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Somewhere between the stars and the gutter, and somewhere between the height of inflated expectations and the trough of disillusionment are to be found the wonderful often passed-over musical genres that deserve to be explored further. The Golden Apples of the Sun Explorations Series No 1 – Hauntology.
Claude says…
“…By way of a brief introduction let me just say I think Hauntology is a rich and rewarding musical and visual aesthetic but one that can be done really badly – you know a bus-ride of nostalgia and electronics – full of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, British public information films of the 1970s, eerie soundtracks, concretism, and brutalist architectural imagery – well there certainly is some of that but hopefully a little bit more such as some crucial reference points and an incredible live track from Broadcast, some drum and bass, and 80s band Japan? …so lets begin…”
RTRFM Show Re-stream – with Claude’s verbal sleeve notes full of Hauntology anecdotes to take to the pub
Mixcloud HQ – Heavenly with just the music
PLAYLIST
The Focus Group – Sinistralle (Logotone) – We Are All Pan’s People
The United States Of America – Cloud Song – The United States of America
White Noise – Your Hidden Dreams – Electric Storm
Joe Meek and the Blue Men – I Hear A New World – I Hear A New World
Ruth White – The Clock – Flowers of Evil
Boards Of Canada – 5.9.78 – A Few Old Tunes
Theme – Children of the Stones
Substations Danger – Public Information Films
The Advisory Circle – Erosion of Time – Other Channels
The Changes – Opening Titles
The Advisory Circle – Frozen Ponds – Other Channels
Pram – The Owl Service
The Spirit of Dark And Lonely Water – Public Information Film 1973
Mort Garson – I’ve Been Over The Rainbow – The Wozard of Iz An Electronic Odyssey
Broadcast – You Can Fall – The Noise Made By People
Mort Garson – Big Sur – The Wozard of Iz An Electronic Odyssey
Broadcast – Where Youth and Laughter Go – Future Crayon
The Focus Group – Clockbell – Hey Let Loose Your Love
Belbury Poly – The Moonlawn and Scarlet Ceremony – The Owls Map
The Focus Group – Hey Let Loose Your Love and Baroque Face – Hey Let Loose Your Love
Death and Vanilla – From Elsewhere – Death and Vanilla
Death and Vanilla – Ghosts in the Machine – Death and Vanilla EP
Broadcast- Hammer Without A Master – Black Session Bootleg
Broadcast- Hammer Without A Master (Underdog Remix) – Warp Remixes
Monade – Ode to a Keyring
Japan – Ghosts Klause Devore cover version
Rufige Kru – Ghosts Of My Life
Broadcast – Drums On Fire – Extended Play Two
Sunset – The Wickerman Soundtrack
Hintermass – Electric Element – The Apple Tree
Hintermass – Luftglider – The Apple Tree
Roj – You Are Here
Hong Kong In The 60s – Exploring The Landscape – Places
Broadcast – Winter Now – Ha Ha Sound
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: broadcast. hauntology, electronica, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, psych folk, rtrfm, vintage electronica
Graeme Watson presents Episode 276
Listen Here (Select 26 June 2016)
PLAYLIST
Public Service Broadcasting – Sputnik (Blond:Ish Remix)
Public Service Broadcasting – E.V.A. (Dutch Uncles)
Banco de Gaia – China (Clouds not Mountains)
Chris Cohen – Yesterdays on my mind
SFT – Hole Entry
Vetiver featuring Vashti Bunyan – Sleep a Million Years
Anthony Phillips – Title Inspiration
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens – Alvin Smith is a Hawk I see
Funki Porcini – Last Night Over Norway
Usurper of Modern Medicine – Auto-CAD Disaster (Apricot Rail Remix)
Boards of Canada – Dandelion
Max and Harvey – If I don’t make it home
Beck – Phase
Time and Space Machine – Flow River Flow
Coldcut – Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force Mix)
Mutual Benefit – Love’s Crushing Diamond
Robert Creely – The Long Road
Mojave 3 – Blue Bird of Happiness (Manitoba Remix)
Beck – Cycle
Eartha Kitt – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Sunforest – Magic in the Mountain
Buffalo Daughter – Airport Rock
Neon Indian – Should have taken acid with you (Body Language Remix)
Dead meadow – Babbling Flower
Sunbeam Sound Machine – Autumnal
A Mountain of One – Here Goes Nothing
Real Estate – Here Comes Sunshine
Bryce Dessner – Garcia Counterpoint
Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve – Third Mynd
Beyond thee Wizard’s Sleeve – Tomorrow, Forever
On the eeriness of the English countryside…
“Such concerns are not new, but there is a distinctive intensity and variety to their contemporary address. This eerie counter-culture – this occulture – is drawing in experimental film-makers, folk singers, folklorists, academics, avant-garde antiquaries, landscape historians, utopians, collectives, mainstreamers and Arch-Droods alike, in a magnificent mash-up of hauntology, geological sentience and political activism. The hedgerows, fields, ruins, hills and saltings of England have been set seething….”
Excellent in-depth and immersive article with pictures in the Guardian
“It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift…”
“‘I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so.’
—Gregory Crewdson
The Golden Apples loves these beautiful intricately setup photos that each have a mysterious other-worldly painting like quality.Analysis’s excerpts thanks to JJACPhotography Blog – thanks.
Cathedral of the Pines (2013–14) was made during three productions in and around the rural town of Becket, Massachusetts. In images that recall nineteenth-century American and European paintings, Crewdson photographed figures in the surrounding forests, including the actual trail from which the series takes its title. Interior scenes charged with ambiguous narratives probe tensions between art, life, connection and separation, intimacy and isolation. – Gagosian Gallery
In Untitled, Summer 2006 below, when viewing the photo, the eye is drawn to the boy standing in the misty light. The surrounding bush and dark tree trunks which naturally frame the photo, draw the viewer’s gaze upwards to the bridge and light source, which also appears to be the boy’s focus.
In Untitled (Brief Encounter) a photo scene from Brief Encounters which is the title of his movie that has been ‘filmed over a decade’ an oblique line is located along the side of the street and the top of the building, which implies movement and direction. Another line in the foreground curves round a building and continues down the footpath, eventually merging with another line from the building’s roofline. The car’s tracks in the snow are curved lead in lines, which draws the viewer’s vision towards the receding car. All lead in lines appear to eventually join at a focal point below the movie theatre sign. The way I see this image, Crewdson’s intended point of focus is not actually the car but the wording written in the sign – Brief Encounter.
Insight to Crewdsons painstaking preparation can be seen in how the photo also incorporates the use of texture. Crewdson worked in cooperation with the town which resulted in the main street being closed to allow snow to accumulate. This has created a natural texture of fallen snow, and allowing the car tracks to remain, creating a brief encounter.
Can you really believe that these images are elaborately staged photos without digital enhancements?
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