Recorded at Iklectik, London on 5th May 2017
Two Duets and a Quartet
February, 2023
Edward Lucas / Trombone & Feedback
Rachel Musson / Tenor Saxophone
N.O.Moore / Guitar & Electronics
Steve Noble / Drums
Recorded at Iklectik, London on 5th May 2017 by Giovanni La Rovere
Mixed by Edward Lucas
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Cover Artwork: Detail from a painting by Mirei Yazawa and Sarah Woolfden
James O’Sullivan & N.O. Moore
April, 2021
N.O. Moore: electric guitar
James O’Sullivan: electric guitar
Recorded: April- May 2020
Mixed by N.O. Moore and James O’Sullivan
Mastering: Mark Beazley
Image: sito_press
James and I had played a couple of gigs as a duo, the first organised by Earshots. We had a couple more lined up when the world withdrew. We were both keen to carry on, because it seemed that something might develop.
Both of us are interested in the electric guitar as a sound source – a found object, to borrow Keith Rowe’s lend from Marcel Duchamp – but we approach it in different ways. James tends to use controlled volume as a way to explore the sounds of wood and wire; I tend to use effects as a way to explore electricity. Together, a communicated world began to manifest. Could this world survive without us seeing each other?
We decided to keep it going by exchanging recorded improvisations and overdubbing. I think you can hear authentic interaction in the result, despite the fact that we were not reacting to each other in the moment; rather the moment got extended and stretched out – a sort of temporal virtuality.
Nevertheless, the improviser’s art is audibly there, in the moment of decision and act even in response to our recorded selves. We left a message before the tone.
N.O. Moore
Kordik / Lucas / Prévost
Four improvised pieces recorded at All Saints Church, High Laver, Spring 2019.
October, 2020
Eddie Prévost: Percussion
Edward Lucas: Trombone
Daniel Kordik: Modular Synthesiser
Recording and mix by Kordik / Lucas
Master by Rupert Clerveaux
Drawing by Billy Steiger
Photography by Jean Prévost
Layout by Daniel Kordik
This CD is released as a coproduction between Earshots and Matchless Recordings
matchlessrecordings.com
A quote from the CD sleeve notes about the recording session at All Saints Church, High Laver:
“…The main reason for being here was to return after recording with Eddie the previous year for his solo LP Matching Mix (all tracks but one on that LP were captured in this 12th century building); and to continue the project we had set ourselves – but had run out of time – during our first visit. Back then we discussed the possibilities of a mutual release, hence this Matchless-Earshots collaboration, which underpins a long standing fellowship that we are privileged to be a part of.”
Daniel Kordik & Ken Ikeda
Mimo-Soto was recorded in London over two sessions in October and November, 2019
Ken Ikeda: Buchla Music Easel
Daniel Kordik: Modular Synthesiser and Korg Sequencer SG-10
released August 10, 2020
Mixed by Ken Ikeda and Daniel Kordik
Mastered by Daniel Kordik
Cover by Daniel Kordik
Earshots Recordings
Digital Editions
2020
EAR016
Ross Lambert & John Russell
In 2014 the duo played this set at the Hundred Years Gallery as part of Earshots Concert #4. We release this recording as a digital edition in benefit of the Hundred Years Gallery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
100% of proceeds will go to the fund supporting this fantastic venue that has been so important in the life of Earshots. Please check out the recording and lend your support.
New CD on Earshots from Ken Ikeda (synthesisers) & Edward Lucas (trombone & feedback).
Click below to visit the Bandcamp page
A belated post about Eddie Prévost’s solo LP Matching Mix on Earshots Recordings
Out now on Earshots Recordings and available from many good record retailers worldwide
Anat Ben-David & Atsuko Kamura (both voice & electronics) duo Following the digital release on Earshots of their live improvised set.
Urs Leimgruber (saxophone) Daniel Kordik (synthesizer) & Edward Lucas (trombone) trio
8pm, Hundred Years Gallery, London E2 8JD / £5 entry
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Atsuko Kamura
Japanese agit-femme vocalist and electricist. Former member of Frank Chickens and Mizutama Shobodan (Polka Dot Fire Brigade): first Japanese feminist punk band. Voice-modulated improvisation and eco-surrealist chansons are weaved into the bizarre world of the experimental.
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Anat Ben-David
Anat is an interdisciplinary musician and artist, interested in the ‘Human-Machine’ as the complex data of the moving body and mind. Through avant-garde methods, Anat researches the idea of Alienation whereby the artist is creating though ‘distancing’– letting the material and systems involved lead an artistic process generating unforeseen narratives. The work usually evolves around the lyrically performed text, voice, body movement, musical and sound compositions, taking the form of live performance with installation elements.
Anat’s latest work Kairos OpeRaArt was last staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum for Reveal Festival (July 2017) with Boudicca designers. The libretto was inspired by Sadie Plant’s cyber-feminist book Zeros and Ones, originally commissioned by Stanley Picker (2015-17) after her PhD Oscillation and Disturbance In the OpeRaArt, Kingston University, 2015. Anat has also worked on several albums as a member of Chicks On Speed art-collective (since 2003). She has presented her work at the V&A, Tate Britain, ICA and internationally at many museums and galleries.
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/anat-ben-david
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Urs Leimgruber
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, is a key member of the European scene of contemporary improvised music. He specializes in solo concerts and performs regularly; Trio Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips , Quartet Noir with Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre, Fritz Hauser, 6ix Jacques Demierre, Hannah Marshall, Thomas Lehn, Dorothea Schürch, Roger Turner, Schweizer Holz Trio with Omri Ziegele, Hans Koch in Duo with Evan Parker, Roger Turner, Thomas Lehn, Gerry Hemingway, Joëlle Léandre in Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, and South-America. His countless collaborations have resulted in successful concerts and recordings with Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Lauren Newton, Keith Rowe, Günter Christmann, Sunny Murray, Günter Müller, Sunny Murray, John Tchicai and many others. Several Projects with the ARTE Saxophone Quartet. During the 1970s, he was the co-founder of the Electric jazz and free-music group, OM.
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk
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Daniel Kordik / Edward Lucas
Kordik / Lucas are cofounders of the Earshots label and concert series. They have played since 2012 in a long standing synthesizer and trombone duo, as well as being part of numerous other projects in improvised and electronic music.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/daniel-kordik/
https://lucas.earshots.org
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TWO NEW EARSHOTS RELEASES OUT NOW
‘If you go there you don’t come back’ by Anat Ben-David & Atsuko Kamura https://earshots.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-go-there-you-dont-come-back … —
‘Six by two and three by one’ by Edward Lucas & Daniel Thompson https://earshots.bandcamp.com/album/six-by-two-and-three-by-one …
Guitarist Ross Lambert’s first solo release will be out on Earshots Recordings on Friday 27th July. CDs will soon be available for preorder from the Earshots Bandcamp page: https://earshots.bandcamp.com/album/magnit-iz-dat
These improvisations were recorded in one day in the Cafe Oto Project Space, and various South London locations in the back seat of an old estate car.
There will be a special launch at the Project Space on the 27th July with a solo from Ross and an electric guitar duet from Ross and Daniel Blumberg.
