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30 November 2021: Ian Boddy - Modulations II; Electronic Music from Scandinavia

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The first synthesiser Ian Boddy ever played was a VCS3 at Spectro Arts Workshop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne sometime in 1978. This weird and wonderful electronic contraption has gone down in synth history as one of the truly original vintage designs. Much loved by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop as well as early progressive and electronic bands it has a look and sound all of its own. Whilst it is a modular synthesiser it went for a pin matrix board where patches were created by inserting pins rather than the more standard patch cable route. However it is notoriously difficult to keep in tune and more often than not gets consigned to sound FX duty.

As a follow up to his first “Modulations” album which saw Boddy compile an album from his live modular synth explorations this time he decided to create an album just using his venerable VCS3. This meant a lot of multi-tracking as well as using some modern Eurorack gear to give a helping hand with various Control Voltage sources such as sequencers, LFOs & envelopes. However all the sounds were painstakingly created using just the VCS3 and with the use of vintage FX such as spring reverb, tape echo & analogue phasing the overall sound has a truly vintage feel.

The four core tracks of the album are being released on a 12” vinyl limited edition (100 copies) by the Greek label Kinetik Records. The digital edition will not only include these tracks which just use the VCS3 but also two bonus tracks from a couple of livestream events Boddy played utilising several of his modular systems. The first, “Livestream 191220” was a broadcast from his DiN studio and is based around the Roland System 100M. The second piece was from his performance at the Phoenix Synthesiser Festival 2021 and uses his Serge & Eurorack systems.

FreeForm Radio thanks DiN for providing us with a copy of this release for the show.

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The electronic music emanating from the Scandinavian region encompasses a vast universe and has a long tradition behind it. In 1964 the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm opened as a conventional analogue studio, its primary intention being to build the world’s most advanced hybrid studio and to conduct an international research program into sound and sound perception. Since then the Scandinavian electronic music scene has continued to flourish decade upon decade, culminating in the most recent ambient and minimalistic sound shapes. Unexplained Sounds Group, started researching Scandinavian electronic and experimental music in 2015 when it published the Scandinavian experimental underground 015 survey. A second anthology was released 2016, its remit being much wider than the first, and entitled Northern Lights - The Scandinavian experimental 016 survey. Both of them were published in digital format only, but finally a CD edition containing a selection of 12 tracks from those compilations emerges into the light. This is an appropriate tribute to an experimental electronic music scene that is still evolving and growing, and as such the Unexplained Sounds network will continue to chart its ever-expanding boundaries as the future unfolds.
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-electronic-music-from-scandinavia

Raffaele Pezzella

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released November 5, 2021

Edited by ©Unexplained Sounds Group
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
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Cover image: Spring Evening, Akershus Fortress
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26 October 2021: Adrianne Lenker; Michael Oscillate

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Due to the City Council Work Session broadcast on KMXT, tonight's show may begin later than 9 pm. We'll start the show immediately upon adjournment of the Work session.

Adrianne Elizabeth Lenker (born July 9, 1991) is an American musician from Indianapolis, Indiana, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of Big Thief. On October 23, 2020, she released two albums, Songs and Instrumentals, through 4AD.

From Adrianne's Bandcamp page:

It was early March 2020 and the Big Thief tour had just been cut short, so I flew from Europe to NYC. It just so happened that there was a little cabin available for rent right next door to Zoe and Brian in the mountains in Western MA. So I grabbed my truck and drove out to the country. As I settled into the cabin over the course of a month, I grew really connected to the space itself. The one room cabin felt like the inside of an acoustic guitar -- it was such a joy to hear the notes reverberate in the space . I got a hankering to capture it, so I called my friend Phil and asked “How’d you like to get outta the city and make a record that sounds like the inside of an acoustic guitar?” Phil said “100%” and by the grace of some of our dear friends, we were able to gather the materials needed. Brendan lent us about 45 tape machines. Eli lent us a binaural head (which looked remarkably like Phil), and Shahzad lent us a pile of XLR cables. I drove into the city at 5am on the 20th of April, scooped up Phil and then we filled my truck to the brim as we stopped and gathered the gear along the way back to Massachusetts.

We unloaded all of the equipment into the small cabin and began setting up. Unfortunately, one of the first things that happened was the unstable electricity fried four of our tape machines, including the Otari 8 track. Bill tried to fix it at his shop in Sturbridge, but it was beyond repair.

