Durtro News: 27 May 2008
Ernesto Tomasini
I stupidly, due to exhaustion, forgot to thank the wonderful Ernest Tomasini, who also performed at the C93 London show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Bless you Ernesto, and your exquisite voice! www.myspace.com/ernestotomasini and www.ernestotomasini.com
Baby Dee plays London with special guest Marc Almond 31 May 2008
Saturday 31 May 2008, 7.45pm
Baby Dee with Maxim Moston and John Contreras and special guest Marc Almond play London’s South Bank Purcell Rooms. With support Anni Rossi. I hope to see you there!
Box office: +44 (0)871 663 2500
Tickets are £14 and start time is 7.45pm
Pantaleimon play free afternoon concert in London, 31 May 2008
Also on the 31 May PANTALEIMON will be playing a free concert at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Doors open at 4pm, show ends at 8pm. The Owl Service and The Rural Tradition will also be playing. Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London, W11 3JQ. www.nottinghillartsclub.com
Pantaleimon remixed and realised: ‘Heart of the Sun’
June will see the release of ‘Heart of the Sun’, the CD of remixes and re-imaginings of the ‘Mercy Oceans’ album.
“The whole project came about when Clodagh Simonds of Fovea Hex asked me if she could remix ‘Under the Water’. Of course I said, “yes!” When she came back with such remarkable music and casually mentioned, “Why don’t you ask a couple of other friends to do remixes?” it gave me the idea for this album.
“It is not simply a remix album, but a collaborative project. I chose friends whom I also admired as artists and who inhabit a creative space that are connected in some way and on some level to me as well as to each other.
“I let my babies go out to play with Andrew W.K., Stephen O’Malley, Lilium, CarterTutti, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, The Bricoleur, Plinth, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen) and, of course, Fovea Hex. Even though I had an inkling that the mixes would fit together as one coherent whole, I had no idea just how much they would complement one another.
“There are also some previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s ‘Even if Love’, which didn’t quite make it on ‘Mercy Oceans’ for aural reasons. However, this cover version has now been gently manipulated and star-mangled by Susan Stenger (Band of Susans).
“Another of the unreleased tracks is my first collaboration with the group Strings of Consciousness. They wished to remix one of the songs from ‘Mercy Oceans’; however I had no more songs remaining from the album, so we created a new song together for this record.”
— Andria Degens
‘Heart of the Sun’ will be released on Durtro Jnana, and will be available through the Durtro and Jnana online shops as soon as we have copies. It will be on general release in the shops from 30 June 2008.
Pantaleimon ‘Tall Trees’ new EP on Abaton Book Company
We are very excited to announce that a four track CD EP will soon be released by the lovely people at Abaton Book Company from New Jersey, USA. The CD consists of four new tracks, recorded by Pantaleimon, with Michael Tanner (Plinth) and Nick Palmer (Directorsound). All the tracks were especially created for this project, and they are called ‘The Warming’, ‘Dance of the Honey Bees’, ‘Sing Night Swallow’ and ‘Tall Trees’. At the moment we believe ‘Tall Trees’ will be released in the next couple of months. We will send out an update as soon as we know the exact release date.
Abaton always release their CDs in extremely small editions, and they expect there to be between 100 and 200 CDs available in the edition. There will be a small number for sale from the Durtro shop, and of course they will also be available from Abaton Book Company: www.abatonbookcompany.com • www.myspace.com/abatonbookcompany
Sharron Kraus on tour
Sharron Kraus is on tour to promote her new album ‘The Fox’s Wedding’ throughout May and June in Europe and in the USA.
To view all the tour dates go to: www.sharronkraus.com and www.myspace.com/sharronkraus
The.Bricoleur, collaborator with Current 93 and Pantaleimon releases a super-limited CD
‘The Falling Sickness’ is a diviner’s toolbox comprising 9 CDR singles — and by singles I mean singles, one track only, potentially ranging from 4 - 60 minutes. Each single in the toolbox will be sold separately (limited to 25) and housed in a distinct hand and mind made fascination created by Lauren Winton: www.myspace.com/laurenwinton
‘Holy Insecurity’ takes its name from the Jewish mystic, Martin Buber, who spoke of the ‘holy insecurity’ as the most creative state — bordering on madness. In ‘Der heilige Weg’ he rages against the predictable status quo: “O you secure and safe ones, you who hide yourselves behind the ramparts of the law so that you will not have to look into God’s abyss! Yes, you have secure ground under your feet, while we hang suspended looking over the endless deeps. But we would not change our dizzy insecurity and poverty for your security and abundance”.
