Sunday, December 1
sine tones and stairwells: klaus filip live in dunedin
on Sunday the 24th of November, the opportunity to host Viennese improvised electronic artist Klaus Filip on the Dunedin leg of his antipodean tour produced two collaborative ensembles with local improvisors: a duo with Klaus and radio cegeste, and a trio with violinist Motoko Kikkawa and cellist Joanna Osborne. A listening space hung with sculptural sine-tones and dense washes of interference, minimal strings and poetic silences was punctuated with sets by L$D Fundraiser and a trio comprising Troy Peter James Naumoff (guitar), Rory MacMurdo (drums) and Zack Shaw (sax).
this edition of Avant Gardening re-plays the sets, recorded a week ago, for radio.
image credit: Motoko Kikkawa
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Playlist:
1. Klaus Filip / radio cegeste, live recording 24.11.2013
2. L$D Fundraiser, live recording 24.11.2013
3. Klaus Filip / Motoko Kikkawa / Joanna Osborne, live recording 24.11.2013
4. Naumoff / MacMurdo / Shaw, live recording, 24.11.2013
Sunday, July 28
thought fatigue / i've been here before (version 2): re-listening to Donald McPherson
To risk stating the obvious, the mythos around 'lost narratives' always has its own lost narratives. Take the case of Ravensbourne's Donald McPherson, a classically trained improvisational guitarist long considered one of the more reclusive participants in a music scene not exactly known for its overt social ease. Known for releasing incredibly small run editions on lathe-cut record, most copies of which he withdrew himself soon after. He was friends with Sandoz Lab Technicians at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in the mid 1980s. He recorded with Three Forks (Metonymic, United Fairy Moons). He released the solo album 'Bramble' on Metonymic in 2001. The photos above are from the last gig I saw him play, with Tetuzi Akiyama, at the High Street Project in Christchurch in 2010, a rarity as far as these things go. As sometime collaborator (Three Forks member and curator of the United Fairy Moons label) Jimmy Currin recently put it in a review in Dunedin street press imprint Point:
"It seems hardly a week can go by without the international underground railroad coughing up some new lost gem; sometimes as re-releases but most assiduously over the internet. 'Some Songs' ought to have been among them by now, but as it was released in an edition of 20 lathe-cut copies, you'll be forgiven for never knowing it existed - though it easily stands alongside its near contemporaries, Alastair Galbraith's 'Talisman' and Crude's 'Inner City Guitar Perspectives' as a document of rugged individualist Dunedin splendor."
Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, c. April-May 2013 an outpouring of eleven releases (including the abovementioned Some Songs, but remarkable for its diversity and multiple personae) is available, not on one of the labels currently shining the limelight of the re-release on the various cobwebbed corners of the South Island Psych moment, but as full albums uploaded on Bandcamp, by Donald himself. Some are recorded on 4 track, the more recent ones on a Zoom. Most have never been available before. What are we to make of this? Will their strange, singular sublimities change our understanding of the South Island's musical mythos?
Donald himself sounds as skeptical about such grand narratives, and as personal, as ever:
"Weird releasing this stuff, some of my guitar recordings seem like the product of an adult human being but my song stuff seems to have something eternally adolescent and amateur about it ... with clunky rhyming verse lyrics that seem to betray a low self esteem and seldom transcend being somehow about "me".... too bad. It's what I do. I've gotta put some of it "out there" and move on. I keep swinging between thinking my stuff is the cat's pyjamas and the next minute being mortified by how "bad" it is. Maybe that's normal....."
to listen to/download the albums, read more of Donald's thoughts (and have the chance to pay him for his work), go here
otherwise, listen in to Avant Gardening tonight for about three hours of Donald's music. We will eventually podcast an interview with him here too.
