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Many thanks to Avant Music News for including Orca, Attack!’s upcoming release, C.M.S.O., in their picks of the week alongside Caustic Reverie, Damon Locks / Black Monument Ensemble, Vertical Squirrels, and Arvind Ganga & Riccardo Marogna. Pre-orders for cassette or digital download are available from Strategic Tape Reserve’s Bandcamp or more digital options here, and the album releases on April 16.
Hi friends! I’m so excited to announce that pre-orders are now available for my new album with Orca, Attack! (myself and David Rodriguez). C.M.S.O. is an educational album, inspired by library music and the electronic works of Raymond Scott, about the very real research field (ahem) of Course Management System Optimization. Head over to Strategic Tape Reserve for some truly elegant cassette tapes. Hope you are well, and enjoy!
So tickled that Farewell, Doomed Planet! just won’t stay off the WTUL charts; it comes in at #19 for the week of 03/07/21-03/13/21.
Also, pre-release for my new EP with Orca, Attack! goes on sale tomorrow! Keep your eyes on the Strategic Tape Reserve Bandcamp for cassette tapes, and the Elizabeth Joan Kelly and Orca, Attack! Bandcamp pages for digital only purchases.
Thank you to Pete Murphy for including “Harm” and “Baleen Executioner” off Farewell, Doomed Planet! on I Heart Noise’s latest mixtape. It’s in fantastic company alongside tracks from Xqui, modus pony, Netta Goldhirsch, boycalledcrow, Equinox, qualchan, and more. See the full tracklist on the website and listen on Mixcloud or below.
Thanks also to Toxic Chicken and Tak Tent Radio for including “Waking Up With a Cat On My Face” from the Front & Follow ISOLATION AND REJECTION VOL 1 compilation on the latest episode of Culture as a Dare. It’s part of a great mix including underground icons St James Infirmary, vylter, Maryanne Amacher, Petridisch, and Holly Herndon. Tracklist on the Tak Tent site and audio on Mixcloud/below!
Airing today: an especially droney/ambient 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 / 1pm CST. Listen at Camp Radio.
Episode 5 tracklist:
0:00 EJK + TWW – re/emergence0001 [single, self-released]
2:10 Hoon – search [unfinished #1, code]
3:36 Jon Hassell – Slipstream [Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One), Ndeya]
6:23 Hermaphradragon – We Out(ta) Here [Cash For Uhuru, self-released]
9:05 Jeremy Dutcher – Qonute [Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, self-released]
12:19 Ela Orleans – Sensation [Circles Of Upper And Lower Hell, Night School Records]
16:25 Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – Fata Morgana [Halocline, Stickfigure]
22:00 andrea parker & daz quayle – trepidation [private dreams and public nightmares, Aperture]
26:17 Senyawa – Alkisah II [Alkisah, various]
32:54 Meitei – Kawanabe Kyosai -Pt.I- [Komachi, Métron Records]
41:27 Félicia Atkinson – You Have To Have Eyes [The Flower And The Vessel, Shelter Press]
49:22 Tanya Tagaq – Toothsayer [Toothsayer, SIX SHOOTER]
53:28 Forest Robots – All Great Things Must Grow Through Dirt First [Amongst A Landscape Of Spiritual Reckoning, Wormhole World]
Drumroll please…announcing the launch of the new educational cassette series “Learning by Listening” on the indomitable Strategic Tape Reserve label. Volume 1, C.M.S.O., is by Orca, Attack!, my band with husband David Rodriguez. From STR:
Learning by Listening is an educational, instructive cassette series designed to bring the information of the world into your home, and your brain. Our educator-developed, pedagogically-sound methodology harnesses the power of music to fully open the listening receptors, allowing both facts and abstract concepts smooth, unimpeded entry to the relevant zones of the human mind. Each non-accredited volume of the cassette series will cover a significant and edifying topic, presented verbally and musically by experts (or qualified enthusiasts) in that field. As the series grows, collectors will have the opportunity to build a home audio reference library, providing themselves with a vast ocean of musically-enhanced, easily-attainable knowledge, all conveniently storable on a wall-mounted shelving unit. Illuminate your ears, by learning, by listening.
Our contribution is the six-song EP C.M.S.O. (short for Course Management System Optimization). “Suitable for both beginners and those with some practical experience, Orca, Attack! (New Orleans-based academics/musicians Elizabeth Joan Kelly and David Rodriguez) approach the topic in a structured format, delivering the information in both engagingly processed spoken text and celestial sung vocals, all over a rich field of timbrally shifting electronic modern classical compositions specifically designed to effectively facilitate comprehensive attainment of the subject matter. We here at STR consider this inaugural volume a must-listen for anyone interested in either C.M.S.O. or the exciting, sublime possibilities in new music.”
The EP will be available on cassette via Strategic Tape Reserve’s Bandcamp page, as a digital download there as well as my Bandcamp, Orca, Attack’s! Bandcamp, and the usual streaming platforms. Pre-sales start on April 2!
First, I was splendidly surprised to see Farewell, Doomed Planet! back on the WTUL Electronic charts, more than a year after its release.
Second, big thanks to Bepi Crespan for including the Stay Safe EP in CiTR’s International Women’s Day programming. Playlists and downloads available below.
Bepi Crespan Presents, Episode March 8, 2021: DECADENT FEW, KATHARINA SCHMIDT, ELIZABETH JOAN KELLY.
Bepi Crespan Presents, Episode March 8, 2021: JEROME, NANCY SINATRA, QUEEN KONG
Available for a limited time, re/emergence0001, my first collaboration with Tyler Weaver. Sign up to receive exclusive early access to all future releases and enjoy!
Premiering Sunday: A new, ongoing series of experimental short fiction and music collaborations between myself and writer Tyler W. Weaver. The first episode premieres in Tyler’s MacroParentheticals newsletter on 14 February 2021; sign up for exclusive early access – and behind-the-scenes morsels – to all episodes.
A million thanks to one of MY favorite artists, the incredible cellist/composer Julia Kent, for including “Beau Travail” in her recent guest mix for CKUT’s Free City Radio. The mix also includes songs by Sarah Davachi, Okkyung Lee, Fatima Al Qadiri, and more.
Julia describes the mix as, “Music from artists who have inspired and consoled me during this strange time, who have enabled me to travel without moving, and find a sense of connection through sound. In all these tracks I feel a sense of opening into something that transcends boundaries.”
Listen on Soundcloud or below.
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