IORRAM KY 235 & IORRAM PD65

Two new releases from Iorram Records; November 2019


Yonder by - Saadet Türköz, Nick Fells, Neil Davidson (DL) IORRAM KY 235

This trio of Saadet Türköz - voice/lyrics, Nick Fells - laptop and Neil Davidson - acoustic guitar was recorded live at The Old Hairdressers, April 2017. The three pieces amount to a thorough investigation of pattern, layering, process and form;  each gesture conveying its own purpose and fold; physically present and at the same time open to the breadth of the other players
Saadet's voice is from everywhere. "In my improvisations ... I am looking to transform memory. I seek to evoke pictures and atmosphere by means of voice and music which transcend cultural boundaries."  



Rewardless Flowers - The Final Five (DL) IORRAM PD65

THE FINAL FIVE is an exquisite corpse of free jazz, a vivid science fiction mess of loops and conditionals linking conceptual processes and human flesh. The music bypasses romanticism for an erotics of repetition. Anticipation abounds, awaiting aural perceptions that we don't know about yet, of things underneath, of codes hidden. Again. Trio studio recording from 2014.  Fritz Welch (drums), Armin Sturm (double bass) &  Neil Davidson (guitar).

So Long Farewell Repair

New Release - So Long Farewell Repair - live at The Glad Cafe
Daniel Carter - saxophone/piano
George Lyle - double bass
Fritz Welch - drums
In Memoriam George Lyle 1940 - 2016
CD/Download out now
Available from
Bandcamp
Mixed Up Records, Glasgow (+sales through Amazon)
Monorail Glasgow

Just over one hour in length the recording of their set extends sonically and formally in every direction; seething not in a heedless ‘blow-out’ but as though constantly emerging in new environments – insects improvising structures of great depth using familiar materials but in counter intuitive ways. George’s playing is here in all its breadth, too: tactile adjusting and nudging, resonant low field work. From the CD liner notes:

There was a particular way that George’s hands roved for and with the bass; some kind of non-euclidian space being described. Not at all punching the clock of well trodden bass lines (no disrespect there, since he could pad around with gentle care in those shoes too) but rather pointing to (George pointed at nothing-in-particular all the time) and initiating things that were bluffs, blinds, never quite suggesting any harmony or impulse but coaxing a very sideways-shifting but grounded human presence.

Back story:

Daniel and Fritz have known each other a long time, hovering around the edges of each other’s gigs in NY through the years but rarely playing together.  When Daniel came to Glasgow to perform with William Parker in 2012 they reconnected and set plans in motion to work on a new project. This trio was the outcome.

George and I hit it off crackin’ jokes in the back row of a Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra gig. We talked about jamming together for a coupla years before it finally happened. By then I lived just up the hill and so it soon became a weekly occurrence. We would meet during the day, drink lots of strong coffee and shoot the breeze before playing music in his living room. He was a free players through and through and seemed to thrive on sound!

I was psyched that he was totally comfortable in the ultra weird zones that I like to inhabit. He pushed himself and his instrument to fantastic extremes. George quickly became one of my favourite collaborators. He was always down for playing. And he loved to talk about music, sounds, ideas, dreams, politics and life. He joined me and my family for Christmas dinner a few times and always brought a fresh pineapple to parties.  - FW

Alasdair Campbell, who knows a good thing when he hears it, booked the project for his Counterflows festival without hesitation. We thank him once again for his amazing and ceaseless support for this music.

The concert is presented in its entirety.

Interview with George Lyle 2015
Alasdair Campbell on George Lyle 2015

Reviews:

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2017/06/01/a-duo-of-trios/
https://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/human-knotty-complexity-joe-murray-on-katz-mulk-daniel-cartergeorge-lylefritz-welch-downer-canada-and-brbvoicecoil/

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GN82 Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with Lol Coxhill & Evan Parker - Improcherto by George Burt

Live recording of the orchestra's performance at the Gateshead Jazz Festival 2011 with guests Lol Coxhill and Evan Parker. From George Burt's notes on the piece:
The origins of this piece go back to one summer when I saw The Barry Guy New Orchestra and Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet within a few weeks of each other. I was looking for ways that a composer (like Barry Guy) or a bandleader (like Peter Brötzmann) could organise music into a structure without inhibiting the players and promoting co-operation between them. I thought I could see one solution in Barry Guy’s graphic scores. In trying to get to the essence of how these work, I drew little diagrams on scraps of paper. Symbols like a triangle for a trio passage or linked circles for a duo came quite naturally. While I was planning a more complicated piece that would bring out the useful aspects of conduction while keeping the emoting and arm-waving to a decent minimum, we got the news of Harry Beckett’s death. An orchestral piece with space for solos seemed a good way to celebrate his life and music, because one of the characteristics of his playing was his ability play lines which floated cheerfully over the broiling chaos of a big free-jazz improvising group. That’s the origin of the Improcerto. Evan Parker and Lol Coxhill, Harry’s old muckers, play the first two solos followed by Neil Davidson, Raymond MacDonald and John Burgess. Conducted sections are by George Burt, Raymond MacDonald, Una MacGlone, George Burt again and Peter Nicholson. George Burt, 2011

Raymond MacDonald / David Stackenäs Lin Flax

David Stackenäs is widely regarded as one of Swedenʼs most enquiring, adventurous and distinctive guitarists. This record documents his first project with Scottish saxophonist Raymond MacDonald. The duo creates highly textured and intimate soundscapes, at times strongly melodic, with a dark lopsided narrative. 'Lin' translated from Swedish means 'flax' and 'flax' in Swedish means 'luck'. While luck may have played a part when Stackenäs and MacDonald first met in January 2009 in the Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm, the rapport that developed on their first duo tour, culminating in this recording, is born out of a mutual relish of the spontaneous collaborative encounter. Both players embrace the way that these encounters can lead to new insights and artistic developments and this recording showcases these vital elements.

