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Adam Scovell curates the Celluloid Wicker Man blog which collates his own writings and film work which include a number of super 8 productions to be found at Celluloid Wicker Man Films. Adam’s passions include Folk Horror, Landscape in Film and Literature, Film Music And Sound Analysis, British Art House and Cult Cinema. He has also written on Hauntology themes.
The Menhir Motorway is Adam’s first film for 2016. It is a super-8 looking at the Ballard-scapes found on the peninsula of The Wirral, specifically in Wallasey. It examines the links between the urban menhir known as Grannies Rock and the nearby motorway’s concrete labyrinths and pathways. The film’s music is by In Atoms from Liverpool and it is voiced by Paul Carmichael. It is the first in a planned series of shorts looking at neglected, liminal spaces. Watch another Adam Scovell short film Salthouse Marshes also featuring the music of In Atoms
Listen to In Atoms on Bandcamp
The Assistant is Oliver Cherer. “Gristleizer” is the just released 12. The Delusions of Adequacy (thanks) review of the track had this to say about “Gristleizer”: “…certainly a leap away from the more playful BBC Radiophonic Orchestra stylings of The Assistant’s first release. Combining shadowy mechanised-voodoo percussion with swarming insect synth sounds, there are strong echoes of the industrial clank of Throbbing Gristle and the sci-fi horror scores of John Carpenter films in the track’s hypnotic entrancement…”
The Assistant appears on the Polytechnic Youth label established in 2014 to release music that is: “library sounds, electronic experiments in kosmische, primitive electronics and as a soundtrack to physical education – a micro label for vinyl heads”.
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Rabbit Island is one of the musical journeys of Amber Fresh.
The View From Here is an RTRFM special project to produce a series of films capturing live and intimate performances by West Australian acts in a variety of unique locations.
Recently Rabbit Island did a View From Here performance recorded in the basement of the legendary local family run continental shop The Re Store in Leederville – home of many amazing food journeys. Its a beautiful performance and made even more so as she is joined by Nicholas Allbrook and some of his special sounds.
Filmed by Sam Price and Lewis Potts, Produced by Chris Wheeldon, Sound engineering & mixing by Adrian Sardi. With a big thanks to Moreno and Nick at The Re Store.
Listen to and join in with Rabbit Island’s music here
Watch some other View From Here performances here – The Golden Apples definitely recommends Mei Saraswati Band
P.S. After listening to these recent performances I remembered that Amber and Mei both played at the very first ever Golden Apples of the Sun event at The Bird back way in 2011. We have not had one since – I need to get onto that – I had to look around very carefully to find the poster but I found it eventually.
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Front & Follow present White Flowers, the debut album from Lutine. The album reflects a shared love of traditional folk and modern classical, distorted through a lens of medieval and baroque music, traditional Indian and Chinese music, dream/synth pop, minimalism, experimental music and 60s/70s folk. Both familiar and uncanny (inspired equally by Thomas Hardy and The Twilight Zone), Heather and Emma have produced a startling set of songs exploring classic themes in a unique and bewitching way.
Front and Follow present Died of Love a new collection from Lutine, featuring reinterpretations of their 2014 album White Flowers. Lutine combine vocal harmonies with delicate instrumentation on a mixture of original and traditional folk songs. Their debut album ‘White Flowers’ was released in 2014 through Front & Follow. Lutine are Heather Minor and Emma Morton, brought together by a shared love of traditional folk and modern classical, distorted through a lens of medieval and baroque music, traditional Indian and Chinese music, dream/synth pop, minimalism, experimental music and 60s/70s folk.
As featured ever so briefly in an excerpt on Episode 266 of The Golden Apples of the Sun
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: acid folk, electronica, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, hazy, psych folk, rtrfm, stereolab
Claude Mono
This sound journey is a true audio bell curve commencing with the vinyl crackle of dust from the nettles style original British acid folk, some US Espers-esque psych folk and prairie modern from Meg Baird and Speck Mountain…the show then meanders through the hazy electronica of Noveller, Lutine and Haelos heading towards a single epic extended high through 20 minutes of a most (in)famous Nurse With Wound and Stereolab collaboration. Over the bell curve and new West Coast meets East Coast from Heron Oblivion and finally some crystalline lo-fi timeless moments from the Golden Apples archives of 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Watch this stunning Nurse With Wound video….and think of it as 20 minute Golden Apples trailer….
