New Release: Chlorine - Gallooner (CVC013) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

Chlorine

Gallooner

(CVC013)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes & digital download

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honored to be able to present to you Gallooner, by Chlorine – alias of thee mighty Gateshead-based artist and multi-instrumentalist, Graeme Hopper. Following last year’s Loser Herd, released on the Panarus Productions label, Gallooner, digs deeper into the artist’s psyche to construct heavily layered and complex sonic evocations and excavations of the artist’s Self. It is by far the most personal collection of recordings Chlorine has produced to date.

Anxiety. Loneliness. Self-Loathing. Depression.

All hewn crude in catharsis.

That is not to say that Gallooner is a violent, nihilistic, ugly record. As with many creative expressions of melancholy, there is a deep, complicated beauty within the intricate soundscapes. It’s probably a hopeful record. But its seeds are sown deep in frustration and doubt.

Gall.

Bitterness. Bile. Audacity.

A skin sore caused by chronic irritation.

Brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence.

Flaw.

And doubt.

With Gallooner, Chlorine has produced six varied yet cohesive soundscapes that range from throbbing, percussive, post-Dub, post-Industrial, post-Techno, sunk ravers, to heavily textured string-scraping, tape-hissing evocations of nocturnal wanderings, both dreamlike and concrete. Found sounds and field recordings coalesce with keys, strings and percussion to form intricate compositions rich in a symbiotic sense of geographic and psychological place.

Gallooner is released as a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered professionally dubbed cassettes and digital download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp on Friday 12th July 2019, featuring artwork by Hopper. 

Tape £6

Download £4

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

New Release: Posset/Ulyatt - A Jar Full (CVC012) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

Posset/Ulyatt

A Jar Full

(CVC012)

Limited Edition of 70 cassettes and digital download

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honoured to be able to present, A Jar Full, the first set of collaborative recordings from improvising cell0-wranger, Charlie Ulyatt and Dictaphonic tape-jaxxer, Joe Posset.

Charlie and Joe became aware of each other’s work via mentions in the excellent TQ fanzine. When Joe was offered a show in Charlie’s hometown of Nottingham, he asked Charlie along to play a one-off collaboration.

(Improvising cello versus improvising Dictaphone; what could possibly go wrong?!)

Meeting for the first time a few hours before the show, with no previous rehearsal, practice or jam, things seemed to go rather well (CVC ed. - read: ‘blisteringly excellently’). It is this first ever show in Nottingham’s Angel pub that graces Side Two.

With a side of live dicta/cello wonk in the bag, Charlie and Joe spent a few weeks sending sound files back and forth to improvise over. What you hear on Side One is first-take improvisations over each other’s recordings. To keep things fresh, they agreed to not listen in advance but simply set up the recorder, hit play and record the outcome.

(But what will you hear?)

The rich tone of the cello slinks out between gobby horsehair friction and thumb-wrinked ffw action, speedy-jump cuts of smeared tape noise wrestle the gristle of fat wound strings. Sensory grenades explode letting out wafts of classy rosin and hot melting Bakelite. Thoughts and images coalesce into plump wobbling shapes until they are speared with a sharp sonic jab only to deflate with the dignity of a fainting dowager. Cello and Dictaphone flatter each other with audio-compliments and certainly make a handsome pair. The low tones afforded by resonating wood play off the fragile tape magnetics. The scribble-scrabble of the bow lends texture to the foggy Dictaphonix. Two distinct voices singing in drunken unison!

A Jar Full is released as a Limited Edition of 70 professionally-dubbed full-colour on-body printed cassettes, with artwork by Crow Versus Crow full-colour printed onto a hand-numbered j-card, housed in a white-backed cassette case. A digital download is also available.

Tape £6
Download £4

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #120

The 120th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone and 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 on CAMP Radio (http://listen.camp/) on Friday 10th November 2017.

1. Dopaminos – Bosch in Crayola (Occam’s Hairbrush / Ourodisc, 2017)
2. Sanotanotanpenz - それ、いいね (31 / Bijin Records, 2017)
3. Colin Webster – Abstract 2 (vs. Tape Loops / Fractal Meat, 2017)
4. $un $keletons Get It Up Yers Trio – Cows (Mount Royal / doubledotdash?!, 2017)
5. $un $keletons Get It Up Yers Trio – That Might Have Been Something (Mount Royal / doubledotdash?!, 2017)

6. Giovanni Lami – Side B (Hysteresis IV / Falt, 2017)
7. Claire Potter – Penmon Point (Scally Nike Leather Glove Smoke / Chocolate Monk, 2017)
8. Phil Maguire – Fabrik (Defekt Fabrik / Not on Label, 2017)

