Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 354

We Can Watch.

Hi folks and welcome to We Can Watch. Episode 354 of my Virtual cassette library. It’s Thursday and I hope your week is rounding up nicely. I met Robin Rimbaud last night who was in Stockholm performing with Klang Systematiek at Fylkingen, an artist-run, non-profit association and venue for experimental music and intermedia art. Founded in 1933 making it is one of the oldest forums of its kind in the world. I also bumped into the legendary Håkan Lidbo who I know through my wife who sings in his electro trash pop outfit PayTV. I also got chatting with a dude living in Gothenburg, sorry I forgot your name, who introduced me to live coding music and algorave which was new to me. A fascinating world of the practice of writing and modifying computer code in real time to generate sound, rhythms, and compositions.
Also last night while this event was happening were a few other parties of the listening kind. Field Lines Cartographers new one Phases II: Further Moons dropping tomorrow on Castles In Space sounds amazing and, of course, The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two of which I have a piece. I read through the chat on my way home and got teary-eyed. What an amazing collective of super supporters and artists they are. If you can’t afford therapy I’d suggest dropping into listening parties on Bandcamp. Thanks every one for the wonderful comments and for supporting each other.
Anyway…
I make these shows on a daily bases which is not the best of ideas but I like listening to new music every day and just happen to like sharing my finds with you.
Shout out to MoiCflo for favoriting previous episodes.

Side A will include Jo Johnson and her soothing track We Can Watch, the track with the cuckoo and the child at the end saying we can watch, ambient synth and field recording where the watching is already happening and the donation goes to the Hope Not Hate and Kent Wildlife Trust. This melts into Oliver Cherer aka Gilroy Mere and the track Furlongs 2 from the album Furlongs out on Clay Pipe Music. Four minutes of pastoral electronics along the Downs where the chalk path is the same one Ravilious walked and the train is still going past the Long Man. Then Bill Bawden aka The Prairie Lines and the track This Is Where We Kneel from the album eyes down slowdown out on channel supporting whitelabrecs. The opening of the slowdown, four minutes of processed piano and static where the wide open space is the holy chamber and the kneeling is already the invitation. Then Brian Phillips aka Glass Hive with Snow In Summer from the self titled EP out on Unknown Tone Records. The track that looks like the plant, ambient calm from the Florida side project where the snow is already the summer and the mind is already in the woods of sleep.
An finally to end the set the extremely prolific The Merricks with the piece bds2 from their release Bounds which seems to have mysteriously dissapeared from the face of the earth so I’m calling this an exclusive track. Geneva dark minimal electro, where the sonic bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one. After that side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your surroundings.
First off is the shortest tack of the episode from Austin Potter and Rainbow Trout from the album III. Out on the Wormhole World label. Austin if you’re listening I want you to make me a guided sleep meditation.

Enjoy…

These are not playlists. Each episode is structured as a pair of continuous sets: six tracks on each side, mixed and stitched so the joins sit almost inside the grain. The sequence is the form.
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Mind the flip.

The rainbow already in the water, then a sonic bath that is already the edge.
Side A lets the trout know the colour so the water is already the poem, watches with the cuckoo and the child so the watching is already happening, walks the second furlongs along the chalk path the Long Man still watches while the train goes past, kneels in the wide open space that is already the holy chamber, keeps the snow in summer so the mind is already in the woods of sleep, and bounds the dark minimal electro where the bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one.
Overall mood: Pastoral, and quietly edged — full of water that is already the poem, open chambers, and summers that prefer to keep their snow. Perfect for dusk listening, soft Downs, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Side A
Mood mist: a rainbow trout already in the water, a track with the cuckoo and the child saying we can watch, pastoral electronics along the Downs, a place where we kneel, snow that is already summer, a second bound of Geneva dark minimal electro.

