microphones in the trees: singing knives
Showing posts with label singing knives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singing knives. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2012

Ø+yn

"Ø+yn (said 'Omasin') come from the inland badlands of Córdoba, Argentina, and 'He Resucitado en la Montaña' is quite a trip, taking all kinds of unexpected yet smooth turns: from the occult church to the carnival to the Balinese woods at midnight, taking a detour up 6th Avenue to jam with Moondog before shifting gracefully towards a climactic scene with what sounds like a swarm of angry bees taking the guitar player for a ride at dinner time.


...Ma-hu-sive edition of 84 copies coming from an old school desk containing some right-on graffiti ('wings') and no bubblegum skeets that i can see." swinebox

"Ruidosas cancioncitas que emergen de la superficie terrestre. Piezas de aire etéreas provenientes de una vieja casa a la distancia. Una procesión de ratas buscando el árbol sin raíz. Bailamos hasta el amanecer, soñando luego con los rayos del sol coloreando las patitas de un ciempiés. Constantemente creemos en la pose del caballo de Túnez" Ø+yn

"The Manchester imprint Winebox Press releases tapes in rough, elegant wooden packaging, crafted from found objects including ladders, boxes and felled trees, secured with twine, nails, screws and glue. They’re made by guitarist Jon Collin, who founded the label in 2007 with a solo tape, Sky-Writings, which, inspired by George Maciunas’s Fluxus Boxes, was packaged in wood from an old wine crate. Since then, Winebox has documented the output of a network of artists in the North of England associated with the Singing Knives label." the wire

sólo puedo dar las gracias de corazón a pablo por acercarme a esta cajita de madera. junto al de aloha spirit uno de los diseños más bonitos del mundo de los diseños bonitos. en breve, "barraskiloaren extean dantzan", editado en el sello vasco makrame records

Thursday, October 29, 2009

hunter gracchus

"Hunter Gracchus are a free improvisation group based around the core of Syed Kamran Ali, Fiona Marshall and Jon Marshall (who runs Singing Knives). Percussion, wind instruments, melodica and bowed / plucked strings create a restrained and strange magic within acres of space." boa melody bar

foto: marie ek

Saturday, December 27, 2008

mv & ee

"Recorded at Sheffield's Heeley Institute in 2006, this lp by Matt Valentine & Erika Elder finds the prolific duo stripped to barest most essential selves. There's no heavy fuzz or psychedelic chicanery on this lp, just supremely eloquent acoustic blues and some magnificently bizarre and off-kilter slide guitar. The seven songs collected here show that for all their perceived otherness and tendencies toward fuzztone digressions, or twenty-minute rehearsal room experiments, mv & ee are highly gifted musicians, and Valentine's fingerpicking is as sensitive, articulate, and for that matter proficient, as they come. Playing through songs that proven to be live staples this surely stands as one of the very best recordings of the duo's music from this time and one of the purest, cleanest documents of their unique sound..." boomkat