Rory Salter - On the floor, by the door (Index Clean) CD Available ​*Sold Out*

'​The two main ideas behind the music are to make use of domestic and work situations. Most of it was recorded in a new flat I moved into last year. The place had a really interesting acoustic and after so many years of making music in whatever flat I was living in I wanted to do something where you could really hear the qualities of the place where it was recorded and the surrounding area. So, many of the recordings are done in different locations in the flat, and often re-played back into the flat, using different playback and capture technologies. A lot of material was recorded whilst performing usual domestic activities and I would spend quite a lot of time running between rooms doing other tasks whilst recording. I named the track 'On the Floor, by the Door' because that's where I recorded it, on the floor, by the front door. In a similar way I've used my workplace in the pieces. I work as a sound technician at a university in the day, and as a sound engineer in the evenings a couple times a week. I've been thinking (and talking a lot of shit) about work and art making recently and I’m really into stuff where the persons found some way to include their day job in their art, in a way to re-purposes the skills, materials, time etc of work. So anyway I did a lot of this, really thinking about practices I've developed on the job and making the effort to borrow some really otherwise unattainable equipment. I thought a lot about space and acoustic-ness during the process so, again, a good deal of it is about me wanting sound to exist within a physical recorded space. Friends also feature quite a bit candidly, and crop up in recordings here and there. I guess there's a desire to get to a point of a 'life' music, where it feels a bit everyday and blurs the line, that's when things are most interesting to me.' - Rory Salter

released January 24, 2024

Cello appearances on tracks 1 & 2 by Ecka Mordecai
Photos by R. Salter
Illustrations by R.Salter and Ben Victor Waggett
Mastered by Joe Talia'

Rory Salter - In Places (Research Laboratories) Cassette Available ​*Sold Out*

@research_laboratories have just released this new cassette ‘In Places’, four very different ‘performances’ from 2023 in varying locations - Strange Parade in Nunhead, the Cafe OTO project space, Laig Bay on the Isle of Eigg and at home, on the sofa. It felt important to put these things together as one document, as different as they are, I think they’re in many ways similar. thanks to Thomas for making the edition.

All the ‘performances’ were improvised, whether they are solo or not feels debatable

In the 1st recording I used guitar, piezo buzzers, feedback, cassette players, microphone preamp and computer voice reading a poem written by Charlotte Mew titled ‘In Nunhead Cemetery’. It was recorded by @swirly5000 on the phone

The 2nd recording is from the Cafe OTO Project Space, a show organised by @mondai_jxn_xoxo . Piezo Buzzers and feedback were used for this

The 3rd is a recording from Laig Bay on the Isle of Eigg. microphones were places inside a large washed up metal pipe on a sand dune home to a hive of Miner Bees. I played a duck caller

The last recording is a guitar and feedback, played at home, on the sofa

You can get it direct from @research_laboratories otherwise I will have some for sale at my next show on the 23rd of June supporting Toshimaru Nakamura & Kjell Bjørgeengen at @cafeotodalston

Malvern Brume - Pacing The Hollow Path (TEETH) LP Available

TEETH001 comes from Malvern Brume, who has already notched up releases on cult labels like Low Company, Alter, Infant Tree and Kashual Plastik. Brume’s practice is something akin to audio collage, a layering of sounds each with a strong sense of time and place but nevertheless otherworldly and disorientating. The title, Pacing The Hollow Path, was initially the name of a collaborative piece between Brume and Wes Knowler which ended up on the cutting room floor. However the discarded text from the collaboration, which focussed on the act of walking - Brume’s principle obsession, came to inspire this record. Pacing The Hollow Path is inspired by a daily walking practice that saw the artist return to similar places again and again, such as Sydenham Woods, Catford and Nunhead Cemetary. During those walks he visualised the scores and text which would become the six tracks on the album. The result is, in the artist’s words “both an emotional response and I guess an explanatory process to recounting these walks.” Sonically, rough textural notes combine with insectoid drones and distant crackle against the occasional entry of more familiar, albeit ruptured, instruments like the piano.

