originally broadcast as part of episode #99 of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show (13th March 2016), Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Astral Social Club...) presents,

'Seven hours of minidisk recordings of my everyday domestic listening to music, condensed down to half an hour. Sometimes sitting on my arse, more often cooking, cleaning, running around, adding general clatter/chatter to the recordings. Microphone placement and recording levels inconsistent and semi-random throughout. Special collage filter applied to remove most of what has been recorded and position the remaining sounds to move slowly around the stereo spectrum. Live electronics added in response to the collage. Artists featured (that I can recognise/remember): Maurizio Bianchi, Blood Stereo, David Bowie, Andrew Chalk, Gloria Coates, Chvrches, Kevin Drumm, Luke Fowler and Richard Youngs, Vikki Jackman, Joy Division, Olivier Messiaen, Paraselene, Iggy Pop, Ramleh, Erik Satie, Klaus Schulze, Studio Sardena, David Tudor and John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, my own recordings and many random sections of BBC Radio 3.'

Thank you so much to Neil for taking the time and care to make such an interesting, thought-provoking work for the show. Enjoy!

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #102

The 102nd episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 3rd July 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Rudolph Grey - Implosion (Mask of Light / New Alliance Records, Ecstatic Peace!, 1991)
2. Don Cherry - Terry’s Tune (Organic Music Society / Caprice Records, 1972)

3. Unsample - Androgynous Hypostasis (Physis / digitalDIZZY, 2016)
4. Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides – Sucker (Rebetika / Discrepant, 2016)

5. Yeah You - Command Pool (Id Vendor / Slip, 2016)
6. Midwich - Shot Stopper (Blister Pack / Bells Hill, 2016)
7. Olympus - Ett Minne Blott (Snart / Team Boro Tapes, 2016)

8. Michael Speers - Catacombs (45 Kilograms of Body Weight / Not on Label, 2014)
9. Posset - Fanzine Ink Dries Like Black Blood (Fanzine Ink Dries Like Black Blood / Slurpy Slurpy Creep Creep / I Dischi Del Barone, 2016)

10. Norman Westberg - MRI (MRI / Room40, 2016)
11. Colin Stetson - Sorrow I (Excerpt) (Sorrow (A Reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony) / 52Hz, 2016)

12. Thomas Jones Jaybird - The Keghouse Blues (Field Recordings : Vol. 3 - Mississippi (1936-1942) / Document Records, 1997)
13. Ora Dell Graham - Little Girl, Little Girl (Field Recordings : Vol. 3 - Mississippi (1936-1942) / Document Records, 1997)
14. Ora Dell Graham - (Jes' A) Pullin' The Skiff (Field Recordings : Vol. 3 - Mississippi (1936-1942) / Document Records, 1997)
15. Ora Dell Graham - Shortenin' Bread (Field Recordings : Vol. 3 - Mississippi (1936-1942) / Document Records, 1997)

16. Sid Hemphill - Rice Straw (Field Recordings : Vol. 3 - Mississippi (1936-1942) / Document Records, 1997)
17. Stuart Chalmers - The Hunger (The Heart Of Wilderness / Was Ist Das?, 2016)
18. ILL OMEN - Flubberpuss (Centennial Frolic at Dutch Pete / Burselm Crypt Recordings, 2016)

19. Ex-Easter Island Head - Four Guitars (Twenty-Two Strings / Low Point, 2016)
20. Volcano Choir - Sleepymouth (Unmap / Jagjaguwar, 2009)




Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #101

The 101st episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 8th May 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Charbel Haber - And The Morning After (Of Palm Trees, Affairs and Decomposition / Discrepant, 2016)
2. Hangedup - Losing Your Charm (Kicker In Tow / Constellation Records, 2002)
3. Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad – Druid’s Leafy nest (Dreamweapon III / Boo-Hooray, 2011)

4. Edwards Luling Dixie Singers - It Keeps On Leakin' In This Old Building (Field Recordings Vol. 14: Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky (1934-c.1950) / Document Records, 2005)
5. Embla Quickbeam – Sonance (Previously Unreleased / Not on Label, 2016)
6. Olympus - Portraits of Women (Simone / Forever United, 2015)

7. Stuart Chalmers – Transcience (Poetry Of Decay / Strange Rules, 2016)
8. Sophie Cooper - Keep On Playing (Count The Days / Rural Colours, 2016)
9. Alan Courtis - Hamamatsu Crystal Piano (Crystal Faisa / KIKS/Girlfriend, 2016)
10. ANOHNI – Violent Men (Hopelessness / Secretly Canadian, 2016)

11. Laurie Tompkins – Sweat (Heat, War, Sweat, Law / Slip, 2016)
12. Klaas Hübner - Extended Pickup #1 (SOG / Slip, 2016)
13. Kunaicho Gakubu - Azumaasobi: Motomeko No Uta (Gagaku - Etenraku / Azumaasobi / Kishunraku / Seigaiha / King Records, 1990)

