bass clef

melting again

hey hey hey

too hot for me these days

but SONAR was a blast;
I love you huw stephens

In some fields next weekend:

back ups and second waves

absolutely synapse-deep in to the SND album'Atavism'...
every noise is just so

This second track is 8 minutes of sculptured ice-funk brilliance,crystalline and swoon.

very austerepackaging too.

speaking of second tracks, second attempts (second pengs?), contingencies and back up plans, B's in fact:
sad developments in two unrelated but identically named organisations.

I will certainly miss the sometimes irritating but always interesting and certainly wonderfully turned out, illustrated and photgraphed Plan B magazine; another victim of 'these troubled times' (@Alan Sugar, returned with thanks)...
this 'scandal' in the modular synth world, the seeming demise of boutique synth maker Plan B, whose electronic magicks I have longed for on many occasions, has also left a sad taste.

SO, here's a cheerer-upperer, some brazillian wonder, courtesy of the lovely Ali:
Noriel Vilela ’16 toneladas’
ENJOY IT

RECLEF'D

oh poor neglected blog…

Well in honour of the phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the best record shop in the world ever
I have decided to get back on it.

I’ve not been idle, honest guv, and happy top say that the second album is basically, finally, finished and should be out this side of 2012.
Last night Huw Stephens (god bless him) played a track from it, you can listen again here

Aside from that, the never-ending tour has rolled through some great places (Berlin, Dublin, Camarthen (oh Camarthen!) Bristol, Oslo, Bergen, Bristol, London, London, Bristol, and London to name a few…) and now I return like a bad penny to the wonderful Nottingham:

Maybe see you there
'The Incredible'
Clef
x

Tallinn

Did I mention that I love Estonia?
I love Estonia.
That was definitley one of my favourite shows to play at. Thank you Estonia!

The clip above is of the amazing pianist / composer Lubmyr Melnyk who was also playing at the same event.
Well actually, it's of the ceiling above where he was playing, because I couldn't get a good shot of him playing, and well because it looked really nice.
He played 45 minutes of the most amazing piano I have ever heard: like Alice Coltrane playing Steve Reich's 'Six Pianos'; but on one piano, fathoms underwater...

And here's the one and only Peverelist, also rocking it in Tallinn that night,
majestic on his alt. dubstep throne:

LUXEMBOURG

The wonderful Max Tundra

Beer

Food

Light

Sage advice

Weapon of Choice

look ma I'm headlining

Big Ting! um no...wait a minute

I'm very pleased to say that this saturday the planets have kindly aligned in such a way to allow us to have a glorious reunion of the (nearly) whole Big Ting crew for The Uppity Bump at the Constitution Cellar bar in camden...fun guaranteed!

Road movies, eyelid playback.

It's been a while.
But a good while - sonar, glastonbury, glade and the hypnotics tour. Good times and good people, so thank you all.
A few clips below, and whilst I find these things slightly uncomfortable to watch, (in a reading your old diaries kind of a way) man I'm going to treasure that sonar show for the rest of my days...love the crowd pan shot at the end of the clip (after I've finished clowning around on the cowbell).
And a little bit from Glade, which turned out to be a great distraction and contrast to the concurrent Hypnotic Brass ensmble tour I was in the midst of (more to come on that later...), topped and tailed by manic motorway pedal to the floor drives (by the one and only Ali) to get me to the shows on time...

And lately (many thanks to a certain Deutsche) I have been in a glorious well of music, the light and dark of Axolotl and Birchville Cat Motel.

Beautiful held chord cascade organ tone drone from Axolotl below, from the Memory Theatre album, (go get it) some Birchville in the next post.

Axolotl 'Forclusion'