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/
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
Cucina Povera & Malvern Brume at Supernormal Festival 2019
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
Malvern Brume on Window A / Window B Project by Sagome and The Room
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.
Mel Azevedo & Rory Salter - m&r (improvisations)
Track 1, improvised single take room recording, no overdubs, volume boosted
M.A. : Laptop & recordings, glass vase's, modified violin, voice, wind powered keyboard, guitar pedals
R.S. : Drum, metal instruments, modified bike wheel, modified violin, glass vases, guitar pedals
Track 2, made up from 2 single take improvisations edited together by Mel using Ableton. Recordings direct from mixer
M.A. : Keyboard, voice, modified violin, guitar pedals, guitar
R.S. : Drum, metal instruments, guitar pedals, amplified objects
all recordings made over 2 sessions
M.A. : Laptop & recordings, glass vase's, modified violin, voice, wind powered keyboard, guitar pedals
R.S. : Drum, metal instruments, modified bike wheel, modified violin, glass vases, guitar pedals
Track 2, made up from 2 single take improvisations edited together by Mel using Ableton. Recordings direct from mixer
M.A. : Keyboard, voice, modified violin, guitar pedals, guitar
R.S. : Drum, metal instruments, guitar pedals, amplified objects
all recordings made over 2 sessions
Youtube - Improvisations, Field Recordings, Live Video's and anything else
Tweedle Cassette's released on Nervous Energy Records
A music project experimenting mostly with sound collage and single-take improvisations. Whilst making these tapes I spent a lot of time thinking about the integration of synthesised sounds into the everyday, as technology is now such prominent part in our lives - and with that the sounds of such technologies. This was something I wanted to capture in the compositions and live performances. Working with electronics, field recordings and found objects. For the time being I have moved away from this project, but may return to it in the future. Both cassette's were released through Nervous Energy Records.
