new album out now: DIRECTING HAND - What Put The Blood
Captured at Eastcote Studios in London, drummer extraordinaire Alex Neilson and classically trained soprano and multi-instrumentalist Lavinia Blackwall cut loose, turn it up, turn it down and let the air escape their lungs. The result is raw beauty in every way possible and we are incredibly excited to unleash this record onto the world.
Consisting of freely improvised tracks on drums, harp and wordless vocals as well as interpretations and reinterpretations of traditional English folk songs, "What Put The Blood" is a true gem. The LP is housed in hand screenprinted wrap-around sleeves designed by Lavinia and features exclusive liner notes by Volcanic Tongue’s David Keenan.
Once again, the first 100 copies of the LP come with a free bonus 3" CDR. Four songs recorded by Lavinia Blackwall in the studio right after the Directing Hand sessions introduce the scope of her talent. Utilizing electric organs, guitars, grand piano and her pure soprano voice, she hauntingly performs two traditional English folk songs and two of her own compositions. The disk comes in a handmade sleeve letterpressed with a Masonic image from Lavinia’s collection. But... don’t sleep! These are given away on a first come first serve basis and will be gone before long.
You can order a copy from us via the webpage.
last few copies available: MOTOR GHOST - A Gold Chain Round Her Breast
Dancing Wayang’s first release comes from Alex Neilson (Directing Hand, Jandek, Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy) and Ben Reynolds (Ashtray Navigations, Bridget Hayden). From the brooding opener through tracks of soaring electricity to the beautifully fragile a capella rendition of the folk song ‘Leaves Of Life’, this album sees Alex and Ben exploring darkness and light and all shades in between. Alex’s drumming provides much of the backbone of the album supporting and conversing with Ben’s acoustic and electric guitars, loops and the call of the dümuk (a Greek horn). This is a 12" album packaged in screenprinted and hand-embellished sleeves limited to 300 copies. The first 100 will also include a bonus 3" CDR of a live vocal set Alex performed in London last summer featuring exclusive and extensive liner notes by folk singer Alasdair Roberts.
coming up: Neil Campbell’s ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - check the webpage for updates.
DANCING WAYANG is a record label operating out of a london-based recording studio and aims to provide artists with free studio time and access to a high quality recording facility and equipment.
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MV&EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Moment Spacing/Bong Judge 7" (Ltd to 500 copies) OUT NOW
Yes, you heard us right. We just got this summer loving bliss festival of a record back from the pressing plant and it is everything we hoped it could be and more. Side A, "Moment Spacing" is a two-and-a-half-minute blast of "ooh-la-la-la-la-la" joy that wraps a posi+ aura around the world. B-side, 'Bong Judge' is the stoned, slowed down, phaser-drenched, stretched-out basement tapes version of (almost unrecognisably) the same song running at six+ minutes. The most beautiful record we think we'll hear all year. (And we sold half of the 500 copies in the first week, so be quick if you want one). Featuring:
Moment Spacing
mv * guitars/vox, ee * vox, willie lane * guitar, sparrow wildchild * vox, janane tripp * vox, chris livingood * vox
Bong Judge
mv * guitars/vox ee * lap steel, willie lane * guitar, samara lubelski * bass, john moloney * drums
Down Pat has been asked to fill in for Sophie Brous on the fine Wednesday night show, “Dance Cadaverous” on 102.7 RRR while she takes a well earned Summer break. You can find it on your radio or stream it from http://www.rrr.org.au/ . Broadcast time is 10pm (Australian eastern standard time). Dj down pat plays a mix of improv, folk, electronic, avant-garde, punk, indie, psych, drone, ol' timey, degenerate rock, cocktail music, funeral favourites and spazzy sounds from all over the world and outer space. In the coming weeks, Down Pat will Interview Hi-god people and play a Royal Trux special.
Here’s what he played last week.... Scott Walker – Prologue /Little things. Morricone – Astratta 1 from Veruschka Nigel Bunn - Index (Corpus Hermeticum) Skaters – from Dispersed Royalty or LP Gate – standing in fields from the monolake cd on Table of the elements. Always – Di-ye=ah – Nervous Jerk/Remote control Bad tables – Marriage is forever?? Bruce Haack – Electric lucifer Enkidu – Live in Kyoto – 1974. First half of side D of awesome new double vinyl on Locust. Black dice – Toka Toka From load blown. Canned heat – going up the country. MV & EE with the Golden road – I got caves in there from Gettin’Gone. 3:53 Sir Richard Bishop – Rub’ al Khali from Polytheistic Fragments LP Stuart Busby – Gumboots from radiance and decay on kindling . Armpit – track 7 from Butta Daze. Celebrate psi – phenomonen. Will Guthrie – Taken from the album Body and limbs still look to light on Cathnor Kemialiset Ystevet – Superhimmel 1 – side 1 of new self titled record on Fonal. Listen. Dance Cadaverous on 3RRR fm 102.7 - 10 pm Wednesday nights in January. Stream it online.
I just looked up wayang in the dictionary. This is what it said:
Wayang is an Indonesian/Malay word for baked beans. When the term is used to refer to kinds of baked bean cuisine, sometimes the bean itself is referred to as wayang. "Bayang", the Javanese word for omelette or sausage, also connotes "toast." Dishes of bayang are accompanied by wayang in Java, and by "worcestershire sauce" in Bali. This type of cuisine is commonly known to people belonging to the working classes in europe as 'Breakfast'
Hope you dont mind, just want to let you know about a coupla new songs and, a great new vid i"ve got up at my place. Come say hi..!
Gig coming up soon at 100 club, London on 6th April (Good friday). Lots more gigs in the pipeline too.
Thanks and good wishes to yuz
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