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Playlist:
1. Donald McPherson, 'Black Windows' from Mirrors & Windows (2013)
2. Donald McPherson, 'At The Crack' from Bramble (2001)
3. Donald McPherson, 'Icicle Man Melts' from Bramble (2001)
4. Donald McPherson, 'Bramble' from Bramble (2001)
5. Donald McPherson, 'R.I.P' from Bramble (2001)
6. Three Forks, 'Peru' from Seven Layer Ape (2006)
7. Three Forks, 'Drunken Traffic' from Seven Layer Ape (2006)
14. Donald McPherson, 'Reverie' from Variety Show (2013)
15. Donald McPherson, 'For Sooth' from Variety Show (2013)
16. Donald McPherson, 'For When You Need Your World Reborn' from Variety Show (2013)
17. Donald McPherson, 'Dark Clouds Looming' from Deviations
18. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 1' from Anomalies (2013)
19. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 2' from Anomalies (2013)
20. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 4' from Anomalies (2013)
21. Donald McPherson, 'Paranoid Lovesick Dream' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
22. Donald McPherson, 'Pining' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
23. Donald McPherson, 'A Question of Time' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
24. Donald McPherson, 'Lofi Song' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
25. Donald McPherson, 'Volgograd Way' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
26. Donald McPherson, 'The Peasant (live)' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
27. Donald McPherson, 'Things Aint Dead' from Some Songs (2013)
28. Donald McPherson, 'Above the Nut' from Some Songs (2013)
29. Donald McPherson, 'Shadow on Your Heart' from Some Songs (2013)
30. Donald McPherson, 'Lullaby Shit' from Some Songs (2013)
31. Donald McPherson, 'Wee Willie Wank' from Some Songs (2013)
32. Donald McPherson, 'Decap' from Some Songs (2013)
33. Donald McPherson, 'Well Kept Carpet in an Old House' from Some Songs (2013)
34. Donald McPherson, 'I Have Been Here Before' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
35. Donald McPherson, 'Forced Optimism 1' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
36. Donald McPherson, 'Hanging In There' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
37. Donald McPherson, 'Running Free' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
38. Donald McPherson, 'Ships 1' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
39. Donald McPherson, 'Psychotherapy For Basil Brush' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
40. Donald McPherson, 'Bouncer' from Twenty-Twelve (2013)
3. Donald McPherson, 'Icicle Man Melts' from Bramble (2001)
4. Donald McPherson, 'Bramble' from Bramble (2001)
5. Donald McPherson, 'R.I.P' from Bramble (2001)
6. Three Forks, 'Peru' from Seven Layer Ape (2006)
7. Three Forks, 'Drunken Traffic' from Seven Layer Ape (2006)
8. Donald McPherson, 'Boulder State' from Domestic Flights (2013)
9. Donald McPherson, 'Pick-ture' from Domestic Flights (2013)
10. Donald McPherson, 'Haunts' from Domestic Flights (2013)
11. Donald McPherson, 'Fructifying' from Domestic Flights (2013)
12. Donald McPherson, 'Seascape Panorama' from Domestic Flights (2013)
13. Donald McPherson, 'Perambulare' from Mirrors & Windows (2013)9. Donald McPherson, 'Pick-ture' from Domestic Flights (2013)
10. Donald McPherson, 'Haunts' from Domestic Flights (2013)
11. Donald McPherson, 'Fructifying' from Domestic Flights (2013)
12. Donald McPherson, 'Seascape Panorama' from Domestic Flights (2013)
14. Donald McPherson, 'Reverie' from Variety Show (2013)
15. Donald McPherson, 'For Sooth' from Variety Show (2013)
16. Donald McPherson, 'For When You Need Your World Reborn' from Variety Show (2013)
17. Donald McPherson, 'Dark Clouds Looming' from Deviations
18. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 1' from Anomalies (2013)
19. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 2' from Anomalies (2013)
20. Donald McPherson, 'Calling to the Past 4' from Anomalies (2013)
21. Donald McPherson, 'Paranoid Lovesick Dream' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
22. Donald McPherson, 'Pining' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
23. Donald McPherson, 'A Question of Time' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
24. Donald McPherson, 'Lofi Song' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
25. Donald McPherson, 'Volgograd Way' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
26. Donald McPherson, 'The Peasant (live)' from Slag-Heap Wonders (2013)
27. Donald McPherson, 'Things Aint Dead' from Some Songs (2013)
28. Donald McPherson, 'Above the Nut' from Some Songs (2013)
29. Donald McPherson, 'Shadow on Your Heart' from Some Songs (2013)
30. Donald McPherson, 'Lullaby Shit' from Some Songs (2013)
31. Donald McPherson, 'Wee Willie Wank' from Some Songs (2013)
32. Donald McPherson, 'Decap' from Some Songs (2013)
33. Donald McPherson, 'Well Kept Carpet in an Old House' from Some Songs (2013)
34. Donald McPherson, 'I Have Been Here Before' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
35. Donald McPherson, 'Forced Optimism 1' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
36. Donald McPherson, 'Hanging In There' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
37. Donald McPherson, 'Running Free' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
38. Donald McPherson, 'Ships 1' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
39. Donald McPherson, 'Psychotherapy For Basil Brush' from Breakups & Breakdowns (2013)
40. Donald McPherson, 'Bouncer' from Twenty-Twelve (2013)
Sunday, April 28
ghosts in the medium : a radio seance for analogue TV
“Analogue televisions in the South Island will show nothing but static today after a switch to digital overnight.”