9. Isnaj Dui – Blind Spot (Poiesis / Rural Colours, 2017)
10. Pascal Nichols – Untitled (Nihilist Chakai House / Discombobulate, 2014)
11. Maallem Ahmed Gacha and Ensemble – Albazaoua Women’s Chorus (Music of Morocco from the Library of Congress / Dust to Digital, 2016)

12. Smut – Live at the Soundroom Gateshead, 13th May 2017 (Live at the Soundroom Gateshead, 13th May 2017 / No-Audience Underground Tapes, 2017)

13. The Teatowels – Excerpts from 'We Are The Deadness' (We Are The Deadness / Beartown Records, 2017)
14. The Teatowels – Gav Sings It (previously unreleased)

15. Yol – Just Fire (On / Off / Soundholes, 2017)

Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #118

The 118th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone and stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones.

This episode continues the sonic explorations charted in the previous episodes, featuring cuts from new tapes from wonky experimentalists Duncan Harrison, Kate Armitage and Natalia Beylis; more glorious NY/Cale-soaked 'Spirit Of Eden'-esque jams from $un $keletons Get It Up Yers Trio and the latest of their monthly-through-2017 releases; a couple of tracks from the Paul Bowles-compiled 'Music of Morocco' box-set; a smattering of tracks from the latest batch of Power Moves Library's 'Excavation Series', amongst other golden gold for ear and soul. Dig! Dig! you Heps!

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.

1. Unknown Artist – Bangor (Gaelic Psalm Singing From North Uist / Lewis Recordings, 1999)
2. Duncan Harrison – Preamble to Nihil (Excerpt) (Preamble To Nihil / Not on Label, 2017)
3. IJ – Valves (In The Vicinity Of The Extraordinary / Kirigirisu Recordings, 2017)
4. Natalia Beylis – Side A (Excerpt) (12 14 16 18 20 = 2 / Sofia Records, 2017)
5. Patty Waters – Wild Is The Wind (College Tour / ESP-Disk, 1966)

6. Chikh Ayyad ou Haddou and Ensemble – Ouakha dial Kheir (Women’s Chorus) (Music of Morocco: From the Library of Congress / Dust To Digital, 2016)
7. Vibracathedral Orchestra – Live At Total Inertia (Part II) (Live At Total Inertia / Vanity Case Records, 2017)
8. Guru Guru – UFO (UFO / Ohr, 1970)

9. Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh – Dust Love (Oreing / Fort Evil Fruit, 2017)
10. Roshanara Begum - Maru Bihag (AIR Tapes 2: Kirana Gharana (EXCAVATION TAPES #9) / Power Moves Library, 2017)

11. Robert Millis – Bombay, Chor Bazaar (Noise May Provoke Hornet Attacks (EXCAVATION TAPES #11) / Power Moves Library, 2017)
12. Robert Millis – Buddhist Temple Drums, Recorded In Polonnaruwa (Noise May Provoke Hornet Attacks (EXCAVATION TAPES #11) / Power Moves Library, 2017)
13. Robert Millis – Ambiance Near Polonnaruwa (Noise May Provoke Hornet Attacks (EXCAVATION TAPES #11) / Power Moves Library, 2017)
14. Robert Millis – Street Performer Imitating A Bird, Kandy (Noise May Provoke Hornet Attacks (EXCAVATION TAPES #11) / Power Moves Library, 2017)

15. Yol – Street Food (Hand Of Glory / Not on Label, 2017)
16. Penance Stare – A Lack Of All Things (House Of Bastet / Not on Label, 2017)

17. Chikh Ayyad ou Haddou and Ensemble – Aili ya Mali (Mixed Chorus) (Music of Morocco: From the Library of Congress / Dust To Digital, 2016)
18. Kate Armitage – Spiral Deco (Benefit Claimant / Fractal Meat, 2017)

19. $un $keletons Get It Up Yers Trio – Was Radiant Night (Rust Belt U.K / doubledotdash?!, 2017)
20. The Pop Group – Boys From Brazil (Y / Radar Records, 1979)

Thank You

The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #113

The 113th  episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, recorded at Crow Versus Crow Haus using a Zoom H1 recorder as a microphone and stitched together using outdated software. Please listen to this on headphones. 

This episode features an exclusive mix made for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show by Marlo Eggplant. Marlo Eggplant, alias of Marlo De Lara, is a Leeds-based artist producing minimalist, heavily textured work rooted in improvisation, often in the blurred lines between music and unintentional sound. 
Marlo is an active participant within the No-Audience Underground and is also curator of the Ladyz in Noyz project, which aims to promote the work of emerging women artists. She has records available through Corpus Callosum, Scotch Tapes and Fractal Meat Cuts, to name but a few.
The work featured here is an excerpt of a much longer mix that will be uploaded to Mixcloud as an individual stream after this episode has run it's course.

