ROOM40

and the cover for ‘Triage’:

this is what the cover looks like:

sorry for the long wait!

New ROOM40 jams ahoy!

tracklisting:
Buck Nakamura Strobl - 02 (from ‘Five Pieces’)
D.N.E. - Materia Prima (from ‘49 Songs Humans Shouldn’t Sing’)
John Chantler - In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (unreleased)
Tujiko Noriko / Lawrence English / John Chantler - I Can Heart The Heart (from ‘U’)
DJ Olive - Triage [excerpt] (from ‘Triage’)
Greg Davis - Union [excerpt] (from ‘Mutually Arising’)
Robbie Avenaim - 03 (from ‘RMD’)

hope you dig.
John.

we’re not doing the best job of keeping this blog thing current aren’t we? sorry! good news is that its mostly down to us having our heads buried in making records and getting the things out. there should be another radio mix of mostly new stuff coming in the next week or two. speaking of new things… this is what the next couple of months looks like:

DRM404 LUC FERRARI - TUCHAN-CHANTAL DOWNLOAD
digital-only release of this great Luc Ferrari piece centered around interviews with ‘Chantal’ - a girl from a small village in the Corbières - exploring her life, troubles and desires. out august 18, 2008 at all good digital retailers

RM435 TUJIKO NORIKO - title tbc CD/DOWNLOAD
lawrence is finishing up mixing this now - release date should be around end of October ‘08 for most places in the world but hopefully it will be back from the pressing plant in time for her tour of oz/nz that kicks off at the end of this month. its a beautiful collection of bittersweet songs, built around lots of analog electronics/processing and some rather narcoleptic disco rhythms… i was just running some of noriko’s vox through my tape echo this morning - and it was a total blast hanging out with lawrence for a few days back in June in brisbane - playing loads of stuff - bass, violin(!), accordian and especially the chance to fire up the doepfer modular and get that going. good times.

RM429 DJ OLIVE - TRIAGE CD/DOWNLOAD
third & final installment in dj olive’s triology of ambient records for room40. an hour of throbbing tonal wash that opens up into greater detail/activity than the two discs that have gone before… Carina is working on the design at the moment so hopefully it shouldn’t be too far away. Gregor has done super well with this one!

RM421 ROBBIE AVENAIM - RMD CD/DOWNLOAD
spannered disc of solo percussion & electronics from long-term Oren Ambarchi collaborator - intense hovering clouds of sound out of which the percussion falls and shards of bright sine tone shoot out. ace. easily the toughest disc on this list - but a strange and fantastic piece of work - certainly one that fans of Chris Corsano, Tirath Singh Nirmala and obv Oren Ambarchi should get behind… weirdly there’s also bits that recall the clipped digital rhythmic reductions of .snd! I was listening to it again the other day super loud and it sounded great!

RM434 DNE - 47 SONGS HUMANS SHOULDN’T SING CD/DOWNLOAD
re-issue of late 80s/early 90s vinyl only issue from Eugene Carchesio - now a celebrated visual artist known for beautifully quizzical miniatures and geometric forms - these 49 short burts of punkish energy recall the primitive splat of early Maher Shalal Hash Baz and the tipped harmolodics of Ornette Coleman. Eugene is currently a member of brisbane faves the Deadnotes. Leighton tells me there will be a deadnotes LP on soft abuse. cause for celebration y’all!

RM432 GREG DAVIS - MUTUALLY ARISING CD/DOWNLOAD
three stunning long-form slow burners. immense. sits somewhere between his laptop drone work for kranky and the recent ecstatic highs of his SUN CIRCLE project.

There will be some other bits and pieces too - including an edition from Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner drawn from a live performance of theirs and some other things that lawrence will know more about than me!!

Plenty to look forward to, huh!

John.

First epidode of RM40 Radio. A mix of new releases, ephemera and contemporary and archival favourites..

• Leighton Craig - Comet (11 Easy Pieces / ROOM40)
• Chris Corsano - How Should You Throw It On Other Occasions? (The Young Cricketer / Hot Cars Warp / Family Vineyard)
• Chris Corsano - Swedes (Blood Pressure / Hot Cars Warp)
• Saya - Live @ Horse Bazaar, Melbourne [excerpt]
• Lawrence English - Selections from ‘Clouds for Company’ and ‘Mist (of Sound)’ (forthcoming…)
• erikm - Puff (stéme / ROOM40)
• William S Burroughs - The Piper Pulled Down The Sky [excerpt] (Real English Tea Made Here / Audio Research Editions)
• The People Band - Part 3 (Not Necessarily English Music / Leonardo Music Journal)
• Lawrence English - Intercepted Communication (Studies for Stradbroke / Wind Measures)
• Morton Feldman - Marginal Intersection (Composing By Numbers, The Graphic Scores / Mode)
• Mike Cooper & Chris Abrahams - Board Wax (Oceanic Feeling-Like / ROOM40)
• Charlemagne Palestine - Beauty Chord + Voice (Voice Studies / Alga Marghen)
• Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig - Untitled Track 04 (Leaves / Naturestrip

Download ROOM40 Radio no.1

lawrence just sent me some copies of this in the post.  wonderfully crisp hydrophone recordings made over at stradbroke island (just off the coast of brisbane - lovely place - go visit!).  the sleeve is super nice, too.  ltd ed of 150. some of the sounds are familiar from Lawrence’s duo w/ Werner Dafeldecker at Kule/Berlin late last year (i’m guessing they are the same?) .  Anyways,  check it out here: http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/en3er.html 
John.

whoo!

Saya (Tenniscoats)
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Cafe Oto

18 - 22 Ashwin street
Dalston, London, E8 3DL

£5

Saya, vocalist and primary songwriter for Japan’s Tenniscoats touches down in London for a rare solo spot to open Dalston’s latest live performance space CAFE OTO with a set of inspired psychedelic avant-pop.

Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective consciousness, matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs. As Johan Berthling of Swedish trio Tape commented:

“Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways. Their interplay is angular and at the same time the most sensitive one has heard. A feeling of a music that constantly goes on, whether Saya and Ueno are on stage or not. A music free of pretensions, but urgent as few things I have heard.”

Saya is one of the key figures in the tokyo underground pop scene, a catalyst and collaborator, organising shows and giving opportunities to younger musicians on the scene, whilst spreading her own wings with far-flung collaborations.  Two are due later this year with The Pastels (on Geographic/Domino) and Deerhoof’s Satomi as OneOne - the name a sweet pun on the japanese onomatopoeia for a dog’s bark. These follow last year’s two stunning records - Totemo Aimasho (trans. ‘Lets meet very much’ for the Australian ROOM40 label) and Tan-Tan Therapy (for Häpna in Sweden).

Saya is also a member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and runs the Majikick label with her partner Takashi Ueno (Tenniscoats’ guitarist/saxophonist) from their base in Tokyo’s outer suburbs.

“Innocence without the sweetness that sometimes puts people off of twee-pop, hearkening back instead to the ramshackle psychedelic sing-song of the Red Krayola… well worth checking out.” pitchforkmedia.com

ABOUT CAFE OTO

Cafe OTO is a venue based in Dalston, London presenting the most innovative artists working today with a particular focus on new music. The venue’s aim is to support and foster a vibrant creative community rooted in their local surroundings whilst embracing the best new music and art from the U.K. and abroad.

Cafe OTO (meaning noise/sound/music in Japanese) comprises of one large café/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music, films, talks and discussions. Based on the ground floor of an old warehouse on Ashwin Street in Dalston the venue opens in April 2008.

www.myspace.com/tenniscoats
www.tenniscoats.com
www.cafeoto.co.uk

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