'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'
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)
Thursday, 24 January 2013
The Crow Versus Crow Sessions - Jack Hayter
The live session Jack Hayter recorded specifically for the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show is now available to download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp site.
Tracklisting:
1. Farewell, Jezebel
2. Jacqui, I Won't Mind
3. The Shackleton
4. Talking To A Stranger (Bonus Track)
Thank you Jack. Thank You Jamie / Audio Anti-Hero
Monday, 21 January 2013
Posset 'Beast Tapes of 2012'
Beast Tapes of 2012...
As part of the 45th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, Posset's Beast Tapes of 2012 mix was aired. The work compiles Posset's selections from his personal favourite cassette-only releases from last year. A bloody good selection it is too! You can stream and download the mix below. Over to the man himself...
'It’s been a very good year for tapes. Vocal mouth-jizz has been slurping all over the shop; noise seems to have got grubbier & dirtier; drone has been plumbing new depths of the soul; otherness has taken a pastoral trip and guitar pluckery has been crisp & sharp like a frosty morning. Here’s all the best of 2012. It’s clumsily mixed, sorry about the sloppy edits and tape hiss. It is what it is. Enjoy friends. Posset.'
1. Lovely Honkey – Set Sail for the Moral High Ground (Total Vermin)
2. Sindre Bjerga – Vocal Studies #9 (My Dance the Skull)
3. No Artist - Untitled AKA I Almost Drowned (Blue Spectrum Tapes)
4. Jazzfinger – Destroyed Form (Handmade Birds)
5. Benway – Ham Hock (Fucking Amateurs)
6 Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everyone Love Free Music But No-one Loves Free People? (Palilalia)
7. Tom Settle on the compilation Post-Industrial Freak Flag (Winebox Press)
8. Vampire Blues – Epistemological Relativism (Total Vermin)
9. No Artist – We’re Not Serving Him (Gloryhole)
10. Blood Stereo – The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades (Ultramarine)
11. Acrid Lactations – The Presidential Cow is Bound to the Maypole (Total Vermin)
12. Lovely Honkey/Acrid Lactations – Sing the Futile Tapestry (Total Vermin)
13. Blue Spectrum – Witch Fucker (Blue Spectrum Tapes)
Thank You Posset.
Sunday, 20 January 2013
The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #46
Songs About Crying... (or, I am in love with Phil Elverum)
So, here it s, the 46th episode of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, bringing together a selection of my musical explorations between the recording of this and the previous episode. There are new releases from MXMXCI (1991) on Opal Tapes, L.Pierre on Melodic, Danny Clay on Rural Colours and a track from the new self-released EP from Leeds' Cattle; unreleased tracks from Matthew Collings, ahead of the release of his Splintered Instruments LP on Fluid Audio, and People Eaters; a couple of new finds in Marlo Eggplant and 1-800-LIPSTICK; in and amongst a selection of more recent and dustier tracks mined from the archives.
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 20th January 2013 between 6 and 8pm.
1. Red House Painters – Evil (Red House Painters / 4AD)
2. L. Pierre – Doctor Alucard (The Island Come True / Melodic)
3. IVVVO – Rave 2 Die (Cold Holiday / Opal Tapes)
4. Marlo Eggplant – Crumbles (After The Storm / Ilse) (Crater Lake Festival LastFM, Facebook Event Page.)
5. Matthew Collings – Vasilia (Splintered Instruments / Fluid Audio)
6. Danny Clay – Nocturne/Three Bells (When The Curtains Of Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars / Rural Colours)
7. The Microphones – The Glow Pt.2 (The Glow Pt.2 / K Records)
8. 1994! – Sour Thanks, Man (Most Deaf / Kiss Of Death)
9. Cattle – Whoa Bessie (Self-Titled EP / Not On Label)
10. Nisennenmondai – Kyuukohan (Tori / Dotlinecircle)
11. 1-800-LIPSTICK – Anxiety Face (Witch Beats / Not On Label)
12. Rrose – Prism Guard (Preretinal / Eaux)
13. Ashanti Tribe of Ghana / Ewe Tribe of Ghana – Parago (Drums of Death / Avant)
14. MCMXCI – Untitled 2 (Skogen, Flickan och Flaskan / Opal Tapes)
15. Oval – Kreak (Oval / Liturgy Split / Thrill Jockey)
16. People Eaters – Vu-Ni-Duva (Not On Label)
17. The Dead C – 4:36 (Split Series #18 – The Dead C / Konono No.1 / Fat Cat)
18. William Basinski – Disintegration Loops 1.3 (The Disintegration Loops / Temporary Residence)
19. David Bowie – Fascination (Young Americans / RCA)
I've violated copyright laws by offering downloads, so it's no longer available. Sorry! Email me if you want to arrange alternative delivery methods.
Thank You.
Sunday, 6 January 2013
The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #45
Coming hard, Bro'...
After a relaxing month away from the microphone, here is the forty-fifth episode of the Crow Versus Crow Radio Show.
Although, as it's based on my recent listening habits, it nearly comprised of Wu Tang Clan and 'Don't' by Dinosaur Jr. exclusively, within the first episode of the new year (always different, always the same) there are tracks from older favourites such as The Fall (always different, always the same), Mogwai and Dinosaur Jr.; new releases from numerous newly established UK-based independent/DIY labels, such as Paul Carr/Build Music, Rejections/Reject and Fade and Spirit of John/Gin House Records, to name a few; 'Klassic Trax' that I make no apologies for/feel no need to make justifications for - kwallity iz kwallity, after all; and a specially composed Beast Tapes of 2012 mix from Posset, comprising his selection of cassette-only finery from the last year.
Headphones are definitely recommended. Jumpers too, if it's cold.
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 6th January 2013 between 6 and 8pm.
1. Paul Carr – News 24 (The History of Aviation, Build Music)
2. The Fall – Smile (The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 – 2004, Castle Music)
3. BBBlood – Marseille (N 51°33' 0'' / W 0°7' 0'', Sheepscar Light Industrial)
4. Rejections – Corridor (Receding Zones, Reject and Fade) Also: Receding Zones Tumblr
5. Wrath of the Weak – Brotherhood of Destruction (Just a Momentary Diversion on the Road to the Grave, Earth Space Noise Research Laboratories)
6. Nocturnal Poisoning – A Wandering Disappearance (Other Worlds of the Mind, Disharmonic Variations)
7. Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar (Condensed) (Clear Moon/Ocean Roar Condensed Versions, P.W. Elverum and Sun)
8. Mogwai – D to E (UK/European Tour EP, Not on Label)
9. Posset – Beast Tapes of 2012 Mix
- Lovely Honkey – Set Sail for the Moral High Ground (Total Vermin)
- Sindre Bjerga – Vocal Studies #9 (My Dance the Skull)
- No Artist - Untitled AKA I Almost Drowned (Blue Spectrum Tapes)
- Jazzfinger – Destroyed Form (Handmade Birds)
- Benway – Ham Hock (Fucking Amateurs)
- Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everyone Love Free Music But No-one Loves Free People? (Palilalia)
- Tom Settle on the compilation Post-Industrial Freak Flag (Winebox Press)
- Vampire Blues – Epistemological Relativism (Total Vermin)
- No Artist – We’re Not Serving Him (Gloryhole)
- Blood Stereo – The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades (Ultramarine)
- Acrid Lactations – The Presidential Cow is Bound to the Maypole (Total Vermin)
- Lovely Honkey/Acrid Lactations – Sing the Futile Tapestry (Total Vermin)
- Blue Spectrum – Witch Fucker (Blue Spectrum Tapes)
10. Spirit of John – Snakes (Snakes, Gin House Records) Also: Gin House Records
11. Caught in the Wake Forever – Western Medicine has Failed Me (Against a Simple Wooden Cross, Hibernate Recordings)
12. Horseback – Inheritance (The Changeling) (Half Blood, Relapse Records)
13. Nathan Bell – Singing Through the Air (Colors, Lancashire & Somerset)
14. John Oswald –Way (Plunderphonics 69/96, Fony)
15. Esther Burns – L’intranquile (La Valeur Du Vide, La Valeur Du Vide)
16. Esoteric Youth – Litost (Demo Tape, Church of Fuck)
17. We Came Out Like Tigers – Immutable (Agelessness and Lack, Dog Knights Productions)
18. Dinosaur Jr. – Don’t (Bug, SST)
Thank You.
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