meshmass have returned from their scattered hauntings of peculiar places - it is alleged that peter was found playing the soprano saxophone in a disused mine on a mediterranean island (but this can scarcely be true, surely) and that richard has had a headache for a month. the long-delayed and no doubt anxiously awaited april edition of the monthly mass is now available to subscribers on the interweb. it contains approximately 74 minutes of music including a fairly abstract saxophone and guitar duet (delta), a noisy dance-rocker which utilises a megaphone (step away from the groove), the highly attractive 'sauerkraut', 'peace flapping loose' (a 'duet with pulse' - very gentle and pleasant) laptop-based instrumentals 'nosebleed' and 'culminator' and 'the futility foundation' with additional vocals. also the charming duet 'sanctivated'. all pieces are as usual improvised direct to stereo, edited and in this case most have been painstakingly remastered with eq, compression and limiting applied. so that's 8 pieces ranging from 5:45 to 15:27 in length and from the quietly charming to the rampantly noisy with all sorts of weirdness in between. not a bad month, all in all.
work is now proceeding on may's harvest which so far includes a number of samples drawn from recordings of 'sounding stones' made by the sculptor pinnuchio sciola. art turned into art? anything is possible.
(except what you just suggested of course, which is obscene.)
i notice and am not surprised to see that we have 1 follower and it is probably us. never mind, we have become used to the fact that we are of no interest and we carry on regardless. we're currently working on the marchmass - this month's compilation of last month's production at the nothing works - and so far we have whittled it down to just slightly more than twice as much as there ought to be. it would be sensible to hold some over for harder times to come, but since when were we sensible? honestly people, you literally do not know what you are missing - a peculiar but charming blend of pyschedelia, intelligent dance, ambient, jazz, electronica and improvised music delivered free with a picture every month for only £10 a year. there is no other way you will ever hear this music, only perhaps 10 - 20% of it reaches soundcloud - a sample of new work is always available there, however.
we're looking for gigs. we have one on april 14th at the coach house, 22 walpole road kemp town, 8.30 and are in contact with unfortunate individuals in berlin and ghent, but we will come and play in your living room too. think of it as having a living stereo. (which only plays meshmass of course - a bit of a disadvantage i know but we promise to take all the soundwaves away with us when we leave.)
for bookings, subscription enquiries and etc. contact
auralwitness@gmail.com
meshmass played last night to a bath of fire. no computers were involved and the video didn't work, but we played anyway. lola, ruby and pippa were wonderful candle-porters and sabine portela staged the event with her keen and adaptable sensibility. thanks to sara-jane at the coach house, kemptown - we will be playing there again.... better and more complicatedly. (oh god).
we are negotiating with berlin to go and play there. don't hold your breath since so far these negotiations have been ongoing for 5 months. but they have resumed.....
new meshmass on soundcloud - a long piece (this time!) called 'guias sonores' - check your portuguese road atlas.
a new and strangely wonderful video from meshmass. dancing plastic in the tidal river accompanied by the 'loungecrime' hit horvendile. give yourself 8 minutes of peculiar enjoyment.
a plastic horvendile
a plastic horvendile
beastly new meshmassmusic going up on soundcloud even now! what's worse, someone has lent peter a tenor saxophone which seems incredibly large and loud and permits him to make howling and screeching noises even worse than before. one of the new pieces sounds like bach only like bach gone wrong, of course... a sort of mock baroque, perhaps. good heavens, whatever next.
easily led by meshmass
easily led by meshmass
oh, wonderful persons, here we are again, all scattered in our separate worlds. the creatures of meshmass have gathered and once again produced inordinate quantities of what they call 'music' (some auditory phenomenon, they claim, carried by 'waves' in the 'air' - the sort of hippy-dippy lunatic explanation one might expect from such types) and an example of this new production is available free to you below. i should warn you that it lasts more than 30 of your earth minutes and passes through several states or emotions before sliding into a quiet somnolence.
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