Flaming Pines label celebrates 100 releases
October 2020
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Kate Carr shares tracks from brand new and forthcoming releases to mark her imprint’s first century
"Flaming Pines started really as an accident after I got a big tax return while working as a journalist and decided to spend it on pressing a record,” explains recordist and label boss Kate Carr. “I considered shelving it at several points, but in the end it has travelled with me as I relocated from Sydney to Belfast and now London, filling my evenings with hand-making CDs, and my days with endless trips to the post office. I hope that in the nine years since it began that it has evolved into an interesting home for diverse explorations of sound, space and our relationships with each other."
This playlist showcases excerpts from Flaming Pines’ latest instalment of its Footfalls series, plus tracks from four forthcoming releases. Carr explains more below:
Yifeat Ziv
Amazonian Traces Of Self (excerpt)This playlist showcases excerpts from Flaming Pines’ latest instalment of its Footfalls series, plus tracks from four forthcoming releases. Carr explains more below:
Yifeat Ziv
Experimental vocalist and sound artist Yifeat Ziv explores presence, reverberation and an interspecies compositional approach with this work, which is based on a set of vocal experiments in the Brazillian Amazon. In a text which forms part of this release Yifeat describes the experience: “The forest reverberates my voice. The density of the trees and the thick canopy reflects sound waves and creates an echo as if I was singing in a closed space, maybe a chapel. I didn’t expect it. This echo feels like a mirror, it feedbacks my vocal intervention, reflecting traces of my own sound pollution in the Amazon’s dense soundscape.” (Released on 17 November.)
Shoeb Ahmad & Australian Art Orchestra
im/modesty (excerpt)
Scheduled for release on 16 November during Transgender Awareness Week, im/modesty by Bangladeshi-Australian sound artist Shoeb Ahmad explores the blooming of her inner sexuality, meditations on intimacy, gender identity and an exploration of personal relationships in a 60 minute sound work that uses a text narrative for three voices to guide the listener through a psycho-geographic trip through her subcontinental heritage. Written for and manipulated from Indian electronic instruments, harmonium and percussion, as well as field sounds recorded in southern India and Bangladesh. Shoeb Ahmad is the artist name used by Sia Ahmad.
Scheduled for release on 16 November during Transgender Awareness Week, im/modesty by Bangladeshi-Australian sound artist Shoeb Ahmad explores the blooming of her inner sexuality, meditations on intimacy, gender identity and an exploration of personal relationships in a 60 minute sound work that uses a text narrative for three voices to guide the listener through a psycho-geographic trip through her subcontinental heritage. Written for and manipulated from Indian electronic instruments, harmonium and percussion, as well as field sounds recorded in southern India and Bangladesh. Shoeb Ahmad is the artist name used by Sia Ahmad.
Iain Chambers
Secrets Of Orford Ness (excerpt)
An exploration of the decommissioned UK Ministry Of Defence site Orford Ness located on the coast of Suffolk. Iain writes of the work: “Since the Ministry Of Defence left in 1993, the buildings have been overrun by nature. Today the place gives us a sense of what a post-apocalyptic environment might look and sound like. Air ducts once now burst open with the packed nests of roosting birds. There are seagulls 'playing' the atomic weapons laboratories with their cries; baby jackdaws duetting with gravel footsteps; metal stairwells transformed into aeolian harps.” (Released on 27 October.)
An exploration of the decommissioned UK Ministry Of Defence site Orford Ness located on the coast of Suffolk. Iain writes of the work: “Since the Ministry Of Defence left in 1993, the buildings have been overrun by nature. Today the place gives us a sense of what a post-apocalyptic environment might look and sound like. Air ducts once now burst open with the packed nests of roosting birds. There are seagulls 'playing' the atomic weapons laboratories with their cries; baby jackdaws duetting with gravel footsteps; metal stairwells transformed into aeolian harps.” (Released on 27 October.)
David Evans
“We Must All Act Together Now”
From Waiting For The Great Reset
Waiting For The Great Reset represents a before and after series of vignettes addressing themes of degradation, proximity, confinement and renewal in light of the pandemic. In his text accompanying the release, David writes: “After decades of excess and misbalance, Covid-19 is sweeping across the globe but still managing to discriminate. Everything is upside down but the bottom is still the same. The loop narrows at the same time that it increases the breadth of its grasp. Scale is everywhere and local, all at once. Seasons shift. Disequilibrium uncurls. Fairness is still unfair.” (Released on 27 October.)
From Waiting For The Great Reset
Waiting For The Great Reset represents a before and after series of vignettes addressing themes of degradation, proximity, confinement and renewal in light of the pandemic. In his text accompanying the release, David writes: “After decades of excess and misbalance, Covid-19 is sweeping across the globe but still managing to discriminate. Everything is upside down but the bottom is still the same. The loop narrows at the same time that it increases the breadth of its grasp. Scale is everywhere and local, all at once. Seasons shift. Disequilibrium uncurls. Fairness is still unfair.” (Released on 27 October.)
Luca Nasciuti “The Gift”
Linda O’Keeffe “Walking La Fatarella 2020”
Egor Klochikhin “Provody”
From Various A Soundwalk Series: Footfalls (Edition 2)
These three walks form part of the second edition of Flaming Pines soundwalk series called Footfalls. Luca Nasciuti presents a composition detailing his recent move from London to Cairo. Linda O’Keeffe continues her research on wind turbine soundscapes with a walk heavily impacted by COVID in La Fatarella, Spain. Egor Klochikhin aka the sound artist Foresteppe, walks to his grandmother’s grave during the Russian Orthodox religious holiday Radonitsa in Berdsk, Siberia.
Egor Klochikhin “Provody”
From Various A Soundwalk Series: Footfalls (Edition 2)
These three walks form part of the second edition of Flaming Pines soundwalk series called Footfalls. Luca Nasciuti presents a composition detailing his recent move from London to Cairo. Linda O’Keeffe continues her research on wind turbine soundscapes with a walk heavily impacted by COVID in La Fatarella, Spain. Egor Klochikhin aka the sound artist Foresteppe, walks to his grandmother’s grave during the Russian Orthodox religious holiday Radonitsa in Berdsk, Siberia.
For more information about these releases, go to the Flaming Pines Bandcamp page.
Read a 2018 interview with Kate Carr in The Wire 409, in print or via the digital archive.
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