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Diger Rokwell takes you on a hike of the sonic imagination through the forest with an aural collage exploration of sounds, words and music. Pack the scroggin, the day pack and we are off the forest to see what we can see and be. Its the Forest Edition of Golden Apples of the Sun with Diger Rokwell.
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PLAYLIST
A Walk in the Woods – Wild Edens
Peter Lassiter – Biotic
Deerhunter – Tape Hiss Orchard
Not Drowning Waving – In the Undergrowth
David Bridie – Canopy
Trees Speak – Crystal System
The Cure – The Forest
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods
Paul White – Mushroom Forest
Atomic Forest – Booboo Lullaby
Kikagaku Moyo – White Moon
Tatsuya Shimazaki – Leaf Litter
The Orb – Star 6 & 7 & 9
David Attenborough – Nose Flute Trio
Francis Bebey – Forest Nativity
Mzee – Umoja (feat. Kampi Moto) (Mushroom Boys remix)
Zomby – The Forest
The Future of Sound of London – Photosynthesis
Deep Forest – Sweet Lullaby
Claudio – Forest Floor
Higher Sense – People of the Universe
Joshua Evans – Breathe
Moss – Orchard
Sarah Louise – Bowman’s Root
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: golden apples of the sun, Lufthanzer Girl, musical archaeology, Patrick D Martin, Psycho Vision, Video Art
I was intrigued by this accidental video discovery – its music, visuals, 80s vibe – and its strangeness. I thought it would be easy to find out about it – it was not. So I dug a bit deeper and explored the musical archaeology of the track “Lufthansa Girl” and its creator Patrick D Martin. There is a slightly better sounding recording of this song in the post below.
Claude
The ‘popular’ story of Patrick D Martin is around his minor fame and the song ‘I Like ‘Lectric Motors’ from 1979. The song is equally loved and despised by all who have heard it – its only ever one or the other. Around the same time in 1980 he released the slightly more interesting ‘Luci Lectric’.
‘Luci Lectric’ is a good song. It feels a bit ‘Disco Not Disco’ and I could imagine it in a an early 80s new wave dance set played in New York back to back with ‘White Horse’ by Laid Back. I read a post on the video that said it was always played at Rotters in Liverpool. Thats a pretty big venue and was originally the famous ‘Top Rank’ Night Club within a history of music venues located within the Brutalist St John’s Precinct
But there are other much more interesting parts to the story.
Psycho Vision
Psycho Vision is 3D experimental electronic music written by Patrick D. Martin and Phil Nicholas, originally for Robodevco’s multi-screen Roboshow and subsequently toured as a 3 screen version in a customised van. The audience would sit in the back in complete darkness, put some headphones on and watch the visual music show while listening to Patrick and Phil’s music with 3D ‘holophonic’ effects.
Experiencing Psycho Vision
Its 1983 and you are in search of a complete psychosensory experience…
When it arrived the Psycho Vision tape aroused instant curiosity among the Music Technology staff. The cover was dominated by a hologram of a human eye. The accompanying press release claimed that the sound had been recorded in three dimensions. It continued: “Help your brain through the door, that’s what technology’s for”. It went on to refer to the Psycho Mobile as the dawn of “21st Century Entertainment”, and offered us the chance to experience a multi-screen audio-visual 3D sound experience, housed in the back of a custom-stretched American Dodge transit van. As concepts go, this one sounded particularly dubious.
Despite reservations on my behalf, other areas of the press already seemed to have been convinced: Record Mirror saw fit to comment that the show was “mind-blowing – in every sense of the term”. The Financial Times added that it was “the best thing I’ve seen in the last ten years”, while the Daily Mirror observed that “the revolution starts here… Shock the music industry and change the world of video”. With considerable trepidation, I set out one fine afternoon to experience Psycho Vision for myself. In a car-lined West-London street, a Ford Transit arrives and parks. It has been fitted out with a new concept in audio and video equipment and you stand next to ‘Psycho Mobile’ – an experience in 3D sound and vision. Once a few things are setup including connecting the van to the domestic mains supply, the show begins…
Outside, four video screens add to the hype. An eye and a mouth indicate to passers by that this is no ordinary Transit. A voice booms out of the loudspeakers in mystic tones, foretelling the experiences to be found within. It talks of not being alarmed, of sensations of pleasure never previously felt. With photographer “E” behind me I go through the side entrance, half of me in genuine expectation, the rest wishing I worked for Smash Hits. We sit in the front row, in plush armchairs above a marble floor. A mouth speaks to us from a small monochrome video screen below three larger colour ones. We’re told to put on our headphones, to check that we have them the right way round, and then the door closes and we’re alone.
