"yet another lunchbox"

One of the few New Year resolutions LMYE has managed to keep this year is a commitment to hear more William Basinski. Immerse yourself in a rich recent live rendition (this one, it seems) of the vastly moving, breath-like Vivian & Ondine below, in full or via a hand-tooled hack...

With no apology for requoting, WB on V & O's genesis: "'...I got back to work and found yet another lunchbox of ancient tape-loops to go through for possible inclusion in the new piece. I came across the main theme and thought...well, this is gorgeous; let's see if we can use this to coax Viv to come out. I went through the rest of them and found another dozen or so that mixed well used randomly, just under the threshold.

"The next night I performed the piece at Issue with their 16 channel hemispherical speaker system set to move the sounds randomly around the room as if waves in a pool. We all had a really good time. It was mesmerizing."

William Basinski > Vivian & Ondine [live extract] (from Vivian & Ondine [live])

Photos by sierus (top) & unknown (bottom: please advise!).

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158 Bleecker?

Dubby menace, spiralling squirts & tones, reflective Bitches Brew minors, & future sheen degraded into blurry, puffy washes - all flogged along by oil drum percussion once again, but framed now by a venue acoustic & studded with appreciative yelps: the sound of the Moritz von Oswald Trio Live in New York.

Was it their US debut (February 6 at Le Poisson Rouge)? I assume not, since that had ReComposed orchestral action. But I shouldn't be getting into this, as I've really no idea & Honest Jon's aren't saying...

Anyway, a resequenced (extracts #4, 1, 3 & 2, fellow trainspotters!) LMYE hack of samples from the forthcoming album - a companion to our earlier bodge of Vertical Ascent.



Absent any decent footage of MvOT in NY, two slants on their recent performance in Detroit:





Interview. & another (video, way longer).

Moritz von Oswald Trio > Live in New York [extracts] / [lo-res] (from Live in New York, Honest Jon's)



NB: photos by pablosanz.

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Eleven cities

More of Jan & Romke Kleefstra's compelling collision of Friesian poetry with a kind of post-rock/post-jazz hybrid - the language (& delivery)'s guttural muscularity again framed & focused by the yoked-together lulling somnolence & bubbling squawkscape of its setting.

Previous coverage (also here, in context of the great Machinefabriek...). SoundCloud.

Kleefstra|Pruiksma|Kleefstra - Sompe rûkt nei jongesbloed



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Climactic mercury

A softly gonging, dub-inflected cover of Sonic Youth's signature tune of breathy sexual tension Shadow of a Doubt (Spot) is a welcome chance to briefly highlight the last constituent of Anticipate's great trio (after Ezekiel Honig & Mark Templeton) - the mercurial, multi-personaed Klimek.

Hear his cavernously slowed, found voice-laced take below, along with the self-evidently far less dubby Roller Coaster Dub - an outstanding (& downloadable) shimmering vamp from his Solid State Transmitters collaboration with Polish quartet Kwartludium.



More goodies embedded - but unshareable, regrettably - at Klimek's SoundCloud. They include an exceptional dark jazz workout under the name Foton Kwartet (not a group I know, but that's no guarantee of anything much...) & an epic, loping live encounter.



shadow of doubt - draft - (SONIC YOUTH cover) by klimek

SOLID STATE TRANSMITTERS - Roller Coaster Dub



Oh, & don't miss out on the riches of Klimek's stuffed YouTube channel. Here's four examples, including a pair of stand-outs from his masterpiece - Dedications:









Top artwork by Drew Allan.

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Rabbit hole

Kosmische! & then some... LMYE pin-up Xela & new name in these parts (though you've doubtless been down with them/her/it since way back when) Analog Concept lead Air Rings Vol. 2, a stirring, sprawling, spurting new synthtopian quartet on Digitalis. On limited edition (125!) cassette, naturally...



Digitalis' commentary is too inspired (the drone-zone rabbit hole especially) not to highlight: "xela buries the grimness of recent efforts and goes positively cosmic, layering an endless array of synths into a beautiful, cacaphonous mess. matt carlson channels rainbow-era riley and blasts off from there, heading deeper into the drone-zone rabbit hole. cliffsides camps out mid-80s and arpeggiates laser beams through an 8-bit dream arena. and analog concept? russian cosmonauts can only dream of these fucking stars."

Oh, & bring on Kind of Blå - the label's forthcoming Xela + Svarte Greiner/Keith Fullerton Whitman split LP!

Xela > In the Blinding Light They Came [excerpt] / Analog Concept > Ambient Conception [excerpt] (both from Air Rings Vol. 2, Digitalis)



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