The Fourth Futuresequence compliation, SEQUENCE4, has been released. Another amazing, totally free 42 tracks!!
Download it here
i,m lucky enough to have a violin piece on it – northking(part1)
there have been a few, very nice reviews of other room listening since it’s come out, from:
My first album, other room listening is released today by Future Sequence on limited numbered CDr and digital download. I can’t express just how very happy i am to have it out and a huge thanks to michael for all his work on the design / cd / artwork, and of course, for releasing it.
release notes:
Cat No: FS005
Title: other room listening
Artist: Zvuku
Format: Digital/Limited CDr
Mastered by: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Release Date: Monday 30th April 2012
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Irish composer Karl McGrath employs a unique approach to create beautifully constructed, and keenly observed emotional electro-acoustic pieces. Under his alias Zvuku, Karl has had a handful of releases to date, other room listening is his first full length album. Living just over the Dublin / Co Wicklow border, his home looks out over mountains in the West, these and the surrounding landscape have inspired and informed the dynamics of these pieces.
This sense of place is evident throughout the album, and progressed through his approach, which began with recordings of live instrumentation – guitar, violin and piano – and minimal editing or interference with the resulting sound. By leaving hiss, room noise in the recordings, and ‘mistakes’ in his playing, each track retains a human element which delivers a presence of emotion for the listener to experience.
Recorded either in one take, or a handful of sessions, processed and edited in the most part through outboard effects. Karl’s intention to create an ebb and flow of movement via these contrasting walls of sound and quiet interludes is brilliantly realised, weaving the listener into a captivating journey; at once intimate and expansive. Released in a limited edition of 50 hand numbered CDrs in recycled card sleeves, with cover art insert and lino cut printed sleeve.
Tracklist
1. Logpile
2. Cold Yellow Red Blue
3. The Long Walk
4. Matches/Sticks
5. Cold Yellow Reprise
6. Lastone
Released by: Futuresequence
Release/catalogue number: FS005
Release date: Apr 30, 2012
Future Sequence is 1, and to celebrate michael has put together a pretty amazing FREE compilation of 42 artists (me being one of them!). Lots of info on the artists and lovely artworks – http://www.futuresequence.com/sequence1/
Over 3 hours of free music – download it here
http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/download?enc=mp3-320&id=2895732623&ts=1314974768.3784971492&tsig=f273464b234c1349ab2411c42733c354&type=album
my track for the comp is also up on soundcloud to stream:
Savaran Music and Sound has a nice review of “Midway Slump” up on their blog (and the other Heat Death’s for March / April)
Wonderful blog Future Sequence did an interview with me a couple of weeks ago.
i did a mix for Future Sequence a few weeks ago.
Tracklist:
1: Zvuku – Hume Variation 4 demo (unreleased)
2: Bedouin Ascent – if mountains could sing (Leaf) – on invisible soundtracks volume 2
3: Eleh – Tone phase 1 for 2 guitars and 4 oscillators (Important Records)
4: Eyvind Kang – Virginal Co-ordinates (Ipecac)
5: Xela / Greg Haines / Danny Saul – 12th Chapel (Rite / Type)
6: Brian McBride – Several Tries (Kranky) on the Effective Disconnect LP
7: Ramses III – Jose Maria (Under the Spire)
8: Tangerine Dream – Fauni-gena (Ohr) on Atem LP
9: Sonic Youth / James Tenney – Never having written a note for percussion (SYR) on Goodbye 20th Century LP
10: Clouwbeck – The waters burden (Sustain-release) on From Which the River Rise CD
11: Deaf Center – The day i would never have (Type) – on Owl Splinters LP
12: Esmerine – Histories Repeating As One Thousand Hearts Mend (Madrona Records) on Aurora CD
13: Bing and Ruth – Broad Channel (Bing and ruth bandcamp) on City Lake LP
14: On – Erotique (Type) on Your naked ghost comes back at night LP
15: Zvuku – Half Empty (Unreleased) Orignal version “Half Full” on Rural Colours 13 , part of subscrition pack 4
16: Yellow Swans – Going Places (Type)
17: Godflesh – pure2 (Earache) on Pure CD
18: Esmerine – Something (Resonant Records) on If only a sweet surrender to the night to come be true LP
19: Kopernik – Ondoyant et divers (Eastern Developments) on Kopernik LP
20: Popul Vuh – Ich mache einen Spiegal Dream part 49 (SPV Recordings) on Affenstunde CD
21: Heldon – Fluence (Urus Records) on Allez-Teia LP
22: Silver Mt Zion – Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky! (Constellation) on Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward LP
23: Leyland Kirby -When We Parted, My Heart Wanted To Die [Friedrichshain Memory] (History always favours the winners) on Sadly the Future is not what it was(Part One: When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die) LP
24: Harmonia and Eno “76″ – Sometimes in Autumn (Gronland) on tracks and traces LP
25: Vincent Gallo – a cold and grey summer day (Warp) on Recordings of Music for films LP
Irish blog / label Second Square to None did a interview with me a while back (and it features a demo that was to become mid from midway slump)
http://www.ruralcolours.co.uk/releases/P4/P4.html
You can download it here
and there are a few reviews of it as well:
http://www.futuresequence.com/article/review-rural-colours-subscription-pack-4/
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2010/10/rural-colours-vol-4/
http://wtyf.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/rural-colours-subscription-pack-4-jasper-txguy-gelemzvuku/