– the New Zealand Herald, 28.4.2013
“Television is the most efficient reproduction and distribution medium in human history, but it can scarcely be said to have come up with anything in the last half century that could be called an art form unique to that medium. The high-low distinction never took hold here in the way that it did in film. There is no form of high television culture that could be seen as a lasting cultural asset to be preserved for future generations.”
- Dieter Daniels, 'Television : Art or Anti-art? Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s'
New Zealand was a relative latecomer to public television, with Auckland’s first T.V. broadcast on the 1st of June 1960 (Dunedin’s was just over 2 years later in July 1962) lagging behind the British introduction of this particular public medium in 1936. As of today in the South Island, analogue TV bands are switched off with the turn to digital broadcasting, rendering this history something of an architecture of empty static, a zone of ‘dead air’.
Personally, we haven’t watched TV ourselves for years, but taking this timely opportunity to go wandering a moment within the abandoned city of the televisual, the now-empty signal of the mass medium of our collective childhoods, Avant Gardening presents a show dedicated to both signal and static within the TV paradigm, looking at some of the discussion around TV as a medium for artistic possibility throughout the last 40 years, and a small selection of artists' varied interventions into the medium-as-material, from self-consciously critical or activist interventions into the content of public broadcast media, to the medium as a momentary focus within the wider context of the development of video, media and electronic art.
Of course, much TV art isn't really audible, great things like Paik's earliest works in the medium, Wolf Vostell's 'Sun in Your Head' and and Richard Serra's 'Television Delivers People', but you can easily track these down elsewhere. And being a show that itself transfers one medium to another, in this case streaming media or digital files to analogue radio waves, we would like to remind our listeners that during the following announcements, ‘dead air’ may be in evidence, and that the visual can itself sound like static, or silence, or even radio - where possible, we've included the links to the material if you would like to watch.
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Playlist:
1. Nam June Paik, ‘Waiting for Commercial’, performed by David Behrman and Charlotte Moorman (8:18)
2. 'The Medium is the Medium' (1969) : six artists work with television (Aldo Tambellini, Thomas Tadlock, Allan Kaprow, James Seawright, Otto Piene, Nam June Paik) (30:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/tambellini_medium.html
3. Marshall McLuhan, 'The World is a Global Village', May 18, 1960 (8:44)
4. Chris Burden 'The T.V. Commercials 1973-1977' (9:08) http://www.ubu.com/film/burden_tv.html
5. Paper Tiger TV (1983), 'Brian Winston Reads the T.V. News' (15:04)
6. Sean Snyder, 'Schema (Television)' (2006-07), (7:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/snyder_schema.html
7. Sean Snyder, 'Analepsis' (2003-04), (4:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/snyder_anal.html
8. Phil Collins, 'The Return of the Real' (2007) (68:00, excerpt)
9. Shelly Silver, 'The Houses that are Left (1991) (52:00, excerpt)
10. Laurie Anderson, 'Difficult Listening Hour' from The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (4:21)
– the New Zealand Herald, 28.4.2013
“Television is the most efficient reproduction and distribution medium in human history, but it can scarcely be said to have come up with anything in the last half century that could be called an art form unique to that medium. The high-low distinction never took hold here in the way that it did in film. There is no form of high television culture that could be seen as a lasting cultural asset to be preserved for future generations.”
- Dieter Daniels, 'Television : Art or Anti-art? Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s'
New Zealand was a relative latecomer to public television, with Auckland’s first T.V. broadcast on the 1st of June 1960 (Dunedin’s was just over 2 years later in July 1962) lagging behind the British introduction of this particular public medium in 1936. As of today in the South Island, analogue TV bands are switched off with the turn to digital broadcasting, rendering this history something of an architecture of empty static, a zone of ‘dead air’.
