Author: Jahzzar

2017 Review

COME

Influences… The Smiths, The Cure, James, industrial landscapes, REM, Motorama, fields and forests surrounding large cities, Echo and the Bunnymen, large mirrors, Happy Mondays, Roland Jazz Chorus, Stone Roses, New Wave, The Goon Sax, Eagulls, Blur’s “Leisure”, wooden floor pubs, Joy Division, Edinburgh, “Boy” “October” & “War”…

 

 

 

LEVE

Compilation of short instrumental pieces recorded in 2013, now recovered as a brief electronic suite.

 

 

 

 

 

kontra-punkte

Influences… La Monte Young, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Nicolas Jaar, field recordings, horizon lines, Brian Eno, radio tuning, Sakamoto, Arvo Pärt, synthesis, lullabies, Steve Reich, waves moving slowly, Phillip Glass, Chopin & Schumann, repetitions and mantras, Max Richter, Arca, uncertainty, walk unknown places, Johansson & Arnalds, Vangelis, keep a piano chord until the sound disappears…

 

 

SUPER

Influences… LCD Soundsystem, Cut Copy, Hot Chip, Whomadewho, Phoenix, Empire of the Sun, Tegan & Sara, Bilbao BBK Live, insomnia, beach parties, xtreme sports & GoPro videos, !!!, Baio, “Automaton”…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017 Favs

A brief selection…

…Influences…

 

 

Kendrick Lamar “DAMN.”

Ryuichi Sakamoto “async”

JAY-Z “4.44”

SZA “Ctrl”

Vince Staples “Big Fish Theory”

 

King Krule “The Ooz”

Moses Sumney “Aromanticism”

Charlotte Gainsbourg “Rest”

Thundercat “Drunk”

The War on Drugs “A Deeper Understanding”

 

Tyler, The Creator “Flower Boy”

Cigarettes After Sex “Cigarettes After Sex”

Mount Kimbie “Love What Survives”

Jlin “Black Origami”

Slowdive “Slowdive”

 

Four Tet “New Energy”

Sampha “Process”

The xx “I See You”

LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”

Ibeyi “Ash”

 

Kelela “Take Me Apart”

Björk “Utopia”

Fleet Foxes “Crack-Up”

Drake “More Life”

Gorillaz “Humanz”

 

Big Thief “Capacity”

Arca “Arca”

Julie Byrne “Not Even Happiness”

Broken Social Scene “Hug of Thunder”

Joe Goddard “Electronic Lines”

 

 

 

shhh!

‘shhh’ is a poetry film by Clare Unsworth, a lyrical, physical expression of a poem by Leah Thorn about the systematic silencing of women – and about resistance to that silencing.

The poem was written out of a passion to challenge the invisibility of the many ways women are silenced and it was tried out in performance with many different audiences of women – in universities, feminist groups, at poetry events and in prison. Leah and Clare then collaborated with three drama students at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England who interpreted the poem through movement.

This locally-produced, no-budget film has been screened internationally at feminist film festivals.

Poem written and performed by Leah Thorn.

Choreographed and performed by Kristin Bacheva, Vanessa Owusu and Elle Payne.

Directed and edited by Clare Unsworth

Sound by Daniel Battersby

 

Song: Gloom