01 A Broken Consort “The River” Previously unreleased 09 Harappian Night Recordings “Bare Cairo” from The Glorious (Sustain-Release) Gongs Of Hainuwele (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) 02 Afternoon Brother “Hack Circle” from Modern Florida 10 The Hunter Gracchus “Fanya Baron In Kharkov” (Dreamsheep) Previously unreleased (Singing Knives) 03 Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/Seymour Wright 11 LSD March “Ai No Sakebi” from Under Milk Wood (Important) “Control And Its Opposites” from Control And Its Opposites (Another Timbre Byways) 12 Jonathan McHugh & Mark Wastell “Hydriotaphia” (Exclusive edit) Previously unreleased (Confront) 04 Concern “Young Birth” from Truth & Distance (Digitalis/Iatrogenesis) 13 Brian Morant “Travelodge, Derby: Kristallo Overheard” Previously unreleased (Mordant Music) 05 Rhodri Davies/Michel Doneda/Louisa Martin/Phil Minton/Lee Patterson “Untitled” Previously unreleased 14 Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides “The Wire” (Another Timbre Byways) Previously unreleased (Singing Knives) 06 Gareth Davis & Steven R Smith “The Pulpit” 15 Starving Weirdos “Everything Glass” from Into An Energy from Westering (Important) (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) 07 James Ferraro “Jarvid 9” (Comp edit) Edited from the first 16 Sudden Infant “Celi TCS For M” Previously unreleased two discs in the Jarvid 9 series: Kava Jar Race and Gecko (New Age Tapes) 17 Ghédalia Tazartès “Assassins 2” from Les Danseurs De La Pluie (Alga Marghen) 08 Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian “Overcome” from That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) 18 Uton “Some Other Sunshine” from Unexplained Objects (Dekorder) This compilation © 2009 The Wire thewire.co.uk Cover image by Weirdcore 01 R BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW 02 03 Afternoon Brother Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/ “Hack Circle” Seymour Wright 01 From Modern Florida (Dreamsheep) “Control And Its Opposites” (Extract) A Broken Consort From Control And Its Opposites (Another Timbre Byways) “The River” From Sacramento, USA, Afternoon Brother is a trio of Michael Previously unreleased (Sustain-Release) Saalman, Boyd Andersson and Jonathan Bafus. This track is Jamie Coleman (trumpet), Grundik Kasyansky (electronics) and taken from their first album, Modern Florida, which is being Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) are all regular members of Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort) is a musician based in released by Valerio Cosi’s Dreamsheep label. the Improvisation Workshop run for the past 10 years in South Lancashire in the UK. He started his Sustain-Release private According to their label boss, Afternoon Brother are “a London by Eddie Prévost. press label in 2005 as a commemorative tribute to his late wife fresh, hilarious and original trio that would be really capable This track is a ten minute edit of an 80 minute durational Louise, with the intention of publishing her artwork alongside of everything. Think of Faith No More and their ability of piece that was recorded in May 2009 at the Church of St his own music. Since its inception he has released a slew being ‘guys in disguises’ into the King For A Day release. Or James the Great in Friern Barnet, North London. of recordings presented in lovingly-assembled, limited art what if we’ll try to dust down our Plimsouls’ marvellous debut The full version of the piece appears on one of a series of editions. and early Redd Kross vinyl copies? Modern Florida is one of four CD-Rs on the Another Timbre Byways label, profiling the Operating under a variety of guises, including Carousell, the greatest and most original heirs of Archers Of Loaf and music of improvisors living in or passing through London over Harlassen and Clouwbeck as well as A Broken Consort, Skelton Butthole Surfers’ music...” a three week period in spring 2009. The discs offer a snapshot creates powerful instrumental music out of densely-layered of an Improv scene which is currently undergoing a process of acoustic guitar, bowed strings, piano, mandolin and accordion, Afternoon Brother on MySpace rapid change and development with the emergence of several often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. The result is Dreamsheep Recordings on MySpace younger players. something unique - a music that is both life-affirming and yet Dreamsheep on Diogenes etched with memory and loss, evoking equal parts Arvo Pärt Jamie Coleman on MySpace and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Górecki. Grundik Kasyansky on MySpace Another Timbre Sustain Release 01 01 R BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW 04 05 06 Concern Rhodri Davies/Michel Doneda/Louisa Martin/Phil Gareth Davis & Steven R Smith “Young Birth” Minton/Lee Patterson “The Pulpit” From Truth & Distance (Digitalis/Iatrogenesis) “Untitled” From Westering (Important) Previously unreleased (Another Timbre Byways) Concern is a solo project of Gordon Ashworth (aka Amsterdam-based clarinettist Gareth Davis and American Oscillating Innards). The first Concern album, Truth & Recorded live in Leeds in January 2009, this track is the guitarist Steven R Smith recorded their