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جامع حلب الكبير | al jalloum | tape out now

very gladly taking the opportunity to announce that my latest release, the great mosque of aleppo – al jalloum, is now available as an ultra-limited edition cassette tape and 24bit digital download from my bandcamp page.

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two fifteen-minute instrumental compositions, based on the original ‘great mosque of aleppo‘ piece from my ‘sittah sittah sab’ah‘ album, the release is an instrumental journey into arabian-influenced-dark-jazz-doom-drone.

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please do be sure to think about securing yourself one of the twelve hand-crafted cassettes, or a copy of the download which also includes a six-page digital booklet with auxiliary materials. get involved.

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جامع حلب الكبير | al jalloum | tape coming soon

gladly presenting, the great mosque of aleppo – al jalloum, and nine days in serpent graves. two sprawling, dream-like re-investigations of the original piece to be found on the ‘sittah.sittah.sab’ah‘ album, and taking us further into the hallucinogenic depths of the long desert dark, within the realms of the blackened night.

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al jalloum finds us buried yet deeper within abyssal sub-bass frequencies, slow wailing saxophones, and menacing field recordings that groan and threaten to buckle under their own weight, slowly building into an unnerving incantation from the long desert dark.

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nine days in serpent graves, in contrast, finds us caught in a hallucinogenic free-jazz sound-field that seems almost to come from the classical-experimental world, as much as the dark-jazz underworld, before slowly falling away into a dream-like state that looms ominously to its conclusion.

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available from 8th december as an ongoing digital download, and ultra-limited-edition cassette tape of only twelve copies; be sure to investigate when the time comes, and allow yourself time to be swept up into the ethereal incantations and to bathe in the psychotropic sound-fields.

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الحمراء‎ | court of the lions | out now

very gladly taking the opportunity to announce that my latest release, alhambra – court of the lions, is now available as an ultra-limited edition cassette tape and digital download from my bandcamp page.

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two fifteen-minute instrumental compositions, based on the original ‘alhambra‘ piece from my ‘sittah sittah sab’ah‘ album, the release is an instrumental journey into arabian-influenced-dark-jazz-doom-drone.

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الحمراء‎ | court of the lions | coming soon

gladly presenting, alhambra – court of the lions, and the architect’s garden. two sprawling, dream-like re-investigations of the original piece to be found on the ‘sittah.sittah.sab’ah’ album, and taking us further into the hallucinogenic depths of the shimmering desert-sea palace by way of psychedelic incantations.

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court of the lions finds us buried deep within abyssal sub-bass frequencies, wailing trumpets and doom-like oud passages, that so very slowly build into a vast dirge of monolithic proportions, yet one so measured and deliberate in its intent to crush.

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the architect’s garden, in contrast, finds us caught in a shimmering sunlit dream of droning saxophone and oud, field recordings and hazy, blissful recollections of distant shores slowly coming into focus, before trailing back away into a lilting still.

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available from monday as an ongoing digital download, and ultra-limited-edition cassette tape of only twelve copies; be sure to investigate immediately, and allow yourself time to be swept up into the thunderous storm and to bathe in the warming radiance. get involved.

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art forms of dimensions tomorrow

‘Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow…. contained “Cluster of Galaxies” and “Solar Drums”, two rhythm section exercises with the sound treated with such strange reverberations that they threatened to obliterate the instruments’ identity and turn the music into low-budget musique concrète. While testing the tape recorder when the musicians were tuning up one day, Hunter had discovered that if he recorded with the earphones on, he could run a cable from the output jack back into the input on the recorder and produce massive reverberation…’

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‘By the 1950s commercial recording companies had developed a classical style of recording which assured that the recording process itself would be invisible… but Sun Ra began to regularly violate this convention on the Saturn releases by recording live at strange sites, by using feedback, distortion, high delay or reverb, unusual microphone placement, abrupt fades or edits, and any number of other effects or noises which called attention to the recording process. On some recordings you could hear a phone ringing, or someone walking near the microphone. It was a rough style of production, an antistyle, a self-reflexive approach which anticipates both free jazz recording conventions and punk production to come.’