Personally, we haven’t watched TV ourselves for years, but taking this timely opportunity to go wandering a moment within the abandoned city of the televisual, the now-empty signal of the mass medium of our collective childhoods, Avant Gardening presents a show dedicated to both signal and static within the TV paradigm, looking at some of the discussion around TV as a medium for artistic possibility throughout the last 40 years, and a small selection of artists' varied interventions into the medium-as-material, from self-consciously critical or activist interventions into the content of public broadcast media, to the medium as a momentary focus within the wider context of the development of video, media and electronic art.
Of course, much TV art isn't really audible, great things like Paik's earliest works in the medium, Wolf Vostell's 'Sun in Your Head' and and Richard Serra's 'Television Delivers People', but you can easily track these down elsewhere. And being a show that itself transfers one medium to another, in this case streaming media or digital files to analogue radio waves, we would like to remind our listeners that during the following announcements, ‘dead air’ may be in evidence, and that the visual can itself sound like static, or silence, or even radio - where possible, we've included the links to the material if you would like to watch.
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Playlist:
1. Nam June Paik, ‘Waiting for Commercial’, performed by David Behrman and Charlotte Moorman (8:18)
2. 'The Medium is the Medium' (1969) : six artists work with television (Aldo Tambellini, Thomas Tadlock, Allan Kaprow, James Seawright, Otto Piene, Nam June Paik) (30:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/tambellini_medium.html
3. Marshall McLuhan, 'The World is a Global Village', May 18, 1960 (8:44)
4. Chris Burden 'The T.V. Commercials 1973-1977' (9:08) http://www.ubu.com/film/burden_tv.html
5. Paper Tiger TV (1983), 'Brian Winston Reads the T.V. News' (15:04)
6. Sean Snyder, 'Schema (Television)' (2006-07), (7:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/snyder_schema.html
7. Sean Snyder, 'Analepsis' (2003-04), (4:00) http://www.ubu.com/film/snyder_anal.html
8. Phil Collins, 'The Return of the Real' (2007) (68:00, excerpt)
9. Shelly Silver, 'The Houses that are Left (1991) (52:00, excerpt)
10. Laurie Anderson, 'Difficult Listening Hour' from The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July (4:21)
Sunday, April 21
don't make promises / you upset the grace of living when you die: the clean lines and contradictory trajectories of tim hardin
Tim Hardin was one of the foremost exponents of the specific late '60s West Coast pop/folk sound, combining exceptionally precise, almost soul songwriting with echoes of blues and jazz, music of densely emotional variations on accessible structure. The central themes of the Tim Hardin legend are there early on, in sad songs combining poignancy and yearning with a rare maturity and self consciousness. Older than many of his mid late 60s contemporaries, Hardin was an early visitor to Vietnam after dropping out of school to join the Marines. A military 'adviser' there in 1959, it's believed that's where he picked up the interest in heroin that became quite central later in his career. Initial success was as a songwriter, and even now he's often covered, with writing distinct in its containing of a worldview that complexly encapsulates an outsider's view of the 60s zeitgeist. But as his career progressed into the early 70s, the songwriting muse began to desert him, and becoming more of a jazz interpreter, Hardin was increasingly perceived as an unreliable burnout. Albums became more erratic, shows were cancelled, stories began to mount up of desperation and abjection. There were a variety of attempts at comebacks, and he remained a strong live performer... but when he died at 39, he'd been almost forgotten.
