2011

To all of you who have found your way here courtesy of The Liminal – a hearty welcome! To those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about – an equally hearty welcome and a recommendation to partake in the pleasures of London’s latest, er ‘liminal’ music blog, where you can currently find an interview with Icarus and a mix featuring a collection of new music coming out on Not Applicable this year.


01 Not Applicable Mix – Icarus by The Liminal on Mixcloud

We’re very excited about the fact that 2011 appears to be shaping up to be a bumper year for Not Applicable releases. Following on from ‘In Thunder Rise‘ and ‘Three Improvisations‘, both released in the winter of 2010, we have an extremely optimistic schedule of one release per month for the next four months.

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Upcoming in 2011:

NOT016 – Tom Arthurs / Miles Perkin / Yorgos Dimitriadis – Glue

NOT017 – Isambard Khroustaliov / Philippe Pannier – Chaleur

NOT018 – Ollie Bown / Brigid Burke – Erase

NOT019 – Tom Arthurs / Ollie Bown / Isambard Khroustaliov / Lothar Ohlmeier – Long Division

Flat Home

Created for the Not Applicable Artists Festival in Berlin this summer by Martin Hampton (shot in and around his native Somerset, navigating the shores of the Bristol Channel and further afield), Flat Home received two screenings with different combinations of instrumentalists improvising to it on each night. The resulting soundtrack is a hybrid of the two:

Flat Home – A film by Martin Hampton

Music improvised to the film on two successive nights during the Not Applicable Artists Festival of Experimental Music and Film, Berlin 2010.

Finnlandzentrum – Tuesday 7th September 2010

Stevko Busch – piano
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Babette – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Tobias Klein – bass clarinet
Kai Wolff – computer
Roy Caroll – electronics
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Maurizio Ravalico – percussion
Rudi Fischerlehner – drumkit
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Isambard Khroustaliov – computer

Recorded and mixed by Isambard Khroustaliov.
Music edited by Isambard Khroustaliov with Martin Hampton.

Isambard Khroustaliov @ City Arts and Music Project

JAILBREAK (Chris Corsano & Heather Leigh Murray),
COLLIDER,
ISAMBARD KHROUSTALIOV

@

City Arts & Music Project,
70-74 City Road,
Old Street,
London,
EC1Y 2BJ.

Doors: 20:00
£5 adv (via wegottickets) / £8 door

JAILBREAK is the duo of pedal steel/vocalist Heather Leigh Murray and drummer Chris Corsano. The name foregrounds the kind of outlaw violence with which the two reformulate rock/roll instants by bringing free jazz fire power to the equation, resulting in new-found catharsis. Jailbreak play improvised music that dispenses with traditional notions of call and response or dialogue in favour of a simultaneity that takes instant forms from the application of high energy strategies.

COLLIDER is the unconventionally noisy quartet from Leeds Improvised Music Association stalwarts; Matthew Bourne (keys), Dave Kane (electric and double bass), Chris Sharkey (guitar) & Chris Bussey (drums). Whilst Jailbreak reject the traditions of free improvisation, Collider apply their profound understanding of improvisatory practice in rendering a sonic maelsrom that values inimical volume over all else.

ISAMBARD KHROUSTALIOV is the solo alias of Sam Britton, also of electronic group Icarus and live improv trio Leverton Fox. Since 1997 he has recorded and released music for a number of independent electronic music labels in the UK and the US (Output Recordings, Temporary Residence, Domino and The Leaf Label) and continues to perform all over Europe. Utilising generative software environments, Sam creates immersive textural narratives which are immediately abrasive, and simultaneously indicative of longer, more graceful structures.