finally, after many moons, the journal of the belgae folk club is proud to present some of the fruits of its research.

commencing with offerings from mr team brick and mr dtv

http://www.jermyn.org.uk/pages/littlecreature/

future research will concern dogeeseseegod, astral social club and the duo of mr daniel bennett and matt nolan.

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Three of our number – namely Ashtray Navigations, Hunting Lodge and Seth Cooke (of Hunting Lodge and Defibrillators) – will be playing at the BRITISH WILDLIFE FESTIVAL 26- 28th March.

In addition to our own representatives, the entertainments on offer include Max Tundra, Part Chimp, Bilge Pump and the improbably mighty Mugstar (the last of whom this writer at least regards as one of our nation’s finest bands).

As the reader will no doubt have observed, the dates of this festival shortly preceed those of our Lord’s death and rebirth, and overlap with the observations corresponding to his trials in the desert. As such this author took the liberty of consulting the Jermyn society’s ecclesiastical consultant, mr Adamsson, from whose lips the assurance came that attendance at these festivities need not compromise lenten commitments. Indeed, some of the entertainments will be sufficiently acerbic that they may – at the readers discretion – be taken in lieu of any self flagellation rites otherwise required by your denomination or conscience.

British Wildlife Festival is set in and around Leeds’ musical and cultural institution The Brudenell Social Club. With this years focus on bringing together a multitude of alternative and underground genres. In addition to this we will also have two extra stages, an experimental stage in the club’s Snooker Room, and next door in the Royal Park Cellars holding an extra day on Sunday 28th March at Nation of Shopkeepers.

Previous incarnations of the festival have included the likes of Quack Quack, Dj Scotch Eggs’ Drum Eyes, Thomas Truax, Action Beat, I’m Being Good, Capillary Action, The Leeds Improvised Music Association, Hunting Lodge, Kylie Minoise amoungst a heap of alternative and experimental bands from Leeds, the UK & overseas, no wonder British Wildlife Festival was once quoted ‘the arty side of Leeds’ musical arse’.

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– Various Artists –

Winter Solstice 2

www.twilightluggage.com

dsic’s Twig cdr is availble now on lf records (£4 postage paid). Twig is a hypodermic ice-age spike in the face – bad electronics, no future, loose minds.

dsic also appears on The Sound Projector #18 magazine compilation album English Wildlife with a bunch of other UK artists including Lanterns, Adam Lygo and Jupiterdogs among others. The magazine is a top draw read, with 180 pages of reviews + interviews.

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/current-issue/

http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/kulturwelt/no-music-day-bill-drummond-linz-ID125854013804.xml

The Skjølbrot track Formes Rouges appears on the “Smooth Space” compilation in this month’s Kim Cascone edited issue of  Vague Terrain magazine.

Go.

It’s a Lunken – s/t in this week’s venue:

Ouch! “Many realms of Heavy” are promised in this artfully screen-print-packaged CD’s promo guff, and for once they’re not exaggerating. This is pioneering noise of the darkest and heaviest kind, employing Satan-throttling roars, brutal percussion and behemoth guitar assault. There are quieter more exploratory bits – harmonica and miscellaneous atmospheric textures drifting in like a strange fog after track one; and astonishingly heavy bits – like the churning majesty of the penultimate song ‘Mk7′. The only properly named track, ‘Bound in the Black Bark’ clocks in over 17 minutes and charts a bleak, alienating course from tentative dripping and wind chimery to sinister dungeon-echoing synth, static howl and bleached-out noise. There’s dissonant melancholia, pitch-bending, suicidal muttering. Not exactly party music, but I suspect a very good example of its type – for fans of unhurriedly experimental gloom-noise this is doubtless a real treat.

http://www.venue.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/geishanoiseresearchgroup

Geisha are a noise rock group comprised of: Anton Maiof / Steve James / Ganiel Seruu / Robbie Cooper

16th October – Baroeg, Rotterdam, Netherlands
17th October – De Bliksem, Den Helder, Netherlands
18th October – Belvadere, Namur, Belgium
21st October – Underjorden, Göteborg, Sweden
22nd October – Revolver, Oslo, Norway
23rd October – Utkanten, Malmö, Sweden
24th October – Lokal, Berlin, Germany
26th October – Sunny Red, Munich, Germany
27th October – Lochness Pub, Riva Del Garda, Italy
28th October – Sinister Noise Club, Rome, Italy
29th October – Arci Q, Fidenza, Italy
30th October – Kalkbreite, Zurich, Switzerland
31st October – Le Parvis, Paris, France

In order to encourage the creation of experimental and
electro-acoustic music, in particular in relation with Luigi Russolo’s
noise semantics, the Studio Forum organizes the come-back of the
Russolo contest, now called « Luigi Russolo – Rossana Maggia » contest
in collaboration with the Luigi Russolo Foundation in Varese directed
by Gian Franco Maffina, with ElektraMusic (France), Gràcia Territori
Sonor (Barcelona, Spain), Experimental Studio Slovak Radio, and
Monochromevision (Moscow), and within the context of its Noise of Snow
Festival.
RULES : The contest is open to composers and artists of all
nationalities aged under 35. There is only one category for this first
edition. Each contestant must submit one work only. This is a no
entry fee contest.

- The work will last between 8’ et 12’. Its theme will be the city,
real or imaginary.

- The work will be sent before January 30, 2010. (extended deadline)

- on a CD-R in stereo version with only the title of the work on it

- accompanied by a short description of the work without any mention
of the name of the author

- a résumé of the author

- a copy of the author’s passport or National Identity Card

- Address :

STUDIO FORUM
7 rue du Forum
74 000 Annecy
FRANCE
The jury will convene during the first trimester of 2010 and will
audition all the works sent to the contest. Three prizes will be
awarded : a Luigi Russolo Prize to an electro-acoustic work respecting
the theme of the city, a Rossana Maggia Prize to an electro-acoustic
work making use of voices or onomatopoeia, 4 mentions (included one by
G.Franco Maffina). A record will be released by the record company
Monochromevision. A concert will be given on the ascoumonium of the
Studio Forum within the Noise of Snow Festival in Annecy, France.
All details here : http://studioforum.net/concours_uk.html
For more information you can contact the organizers at
stforum@studioforum.net, or Elektramusic.
Some details about Russolo prize in French :
ttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Russolo