A big thank you to Nigel Bryant for playing “Princes Street Gardens” on Resonance FM’s Sonic Imperfections. Catch the archived show on Mixcloud or below:
Tag: Music
Avant Music News Review
Avant Music News has graciously reviewed LF17 / Edinburgh, and per usual it’s an insightful analysis of the release:
“Calton Hill is five minutes of ethereal chording with a slow voice-like melody. The tones are light but with a hint of anxiety. Princes Street Gardens is based on looped rhythmic structures reminiscent of old-school works from Dockstader and others. Over these, Kelly places a dialog between echoing effects and horn-like themes. Calton Road Cobblestones finishes things up with sparse string-plucking and drones. The latter grow ominous as the piece ends.”
Catch it, and more of the most knowledgeable analysis in experimental music, on the Avant Music News website.
Edinburgh In the Letter
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
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:
Princes Street Gardens on Bepi Crespan Presents
In case you missed it, Bepi Crespan’s always brilliant show on CiTR radio last Friday included “Princes Street Gardens” off my new MortalityTables release. Listen on the CITR website.
Princes Street Gardens on Four Larks And A WreN
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.
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)
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ElectroJunkyard Episode 23
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
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 