After almost three weeks of setup and troubleshooting, the studio finally was operating -- although the only functioning tape recorder we had was Phil’s battery powered Sony Walkman. We felt at peace with the idea that we might just be recording the whole record on cassette tape, but that would have meant no overdubs, so I’m grateful for the rescue Otari 8 Track that Brendan was able to dig out of storage and deliver to us right before we had lost all hope.

I had a handful of songs that I was planning on recording, but by the time Phil arrived I was on a whole new level of heartsick and the songs were flying through my ears. I was basically lying in the dirt half the time. We went with the flow. A lot of the focus was on getting nourishment from our meals. We cooked directly on the woodstove, and we went on walks to the creek every day to bathe.

Nine of these songs were written freshly during the recording session. We began and closed each day with an improvised acoustic guitar instrumental, and we made a collage of our favorite pieces, which became the first side of the instrumentals album.

I’m grateful that this music has come into existence. These songs have helped me heal. I hope that at least in some small way this music can be a friend to you.

Webpage: http://www.adriannelenker.com/

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released October 23, 2020

All songs performed and written by Adrianne Lenker and published by Domino Publishing Company of America, Inc. (ASCAP)

Recorded/engineered by Philip Weinrobe in Westhampton, MA in the Berkshire Mountains from April 22 - May 23, 2020.

Mixed by Philip Weinrobe at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, NY at the end of May 2020.

Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk in Peekskill, NY in the middle of June 2020.

Acoustic guitar, paintbrush, needles of a white pine tree, and vocals performed by Adrianne Lenker.

Co-Produced by Adrianne Lenker and Philip Weinrobe.

Additional sounds provided by mother nature.

Cover and back painting by Dianne Lee.

Design and layout by Sarah Schiesser.

2020, 2020 Adrianne Lenker under exclusive license to 4AD Ltd

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released October 1, 2021

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19 October 2021: The Pineapple Thief; Richard Barbieri

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The first half of tonight's show is an outstanding release from The Pineapple Thief

Over the last half-decade, The Pineapple Thief - led by musical polymath Bruce Soord and bolstered by the involvement of master drummer Gavin Harrison - has rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of Europe’s Alternative Rock scene.

Versions Of The Truth - out on September 4th through Kscope - is the latest installment in the band’s deserved (and welcome) rise to success.

The band's anthemic 2018 release Dissolution garnered worldwide acclaim. Earning TPT its highest chart positions to date and the album led to two extensive European headline tours (including a headline show at London's prestigious O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire) and a hugely successful tour of North America.

With the release of its new album, The Pineapple Thief is set to raise its exceptional standards once more, having produced what may be one of the most important albums of 2020.

Versions Of The Truth represents a conceptual progression from Dissolution (a contemplation on our ‘post truth’ world)... and lyrically tackles similar themes, but from a more personal perspective. Reflecting on how there can be more than one ‘version of the truth’, the album’s songs revolve around the impact the media can have on our lives and the people we love.

Recording began at Bourne Place (London) and Soord Studios (Yeovil) after the band had completed its US tour (October 2019 to April 2020), with engineering handled by Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison. The album has been mastered by Steve Kitch.

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released September 4, 2020

The second half of tonight's show is dedicated to ambient artist, Richard Barbieri.

The “Planets + Persona” album from 2017.

The Japan and Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri releases his most sonically expansive work to date, with a brand new album entitled Planets + Persona. It is the third Barbieri solo album, but the first to feature such a wide pallet of instrumentation. Vintage analogue synthesisers combine with acoustic performances and jazz elements. Twisted voices are always present, though not in a language we can recognise. Barbieri skilfully utilises the talents of a pan-European core of musicians to produce an album that marries synthesised sounds with organic instrumentation to conjure up vivid, colourful and allusive soundscapes. It’s a skilful commingling of texture and tone, mood and musicality.

Recorded in London, Italy and Sweden, this is Barbieri’s most ambitious solo work to date with a central theme of duality that runs through the album. The title alone – ‘Planets and Persona’ alludes to this, and the dialectic theme is a constant throughout the contrasting and shape-shifting sounds of the album. Take, for example, Night of the Hunter – inspired by Charles Laughton’s only directorial movie , the piece moves through subtle shifts of atmosphere and emphasis, through melodic, dream-like sequences through to harsher tones; it’s a piece that builds to a profound cumulative effect. Elsewhere, Solar Storm shifts gears artfully, with Percy Jones’ sometimes percussive bass work contrasting to the smoother synthesiser textures incisively. Barbieri’s purely solo Interstellar Medium shows that his ability to develop and realise a theme under his own auspices that underscores his innate creativity. It’s but one aspect of a thoroughly engrossing and immersive album.

