LVX: Ten Years of Light and Darkness
Our latest release, a compilation to celebrate 10 years of Evening of Light. All benefits go to Doctors Without Borders.
Our latest release, a compilation to celebrate 10 years of Evening of Light. All benefits go to Doctors Without Borders.
February mix, featuring Songs Of Green Pheasant, God Body Disconnect, Mario Grönnert, Council Of Nine, Refectori, Shape Worship, Laura Cannell, Richard Moult, Michael Tanner, Transmission, and Martyn Bates.
Colohan / Moult team up with an organic dark ambient tribute to nautical lives, waves, and the Atlantic.
Second August mix, featuring music by Nachtlaub, Andrew Weathers Ensemble , Richard Moult, Gurun Gurun , Oikos & High Aura’d, Olan Mill, Glover/Perreault, Memory Drawings ‚Chihei Hatakeyama and Good Weather For An Airstrike, Obsequiae, Aun, and James Blackshaw.
July 2015 short reviews: Dirk Serries & Rutger Zuydervelt - Buoyant (2015, Consouling Sounds); Richard Moult - Last Night I Dreamt of Hibrihteselle (2015, Wild Silence); Andrew Weathers Ensemble - Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything (2015, Full Spectrum).
May 2015 Cloudscape, featuring music by Wyrding, Autistici, Guy Gelem, Equal Stones, Isnaj Dui, Rachel Musson; Mark Sanders; Liam Noble, Orla Wren with Aaron Martin, Richard Moult, I’ve Lost, Abandon Reason, Anatomia de Vanitats, Halgrath, and YODOK III.
February starts bright and clear, but it quickly turns colder and darker. There’s hope at the end, but it’s not spring yet. The mix features Daughters of Elvin, Northaunt, Sonmi451, this nocturnal topography, Pleq & Hakobune, Ed Hamilton, offthesky, Richard Moult, Adrian Shenton & Banks Bailey, and Raising Holy Sparks.
A mendicant is a travelling monk — one who begs for subsistence, accepting what people and to world have to offer, in humility. The music on this double album could be a distillation of the world experienced in such a way: a flowing by of landscapes and visions, an endless sequence of steps carrying one to some unknown destination. This is the final act of begging and acceptance: to see where the journey leads you, always deferring to decisions made outside of the self; offering up the self.
Raising Holy Sparks is the project that rose from the ashes of Agitated Radio Pilot and saw David Colohan shifting from lo-fi and singer/songwriter releases to something more instrumental, raw, and abstract. The division is far from clear-cut: Agitated Radio Pilot had its share of lush ambient improvisations, and the occasional harsh guitar solo, while Raising Holy Sparks has had plenty of songs interspersed on its earlier releases. All the same, there is a tangible contrast between the two projects.
In my 2012 review of The Cloisters, I had written about how the imagined landscape (Britain, in these cases) features so strongly in some strains of contemporary experimental folk music. Granted, this has been a central theme in folk since the 60s revival, but as I argue, the ease with which electronic manipulation can be applied these days has really influenced some of the more experimental folk works in the past decade or so. This heightened interplay of the ‘acoustic’ and electronic, and in a broader sense, between the rural and the urban, makes for a liminal artistic and imaginary field that is finding different forms of expression these days.