Isotopica

we prepared a saucepan,and played it as a semi autonomous instrumentby lighting and adjusting the gas.we added a partial recording of a new text by jimmy fox (16 and a half)... we then added some wax cylinder recordings and other sound items,we treated this all with a complex array of digital effects, and then mixed the various sound files into todays edition of isotopica.

the cats relaxIt's a Big secret

en paris jimmy fox freud

simon tyszko in conversation with dudley sutton, in which dudley tells us about his experience of the english middle class, censorship and the queen

dudley sutton and i converse live whilst raising funds for resonance fm dot com......

dudley imdb  dudley wikipedia

dudley sutton, national treasure

you too can own one or more of these

a field recording of a moving event in bishops park fulham at a memorial for the local lives lost and the wider struggle of the international brigade in their historic fight against the facists in spain. the memorial was placed by the socialist council in 2007. the event recorded here marks the anniversary of The Battle of Jarama (February 6–27, 1937), which was an attempt by General Francisco Franco's Nationalists to dislodge the Republican lines along the river Jarama, just east of Madrid, during the Spanish Civil War. Elite Spanish Legionnaires and Moroccan Regulares from the Army of Africa forced back the Republican Army of the Centre, including the International Brigades, but after days of fierce fighting no breakthrough was achieved. Republican counterattacks along the captured ground likewise failed, resulting in heavy casualties to both sides.

i was accompanied by oldest friend john kenton who's father lou was one of the longest living brigadista, having died only two years ago at the age of 103.

Lou Kenton was an English proofreader who served as a medical courier and ambulance driver with the International Brigade and was its oldest surviving member at the time of his death.

as britain heads towards the cultural cliff edge of the foul brexit, isotopica considers this fate with a kind of 'carry on' number stations edition.... early edison wax cylinders, field recordings and judiciously selected samples make up this edition, as well as a world premiere of 'ode to brexit' by yours truly.

another long slow one, a glimpse of an even longer pice in progress, filmic reference, field recordings, spectral effects, and moods.......

sometimes a piece of music just grabs the moment and right now for me it is la vie moderne by Léo Ferré,who was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death...and also we start the broadcast with Golden Dark, the haunting new collaboration between elo masing and david john hull, a tune which has grabbed me for somewhat different reasons.... 

so why ferré? perhaps this song encapsulates a particular european modernism, a swing, a twist upon so much culture, the unique francophone traditions of chanson... with the world dashing backwards from reason and truth this music has me perhaps, spinning in a better time....

so.. we play it four times, at different  durations (same pitch), as a meditation, and a celebration........

 

http://www.theculture.net/feed/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/tirez-bar-aged-2.mp4

 

my dad had 14 children

and if today I wear Dior

It’s obviously unrelated

My virtue is not excusing itself so well

None ever knew

But when I did it had gone

The modern life, modern life

I had a nose like Cyrano

A big, fancy, funny one

A real radar for gigolos

Since it’s been recovered

from a cheapo surgery

I can no longer sniff titties

The modern life, modern life

with then rounds of fertiliser

biology spawns children

who come home alone to their mummy

in the labs they are horny

and in the streets they cuckolded

the hen lays eggs but sings no more

The modern life, modern life

Newspaper are like bandages

They need to be changed sometimes

Otherwise it messes with your mind

And beside no need for ideas

Because ideas make you think

and thoughts make you argue

The modern life, modern life

There are people who look exotic

and to scoff a “l’as de pique”

they would go all the way to Peking

Me without visa or prospect

Albeit with bus tickets

I see a lot of people, even Americans / and that’s not far

The modern life, modern life

The shops are overwhelmed

selling paper gems

the kind that won’t ruin you

Tissues that only get used once

So at least we know what

what the purpose is to have 10 fingers

The modern life, modern life

my dark mood presents time stretched early music, ivor cutler, gina birch and a treacle thick drone, what's not to like?

REVOLTING

a collage of political spoken word collected from 1960's radical cinema (heavily from jean luc goddard's sounds of england),

field recordings and attenuated recordings of installation at of wall mounted airflow instruments.

The “LionMan” is the earliest known work of figurative art, reliably dated to before 40,000 BCE, this mystery piece was fashioned from a mammoth tusk,  and depicts a leonine head with a human mouth, atop a leonine body with human arms, standing erect on human legs. Rediscovered in the Swabian Alb, south-west Germany, just two days before the outbreak of World War 2, the story of the LionMan is extraordinarily rich in so many interesting ways.