Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders

 

Another release from Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders, but quite different from the last few. Well, sort of.  Okay, fair enough, it is still ostensibly a drone composition, constructed from several individual recordings, but there was a programme of induction involved on this release.

Alexander Scriabin’s use of the Mythic chord was the basis. It started with Dan telling me about a radio show about Scriabin, then listening the some of his music and learning about the chap’s life. Pretty wild stuff indeed, so Dan I and thought a themed release seemed like a natural progression.

Several recordings involving the Mythic chord were made on various synths, mixed, layered, edited, pulled to pieces and then in turn layered with recordings from other miscellaneous sources.

Tension is abound: There’s a progression towards a certain euphoria which is followed by a slipping away from that and into something less aware.

There was a much heavier editing dialogue present, which evidences itself in the consistency over the 38 minutes of the final recording.

25 copies available on cdr with hand stamps and photocopied addages affixing the disc securely. Dan will have his half before the end of the week.

“Is she singing the trumpet?”

Following that dash to Leeds station, the ‘Ancient Western Hebrews’ regrouped over a few ales (at The Grove and HDM respectively,) a portion of chips a piece and a celebratory viewing of The Shining. The lads the brought their subdued brains to the boil in hXe’s hallway.

This is what happened.

Transit timing observations from Kepler

The Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders cdr is here! Fastest turn around ever from idea to release? Certainly so for this lummox.

Transit timing observations from Kepler presents two long tracks of droning electronics with light manipulations and edits from both.

This release is themed around the logistics, landscape and personality of a small section of the Sheepscar district of Leeds, an area that Daniel resides in and where I used to dwell myself, a fact we only found out after the event.

Positing nothing and simultaneously providing an audiographic transcription of the location, there is a caustic energy that is slow in motion, a jaded density that is growing and moving and yet resisting and remaining.

Edition of fifty copies. Hand stamped white top-black bottom cdrs come served in half size DVD cases (see image above,) although there are about ten in full size DVD boxes.

£3.00 (including UK p&p, please contact me for international prices.) Paypal kevinjsanders@gmail.com

Ending in reverse

So, that was a fun two weeks off work. There was Supernormal, as described in the previous post. It really was super. The Bang the Bore crew held fast and made everything ace. And boozy.

Then there was a wedding in London. Not just any wedding, but the marriage of James (and now Michelle) Shaikh. Epic dances to Talking Heads led to bruised shins, amongst other things. And a hangover, obviously. (Big thanks to Matt and Faye Adams for putting up with me for so many days, too.)

Then I went to Whitby to stay in a Bram Stoker / Dracula themed room overlooking the Abbey and the sea. That was very nice. And Sandsend is a lovely place to wander to if you’re ever in the vicinity.

Then my brother was over, so we had a family get together, which was fun. And involved more booze.

Aside from such dalliances, I managed to record about 10 new sessions. Below is a limited tape which documents a minor portion of this. There will be more though, including a collaboration with Sheepscar Light Industrial‘s main man, Daniel Thomas. This will be a 50+ minute cdr which will be available from next weekend. It is also excellent, and took literally hours to bloom from seed to fruit.

Oh, and my twitter account was attacked by some wormy, tacky crap, so if you received any DMs from me containing a link, or anything like “wtf”, “omg” etc, just delete it. I didn’t send it. Apologies, and all that.

Live: John Butcher & Gino Robair (duo), Paul Hession (solo), Seth Cooke, Clive Henry & Kevin Sanders (trio)

Left Bank, Leeds: John Butcher, Gino Robair & Paul Hession
Line up: John Butcher & Gino Robair (duo), Paul Hession (solo), Seth Cooke, Clive Henry & Kevin Sanders (trio)

8pm – 11pm, Thursday 3rd May 2012
Left Bank, Cardigan Road, Leeds, LS6 1LJ
£8.00 on the door or from bangthebore.org
Tickets available with 10% booking fee from Jumbo Records, Leeds

Bang the Bore is proud to present its first concert in Leeds, in conjunction with the Left Bank arts centre – three improvisers of world renown, playing in one of Leeds’ most visually and sonically evocative venues.

