Since the last show, I’ve spent some time in the provinces, specifically back in Coventry (mein Geburtstag), where I found myself unsupervised in an empty Delia Derbyshire (Coventry University) building looking for part of the Coventry Biennial that wasn’t open, and then onto Bristol, for a work-related outing visiting some interesting and often radical community organisations across the city. The train journeys provide a useful time for checking out new music and one of the albums I perhaps played most was the new Gavsborg album ‘An honest meal‘
I started off this week’s Crazy Stitch show with the opening track from this album. Gavsborg (Gavin Blair) is part of Jamaica’s left field dancehall Equiknoxx crew and has produced for, amongst others, Missy Elliott, Dirty Projectors and Busy Signal. For this debut album, he creates the alias Uncle G to tell a (semi) autobiographical account of his role as a budding producer in the vocalist-led Jamaican music industry. This track talks of the ‘hypervigilant‘ assistant engineers he encountered when visiting the major studios as a young producer – the henchmen/bumbaholes saying ‘don’t touch this, don’t touch that’. The rest of the album is sounding great too, so expect more tracks on the show in coming weeks.
I also played a new track by Alpha Maid (Leisha Thomas from SE London) in collaboration with Mica Levi. She is part of the CURL collective with Levi, Brother May and Coby Sey (all favourites on the show). I loved her last ‘CHUCKLE’ (particularly the track ‘DOGGY’) release and this ’Spresso’ EP continues in a similar vein – low-fi, fuzzy guitar noise. The (too) short track ‘peg’ that I played has a solid and heavy riff that has an old J Mascis/Dinosaur Jr vibe.
I somehow missed the last Pearl Homes Records release from May this year. By East London poet Ruth Wiggins (possibly in collaboration with label founders’ Nik and Dom in terms of the Paulina Olivera inspired backing tones), it vocalises extracts from her lyric history of Barking Abbey, The Lost Book of Barkynge (published by Shearsman Books). Here she channels the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey – one of the most significant abbeys in Britain and a centre of learning for women. As with every Pearl Homes Records release, the 7” vinyl release of ‘Holy Loaf‘ is home recorded and pressed and the cover was designed by Dom. I played the opening track (‘Mustard, and salt biscuits’) and love how the hypnotic tones create a levied, meditative focus for the words.
I played a track by kiwi Peter Gutteridge, whose late 80s ‘Pure’ album has received the reissue treatment (on the Superior Viaduct label). Gutteridge was a founding member of The Clean in 1978, The Chills in 1980 as well as featuring in several other New Zealand bands usually inter-connected and on the seminal Flying Nun label. Pure, released in 1989 and has influenced a number of much-later indie bands including Yo La Tengo (who covered ‘Gentle Hour’), Ducktails, Beach Fossils and Wooden Shjips (who covered ‘Buddy’) The ‘Lonely’ track I played, for me has a strong Syd Barret feel to it (hence me preceding it with Barret’s ‘No Good Trying’) and, as with Syd, Gutteridge was serious about the use of hallucinogens to shape his work.
Other tracks on the (bumper 41-track) show included Geordie Raj Pannu’s dubby techno number ‘Recall’, a geometrically groovy track from the new aircode album, 1970s Italian folk from Antonio Infantino based on tarantella – a type of ecstatic dance that originated when afflicted peasants bitten by spiders at harvest time.
Listen to the whole show here:
Tracklist:
1 unkle G,Gavsborg Hypervigilant
2 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Entoloma
3 Mira Calix i’m in love with the end
4 Carmen Jaci Bubble Bath (intro)
5 Cities Aviv TIME & TIME
6 Jennifer Walton Throat Doxx
7 Raj Pannu Recall
8 Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff La Musique Du Cœur
9 El Michels Affair,Piya Malik Murkit Gem
10 Lori Vambe Goin Home Boogie (One)
11 Huun-Huur-Tu Sygyt
12 Gryphon Kemp’s Jig
13 Ruth Wiggins Mustard, and salt biscuits
14 Pisitakun Pla Nueng Manow
15 Alpha Maid,Mica Levi peg
16 Syd Barrett No Good Trying
17 Peter Gutteridge Lonely
18 JJJJJerome Ellis,Kelvin Ellis Brush Fire Smoke
19 Goodie Mob Cell Therapy
20 Westside Gunn, ASAP Rocky Shootouts in Soho
21 DJ Manny Spaceship
22 Autechre carefree counter dronal
23 Renegade,Ray Keith Terrorist
24 Muqata’a Simya
25 Funki Porcini Terminal C3 UK
26 aircode Dissimilar Liquids
27 Dale Cornish Crowd Scene
28 Dylan Beale Tri Fusion – Extended
29 Intence Taxi Fare
30 Ken Carson Jennifer’s Body
31 BADSISTA VEM PRA ZONA LESTE
32 Spooky Bizzle Coolie Joyride
33 Bleu Nuit,LELEEE BLEU LEEE
34 position normal Whistle Conversion 7
35 Pierre Bastien,Michel Banabila BanBas Aura 1
36 Fausto Mercier softlock by default
37 Grim Lusk Nuovo
38 J Dilla Geek Down
39 Cinema Sem Teto
40 Neil S Kvern Mirror Rd
41 Antonio Infantino ed il Gruppo di Tricarico Vuressia
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