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 Below The Radar 01 Sustain Releas e and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Górecki. etched with memory and loss, evoking equal parts Arvo Pärt something unique - a music that is both life-affirming and yet often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. The result is acoustic guitar, bowed strings, piano, mandolin and accordion, creates powerful instrumental music out of densely-layered Harlassen and Clouwbeck as well as A Broken Consort, Skelton editions. of recordings presented in lovingly-assembled, limited art his own music. Since its inception he has released a slew Louise, with the intention of publishing her artwork alongside press label in 2005 as a commemorative tribute to his late wife Lancashire in the UK. He started his Sustain-Release private Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort) is a musician based in Previously unreleased (Sustain-Release) “The River” A Broken Consort 01 Operating under a variety of guises, including Carousell, Dreamsheep Dreamsheep on s Diogene Dreamsheep Recordings on MySpace Afternoon Brother on MySpace Butthole Surfers’ music...” the greatest and most original heirs of Archers Of Loaf and and early Redd Kross vinyl copies? what if we’ll try to dust down our Plimsouls’ marvellous debut being ‘guys in disguises’ into the King For A Day release. Or of everything. Think of Faith No More and their ability of fresh, hilarious and original trio that would be really capable released by Valerio Cosi’s Dreamsheep label. taken from their first album, Modern Florida, which is being Saalman, Boyd Andersson and Jonathan Bafus. This track is From Sacramento, USA, Afternoon Brother is a trio of Michael From “Hack Circle” A 02 fternoon fternoon Brother According to their label boss, Afternoon Brother are “a Modern Florida (Dreamsheep) Modern Florida is one of Another Timbr Grundik Kasyansky on MySpace Jamie Coleman on MySpace younger players. rapid change and development with the emergence of several of an Improv scene which is currently undergoing a process of a three week period in spring 2009. The discs offer a snapshot music of improvisors living in or passing through London over four CD-Rs on the Another Timbre Byways label, profiling the James the Great in Friern Barnet, North London. piece that was recorded in May 2009 at the Church of St London by Eddie Prévost. the Improvisation Workshop run for the past 10 years in South Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) are all regular members of Jamie Coleman (trumpet), Grundik Kasyansky (electronics) and From “Control And Its Opposites” (Extract) Seymour Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/ 03 The full version of the piece appears on one of a series of This track is a ten minute edit of an 80 minute durational Control Control And Its Opposites (Another Timbre Byways) W right e

02 Below The Radar 01 Digitalis Digitalis on s Diogene s Digitali Iatrogenesis November 2009. and the two will be touring New Zealand and Australia in support of his brother, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, another’s nostalgia. presence, Ashworth calls it semi-conscious music for acoustic instruments with a heavy tape, fidelity and physical disintegrating drone/collage record. Composed of entirely harmonic and tonal/tape music refined into a breathing and Iatrogenesis label earlier this year. Distance, was released by Digitalis and Ashworth’s own Oscillating Innards). The first Concern album, Truth & Concern is a solo project of Gordon Ashworth (aka From “Young Birth” Concern 04 Ashworth Ashworth recently completed a month long US tour in The album collects a year’s worth of obsessive spatial/ Truth & Distance (Digitalis/Iatrogenesis) Another Timbr Phil Minton Michel a Doned Rhodri Davies and intensity. the group produced an ensemble music of extraordinarycountries and three generations, and unityyet from the very start the Midhopestones CD on Another Timbre. village of Midhopestones in South Yorkshire, which resulted in went on to a recording session at a 14th century church in the (amplified objects and proceses). The following day the group Louisa Martin (laptop), Phil Minton (vocals) and Lee Patterson of Rhodri Davies (harp), Michel Doneda (soprano saxohone), opening 10 minutes of the first ever performance by the group Recorded live in Leeds in January 2009, this track is the Previously unreleased (Another Timbre Byways) “Untitled” Minton/Lee Patterson Rhodri 05 The quintet combines improvising musicians from three D avies/Michel e D oneda/ L ouisa Martin/Phil Important Important Records Steven R Smith Gareth Davis on MySpac e language of shifting moods and textures. bass clarinet. The result is a delicate and abstract musical and Davis’s textural, guttural and almost feedback laden for Smith’s scrapings and various layers of musical detritus, and most recently Ulaan Khol. various improvisational groups including Thuja, Hala Strana solo records for more than a decade as well as playing in Rimbaud (aka Scanner). Steven R Smith has Airport series beenof LPs with releasing Martin Stig Andersen and Robin Records) and has recently completed the artists including Machinefabriek and Ryan Teague (Type such as Jon Balke and Terje Rypdal as well as electronic while at the same time working with improvising musicians May 2008 at Worstward Studios in Los Angeles. guitarist Steven R Smith recorded their Westering album in Amsterdam-based clarinettist Gareth Davis and American From “The Pulpit” Gareth 06 This collaboration has created the perfect meeting place Gareth Davis is a performer of contemporary composition Westering (Important) Davis & Steven R Smith Rabbit At The 03 Below The Radar 01 New Age Tapes discography populated by alien lizard deities. extended exploration of inner and outer sci-fi landscapes three double CD-R sets from which this track is edited, is an nothing but cheap boomboxes. The Peavey, all rendered in extreme lo-fi and assembled using garage rock and fake radio broadcasts from his alter-ego JC via pitchshifted vocals, crude tape assemblages, instrumental he works hallucinatory reifications of 1980s Operating discounder the name andLamborghini Crystal, funkfor instance, both an extension and inversion of The Skaters’ woozy forms. and cassette via his own New Age Tapes imprint, represents jazz keyboards through endlessly murky loops. 