Mastered by Simon Heyworth.

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released November 5, 2020

Written, arranged and produced by Richard Barbieri

Lisen Rylander Löve - voices, sound design, omnichord, saxophones
Luca Calabrese - trumpet
Christian Saggese - acoustic guitar
Kjell Severinsson - drums, percussion
Klas Assarsson - vibraphone
Percy Jones - bass guitar
Axel Croné - bass guitar
Grice Peters - kora
Richard Barbieri - synthesisers, keyboards, sound design, sampler and percussion programming

Recorded at The Artillery (London), Forward Studios (Roma) and IB HQ (Halmstad)

Engineers - Richard Barbieri, Andrea Secchi, Stefano Quarta, Axel Croné, Mats Johansson
Mixed by Richard Barbieri
Mastered by Simon Heyworth at Super Audio Mastering

Cover photography - Clive Maidment
Booklet photography - Clive Maidment, Luigi Colasanti Antonelli
Design - Bill Smith

My thanks goes to the following vocalists whose voices i have used, abused and often morphed into instruments and textures -
Suzanne Barbieri, Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Yukiko Taniguchi, Grice Peters

Special thanks to the following people whose help in various ways enabled me to expand the possibilities with this album -
Massimo and Rmanuele Scarparo, Mats Johansson, Paul Rymer, Thomas Olsson

Samples used under the creative commons license -- 260563 patricklieberkind (small piano motif) 80399_benboncan (radio interference)

Published by Orange Asylum Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing Group

Ⓟ© 2017 Richard Barbieri

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12 October 2021: Patrick Moraz; Renaissance

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Due to the City Council Work Session broadcast on KMXT, tonight's show may begin later than 9 pm.

The first half of tonight's show celebrates the 45th anniversary of Patrick Moraz's first solo album, The Story of I.

After the success of Relayer, Yes next made a decision that each member would make a solo album. The Story of I is the first solo album by Patrick Moraz. By the time the album was released, Moraz was still touring with Yes but he was let go by the band in late 1976 after Rick Wakeman was booked on a session musician basis during the Going for the One recording sessions in Switzerland.

The album is based around a romantic story of a massive tower in the middle of a jungle. The tower lures people from all over the world to go inside it. Inside the tower, people are able to experience their wildest desires and fantasies. The only rule is that the people inside the tower may not fall in love with each other. However two people inside do so and decide to escape since the tower acts also as a prison which inhabitants are slaves of their own desires.

The album consists of fourteen tracks related to the story. The album, particularly the percussion section, is strongly influenced by Brazilian music. Much of the Latin percussion was recorded in Rio de Janeiro over two days in August 1975 and dubbed on to the tracks. The album uses pitch-bend controls on the synth/organ notes. The Story of I was chosen as the album of the year by Keyboard Magazine.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Allmusic's retrospective review praised the album's blending of styles, finding in the various tracks "hints of funk and marimba, Caribbean and South American styles, and even flamenco, all guided by Moraz's whirlwind keyboard playing." They also made special note of Andy Newmark's drumming and the strong variety of instruments, and concluded, "The Story of I is a refreshing twist from this progressive craftsman and can sincerely be appreciated by all audiences."^[1]

If time permits we will play some tracks from 50th Anniversary - Ashes Are Burning - An Anthology Live in Concert. This release is a perfect celebration of a legendary and treasured body of music. 2019 live show featuring a set list which included songs which had never been orchestrated or performed with an orchestra before. The most memorable concert took place at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA on 12th October 2019. This sold-out concert saw the band perform a set which included such classics as 'Carpet Of The Sun', 'Ocean Gypsy', 'Running Hard', 'Day Of The Dreamer' and 'A Song For All Seasons' and also saw a special guest appearance by Renaissance founder JIM McCarty who performed on the song 'Island' and the epic closing piece 'Ashes Are Burning'. It was a truly magical evening. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of Renaissance, vocalist Annie Haslam and band performed a series of concerts with an orchestra in the USA in October.

05 October 2021: Ian Boddy DiN69 "Nevermore"; Bernhard Wostheinrich and Ombient

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Our thanks to Ian Boddy and DiN with providing us with a copy of this release.

The DiN label, established in 1999, reaches something of a milestone with “Nevermore” (DiN69) as it represents the 100th release on the esteemed British electronic music label. This equates to this, the 69th album on the main DiN imprint as well as 26 digital only releases on the DiNDDL sub-label and 5 Tone Science albums.