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 7th May 2017 between 6 and 8pm.

1. $un $keletons - Winding Down The Gramophone (Get It Up Yers Trio (Vermin Supreme) / Cruel Nature Records, 2017)
2. Captain Beefheart – Fall In Ditch (Stand Up To Be Discontinued / Hatje Cantz, Nur/Nicht/Nur, 1993)
3. Moshimoss – FIIElI(2011) (FIIElI / Sound In Silence, 2017)
4. Taiwan Housing Project – Grand Incineration (Grand Incineration / Not on Label, 2016)
5. Pink Floyd – Bike (excerpt) (Piper At The Gates Of Dawn / EMI, 1967)

6. $un $keletons - 5000 Years Of History (Get It Up Yers Trio (Vermin Supreme) / Cruel Nature Records, 2017)
7. Captain Beefheart – Gill (Stand Up To Be Discontinued / Hatje Cantz, Nur/Nicht/Nur, 1993)
8. Olympus – Teal Ribbon (Olympus / T.A.T.F / Forever United, 2017)
9. T.A.T.F – Home (Olympus / T.A.T.F / Forever United, 2017)

10. Baldruin – Fortgeschlichten (Biotische Verwitterung / Aetheric Records, Black Horizons, Cloister Recordings, 2017)
11. Grey Frequency – Dyatlov Pass (Exhibition / Not On Label, 2017)
12. A-Sun Amissa – Colossus Survives (The Gatherer / Consouling Sounds, 2017)

13. Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain (excerpt) (Early Works / Elektra Nonesuch, 1987)
14. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley – The Mirror (The Blow Volume 3 / Front & Follow, 2017)
15. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley – And And And And (The Blow Volume 3 / Front & Follow, 2017)
16. Downer Canada – Ares (Ares / Power Moves Library, 2017)
17. Karl M V Waugh – Dawn (O Light; A Lightness / Not On Label, 2017)

18. Marlo Eggplant – A Mix for Crow Versus Crow (Not On Label, 2017)

I. Gurner – Ketamine Stripper (Ladyz in Noyz AUS II / Ladyz in Noyz, 2014)
II. Paints Ov Anima – Wise Words (Brassica / Control Valve, 2013)
III. Beast Nest – Worst Ever (Songs for Puppies / Full Spectrum Records, 2015)
IV. Bianca Mikahn – Inte-gritty (Nightdreams & Daymares / Visceral View, 2013)
V. Sharkiface – Blood Transfusion (Ladyz in Noyz 3.5 / Ladyz in Noyz, 2015)


Thank You.

NEW RELEASE: BBBlood, Posset & Stuart Chalmers - 'delirium cutlet impaste' (Crow Versus Crow Editions)

BBBlood, Posset & Stuart Chalmers
delirium cutlet impaste
Limited edition of 50 CD-Rs and download
Available from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp Friday 14th April 2017

Whether wielding Dictaphone, mobile phone or zither, Posset, BBBlood and Stuart Chalmers, three pillars of the No-Audience Underground, have honed their respective craft over a number of years and an even larger number of innovative and pioneering recordings, released through such esteemed DIY labels as Chocolate Monk, Strange Rules, Singing Knives, Beartown Records, KIKS/Girlfriend, Invisible City, Was Ist Das?... The list goes on!

So, it is an absolute pleasure for Crow Versus Crow to be able to present, Delirium Cutlet Impaste; a three-track three-way split, with BBBlood, Posset and Stuart Chalmers each offering their own slab of rich, evocative, alchemical tape music.

Delirium Cutlet Impaste is a record made from within the socio-political mindfuck that is the UK in 2017.

…The prevalence of so-called ‘alt-right’ (read: fascist) politics; deepening social divisions; an increasingly retrospective, nostalgia-yearning for an England that couldn’t, shouldn’t and, almost certainly, never did exist; a building of cultural walls to the exclusion of various/any cultural others…

This is the climate within which this record has been made.

Yet, this record isn’t a reactionary, condensable to a soundbite, statement piece. It is an open, complex maelstrom of layers of sounds and ideas

…domesticity; poetics in the minutiae of the mundane; field recordings of European excursion; the sounds of various non-Western musics, processed and subsumed; the body as instrument, as conduit…

This record reflects an open-armed engagement with a shifting, tumultuous, uncertain contemporary world. It is a raw, joyful expression of the creative process in, and in spite of, the environment from which it is born.

Delirium Cutlet Impaste will be available from Friday 14th April 2017 as a limited edition of 50 CD-Rs, housed in a full-colour 300gsm ‘greeting card’ sleeve, featuring a collaborative collage produced by BBBlood, Posset, Stuart Chalmers and Crow Versus Crow, in a hand-stamped, numbered and sticker-sealed envelope, and download from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.