Listen to show re-stream Here (select 17 April 2016)
HQ Mixcloud Here (just the music)
PLAYLIST
Tea & Symphony – Dangling – Jo Sago
Tea & Symphony – Yourself – Jo Sago
Meg Baird – Stars Unwinding – Don’t Weigh Down The Light
Speck Mountain – Chlorine Fields – A Kind of Awe and Reverence and Wonder
Lutine – Sallow Tree (Excerpt – Sarah Angliss & Stephen Hiscock mix) – Died of Love
Noveller – Glacial Wave – Glacial Wave
Haelos – Dust
Throwing Snow – Clasp – Glower Clasp EP
Wheldon Thornley – Manhattan 5-4-2016
A Year In The Country – Tick Tock – In Every Mind
Stereolab – The Long Hair Of Death
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound Simple headphone mind
Lubos Fiser – The Visit – Valerie and Her Week of Wonders OST
South African Combo – Orgiastic Ritual – The Reincarnation of Isabel OST
Book Of Shadows – Peace Star – In the cities of Your Eyes
Heron Oblivion – Beneath Fields
The Hardy Tree – The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath – The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath –
Anois – Lampionwood – Tree House Whispers
Epic45 – Weathered – Ghosts I Have Known (reworked by The Toy Library)
Paper Dollhouse – Daisies – A Box Painted Black
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Presented by Dave Clark
Listen Here (Select 10 April 2016)
Playlist
2:01:00 Qua & Stina – Green Robin- Tea for Two
2:05:00 Haushka – Wonder – Snowflakes & Car Wrecks
2:09:00 Shank – Oust – Difficult Easy Listening
2:14:00 Mike Nock & Lawrence Pike – Cloudless – The Beginning & End of Knowing
2:17:00 Laura Groves – The Inky Sea
2:22:00 Atom – Wellen & Felder II – Liedgut
2:24:00 Carlos y Gaby – Happy Summer Solstice
2:29:00 Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
2:34:00 The Remote Viewer – Walsh Ambrose
2:40:00 Static – Headphones
2:46:00 Isan – Cutlery Favours – Lucky
2:52:00 Hermann & Kleine – Hello, This One Is For You – Putting the Morr back in Morrissey
2:58:00 Hermann & Kleine – Sitting Next To You – Kickboard Girl EP
3:08:00 Bill Vanloo – Tones (For Sarah)
3:13:00 M. Caney/K.Joory – Darling
3:19:00 mum (b.fleischmann remix) – Please Sing My Spring Reverb
3:25:00 B.Fleischmann – Where Have You Been – Sidonie EP
3:32:00 Solvent – Tonka Truck – Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey
3:37:00 Solvent – Some Assembly Required – Solvent City
3:42:00 Faust – It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl – Deutsche Elektronik Musik
3:50:00 David Bowie (DFA Remix) – Love Is Lost – Hello Steve Reich Mix
3:54:00 Superpitcher – Jackson – Pop Ambient 2012
3:57:00 Elpoep – The Wind Blows – Autumn
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Presented by Jesse Yuen an excursion in two parts.
Listen Here (Select 3 April 2016)
Listen to Mixcloud HQ Here – just the music
Part One
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermanage – Invention for radio No 1: Dreams (Land)
Don cherry & Latif Khan – Airmail
DJ Food – Consiousness
Matthew Davids Mindflight – Unfolding Atlantis
Trevor Jackson – 300 Words
Global Communication – Maiden Voyage (Brooke Mix)
Tim “Love” Lee – Go Down Dixie
Steniski – Invasion (By dj Spooky) (Bi Focal remix)
Rameses – Only the Lonliest Feeling
The Hive – Be: Two
Part 2
Hintermass – The Rituals of Reversal
Date Palms – Dusted Down
Date Palms – Exodus Due West
Kitty White – Hush, My Little One
Bonnie Dobson – Winters Going
Susan Christie – Yesterday, Where’s my mind?
Olding Munny vs James, Mitch and Noel – Some Dreams You Never Forget (an experience in three acts)
Walter Schumann – Dream Little One Dream
Under Dubwood – The Dubwood Allstars
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: dub, electronica, folk, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show
Graeme Watson presents a sprawling edition which he describes in his won words as follows:
This edition of Golden Apples of the Sun begins with a focus on the space where folk meets dub. Kicking things off with two tracks from Greg Gives Peter Space, a collaboration between Berlin based Peter Broderick and Greg Haines. Their 2014 self titled EP can be found on Olafur Arnalds labeld Erased Tape Records.
The theme tune got a slight remix this week, the reading of the opening poem ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus‘ was by the late SIr Cyril Cusack, while the backing music came from Draognica with their tune ‘Indian Chant’ that samples Listen with Sarah’s ‘Blue Parsley’.
Paul Weller offered a dub-pstch rock tune with ‘‘Pick It Up’, the original version can be found on his 2015 record ‘Saturn’s Pattern’. The backing vocals on this track were from British band Syd Arthur, who’ve been featured on previous episodes of this show.
Creation Rebel’s ‘Creation Vibes’ was lifted from their 1980 album ‘Starship Africa’. The record is one of the earliest production works from Adrian Sherwood. Later on in the show a second Sherwood prudction was featured. Ian King’s ‘By George’ which melted together traditional Enlish folk with a dub influence.
Kepping a light reggae vibe, Scritti Pollitti’s ‘Sweetest Girl’ provided some simple beauty, and got the phone ringing as more than one person callled to proclaim “you just don’t hear this band on the radio anymore.”
