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  OUT NOW for #BandcampFriday: "VInyl Requiem" by Philip Jeck & Lol Sargent. Double gatefold LP + inserts, with 2 x mov files and the original Union Chapel programme (digital files). https://philipjeck.bandcamp.com/album/vinyl-requiem-2 Also "Live at The Brucknerhaus, Linz (Ars Electronica) 8 May 2011" for members of the #PhilipJeck Bandcamp subscription. In 1992 sound artist Philip Jeck & visual artist Lol Sargent conceived 'Vinyl Requiem' to expressively m...

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  BBC Radio 3's Late Junction presents "Attenborough at 100: The Wild Life of Sound". Featuring Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vl6r 'On Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Verity Sharp presents a mixtape that celebrates the ways in which recorded sound and acts of listening-imagining can bring us into a close relationship with other species. Assembled as a collaboration between artist / researcher Rebec...

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  'Is this the real Thailand, or the sonic equivalent of “everything, everywhere, all at once?” The answer is somewhere in-between, as the album exudes a (pleasant) feeling of sensory overload [...] THIS is cacophony. Listening is like moving through the streets, drinking it all in...' A Closer Listen reviews "Travelogue [Thailand]" by CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla: https://acloserlisten.com/2026/05/24/cm-von-hausswolff-chandra-shukla-travelogue-tha...

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  Out Now: "The Echoing Green" by Zachary Paul & Celia Eydeland https://zacharypaulreleases.bandcamp.com/album/the-echoing-green Zachary Paul: Violin & Electronics Celia Eydeland: Organ (Copeman and Hart) Recorded 26th May 2025 by Mike Harding at St. Mary's Church as part of a fundraiser for the new community project, Friends of Felpham CIC. With thanks to Rev. John Challis, James Rushman and all at the church who made them so welcome.

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  Jon Wozencroft's latest Sound Seminar 'The Colour of Water, Darkness of Oil' takes place on 16th July at Theme Studios, Camden: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-colour-of-water-darkness-of-oil-a-sound-seminar-by-jon-wozencroft-tickets-1990917701439 Water is never one colour. The waters of the Caribbean and the Greek Islands have a radiant blue that is not mirrored by the English Channel, the North Sea nor the Baltic. But they flow with life energy. Godfathers have th...

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  Now Available to Pre-Order: "Almost Starlight" by Jem Finer & John Matthias. LP/CD/MC/DL + Listening Parties in August and September. https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/almost-starlight "Almost Starlight" is the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a Medieval Church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, heat and the n...

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  Jon Wozencroft's latest Sound Seminar 'The Colour of Water, Darkness of Oil' takes place this Thursday 16th July at Theme Studios, Camden: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-colour-of-water-darkness-of-oil-a-sound-seminar-by-jon-wozencroft-tickets-1990917701439 Water is never one colour. The waters of the Caribbean and the Greek Islands have a radiant blue that is not mirrored by the English Channel, the North Sea nor the Baltic. But they flow with life energy. Godfath...

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  Out Now: "Baroque Blues" by Jem Finer & John Matthias. https://kud.li/to132s First single from extraordinary new album "Almost Starlight". Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a Medieval Church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, heat and the natural acoustics of the space. The album defies categorisation; forced to pigeon hole it the nearest approximation would be ‘modern-classical’ but this i...

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  Short clip of Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin) at St. Mary's, Felpham last Saturday, playing music from their forthcoming album, "Almost Starlight", released by Touch on Sept 4th. "Almost Starlight" defies categorisation; forced to pigeonhole it the nearest approximation would be ‘modern-classical’ but this ignores its myriad influences and explorations which encompass inspiration from Arvo Pärt through Terry Riley to Can via Delius,...

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  Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin) at St. Mary's Church, Felpham last Saturday, playing music from their forthcoming album, "Almost Starlight". https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/almost-starlight Touch will be hosting a Bandcamp listening party on album launch day, September 4th at 7pm BST. Links to everything in bio, album can be found here: Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a medieval church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the summer of 20...

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  Headphones On: Here's' the title track from "Almost Starlight", the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (@thepoguesofficial - hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (@john_matthias_music - violin). Full album released 4th September (#BandcampFriday) on LP/CD/MC/DL https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/almost-starlight Touch will be holding a listening party on that day, 7pm BST. 'The album defies categorisation; forced to pigeon hole it the nearest approxima...

