Walter Benjamin
Jan Svankmajer
Blixa Bargeld
William S. Burroughs
Glide
Brion Gysin
Alice Notley
Kraftwerk
Gilles Ivain
Longstone
Michel Foucault
Jaap Blonk
Einstürzende Neubauten
Rheinallt H.Rowlands
Ectogram
Michel de Certeau
Ultimate Spinach
90 Degrees South
Iancu Dumitrescu
Nena
Henri Chopin
Hawkwind
Guillaume Apollinaire
Cabaret Voltaire
Marsilio Ficino
21 Chimneys
Freddie Phillips
Can
Glenn Branca
Stereolab
Laurie Anderson
The Serpents
Morten Sondergaard
Lustmord
Tortoise
David Wrench
Ana-Maria Avram
Tatu
Marcel Duchamp
Genesis
Vernon Elliott
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Raincoats
Rhys Chatham
Skyray
PARKING NON-STOP is a psychogeographical experiment in combining soundscape and field recordings with spoken word and music.
In recent years we have built up a body of work that explores the sonic geography of a wider Europe within the context of north Wales, where we live. The main focus of this work is a series of musical pieces that integrate field recordings we've made in various European locations with recordings made in our own home studio. These pieces generally combine an experimental soundscape approach with an aesthetic that veers unpredictably between europop and industrial minimalism. Another aim is to achieve a Welsh sound that is based in the present, and in relationships with elsewhere. We are not interested in a mythical past, but in exploring the sonic possibilities of the mines, quarries and rusting machinery in the landscape as we know it today - as a decaying rural-industrial environment rich with unexpected noise.
Primarily, this is a recording project. We play live only at carefully-chosen venues, often in collaboration with like-minded artists, poets and musicians. Recent performances have taken place in Wales, England, Ireland, Slovakia, Bosnia, Germany and France.
PARKING NON-STOP's debut album "Species Corridor" is released on the Klangbad label on August 18th (Germany) and August 25th (UK) 2008. It is available from klangbad.de
The album is created from recordings lovingly gathered over nearly a decade of travels around Europe and more local journeys around north Wales. Locations that have featured in recordings on this album range from the Buda Labyrinth in Budapest to prehistoric burial chambers on the island of Anglesey. The last few years have seen the shape of Europe change beyond recognition; Parking Non-Stop are fascinated by the edges and borders of Europe, and movement across them. The title track of Species Corridor features a rhythm track made from recording of a European bison in Eastern Poland kicking itself in the head to get rid of flies. The rare primeval forest where it lives, Bialowieza, became the new border of the EU in 2004 amid heated debates about how to stop people migrating illegally while allowing the bison and other protected species to wander freely. Parking Non-Stop’s music inhabits these tensions by exploring every locality as a border area where languages, sounds and cultures mingle and cross.
Process
Underpinning Parking Non-Stop’s sound is a painstaking process of digital collage. Parking Non-Stop's music always incorporates field recordings (to a lesser or greater extent), whether as background ambience, basic rhythm tracks or upfront vocal focus. There are no drum sounds on the album: all rhythms are created through the positioning of field recordings, most of which are made from slate dropped, thrown and smashed in the quarries of Snowdonia. These are combined with vocals and more conventional instrumentation to create an aesthetic that hovers on the border between avant-garde and pop, challenging the certainties of both.
Please send music for next week's show to: themysterytour@gmail.com
Have a good week!
BEC AND BETH last night i dreamt that somebody loved me TENANTS SUPERMEN blaze on a la maison AKIRA THE DON featuring JACK NIMBLE, BIG NARSTIE back in the day THE ARTERIES [keep on] truckin' SIMON AND THE WITCH farewell all you fishermen ALTERNATE MODE don't look at me DERWYDDON DR GONZO bwthyn HEMME FATALE baby witch MEIC STEVENS shw mae shw mae THE LOOSE KITES radiation vibe MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY handcuffs TRIPLE B thinkin' thourts GINTIS the waltzer song
** DEMOS OF THE WEEK ** GALLOPS! lasers TRANSPORTERS her world
NEU! neuschnee PARKING NON-STOP species corridor Y DIWYGIAD paneidwch METABEATS featuring PERGYL & HEKLA KOSH live and let live PIPEWORKS green park THE JOY FORMIDABLE austere Y LLONGAU gwaith caled GLASS PEAR streets of love DESECRATION bacterial breakdown KC BLOG !monthly blog! WORKING CLASS HEROES do you know TEXAS RADIO BAND pass yu' phone HEAL THE LAST STAND grace GEORGIA RUTH WILLIAMS [session track] lonely like you NEU! super
This is last night's playlist featuring Ann Matthew's latest blog & an exclusive track from Ectogram, Soundhog talking about Nico & a fantastic unashamedly pop Demo of the Week from new Cardiffians, Hemme Fatale.
There is a questionnaire to gauge what you think of the show.
Thank you for the response so far! Let me know what you think before I remove the page on Wednesday.
Please send new music to: themysterytour@gmail.com or: Adam Walton, BBC Wales, Library & Arts Centre, WREXHAM LL11 1NF
thanks!
THE JOY FORMIDABLE austere THE SCHOOL valentine CODEX MACHINE house monster THE STILLETOES sownd PARKING NON-STOP species corridor AKIRA THE DON & MARY TURNER the music of the spheres Y PHTHWNG cyfnos JULIE MURPHY the fall VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMEN'S CLUB under the yews IDA MARIA stella TRACEY CURTIS if the death penalty were an olympic sport FREAKY FORTNIGHT you're a drag GLOW & HELEN ANDREWS open your heart NICO the last mile THE LOVES can you feel my heart beat? 9BACH y gwydr glas MELO PARK breathe LOS CAMPESINOS my year in lists HELEN LOVE it's my club HEMME FATALE animal lover RADIO PLASTIC under the weather NICO frozen warnings STRAY BORDERS stalker music SHE'S GOT SPIES dwi ddim yn gwybod ANNALOGUE the theory of surrender ECTOGRAM dancing at sparrows HOTEL MOTEL long distance MAC the wave NICO you forgot to answer JIM KNIGHT, GORWEL OWEN AND FIONA OWEN six minutes
That is good, that you are watching me. I actually need someone who cares in one way or other. ;-) - Hope you are having a good time. - - - Well, your name always makes me smile, I just love it. - Parking non-stop. - Just an event!
Yes, I found the CD last week, I didn't know I still had this stuff. I made a few copies of it and a few sleeves and gave it to a couple of friends. Then I completely forgot all about it. It's not particularly great music but at least it's better than nothing!
THE LAST "CONVENTIONAL" H3O APPEARANCE EVER On Friday 22nd June 2007, the hafler trio will be filling in for KK Null. This will be the last "conventional" h3o appearance *ever*. Details of the new possibilities will appear soon here and at www.emergency.no
i put a record on! i'm happy to announce that my solo album is out now! and: you can listen to all the album tracks on my site this week! best regards ggut
Thank you for your interest ... you certainly roused my interest, whilst listening to your tracks ... both in the musical aspect and the concept ... and the images evoked in the 'mind's eye'.
