**OUT NOW**
Front & Follow releases a new selection of experimental interpretations of the Yonokiero album Blue Apples by BLK w/BEAR, known for their work on Mark Beazley's Trace Recordings, our own Long Division with Remainders and as a cornerstone of the Washington DC alternative art scene.
The release has recently been featured on BBC 6 Music by Gideon Coe, and described as 'fascinating miniature soundworlds' by The Underground of Happiness and 'expertly done ambient bliss with moments of unrestrained beauty' by Norman Records.
Front & Follow releases a new selection of experimental interpretations of the Yonokiero album Blue Apples by BLK w/BEAR, known for their work on Mark Beazley's Trace Recordings, our own Long Division with Remainders and as a cornerstone of the Washington DC alternative art scene.
The release has recently been featured on BBC 6 Music by Gideon Coe, and described as 'fascinating miniature soundworlds' by The Underground of Happiness and 'expertly done ambient bliss with moments of unrestrained beauty' by Norman Records.
Original sound files are reconfigured and fragments of melody and lyrics are rearranged to accentuate audio decay and broken communications: the melancholy keyboard line from “Sumimasen” is in place sublimated by Morse Code; the Blues-shuffle of “Casey Jnr” is bathed in whispered vocalisations and sombre clarinet tones that punctuate looping cello and percussion. “Blue Apples” is reanimated as both the deep-drone “BLK Apples” and a second reconstruction wherein the original track’s acoustic jaunt is slowed to a snail’s pace of skittering prepared vinyl rhythms, ghostly vocals and the guitar processed to recall instead a samisen.
BLK w/BEAR - Sorry about your (remixes) by frontandfollow
Sorry about your (remixes) will be released as a limited edition CDR with packaging by Damian O’Hara and includes a full download code. A bonus video mix of “Casey Jnr” by member Renee Shaw will also be made available to those who purchase the release.
'BLK w/BEAR sound like The Books drank a bunch of cough syrup and morphed to look exactly like Peter Brotzmann' - Isaac Linder, 2005
'...like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a severe nervous breakdown' - Wire Magazine, 2010
'The sound of things falling apart' - Cohort Records, 2011
BLK w/ BEAR (black with bear) is a full-band effort of JS Adams (prepared vinyl/turntables/ loops), Doug Poplin (cello/effects), PD Sexton (bass/source electronics/effects) and Renee Shaw (live video mix). Their recordings of warm drones and broadcast interference have accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London, as well as BBC and Sun television programming. Adams’ early collaboration with Mark Beazley Wish for a World without Hurt (Trace Recordings) was featured in the Discovery's Channel's Emmy-nominated 'The Flight that Fought Back' production, broadcast in the USA, UK, Russia, Japan and Germany. Their newest recordings include a split CDR with amptext + bass on Cohort Records (USA) and a forthcoming 7-inch vinyl release on Champion Version/Fake Jazz (UK). The band’s back catalogue is available on Sonic Circuits’ District of Noise imprint (USA), Trace Recordings (UK), Front & Follow (which first released their Version 3 of the Long Division with Remainders project as a download and then part of a 4-CD box set, and their 21-minute “Version 001“remix as part of the bonus Remainders download), and Ultra Red’s Public Record download label (USA).
Yonokiero - Blue Apples by frontandfollow