CDR 100 copies

Autumn

Some new and forthcoming things:

Never Come Ashore is a new download label / blog set up by Nick Fells and Neil Davidson. New releases there include a series of voice pieces by Fritz Welch, Insects by Armin Sturm and a laptop guitar duo by Nick Fells and Neil Davidson. Forthcoming projects include documentation of a 7 hour performance by Rhodri Davies and Dominic Lash on the 8th of January 2011 at Glasgow University.

Instal 2010 at Tramway Glasgow

Our friends at Psykick Dancehall have launched a journal here.

New Releases from Burt & Alcorn and The Rope & Duck Company

Susan Alcorn and George Burt: 'A&B' CDR limited to 100 copies SOLD OUT AT SOURCE

This record documents the first musical meeting between the guitarists Susan Alcorn and George Burt when Susan arrived in Glasgow on a rainy weekend in November 2009 to play as a duo with George at the second Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra festival.

Susan Alcorn’s work is marked by purity of sound, a keen sense of sonic weight and an ear for clear melodic line. Her reputation as one of the most striking voices in contemporary music has led her to work with underground musical luminaries such as Jandek, Evan Parker, Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith, Eugene Chadbourne and Pauline Oliveros. George Burt is an exceptional guitarist, an anarchist of sound whose hands dance him through a central belt poetics all his own. He is a founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and co-leader of the heart of Scottish un-jazz the Burt MacDonald 5

Review from Downtown Music Gallery



The Rope & Duck Company: 'Waymarkers' CDR limited to 100 copies

The Rope & Duck Company are Aileen Campbell – voice, Emma Roche – flute and Una MacGlone – double bass. Waymarkers is their first CD as a trio.

Campbell, MacGlone and Roche have been playing together as members of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra for over five years and have also collaborated on various art and performance projects for the Transmission gallery and Tramway in Glasgow and the November Music festival in the Netherlands. The trio investigate a kind of chamber improvisation utilising a sonorous and tonal sensibility, exploring more traditional methods of sound production side by side with more extended techniques. All tracks were recorded at Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery in Glasgow with the final two recorded live in concert by John Cavanagh mixing live onto 1/4 inch tape.

Both discs available now from Boa Melody Bar

George Burt & Susan Alcorn

George Burt and Susan Alcorn will be performing at the Glasgow Jazz Festival alongside the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra on Saturday the 26th of June at the Tron Theatre from 14:00. Their New CDR 'A&B' on Iorram Records will be released the same day, copies available at the gig.

George Burt and Susan Alcorn first met when George performed as one of the support acts at Susan’s first concert in Scotland at the 13th Note Glasgow in 1998. It was already clear that there were intriguing overlaps in outlook, approach and background. Susan’s career in perfectly normal country bands and George’s in inoffensive folk and jazz bands has led both players by long circuitous routes to a radical deconstruction of standard guitar techniques largely growing out of the inextricable mixture of exasperation and profound respect they both feel for the musics that continue to nurture them.

Psykick Dancehall Event

Iorram recommends a fine concert presented by Psykick Dancehall including the wonderful Iorram recording artists Helhesten:

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
Wire magazine favorites, alchemical flutes and drums duo from Manchester.

Bad Orb
Concrete sound debris from Brighton. Ex Leopard Leg and Polly Shang Kuan Band.

Hobo Sonn
Claustrophobic free rock channelled through discontinued instruments.

Helhesten
Precarious structured improvisations for clarinet, Voice, tapes and guitar.

CCA // 13TH FEB // £5 // 8PM
CCA Glasgow 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow

http://www.myspace.com/psykickdancehallrecordings

Iorram Presents

David Stackenäs (guitar) & Raymond MacDonald (saxophones)

One of Sweden’s most in demand and inquiring improvising guitarists makes a rare appearance in Scotland.
“Creating something different, not to mention memorable with the world's most popular instrument, the guitar, often seems as unlikely as winning the national lottery. Yet Swedish guitarist David Stackenäs has done so on this short, cunningly enigmatic disc.” Ken Waxman on solo-cd “the guitar”

+ Aileen Campbell (voice), Una MacGlone (double bass) & Emma Roche (flute)

Sunday December 13th 7.30 pm at Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery at Trongate 103
Entry by Donation. Refreshments available