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Playlist:
1. Tim Hardin, 'Don't Make Promises' from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
2. Tim Hardin, 'Green Rocky Road' from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
3. Tim Hardin, 'Reason to Believe', from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
4. Tim Hardin, 'Misty Roses', from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
5. Tim Hardin, 'How Can We Hang On To A Dream', from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
6. Tim Hardin, 'If I Were a Carpenter', from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
7. Tim Hardin, 'Red Balloon', from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
8. Tim Hardin, 'Black Sheep Boy', from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
9. Tim Hardin, 'The Lady Came from Baltimore', from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
10. Tim Hardin, 'You Upset the Grace of Living When you Lie' from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
11. Tim Hardin, 'See Where you Are and Get Out' from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
12. Tim Hardin, 'Tribute to Hank Williams' from Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
13. Tim Hardin, 'Ain't Gonna Do Without' from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
14. Tim Hardin, 'Smugglin' Man' from Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
15. Tim Hardin, 'You Gotta Have More Than One Woman' from This Is Tim Hardin (1967)
16. Tim Hardin, 'Eulogy to Lenny Bruce' from Tim Hardin 3 (1968)
17. Tim Hardin, 'Last Sweet Moment' from Tim Hardin 3 (1968)
18. Tim Hardin, 'First Love Song', from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
19. Tim Hardin, 'Question of Birth', from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
20. Tim Hardin, 'The Country I'm Living In', from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
21. Tim Hardin, 'Magician', from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
22. Tim Hardin, 'One One the Perfect Sum', from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
23. Tim Hardin, 'Susan' from Suite for Susan Moore and Damian - We are one, one, all in one (1970)
24. Tim Hardin, 'Bird on the Wire', from Bird on the Wire (1971)
25. Tim Hardin, 'Andre Johray', from Bird on the Wire (1971)
26. Tim Hardin, 'I'll Be Home', from Painted Head (1972)
27. Tim Hardin, 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out' from Painted Head (1972)
28. Tim Hardin, 'Shiloh Town' from Nine (1973)
29. Tim Hardin, 'Blues on my Ceiling' from Nine (1973)
30. Can, 'Rehearsal' (with Tim Hardin) from Outtake Edition bootleg (date unknown)
31. Tim Hardin 'Black Sheep Boy' from The Homecoming Concert (1981)
32. Tim Hardin 'Lady Came' from The Homecoming Concert (1981)
33. Tim Hardin 'Speak Like a Child' from The Homecoming Concert (1981)
34. Tim Hardin, 'Red Balloon' from The Homecoming Concert (1981)
35. Tim Hardin 'Amen' from The Homecoming Concert (1981)
Sunday, March 31
an ace unable to change / as long as there's no forgiveness: the stark soundworld of jason molina
Jason Molina was well documented as being a fairly classic rock songwriter in a stark, symbolic vein, but the streak of constant invention in his realisation of sound recording is much less commented upon. Listening through his work of over 15 years as Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co. and under his own name, the consistency of voice is matched by the variety of approaches. The 70s midwest rock sounds of late Magnolia Electric Co. LPs like Josephine (2009) and Nashville Moon (2007) are a ways from the stark small lo fi clarities of early EPs like Our Golden Ratio (1998) and the stretched out solitudes of mid-career works like Pyramid Electric Co. (2004) or 'Howler' (2001).
We play an unusually song-based Avant Gardening to commemorate Molina's recent death, largely focused around the atmospheric strands that tie together this diverse canon of work.
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Playlist:
1. Songs Ohia, 'Lioness (acoustic version)' from split 7" with Scout Niblett (2001)
2. Jason Molina, 'Pyramid Electric Co' from Pyramid Electric Co (2004)
5. Songs: Ohia, 'An Ace Unable to Change' from Impala (1998)
6. Songs: Ohia, 'One of Those Uncertain Hands' from Impala (1998)
7. Songs: Ohia, 'Howler' from Howler EP (2001)
8. Songs: Ohia, 'No Limits on the World' from Ghost Tropic (2000)6. Songs: Ohia, 'One of Those Uncertain Hands' from Impala (1998)
7. Songs: Ohia, 'Howler' from Howler EP (2001)
9. Songs: Ohia, 'Ghost Tropic (I)' from Ghost Tropic (2000)
10. Songs: Ohia, ' The Ocean's Nerve' from Ghost Tropic (2000)
11. Songs: Ohia, 'Ghost Tropic (II)' from Ghost Tropic (2000)