2003 that feeds wordless vocals, hand drums and cosmic free Skaters, the psychedelic drone outfit formed in San Diego in Alongside Spencer Clark, James Ferraro is one half of The Edited from the first two discs in the “Jarvid 9” (Comp edit) James Ferraro 07 and Ferraro’s solo work, most of which he has released on CD-R Gecko (New Age Tapes) Jarvid Jarvid 9 series: Jarvid Jarvid 9 series, a run of Kava Jar Race

Bo’Weavil on Diogenes Bo’Weavil Recordings Dredd Foole on MySpac e sessions. Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul is the result of those Ashram in Brattleboro for the better part of a week. That Then, in February 2008, the two recorded together in Foole’s They played the now legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Festival. appearing on one track. the opening salvo of the free folk movement) with Yazijian and recorded the rock with Kustomized. Eventually, Ireton bought a four-track retire from performing music altogether. Yazijian went back to were the norm. Frustration took over and Ireton decided to where not impressed. Indifference and downright hostility Improv stew they had cooked up. The rock audiences of Boston out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free idea of actually being able to hear what he played. They set feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the Din and wanted a chance to do some real singing. Yazijian was punk scene. Ireton had just dissolved his free rock unit The the 1980s when they were both involved in the city’s post- Dredd Foole (aka Dan Ireton) and Ed Yazijian met in Boston in (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) From “Overcome” D 08 redd Foole & Years later by a series of coincidences they reconnected. That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul Ed Yazijian In Quest Of Tense LP (which some consider

Bo’Weavil on s Diogene Bo’Weavil Recordings Harappian Night Recordings on MySpac e can dance to it, Tuareg style. throat emptying their glorious bladders on his face. And you skull, or a Cuban guerilla force stepping on Eisenhower’s ring hell or like an Egyptian civilian army shitting on Eden’s gamelan lila derdeba popping giving a bent backed Dante’s monosynths, groaning harmoniums, a fist fullmizmars, of khene,screeching talking jouhikkos, tapping fingerideas harps, constantly rumbling usurping each other. Duellingso often works.ouds, The music describes whirlingan anarchic buzz of that his attention-defecit scatter-gun one-take approach that what he creates is unique. The real miracle however is or object from around the globe he can lay his hands on, and such audacious irreverence in utilising any instrument feel for putting seemingly incongruous sounds together, by one man, Dr Syed Kamran Ali. Ali has such an instinctive sounds however are created entirely in the North of England from the non-industrialised parts of the world. The music and collage of field-recordings by a varied cast of inhabitants The music of Harappian Night Recordings sounds like a From “Bare Cairo” Harappian Night Recordings 09 The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) 04 Below The Radar 01 Singing Knives on s Diogene Singing Knives Records on MySpace Singing Knives Records The Hunter Gracchus on MySpace February and October revolutions. group could find of the Anarchists role and response to the midst of a period of collective reading of every account the The Bolsheviks Shat In My Brain, and was produced in the session that produced the forthcoming Chocolate Monk album, ground floor workshops. It is taken from chimney and theflues formerly springventing the hearths inside evening the around a large central courtyard, in full view of the large former cutlery workshops of Little Sheffield that are clustered out of Sheffield in the UK. The Hunter Gracchus is a collective of improvisors operating Previously unreleased (Singing Knives) “Fanya Baron In Kharkov” The 10 This track was recorded in Furniture Makers, one of the Hunter Gracchus Important Important Record s LSD March on MySpace Constellation Of Tragedy. second release on the US Important label, following 2007’s by Krautrock legends Guru Guru. (Fushitsusha, Nagisa ni te). The group isMichishita, and namedalso features afterdrummer Ikuro Takahashi a track the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist Shinsuke LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group based in From “Ai No Sakebi” LSD March 11 Under Milk Wood is the group’s most recent album and is its Under Milk Wood (Important) Confront Confront On s Diogene Mark Wastell Jonathan McHugh runs the Sound 323 shop and website and the Confront label. Butcher, Toshimaru Nakamura and Burkhard Beins. Wastell also Conrad, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, John Rhodri Davies, Bernard