It seems only fitting then that this release comes from DiN label boss Ian Boddy. Performed live at DiN HQ the performance was videoed and streamed on March 27th 2021 as part of the three day Soundquest Festival. This was organised by ambient luminary Steve Roach and had an audience watching and listening of 1000+ music fans across the globe coming together in these strange days of a global pandemic. This surely inspired Boddy to conjure up a mesmerising tour de force of a live show that shows all his skills and experience built up over a life time of performing.

Boddy’s set up was centred around his large Serge modular system supplemented by three cases of Eurorack. Eschewing the presence of a laptop this allowed him to sculpt and evolve a series of engaging electronic soundscapes. Ranging from the spacey and eerie to beautifully pastoral with his Ondes Martenot style French Connection keyboard featured at several points with its hauntingly beautiful tones. Novation & Moog keyboards fill out Boddy’s arsenal of instruments and the video shows him in constant motion playing, tweaking and sculpting the hour long set. In the two rhythmic excursions “From Here To There” and “Nevermore” one can literally hear Boddy build the complex, intertwining patterns brick by brick before launching out with some inspired solo playing that can only really happen in a live performance.

Released in a limited edition digipak with beautiful artwork by Wendy Carroll this is music that not only celebrates the work of one of the UK’s leading exponents of electronic music but also the label he has curated with such love and care for the last 22 years.

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releases October 15, 2021

Performed live by Ian Boddy in the DiN Studio & recorded / videod in February 2021.
 Streamed live on March 27th as part of the three day SoundQuest Festival 2021.
Multi-track mix, video edit & mastering by Ian Boddy.

Instruments:
Serge Modular
Eurorack Modular
Analogue Systems French Connection
Make Noise 0-Coast
Moog Matriarch
Novation Summit
Folktek Resonant Garden
Moog MF-104M Analog Delay

Thanks to:
All the SoundQuest team for making this amazing event happen:
Steve Roach, Serena Gabriel, Eric Freeman & Mavromedia.
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BWMAT201918 | released June 8, 2019 | Materiaal Series, Part 018 | Recorded live on the 14 April 2019 broadcast of STAR’S END Ambient Radio on WXPN 88.5FM in Philadelphia , USA

“In tones edged in platinum the collaboration between Bernhard Wöstheinrich & Ombient rings of a far-ranging sonic intelligence – which is felt in its unrestrained directness of expression. By overcoming the limitations of contemporary music this duo better expresses their un-conforming ideas of the cosmos and infinite space” – Chuck van Zyl

Bernhard Wöstheinrich elicits meaning from abstraction in electronic music and painting. He has studied graphic design and has created an eclectic body of work in both graphics and music.
Bernhard speaks in his own musical voice; the musical arc of his work often moves from the curiously beautiful to the beautifully curious.

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released June 8, 2019

Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Keyboards and virtual synthesizers, Live-Sequencing
Ombient / Mike Hunter - Maxikorg, Minimoog, Meris Polymoon

Audio recorded by Roycee Martin & Jeff Towne
Editing and mastering: Markus Reuter
Cover drawing: Christine Kriegerowski

Video by Chuck van Zyl

Special thanks to Chuck van Zyl and the whole crew that was around at the studio of WXPN in Philadelphia & George “G$” Bley

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28 September 2021: No show this week - next FreeForm is October 5 spotlighting Ian Boddy and DiN69, the 100th release by DiN Records

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21 September 2021: Melancholy Circus; The Pineapple Thief

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Due to the City Council work session lasting until 9:35, we did not have time to play Pineapple Thief - we will feature them on October 5.

The first half of tonight's show is a concept album released March 1, 2021.

Composed of eight songs and 59 minutes long, Contents Under Pressure features a symphonic prog approach of exploring mental health using bass guitar, trumpet, piano, and synthesizer solos, as well as guest guitarists, Landon Hankins and Ron Rutherford.

The album takes the listener for a journey from the life and perspective of someone born during the opening song and growing older as the album progresses. This "being" ventures through life unsure of himself/herself and making decisions on his/her own, some of which are questionable.

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released March 1, 2021

Ryan Hankins
lead and backing vocals, piano, mellotron, harpsichord, electric piano, Hammond organ, Pipe Organ, Vocoder, bass guitar, trumpet, synthesizers, drum/percussion programming, harmonica, kazoo, jaw harp, recorder, sound effects

Landon Hankins
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 7 - Lead/Rhythm Guitar

Ron Rutherford
Track 7 - Guitar Solo

Aria Brunner
track 1 - Lead vocal
Track 5 - ukulele

Sydney Hankins
Track 1 - Sound FX

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The second half of tonight's show is an outstanding release from The Pineapple Thief.