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– John F Szwed

mism records no.10 | 12″ vinyl | out now

might we most jubilantly announce that our highly-esteemed dear brothers over at mism records have gladly released their fifth anniversary celebration vinyl compilation, in the form of a beautiful 12″ record, containing six tracks of pure musical wonder for your listening pleasure.

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featuring contributions from papervehicle, bleubird, babelfishh, reindeer, tenshun, glen porter, maki, and soso, the release is awash with soon-to-be classic bangers for your eternal entertainment. be sure to fix yourself a copy as soon as time and funds permit, only 200 pieces exist worldwide.

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my education: a book of dreams

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When you unsaid the day and split the hour

I thought, What do seconds do after hours?

And I thought, Minutes are here to go.

So told Edgar Allan Poe

In a brief time before the dead eons

blamed the live months for nothing and everything

But nobody and nothing could heal the split

as time blubbered like severed coral

And there was no time left to mend

the wounds of punctured time spilling

into the void of used razor blades in

the heart of bellowing Texas

For theirs is not an ill for mending

Better take it to the waves that

soothe the Band-Aids of rainy afternoons

And consummate the spray paint’s despairing

flares across the tilted ponds of

Despond and mercurial pollutions

For there is no balm in suburbia

for the lost bougainvillea’s purple lament

For it was after all present and pre-

written eons ago with broken stone hoe

bowed by the weight of centuries he stands

and offers to you his pre-callused

hands that mar the bubble gum’s

affreuse, frivolity, with false teeth

in a screaming skull, molten lead

in the screaming ear and brittle

nuance of greasy fear. It is not

too late to turn the page.

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from My Education: A Book of Dreams

by William S. Burroughs

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standing stones EU tour

might we very proudly, and very excitedly, announce the standing stones european tour, featuring the combined talents of 2econd class citizen, jamesreindeer and asbest the moor king, representing the united kingdom, and combined together live on stage for the very first time.

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having already performed together in separate constellations in locations ranging from glastonbury festival, bochum, and brighton; this tour will finally see them together as a trio, operating both seperately and together, in venues across germany, switzerland, austria and the czech republic.

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having also already secured their reputations individually, both on record and within the live arena, we are now poised to witness a full-length tour that shall display the current heights of their own solo performances, as well as giving us ample opportunity to witness live collaborations, both pre-planned and improvised, which shall pitch and sway, vary and alter between shows; spontenaity will abound.

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be sure to seriously think about trying to find yourself at one of these performances, and should you be a promoter, then please do not hesitate to contact any one of the artists involved in order to help us secure shows for the last few spare days currently laying unbooked. be sure to get involved in any and every capacity possible, and please do help spread the word, this is surely some ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ business for sure.

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مدينة الياسمين | tape release | coming soon

due to the unprecedented success of the digital version of my recent ‘the city of jasmine‘ live album, i had decided to set about preparing a limited edition cassette tape run of the release, to be made available on my forthcoming EU tour, as well as for order from my online store.

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hand-crafted as a limited edition of just 44 copies, each piece is recorded on to chrome tape at the highest standards and packaged in a heavy-duty black card box featuring arabesque designs and containing three mini-postcards featuring auxiliary information and further beautiful art.

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please do be sure to think about securing yourself a copy, once the release date rolls around… and, anyone who has already donated a significant amount for their copy of the digital release can expect a transmission regarding their postal address for a free copy of the tape as a ‘thank you’ for the support.

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مدينة الياسمين | live album | out now

very gladly presenting مدينة الياسمين, the city of jasmine… a collection of live studio recordings gathered together amidst of the heat of the summer of 2014, during the rehearsal sessions for the ‘destruktiva v’ festival in mulheim-an-der-ruhr on 15th august.

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assembling six songs taken from my most-recent ‘sittah sittah sab’ah’ release, from iron filings and sellotape, and the classic fbcfabric & reindeer album, along with one exclusive new interpretation; this short set seems to explode out of itself to create a truly mesmerising whole for its hypnotic duration.

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featuring all-live electronics work, utilising ableton controller technologies, analogue synthesis, outboard effects and a few other devices, these performances are able to combine in generating a staggeringly-engaging release.

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now available as a name-your-price digital download, with all monetary contributions being gratefully received and put towards securing further necessary technical apparatus in order to further continue this exploration of live sound performance.

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