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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with I’m Here Just for a Moment and I’m Going to Have a Good Time and Then I’m Gone read by Bobby Beausoleil & Jarett Kobek.

Extensive 2023 recorded conversation between writer Jarett Kobek and artist/musician Bobby Beausoleil (over the California State Prison system telephone line), mainly about Kenneth Anger, and events occurring between 1966 and late 1967.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 50 copies with on-body screen print and eco-x slip; each copy contains one riso-printed cigarette card

Includes unlimited streaming of the record via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

This series for Resonance Extra is the first time much of the label's catalogue has been available to hear outside of its material form. It accepts the invitation by Resonance on the basis that none of these sounds are stored. If you want to hear it you need to be able to access the radio at midnight every Thursday.

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.

In this edition, Edwina Attlee’s Book of Days.

“Garlands for the working conditions that underpin everything.”

A weathervane for New Year’s Day, a reading of the opening chapter from Edwina Attlee’s debut collection—A great shaking (Tenement Press, 2024)—as read by the poet. A suite of twelve poems written to (and from) the months of a year.

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A table can be overturned and a window can be smashed. However, those who believe that the state is also a thing or a fetish that can be overturned or smashed are sophists and believers in the Word. The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently.

Gustav Landauer

Attlee’s debut collection, a great shaking, is a triptych of works—a gathering of songs, days, and hours—that detail the ways in which ‘a table can be overturned,’ an idea can be tilled, an hour can turn from something germinal to a quiet object of attention, an oblique artifact, a talisman for change. 

Gustav Landauer wrote that ‘the State is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition’—something impacted by the weather of our moods, by the small winds of our behaviour, by way of human contact and a romance of interrelation. In these poems, Attlee antagonises our consent to be governed, our will to be moved (in terms either emotive, temporal, or meteorological) to consider our ‘condition.’ ‘I want to tell you about the time conversations started to happen / and how it was the beginning of the room,’ Attlee writes.

Caught within an architecture wherein chance and design go bet on the horses, where we lose step with the gamble of a metaphor, Attlee segues her way through these collated hours and days to distil a poetry that is not about (or of) revolution, but about conditions. Hers is a poetry about steam; about diction; about how, to depict ‘the beginning of the room,’ you need question the porousness of its boundaries.

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Attlee’s Book of Days was recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

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This profoundly exciting debut explores the complicated embodiments, politics and emotions of domestic life through the prism of the turning year. Attlee draws subtly luminous images from mundane, ordinary life—“I pat her gloves with apricot foam / blow bubbles in the dusk / with liquid from the pound shop”—allowing us to see the vivid, electric power of moments to which familiarity usually blinds us. At the same time, she is always aware of the vexed inequalities of family, time, class and gender—“joy unfurls from coupledom and a shared bank account / watch out or the big horse trudges on your head.” Her writing about childrearing is painfully tender yet radical: “they pack him differently at the nursery … am I letting them snuff it out / the little yellow flame.” In this beautiful, funny and innovative book, an important new poetic voice has emerged.

Rebecca Tamás, The Guardian

Echoing the tales and mysteries that were once our way of apprehending the world, Attlee's a great shaking allows one to feel close to the earth and the rhythms that govern it. It envelops you in its world with the steady confidence of a poet in full use of her powers. Both intimate and vast, A great shaking is like a skyline touched only by trees, land, and the stillness of forgotten time.

Vanessa Onwuemezi

A great shaking is such a rich gathering: endlessly surprising, bold and inventive. ‘Book of Days’ offers a fascinating riddle and rhyme of the seasons; the ‘Nursery Songs’ are full of secrets and vibrant flashes; while the ‘Archive Songs’ are curiously alluring. All together, they show undoubtable imagination and skill.

Lavinia Singer

In mediaeval manuscripts, engravings of the steps of life from birth to death often omitted women completely. In this fascinating collection, Attlee talks to them directly, making them entirely visible as she explores the legacies of indentured labour, the toils of women and the mythologies of motherhood, all in real time: “the crows eat up the corn / the baby is back / and the women open their legs to the stove / pushing soft porridge into his mouth / like companionable silence.” This empathy and companionship are the backdrop to her own negotiations of work, family and political activity, and expose how impossibly intermingled these are.

She weighs the magical thinking of folktale and childhood against the real world to expose the gap between there and here, while continuing the ancient task of trying to find a way to make it all work. Her language is present and exact, and razor sharp: “my mother is here / laughing like a broken plate.” Throughout, there is love and wry humour: “You are the word I will use to call the cows home at night” (‘Old English love song, Traditional’). This is a deeply affecting collection; these poems come from a very genuine sense of communion with all those semi-visible individuals who labour and have always laboured for love, family and fairness. “Forgive us this standing. Forgive us in strength. / Unforgive if forgiving undoes sorrow. Do not unstep your step.

