In case you missed, it, Paul Maceri (aka ihcilon)’s wonderful CAMP Radio show If/Then/Else
show focuses on long-form and/or live sets. Last weekend’s episode includes a segment from one of my 2019 performances at Sidney’s Saloon with originals + covers of Roy Orbison and Vangelis. The episode also features dreamy goodness by Raen Arthur, Requiem (Tristan Welch and Doug Kallmeyer), Mako Graves, The Blank Holidays, Gregory Nieuwsma, and Stefanie Merchack. Catch the show below or on Mixcloud, and the playlist on ihcilon’s website.
Author: elizabethjoankelly
“Baleen Executioner” and Alka’s “King Card” on the radio
A few spins of Alka’s “King Card,” featuring me as a guest vocalist, on the radio:
Yesterday Joint Venture Radio played three songs from the album on the Alien Disco versus Waverider Show. Catch the archive on Dropbox.
Tonight, Kate Bosworth includes “Baleen Executioner” off Farewell, Doomed Planet! as well as “King Card” on Warminster Community Radio’s Dark Train.
New release on Future Cities
Just released: Future Cities, a new project from Cities & Memory. From the website, “Future Cities is the largest ever survey of the sounds of cities around the world, examining how the soundscapes of our cities across 81 countries are changing and what that means for us all.” Participants first submitted field recordings from around the world (the “city version” on the website), and then participants had the opportunity to reimagine these recordings (the “memory version”).
I remixed K.A. Laity’s “Pile Driver on O’Connell Avenue,” Limerick, Ireland, in “The Irish Pile Driver In Isolation.” For this work, I attempted to situate myself in the brain of an Irish pile driver operator as they momentarily transcend into a few moments of tranquility. I only used the original field recording in this piece–no extra sounds. The dangers of noise pollution are ongoing and severe, particularly for construction workers. With this work I hope to model how urban “noise” can be made more palatable.
Explore more by navigating the map on the Cities & Memory website.
Out now! Alka’s Regarding The Auguries
Alka’s new album Regarding the Auguries is OUT NOW! as a physical release through the Very Records website as well as digitally via all the usual places. I provide guest vocals on the song “King Card” which ALSO features Vince Clarke, which I believe makes me only 2 degrees of separation from Erasure, Depeche Mode, and Yazoo (which I believe makes all of YOU 3 degrees!).
WTUL Charts (again!)
Farewell, Doomed Planet! is once again on the WTUL Electronic Charts, this time at #10. Can’t thank WTUL’s DJs enough for playing the album so much.
Alka’s Regarding The Auguries Reviewed by The Electricity Club
Thoughtful review of Alka’s newest on Very Records, Regarding The Auguries, by The Electricity Club. Including this:
“The closer ‘King Card’ features Vince Clarke on synths and programming and provides some exquisite chattering texturing to the rainy droning backdrop as a guesting Elizabeth Joan Kelly provides the eerie foreboding vocals.”
Regarding the Auguries releases October 9th; buy the CD from the Very Records shop and the digital download on iTunes + all the other online retailers.
RESCHEDULED: ElectroJunkyard Episode 2
Airing today Sunday: a somewhat electro-acoustic-themed episode of ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Homespun mixes of underground electronic music from the past, present, and maybe even the future. Airs at 7pm CET / 12pm CST. Listen at Camp Radio.
Episode 2 tracklist:
0:00 Flutronix – Life Lines [2.0, Flutronix Records]
5:55 Nina Keith – Hereditary Trauma Dream Sprinting (Oxford Circle) [MARANASATI 19111, Grind Select]
9:27 Klein – Never Will I Disobey [Lifetime, ijn inc.]
13:02 White Boy Scream – Glass Games (excerpt) [Below the Radar 34, The Wire]
18:56 Kieran Mahon – Solitary Jazz Fumble [ISOLATION AND REJECTION VOLUME 3, Front and Follow]
22:16 Wizard Apprentice – Desire to Learn [Dig a Pit, Cruisin Records]
25:27 Pantayo – Bronsé [Pantayo, Telephone Explosion]
28:00 Sultana – Blood Moon [BLOOD MOON, self-released]
32:22 Library Tapes – Where a Yellow Light Still Means Slow Down [The Quiet City, 1631 Recordings]
34:40 Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena – Dreaming of the Kelly Pool [single, Mexican Summer]
38:24 Forest Robots – Glacial Architecture Of The Mountain Corridor [After Geography, Wormhole World]
42:38 Whettman Chelmets – My Presence Will Go With You [The Rain, The Pour, self-released]
46:24 Lamin Fofana – Blues [Blues, BLACK STUDIES]
50:26 Nailah Hunter – White Flower, Dark Hill [Spells, Leaving Records]
52:48 Lyra Pramuk – Mirror [The Fountain, Bedroom Community]
55:47 Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita – 最後の楽園 (The Last Paradise) [Pacific, CBS/Sony; reissue by Light in the Attic]
Tomorrow: ElectroJunkyard Episode 2
Airing tomorrow, October 3 at 7pm CET / 12pm CST: ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Episode 2 is quasi-electro-acoustic themed, with music by Flutronix, Nina Keith, Klein, White Boy Scream, Kieran Mahon, Wizard Apprentice, Pantayo, Sultana Isham, Library Tapes, Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, Forest Robots, Whettman Chelmets, Lamin Fofana, Nailah Hunter, Lyra Pramuk and Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita. ICYMI, you can listen to Episode 01 on Mixcloud.
October Recommendation on MacroParentheticals
Author Tyler Weaver of Parenthetical Recluse, a fascinating blog about music, movies, literature, running, Ohio election signage, and so much more, has asked me to contribute a monthly recommendation (probably, mostly, music, but maybe other stuff?) for his MacroParentheticals newsletter. The newsletter comes out every Sunday and is chock full of Tyler’s own current media consumption, musings, “fascinations, perspirations, and whatever else comes to mind,” plus pictures of Tyler’s adorable dogs. For September and October, Tyler asked me for some of my virtual venues to find new music. Part 1 covers my favorite radio programs, and here’s part 2, published last Sunday:
While there’s a seemingly endless array of spaces in which to find new music, it can quickly become overwhelming. Luckily, there are expert curators of indie music who continually introduce me to new and wonderful sounds. So, in this second chunk of recommendations, I’m going to share some of my must-listen podcasts – most focus on electronic music since that’s my jam but some also cover folk, jazz, blues, and classical.
Is This Thing On… Yeah I Know It Sucks… Synth Redneck… Anticipating Nowhere… Vital Weekly… Phantom Circuit (also sometimes on Resonance Extra, Resonance FM)… Ambient Atomic Orbitals… The Independent Music Podcast… Hypnagogue… and, finally, the finest of college and community radio: WTUL, KALX, WFMU, CJSW, CFBX, CFUR.
As always, signup for the newsletters, and you won’t regret it. I’ve heard much wonderful new music thanks to Tyler’s discerning ear, and you certainly will too.
Tonight! Hot Steam Film Fest
Tonight is the premiere of Episode 5 of the Hot Steam III film festival, “an initiative that aims to marry topics in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) through communal listening, watching, and learning. It is a Cambridge Community Television production that brings international video artworks to the city of Cambridge and beyond.”
Episode 5 includes my music video for “Human Research Roadmap” and will premiere on the Hot Steam website, plus all five episodes will also screen tonight at Starlight Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 7pm EST. Catch episodes 1-4 in preparation.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 