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Edinburgh In the Letter

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Much gratitude to Blair for highlighting LF17 / Edinburgh in The Letter this week:

“LF17 / Edinburgh is the latest in the LIFEFILES series and features Louisiana artist Elizabeth Joan Kelly. Previous contributors include Simon Fisher Turner, Xqui, Audio Obscura, Maps and more. The idea behind the series is simple, an artist receives some recordings (I assume from the label Mortality Tables) and they respond in a fitting manner. The recordings could be “from places, people, objects, moments in time, environments and quotidian events”. This time round, the sounds come from the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh!”

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.

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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