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| | touch (uk) #ts 08 ep
touch sevens (uk) #ts 08 eppeople like us / ergo phizmiz “withers in the waking” seven inch single record - in the waking (5:55)
- withers in the whist (4:27)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "in the waking" |
| november 2008 release ; entirely charming pair of pop-songs from vicki bennett & ergo phizmiz, featuring the pair singing over a bed of instrumentation & perrey & kingsley-lineage sound-effect cut-ups ...
something of a red herring in the scope of the series thusfar, but possibly the only entrant thusfar to stay true to the humble 7” record’s origins ... |
| | ts08 people like us & ergo phizmiz: withers in the waking
the 8th in the series of touch sevens, and the first to introduce melodic narrative. both songs are results of the wfmu podcast series "codpaste", in which vicki & ergo publicly composed a series of collage compositions, deconstructing their respective practices, and a live soundtrack to christian marclay's "screenplay". the series and soundtrack resulted in the online only album "rhapsody in glue", from which these two songs are alternative versions.
"withers in the whist" takes one of vicki & ergo's current staple obsessions: the melody line of prokofiev's 'troika' from the lieutenant kije soundtrack (originally used in v & e's work during a particularly snowy sequence of the marclay film). this treatment dispenses with sampling entirely, instead using instruments to create variations on prokofiev's deceptively simple melody-line, tied together with impressionistic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. it is playing with prokofiev like a bad child who loves it's toys.
"in the waking" began with ergo replaying with multitracked guitars the main melodic motifs vicki collaged in the composition "carmic waltz", with vicki then ornamenting the guitars with splashes of colour like a real painter of sound, all blended into a pot of carnival steam with ergo's wordplay. it is a fantasy for the dream the fairground has when the world is sleeping, but only takes place five minutes before the carousel wakes up
touch sevens series of 7" vinyl
7" vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a "healthy" popular culture. it might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of "the rear view mirror" ... the generation of touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong emotional attachment to it. this series is more than that ... an overtly critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the a & the b and the additional dimension of the visual counterpoint. as for the aspect of audience participation, we choose not to specify the rpm on the label, encouraging the listener to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. an attempt to make music that works at both speeds. the front cover might actually be the back cover ... |
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