I guess we just pick up like we nearly did last time and where we left off and who needs who? Still no time for editorials, repeat, replete, reheat, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing as last time once again, another five (or so) slices of music that have passed our way recently, five slices of music cherry picked for your delight and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of bird seed and…
Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying swordfish out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Cake oil? Snake oil? Bake the oil, everything must go somewhere and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading and who reads editorials?
When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing, we never should have done and like we asked last time, who are the cake? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we are very (very) very very picky about what we actually post on these fractured pages or about what gets played on the radio or indeed what we hang in a gallery.
Cut to the chase, never mind the editorial, skip this bit, there’s music further down the page, five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and what’s Wordsworth? On these Five Pieces of Music pages you just the basic facts and links and those sounds (and visuals), that’s surely all you need from us on these Five pages we reguarly post?
Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way, this time we start somewhere in Yorkshire
1: Kirk Barley with a rather refreshing first taste of a new album that’s on the way in a couple of weeks, let the music do some refined talking, we’ll dig into the whole album in a day or two…
“In Arc, Yorkshire-born artist Kirk Barley explores alternative tunings and off-grid sequencing to shape fluid rhythmic and melodic systems that unfold into rich harmonic forms. Kirk’s fourth album under his own name and debut for Marionette continues his exploration of just intonation through a sparse but finely detailed palette of organic atmospheres, metallic shimmer and off-kilter rhythms. Across the record, glassy pads, gamelan metallophones, clarinet and guitar dissolve into fluid, dreamlike forms, suggesting vast coastal landscapes, charged air and the stillness that follows turbulence…” Bandcamp / kirkbarley.com
2: Bedmaker and some deliciously raw footage from a very recent show in Washington DC. Bedmaker did release a reather recomended album back in 2025, links and such under the footage…
3: Chris Irregardless and a single from her forthcoming album, more of that experiemental sound art that takes care to make sure the edges are folded right and there are no flowers in jail. In other words, listen to it for yourself, if we didn’t think it worth our space and your time then it wouldn’t be here… Bandcamp
4: Anyx – Berlin-based artist, musician and vocalist Anyx has shared a second single and video from her debut solo album Starlink, an album that is set for release on August 28th via La Rubia Producciones.
“Anyx is the solo project of Berlin-based composer and performance artist Anna Lucia Nissen, working across experimental songwriting, electronics and live performance. Starting with voice and language as her primary material, she builds visceral performances in which voice and melody move between fragile intimacy and full-bodied intensity…”
5: Perennial, before we go and ger on with whatever we should be doing rather than wasting time sharing music here, a short sharp couple of blasts and a touch of peppermint twist (from Connecticut) in the form of Modernism – from the LP Modernism – coming from Ernest Jenning Record Co. / Safe Suburban Home later this year…
Here’s the Bandcamp thing…. and more of their kinetic sharpness…
“The idea with “Modernism” was to have this sharp opening statement of purpose, but to also deconstruct the ‘fast garage rock’ template. We’re a band that wishes we wrote “Kick Out The Jams” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” in equal measure, so wherever there aren’t loud guitars there’s drum machine and mellotron and electric piano. A real technicolor punk thing”.
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