“Do not be alarmed by any of the sensations you may feel during the course of the program. They are all entirely natural.” Then the lights go down…
“Emerging into the outside world a full 15 minutes later, I half expect to find everybody laughing. As the saying goes, it’s good, but not that good. Three video screens flashed images of cities, roller skating and computer graphics in time with what was a very powerful soundtrack. At regular intervals the same eye that graced the cassette box spread out across all three screens in perfect sync with a fast, hard brass riff. The show is definitely worth seeing, and undeniably different from the average pop video, but after the long, intense build-up, I am left wanting more”.
From Psycho Killer – Psycho Vision article by David Bradwell from Music Technology magazine December 1988 (full article here).
You can experience the Psycho Vision cassette via Side 1 and Side 2 links below or together via the 3D mixtape here.
Vidzine
During the mid-80s a group of multi-skilled people came together led by a charismatic maverick Patrick Martin and his collaborator Doobie (Dov) Eylath. They formed QNet to develop the ‘Roboshow’, a video playback system using spatial sound and multi-screen vision to fully immerse the audience. A substantial archive exists, including material uploaded to YouTube, that charts the evolution of the Roboshow technology and its use in the production of pioneering video content as art.
The video side of the story starts in 1982 with the Pilot edition of VHS magazine ‘Vidzine’ produced by Patrick Martin and Doobie Eylath exploring the now fashion conscious cross-over between music video and video art. It included experimental film and video, music promos as well as covering the club scene and street fashion with interviews and live performances.
‘Models’ was an early attempt to combine these different strands in a music video that was created as either video art or a pop promo. It included photography by Kate Garner (Haysi Fantayzee) and featured hats by the famous London milliner Steven Jones.
“TV Fetish“
Much of the work of 1982 culminated with the one and only showing of ‘TV Fetish’ on Riverside, a weekly magazine program shown on BBC 2 in 1982 and 1983 with a focus on “music, art, fashion and style”. The show took its name from the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London from where it was broadcast.
“TV Fetish” aired and occupied the full show on Valentines Day 14February 1983. TV Fetish features music by and abstract imagery.
You can see details of some of the impressive guests who appeared during the short-lived 2 seasons of Riverside during 1982 and 1983 here just a few were New Order, Bow Wow Wow, Fad Gadget, Bauhaus, Birthday Party, The Israelites, Rip Rig and Panic, Brian Eno, Philip Glass and items like The Synthesizer People and Performance Special, The Clothes special, Dance Britannica Theatre
“Lufthansa Girl”
The Patrick D Martin track “Lufthansa Girl” appears at the end of Fetish TV and includes the credits for the show. From my online investigation I think it has never been released.
David Bradwell in his Music Technology magazine article from December 1988 talks more to Patrick D Martin about the Transit Vane experience of Psycho Vision (full article here)
The Psycho Mobile Transit Van cost over $500,000 UK pounds to take from idea to reality.
As a child, his parents encouraged his musical development. He has played the guitar and piano since the age of five, and as the son of a hi-fi and video importer, soon got a keen urge to experiment with hi-tech equipment. As he grew up, he worked in the German fashion business before coming back to the UK in 1980 to start Vidzine.
“The objective is to make what we call ‘artware’ (which is music and visuals which are resident in the digital domain) and which can be interpreted through what we call the ‘cloneware’ which is the artist decision-making process, like a director who edits a film or a conductor who interprets a symphony. The clone-ware is either the conductor or the final edit on the film but because we are interactive this can change. The decision-making software that the cloneware has can go up one of several paths, which means that it can learn about the audience’s reaction in the same way that an artist can. Then there’s a cloneware update every three months.”
Martin sees his greatest achievement so far as mastering a cassette on which eight out of ten people agree they have heard something that they have never heard before. What they are hearing is three dimensional sound, a technical achievement which doesn’t need hype to prove its worth. Meanwhile, the Psycho Mobile will be going on a nationwide tour, probably of record shops, and could well appear in a town near you. If it does, a visit is definitely recommended, although you should be wary of being taken in by the atmosphere of dangerous mystique that surrounds it.
