Author: elizabethjoankelly

Radio and podcast play galore for edinburgh

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Sadly, I am extremely behind on radio and podcast play for LF17 / Edinburgh, but it’s been an amazing month for the album and I’m so thankful to the following for including a track or two. These folks represent a veritable who’s who of new music media, so please do enjoy and follow their shows.

  • “Princes Street Gardens” and “Calton Hill” on Brainvoyager’s Electronic Fusion, aired March 2-3 on Modul303, Sci-Fi Radio, and Radio Dark Tunnel:
  • “Calton Hill” on Urban Mutant, aired March 3 on KHUH:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on Dark Train, aired March 4 on Warminster Community Radio:
  • “Calton Hill” on Electronic Odyssey with Lippy Kid, aired March 5 on Radio Free Matlock:
  • “Calton Hill” on Lone Frequencies, aired March 6 on Mad Wasp Radio:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on black_ops, aired March 9 on Camp Radio:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on In Memory of John Peel, March 16:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on The Séance, aired March 16 on Repeater Radio:
  • “Calton Hill” on The Moderns, March 17:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on It Came From Enclosure Three, aired March 17 on Mad Wasp Radio:
  • “Princes Street Gardens” on Urban Mutant, aired March 24 on KHUH:

Aural Aggravation on LF17 / Edinburgh

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Many thanks to Aural Aggravation for the lovely review of the newest from myself and
Mortality Tables, LF17 / Edinburgh.

“In Elizabeth Joan Kelly’s hands, the sounds of a vibrant city are rendered, smoothed, with cross-hatching, delicate shading, some light smudging, a soft blending, by which everything clamorous is faded out to leave a slow hazing. There is, ultimately, no sense of Edinburgh itself here, and we find ourselves adrift, drifting on slow tides of sound with no connection to time or space.”

Catch the whole review, plus many more from the LIFEFILES series, over on Aural Aggravation.

LF17 / Edinburgh in Moonbuilding

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Many thanks to Moonbuilding for spotlighting LF17 / Edinburgh, my new solo release from Mortality Tables:

“The latest installment in the Lifefiles series from Mortality Tables features the excellent New Orleans-based composer Elizabeth Joan Kelly. Lifefiles are field recordings, usually made by the label’s Mat Smith, and handed over to an artist to respond to recordings however they see fit. Here EJK gets three recordings made in Edinburgh in August 2021 and responds with three warm soundscapes. Knowing Mat, the recordings won’t be random. There’s always a story with this label.”

It’s a good day for new music; see more at the Moonbuilding substack.

Out today: LF17 / Edinburgh

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Just released, my first solo venture since 2020.

LIFEFILES are creative exchanges.  

Recordings of places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events are shared with a range of artists working with sound. Those artists are then free to respond to the recordings in any way they like, either through manipulation or composition.  

Season 01 of the LIFEFILES series commenced in March 2023 with contributions from Simon Fisher Turner, Veryan, Xqui, Rupert Lally, Andrew Spackman and Dave Clarkson.

Season 02 commenced in September 2023 with contributions so far from Audio Obscura, Todeskino, boycalledcrow, Simon Fisher Turner, Maps, Ergo Phizmiz and Elizabeth Joan Kelly. 

ELIZABETH JOAN KELLY: LF17 / EDINBURGH

1. Calton Hill
2. Princes Street Gardens
3. Calton Road Cobblestones

Available now at mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

Produced and mixed by Elizabeth Joan Kelly
Source recordings: Mat Smith
LIFEFILES design by Neil Coe

All source sounds recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland:

Emeka Ogboh ‘Song Of The Union’ installation, Calton Hill (24.08.2021)
Princes Street Gardens (24.08.2021)
Car on Calton Road cobblestones (25.08.2021)

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ElectroJunkyard Episode 23

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Airing today: a brand new episode of ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Airs at 7pm CET / 12pm CT. Listen at Camp Radio.

mui zyu – Hotel Mini Soap – Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century
Jonathan Bree – Epicurean – Pre​-​Code Hollywood
Young Fathers – Tell Somebody – Heavy Heavy
Eartheater – Crushing – Powders
Loraine James – I’m Trying To Love Myself – Gentle Confrontation
Chester Watson – bora bora – Fish Don’t Climb Trees
Gazelle Twin – Walk Through Walls – Black Dog
Yves Tumor – Purified By The Fire – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Lamin Fofana – Toco SOS (excerpt) – Lamin Fofana And The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family
Shruti Kumar – 3AM (feat. London Contemporary Orchestra)
Aphir – viscosity angel – The Halo Is Shapeless
Elizabeth Joan Kelly – Calton Hill – LF17 / Edinburgh (pre-release)
maarja nuut – see maailm, mis elab sinus
Lucinda Chua – Something Other Than Years – YIAN
Tirzah – u all the time – trip9love​.​.​.​?​?​?
Barbara Morgenstern w/ Julia Kent – Facades – Doppelstern

Electrojunkyard Episode 22

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Airing today: a very festive episode of ElectroJunkyard, my bi-monthly show on Camp Radio in France. Airs at 7pm CET / 12pm CT. Listen at Camp Radio.

Haunted House Party – visions of sugarplums – A Very Haunted Christmas
Dr Rubberfunk – Ramsey Lewis – ‘Plum Pudding’ (Dr Rubberfunk’s Hand Mixed Edit) – Funky Christmas EP
The Nerd Keyboard – Christmas Pizza Night – Christmas Pizza Night – メ​リ​ー​ク​リ​ス​マ​ス
Dave Clarkson – Rise Of The Wind-up Tin Robots – Ghosts of Christmas Past
People Like Us – Winter Wonderland – Christian Marclay​’​s Sounds of Christmas with People Like Us
WXR_JR – Frosty The Snowman – A Wormhole Xmas 2023
Binaural Space – Of Christmas Is A – Glitchmas
Jumping Jack Slash and BUJIN – RZN for the SZN – A Seat in Heaven
Elizabeth Joan Kelly – Ring Out, Wild Bells (Taylor’s Version) – unreleased
Xqui – Epiphany – A Picture Of Good Health
Toxic Chicken – A Metal Peace – A Wormhole Xmas 2023
Henry Mancini – Latin Snowfall – Charade: Music from the Motion Picture
Silver Pyre – Frosted Tropic – The Outer Church
Boy Called Crow – Elf Machine – Bottletown
Marina Hasselberg, Casey Koyczan – Standing On Ice – Musicworks 137
Dntl – Toy Pudding – Doom Mix Vol II
Jrg_one – Christmas Time Is Here – XMAS2019
Haunted House Party – tannenbaum – The Spirits of Christmas

C.M.S.O. reviewed by recent music heroes

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Always pleased when our music is still making an impact a couple of years on. Perennial favorite Recent Music Heroes just reviewed Orca, Attack!’s C.M.S.O. The review is in Estonian (which I think is a first for us!); here’s a Google translate-generated excerpt:

Doo wop, panoramic Americana, sardonic electronica, music from academia mixed into something magical. The light blue American Dream that fades out of reach — it was already in the formula — and is replaced by a real life killer whale attack on the symbols of affluent life — as has recently happened with yachts in the Mediterranean

Many thanks to Borealiscape, aka Agier Music.