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November Roundup – A Mixtape

Jon Doyle — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:30:09 +0000

Here’s a playlist of all the acts we covered during November. Click on the artist’s name in the tracklisting to read the individual posts. It’s been a great month, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Tracklisting:

I Don’t Know – Tina Refnes (+ Lit Links)
If I Were a Portal – Evening Hymns
Cradle Robber – Tyler Butler and His Handsome Friends
Calvander – Mount Moriah
The Way It Is, The Way It Could Be – The Weather Station
Porch – Long Beard
Small Wind Power – Fraternal Twin
Mourning Dove – Danielle Fricke
3 – Cat Be Damned
Cold Apartment Floors – Vagabon
I Used To Be A Bird – Fairweather Currents
Drive-Thru – Honeyuck
Ghosts – The Washboard Abs
Litany – Tyler Key
Aviator Shades – Quiet Hollers
Book of Right On (Joanna Newsom cover) – Foxtails Brigade (Lit Links)
Judy Blume – Mal Devisa
So Long – Dot & Logic
A Swift Thing – EP
Stuck w/ Me – Home Lives
Close Call (Adderall Anxiety) – Shaky Shrines
Boys – Dicktations
Nothing – Strange Friends
Careful Creators – Summering
Blinding White – Vapour Night
Pull – Slow Dancing Society (Hidden Shoal compilation)
Calmest – Naps
As He Walked Into the Field – Robert Stillman
Church Bells – Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby & Rob St. John
Seven – Oh, Rose
31. No Hell – Cloud Cult

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Tommy Perman, Simon Kirby & Rob St. John: Concrete Antenna

Jon Doyle — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:00:23 +0000

Last year we told you about Rob St. Johns’ genre-bending Surface Tension project, where he walked along the River Lea in East London, making recordings as he went. Well now St. John has teamed up with Tommy Perman and Simon Kirby to tackle another cross-disciplinary art project, entitled Concrete Antenna.

Described as an “LP vinyl set of music, art prints, essays and tide table”, Concrete Antenna sees the artists produce a substantial body of work inspired by their sound installation in the new tower at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Full of warm drones, the album is a neo-classical exploration of the environment, using field recordings from the local area and archival sound samples dressed with gentle electronics and minimalist piano. Think somewhere between Lejsovka & Freund and Benjamin Shaw. The result is something rich and evocative, packed with the slow, geological melancholy conjured by time passing over a landscape.

Check out the short documentary on the project below:

You can buy the release in various formats from Random Spectacular, including some absolutely gorgeous vinyl editions. If you find yourself in Edinburgh, the Concrete Antenna exhibition will be at the Sculpture Workshop until Christmas, so you have a month or so to get along to experience it.

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