Thank you to Four Larks And A Wren for playing “Princes Street Gardens” off LF17 / Edinburgh. Originally aired on Three D Radio in Adelaide, there’s a show playlist with links to every song’s Bandcamp link helpfully available.
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Aural Aggravation on LF17 / Edinburgh
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
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
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)
A Mortality Tables Product
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