Tracks - Rory Salter
Mastering - Loop-O
Artwork - Sasha Posox
Distribution - Kindred

 Derek Baron, Ecka Mordecai, Rory Salter - Not Quite a Trio (Zoomin' Night) Cassette Available ​*Sold Out*

following texts were written by these three musicians about the impression of the concerts happened in the cassette. - https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/not-quite-a-trio​

Sholto Dobie & Malvern Brume - the after swell (Infant Tree) CD Available ​*Sold Out*

Recorded in October 2021 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tracks cut from three roughly thirty minute improvised recordings, with some additional arrangement and processing

Sholto Dobie (Synthesiser & Hurdy Gurdy)
Malvern Brume (Digital Sampler)

Artwork by Vytenis Burokas

Starting at "33:36" 'Weak Matches 1' composed for and performed by The Search Engine Quartet at The Horse Hospital on 10/01/24

Russell Walker - Soothers (feat. Malvern Brume) (Are You Before) Cassette *Sold Out*​

Rory Salter - Free Music On The Clock (Chocolate Monk) CDr *Sold Out*

New CDr for Chocolate Monk. Recorded at work, on the clock. Collaged at home, in the bed

​Available from Chocolate Monk's website

Lone Capture Library - All Natures Most Mundane Materials (Infant Tree / A Colourful Storm) reissue LP *Available*

A Colourful Storm proudly presents remastered first-time vinyl and digital editions of Lone Capture Library’s modern-day DIY environmental masterpiece, All Natures Most Mundane Materials.
“Environmental”, you say? Well, this certainly wasn’t recorded for dinner party ambience nor was it commissioned by Harrods. But it does document a haphazard wander through the English countryside, feeling the air and the earth, detaching oneself from confinement while attempting to make sense of it all.

Its protagonist is Rory Salter, London's restless improvisor extraordinaire, who has contributed to dozens of solo and collaborative releases in an ecosystem centred around his Infant Tree private press, as well as recordings for Bison, Alter and MAL. Under his Malvern Brume alias, he is responsible for some of the most enchanting sides of contemporary concrète that has graced our ears, each record a dérive, revealing beauty and curiosity within London’s urban banality. And while we’d argue that Lone Capture Library applies this approach but seeks the peculiar within the pastoral, there, too, lies a certain hermetic recklessness, with its unique disruptive details and discarded sonic bric-a-brac permeating the air.

“I'd walked from Swindon to Avebury and back, which is about a 21-mile round trip. I'd been a muppet and did the whole thing down the A4361, which is not a road suitable for walking on - there was a lot of jumping into the hedges to avoid lorries. Turned out, there was a really nice walk across the fields I could have done instead. But maybe that sums it up quite well. Instinctive and very impulsive. The day following, I was at home and recorded it in single takes, improvised and straight to the tape. There was a good deal of significance for me in walking to the stones, passing the Hackpen Horse, being in the landscape and dealing with some brain rot after being stuck in a house, anxious and depressed. There was a sense of freedom and detachment. It was all about the materials of the earth and the body and fucking the brain off for a bit - just wanting to move between places. I dunno, it's all very cliché.” 

Ecka Mordecai & Malvern Brume 'Pigeon Tones for Eggflute' (Mappa) Double Cassette Available *Sold Out*

Malvern Brume - The Whorls (Kashual Plastik) Cassette *Sold Out*

Made in 2021/22 using synthesiser, piano, objects, whistles, homemade instruments, tape recorders, voice, computer & feedback
Released by Kashual Plastik
Cassette Artwork by Frans Æmbient

To buy cassette visit : www.infanttree.co.uk

Malvern Brume - Gaps in the persistent hiss (Infant Tree) MiniCD *Sold Out*

Originally made for and released by TakuRoku in 2020 
Made using synthesiser, tape recorders, whistles, balloons, amplified objects, bells, field recordings, hex bugs, feedback and voice. Individual parts recorded to
digital recorder and then processed and arranged on computer. 
Thanks to Café OTO, Ben and Lou
Front cover artwork by Ben Victor Waggett 

For distribution contact :  [email protected]