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  OUT TODAY: "Almost Starlight", the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). TONIGHT: Official Listening Party, 7pm BST: https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/almost-starlight

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  "..If you look out to the furthest edges of the universe—which we can’t with our eyes, but people can with radio telescopes—you can map it in radio waves. You can hear it in the static of an old TV set or radio. It’s around, it’s tangible. That’s where it’s been totally mind-blowing to me. Things like that found their way in..." Bandcamp Daily: Jem Finer and John Matthias on the Strange Magic of “Almost Starlight” By Jon Buckland https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/jem-finer...

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  Now available to pre-order: "Ancient Future" by Bana Haffar. CD + DL. Official Listening Party Oct 9th 7PM BST. https://banahaffarreleases.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-future 'Ancient Future is a stop on an ongoing quest of sample creation, manipulation, recombination, and morphological transformation through the modular synthesizer. Densely interconnected sound matter moves between islands of respite in a sea of incomprehensibility, grasping but not yet arriving. Th...

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  Listening Party for Bana Haffar's new album "Ancient Future" takes place this Friday, 9th October at 7PM BST. https://banahaffarreleases.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-future 'A lot of modular synth stuff is intentionally blissful, trying to suffuse you in a peach-colored haze and align your chakras. Haffar’s music is more aggressive than that; sometimes it reminds me of Autechre, or like the distant, muffled explosions at the beginning of Blade Runner. Her synths...

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  "Ancient Future" by Bana Haffar is out today! Please join her for the official listening party this evening at 19.30BST! https://banahaffarreleases.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-future Opening the album with what sounds like a garbled radio transmission, Haffar immediately gets down to business on 'Sun Dog', laying down a dense tangle of chopped oud patterns before diverting the flow with her cascading synth arpeggios and psychotropic portamento wiggles. She mak...

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  "Vinyl Requiem 33.3" Philip Jeck & Lol Sargent’s landmark 180-turntable work returns to Union Chapel 33.3 years after its 1993 premiere. Tickets: https://www.gigantic.com/vinyl-requiem-33-3-philip-jeck-lol-sargent-tickets/london-union-chapel/2026-11-04-18-30 All profits from the event will go to The Philip Jeck Foundation, supporting artists working in experimental and creative arts. 33.3 years after 180 Dansette record players transformed Union Chapel into a monume...

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  Philip Jeck performing "Vinyl Requiem" at the Glasgow Tramway in 1993. Photo by Kevin Low. This landmark 180-turntable work returns to Union Chapel on 4th November, 33.3 years after its 1993 premiere. Tickets and info: https://www.gigantic.com/vinyl-requiem-33-3-philip-jeck-lol-sargent-tickets/london-union-chapel/2026-11-04-18-30 All profits from the event will go to The Philip Jeck Foundation, supporting artists working in experimental and creative arts. 33.3 years after...

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  "Vinyl Requiem 33.3" On November 4th, Philip Jeck & Lol Sargent’s landmark 180-turntable work returns to Union Chapel 33.3 years after its 1993 premiere. Link in bio. 33.3 years after 180 Dansette record players transformed Union Chapel into a monumental architecture of sound and image, Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent’s Vinyl Requiem returns to the place where it began. Presented by The Philip Jeck Foundation and Union Chapel, Vinyl Requiem 33.3 celebrates one of the de...

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  "Vinyl Requiem 33.3" On November 4th, Philip Jeck & Lol Sargent’s landmark 180-turntable work returns to Union Chapel 33.3 years after its 1993 premiere. Link in bio. 33.3 years after 180 Dansette record players transformed Union Chapel into a monumental architecture of sound and image, Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent’s Vinyl Requiem returns to the place where it began. Presented by The Philip Jeck Foundation and Union Chapel, Vinyl Requiem 33.3 celebrates one of the de...

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  Out Now: The latest release in the Philip Jeck Bandcamp Subscription, "Live at TodaysArt, Den Haag, 26 September 2009". https://philipjeck.bandcamp.com/subscribe Subscribers receive 12 exclusive unreleased live recordings mastered by Denis Blackham and 5 bonus items from his back catalogue. All proceeds from this subscription go to The Philip Jeck Foundation, supporting aspiring artists who produce work rooted in the traditions of experimental and creative arts.

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  Out Now for #BandcampFriday: "Travelogue [Thailand]" by CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla https://cmvonhausswolffreleases.bandcamp.com/album/travelogue-thailand 'The third in an ongoing series of collected international audio diaries; the premise is quite simple: the two meet at a mutually agreed upon destination along with the facilitation of something to record audio of these experiences on. The intent is to capture and augment these sonic documentaries of their travels wh...