00:05:54 Austin Potter – Rainbow Trout
https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-trout
Album: III. Label: Wormhole World
the fish that knows the color, one minute of gentle country-tinged dream where the rainbow is already in the water and the water is already the poem.
00:06:48 Jo Johnson – We Can Watch
https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/track/we-can-watch
Single: We Can Watch.
the track with the cuckoo and the child at the end saying we can watch, ambient synth and field recording where the watching is already happening and the donation goes to the Hope Not Hate and Kent Wildlife Trust.
00:13:51 Gilroy Mere – Furlongs 2
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/furlongs-2-2
Album: Furlongs. Label: Clay Pipe Music
the second version of the cottage, four minutes of pastoral electronics along the Downs where the chalk path is the same one Ravilious walked and the train is still going past the Long Man.
00:17:35 The Prairie Lines – This Is Where We Kneel
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-where-we-kneel
Album: eyes down slowdown. Label: whitelabrecs
the opening of the slowdown, four minutes of processed piano and static where the wide open space is the holy chamber and the kneeling is already the invitation.
00:21:14 Glass Hive – Snow In Summer
https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/snow-in-summer
Album: Glass Hive EP. Label: Unknown Tone Records
the track that looks like the plant, ambient calm from the Florida side project where the snow is already the summer and the mind is already in the woods of sleep.
00:28:48 The Merricks – bds2
Album: Bounds
the second bound of the Geneva dark minimal electro, where the sonic bath is already the edge and the edge is already the next one.

Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “bds2” by The Merricks. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private stash of sounds that have not yet found more ears, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. Today’s album of the day: Cell Theory by Groningen, Netherlands based ambient organism “zensor” modular synths and circuit-bent electronics where the cell is already the machine and the machine is already dividing.
https://zensor.bandcamp.com/album/cell-theory

The next set will feature Matt Lowery and the track 2-11-24 from the album Vessel out on a favourite label and channel supporter Mystery Circles. The February miniature, two minutes of modular synth and tape loop where the date is the title and the vessel is already holding the next one. Then Seil Records curator Jogging House with Shelves from the album Really. Four minutes of manipulated piano and tape where the shelves are already holding the thoughts and the thoughts are already floating. After that Julien Hauspie and the track Walkabout from the album A Distant Familiar the second track of the episode from whitelablecs. Three minutes of dialed-back guitar and field recording where the distant familiar is already the path and the path is already the walk. The penultimate piece of today’s episode is from an artist who reached out to me. Jason Dzamba produces solo improvised piano works on Youtube. Unedited improvised piano where the waiting is already the touch and the touch is already the next note that didn’t get edited out. I’ve chosen the piece Waiting Touch. Ending episode 354 is Mythologen with the track Gold from the self titled album which came out back in 2017 but seems to be missing from the Höga Nords Rekords label catalogue. One minute fourty five seconds of dreamy synth where the gold is already the muffled melody and the melody is already the recovery.

But first Zyggurat and the track “A Door Opens” from the album Sphere to Sphere out on the Old Technology label. The short closing of the sphere, two minutes of modular synth from the woodland chapel where the door is already open and the next sphere is already the one you were in.
Enjoy…

Side B
Mood mist: a door that opens, a February miniature, shelves that hold the thoughts, a walkabout that is already the path, a waiting touch on piano, gold that is already the muffled melody.

00:36:12 Zyggurat – A Door Opens
https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/track/a-door-opens
Album: Sphere to Sphere. Label: Old Technology
the short closing of the sphere, two minutes of modular synth from the woodland chapel where the door is already open and the next sphere is already the one you were in.
00:38:27 Matt Lowery – 2-11-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/2-11-24
Album: Vessel. Label: Mystery Circles
the February miniature, two minutes of modular synth and tape loop where the date is the title and the vessel is already holding the next one.
00:40:03Jogging House – Shelves
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/shelves
Album: Really.
the four minutes of manipulated piano and tape where the shelves are already holding the thoughts and the thoughts are already floating.
00:43:56 Julien Hauspie – Walkabout
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/walkabout
Album: A Distant Familiar. Label: whitelabrecs
the three minutes of dialed-back guitar and field recording where the distant familiar is already the path and the path is already the walk.
00:46:58 Jason Dzamba – Waiting Touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsI7B60X40
Album: The Piano Journal.
the unedited improvised piano where the waiting is already the touch and the touch is already the next note that didn’t get edited out.
00:51:25 Mythologen – Gold
(Exclusive track)
Album: Mythologen. Label: Höga Nord Rekords
https://www.toolboxrecords.com/en/product/27750/experimental/hoga-nord-lp-09/
the one minute fourty five seconds of dreamy synth where the gold is already the muffled melody and the melody is already the recovery.

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