Malvern Brume - Body Traffic (MAL Recordings) LP *Sold Out*

New LP, made mostly towards the end of 2019 using synthesiser, digital sampler, cassette recorder, feedback, digital recorder, voice and amplified objects
Released by MAL Recordings
Artwork by Jon K

Micologies, Collaboration with Mark Peter Wright for Rewire Festival

Micologies Text by Mark Peter Wright

Malvern Brume - Tendrils (ALTER)  record available from bandcamp or alterstock.org *Sold Out*

'ALTER is proud to present ‘Tendrils’, the first LP release from London based artist & musician Malvern Brume. After gathering some hushed praise from the UK underground for a couple of excellent cassette releases and strong local live performances, ‘Tendrils’ is the first definitive document of the Malvern Brume sound world. His instrumentation and sound sources would be considered familiar staples in the world of “experimental” music, but Salter does an admirable job of making them his own. Comprised of 8 pieces, this is electronic music at its core but a kind that sounds as if it’s being played through fog. Like spores growing on a damp surface. Densely composed and thick with an almost asphyxiating atmosphere - even during the record’s more minimal moments - track titles like ‘Caught In The Exhaust Trails’ and ‘Sunk Into Plastics’ only heighten the tone further.

Salter was originally born in the countryside and since relocated to London, a place he finds “over stimulating in every sense”. Much of ‘Tendrils’ could be taken as a response to the city and a means of equating the two. Camberwell is listed as the location for composition, but field recordings are attributed to rural landmarks. The Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire / Warwickshire border and Seven Sisters Cliffs by the English Channel are two in case, but despite their picturesque origins Salter renders them into abstract clatter. As if dubbed from the private tape archive of an old eccentric. In addition, synthesised electronic tones hum and buzz, occasionally giving away to strange, slurring sequences that sound like lost transmissions from the radiophonic workshop. Despite the nod to this electronic music institution, it’s lacking the sincere level of esteem that can turn one into a heritage act. There is a strangeness and distant other worldliness to the music that feels unselfconscious and keeps Malvern Brume from being easy to define by contemporary terms.

Salter says the album is defined by movement and the environments that have inspired him over the years. In his own words, “each of these tracks is inspired by a journey or moving through a space, an audible A to B”. With that in mind, ‘Tendrils’ is perfect music for solitary inner-city marshland walks and urban bike rides to forgotten local suburbs. '

Artwork by Ellie Ai Wang https://www.ellieaiwang.com/
alterstock.org

Cliff​-​Edge: Improv For End​-​Times, 2019​-​2023 (Various Artists)

Malvern Brume - Gaps in the persistent hiss (TakuRoku)

'When the covid-19 pandemic started, in a mixture of distress and concern, it was hard to block out the imagination and its ability to dream up how far things could go. In what feels like a lost tape from a field trip in nuclear fallen-out land, Malvern Brume paints a world seemingly abated. Occasional muffled dictaphone note-taking punctuates caustic interruptions, cryptic utterances, the hollow chime of steel panelling, the movement of 'something' under the gravelly surface. When the journey comes to an end, a crescendo of static noise comes to fore and we hear the splash of water, it becomes apparent that wherever we are is fairly similar to where we are right now.
​
All sounds recorded in London between April and March 2020 during lockdown. Made using various instruments, devices, field recordings and objects including; a synthesiser, modified violin and penny whistle, balloons, tape recorders, bird whistles, bells, a sampler, gardening tools, E3 dawn chorus and other materials found around the house. Both poems were written in response to walks through Victoria park during lockdown.
All music recorded, mixed & mastered by Malvern Brume.
Cover design by Oliver Barrett.'

