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

progressive rock rock fusion psychedelic rock synth rock Kansas City

 


 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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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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Edited by ©Unexplained Sounds Group

Co-curated by R. Pezzella and B. Chattopadhyay
Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
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Cover image: Ancient Indian painting
(representing Brahma in the act of creation)
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07 September 2021: The Annual FreeForm Back-to-School Show!

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