Klang vol. 122 [30.08.2009] : This is not about everything

1) Blues Control - Good Morning / Local Flavor (Siltbreeze, 2009)
2) William Fowler Collins - Grave Robbing in Texas / Perdition Hill Radio (Type, 2009)
3) Tulasi - Untitled 2 / Huomen Tuone (Troglosound, 2009)
4) Tulasi - Untitled 7 / Huomen Tuone (Troglosound, 2009)
5) Yellow Swans with John Wiese - Evicted CDR / Portable Duns (Helicopter, 2009)
6) Yellow Swans with John Wiese - Disco Girlfriend / Portable Duns (Helicopter, 2009)
7) Robedoor - Magic Tar Pit Ride / Exorcist Blues (Monorail Trespassing, 2009)

Artworks by Liz Harris (a.k.a. Grouper)
(Second one for the 'Portable Duns' cover)




A Vast Confusion


Long long I lay in the sands

Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a vast muttering
a swelling stuttering
in ocean's speakers
world's voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked echoing
a shocking shouting
of all life's voices lost in night
And the tape of it
someow running backwards now
through the Moog Synthesizer of time
Chaos unscrambled
back to the first
harmonies
And the first light


poem by Lawrance Ferlinghetti

Klang vol. 121 [23.08.2009] : Above the humdrum noise that consumes the air

1) Pefkin - Third Part / Zugunruhe (Sound&Fury, 2009)
2) Pefkin - Ancient wings from the printing store / Zugunruhe (Sound&Fury, 2009)
3) Danny Nordbury - This night is for you and for me / Light in august (Lacies, 2009)
4) Redjetson - Questions i don't want to ask / Other Arms (Gizeh, 2009)
5) Bloody Panda - Gold / Summon (Profound Lore, 2009)
6) Nurse with wound - The Golden Age of Telekinesis / The Surveillance Lounge (United Dirter, 2009)

Artwork by Roberto Kusterie



TEMPEST
Edwin Torres
We will storm our planes on you.
—Osama bin Laden


everyone will feel better
hearing what you are saying
since what you are saying
no one told you to say
everyone will feel better
hearing what you are saying
since what you are saying
no one told you to say

a number of people
have gathered and stopped
for whatever it takes
to say what you say
a number of people
have gathered and stopped
for whatever it takes
to say what you say

something is happening
that hasn't been seen
making what happens
the opposite of seeing
something is happening
that hasn't been seen
making what happens
the opposite of seeing

saying what there is
in a time like now
means never knowing time
if time can be right
saying what there is
in a time like now
means never knowing time
if time can be right

it is your job
to witness your world
to tell who will listen
so they listen like you
it is your job
to witness your world
to tell who will listen
so they listen like you


we will storm you with words
you will have an entire ocean
we will make you our raindrop
you will have no umbrella
we will teach you our water
you will drown in our words
we will give you an ocean
you will swim in our wash
we will make you our rain
you will have no umbrella
we will water your ocean
you will drown in our words
we will swim in your storm
you will rain in our ocean
we will teach you our water
you will drown in our words

Klang vol. 120 [16.09.2009] : La vida no vale nada

1) El Heath - Thee Wind, Thee / Wind, Thee Wind (Records on ribs, 2009)
2) El Heath - Wind, Thee Wind/ Wind, Thee Wind (Records on ribs, 2009)
3) El Heath - Shadows on the carpet / Reflecting (Ambient and Loop Tracks, Autumn 2006) (Phantom Channel)
4) On (Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess reworked by Deathprod) - In the forest of the night / Your naked ghost comes back at night (Type, 2009)
5) El Heath - Waves "Goodbye" ("Good Luck!" Mix) / A (Rather) dead see liner (Dead sea liner, 2008)
6) Fashion - You only left your picture / Fabrique (Arista, 1982)
7) Nadja - The sun always shines on TV (A-Ha) / When i see the sun always shines on TV (The End, 2009)
8) Cold Cave - Cebe and Me / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
9) Cold Cave - I.C.D.K. / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
10) Deerhunter - Oh, it's such a shame / Jay Reatard/Deerhunter Split (Matador, 2008)
11) Cold Cave - Heaven was full / Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press, 2009)
12) Nadja - Needle in the hay (Elliott Smith) / When i see the sun always shines on TV (The End, 2009)




“He who thinks he is bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery, there he will see what life really is. It is a handful of dirt, a handful of dust…”

From the amazing movie 'The Limits of Control' by Jim Jarmusch



Photography by Greg Sand

Klang vol. 119 [07.09.2009] : Memories blending

1) Sleeping Me - Kinski for Halloween / Lamenter (Phantom Channel, 2009)
2) Sleeping Me - Northern Pacific / Lamenter (Phantom Channel, 2009)
3) Six Organs of Admittance - Anesthesia / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
4) Pumice - The Dawn Chorus of Kina / Persevere (Soft Abuse, 2009)
5) Murcof - I.IV. / La Sangre Iluminada (2009)
6) Six Organs of Admittance - Cover your wounds with the sky / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
7) Don Peyote - Etheric Soma / Eternal Now (Don Peyote Recordings, 2009)
8) Six Organs of Admittance - Enemies before the light / Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009)
9) Mika Vainio - Hautaa Hevosen Pää / Bury a horse's head / Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch, 2009)

Photography by Robert and Shana Parkeharrison
http://www.parkeharrison.com/

13 questions from Pauline Oliveros' Hörspiel 'Ear Piece'

1) Are you listening now?
2) Are you listening to what you are now hearing?
3) Are you hearing while you listen?
4) Are you listening while you are hearing?
5) Do you remember the last sound you heard before this question?
6) What will you hear in the near future?
7) Can you hear now and also listen to your memory of an old sound?
8) What causes you to listen?
9) Do you hear yourself in your daily life?
10) Do you have healthy ears?
11) If you could hear any sound you want, what would it be?
12) Are you listening to sounds now or just hearing them?
13) What sound is most meaningful to you?

Klang vol. 118 [02.08.2009] : Difficulty in getting to heaven

1) Part Timer - Untitled 2 / Tape Recordings (Self-Released, 2009)
2) Part Timer - Untitled 5 / Tape Recordings (Self-Released, 2009)
3) Dead letters spell out dead Words - When she's gone / Fall,fall,falling (Kalligrammofon, 2007)
4) The Archivist - The End / The Archivist EP (2007)
5) The Mars Volta - With twilight as my guide / Octahedron (Warner, 20099
6) Ramleh - TMOTL (Unreleased)
7) Ramleh - Untitled 3&4 (Unreleased)
8) The Archivist - Street Night Om / The Archivist EP (2007)
9) Boduf Songs - That Angel was fucking piss / 'The Strait Gait' Or 'A Great Difficulty In Getting To Heaven' (Latitudes, 2009)
10) Boduf Songs - Deathbed triumphs of eminent lackwits / There's something hanging above you (Under the spire, 2009)

Free Downloads
Ramleh: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2624/
The Archivist: http://www.iamthearchivist.com/music.htm


First photo by Man Ray, second one by Francesca Woodman


"Desire not thou, dear my soul, a life immortal, but use the tools that are to thine hand." Pindar

"It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough." Albert Camus