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF, THE LEADING LIGHTS OF EUROPE’S EXPERIMENTAL ROCK DOMAIN RELEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH ON SEPTEMBER 4TH ON KSCOPE

Over the last half-decade, The Pineapple Thief - led by musical polymath Bruce Soord and bolstered by the involvement of master drummer Gavin Harrison - has rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of Europe’s Alternative Rock scene.

Versions Of The Truth - out on September 4th through Kscope - is the latest installment in the band’s deserved (and welcome) rise to success.

The band's anthemic 2018 release Dissolution garnered worldwide acclaim. Earning TPT its highest chart positions to date and the album led to two extensive European headline tours (including a headline show at London's prestigious O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire) and a hugely successful tour of North America.

With the release of its new album, The Pineapple Thief is set to raise its exceptional standards once more, having produced what may be one of the most important albums of 2020.

Versions Of The Truth represents a conceptual progression from Dissolution (a contemplation on our ‘post truth’ world)... and lyrically tackles similar themes, but from a more personal perspective. Reflecting on how there can be more than one ‘version of the truth’, the album’s songs revolve around the impact the media can have on our lives and the people we love.

Recording began at Bourne Place (London) and Soord Studios (Yeovil) after the band had completed its US tour (October 2019 to April 2020), with engineering handled by Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison. The album has been mastered by Steve Kitch.

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released September 4, 2020

14 September 2021: Lyonel Bauchet "The Diver" (DiN68); Anthology of Exploratory Music from India

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Lyonel Bauchet is a well established and prolific composer, mainly working in the field of library music, with over 100 album releases in a career spanning over 40 years. Working from his studio just north of Paris he is best known in the Electronic Music world for his mastery of the Buchla modular synthesiser. Indeed his huge Buchla 200e system formed the basis for the sonic world he previously created for the DiN label with his digital only release “The Secret Society” (DiNDDL11) in 2011. Ten years later DiN label boss Ian Boddy coaxed Bauchet in to creating a new album which is this time destined for a full CD edition.

“The Diver” is a concept album in that it alludes to an undersea world many of us will never visit. The five tracks segue into a seamless piece of audio that explore the hidden vistas and dark spaces of the deep sea. Utilising his vast musical experience Bauchet has created an astonishing sound world that ebbs and flows like the ocean currents. The attention to detail and immersive sonic textures sparkle on top of vast oceanic swells that travel from the peaceful and quiet through to darkly dangerous. Once again his use of the Buchla modular is evident with beautiful soaring and trilling Vangelis like lead tones. Underneath the sequencer patterns and restrained percussion bubble & roil building to subtle climaxes before descending back in to the dark depths.

The life of a library music composer is very often rather anonymous so it is a great privilege for the DiN label to be able to present this album release from such a talented composer. Dive in to the sonic undersea world of Lyonel Bauchet and lose yourself in this stunning album.

Our thanks to Ian Boddy and DiN for providing us with a copy of this release.

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releases September 17, 2021

All tracks composed, programmed and recorded by Lyonel Bauchet January - April 2021.

Instruments:
Buchla & Associates Instruments
Mos Lab custom system
Macbeth M5N
Synthi AKS
Metasonix KV100 & D1000
Analogue Solutions Impulse Command
Make Noise 0-CTRL & Strega
Eurorack Modular
Spitfire Audio Strings
Spectrasonics Keyscape

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Anthology of Exploratory Music from India

The new Unexplained Sounds Group’s compilation of exploratory music and sound works from India intends to present a comprehensive collection of sonic practices that have emerged from the desire to break away from India’s traditional sounds, e.g. classical music and folk tunes, while simultaneously drawing on ideas and inspirations from these lineages and auditory heritages in the form of recurring motifs and sonorities as well as textures and open-ended compositions. The fragile but complex connection between tradition and modernity is the crucial point of entry in this body of works contributed by Indian-born sound artists and experimental musicians. What is ‘sound art’ and what is ‘experimental’ can be debated at length, but sound art is a Western construct, and experiment is something Indian musicians have long been engaged in whilst keeping their traditions alive and transformative. What is new in this compilation is locating the tension between historical trajectories of sound thinking and the intervention of modernist technologies like recording and mixing that the artists continue to negotiate through their interpretations and reconfigurations of temporality and spatiality. That is why the western invention of CD as a form of sonic object-hood can be a constraint for Indian sound practitioners. This compilation therefore asks its listener to consider the CD just a trace of the sound experience, while the actual listening is ephemeral. This spatiotemporal tension uncovers a few questions around (de)coloniality and its shadows on emerging sonic practices in South Asia with new perspectives. The release, co-curated by Raffaele Pezzella and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, contributes to the ongoing research Connecting Resonances that encourages critically listening to the sound practices and auditory cultures in the Global South with an interest in sonic confluences and decoloniality, to stand on the right side of music history.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

FreeForm Radio thanks Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst) for providing us with a copy of this release.