Running time is 10:51 minutes. To hear an excerpt go www.myspace.com/lebricoleur
Available to purchase on the 25 May from www.myspace.com/lebricoleur. £5 including postage.
Peace (for Mom): a 2CD compilation from Brainwashed
Following the death of Brainwashed founder Jon Whitney’s mother, he has put together a compilation album, from which all proceeds will go to Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: www.picturebookart.org. This beautiful 2CD features many wonderful artists and wonderful songs too. Go here for more details and go here to buy the CD: http://brainwashed.com/commerce.html
Jon Whitney writes:
“Amongst many things, I owe both my music enthusiasm and my willingness to share to my mother and losing her last year was a complete shock. She brought me to my first concerts and was in the balcony at my first festival in 2006. ‘Peace’ is a collection I assembled in memory of her but in tribute to a number of close friends who all lost their mothers before their time. It contains some songs which were recorded exclusively, some which were various outtakes, and some which perfectly represent emotions felt by myself, other family, friends, and in some cases, my mom. All of the contributions came from true friends. All proceeds will be donated to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass, a place where my mom volunteered for the last few years. She was an elementary and kindergarten teacher nearly my entire life so early childhood literacy meant a lot to her.”
Track details are as follows:
Disc 1
- A Place to Bury Strangers, “Sunbeam”
- Antony and the Johnsons, “You Are My Sister”
- Aranos, “Fall’s Golden Whispers”
- Jessica Bailiff, “Fly High”
- Little Annie Bandez and Paul Wallfisch, “Smile”
- Boduf Songs, “Little Song for Jon”
- Boy In Static, “Stay Awake”
- Caribou, “Hummingbird”
- Carter Tutti, “Woven Clouds” (alternate version)
- Current 93, “All the Pretty Little Horses”
- Fridge, “Five Four Child Voice”
- Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin, “Walla Mashalla”
- His Name Is Alive, “This World Is Not My Home”
- Ida, “See the Stars” (acoustic)
- The Paula Kelley Orchestra, “Life for Life”
- Kinski, “Waka Nusa”
- The Legendary Pink Dots, “We Bring the Day” (edit)
Disc 2
- Andrew Liles, “The Comfortable Illusion of Meaning”
- Matmos, “Staircase”
- Monster Movie, “Vanishing Act”
- Marissa Nadler, “Stallions”
- Nudge, “Greener”
- Amanda Palmer, “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark”
- Pantaleimon, “Idumæa”
- Sandro Perri, “Family Tree”
- Rivulets, “You Sail On”
- Ulrich Schnauss, “Wherever You Are”
- The 17th Pygmy, “I Know My Train’s A Coming”
- Stars of the Lid, “Requiem”
- Sybarite, “Mochi Swt”
- 27, “Windows and Glass”
- Volcano the Bear, “Wooden Sailus”
- Keith Fullerton Whitman, “Weiter”
- Windy & Carl, “I Have Been Waiting to Hear Your Voice”
Reviews from Judas Kiss of ‘Birth Canal Blues’ and ‘Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor’
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Ruth Marten: one of David’s favourite artists London exhibition now on
One of my favourite contemporary artists, Ruth Marten, is presently having an exhibition of her work in London at the Isis Gallery, 20 Hanway St, London W1T 1UG. Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 7222
www.isisgallery.org/exhibitions/ruth_marten_histoire_unnaturel.html
I really recommend people see her beautiful and very idiosyncratic work. Isis gallery also represent my own artwork, as well as that of Antony, Jamie Reid and Alice O’Malley. This is the gallery where I will be holding my own exhibition, which will probably take place in December 2008.
Click the image above to view the press release.
love to you all David+++
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