Lesley Harrison

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Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London.

A roving, ongoing & growing catalogue of works for the radio from the Tenement Press wheelhouse, in collaboration with Prototype Publishing. Recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

In this episode, another meaty two-hour rollercoaster ride through the annals of cutting-edge, near-impenetrable electronic and computer music, featuring tracks from Reloc, Slub, Lanark Artefax, Rian Treanor and Lotic.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

In the first hour of this midwinter episode, Gravity Waves: Music from around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, featuring three tracks from collective members including the latest release on our label.

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions slips quietly through the slumbering city streets listening to intense whispered tarmac dreams and the quiet concrete mumbles.

"I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.”
– Arthur Machen

With thanks to Ben Branangan, Decily Devine ad Xanthe Horner

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

Merrie Melodias is back with a new series and new rubrics! And that means new digger discoveries are waiting for you from the bottomless catalogue of the Soviet major label Melodia. As is good tradition, we start with an episode about folk music. This episode features melodies from Central Asia, the Lesser Caucasus, the Baltic States, Africa and South America and other countries of the world.

This episode highlights the intersection of the sound of the world's three main musical instruments - the lute, the lyre and the reed pipe - with each country having its own modification and name. This is the story of how the sound of a Burundian funk band's electric guitar transforms into the trill of an Uzbek dutar, the sigh of an Azerbaijani zurna turns into the moan of an Armenian duduk, and the tinkling strings of a Paraguayan harp turn into the dreamy chords of a Madagascar valiha.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mindblowing covers and drifts of Numb by Linkin Park. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

A capella demons or angels, 80s dancers, emo gangs, followers of the missing beats, throat singers… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

Getting close to the 100th iteration of the show, episode 1 is now more than 7 years ago, back in January 2016, and it's been a wild monthly ride ever since.

This episode features a bunch of discrepancies, opening with the new album by Marc Codsi, a track by yours truly and a beautifully discordant composition by Babau, from a tape we will release very very soon!

For now, enjoy the wild random rides to shores you should know by now.

Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

This episode explores field recordings from the team's archives. Recorded and mixed by OMIO between 2004-2017. OMIO is an underground team of explorers from Athens, active in documentation (sound / video / film) and site specific interventions.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Experiments in exploring humanity with Keno Westhoff of http://klanglabor.ayayay.eu.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

A 22-hour radio project in 7 episodes by Milo Thesiger–Meacham. An unnamed narrator moves house and pieces together a world of recording devices, names, crime, real-world characters and media from across the globe, featuring 10-second audio extracts from over 6000 individual videos found online, original sound recordings, music, hand-held camera audio and writing. Commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Esch2022 for the temporary radio art station Radio Art Zone. Follow Fox Neame for more.

This episode features live recordings from the Fractures album launch at Cafe Kino, Bristol on the 10th October 2024.

Fractures is the debut album from Kayla Painter, written about the NASA mission to Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this episode, Lucy Thraves pays tribute to David Lynch, alongside new releases and rereleases by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This is contribution by Usmaradio.

Nostalgia for the Androgynous unfolds an ethereal-telluric space for voices and concrete sound, generative drones creating arcane sounds, lo-fi recordings, lyrical witchcraft, high-hovering voices, dazed and processed in glossolalic harmonies progressively embodied in organic and mineral scenarios. Occult soundscapes melt alternative listening paths in a cathartic collision, haunting and refreshing at a time, an atmosphere of ascent and intimacy, ambiguous, nostalgic, and visceral.

Serena Dibiase is an experimental vocalist, sound artist, performer, poet. She identifies her artistic and sound productions with the androgynous name Kratu. She carries out her artistic investigation starting from intense physical/respiratory practices and through analogue and not-analogue devices, to listen to radical phonic geographies, choral happenings, interventions on biophonies and geophonies extracted from explorations in abandoned, wild, industrial spaces, in a horizontal treatment of the sources.

She collaborates as a sound dramaturg and performer with independent theatre companies, and also working for Biennale Teatro ’22-’23 and disseminating her research in Italian and international festivals. She collaborates as artistic consultant in contexts of social hardship (jale, community outreach centre for addicts), considering these incursions into her broader spectrum of anthro-poetic research. He has been leading Mouth of the landscape, a transversal vocal training and listening workshop. Her EP Nostalgia for the Androgynous released by Oceani Label.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.