Roberto Benigni, Walt Whitman, Feist, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Norman MacCaig, Ted Hughes, Anne Waldman, Leonard Cohen, Astral Weeks, The Changing Seasons - my favourite season is always the one we're about to start, The Yo-Yo Man by Echo and The Bunnymen, Achtung Baby, The Ronettes, Elizabeth Fraser, Dead Can Dance, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Solitude, Longing, Desire, Akron/Family, Chirgilchin, Rumi (translations by Coleman Barks), The Supernatural (not that I believe in ghosts and spooks and things that go wooo in the night, but, well, the unfettered heights of the imagination is where I like to spend my time), I also love, some briefly, some deeply; Finistére, Fisterra, Isles of Scilly, Wild Nature, Trees, Lakes, Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, East Kilbride, Manchester, Birmingham, Lancaster, Paris, London, New England, New York and, with unbound ecstasy, the Abyssinian Baptist Church Gospel Choir.
In July 2009 I had the great fortune of taking up an artistic residency in the amazing monastery at Tibães, in the north of Portugal. It has a 600 year history and I might well be the first Scotsman allowed in to write. I'm not sure they'll get me back out! I'll be writing my new album and my first book of poems there. I still can't believe it. I feel truly blessed.
Anyway, a few years ago I walked for 7 days, with 2 great friends, along the banks of the River Lune (in the Pennines, in the north of England). We Don't Need Tomorrow was inspired by that magnificent journey, although just as importantly, it was also inspired by the longer journey that I've been living as a man and artist. It's a journey that has been strange and sad and wonderful, and started in 2000 with a single launch in Cine-City in Manchester, when we shared the stage with the beautiful Guy Garvey and Elbow. Released by Uglyman Records, the label I shared with Elbow and I am Kloot at that time, the single, Sleepwalking, was nominated as one of the best singles of the year by both www.manchestermusic.co.uk and flux magazine.
Lyrically it addressed urban life in Manchester, and I think it spoke to a lot of people about the insecurities and disappoinments of weekend recreational drug use, and the dislocation, somehow related, that we often feel working in a big metropolis. Not that the excavation of misery was anything new to Manchester, but there was something in the acoustic simplicity and harmony of the song that connected.
The starting point for this new album is in some sense a return to that acoustic simplicity, but lyrically it moves into different territory, exploring the wonders of the universe more than the heartbreaks. It's reverentially bucolic, and joyfully so. The music here is also being driven by a more joyful sound - brass instruments and cinematic strings, harp and low-lit harmonies. It will be released in 2010 with a bang. We'll keep you posted.
One of my soul companions along the way has been the 13th century Persian mystic Rumi, so I'd like to use some of his magic to end this little introduction:
Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
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Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
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