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Parking Non-Stop
Experimental / Pop / Other

"Backward, forward, left a bit..."

Anglesey,
United Kingdom

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   Parking Non-Stop: General Info
Member Since2/8/2006
Band Websiteparkingnonstop.com
Band MembersZOË SKOULDING
DEWI EVANS
ALAN HOLMES
InfluencesWalter 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
Type of LabelNone








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Sep 12 2008 8:00P
Anglesey Arms Hotel Menai Bridge, Wales

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   About Parking Non-Stop
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

Species Corridor CD - front cover
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.

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Parking Non-Stop's Friends Comments
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TafelMuzak





Aug 8 2008 12:48 PM

wunderbar! we’re more than glad and wish you all the best from rainy berlin!
the real burnouts





Jun 25 2008 9:49 PM



keep at being so gosh darn wonderful and download our albums for FREE at cozyhomerecords. com
Adam T. Walton





Jun 23 2008 10:36 AM

Playlist for Sunday 20th June 2008

Thanks for your music. I played you on my show last night.

Listen via our iPlayer @ http://www. bbc. co. uk/radio/aod/radiowales_aod. shtml?wales/adamwalton_sun

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
The Psychogeographical Commission





May 12 2008 6:01 PM


Hello, thank you ever so much for the request.

The Psychogeographical Commission.
Klangbad





Apr 15 2008 1:01 PM

Latest Flyer announcing bands:
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Adam T. Walton





Mar 17 2008 9:35 AM

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.

Hear the show via the BBC's iPlayer.

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
Hedwig_Wehner





Feb 24 2008 5:18 PM

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!
Stokastiske Lodd





Feb 16 2008 8:58 AM

Hola!
Zoë Skoulding





Jan 28 2008 9:03 PM

Ectogram





Jan 24 2008 4:15 PM

Jack Sharp





Jan 3 2008 8:40 PM

Great gig last night Zoe.
Hou en Trou





Dec 9 2007 1:04 PM

Lots of love and music in 2008!

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Hou en Trou





Dec 7 2007 10:41 AM

It's good to be your friends. Can't wait for your album. Hopefully we can soon play you some recorded music as well.
Love from The Hague.
A.N.
Patrick Dorobisz





Oct 3 2007 9:30 PM

Hello,
"Merci" for being my friend, Glad to meet you. Your support is a source of creation. Bien amicalement.
Patrick
Pure Pop For Now People





Sep 26 2007 5:42 PM

Xyco





Sep 11 2007 12:12 PM



greetings!
John Kealy





Aug 19 2007 9:51 AM

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!
LANCE FLAMME





Aug 7 2007 9:02 PM

hi there,
nice performance and music at Scheer !
congratulations !
Ronny Wærnes





Jun 15 2007 8:30 PM

NØDUTGANG





From:
http://www.brainwashed.com/h3o/pipeline.html



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

gudrun gut





Apr 19 2007 5:55 PM

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
Chewing Magnetic Tape





Mar 28 2007 9:02 PM

We've been listening to your stuff together and we'd like you to know that we like it very very much.

Looking forward to see you performing live soon.

Cheers.

Biccio & CMT
ant-zen





Mar 22 2007 8:30 AM

Red Wharf





Mar 1 2007 9:17 PM

Hello

... we would just like to endorse the previous comment posted by Graham Bowers.

Best wishes from all at Red Wharf
Graham Bowers





Feb 27 2007 8:49 AM

Hello

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'.

I added the following link on your 'sister' site 'Ectogram', but just in case you missed it, you might find a visit to Red Wharf interesting?

and maybe

Tokafi interview

Best wishes

Graham

Colin





Feb 19 2007 9:13 PM

Ooh, interesting stuff.

I made a short film at the Welsh Highland Railway late last year, and Big Block 454 have composed some music to go with it.

It will be on You Tube when I get round to finishing it...

I am Colin
We are Big Block 454
This is Manchester, England




wonderful wooden reasons





Jan 21 2007 1:39 PM

hello pn-s
digging the tunes.
all the best for 07
ian WWR
RECTUS





Oct 17 2006 2:34 PM

Thank you for your request. Real good sounds! We must play all de same time a day!




The Fury of Tim





Oct 8 2006 11:42 AM