A Mixtape Radio #7 - A Loving Fuck You ft. Oh Petal
A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.
Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.
Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.
This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.
Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.
This episode is supported by David Leach and Tony Kenny, Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.
Field Notes
Side A - Oh Petal: New Material
(Anthony Hodgkinson - Guitar; Joe Wilson - Guitar and Vocals)
"Sleep, my love. Lay down for another day. It cuts me deep, into my bones. Soon my love, I will be home. All this trouble, that we make; the pains, we take. That tall tower, it awaits; and all that power never fades. Sleep, my love. Lay it down, your burning blade." – Joe Wilson.
**Side B - Oh Petal: Cicatrice **
(Anthony Hodgkinson - Guitar; Joe Wilson - Guitar and Vocals)
"When a cut pierces the skin,
the body repairs around the site—
restructuring its inner form.
Our body accommodates the wound,
reorienting to serve
a new shape within.
The scar is forever a part of you,
like the blood flowing, through your fingertips.
New lines,
New traces."
– Anthony Hodgkinson, Jan, 2025