Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 353
Hi folks and welcome to Love and Regret. Episode 353 of my Virtual cassette library. It’s Wednesday and I hope your week so far has been fantastic. 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 aeon for the pep talk check out his monthly Fragments show on Camp Radio also 4000 Records, dougtewksbury, Lee Raymond Sykes and boysmithers for favoriting previous episodes.
Side A will include skimmed_milk with Apologue from the album Forsaken out on the wonderful Ambient Cat label. Dark around the edges, liminal in the middle. The cat is ambient. The milk is skimmed. Then Soldiers in the Snow with Mirador from the album The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. A compilation on which I too have left a stain. The sound is the cold kind. Not dramatic cold. The kind that sits in the boots and waits. Go get yourself a copy of this 17 track outing it’s for a good cause. After that Mayassa Dib with Prelude a single out on the Moolakii Club Audio Interface label. Play it when you need the beginning without the arrival.
After that Drew Huddart aka Scholars of the Peak with The Haven Under The Hill from the compilation album Pictures at an Exhibition.The sound is the pastoral kind with the edges still on. Bells somewhere in the distance, synths doing the work of the slope, field recordings of whatever the hill was doing that day.
and finally an exclusive by Tim Spear alias The Careful System with Silence cupped in deeper silence from the album Motifs 2 which will see light of day on November 20 via artist curated label WHI Recordings. After that side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your surroundings.
First off is The Fimnur Trio with “Dungeon Jazz” from the album Sketches from the Dungeon. A dungeon that decided it wanted a cocktail. Loungey enough that you might sit down. Dungeon enough that the chair is probably a rock.
Enjoy…
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Mind the flip.
A dungeon that decided it wanted a cocktail, then the first vegetable without the rest of the garden.
Side A lets the dungeon order its cocktail with the chair already a rock and loungey enough to sit, darkens the apologue around the edges while the milk stays skimmed and liminal in the middle, sits the mirador in the boots with the stain already left, begins the prelude without the arrival that is already postponed, keeps the haven under the hill with the bells distant and the hill doing whatever it was doing that day, and cups the silence in deeper silence that is already waiting. Side B lets the trees remember what only they still hold, thinks the spoon is a saw with the modular already acid and the win declared, grows the physis with the goddess going and the noticing optional, loves the regret with the sax open and the orchestra under it, kisses the skulls in a Radiophonic farewell that is already kind, and offers the first carrot with the rest of the garden optional and the nothing already about something.
Overall mood: Amused, and quietly edged — full of ordered cocktails, cupped silences, and vegetables that prefer to arrive alone. Perfect for dusk listening, soft dungeons, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a dungeon that decided it wanted a cocktail, an apologue dark around the edges, a mirador that sits in the boots, a prelude without the arrival, a haven under the hill, a silence cupped in deeper silence.
00:03:34 The Fimnur Trio – Dungeon Jazz
https://fimnur.bandcamp.com/track/dungeon-jazz
Album: Sketches from the Dungeon.
The dungeon already ordered a cocktail. The chair already a rock. Loungey enough that you might sit down.
00:06:59 skimmed_milk – Apologue
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/apologue
Album: Forsaken. Label: Ambient Cat
The cat already ambient. The milk already skimmed. Dark around the edges, liminal in the middle.
00:10:23 Soldiers in the Snow – Mirador
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/track/soldiers-in-the-snow-mirador
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
The cold already in the boots. The stain already left. Go get yourself a copy — seventeen tracks, good cause.
00:14:00 Mayassa Dib – Prelude
https://moolakiiclubaudiointerface.bandcamp.com/track/prelude
Single: Prelude. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
The beginning already here. The arrival already postponed.
00:19:40 Scholars of the Peak – The Haven Under The Hill
https://whitbyelectronicus.bandcamp.com/track/the-haven-under-the-hill
Album: Pictures at an Exhibition. Label: ElectronicUs, Bonfire Hill
The pastoral already edged. The bells already distant. The hill already doing whatever it was doing that day.
00:23:18 The Careful System – Silence cupped in deeper silence
(Exclusive track) Release date 20 November. project name for Tim Spear.
Album: Motifs 2 Label: WHI Recordings
https://whirecordings.bandcamp.com/
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Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “Silence cupped in deeper silence” by The Careful System. 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:
Okay. Naharim, the Lost City. A young archivist finds an old grimoire, walks through a stone archway into some parallel place called Indarabia, ends up in a city frozen in Time, and then the portal closes and nobody sees him again. Extra lines show up in the book later. By this French Berlin School guy, Sylvain Carel, on the Buenos Aires label Cyclical Dreams. that does the sequenced, ambient, space-music thing you should all be addicted to by now.
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/naharim-the-lost-city-cyd-0169
The next set will feature Loula Yorke with We Think a Spoon is a Saw from the compilation Filaments out on Jo Johnson curated Silver Threads. Saw wave modular acid lines for the win.Then Glasgow guy Iain P. Ross aka Effective Dreaming with Physis. Ancient Greek for nature as growth, the goddess of the thing that keeps going whether you notice or not. From the album The Spring Eternal. Synths over drones, field recordings, and on this one a fingerpicked acoustic guitar. After that Kevin Figes with Love and Regret from the album Sound Dimensions. saxophonist, flutist, composer, the one who brings jazz and 20th-century Italian classical together and then puts a twenty-piece orchestra under it. The penultimate track is by A Farewell to Hexes who bless us with The Kiss Of Skulls from the compilation I can’t get enough of Skeletons An Adam Leonard project that does the Radiophonic, sinister, concept-heavy electronics. Finally Craig Fortnam the North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison guy, from the Cardiacs family, making instrumental music that is about nothing at all when you need the first vegetable without the rest of the garden.
But first an exclusive by Tim Hopkins and the track “Only the Trees Remember” from the compilation Hidden Kingdoms which drops on December 30 via my own Bandcamp page Trevlad. Entries may be left for this adventure right up until December 28 so get on it already.
Enjoy…
Side B
Mood mist: trees that remember, a spoon that thinks it is a saw, a physis that keeps growing, love and regret, a kiss of skulls, the first vegetable without the rest of the garden.
00:32:39 Tim Hopkins – Only the Trees Remember
(Exclusive track) release date December 30
Album: Hidden Kingdoms. Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
The silence already cupped. The deeper already waiting.
00:42:14 Loula Yorke – We Think a Spoon is a Saw
https://silverthreads.bandcamp.com/track/we-think-a-spoon-is-a-saw
Album: Filaments. Label: Silver Threads
The spoon already modular. The saw already acid. The win already declared.
00:47:35 Effective Dreaming – Physis
https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/physis
Album: The Spring Eternal. Label: Aural Canyon
The goddess already going. The guitar already fingerpicked. The noticing already optional.
00:52:25 Kevin Figes – Love and Regret
(Exclusive track) release date November 20
Album: Sound Dimensions. Label: Pig Records
https://pigrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sound-dimensions-2
Title of the hour. The sax already open. The orchestra already under it. The regret already loved.
00:54:00 A Farewell to Hexes – The Kiss Of Skulls
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/track/a-farewell-to-hexes-the-kiss-of-skulls
Album: Skeletons. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The kiss already Radiophonic. The skulls already concept-heavy. The farewell already kind.
00:57:27 Craig Fortnam – Carrot 1
https://craigfortnam.bandcamp.com/track/carrot-1-2
Album: Instrumental Music 1.
The first vegetable already here. The rest of the garden already optional. The nothing already about something.
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