~Fairy & Fairytale~
Golden Apples of the Sun, curated by Emma Daisy
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PLAYLIST
2:00:00 donovan – the song of wandering aengus
2:04:00 nika mo – the juniper tree
2:07:00 tony o’connor – memories
2:08:00 phillip bourke marston – garden fairies poem
2:14:00 maxine funke – fairy baby
2:17:00 james mcgongile – rivendell cello cover
2:20:00 kate bush – waking the witch introduction
2:21:00 beverly glenn-copeland – ever new
2:28:00 fairy? – the wings of a fairy
2:32:00 arthur conan doyle – coming of the fairies
2:36:00 grimms – golden goose
2:38:00 grimms – rumplestiltskin
2:43:00 rabbit island – once there was a giant
2:45:00 nika mo – the lion and the frog
2:49:00 nailah hunter – forest dark
2:54:00 aldous harding – she’ll be coming round the mountain
2:58:00 fablelore – the dungeons of dramauer
3:02:00 mary hopkin – lord of the reedy river
3:04:00 susumu Yokota – fairy dance of twinkle and shadow
3:08:00 target archery – crayola round
3:09:00 peter pan – do you believe in fairies
3:10:00 mbrr – fairy tree
3:18:00 shakespeare – a midsummer night’s dream
3:20:00 bjork – the gate
3:23:00 joanna newsom – goose eggs
3:37:00 marijanh – in heaven’s way
3:42:00 bridget st john – lizard long tongue boy
3:45:00 Kemialliset Ystavat – Äimän tähkä
3:50:00 jen cloher – fairytale in the supermarket
3:52:00 nika mo – fitcher’s bird
3:57:00 mary Lattimore – wawa by the ocean
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Selections by Claude Mono
/ LTM Recordings (Les Tempes Moderne) / Les Disques Du Crepuscule / Factory Benelux / inspired by the vast and sophisticated LTM Recordings catalogue / also adjacent sounds (Kranky, Compact Organization, thecampus, Rough Trade, Hacienda Records etc) / also inspired by the radio shows (Mixcloud) of Sasha Vernaeve (mum is Annik Honore) and Giulio Erasmus (dad is Alan Erasmus) /
LTM Recordings
The LTM Recordings label (originally les temps modernes) was founded in 1983 and is based in Norfolk, England, and curated by its founder James Nice. The label is most well-known for reissues originally released by Factory Records, Les Disques du Crépuscule, Compact Organisation and Sarah Records. LTM has also released audiobooks with archive recordings by major figures in 20th Century avant-garde art, including Futurism & Dada Reviewed, Voices of Dada, Surrealism Reviewed, Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises, Bauhaus Reviewed and Cocteau Satie and Les Six.
Visit LTM Recordings here
Les Disques du Crépuscule
The Les Disques du Crépuscule label was founded in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré who had previously organised and promoted concerts in Brussels at the Plan K venue. The name Les Disques du Crépuscule was coined by Honoré. Their first visible work as Crépuscule was the fanzine Plein Soleil, issued in June 1980. Around this time the company also issued recordings by Factory Records-affiliated artists as Factory Benelux.
Les Disques du Crépuscule Label History here
Factory Benelux
Factory Benelux was founded by journalists Michel Duval & Annik Honoré (founders of Les Disques du Crépuscule in Brussels). The official story goes, that Factory Benelux was the result of an arrangement between Factory and Les Disques du Crepuscule, whereby the latter arranged the (recording and) manufacturing of records considered suitable for release on the Factory label, providing Factory with more capacity, so they could work with a wider variety of bands, both from Britain and the Continent. But Factory Benelux was mostly regarded as a graveyard, where the records that had failed to receive unanimous approval at the Manchester headquarters were laid to rest.
Factory Benelux Label History here
The Compact Organization
The Compact Organization label was founded in 1981 by Tot Taylor and originally operated from a staircase between two flats in Queen’s Wood, north London, but managed to issue sixty releases (1981-86). All of them with great artwork part of an overall 60s pop aesthetic which was completely out of sync with everything else at that time.
