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JGT vs DJ Food

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Nov 17 2011 marks the release of Magpies, Maps and Moons, the new EP by DJ Food. The EP includes the track “Prey”, a collaboration by DJ Food with JG Thirlwell. DJ Food wrote and performed the music, with lyrics and vocals by Thirlwell. Released on Ninja Tune, the EP will be on 12″ vinyl and download, and is a precursor to a new DJ Food  album to be released on Jan 16 2012 (which will also include “Prey”). The album will also feature Thirlwell compadre Matt Johnson.

DJ Food also remixed the track “Suspect” on the album 2002 Foetus remix album Blow .

 

"The Blue Eyes" film debuts

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The Blue Eyes is the new film directed by Eva Aridjis, with a brand new musical score composed by JG Thirlwell. It will premiere at Morelia Film Festival in Mexico on October 21 and 22, 2011. Shot on location in Chiapas, Mexico, this supernatural thriller was lensed by Sebastian Mlynarski, the creative cinematographer who is also known for directing videos for the likes of Miike Snow, Cold Cave and Maya.

The score was composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell with guest musicans Nathan Koci on french horn, Isabel Castellvi on cello, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Marcus Rojas on bass trombone and tuba and Karen Waltuch on viola and violin, with the vocal stylings of Angel Inconnu.

The long-awaited return of freq_out

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The first freq_out installation in three years will occur in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet in February 2012. For freq_out 8, curated by Carl Michael Von Hausswolf, the participating artists will include JG Thirlwell, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mike Harding, Jana Winderen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Kent Tankred, Franz Pomassl, Maia Urstad, Brandon Labelle, Permagnus Lindborg, Petteri Nisunen and Tommi Grönlund.

freq_out is a sound installation comprised of 12 individual sound works each utilizing a specific frequency range, made on site, and amplified to act as a single, generative sound-space. The last freq_out event, freq_out 7, took place in September 2008 as part of the Happy New Ears festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. Previous freq_out actions have occurred in Berlin, Paris, Chiang Mai, Budapest, Copenhagen and Oslo.

 

Ken Jacobs with Manorexia score at the NY Film Festival

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The new film by legendary avant-garde film maker Ken Jacobs is premiering at the New York Film Festival. The film uses the music of Manorexia as it’s soundtrack, drawn from the album Dinoflagellate Blooms. Entitled Seeking The Monkey King, it will premiere at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center NYC on October 7 2011,  with an additional screening on Oct 10. Jacobs is perhaps best known for his film Star Spangled to Death, and has been experimenting in film since the 1950s. Presented as part of NYFF’s Views From The Avant Garde,  Jacobs and Thirlwell will be on-hand for a Q and A after the screening of the premiere.

I'll Be Your Mirror streaming mixtape

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The All Tomorrow’s Parties “I’ll Be Your Mirror” music event, curated by Portishead, will occur in Asbury Park on Sep 30 – Oct 2. Manorexia will perform on Oct 2. To celebrate the event, All Tomorrows Parties are streaming a “mix-tape” of the artists that will appear.

Artists on the “mixtape” include Manorexia, Oneida, Portishead,  Battles, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Cults, Neutral Milk Hotel, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Swans, Deerhoof, The Pop Group, Beak>,  Chavez, DD/MM/YYYY, Hannibal Buress, Shellac, People Of The North, Anika, Earth, The Stars In His Head , Factory Floor, Company Flow, Thought Forms,  and many more.

The lineup of Manorexia for the ATP show will be JG Thirlwell (laptop / compositions), Leyna Marika Papach (violin), Elena Moon Park (violin), Karen Waltuch (viola), Isabel Castellvi (cello), Peter Wise (percussion) and David Broome (keyboards).

JGT's Split 7" single with Teho Teardo

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Santarcangelo is a split single between JG Thirlwell and Italian musician/composer Teho Teardo, It documents separate sound installations they did at the Santarcangelo festival in Italy a couple of years back. Released on Teardo’s Specula label, it is currently exclusively available from his website.  The pressing is limited to 500 copies, one hundred of which are on blue vinyl.

Thirlwell’s piece on the single, entitled Ecclesiophobia, is a recording distilled down to six minutes from a three hour installation piece. This involved a bottle of water  dripping onto a bass drum head through an intravenous attachment, which reflected ripples throughout a vaulted subterranean chamber and triggered a low frequency which resonated in another room. This was accompanied by a live manipulation of field recordings of church bells from the medieval town, along with other compositional elements, into a four channel installation.

International Moods with guest vocals from JG Thirlwell

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International Moods is the new project from FM Einheit (ex-Einstuerzende Neubauten) and electro producer Zero Cash (Television Rocks) from Cologne, described as “an atmospheric roadbook through the transfer lounges of this planet full of monumental soundscapes, broken rhythms, cineastic adventures and minimalistic melodies”. The album, Frequent Traveller, features guest vocals from JG Thirlwell on two tracks, as well as guests Saskia von Klitzing (Karpatenhund) and Khan.
You can pick up the album digitally from iTunes, beatport, Amazon and other digital retailers. You can get the physical product from Amazon.de and other fine sellers, and you can hear clips on soundcloud.com.

JG Thirlwell DJs for People Like Us on WFMU

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JG Thirlwell has made a 30 minute DJ set for the Do or DIY with People Like Us radio show on WFMU. It will broadcast at 8pm eastern standard time on Aug 31 2011. DO or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast weekly by Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) which has been running on WFMU since 2003. JG cryptically described his DJ set as “darkly psychedelic”.

Listen to the replay at www.wfmu.org.