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John Butcher
Winner of the 2011 Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for his work as a composer, John Butcher has arguably achieved more than any other contemporary saxophonist in redefining the limitations of the instrument and extending the contexts in which it can find relevance. Through free improvisation, open composition, multi-tracked studio experiments, use of feedback and site specific performances that exploit the acoustic idiosyncrasies of unique environments he has broadened the range of the instrument into previously unheard territories of timbre, polyphony and resonance. Over the last thirty years he has played with AMM, Derek Bailey, Polwechsel, Fred Frith, John Stevens, The Ex, Christian Marclay and hundreds more; at Left Bank he’ll be playing in a duo with Gino Robair.
www.johnbutcher.org.ukGino Robair
Improviser, percussionist and composer Gino Robair has performed and recorded with many of the most consistently adventurous musicians working today, including Tom Waits, John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith and Terry Riley. His opera, I, Norton, has been performed throughout North American and Europe; he has composed for the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, gamelan, MTV, Comedy Central and the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat; and he is one of the ‘twenty five innovative percussionists’ included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001). At Left Bank he’ll be improvising on percussion and electronics, describing his strategies and equipment ‘energised surfaces’ and ‘voltage made audible.’
ginorobair.comPaul Hession
Free drummer Paul Hession has perhaps done more to expand local interest in improvised music than anyone else in Leeds, whether as curator the much missed Termite Club, organiser of the Improvised Music Workshop or founder of Improvised Music Leeds. The breadth of his collaborators is equally inspiring, including Peter Brötzmann, Squarepusher, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Otomo Yoshihide, Marshall Allen, Derek Bailey, Alan Wilkinson, Mick Beck and Harry Pussy’s Bill Orcutt. At Left Bank he’ll be performing solo on percussion and electronics.
softdrum.comSeth Cooke & Clive Henry
Seth Cooke and Clive Henry have been collaborating for the last eight years in ensembles including Hunting Lodge, Masterly! & Farewell, the A Band, Hákarl and the BtBarbershop Quartet. They’re also the founding members and self-described janitors of the Bang the Bore collective. Seth plays drums for UltraHumanitarian and Defibrillators and performs and records solo under his given name and as Ganbatte. Clive now performs and records under his given name after years of activity as Little Creature, runs the Journal of the Belgae Folk Club label and plays as part of Boduf Songs’ touring band.
soundcloud.com/seth-cooke
clivehenry.orgKevin Sanders
Kevin Sanders relentlessly performs and records solo and in collaborations under his Petals moniker, releasing his work on the Beartown and Striate Cortex labels as well as his own Hairdryer Excommunication imprint. His various modus operandi include mixing any combination of vocals, electronics, field recording and amplified/treated objects.
hairdryerexcommunication.wordpress.com

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leftbankleeds.org.uk

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Of trying to make a palindrome out of the sea

With an excess of labour and a failing of thought, the track Skomor by Seas was run the through the TVP-grinder of petals. Enjoy the sounds of electronic music as heard through the potentiometer of a tape machine from another era.

Trio of three

A slightly redacted version of a jam by Adam Denton (guitar, electronics), Luke Twyman (drums) and Kevin Sanders (electronics, metal, tapes).

Dark times. No masters. Less direction, please.

Progress report

Copies of the Swan-Hunter & Petals collaboration cdr and the Urn / Petals split cassettes are now both available f0r £3.00 inc. p&p (£5.00 inc. p&p if you opt to purchase both). Copies will be available at No Signs of Repair on the 21st of May in Sheffield. This event will be a damned good time to start having summer fun, trading wares, eating cake, drinking beer, burning cash getting good stuff of good people, watching footage from the Royal House of Choke jam, listening to music and getting jiggy with everything…

New releases are imminent

The Urn/Petals split cassette will very soon be put in to production, along with the Swan-Hunter & Petals collaborative cdr and a new Petals solo cassette, ‘Reading of contracts’. Busy times. Patience is a virtue…

Copies of the split cassette and the collaborative cdr will be available for the 21st of May, the date of an all-day event in Sheffield at which Petals will be making an appearance at. More details on that as I find out.

True story

Quick update to let you know that rainbows are real, and that a collaboration with Swan-Hunter is very much in progress.