14. Western Skies Motel - As The Flames Rose (Settlers / Lost Tribe Sound, 2016)
15. Yes Blythe – TØNAL (Arieto / Invisible City Records, 2016)

16. Filthy Turd - Dumped In The Tar (Forty Six In Use Louise / Team Boro, 2016)
17. Blood Stereo - Six Soddened Scenes (Excerpt) (Split w/ Hair & Treasure / Discrepant, 2016)
18. Daisuke Tobari – Untitled (Till The End Of The Dream / Poon Village, 2000)

19. Rattle - Marching With Romans (Tour Split, w/ Witching Waves / Seeing Double, 2015)
20. Sonotanotanpenz – TEA (Conga / Noble, 2016)
21. The Shaggs – Sweet Maria (Sweet Maria b/w The Missouri Waltz / Light in the Attic, 2016)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #100

The 100th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

If you thought the occasion would be marked by something special you'd be terribly, terribly mistaken. Business as usual for the one hundredth episode - wall-to-wall gold with the minimal ill-informed, poorly considered mumbling in between.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

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 10th April 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Melting – Pretty (Dusk / Crow Versus Crow Records, 2016)
2. Teebs – Just The Yellow Bits (Collections / Brainfeeder, 2011)

3. Malayeen – Dina (Malayeen / Discrepant, 2014)
4. John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (Excerpt) (Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara / Table of Elements, 2000)
5. Marlo Eggplant – Stills (Stills / Not on Label, 2016)
6. Lowered - Arche (for Gongs) (Excerpt) (Arche (for Gongs) / Trome Records, 2016)

7. Susan Philipsz – Study for Strings (Recording of score used during installation Study for Strings, Documenta13 / 2012)

8. The Sly and Unseen - Much Is Yet Before (The Crossley Heritage / Wist Rec, 2016)
9. Mudguts - Pretty Slipping (Sabrina Fourtyfives / Invisible City, 2016)
10. Mouthus - Pilot Wave (Dual Drift / Our Mouth Records, 2007)
11. Black Spring - No End (Golden Ghost / No End / Structured Disasters, 2016)

12. Morton Feldman - Piece For Four Pianos (The American Avant-Garde In The 20th Century: Music And Modernism / LTM, 2014)
13. Low Frequency Orchestra w/Wolfgang Mitterer – Mole (Excerpt) (Mole / Chmafu Nocords, 2010)
14. Eliane Radigue – Epure (Excerpt) (Opus 17 / Alga Marghen, 2013)
15. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Catching Loners With Blank Arms (Versatile Arab Chord Chart / VHF Records, 2001)

16. Tor Invocation Band – Water (Excerpt) (Water / TOR Press, 2016)
17. Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix-Heule - We Are All Bob Marley (Colonial Donuts / Palilalia Records, 2015)

18. Mogwai – Ex-Cowboy (Come On Die Young / Chemikal Underground, 1999)



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CVC002: Melting - 'Dusk' Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download Out Now!

Melting

Dusk

Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

(CVC002)

Available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

New Release: Melting - Dusk (CVC002) Limited Edition Cassette / Digital

Melting

'Dusk'

(2016)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes / digital

(CVC002)

I'm very pleased to be able to announce a new release through the Crow Versus Crow label, Melting's Dusk. 

This is the début release from the elusive Leeds producer, who, utilising the sampler as a compositional tool, explores an outsider approach to hip-hop beat craft and bass music. Soaked in an insomniac miasma, heavy sub and glitched-out edits remain anchored by woozy boom-bap rhythms, giving the tracks a complex, ethereal, deeply introspective feel. It's rare that a record so quickly lays such strong hooks in me, prompting intense, repeated listens, but Dusk has done just that. It's an incredibly affecting record. If melancholic ecstasy was a thing, that's exactly what it would provoke.

Dusk will be released as a limited edition cassette with accompanying artwork and sleeve design that, in its intricately designed minimalism, perfectly complements the emotional complexities of the Melting tracks. 

The 9 tracks are repeated on both sides of a C65 plain grey, professionally duplicated cassette, wrapped in a 3 panel, full colour j-card in a clear plastic library case. This is then encased in a specifically designed 300gsm black card sleeve, with laser –etched and –cut details. 

There cassette release comes in an edition of 50 copies. There will also be a digital version and both will be available from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp from Friday 1st April 2016.

Melting has also released a video for the lead track from Dusk, titled, Road.

