Monday, January 30, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 29 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Cass McCombs - The Same Thing - Humor Risk (Domino)
Sharon van Etten - Serpents - Tramps (Jagjaguwar)
Jessica Jalbert - O Evening Colors - Brother Loyola (Old Ugly)
Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Scars & Scarves - Montserrat - Chimes At Midnight (Self-Released)
Jung People - To Leave A Home - Tenterhooks (Self-Released)
= (equals) - Garden Thief - Snow Battered Shine (Self-Released)
Dark Captain - 3 Years to Go - Dead Legs & Alibis (Loaf)
Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - I Built Myself a Metal Bird - Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
Aquarelle - A Strange Sweet Woe - Sung in Broken Symmetry (Students of Decay)
Fennesz - Liminal - Seven Stars (Touch)
Christopher Willits - Sun Body - Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Ghostly International)
Tycho - Melanie - Dive (Ghostly International)
Umber - Spark Mountain - Morning's Pass EP (Bandcamp)
Ilyas Ahmed - Now Sleeps - With Endless Fire (Immune)
The Nocturnes - The Cradle - Aokigahara (Bandcamp)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Goteborg - Electric Guitar 1 (Bandcamp)
Christina Vantzou + Loscil - And Instantly Take Effect (Loscil Remix) - No 1 Remixes (Kranky)
From the Mouth of the Sun - Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral - Woven Tide (Experimedia)
Derek Rogers - Firm Implantation - The Exhaustion of Emotion (Bridgetown)
Danny Clay - Winter Veil - I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Heat Death Records)
Emmalee Crane - Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs cover) - Pretty in Pink Single (The Streetlight Farm)


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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 22 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Jon McKiel - Quils - Tonka War Cloud (Youth Club)

Dixie's Death Pool - Chuck Will's Widow - The Man With Flowering Hands (Drip Audio)

Doug Tielli - The Deepest End - Swan Sky Sea Squirrel (Blocks)

Bry Webb - Lowlife - Provider (Idee Fixe)

Loom - It is Love - Epyllion (Self-Released)

Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - Het Vuiilnis - Lentemusiek (HUSH)

Laura Gibson - Crow/Swallow - La Grande (Barsuk)

Aaron Martin - Open Knife - Worried About The Fire (Experimedia)

Crooked Fingers - Our New Favourite - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)

Lanterns On The Lake - I Love You Sleepyhead - Gracious Tide Take Me Home (Bella Union)

Sandy Cassels - Championship Banners - Championship Banners b/w Otto Bauer 7" (Periphrasis)

Benoît Honoré Pioulard - A Land Which Has No End - Plays Thelma (Desire Path Recordings)

Threadbare Brother - Goodness - When the War is Over (Self-released)

Ryan Teague - Undone - Causeways (Sonic Pieces)

Trespassers William - Bells (Quiet version) - New Songs & Outtakes (Self-released)

Rue Royale - Crater - Guide to an Escape (Self-released)

Poor Man's Fantasy - Shoreline - Drifter (Desperate Living)

Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland - The Wreck of Hope - The Rustle of the Stars (Gizeh)

Julia Holter - Try to Make Yourself a Work of Art - Tradgedy (Leaving Records)

Naph & Chihei Hatakeyama - Age - Air (Whereabouts Records)

Bernice - Don't - What Was That (Self-Released)

The Boats - The Ballad of Achievement - Ballads of the Research Department (12k)

Amiina - In the Sun - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)

1982 - 6:02 - Pintura (Hubro)


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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 15 '12 - Mark Templeton Interview


Tonight, a phone interview with Edmonton-based sound sculptor Mark Templeton. Mark played at the Epcor Centre on Thurs. Jan 19 as part of the Soundasaurus festival.


Links to download the show recording: mp3 ogg

(From Mark's web site:)

Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions. Since the release of his critically acclaimed “Standing on a Hummingbird” in 2007, his sound has been called "pastoral," but also "painterly" in an attempt to describe how his sources are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on subsequent releases for Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat and Sweat Lodge Guru.

Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's visuals. In 2009 this ongoing collaboration resulted in the release of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD.

Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg), Half Die Festival (Rome), Café OTO (London) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).

Along with filmmaker/photographer Kyle Armstrong Mark presented EXTENSIONS - an audiovisual performance at the Epcor Centre. EXTENSIONS refering to McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The performance took place on Thursday, January 19th. The show was both aurally and visually arresting with moments of blissful pastoral beauty and gut-rumbling low frequency noise. Mark's wizardry with the tape loops and effects were mesmerizing and Kyle's visual imagery (looped/spliced/processed film footage etc.) was not just a beautiful visual accompaniment, but visually engaging, both conveying ideas and affecting emotions. The set totally lived up to my expectations. Hopefully it will be recorded for posterity and released in the future.

The interview starts at about the 43 minute mark of the recording and lasts for about 40 minutes. The rest of the show went as follows: The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles/ May You Fare Well from "Blue Hour" (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Simon Scott - Betty from "Bunny" (Miasmah), Morgan Greenwood - Fur Unison from "Winter" (Bandcamp), Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion from "Replica" (Mexican Summer/Software), The Caretaker - When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End from "Patience (After Sebald)" (History Always Favours The Winners), Saito Koji - Music from "Music" (Resting Bell), Mark Templeton - Beginnings from "Sea Point" (Anticipate), Mark Templeton - Scotch Heart from "Scotch Heart" (Sweat Lodge Guru), [Mark Templeton Phone Interview], Nicola Ratti - Cathrina from "220 Tones" (Die Schachtel), Maps & Diagrams - Hide Yourself in Silence from "Lights Will Call On You" (Nomadic Kids Republic), Kreng - Petite Grimoire from "Grimoire" (Miasmah), Jacaszek - Evening Strains to be Time's Vast from "Glimmer" (Ghostly International), Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Saccades from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community), Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed - Flickering from "Visitor" (Social Music's Record and Tape Club), Two Bicycles - The Ocean (Part One) from "The Ocean" (Crash Symbols), and Poor Man's Fantasy - Riley Park from "Drifter" (Desperate Living).


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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 8 '12


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The tracks: Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony: Movement 1 from "1-Bit Symphony" (Cantaloupe Music), Au - Get Alive from "Both Lights" (Hometapes), Hubble - Nude Ghost from "Hubble Drums" (Northern Spy), Steve Hauschildt - Music for a Moiré Pattern from "Tragedy & Geometry" (Kranky), Bvdub - Nothing Like You from "Resistance is Beautiful" (Darla), Chris Watson - El Divisadero from "El Tren Fantasma" (Touch), Dan Joseph - Opening from "Dreams of Seven" (Dendroica Music), Danny Paul Grody - Skylark from "In Search of Light" (Students of Decay), Doug Tielli - When the Sky Opens from "Swan Sky Sea Squirrel" (Blocks), Loom - There is Blood in My Body from "Epyllion" (Self-Released), Kleefstra Pruiksma Kleefstra - De Dei Oarsom Beginne from "Deislieper" (Hibernate), Piiptsjilling - Wurch Ljocht (Tired Light) from "Wurdskrieme" (Experimedia), Lüüp - Spiraling from "Meadow Rituals" (Experimedia), Peter Broderick - He Was Inside That Building from "Music for Confluence" (Erased Tapes), Poor Man's Fantasy - Deer Run from "Drifter" (Desperate Living), Nils Frahm - Snippet from "Felt" (Erased Tapes), and Ekca Liena - Into the Wind from "Slow Music for Rapid Eye Movement" (Dead Pilot).


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Katharsis (for Hedgehogs) ------ Dec. 25 ' 11 & Jan. 1 '12


Many thanks to Timothy for the showfills. Here are the links to the show recordings for the Jan. 1 show (no recording for the Dec. 25 show): mp3 ogg

Unfortunately no track list. If requested I can try and procure them from Timothy.

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