Bore da i chi, TTN is on hiatus but here are two new SGARAB releases, plus a gig:
T PERSON – THE SUN / THE THROAT
Say hiya to Scottish artist, writer and menace T. Person, whose work concerns gender, control, ecology and mythmaking. They’ve produced films, poems, essays, performances and music for various projects, including Embassy Gallery, Transmission Gallery, Hidden Door Festival, and publications including Gutter magazine, SPAM zine, Erotoplasty, Sand Journal and the 87 press. They’re also the founder of ‘—algia’ magazine and orangeapplepress, both micro-presses for experimental writing
This release marries a love of frontier spoken word with mournful, processed vocals and fractured instrumentation; two tracks of formless outsider-pop to comfort and confront, built of piano dirges, mangled bothy ballads, YouTube affirmations and strangled double bass.
Yellow C30 cassette comes with a lovely J-Card inlay with a written piece, and ofc a download plus a copy of the one-time TTN informational
Listen to the preview / get the pre-order here
MEGZBOW AND VINEGAR TOM – FIELD MULCH
Last year’s ‘Welsh Noise Vol II’ was one of my favourite releases, and so I’m thrilled to being putting this gear out too: return to the churning liquid landscape of West Wales with ‘Field Mulch’, a series of collages from improvised sound duo Megzbow and Vinegar Tom captured at London’s much-mourned IKLECTIK
Across eight tracks, ‘Field Mulch’ reanimates ‘WN Vol II’s heat-treated field recordings, marrying them with an array of improvised clatterings; brandy glass drones and farmyard cowbells meld with hydrophonic microphones submerged in pails of water and knackered synths transmitting from the bottom of the well. The result is an expanded pasture inside the preternatural pastoral; familiar sounds assume new meanings, before sinking back into the soil
White C30 casette comes with J-Card art lifted from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Topgrahpica Hibernia, plus a download and a copy of the one-time TTN informational
Listen to ‘Gong Bath’ / get the pre-order here
MEGZBOW AND VINEGAR TOM, T PERSON, XAVIER BOUCHERAT – Chapter, Cardiff, Sat Apr 6, 19:30
To mark these, we’re doing a double release party at CHAPTER, who’ve very kindly taken us in following the cessation of gigs at SHIFT, a topic I’d like to say more on once there’s less risk of it giving me an aneurysm. We’ll be upstairs in media point, come and join us! You can buy tickets here