aural witness
for more than 20 years aural witness has been recording and releasing improvised music, songs, instrumentals, all combinations of the above and anything in between.
we are pleased to make available a revised cd catalogue and much streamed and i hope downloadable material in mp3 format.
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all cd's are available by mail for £10 plus £2 p&p (u.k.), $20 (u.s.), which is clearly a mere fraction of their value.
an expression of faith
studio recordings, first released in 1984 in Britain and America. 5 star review in Sounds (which no longer exists) calls it a 'monumental achievement'. Popular on the College radio circuit in the U.S., it features the classic songs 'Ayatollah', 'Baby Grenade', 'Heart of the Matter', 'Love Goes Hungry' and 'Beast' among others. LIVE SEX take 60's psychedelia, 70's glam and punk and 80's synth-pop and make something perfectly itself.
faulty jazz
pastoral improvisations from the crazed innocence of their youth, this is the essence of their creative act, veering from naive lyricism to lurching rock.
electric soup
further improvised music, of a more sophisticated character. As played by grumpy old John Peel on Radio 1, rather against his will, I thought. Extreme, unpredictable, aggressive and lyrical, late LIVE SEX is sinuous, fluid and astonishingly assured, for something teetering constantly on the edge of chaos.
<something more about live sex>
head cleaner
sizzling avant-garde and melodic improvisations from the mighty beings, includes 2 songs, loads of percussion and an alarmingly uncluttered outlook.
<something more about the beings>
2 drummers, 2 guitars, a succession of great bass-players; the senile ramblings of rock's final dementia, a dazzling array of disordered fragments plucked from the seething air.
an exciting new range of meat products
This was already 'post-rock' before the post arrived. Somewhere between Miles Davis, Can and Captain Beefheart, brahma chop poke around in the squelchy things left behind by the ebbing tide of popular music.
generic clapton
studio recordings.
Includes the whole of 'HEARTH', the 45rpm brahma chop album and the other previously unreleased tracks from those sessions.......
'Love Train', 'Distance', 'Factory', 'The man you recognise', 'Telephone song', etc. etc.
this is the formal, arranged, rehearsed and all dressed up in its clothes chop doing some surprising things with a bloated corpse.
not always nice, of course.
but sometimes beautiful.
compulsitance
improvisations.
English krautrock with a distinctive twist. All the fragile violence of love.
all those things (you never knew you needed)
wreckage
improvisations.
Something strange has happened. Everything seems to have been picked up and thrown around. I can't tell if anything's missing, it just doesn't seem to make sense anymore.
get it while it's gone
live
b. chop were a kicking live band in various incarnations. This cd features legendary live performances at All Saints and the Brighton Urban Free Festival, including otherwise unavailable material from the frankly beautiful 'Give Myself Away', to the fiercely ugly and demented 'Family Man' and 'Hideous Blood', through 'My Escape', 'Hip-Cap', 'Bullshit', 'Sales Talk', plus live versions of 'the Water', 'Chemical Boy' and 'Factory' and more. more than an hour of it.
funk, indie-pop, metal, grunge, blues; bewildering time signatures; sudden shifts of tempo; incomprehensible ravings; stops and starts; big men hitting metal cans; rock fusion goes dance crazy on party night.
brahma chop live. brahma chop dead. what could be better?
oh! that government spokesman!
posthumourous
demo tapes
multitrack recordings from brahma chop made after the hearth sessions. various line-ups with marco, richard miles, rick patten, marcus ripley, paul kennedy, matt lowerson, dave bailes and a drum machine. includes 'the tide', 'new age pension', 'the new manager of hell' 'family man', 'bullshit' and other ambitious obscurities.
<something more about brahma chop>
a selection of songs from various solo recordings made by Peter Pick over a 15 year period and featuring him as singer, guitarist, saxophonist, percussionist, lyricist, programmer, engineer, songwriter, producer and ultimately victim.
listen to perfectly normal world
we're all living on american radio
new recordings from peter pick. 12 songs in typically tragicomical style.
uncanny (special version)
full track list:
1 let me down
2 just can't stand it
3 decoupling
4 think
5 never coming home
6 uncanny
7 breathe
8 time i wasted
9 even there
10 the angels
11 the gatefold dead
12 nobody knows
+ uncanny 3
<something more about peter pick>
meshmass see their music not only as a self-contained musical experience (that is, something to listen to) but also as an opensource soundtrack for arts projects and collaborative work. for an annual subscription of £10 they undertake to provide at least 60 minutes of new meshmassmusic per month.
they welcome the use of their music as ambience in exhibition spaces, shops, restaurants and other public areas, and actively encourage its use in video, film, theatre, dance, drama and art installations. remixes, looping and collaborative projects are welcome.
please apply to auralwitness@gmail.com
as meshmass peter pick and richard miles reconvene their long-standing collaboration in a new format. pick manipulates pre-recorded loops and plays the alto saxophone and richard plays various peculiar stringed instruments, some of which have had their frets cruelly and perhaps unwisely removed, through a complicated pedalboard. the combination, a mixture of unpredictable improvisation and selected nuggets contrives to combine solidity with surprise. we are confident that you will enjoy this new style, and hope that you will care to sample it below. a CD release is planned for the near future, but as yet we are having some trouble in restricting the output to an economically viable level.
a 10 CD boxed set does not seem practicable as a debut release......
meshmass now make available a double cd (having struggled through all the problems indicated above) which selects a tiny proportion of the music produced during their first 6 months. this is called
point of entry
and will cost only £10. they hope it will act as an introduction to their developing soundfield.
further meshmass information here
http://auralwitness.official.fm http://soundcloud.com/meshmass
other work
'disableton project'
new music made in a different way out of bits of old music and things i found on the floor. for starters we can try
which is constructed from some birdsong i recorded in spain, some saba-saba music from mozambique, and a little piece of live sex from the early 1980's.
'surface'
pure abstract and compound vocal music (with drum machine) from Peter Pick.
very ugly and stupid.
listen to liminal
'voice'
peter pick makes vocal loop improvisations with a strange hypnotic quality.
you wouldn't like it
(unless you did.)
'holding these things so close'
'poems'
live and tape performances of poems by Peter Pick.
not as bad as you'd think.
probably.
listen to skaters