Gunter, Evan Parker, Mattin, Tony buildings. He has collaborated with manybuild up sonic pulses peoplethat are able includingto take over rooms and Wastell’s music is dark, deep and beautiful. Slow movements atmospheres on the tam-tam with very little actual movement. Jem Finer, Dominic Lash, Dawn Scarfe, and Lawrence Williams. with a variety of artists including Benedict Drew, Phil Durrant, signal processing programmes. Jonathan has collaborated deals with audio feedback systems, sound synthesis and live sound texture rather than musical structure. He currently engineer with longstanding interests in the emphasis on document of their first meeting as a duo. tam into static, feedback, noise and drone. “Hydriotaphia” is a Wastell fuse analogue synthesizer, mixing desk and 32" tam- London-based improvisors Jonathan McHugh and Mark Previously unreleased (Confront) “Hydriotaphia” (Exclusive edit) Jonathan McHugh & Mark 12 Sound artist and composer Mark Wastell builds enormous Jonathan McHugh is an electronic musician and recording W astell 05 Below The Radar 01 Mordant Music he feels he can no longer believe in... longer owns, in a room he no longer occupies and with fingers This piece was composed by Brian Morant on a keyboard he no Previously unreleased (Mordant Music) “Travelodge, Derby: Kristallo Overheard” Brian Morant 13 Singing Knives on s Diogene Singing Knives Records on MySpace Singing Knives Records Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides on MySpace tapes, delay, reverb.” these jams. Usual instruments: flute, drums, voice, pitch pipes, were often drinking Russian beer and eating home Snickerstown of Lyon. About duringthe sessions, the duo says: “We regular jams at Jean-Luc’s Rondo Veneziano room in their and Pascal Nichols. Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides is the duo of Kelly Jones Previously unreleased (Singing Knives) “The Wire” Part 14 Recorded earlier this year, this track is a cut from their Wild Horses Mane O n Both Sides Bo’Weavil on Diogenes Bo’Weavil Recordings Starving Weirdos familiar strange, and the strange familiar. Starving Weirdos achieve that high romantic ideal: to make the life in their native Humboldt County, California. At their best, is a mysticism grounded in the ordinary soundstheir music is always of reassuringly lucid,everyday even earthy. Theirs song and album titles suggest an esoteric or occult bent, are transportive, disorienting. Yet while Starving Weirdos’ of the time, it’s a combination of all these, and the results sounds emanated from tapes or from live instruments. Most product of copious editing and overdubbing, whether those tell if what you’re hearing is a real-time performance or a of deep-forest-ghetto-musique-concrète. You can never sticks, horns and hand drums, at its core their music is a kind releases by this Californian drone-psych unit. shift in focus heard on these cuts when compared to previous perhaps their chemistry together accounts for the elusive occasional collaborators Steve Lazar and Greg Devaney, and Weirdos duo of Bryan Pyle and Merrick McKinlay On is joined by From “Everything Glass” Starving 15 Even though Starving Weirdos routinely break out the rain Into An Energy, from which this track is taken, the Starving Into An Energy (Bo’ Weavil Recordings) W eirdos 06 Below The Radar 01 Sudden Infant on MySpace Sudden Infan t electronics. juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery etc.of The disorientingresult is an extreme form of musique concrète that noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes, creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic meet improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz working in the border zones where performance and body art Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists Born in Switzerland, but now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Previously unreleased “Celi TCS For M” Sudden Infant 16 Alga Marghen on s Diogene Alga Marghen Italian Alga Marghen label. the Les Danseurs De La Pluie box set, both issued by the previously only available on a 3" CD, or as a bonus disc within Tazartès recorded his first release, Diasporas) and was that is utterly sui generis. conflates styles, creating a complex yet primitive musical form the music of this unique French artist blurs genres and Often cacophonous, typically bewildering and rich in paradox, pounding percussion in outrageous jump-cutting montages. improvisations, drones, loops, found sound cut-ups and Tazartès has juxtaposed pan-global vocals with synthesizer For more than three decades, the music of Ghédalia From “Assassins 2” Ghédalia Tazartès 17 “Assassins 2” was recorded in Paris in 1977 (the year Les Danseurs De La Pluie (Alga Marghen) Dekorder Dekorder on s Diogene Dekorder on MySpac e r Dekorde Ikuisuus Uton on MySpace (2008) and third Uton LP issued by Dekorder, following in 2008. This track is taken from Hevoset, was released on vinyl by the German Dekorder label others. The latter collaboration, which goes under the name and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät)Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, amongPhil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his and cassettes on a number of labels, including Jewelled Antler, underground, Hirvonen has released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs Finland. One of the most active musicians in the Finnish Uton is the solo project of Jani Hirvonen from Tampere, From “Some Other Sunshine” Uton 18 Unexplained Objects (Dekorder) Alitaju Ylimina (2007). Unexplained ,Object the Straight Edge XXS