From a forthcoming project
Far from where the believers pray
A mound of stone and soil lay.
Pilgrims pass and pay their respect
To the orphan girl who hanged her neck.
From Manaton strike for Bowerman’s Nose
Then over to where the Webburn flows.
Buried and staked where the roads are crossed
A banished soul forever lost.
Find fresh flowers at Four Cross Lane
Remembrance of the maidens' pain.
Pregnant and shamed she was cast away
The shallow grave of Kitty Jay.
I became involved in the Front & Follow "Rental Yields" remix project in February of this year. The idea is to be grouped with 2 other artist, and you each supply some samples / tunes / sounds (as "landlord") then re-work the sounds of somebody else in the triplet (as "tenant"). The project highlights the current housing crisis (HIGH RENTAL YIELDS!) and is raising much needed funds for SPIN, a Manchester based support charity.
I was tasked with stealing and mangling the raw improvised sounds of Klaus Von Mork who currently resides in Gran Canaria, and my track has made it onto Volume One. London based electronic musician Megaheadphoneboy received a clutch of my field recordings, unused samples and what not to turn into an excellent fidgety rave creation, which will feature in a later volume. Then finally, Klaus Von Mork has reworked some of Megaheadphoneboy's recordings in order to complete our trio for a future edition.
An excellent process to be part of, and Justin from Front & Follow has been truly professional and organised throughout. Which of course you need to be with over 100 artists involved and files being swapped all over the place...
Really great to be on such a diverse lineup, featuring Kieran Mahon (who I saw give an inspirational performance at Dronica Festival in London a few years back), Polypores (who's album Flora remains one of my favourite modular synth creations of beauty and weirdness), The Leaf Library (London drone collective), Kinver Pond (who released the excellent Wellness Regime album alongside Ivy Nostrum) and finishing off with the unimitable Yol.
And the best thing about these compilations is that there are many new artists I am not too familiar with, and so, let the digging commence......
>>> You can pre-order / purchase / stream Volume One HERE <<<
Tracklist
1. Robbie Elizee vs Kieran Mahon – Sister States
2. Bone Music vs Audio Obscura – Seize The Means Of Control Voltage
3. Polypores vs Crisp Packet Jackets – Trance Goblins
4. Kat Bryan vs Cahn Ingold Prelog – Paladin
5. Dogs vs Shadows vs Moray Newlands – The Soft Cushion Broke the Shadows Fall
6. Kuma vs The Leaf Libra ry – A Guillotine For My Landlord
7. Spaceship vs Heavy Cloud – On What Were Once These Streets Before
8. Mute Branches vs wesellboxes – Witching Residence at the Box Factory
9. Salford Electronics vs Camp of Wolves – Shards
10. Distant Animals vs The Revenant Sea – Yi elds
11. Elizabeth Joan Kelly vs The Burning Trestle - Portabella House By - The - Sea (After The Burning Trestle)
12. Soloman Tump vs Klaus Von Mork – Little Owl (Stolen Pellet Mix 2)
13. Silver Tears vs Quartersized – And I Stumble Around
14. Kinver Pond vs tarotplane – For The Benefit Of The Community 1\
5. Selfish Limbs vs The Kendall Mintcake – Surrender
16. Bit Cloudy vs Runningonair – Theoretical Conspiracy
17. bleepeater vs The Incidental Crack – Heroin Friend
18. Wodwo vs Shit Creek – Cetaphil Effaclar
19. Yellow6 vs David Wal l raf – The Wo rld Can Be As Sad As It Seems
20. yol vs Concrete / Field – Rental Yields