Apophenia by Posset
Apophenia
A collection of rare, unreleased or partially abandoned posset jams.
I’ve said it before but the compilation album is a beautiful beast; a home for all those one-offs, those not-quite-fitting curios that fall between the cracks on a hard drive.
Here’s a selection of tracks I have submitted to compilations over the years plus a few bits and pieces that have been lying around for ages without a comfortable place to live.
Perhaps you can give them a listen, download them onto your device of choice and let they fly free into the clouds.
Tracklist
Credits
released May 27, 2019
01 For You. A remix of a deadwood track (For You) from 2006 and possibly the first solo-posset thing I ever did. Material? A shaken Dictaphone. That’s it.
02 Brassai Jam for Wes Stephenson. This is the raw recording I sent to Wes to fold and weave into his Brassai project. It mussed-up his super-clean pop tunes featuring Brian from Spinach and sick vocals from Greta Butikute.
03 Double Jupiter Advert. The wonderful Vitrine tapes put out my tape ‘Double Jupiter’ in 2016. I made a little advert for it and you can listen to it here.
04 Extract Lloyd & Posset. Recorded in Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery this is a pre-gig jam with Toby Lloyd ahead of our trio with Yol. Nervous Dictaphones!
05 Forest of Eyes Tribute. This was part of an abandoned album of tributes to a number of North East NAU musicians. This one, the only one that turned out the way I wanted it to, is for Mark Wardlaw AKA Forest of Eyes AKA Noisebear.
06 JohnLee. An off-the-cuff, instant reaction remix to one of Pinnel’s regular Soundcloud postings. Think I just recorded her original sound via the laptop speakers onto a couple of loop tapes and let them play.
07 Information Sinkhole Swallows Lie. A track commissioned for a Kurt Schwitters online compilation; MERZfunder.
08 Carving Off Skin I’ve Chosen Not to Keep. A ‘reconstruction’ of the Jazzfinger track of the same name that appeared on the ‘Ugly for a Living’ CDr on Sindre Bjerga’s Gold Soundz label back in 2005. My version was recorded for Scott McKeating’s Bells Hill compilation ‘ We All Live in a Classic English Womb’ – a tribute to Jazzfinger in 2011. Time travel rattles the ribs somewhat.
09 Choir of Doom Live Jam. Keeping my numerous nieces and nephews occupied I came up with a ‘noisechoir’ idea. Abstract words were written on postcards and each child sang their parts when cued. I then took the raw recordings and edited them into this. I keep coming back and using segments of this but think this is the first time it’s been available as a full piece.
10 Voice Rhythm Study for Luciano Maggiore. Totally ripped off inspired by Luciano’s ’18 Rhythmic Studies for a Pen, Cassette Case and Korean Cassette Deck’ on the super-classy Hideous Replica. My big gob pretty much.
11 Yokel Mix. A re-edited live recording of me & the great Greta Butikute doing some daft vocal jaxx. Circa 2015 I guess when our short-lived group Squeaky Bacon played a few vocal only shows, once supporting reductionist sax wizard John Butcher in the middle of the Tyne River.
12 Poltergeist. This is an odd one. I know I came up with two versions of this for an online compilation called ‘Snap, Crackle and Poppers’ but can’t remember a single other thing about it. Not even sure if it made the comp. It’s here now anyway...hope you like it.
13 A Moment of Stillness. Another ‘reconstruction/remix’. This time the mighty, mighty Midwich gets the posset treatment. Rather than sample and loop Rob Hayler’s deep, ravenous drone I read a selection of his writing and goofed some jaxx on the top.
14. YYAA. In the spirit of the compilation album this is the obligatory new piece. Based on Wojciech Bruszewski's experimental film YYAA (1973) this is a first draft, run through that I will need to chop up and glue back together to pay homage to a classic piece of vocal jaxx. You heard it here first.
01 For You. A remix of a deadwood track (For You) from 2006 and possibly the first solo-posset thing I ever did. Material? A shaken Dictaphone. That’s it.
02 Brassai Jam for Wes Stephenson. This is the raw recording I sent to Wes to fold and weave into his Brassai project. It mussed-up his super-clean pop tunes featuring Brian from Spinach and sick vocals from Greta Butikute.
03 Double Jupiter Advert. The wonderful Vitrine tapes put out my tape ‘Double Jupiter’ in 2016. I made a little advert for it and you can listen to it here.
04 Extract Lloyd & Posset. Recorded in Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery this is a pre-gig jam with Toby Lloyd ahead of our trio with Yol. Nervous Dictaphones!
05 Forest of Eyes Tribute. This was part of an abandoned album of tributes to a number of North East NAU musicians. This one, the only one that turned out the way I wanted it to, is for Mark Wardlaw AKA Forest of Eyes AKA Noisebear.
06 JohnLee. An off-the-cuff, instant reaction remix to one of Pinnel’s regular Soundcloud postings. Think I just recorded her original sound via the laptop speakers onto a couple of loop tapes and let them play.
07 Information Sinkhole Swallows Lie. A track commissioned for a Kurt Schwitters online compilation; MERZfunder.
08 Carving Off Skin I’ve Chosen Not to Keep. A ‘reconstruction’ of the Jazzfinger track of the same name that appeared on the ‘Ugly for a Living’ CDr on Sindre Bjerga’s Gold Soundz label back in 2005. My version was recorded for Scott McKeating’s Bells Hill compilation ‘ We All Live in a Classic English Womb’ – a tribute to Jazzfinger in 2011. Time travel rattles the ribs somewhat.
09 Choir of Doom Live Jam. Keeping my numerous nieces and nephews occupied I came up with a ‘noisechoir’ idea. Abstract words were written on postcards and each child sang their parts when cued. I then took the raw recordings and edited them into this. I keep coming back and using segments of this but think this is the first time it’s been available as a full piece.
10 Voice Rhythm Study for Luciano Maggiore. Totally ripped off inspired by Luciano’s ’18 Rhythmic Studies for a Pen, Cassette Case and Korean Cassette Deck’ on the super-classy Hideous Replica. My big gob pretty much.
11 Yokel Mix. A re-edited live recording of me & the great Greta Butikute doing some daft vocal jaxx. Circa 2015 I guess when our short-lived group Squeaky Bacon played a few vocal only shows, once supporting reductionist sax wizard John Butcher in the middle of the Tyne River.
12 Poltergeist. This is an odd one. I know I came up with two versions of this for an online compilation called ‘Snap, Crackle and Poppers’ but can’t remember a single other thing about it. Not even sure if it made the comp. It’s here now anyway...hope you like it.
13 A Moment of Stillness. Another ‘reconstruction/remix’. This time the mighty, mighty Midwich gets the posset treatment. Rather than sample and loop Rob Hayler’s deep, ravenous drone I read a selection of his writing and goofed some jaxx on the top.
14. YYAA. In the spirit of the compilation album this is the obligatory new piece. Based on Wojciech Bruszewski's experimental film YYAA (1973) this is a first draft, run through that I will need to chop up and glue back together to pay homage to a classic piece of vocal jaxx. You heard it here first.
License
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Posset. Dictaphone and vocal improviser. All goof, all the time. Skronk etc.