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released September 3, 2021

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Co-curated by R. Pezzella and B. Chattopadhyay
Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
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07 September 2021: The Annual FreeForm Back-to-School Show!

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31 August 2021: The Survival of St. Joan (A Medieval Rock Opera) ; Stars of the Lid

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The Survival of St. Joan is a rock opera by Smoke Rise (Gary Ruffin, Hank Ruffin, Stan Ruffin, and Randy Bugg — music composed by Hank and Gary) from an original concept and libretto by Off-Broadway playwright and screenwriter James Lineberger.

The plot of The Survival of St. Joan was possibly inspired by Operation Shepherdess: The Mystery of Joan of Arc by André Guérin and Jack Palmer White, a revisionist history alleging that Joan of Arc escaped execution and later married a nobleman named Robert des Armoises. An idea rejected by historians, the notion of a legendary Joan who lived on in secret has persisted.^[4] Certainly inspired by the Vietnam War,^{[citation needed]} the opera tells of the government of France and Pierre Cauchon, Archbishop of Beauvais, releasing Joan of Arc and allowing a double, also believed to be a witch, to burn in her place. She is sent to live with a mute farmer, who falls in love with her,^[1] as he elucidates in songs performed in soliloquy toward the audience. Realizing that there is no end in sight to the Hundred Years' War, the first act ends with Joan seeking to rejoin the army,^[1] despite the fact that she is no longer hearing her voices.

In Act II, Joan learns that she has lost the respect of the army, who attempt to rape her. (The libretto in the concept album has Joan raped about halfway through the act; this was changed when stagings went beyond a band performance to a full-fledged play.) She meets with some deserters who no longer understand the meaning of the war, and reject its former religious purposes, complaining that only their generals and the nobility can live above suffering. Alone and anonymous, Joan is eventually found by villagers who mistakenly decide she has put a hex on their cow, tie her to a tree and immolate her, thus ending her life almost as history would have it.^[1] Upon her death, Joan re-establishes contact with her three voices, St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret.

And Their Refinement of the Decline is the seventh and most recent studio album by Stars of the Lid, which was released by Kranky in April 2007. The album was Kranky's 100th release, and was issued as a double CD and as a triple vinyl LP set (featuring alternate artwork). And Their Refinement of the Decline features minimal, droning compositions of varied length created from treated guitar, horn, piano, and other classical instruments.

The track "Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage" refers to Craven Cottage in London, the home stadium of English football club, Fulham F.C.. At the time of the album's release, their captain was ex-United States soccer international Brian McBride, who shares the same name as Brian McBride from Stars of the Lid. The track "Don't Bother They're Here" uses the melody of Stephen Sondheim's 1973 song "Send in the Clowns".

In December 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked And Their Refinement of the Decline No. 5 on their 2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame.^[9]

Stars of the Lid is an American ambient music duo consisting of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie. The duo formed in Austin, Texas in 1993, and they list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as Talk Talk, post-rock artists Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian Eno. Their compositions are largely beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement. Their sound has been described as "divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals."^[1]

24 August 2021: Circuline; Oliver Wakeman & Steve Howe

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The first half of tonight's show will feature the New York progressive group, Circuline, and their 2016 release, Counterpoint.

Nominated for PROG magazine's Limelight award for best new band, cinematic New York-based prog rockers Circuline have managed to gather an impressive all-star line-up of SEVEN guest guitarists on their latest release "Counterpoint", including members of Enchant, Happy the Man, Renaissance, and Sound of Contact. Circuline performed at the 13th International Rites of Spring festival (RoSfest), Philadelphia's Liberty Music Fest, Chicago's Progtoberfest, New Jersey's ProgStock, and has toured England opening for IO Earth. Find them on Facebook.

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released May 5, 2016

Circuline is:
Andrew Colyer - keyboards, sound design, vocals
Darin Brannon - drums, percussion, keyboards
Natalie Brown - lead vocals
William "Billy" Spillane - lead vocals, rhythm guitars
Paul Ranieri - basses
Beledo - guitars

Vocal lyrics and melodies by Randy Mcstine.
Vocal harmony arrangements by Natalie Brown, Andrew Colyer, and William Spillane.