The Compact Organization Label History here
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Listen to the HQ Mixcloud Mixtape here here – just the music BONUS TRACKS
PLAYLIST
Intro feat Arusha The Song of Wandering Aengus
Virginia Astley – It’s too hot to sleep (excerpt) – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983)
Ultramarine – Honey (Peel Session 1992) – Every Man And Woman Is A Star (1991)
Virginia Astley – When the fields were on fire(excerpt) – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983)
Blaine L Reininger – Prelude – The Hamburg Sessions (2012)
Blaine L Reininger – Dark Alley – The Hamburg Sessions (2012)
Ultramarine (feat Anna Domino) – Signals Into Space (2019)
Anna Domino – Caught (Live In Japan 1987) – East And West + Live In Japan (1987)
Virna Lindt – Episode 1 – Shiver (1984)
Virna Lindt – Underwater Boy – Shiver (1984)
The Sound Barrier – Tearjerker Waltz – The Suburban Suite (1985)
Cathy Claret – Instrumental – Cathy Claret (1985)
Cathy Claret – She’s The Rain – Cathy Claret (1985)
Richard Hartley feat Miranda Richardson – I Still Believe – Dance With a Stranger (1985)
Richard Hartley – Fog Theme – Dance With A Stranger (1985)
Bowery Electric – Beat – Beat (1996)
Section 25 – The Process – From the Hip (1984)
Anna Domino – 88 – Colouring In The Edge and The Outline (1988)
Anna Domino – Bonds of Love – Mysteries of America (1990)
The Durutti Column – Self Portrait – A Factory Quartet (1980)
Ike Yard – Night After Night (1981)
Les Panties – Velvet – Cold Science (2016)
New Order – Procession (Cargo Demo) – Movement (Definitive Edition) (2019)
Virna Lindt – Once (Long version) (2021)
Virna Lindt – Once (Gwenno’s Ritual Mix) (2021)
Alan Rankin – Love In Adversity – The World Begins To Look Her Age (1986)
Outernationale – Atmosphere (Instrumental Mix) (2011)
BONUS TRACKS
Antena – Frantz [Nouvelle Vague Mix] – Versions Speciales (1982)
Bowery Electric – Postscript – Beat (1996)
MORE
Les Disques Du Crépuscule – Sasha Vernaeve and Giulio Erasmus radio shows – on Mixcloud
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Its a 100% beautiful music guarantee as Robin Thomas returns as special guest curator – with Claude just hanging around making random requests
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Show restream here
PLAYLIST
Tamagawa – Tokyo – Live in Japan
Mei Saraswati – Water Travels (Lathe Cut Edition) – more here
Diger Rokwell – Seeds – Seeds
Arsi Kindt – Now Grey – Floods
Klaus Shultze – Voices Of Syn – Blackdance
Klaus Shultz – Ways Of Changes – Blackdance
Felicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – And All The Spirals Of The World – Un hiver en plein ete
Northern Picture Library – Into The Ether – Alaska
The Invisible Girls (Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins) – Space Music – The Invisible Girls
Broadcast – Innocence In Orbit – Mother is the Milky Way
Broadcast – Mother’s Milk Means Music (At Home In the Universe) – Mother is the Milky Way
Broadcast – Where Youth and Laughter Go – Maida Vale Sessions
Broadcast – Untitled (City In Progress) – Maida Vale Sessions
Seefeel – As Link – Warp20 Boxset
Mac-Talla Nan Creag – Grugaigian Chant – Mac-Talla Nan Creag
Boards of Canada – Seven Forty Seven – Warp20 Boxset
Bibio – Kaini Industries (BOC Cover) – Warp20 Boxset
Leaving – Detached Lines – Greenhouse Vol 1
Aris Kindt – Embers – Floods
Basic Mind – Sicilian Slide – Greenhouse Vol 1
Wim Mertens – Close Cover (The Villa Adriana)
Vox – Bearer Of The Cups / Ajuha – From Spain to Spain
This Mortal Coil – The Song Of The Siren
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electronica, folk, golden apples of the sun, Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show, jemima dove, psych folk, rtrfm, Whadjuk Booja
Peace and Love with Jemima Dove.
A path between liminal spaces- a show bookended by songs of joy, love, nostalgia and tangental journey. Inspired by a find of the treasure of Welsh literature the Mabinogion. As we sit here on Whadjuk Booja between the seasons of Mabon for the pagan folk and Bunuru- the second summer in the Noongar seasonal calendar.
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PLAYLIST
2:04 Margo Guryan – Love
2:11 Astral Brain – Treasures
2:15 Le Futur Pompiste – Trophy
2:19 Moral – Trees in November
2:25 Kira Kira – Blessart
2:33 Laraaji – Cosmic Joe
2:37 Clannad – Herne
2:40 Leah – Rhydcyffiniau
2:43 Sharron Kraus – Blodeauwedd
2:48 Gwenno – An Stevel Mowydh
2:53 Bruno Pernadas – Poem 1
2:55 Chayell – Beach
3:01:00 Altered Images – Love to Stay ( Dance Mix)
3:08:00 Boppe Bengt-Olof Perhamn – Om du Ber
3:15:00 Alula Down – Empress of April
3:20:00 Ghalia Benali, Jurgen De Bruyn, Vocalconsort Berlin, Zefiro Toma – Favus distillans
3:36:00 Svitiana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko – Untitled 1
3:33:00 Merope – Sakale
3:36:00 Daniel Hart – Aignaz O Kulzphazur (feat. Emma Tring)
3:39:00 Pefkin – The Crow
3:49:00 Algebra Suicide – Tractor Pull
3:51:00 IndoChine – Okinawa
3:56:00 Jane Weaver – Oblique Fantasy
The Golden Apples of the Sun 