New Releases October 2009

Peter Nicholson and Raymond MacDonald - Streetlevel Iorram OB30



From a last visit to the Streetlevel premises at 48 King Street comes a record that belies the old Apollo/Marsayas opposition of string and wind: both cello and saxophone are wheezing corpulent and apparently without skin. Hear them sing as John Cavanagh swathes their wounds in quarter inch tape. CD-R 100 hand made copies


Helhesten - Thickly Grown Iorram KY96



Tape rubbed evocations of something slender and burnished, Messiaenic aviaries in drains. Recorded in various miss-matched settings, the first six pieces of this record form a crudely but carefully butted assembly. Helhesten's urban pastoral is a dirty place. CD-R 100 hand made copies Review

Iorram Records Launch Event

Marking the release of two new CDRs on Iorram Records by Helhesten and a duo of Raymond MacDonald and Peter Nicholson. Helhesten are Ben Knight - voice and tapes, Hannah Ellul - clarinet and Greg Thomas - viola, zither and guitar. Also performing are Lemur, a Norwegian quartet of Lene Grenager - cello, Bjørnar Habbestad - flute Hild Sofie Tafjord - horn and Michael Francis Duch - double bass.

Late addition: ELi Keszler + Usurper will also be performing

Sunday 25th of October 7pm Streetlevel - now located in new premises within Trongate 103.
Entry by donation

Iorram Related Radio Activities

Iorram's favourite record producer and broadcaster John Cavanagh has teamed up with director Maria Gil of Lisbon based theatre company Teatro Do Silencio in a new production of Pirate Radio, a broadcast for the stage. In this production devised from John's memories and experiences he opens his diary, asks questions and invites invisible guests to the show. Pirate Radio is a flashback, a journey, an attempt at mapping memories and of putting an audience face-to-face with the past and future. It takes place live on stage at The Arches in Glasgow, and is broadcast live online on Radio 6 International here: http://www.radiosix.com/index.html

Aporias Trio Live at Inage Candy

Iorram Records Presents GIO CD Launch

To mark the launch of their new CD 'Metamorphic Rock' with George Lewis the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra will be performing live at Streetlevel Photoworks on Saturday 20th of June as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival. Copies of both new Iorram CDs will be available for sale for a reduced price. Refreshments available. 19:00 Free entry

2 New CDs Out Now

Iorram GN54
Aporias Trio - Tatsuya Nakatani - drums and percussion, Raymond MacDonald - sax, Neil Davidson - guitar: Entre Nous
Recorded in the midst of an intense tour of the UK in 2007. This disk breaks up the long arcs of sound which marked the trio's live performances from that period into discreet essays in sonic physicality. Shamanic percussion, deconstructed guitar and circular breathing. Artwork by Sarah Tripp. CD limited to 500 copies

Review by Richard Pinnell



Iorram ML83
George Lewis and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: Metamorphic Rock
40 minutes of free improvisation from George Lewis and GIO recorded in December 2007 mid way through preparatory work on Lewis's new piece, 'Artificial Life 2007' for the orchestra. One continuous take revealing the group in its subtlest and most raucous modes. Artwork by Sarah Tripp. CD 500 copies

Iorram Records Presents

Live performances from:

Michael Francis Duch (Trondheim) - double bass solo and duo w. Neil Davidson - guitar

Ben Reynolds

Emma Roche - baroque Flute w. Una MacGlone - double bass

Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery 48 King St Glasgow
Wednesday 29th April 7pm
Entry by donation

Michael Francis Duch's playing retains the monster side of the bass while peeling back its articulation to the bare minimum. A combination of terminal moraine dirt and glacial scale. If Peter Hook had played in AMM...

Iorram Records Presents

A night in the saddle of unearthed sound at Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery 48 King Street Merchant City Glasgow

SOLO:
Jez Riley French- deep listening east coast style (Hull) from a drawer full of country practices and micro climate resonance.

TRIO:
Aileen Campbell - nose and throat consonance
Ali Robertson - balls, bags and whistles
Neil Davidson - flat wound guitar

DUO:
Raymond MacDonald - beyond giant steps: giant sax
Peter Nicholson - wounded cello with plainsong

Saturday the 28th of March 2009 7pm start time
Entry by donation. Refreshments available.
Iorram CDRs will also be available to buy

Burt / MacDonald Live at Streetlevel Photoworks

George Burt & Raymond MacDonald duo at Iorram Records Launch At Streetlevel Photoworks in January

New Releases February 2009

Constant Weave



George Burt (guitar) & Raymond MacDonald (saxophones)
After 11 CDs and 10 years of co-leading their own band Burt & MacDonald release their first duo recording with 5 pieces that explore their highly textured, angular and exuberant approach, engulfed in no-holds-barred, freewheeling improvisatory negotiations. CDR 100 copies

Próximo



Una MacGlone (bass), Nick Fells (laptop), Neil Davidson (guitar)
With bows and beaters, loops and samples, thwacks and strokes, propellant outbursts and reflexive stasis, this section of duo improvisations meld, blend and merge electronic and acoustic worlds and question conventions of instrumental performance.
CDR 100 copies SOLD OUT AT SOURCE

Review

Available from boa melody bar, 7 things, volcanic tongue, monorail, trem azul, alt vinyl