Guest Guitarists:
Ryche Chlanda (Fireballet, Renaissance, Flying Dreams)
Alek Darson (Fright Pig, Samurai of Prog)
Matt Dorsey (Sound of Contact, Dave Kerzner Band)
Randy McStine (The Fringe, Lo-Fi Resistance)
Doug Ott (Enchant)
Alan Shikoh (Glass Hammer)
Stanley Whitaker (Happy the Man, Oblivion Sun)

Recorded at:
The Cave, Red Hook, NY; engineered by Andrew Colyer and Darin Brannon

Mixed by: Alek Darson (alekdarson.com)

Mastered at: Sun Room Audio, Cornwall, NY; engineered by Dan Coutant (www.srmastering.com)

Photography by Rob Shannon Fotopic Photography, Catskill, NY (fotopic.com)

Art illustration/graphics/cd design by Darin Brannon of DB Media Productions

Legal management: Ronald Bienstock

Band Housing courtesy of Sally and John Bowkett

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For the second half of tonight's show, we will feature The 3 Ages of Magick, the 2001 release from Oliver Wakeman and Steve Howe.

From reviewer SouthSideoftheSky on Prog Archives:

As a complete Steve Howe fanatic, I had to check this album out. Steve plays on several tracks - both acoustic and electric guitars. I was surprised about how good this album is, and not just because Steve plays on it.

Oliver has picked up more than a few tricks from his father. Their playing styles are indeed very similar. Rick has taught both his sons very well. But I would not say that Oliver doesn't bring anything new. I don't think that this album just as well could have been a Rick Wakeman album - Oliver has developed his own style. What impressed me the most was not the playing but Oliver's ability to write music. This is very good instrumental material. The album is varied yet consistent and does not get boring half way through as so many instrumental albums do.

The music is something of a crossover between Rick Wakeman and Mike Oldfield. The Celtic influences and instruments stand out in particular. But this is hardly New Age music even if some tracks have that feeling. This music has much more punch than New Age music. Some tracks really rock! In their own kind of way.

For fans of Rick and Steve, give Oliver a chance.

Studio Album, released in 2001

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Ages Of Magick (5:48)
2. Mind Over Matter (4:02)
3. The Forgotten King (3:02)
4. The Storyteller (3:42)
5. The Whales Last Dance (4:30)
6. Time Between Times (5:03)
7. Flight Of The Condor (4:48)
8. Lurey And The Mermaid (3:02)
9. Standing Stones (4:31)
10. The Enchanter (6:04)
11. The Healer (4:18)
12. Through The Eyes Of A Child (2:13)
13. Hy Breasail (8:38)

Total Time: 59:41

Bonus Tracks on 2013 reissue:
14. Hit 'N Myth (Previously Unreleased) (5:14)
15. The Faerie Ring (Previously Unreleased) (5:36)
16. Dream Weaver (The Storyteller Demo) (3:33)

Line-up / Musicians

- Oliver Wakeman / piano, keyboards, Hammond, composer, producer
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- Steve Howe / electric, acoustic & steel guitars

With:
- Tony Dixon / Uilleann pipes, whistle, flute
- Jo Greenland / violin
- Tim Buchanan / fretted & fretless basses
- Dave Wagstaffe / drums, percussion

Releases information

Artwork: Anne Sudworth

CD Resurgence ‎- RES144CD (2001, UK)
CD Esoteric Recordings ‎- ECLEC 2415 (2013, UK) Remastered with 3 bonus tracks

17 August 2021: Nigel Mullaney "The Turning" (DiN67); The Beyond - Music Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy

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I'll be hosting "Rural Electric" from 7-9 pm tonight, leading into FreeForm Radio at 9 pm. My playlist will include country music from New Zealand as well as a number of excellent singer-songwriters.

Our first featured release tonight is an excellent hour of electronic music from Nigel Mullaney.

Our thanks to Ian Boddy and DiN for providing us with a promo copy of this release.

Nigel Mullaney for many years has lived a life of relative musical anonymity preferring to inhabit the worlds of soundtrack and library music. Whilst he has been involved with several other collaborative musical projects it is only in the last couple of years that he has started to spread his solo musical wings with the album releases “31 Days” on DiN and “The Navigator” on Behind the Sky Music.