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/malvern-brume-gaps-in-the-persistent-hiss/

'Everything Was Supposed To Be So Easy' Various Artists comp for Left Alone *Sold Out*

'After how ever many years, and a pandemic, we’re pleased to share our first release - Everything Was Supposed to Be So Easy.
A compilation featuring some of our favourite new artists and music.
Want to thank all the artists for being patient and a big thanks to everyone that's contributed to the release!
Additional thanks to all the artists involved; Justine & Antonin, Conrad, George, Koyejo, Georgie, Max, Frans, Rory & Flo!
Artwork by Peter Sutherland
Design by All Purpose
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux

Distributed by All Night Flight (UK)'

Malvern Brume on Window A / Window B Project by Sagome and The Room

Infant Tree 'I Don't Want To Be Dug Up From The Wet Earth Anymore' CD Compilation

Malvern Brume - Exhaust Trails (Infant Tree) Artwork by Ellie Wang

Buy it here:
infanttree.bandcamp.com
lowcompany.co.uk

‘New decaying kosmische spools from the bedroom of local seer Brume... Marble-rattling, synth stabbing works-for-industry Exhaust Trails takes us on a more melodic slant than previous MB haunts. Maybe melodic isn’t the right word, but it’s as if the NYC ambient school (K. Leimer / Marc Barreca etc) took a field trip across the pond and got dusted down in all the car-fart and truck-belch of central London. For all the playful, pathfinder synthesis that takes the lead, there’s a sorta agoraphobic atmosphere that hangs thick in the air throughout the whole 30 minutes or so, with delay units commanding and contorting an array of bric-a-brac powered sound design in the background. A real development of an already singular sound. To have such quality music / art so humbly documented and disseminated is rare these days, and properly exciting. ’ - Low Company

Malvern Brume track on Low Company Thieving Dogs CD Compilation

Malvern Brume - C.C.S. Ear-well cassette on Septic Templ - Available from Low Company Records (Artwork by Victor Waggett)

https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/products/c-c-s-ear-well

Z’EV: THERE YOU GO. AN EVENING SUMMONING RHYTHMAJIK @ South London Gallery

An evening celebrating the life and work of composer/percussionist, visual artist, poet and theorist Z’EV, who passed away in December 2017 aged 66. Best known for his explorations of acoustic phenomenon, from the late 1970s Z’EV created abstract percussion soundscapes improvised out of found materials, initially working purely with acoustic sound and later with digital processing. His singular live performances were both physical spectacles and investigations of “spatial poetics”. Across nearly four decades he collaborated internationally with musicians, dancers, poets, performance artists and visual artists, amongst them Anne Bean, Bow Gamelan Ensemble, Glenn Branca, Christian Marclay, Charlemagne Palestine, Chris Watson, Richard Wilson and John Zorn. He wrote extensively on Kabbalah and rhythm, reformulating it to an Earth-based paradigm he called Rhythmajik, which he noted “is not about music but spells out the use of rhythm and sound and proportion for trance and healing.”
Join us for this special event with Z’EV’s friends and collaborators summoning Rhythmajik, with contributions from Anne Bean & Richard Wilson, Max Eastley, Ken Hyder, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and Nick Parkin, Rory Salter, Barbara Steveni, Richard Strange and Ellen Zweig.

Photo's taken by Victor Wagget. Pictured during performance, surrounded by Z'EV's instruments and with part of Anne Bean & Richard Wilsons work from their performance to the left. Photo's of the other performances will hopefully surface soon and hopefully an audio recording of the event.

Threshing Floor - Lindow Moss (Outsider Art)

OA048: Threshing Floor - Lindow Moss
London based duo Threshing Floor present two tracks, one studio and one live, of careful arranged folkish, atmospheric clatter. Making use of, to name just a few of the elements listed in the linear notes, field recordings, penny whistles, voices, bells, double bass strings and other unidentified objects to create something that perfectly walks the between composed and clumsy, at times sounding like the score to a non-existent British Folk Horror film.

https://outsiderart.bigcartel.com/product/threshing-floor-lindow-moss

Threshing Floor - Pinfin (Infant Tree)

BVW: Guitar, cello, objects & drum 
RS: Keyboard, cello, objects & field recordings 

Artwork by BVW & RS 

Recorded in Camberwell, 2018

Haise Pount performance at 93 Baker Street group show

Group show included works by:

Ellie Wang
Harley Kuyck-Cohen
Kara Chin
Tomasz Kowalski
Milan Tarascas

Haise Pount were invited to perform throughout the opening night of the exhibition.

Youtube - Improvisations, Field Recordings, Live Video's and anything else