12. Songs: Ohia, 'Incantation' from Ghost Tropic (2000)
13. Magnolia Electric Co., 'Living in the Human World' from The Black Ram (2007)
14. Magnolia Electric Co., 'The Old Horizon' from The Black Ram (2007)
15. Magnolia Electric Co., 'The Nightshift Lullaby' from What Comes After the Blues (2005)
16. Magnolia Electric Co., 'I Cannot Have Seen the Light' from What Comes After the Blues (2005)
17. Magnolia Electric Co., 'Whip-Poor-Will' from Josephine (2009)
18. Magnolia Electric Co., ' Map of the Falling Sky' from Josephine (2009)14. Magnolia Electric Co., 'The Old Horizon' from The Black Ram (2007)
15. Magnolia Electric Co., 'The Nightshift Lullaby' from What Comes After the Blues (2005)
16. Magnolia Electric Co., 'I Cannot Have Seen the Light' from What Comes After the Blues (2005)
17. Magnolia Electric Co., 'Whip-Poor-Will' from Josephine (2009)
19. Molina & Johnson, 'All Falls Together' from Molina & Johnson (2009)
22. Songs: Ohia, 'The Black Crow' from The Lioness (2000)
23. Songs: Ohia, 'Farewell Transmission' from Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)25. Songs: Ohia, 'Just Be Simple' from Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)
27. Magnolia Electric Co, 'Such Pretty Eyes For A Snake' from Trials and Errors (2005)
29. Songs: Ohia, 'Ring the Bell' from Didn't It Rain (2001)
30. Songs: Ohia, 'Cross the Road Molina' from Didn't It Rain (2001)
31. Songs: Ohia, 'The Dark Wrong Turn' from The Ghost (1999)
Sunday, February 24
music like escaping gas / testcard: the music of this heat
"the sound of three avant-gardeners getting to grips with the mud and clay of rock."
- Jess Harvell, Pitchfork
The strikingly original combination of articulacies and lateralities that made up This Heat have dated exceedingly well. A combination of two art-rock musicians in Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward along with one "non"- musician in Gareth Williams playing a decidedly original take on what punk might entail: a revolutionary blending of machines, politics, the voice and the body, and time and space.
Kind of a darker, scratchier sibling to their (relative) contemporaries Kraftwerk, showing a different possible road forward for electronic music in the post-punk environment; a more analogue machine music, cheaper, dourer, resolutely pessimistic, tied deeply into a decidedly Arte Povera approach, playful like a cat playing with a mouse...
Tonight Avant Gardening take a dip into the cold storage cabinet of This Heat, featuring rare demos and live bootlegs.
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Playlist:
1. This Heat, 'Testcard 'from This Heat (1978)
2. This Heat, 'Horizontal Hold' from This Heat (1978)
3. This Heat, 'Not Waving' from This Heat (1978)
4. This Heat, '24 Track Loop' from This Heat (1978)
5. This Heat, 'Music Like Escaping Gas' from This Heat (1978)
6. This Heat, 'Health And Efficiency' from Health and Efficiency EP (1979)
7. This Heat, 'Paper Hats' from Deceit (1981)
8. This Heat, 'S.P.Q.R.' from Deceit (1981)
9. This Heat, 'Shrink Wrap' from Deceit (1981)
10. This Heat, 'Radio Prague' from Deceit (1981)
11. This Heat, 'Independence' from Deceit (1981)
12. This Heat, 'A New Kind of Water' from Deceit (1981)
13. This Heat, 'The Fall of Saigon' from Made Available (rel 1996)
14. This Heat, 'Rimp Romp Ramp' from Made Available (rel 1996)
15. This Heat, 'Makeshift Swahili' from Made Available (rel 1996)
16. This Heat, 'Sitting' from Made Available (rel 1996)
17. This Heat, 'Twilight Furniture', rec live in London, June 30, 1978, from bootleg
18. This Heat, untitled live track, rec live in London, June 30, 1978, from bootleg
19. This Heat, untitled live track known as 'Unreleased Title' rec 1980 from Cold Storage bootleg (1984)
20. This Heat, 'Repeat' from Repeat (rel 1993)
21. This Heat, 'Graphic/Varispeed' from Repeat (rel 1993)
22. Gareth Williams and Mary Currie, 'Breakfast Stroke' from Flaming Tunes (1985)
23. Gareth Williams and Mary Currie, 'Raindrops From Heaven' from Flaming Tunes (1985)
24. This Heat, 'Nivelles' from Nivelles (rel 2006)
25. This Heat with Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, excerpts from Untitled (aka Tago Mago tape split with Albert Marcoeur, rec 77-78, rel 1982)
26. This Heat, 'Sleep' from Deceit (1981)
27. This Heat, 'Testcard' (2) from This Heat (1978)
- Jess Harvell, Pitchfork
The strikingly original combination of articulacies and lateralities that made up This Heat have dated exceedingly well. A combination of two art-rock musicians in Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward along with one "non"- musician in Gareth Williams playing a decidedly original take on what punk might entail: a revolutionary blending of machines, politics, the voice and the body, and time and space.
