ROOM40

First epidode of RM40 Radio. A mix of new releases, ephemera and contemporary and archival favourites..

• Leighton Craig - Comet (11 Easy Pieces / ROOM40)
• Chris Corsano - How Should You Throw It On Other Occasions? (The Young Cricketer / Hot Cars Warp / Family Vineyard)
• Chris Corsano - Swedes (Blood Pressure / Hot Cars Warp)
• Saya - Live @ Horse Bazaar, Melbourne [excerpt]
• Lawrence English - Selections from ‘Clouds for Company’ and ‘Mist (of Sound)’ (forthcoming…)
• erikm - Puff (stéme / ROOM40)
• William S Burroughs - The Piper Pulled Down The Sky [excerpt] (Real English Tea Made Here / Audio Research Editions)
• The People Band - Part 3 (Not Necessarily English Music / Leonardo Music Journal)
• Lawrence English - Intercepted Communication (Studies for Stradbroke / Wind Measures)
• Morton Feldman - Marginal Intersection (Composing By Numbers, The Graphic Scores / Mode)
• Mike Cooper & Chris Abrahams - Board Wax (Oceanic Feeling-Like / ROOM40)
• Charlemagne Palestine - Beauty Chord + Voice (Voice Studies / Alga Marghen)
• Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig - Untitled Track 04 (Leaves / Naturestrip

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lawrence just sent me some copies of this in the post.  wonderfully crisp hydrophone recordings made over at stradbroke island (just off the coast of brisbane - lovely place - go visit!).  the sleeve is super nice, too.  ltd ed of 150. some of the sounds are familiar from Lawrence’s duo w/ Werner Dafeldecker at Kule/Berlin late last year (i’m guessing they are the same?) .  Anyways,  check it out here: http://windsmeasurerecordings.net/en3er.html 
John.

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Saya (Tenniscoats)
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Cafe Oto

18 - 22 Ashwin street
Dalston, London, E8 3DL

£5

Saya, vocalist and primary songwriter for Japan’s Tenniscoats touches down in London for a rare solo spot to open Dalston’s latest live performance space CAFE OTO with a set of inspired psychedelic avant-pop.

Tenniscoats celebrate all that makes song vital in our collective consciousness, matching emotive live performance against delicately psychedelic folk songs. As Johan Berthling of Swedish trio Tape commented:

“Their starting point is pop songs, but with a staggeringly free approach: psychedelic folk tunes, complex instrumentals and short pop jewels side by side, everything is possible. A song can be performed in a myriad ways. Their interplay is angular and at the same time the most sensitive one has heard. A feeling of a music that constantly goes on, whether Saya and Ueno are on stage or not. A music free of pretensions, but urgent as few things I have heard.”

Saya is one of the key figures in the tokyo underground pop scene, a catalyst and collaborator, organising shows and giving opportunities to younger musicians on the scene, whilst spreading her own wings with far-flung collaborations.  Two are due later this year with The Pastels (on Geographic/Domino) and Deerhoof’s Satomi as OneOne - the name a sweet pun on the japanese onomatopoeia for a dog’s bark. These follow last year’s two stunning records - Totemo Aimasho (trans. ‘Lets meet very much’ for the Australian ROOM40 label) and Tan-Tan Therapy (for Häpna in Sweden).

Saya is also a member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and runs the Majikick label with her partner Takashi Ueno (Tenniscoats’ guitarist/saxophonist) from their base in Tokyo’s outer suburbs.

“Innocence without the sweetness that sometimes puts people off of twee-pop, hearkening back instead to the ramshackle psychedelic sing-song of the Red Krayola… well worth checking out.” pitchforkmedia.com

ABOUT CAFE OTO

Cafe OTO is a venue based in Dalston, London presenting the most innovative artists working today with a particular focus on new music. The venue’s aim is to support and foster a vibrant creative community rooted in their local surroundings whilst embracing the best new music and art from the U.K. and abroad.

Cafe OTO (meaning noise/sound/music in Japanese) comprises of one large café/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music, films, talks and discussions. Based on the ground floor of an old warehouse on Ashwin Street in Dalston the venue opens in April 2008.

www.myspace.com/tenniscoats
www.tenniscoats.com
www.cafeoto.co.uk

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Tonne
Taylor Deupree
FourColor
Tangtype
The Focus Group
3.14…
Joe Gilmore
steinbrüchel
Hard Sleeper
Lawrence English

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The Deadnotes are playing live at GOMA this Friday 25 Jan as part of the Open Late concert series of the Andy Warhol show.

We will DJ a set of personal favourites from 6pm - 7.15pm - expect to hear Sun Ra, Lee Perry, Swell Maps, Moondog and much more…

Then we’ll attempt to play a set from 7.30 - 8.15pm.

The entry fee to the exhibition is $20, and the evening includes Bruce LaBruce and Warhol films, and a talk by Scott Redford. I believe food and drink is available too. Further details are on the GOMA website

See you soon

Leighton

Check out this video from Mike Cooper:

Will be joining the bill for micro-mono on the 19th of January. Check some video aktion from his past solo sets: