another new blog?

http://beyondthewychelm.blogspot.com/

in which i indulge my tendencies toward anglophilia and nostalgia in visual media, music, etc.

images from my recent trip to england (including avebury, glastonbury & other ancient/sacred sites in the west country)

 

many more at my flickr

fougou release now available at greengage sounds

we've revived our little record label and (finally!) released further from the centre of disturbance, a cd-r by fougou (brian lavelle & matt shaw) on may 1, 2012.  physical copies of the hand-made, numbered edition of sixty-four are available at the greengage sounds bandcamp site.

in addition, we're returning to our roots later this year with another lathe cut release.  we've just sent the masters to peter king (via antony milton) in new zealand, so expect a 7" lathe cut art edition by kyle bruckmann later this year.

a mix by dj gilliflower (i.e., me)

i began this mix in the summer of 2010 after hearing kemilliset ystävät’s “kun mina uppoan” (a non-album track included only on the kivikasan rauhassa ep) and glynis jones’ “schlum roomi” for the first time on the same day. to my ears, these tracks seemed to share a similarly strange yet innocent quality. i immediately imagined a small group of alien children who fell to earth and began to try and communicate in their unfamiliar—and often scary--surroundings. the mix, which i made quickly and instinctively, as I do a radio show, came to represent these beings’ journey of discovery. after letting the mix sit for several months, i made a few tweaks to the segues and track selection in november and december of 2010. it was shared with a few friends in early 2011 as new year's gifts, but i thought maybe a few more people might be interested to hear it.

i still enjoy listening to it, and i hope you do, too.


if you're wondering what's on the mix, click here (and then click again to enlarge) to see the full version of the game board shown above; it's a graphic representation of the musical "journey" taken in the mix. (there's also a good old-fashioned text file included, though, so don't worry.) many thanks to pilllpat/agence eureka for the original scan of the game board, which i shamelessly nicked from her ever astounding flickr.

edit: yikes! i noticed there are two tracks missing from the game board: track 5 should be: es – sadepäivät and track 7 should be belbury poly - pan's garden.  sorry! silly hidden layers...

AUGUST 2012 EDIT:  i originally posted this mix on a filesharing site, but it has since been taken down.  It's now up on Mixcloud here.  And the track listing is way easier to read.

more tumblrs (+ more radio coming soon)

just popping in to say that i've revived my original tumblr, tinsel matrix. there's no particular theme--i'm just posting things that feel "right" for it, including some music and video every so often. i don't post a ton of stuff, but i usually add a handful of things every day, and i'm getting a lot of enjoyment out of it for some crazy reason.

i've also created a third tumblr, an offering to loplop, inspired by max ernst's bird (or bird-like) alter ego. i suppose i do enjoy art that incorporates the heads of birds a bit more than the average girl.

since ktru's switch to internet & hd only, i've been recording almost all of my radio shows. although i'm known to make some silly mistakes on air at times, i don't think the shows sound half bad (if i do say so myself). so watch this space. for real this time.

new tumblr / revived flickr / continued pinterest

i've started doing a tumblr of photos and scans of some (hopefully) visually interesting things around our house: theworldissilence.tumblr.com

i'm also attempting to revive my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilliflower/

and i'm still pinning like a madwoman at my pinterest site: http://pinterest.com/gilliflower/pins/

(pictured above: a detail from a 1976 work by margaret webb dreyer - more info at my flickr: here.)

radio show, 8 may, 2011, 10am-12 pm, k-true rice university radio

ikue mori / the gaze of basilisk [labyrinth] on the tzadik label.
altar eagle / battlegrounds [mechanical gardens] on the type label.
daphne oram / in a jazz style [oramics] on the paradigm label.
augustus pablo / java [skanking with pablo: melodica for hire, 1971-1977] on the trojan label.

master musicians of bukkake / in the twilight of kali yuga [totem three] on the important label.
chang loo / at three springtime [asian takeaways] on the normal label.
the focus group / starry wisdom [sketches and spells] on the ghost box label.
john chantler / untitled [the luminous ground] on the room40 label.
agitated radio pilot / for ft, at summer's end [the ebb & flow of distant moonlit grass] on the dirt music label.
jefre cantu-ledesma / womb night [love is a stream] on the type label.

exploding star orchestra / chromorocker [stars have shapes] on the delmark label.
blurt / this is my royal wedding souvenir [blurt + singles] on the ltm label.
volcano the bear / da oriente a occidente [what's your function: a tribute to franco battiato] on the sillyboy label.
brigitte fontaine / areski / art ensemble of chicago / le goudron [comme a la radio] on the saravah label.
sharron kraus / the prophet [the fox's wedding] on the jnana label.
chaino / ceremonial feast dance [africana & beyond!] on the dionysus label.

sharon van etten / one day [epic] on the ba da bing label.
michael chapman / leaving the apple [imaginational anthem volume two] on the tompkins square label.
belong / never came close [common era] on the kranky label.
faust / stretch out time [the faust tapes] on the rer label.
hedzoleh / rekpete [hedzoleh soundz] on the soundway label.
m. jarvis & a. jarvis / anatomist [jun] on the ruralfaune label.
zs / black crown creemony i: diamond terrifier [new slaves] on the social registry label.

bernard estardy / cha tatch ka [la formule du baron] on the vadim label.
the petch phin thong band / soul lam plearn [the sound of siam] on the soundway label.
wooden wand / wand arise [horus of the horizon] on the three-love label.
joe mccoy / pile driver blues [memphis masters: early american blues classics] on the yazoo label.
phil cohran & legacy / dogon [african skies] on the captcha label.
alessandro bosetti / jana (dogon) [zwolfungen: 12 portraits of languages i don't understand] on the sedimental label.
misha marks / joana sa / martin grutter / paul dunmall / joe sorbara / kyle bruckmann / untitled [sixty interpretations of sixty seconds by sixty solo improvisers] on the apprise records label.

mohammed "jimmy" mohammed / sethed seketelat [takkabel!] on the terp label.
ilk / honour's prospect [canticle] on the vhf label.
thirteenth floor elevators / splash 1 (live bonus track) [easter everywhere] on the charly label.

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my second show since k-true's transition to internet/HD-only broadcasting. i'm still trying to adjust to the situation. it just feels funny, ya know?

want to hear it? grab it here.