Kind of a darker, scratchier sibling to their (relative) contemporaries Kraftwerk, showing a different possible road forward for electronic music in the post-punk environment; a more analogue machine music, cheaper, dourer, resolutely pessimistic, tied deeply into a decidedly Arte Povera approach, playful like a cat playing with a mouse...
Tonight Avant Gardening take a dip into the cold storage cabinet of This Heat, featuring rare demos and live bootlegs.
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Playlist:
1. This Heat, 'Testcard 'from This Heat (1978)
2. This Heat, 'Horizontal Hold' from This Heat (1978)
3. This Heat, 'Not Waving' from This Heat (1978)
4. This Heat, '24 Track Loop' from This Heat (1978)
5. This Heat, 'Music Like Escaping Gas' from This Heat (1978)
6. This Heat, 'Health And Efficiency' from Health and Efficiency EP (1979)
7. This Heat, 'Paper Hats' from Deceit (1981)
8. This Heat, 'S.P.Q.R.' from Deceit (1981)
9. This Heat, 'Shrink Wrap' from Deceit (1981)
10. This Heat, 'Radio Prague' from Deceit (1981)
11. This Heat, 'Independence' from Deceit (1981)
12. This Heat, 'A New Kind of Water' from Deceit (1981)
13. This Heat, 'The Fall of Saigon' from Made Available (rel 1996)
14. This Heat, 'Rimp Romp Ramp' from Made Available (rel 1996)
15. This Heat, 'Makeshift Swahili' from Made Available (rel 1996)
16. This Heat, 'Sitting' from Made Available (rel 1996)
17. This Heat, 'Twilight Furniture', rec live in London, June 30, 1978, from bootleg
18. This Heat, untitled live track, rec live in London, June 30, 1978, from bootleg
19. This Heat, untitled live track known as 'Unreleased Title' rec 1980 from Cold Storage bootleg (1984)
20. This Heat, 'Repeat' from Repeat (rel 1993)
21. This Heat, 'Graphic/Varispeed' from Repeat (rel 1993)
22. Gareth Williams and Mary Currie, 'Breakfast Stroke' from Flaming Tunes (1985)
23. Gareth Williams and Mary Currie, 'Raindrops From Heaven' from Flaming Tunes (1985)
24. This Heat, 'Nivelles' from Nivelles (rel 2006)
25. This Heat with Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, excerpts from Untitled (aka Tago Mago tape split with Albert Marcoeur, rec 77-78, rel 1982)
26. This Heat, 'Sleep' from Deceit (1981)
27. This Heat, 'Testcard' (2) from This Heat (1978)
Sunday, February 3
a chorus of interludes / everything's going to work out just fine: the music of peter and graeme jefferies, part 2
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Playlist:
1. The Cakekitchen, 'Dogs and Cats', from World Of Sand (1991)
2. The Cakekitchen, 'This Perfect Day', from World Of Sand (1991)
3. The Cakekitchen, 'Walking on Glass', from World Of Sand (1991)
4. Peter Jefferies & Robbie Muir, 'Image of a Single Thought' from A Chorus of Interludes (1992)
5. Peter Jefferies & Robbie Muir, 'A Chorus of Interludes' from A Chorus of Interludes (1992)
6. The Cakekitchen, 'Stranger Than Paradise' from Far From The Sun (1993)
7. The Cakekitchen, 'Overexcited' from Far From The Sun (1993)
8. The Cakekitchen, 'Man In The Mirror' from Far From The Sun (1993)
9. The Cakekitchen, 'Big Fat Mouth' from Live at CBGBs (1993)
10. The Cakekitchen, 'Tomorrow Came Today' (1993) from Live at CBGBs (1993)
11. Peter Jefferies & Stephen Kilroy, 'Wined Up' from A Chorus of Interludes (1993)
12. Peter Jefferies, 'Clear By Morning', from Electricity (1994)
13. Peter Jefferies, 'Dear Boss', from Electricity (1994)
14. Peter Jefferies, 'Scattered Logic' from Electricity (1994)