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #99

The 99th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 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 13th March 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Peruvian Man – Pez Espada (The Exotic Sounds of Tunstall on Sea / Burselm Crypt Recordings, 2016)
2. Broken Shoulder - From Whisper To Whiny/Big Wicker Ventriloquist (Biwa / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2016)
3. Lutine - To the Sea (Bela Emerson mix) (Died of Love / Front & Follow, 2016)
4. [ B O L T ] + Ewaldt – A2 (COLLABORATION TAPE / Wolves & Vibrancy Records, 2014)

5. Neil Campbell - Domestic Mix For Crow Versus Crow (A Work Made Specifically for The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Not on Label, 2016)

6. The Fall - All Leave Cancelled (Wise Old Man EP / Cherry Red, 2016)
7. Blood Sport - Reflective Orange (Axe Laid to the Root / Blast First Petite, 2016)

8. Kib Elektra – Hairclips (Blemishes EP / Bezirk, 2016)
9. Melting – Road (Dusk / Crow Versus Crow Records, 2016)

10. Posset - Beetmix 2015 for Crow Versus Crow (A Work Made Specifically for The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show / Not on Label, 2016)

11. Ulrich Rois - Farewell to the River (Along the Belt, Around the Bend / TOR Press, 2016)
12. Tiago Sousa – Bibliografia Theme (Um Piano Nas Barricadas / Discrepant, 2016)
13. Petrels - On The Dark Great Sea (Onkalo / Denovali Records, 2013)

14. Unknown Artist - Kohari (Sindh) (Folk Tunes of Pakistan / Odeon, Date Unknown)



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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #98

The 98th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 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 14th February 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Troy Schafer - Navigation Mark 1 (Amplified Double Fiddle / Aetheric Records, 2016)
2. Low Frequency Orchestra - II-1 (S / ein_klang records, 2007)

3. Okkyung Lee - The Crow Flew After Yi Sang (Ghil / Ideologic Organ, 2013)
4. Stephen Kerrison – Battle Drums (Dogs / Not on Label, 2016)

5. Talvihorros – Discordia (Discordia / Jaz Records, 2016)
6. Kim Suk Chul Ensemble - Mun-Kut Samul (Excerpt) (Shamanistic Ceremonies of the Eastern Seaboard / JVC, 1993)

7. Bridget Hayden - Non-Linear Chaotic Problem (live at Inkfolk 30/03/2014) (Noise In The Wood / Was Ist Das?, 2016)
8. This Heat – Rainforest (This Heat / Piano, 1979)

9. Bird People - Calder Valley Rockaway (live at Todmorden Unitarian Church 15/08/2015) (Noise In The Wood / Was Ist Das?, 2016)
10. Isnaj Dui - The Way They Are (live at Todmorden Unitarian Church 15/08/2015) (Noise In The Wood / Was Ist Das?, 2016)

11. Cello & Laptop - The Accident (Transient Accidents / Fluid Audio, 2016)
12. Daniel Thomas – Anthem (Broadcast / Cherry Row Recordings, 2016)

13. Laura Cannell - For Sorrow Salt Tears (Karen Gwyer Edit) (Swooping Talons Remixes / Front & Follow, 2015)
14. Arca – Peonies (Mutant / Mute, 2016)
15. Melting – At 26 (At 26 / Not on Label, 2016)

16. Kilslug - 666 (Sic Sic Sic) (Kilslug/Drunk In Hell Split / Lupus, At War with False Noise, 2016)
17. Drunk In Hell - Hungry For Blood (Kilslug/Drunk In Hell Split / Lupus, At War with False Noise, 2016)

18. That Fucking Tank – Chumbawambanger (China / Gringo Records, 2015)

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #97

The 97th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.

Recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone. Stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

 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 January 2016 between 6 and 8pm.

1. Warren Schoenbright - Fucking Torrential Delirium ((Out of Bounds) Eaten By The Forest / Vacant Fulfilment, 2015)
2. Norman Westberg – Bunny Bill (13 / Room40, 2015)
3. Ramleh – Entropy (Circular Time / Crucial Blast, 2015)

4. Laura Cannell - Cathedral Of The Marshes (Beneath Swooping Talons / Front & Follow, 2015)
5. Mohammad – Sagaraki (Segondè Saleco / Antifrost, 2015)

6. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Don't Worry Kyoko Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow (Wedding Album / Rykodisk, 1997)
7. Grey Guides – Check Your Body for Marks (Songs for Gruppen Aleph-Aleph / Not on Label, 2015)

8. Sunny Murray – Red Cross (Sushine / BYG Records, 1969)
9. The Necks – Vertigo (Vertigo / ReR Megacorp, 2015)
10. Posset – Posset vs Lady Day (Standards / Spam, 2015)

11. Hanetration – book (Coiled Fore EP / Not on Label, 2016)
12. Mike Cooper – Bendigo To Kyoto (New Kiribati / Discrepant, 2016)
13. David Newlyn - In Colour (The Past Increases, The Future Recedes / Rural Colours, 2016)
14. Aemaeth - Stalked by Death (The Roman / Gizeh Records, 2016)
15. Yellow6 - The Fifth (No Memories, Only Photographs / Silber Records, 2015)

16. Free Kitten - Erected Girl (Inherit / Ecstatic Peace, 2008)

17. David Bowie – The Secret Life of Arabia (“Heroes” / RCA, 1977)

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #97 by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

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