Westering album in Distance, was released by Digitalis and Ashworth’s own opening 10 minutes of the first ever performance by the group May 2008 at Worstward Studios in Los Angeles. Iatrogenesis label earlier this year. of Rhodri Davies (harp), Michel Doneda (soprano saxohone), Gareth Davis is a performer of contemporary composition The album collects a year’s worth of obsessive spatial/ Louisa Martin (laptop), Phil Minton (vocals) and Lee Patterson while at the same time working with improvising musicians harmonic and tonal/tape music refined into a breathing and (amplified objects and proceses). The following day the group such as Jon Balke and Terje Rypdal as well as electronic disintegrating drone/collage record. Composed of entirely went on to a recording session at a 14th century church in the artists including Machinefabriek and Ryan Teague (Type acoustic instruments with a heavy tape, fidelity and physical village of Midhopestones in South Yorkshire, which resulted in Records) and has recently completed the Rabbit At The presence, Ashworth calls it semi-conscious music for the Midhopestones CD on Another Timbre. Airport series of LPs with Martin Stig Andersen and Robin another’s nostalgia. The quintet combines improvising musicians from three Rimbaud (aka Scanner). Steven R Smith has been releasing Ashworth recently completed a month long US tour in countries and three generations, and yet from the very start solo records for more than a decade as well as playing in support of his brother, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, the group produced an ensemble music of extraordinary unity various improvisational groups including Thuja, Hala Strana and the two will be touring New Zealand and Australia in and intensity. and most recently Ulaan Khol. November 2009. This collaboration has created the perfect meeting place Rhodri Davies for Smith’s scrapings and various layers of musical detritus, Iatrogenesis Michel Doneda and Davis’s textural, guttural and almost feedback laden Digitalis Phil Minton bass clarinet. The result is a delicate and abstract musical Digitalis on Diogenes Another Timbre language of shifting moods and textures. Gareth Davis on MySpace Steven R Smith Important Records 02 01 R BELOW THE RADA THE BELOW 08 09 07 Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian Harappian Night Recordings James Ferraro “Overcome” “Bare Cairo” “Jarvid 9” (Comp edit) From That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul From The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) Edited from the first two discs in the Jarvid 9 series: Kava Jar Race (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) and Gecko (New Age Tapes) The music of Harappian Night Recordings sounds like a Dredd Foole (aka Dan Ireton) and Ed Yazijian met in Boston in collage of field-recordings by a varied cast of inhabitants Alongside Spencer Clark, James Ferraro is one half of The the 1980s when they were both involved in the city’s post- from the non-industrialised parts of the world. The music and Skaters, the psychedelic drone outfit formed in San Diego in punk scene. Ireton had just dissolved his free rock unit The sounds however are created entirely in the North of England 2003 that feeds wordless vocals, hand drums and cosmic free Din and wanted a chance to do some real singing. Yazijian was by one man, Dr Syed Kamran Ali. Ali has such an instinctive jazz keyboards through endlessly murky loops. feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the feel for putting seemingly incongruous sounds together, Ferraro’s solo work, most of which he has released on CD-R idea of actually being able to hear what he played. They set and such audacious irreverence in utilising any instrument and cassette via his own New Age Tapes imprint, represents out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free or object from around the globe he can lay his hands on, both an extension and inversion of The Skaters’ woozy forms. Improv stew they had cooked up. The rock audiences of Boston that what he creates is unique. The real miracle however is Operating under the name Lamborghini Crystal, for instance, where not impressed. Indifference and downright hostility that his attention-defecit scatter-gun one-take approach he works hallucinatory reifications of 1980s disco and funk were the norm. Frustration took over and Ireton decided to so often works. The music describes an anarchic buzz of via pitchshifted vocals, crude tape assemblages, instrumental retire from performing music altogether. Yazijian went back to ideas constantly usurping each other. Duelling ouds, whirling garage rock and fake radio broadcasts from his alter-ego JC rock with Kustomized. Eventually, Ireton bought a four-track mizmars, screeching jouhikkos, tapping finger harps, rumbling Peavey, all rendered in extreme lo-fi and assembled using and recorded the In Quest Of Tense LP (which some consider monosynths, groaning harmoniums, a fist full of khene, talking nothing but cheap boomboxes. The Jarvid 9 series, a run of the opening salvo of the free folk movement) with Yazijian gamelan lila derdeba popping giving a bent backed Dante’s three double CD-R sets from which this track is edited, is an appearing on one track.