15. Peter Jefferies, 'Electricity' from Electricity (1994)
16. Peter Jefferies, 'By Small Degrees' from Electricity (1994)
17. Peter Jefferies, 'Just Nothing' from Electricity (1994)
18. Peter Jefferies, 'Crossover' from Electricity (1994)
19. Cyclops, 'Uneasy Trail' from I Hear The Devil Calling Me EP (1991)
20. Cyclops, 'Steel White Bed' from Goat Volume (1994)
21. The Cakekitchen, 'Tell Me Why You Lie' from Stompin' Thru The Boneyard (1994)
22. The Cakekitchen, 'Even As We Sleep' from Stompin' Thru The Boneyard (1994)
23. The Cakekitchen, 'Mr Adrian's Lost In His Last Panic Attack' from Stompin' Thru The Boneyard (1994)
24. The Cakekitchen, 'The Mad Clarinet' from Stompin' Thru The Boneyard (1994)
25. 2 Foot Flame, 'Mr. H' from 2 Foot Flame (1995)
26. 2 Foot Flame, 'Chisel' from 2 Foot Flame (1995)
27. Mecca Normal, 'Breathing In The Dark' from The Eagle & The Poodle (1996)
28. Mecca Normal, 'The Revival Of Cruelty' from The Eagle & The Poodle (1996)
29. The Cakekitchen, 'Old Grey Coast' from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (1996)
30. The Cakekitchen, 'Bald Old Bear' from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (1996)
31. The Cakekitchen, 'Prophet Of The Underground' from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (1996)
32. The Cakekitchen, 'Baby I Luv You' from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (1996)
33. The Mountain Goats, 'Going To Kansas' from Nothing for Juice (1996)
34. Peter Jefferies, 'The Strange Case of Stuart Townsend' from Elevator Madness (1996)
35. Peter Jefferies, 'Shut Out' from Elevator Madness (1996)
36. The Cakekitchen, 'You Never Run Out Of Luck' from Everything's Going To Work Out Just Fine (1996)
37. The Cakekitchen, 'Overground Rail Catastrophe' from Everything's Going To Work Out Just Fine (1996)
38. 2 Foot Flame, 'Resin Box' from Ultra Drowning (1997)
39. 2 Foot Flame, 'Peacock Coal' from Ultra Drowning (1997)
40. 2 Foot Flame, 'I Think You're The Weird One' from Ultra Drowning (1997)
41. Graeme Jefferies, 'Sonnenallee' from Sonnenallee OST (1999)
42. Peter Jefferies 'Three Movements' from Closed Circuit (2001)
43. Peter Jefferies 'Crocodile' from Closed Circuit (2001)
44. Peter Jefferies 'Closed Circuit' from Closed Circuit (2001)
45. Peter Jefferies 'State of the Nation' from Closed Circuit (2001)
46. Peter Jefferies, 'Ghostwriter', from Closed Circuit (2001)
47. The Cakekitchen, 'How Can You Be So Blind' from How Can You Be So Blind (2003)
48. The Cakekitchen, We See In The Dark from How Can You Be So Blind (2003)
49. The Cakekitchen, 'Strung Out' from Put Your Foot Inside The Door (2005)
50. The Cakekitchen, 'I'm So Glad That You Dropped Out Of High School' from Put Your Foot Inside The Door (2005)
51. The Cakekitchen, 'Everything's Driving You Crazy Cos You Just Can't Get What You Want' from Everything's Driving You Crazy Cos You Just Can't Get What You Want (2006)
52. The Cakekitchen, 'I Had Too Much To Drink Last Night' from Everything's Driving You Crazy Cos You Just Can't Get What You Want (2006)
53. The Cakekitchen, 'Poor Bi-Cameral Mind' from Kangaroos In My Top Paddock (2011)
54. The Cakekitchen, 'Kangaroos in My Top Paddock' from Kangaroos In My Top Paddock (2011)
55. The Cakekitchen, 'This Australian Christmas' from Kangaroos In My Top Paddock (2011)
56. The Cakekitchen, 'Petersham Rainsong' from Kangaroos In My Top Paddock (2011)
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