The beats began with Villagers ‘The Waves’ a song that got payed twice during the show. The first version was a electronic groovefest, while the newer version that closed the show is an epic accoustic jam. Villager’s latest album ‘Where have you been all my life?’ sees them rework songs from their first three albums into new forms.
Canadian band Klaatu are probably best known for their song ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft’ which was a hit for the Carpenters. ‘Little Neutrino’ is from the same album ‘3:47 EST’ that came out in 1976. Over the top we played ‘To Sir With Love’ from Ngaire, which has a certain dream like quality.
The dub sounds continued with a murky version of a Nick Drake song, ‘I was made to love you’ – a remix of his track ‘I Was Made to Love Magic’. This tune was unreleased during Drake’s lifetime. It was originally recorded for the album ‘Five Leaves Left’ but did not make the final cut. It’s featured on the 2004 compilation of the same name which bundled up a stack of unreleased material from the singer.
Two local bands were given a spin, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have just released their debut album ‘High Visceral Part 1′, ‘Found God in a Tomato’ was the track we featured. Next up was the latest single from Usurper of Modern Medicine, ‘Mercury in Motionless Space’.
‘Spring Breaks for the Soul’ is the closing track from Bill Baird‘s new album ‘Earth to Aether Part 1’. Although it was also included on his 2013 record. The former Sound Team member, he also used to perform under the moniker {{{Sunset}}}.
Max Richter is so icnredibly prolfic, it seems he has a new album or soundtrack every month. This month his score for the second season of the TV show The Leftovers is out. We played two version of the track The Depature.
The Winter Hymn is a new song from Pantha du Prince, featuring Queens. this is the first rack from his new record ‘The Triad’, his first album in six years. The album is expected on May 20th.
A brief interlude into classical sounds was provided by Mark Haimowitz and Christoper O’Reily with their version of the Cocteau Twins ‘Heaven or Las Vegas’. The tracks from their new record ‘Shuffle, Play, Repeat’ which also indludes an nice version of ‘Pyramid Song’ by Radiohead.
The vocals of Steve Mason, former frontman of The Beta Band, are instantly recognisable. His new album ‘Meet the Humans’ has had critic’s throwing praise and proclamining it sure to be one of the best albums of 2016. We gave album track ‘Hardly Go Through’ a spin.
‘Butterfly King’ is from the soundtrack to the film ‘Warriors’. Its performed by Ali Gavan and Barney King and features Milo McKinnon. ‘Warriors’ is a powerful and moving documentary about a young Maasai warrior tribe who form a cricket team in order to help spread awareness of equal rights and education for women and to bring an end to FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and a change in attitude to HIV and AIDs. The track is given an extra layer of psychedelic magic thanks to Amorphous Androgynous.
You might be familiar with the track ‘Sunshine on a Rainy Day’, Engliash artist Zoe had a big hit in the UK with the song back in 1991. It’s also been performed by Christine Anu and supermodel Naomi Campbell (yes, she once put out an album). Zoe Pollock recorded the track from a second time in 2008, this time with her folk band Mama.
The Woodleigh Research Project, Andrew Weatherall and Youth have teamed up for the track ‘Trqiya’, Weatherall also has a new solo album out too which is worth a lsiten.
Prins Thomas’s new record is called ‘Principe Del Norte’, it’s a mermerising collection of space disco. The tunes are simply labled A1, A2, B, C, D, E, F, G – we had a listen to D.
Listen Here – select 27 March 2016
PLAYLIST
Dragonica – Indian Chant
Greg Gives Peter Space – The Drive – Greg Gives Peter Space
Greg Gives Peter Space – A Clear View – Greg Gives Peter Space
Paul Weller – Pick It Up (dub)
Creation Rebel – Rebel Vibration – Starship Afr4ica
Scritti Politti – The Sweetest Girl
Villagers – The Waves (Psychemagik Remix)
Klaatu – Little Neutrino – Hope
Ngaire – To Sir With Love (acapella)
Nick Drake – I was made to love you (dub)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Found God in a Tomato – High Visceral Pt1 Y
Usurper of Modern Medicine – Mercury in Motionless Space Y
Bill Baird – Spring Break for the Soul – Earth Into Aether Pt1
Max Richter – The Departure (Diary) – The Leftovers Season 2 SOundtrack
Pantha du Prince feat Queens – The Winter Hymn
Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O’Reily – Heaven or Las Vegas
Ian King – By George – Panic Grass & Fever Few
Steve Mason – Hardly Go Through – Meet the Humans
Ali Gavan & Barney King feat Milo McKinnon – Butterfly King (Amorphous Androgynous Remix) – Warriors Soundtrack
Mama – Sunshine on a Rainy Day – Crow Cyoye Buffallo
Max Richter – The Departure (Phone Call)
The Woodleigh Research Project & Andrew Weatherall feat Youth – Trqiya – The Phoenix Suburb and Other Stories
Prins Thomas – D – Principe Del Norte
Villagers – Waves – Where have you been all my life?
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