The last year has shown all of us how fragile our existence is and how vital it is to nurture a physical and artistic connection to creativity and those that surround us. The Turning is an album that was forged from the concepts and ideas first explored in the album “31 Days” (DiN61), a desire to capture the raw emotion of a live electronic performance coupled with the expression of Jonathan Jowett’s piano playing and Mullaney's work with the Elemental Chamber Orchestra. Modular & Moog synthesizers were used to assemble a deep sonic palette that reflects the emotional concepts of the album fused with a variety of studio sessions, acoustic recordings and Elektron machines. The tracks were all mixed on to a vintage Ampex ATR-102 using an SSL desk and numerous vintage outboard equipment.

The 10 tracks on this album, whilst dominated by modular textures and sequences take this style of composition to new heights in their truly widescreen cinematic landscapes. The opener “Lost At Sea” is a beautiful example of how to create such a journey in under seven minutes. The following eight pieces take the listener on an emotional travelogue before succumbing to the blissful closing of the album with “Nostalgia Bomb”.

DiN label boss Ian Boddy curated the track selection and running order to create an electronic music album full of emotional complexity and hope.

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released July 16, 2021

All tracks composed, programmed and recorded by Nigel Mullaney August 2020 - January 2021.

Instruments:
Moog, Eurorack Modular, Elektron, Korg & Taylor T5 Guitar
The Elemental Chamber Orchestra
Jonathan Paul Jowett - Piano

Special thanks to:
Jonathan Paul Jowett - Phoenix Creative Media Ltd
Ian Boddy - DiN Records
Wendy Carroll - DiN Records
Ben Wilson - DivKid
Robin Rimbaud - Scanner
Dan Wahlbeck - DPW design

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For the second half of tonight's show, we offer our listeners a little more challenging listening experience.

Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella and Eighth Tower Records for providing us with a copy of this release.

Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abandoning his early career as a med student, Fulci entered the film industry as a screenwriter and assistant director, working alongside such directors as Steno and Riccardo Freda. Fulci quickly established himself as a prolific craftsman adept at musicals, comedies and westerns. In 1979, Fulci's film making career hit a high point with him breaking into the international market with Zombi 2 (1979), an in-name-only sequel to George A. Romero's Zombi (1978), which had been released in Italy as 'Zombi'. With its flamboyant imagery, graphic gore and moody atmospherics, the film established Fulci as a gore director par excellence. Over the next three years, Fulci plied his trade with finesse and flair, rivaling even the popularity of his "opponent" Dario Argento. Bleak horrors are transformed into bloody poetry - Fulci's loving camera technique, and the decayed splendour of his art design, make the films more than just a gross endurance test. His opus latifundium, his “real estate” is the “Trilogy of Death”: Paura nella città dei morti viventi (City of the Living Dead, 1980), a Lovecraftian story of a priest who hangs himself thus opening the gates of hell; L’aldila (The Beyond, 1981), about a hotel which is a gate to hell, and Quella villa accanto al cimitero (House by the Cemetery, 1981), about one Dr Freudstein who, by transplanting parts of his victims to his body for over a century has managed to stay alive. These films are about intrinsic quality, texture, consistency. For this reason they affect sense rather than intellect – confusion, disgust, suffering, delight at the pangs of horror are the qualities these films evoke. The screen is not the marker between actual and virtual but, in Paul Virilio’s words, the “osmotic membrane”. Or in the Gilles Deleuze’s words “not in a different world but in a link between humanity and the world…to believe in this as in the impossible, the unthinkable, which nonetheless cannot be but thought”. By the 1990s, Fulci went on a hiatus with film making for further health and personal reasons as the Italian cinema market went into a further decline. Lucio Fulci passed away at his home on March 13, 1996 at the age of 68.

This new Eighth Tower Records project, dedicated to the Lucio Fulci’s “Trilogy Of Death”, a unique and unrepeatable corpus in the history of Italian “supernatural cinema”, tries to imagine an alternative soundtrack for those movies. The several souls of Fulci’s movies are evoked by the musicians - Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati, Daniel Ferreira (Kloob), Leonardo Granchi (Bad Girl), Cristiano Bocci, Paolo Acquaviva (DuoSerpe), Sara Fontana, Dario Arrighi (Progetto No Name) - through a variety of music styles (electroacoustic, dark ambient, concrete music, progressive rock, drone music). Some of them kept in mind the lesson of the master Fabio Frizzi, the well known composer of the original soundtracks, while others escaped any attempt to revive that glorious tradition and interpreted Fulci’s horror universe in a totally contemporary and unedited way.

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releases August 27, 2021

Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Edited by Eighth Tower Records
Illustrations: ©John Chadwick 2016 - 2021
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