titting around

• 2012-01-27

  Angel Olsen

  Whispers are in the wind that the new Woodpecker Wooliams / OCDC film-score cassette ‘Anni OST’ is readying itself for release with Chicago’s Love Lion label. I’m really proud of it; hearing it at the film premier in an old Hamburg theater last Autumn was a totally inspiring experience and it will be great to share, especially over the Pond!

  First though from Love Lion is a re-pressing of their Angel Olsen cassette, ‘Lady of The Waterpark’. Olsen’s been recording and playing live with Will Oldham most recently and her solo stuff is delicate and fine. Great interview / streamed tracks here @ Octopus Windmill. x

  octopuswindmill:

  

  Last year, while she wasn’t moonlighting on a short tour with Will Oldham in the Kevin Coyne/Dagmar Krause cover band The Babblers, Angel Olsen was quietly releasing her own music. The first of two cassette-only releases, Strange Cacti, was a six-song mini album of heartfelt…

  Source: octopuswindmill

• 2012-01-24

  [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

  A friend of mine does a very worthy thing, and spends his days creating open-source multimedia software for an organisation named Sourcefabric. One of their projects is the non-for-profit, open source Airtime Pro package- making life easy for independent radio stations around the globe. 

  
  

  They’re currently holding a contest ending this week, to select ten tracks that will be built into Airtime Pro as demos as part of the start-up kit. I’ve chosen a track (‘Diego, Diego’) to enter as it refers to a true story that I think deserves to be heard. 

  
  

  
  

  It’s not often I admit it, but I hail from Crawley, Sussex UK. There is a significant population of extradited Diego Garcians based there, and during a chance flick through the local newspaper on a visit to my ma and pa a couple of years ago I came across an article detailing their plight that really moved me deeply. Hencewith was born ‘Diego, Diego’ and I’ve kept the creased and faded cut-out, folded neatly amongst old love-letters and photos of my grandparents ever since.

  The UK Chagos Support Asociation also have a website, which you can find here.

  ‘Diego, Diego’ is from the now sold out ’Patryoska’ (The Woolshop Productions, 2001) which is DUE FOR RE-RELEASE any time soon in Russia, on cassette,

  through Full of Nothing. ’Patryoska (re-release)’ is just one of several smaller scale releases due out in the next month or two whilst ‘The Bird School for Being Human’ is now in the mix, readying for hatching. Keep your eyes peeled, news here as it comes… xx 

  Source: SoundCloud / Woodpecker Wooliams

• 2012-01-05

  ‘Bird School Shamanism’

          

  New year, new website: www.birdschoolshamanism.com

• 2011-12-18

  Top of the world

  Hello… it’s that time of year again; tour-booking time.

  March will see the first tour of 2012, this time joining up with the fab beautiful Fiona Sally Miller booked by Woodland Recordings. Following the success of Thursday ‘s show in Copenhagen with The Great Park, we’re now looking at the three of us joining forces for shows in Denmark, Sweden and beyond up to the top of the world. If you’re in Denmark / Sweden / Finland / Norway or Iceland and are in the position to help us with a show, please get in touch. Thanks xxx

• 2011-12-12

  Free Christmas song…

  …right, here. x

• 2011-11-30

  recording…

• 2011-11-21

  Free concert download

  

  As it says on the tin; free download of last year’s concert at Ida Nowhere, Berlin. courtesy of Woodland Recordings, including several unreleased tracks and one never-played-before-or-after track. Click and enjoy. x

• 2011-11-15

  Beautiful. I’ve only just stumbled across this thanks to a tip-off. I’m playing again with The Great Park in December (15th, Copenhagen). Enjoy x

• 2011-11-12

  DENMARK DECEMBER (‘MINI TOUR’)!

  A surprise mini tour of super cool gigs, finishing up with tour-tag-teamer favorite, Stephen Burch.

  11/12/11: LONDON (w/ Birdengine + Damon & Naomi)

  13/12/11: LONDON (w/ Neil Pennycook (Meursault) + Rob St John )

  15/12/11: COPENHAGEN (w/ The Great Park)

• 2011-11-07

  Noise

  I went down to the Westhil Hall on Saturday to get a dose of the legendary Vitamin B12s and other experimental / noise musicians from Brighton’s vault. Possible surprise highlight was one half of the Bohman Brothers- spoken word ‘pieces’ (?) interspersed with soundscapes made from mic-ed up 7-Up cans, forks, cheesgraters and other kitchenware…

  You can catch both Adam and Jonathon Bohman at the Jubilee library for free, next Saturday as part of Brighton’s Noise answer to The Great Escape, ‘Colour out of Space’ festival.