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
Tracks - Rory Salter
Mastering - Loop-O
Artwork - Sasha Posox
Distribution - Kindred
Sholto Dobie & Malvern Brume - the after swell (Infant Tree) CD Available
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
Sholto Dobie (Synthesiser & Hurdy Gurdy)
Malvern Brume (Digital Sampler)
Artwork by Vytenis Burokas
Russell Walker - Soothers (feat. Malvern Brume) (Are You Before) Cassette Available
Rory Salter - Free Music On The Clock (Chocolate Monk) CDr Available
New CDr for Chocolate Monk. Recorded at work, on the clock. Collaged at home, in the bed
Available from Chocolate Monk's website
Available from Chocolate Monk's website
Malvern Brume - The Whorls (Kashual Plastik) Cassette Available
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
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 available
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 : distribution@mindseyerecords.xyz
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 : distribution@mindseyerecords.xyz
Malvern Brume - Body Traffic (MAL Recordings) LP Available
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
Released by MAL Recordings
Artwork by Jon K
Micologies, Collaboration with Mark Peter Wright for Rewire Festival
'Everything Was Supposed To Be So Easy' Various Artists comp for Left Alone
'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)'
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 - Tendrils (ALTER) record available from bandcamp or alterstock.org
'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
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
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/
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/
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
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)
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.
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
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
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.
Ellie Wang
Harley Kuyck-Cohen
Kara Chin
Tomasz Kowalski
Milan Tarascas
Haise Pount were invited to perform throughout the opening night of the exhibition.