Touch Records: S&D

I'm not going to tell. But if you guess and you're right, I'll wink or something. ;-)

Hrmm, intriguing... maybe there is some substance to that "Fennesz is ILX's new poster boy..." rumour... (Just kidding! I do NOT even know Fennesz, so let's nip that in the bud.)

(Dammit, we came up with a song that would make the best ringtone the other day, but I promptly forgot it because HSA didn't have a guitar or a keyboard or anything I could actually make *real* music with at his house, and you can hardly work out a ringtone on an oscillator or radioastronomy equipment now, can you?)

I mean, HSA has dared me to go and tape the Metal Machine Mainframe back in the server room with a wonky bit of radioequipment and submit it to Touch and see what they think... ;-)

ha-hem. You're not doing a very good job of guessing, there, Ned.

Now then. I have reviewed all the current people on the list and profess myself slightly befuddled in that half the artist links didn't work. The only person who seemed a vaguely logical candidate was Mark Van Hoen, but I have to say I doubt it.

I can get that sort of thing in the radio systems lab next door (but not necessarily with Evan Parker blowing over the top of it).

I was going to say that it was odd, that he was listed on the front page, but that I couldn't find him in the drop-down thing. But then I looked, and he's on Ash International, apparently.

Is there a difference, and ifso, what?

SETI, whoever he is in real life?

He doesn't go by his real name, he goes under a moniker. I've all but given it away in the past, and no one cottoned on! Come on, Imber was a BIIIIIG clue...

And no, not SETI.

Damn, and he would have got away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids...

(It was funny how this all came up. Joe and I went out with my friend/conspirator in the EBA last night, and we were sitting talking about computer noise, and Joe was talking about his stuff, and Jesse was all "Oh, have you ever thought of releasing any of your stuff on Touch?" and Joe just grinned and said "Yeah. I've been releasing records on Touch for about eight years now" - I guess you had to be there, but it was very funny.)

I was wrong after all. Shit!

Thanks for the info, guys.

the saxophone with real time processing was also done by lol coxhill in '78/'79 and its on digswell duets on emanem, which i really like.

might check the evan parker out.

[1] A cardboard box in which I keep the CDs, before you all start drooling over some mythical 25 CD set of shortwave radio interference and hippos burping.

Joe had Antiphony out the other night because apparently some of the artwork from it was nicked by an organisation, but I can't comment on that because it might get legal. I shall force him to play it at some point this weekend. (We'll see if he has to leave the room while I play his things the way I have to leave the room if he puts on The Lollies.)

"Oh that's so embarrassing - that was the period when I thought the 500-1500 MHz area of the spectrum was interesting! VLF horizontal line oscillation and 60Hz AC harmonics - what was I thinking?"

Can't see it, myself.

I heard this rumour last night, and I also heard that some tabloid newspaper was digging around, trying to research this, and trying to play it on the angle of "Talk Show Host Michael Aspel has this creepy nephew who RECORDS OTHER PEOPLES TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS, the pervert!"

Experimentalist music is more fun that I ever guessed!

from the latest David Sylvian e-mail newsletter
Fennesz's new album, "Venice", featuring David Sylvian on Transit is out on March 15th. It will be released later with 2 bonus tracks in Japan.

Touch records have the tracklisting: Fennesz - Venice

Further info on Fennesz website - states a April 26th release in the UK.

Touch # TO:53
12 tracks: 49:05
Artwork & Photography by Jon Wozencroft
UK Release Date: April 26th

revived to ponder recent touch releases ...

am enjoying hildur gudnadottir's without sinking

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interesting that they've started a new series of "art print + digital downloads" with an image that is probably the one i'd least want to put on my wall (it's from the inner sleeve of the spire sleeve, i think).

"spirit guide to low tech" is incredible huh?

yes. love that record. well overdue for a reissue.

the newish oren ambarchi comp is p excellent l8 nite weeded-out music

hahaha ooooooh not so much anymore

fennesz schtick has become not only dull but utterly dreadful in recent years. the best record he put out is that PLAYS single, in which the alleged "covers" of Stones songs sound nothing like the original. his take on "wall of sound" is so, so boring. rudimentary textures and predictable tonality. not much interesting at all, not even pleasant enough in that passive pastoral way. as far as glitch DSP "new music" is concerned there are loads of more talented electro acoustic sound artists out there with both more ideas and more chops.

rant over.

chops

jana winderen enveloping arctic fish drones omg omg omg

not sure if i like this so much bcuz i think the ocean & fish are so rad or if it really is ~this good~ but damn i hope other ppl listen 2 this

anyone been to the chris watson thing at kew?

also: jana winderen love seconded.

i havent but ive really enjoyed the stuff hes done for touchradio (journey south, sound of islay).

what i really want are some of the ash internation tapes - http://www.ashinternational.com/editions/ash_91_bj_nilsen_draught_1.html. lol @ only releasing 500 copies. of a tape ://///

Is there a new Biosphere album or have I dreamt that?

yeah theres a new one thats cd only iirc

revived again to ponder recent touch releases ...

New Jacaszek and Hildur Gudnadottir albums.

Heard the Hildur Gudnadottir album today and am in love with it.

Also - no mention on this thread of the Touch app, which apparently lets you stream their entire 30-year catalog. I downloaded it this evening - free.

http://youtu.be/XxdMFzae-mE

Thomas Ankersmit - Figueroa Terrace

one of the nicest things i've heard this year.

/thread plummets

I made a playlist of the last 5 years or so of Touch, steadily going through it to see which artists are jumping out at me. The aforementioned Hildur Gudnadottir is high on the list - all of her albums are great. Johan Johannson, Daniel Menche's "Hover," Sohrab, Jacob Kirkegaard... all good. And the Fennesz, Ambarchi, and Biosphere albums from this period are good too.

Most of the Touch catalog, I realize, is unfamiliar territory for me. Once I get through the last five years I'll probably dig into the 2000s, then back further if I have the stamina. It does get to be a bit too much to hear too many of these records in a row.

Enjoying Claire M Singer's "Solas" and Bethan Kellough's "Aven" after a bit of a break from Touch. Enjoying both, a lot. Have also ordered the Simon Scott recording on (related) Tapeworm.

Any thoughts on Touch Movements? (Mostly is it worth £33?)