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Long Wave 13.3

The Mirror and the Stone

“…like how beauty and destruction go hand-in-hand when outside.” (excerpt from “Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson” Album of the Week review on the Quietus, June 15th 2023)

Hosted by Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing and text, & Mike Harding.

1st hour

The Dead C – Macoute [Future Artists, BA DA BING! 2007]
Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine – Fitch Wyllys [between systems and grounds – the overshot sessions, Carrier Records, 2023]
steve roden – Glow [lamp (within/ without the skin, Interior Sounds 1998]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – A Stable Environment [A Stable Environment [Going In 025] 2023]
Cloud Circuit – Four erstaz phases in dactylic hexameter for sea (s) & cloud (c) [Live In Concrete 2020, Cloud Circuit 2023]
Philip Jeck & Chris Watson – Coop [Oxmardyke, Touch 2023]
Gabie Strong – Mineralism (extract) [Mineralism, Mineral Crystal Systems, Inc. 2016]
The Cat & Bells Club – Kent Custer [The Cat & Bells Club, Blank Forms Editions, 2023]

2nd hour

Natasha Pirard – Celestial Flirtation [unreleased, 2023]
Jana Winderen – Du Petit Risoud aux Profondeurs du Lac de Joux [The Blue Beyond, Touch 2023]
Philip Jeck – This is the Hour of Lead [Touch: Displacing, Touch, 2021]
CM von Hausswolff – The Wind In Kirtipur [Eroto Tox Decodings, 2019]

Long Wave 13.2

Wordless

“Whenever I quiet the persistent chatter of words within my head, I find this silent or wordless dance always already going on – this improvised duet between my animal body and the fluid, breathing landscape that it inhabits.” [The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram]

Hosted by Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing and text, & Mike Harding.

1st hour

Jan Jelinek – Lady Gaga, you once said in an interview that you write music for the fashion industry, is fashion as important to you as music? [Zwishchen, Faitiche 2018]
Todd Barton – Improv [Ro, Flying Moonlight Records 2018]
Robert Takahashi Crouch – Like A Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves [Giving Water to the Dead, The Tapeworm 2022]
Yoshihide Otomo & Sachiko M. – Filament 1 – 3 [Filament 1, Extreme 2007]
Endurance – Feel [Verb, Muzan Editions 2022]
Nondi_ – Orchid Juke [Flood City Trax, Planet Mu 2023]
numi – Picture in Picture [ITX028 – Picture In Picture, Ilian Tape 2023]
Ian Vine – five strings II [five strings, Ian Vine 2022]
Stienbrüchel – These 1 (extract) [Basis, Room40 2007]
Curtis Roads – Volt air, part I [Point Line Cloud, Presto!? 2019]
drøne – the long song I [the long song, Pomperipossa 2023]
Smith & Mighty – Jah Pure & Clean [DJ-Kicks, !K7 1998]

2nd Hour

Yann Novak – Super Coherent Light [The Voice of Theseus, Dragon’s Eye 2023]
David Toop & Lawrence English – Abyssal Tracker [The Shell That Speaks The Sea, Room40 2023]
Mich L. – A.M. [Air Near Silence, s/r 2023]
Manja Ristić – Soul of Stone [Glasovi/Voices, s/r 2023]
Youmna Saba – Ritha’ [s/r 2023]
Xqui – LIFEFILES / LF9 [Mortality tables, 2023]
Raed Yassin – Face A [CW Tapes, Discrepant 2019]
strom|morts – Dark Choir (Part lll) [Music for Nightmare, 2023]

Long Wave 13.1

Secret Garden

“From its own fetal curves, green fiddleheads produce ancient spiral formations. The fiddleheads teach me to unfurl my own lineage & experience patterns – examine them, be with them, and listen to their messages. The fiddleheads are gifted time-travelers. If I don’t learn the lesson now, the pattern will show up in my life like an unwelcome visitor. By meditating with the spiral in mind, I can focus my attention on re-encountering the old wounds differently and imagine a new possibility. The fiddleheads teach me the vitality of perspective shift. The fiddleheads teach me to respect the slowest micro-movement & own my way forward.” – Marie Varghese 

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing and text.

1st hour

FKA Micromelancolié – 555 Chopped & Screwed Exercises [Discrepant, 2023]
Bana Haffar – A message from our sponsors [dublab 2023]
murmer – tether [tether, The Helen Scarsdale Agency 2023]
People Like Us – Country Drive [Sharity! Collected Works of People Like Us, s/r 1995/2023]
Yenting Hsu – Hidden Siren [Rani Jambak & Yenting Hsu – Oxygen, Yes No Wave 2023]
John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – Bird’s Song [High Life, Carbon Records 2023]
Franz Kirmann – Mangrove (Evening) [First Broadcast, Byte 2020]
Roedelius Hauswolff – Under the Ocean [Rodelius Hausswolff ll, iDEAL 2023]
Philip Jeck – Demolition [Surf, Touch 1999]
drøne – the earth rocked/the long song [the long song, Pomperiposs Records 2023]
Bana Haffar – A message from our sponsors (reprise) [dublab 2023]

2nd hour

Bana Haffar – L Train [unreleased iphone recording, 2023]
France Jobin – spring meandering 2023 (extract) [spring meandering 2023]
Manja Ristić – I’m plucking trapped air [Awakenings, LINE 2023]
Lee Scratch Perry – The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry (extract) [2008 film]
Todd Barton – drifting [analog horizonings, Todd Barton 2006]
Todd Barton – metalliton [analog horizonings, Todd Barton 2006]
Morton Subotnick – Sidewinder, Pt. 1 (extract) [Subotnick: Electronic Works, Vol.2, Mode 2–4]
AHRKH – Paramita (extract) [Beams From a Spiritual Panorama, Golden Ratio Frequencies 2020]
Broadcast – Round and Round and Round [Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, Warp 2009]
Pé – Spiral VI [Spiral: A Continuation, Dragon’s Eye 2023]
Olivier Alary -– Cendres (extract) [for 4 vibraphones and marimba, LINE 2023]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Serge Generators (extract) [Buchla Generators b/w Serge Generators, 2020]
Bana Haffar – Serge Bagpipes [unreleased 2023]

Long Wave 12.8

Green Dream

a dream of green
resonance outside of time
within a sustained tone
an infinite field of sound and color

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing and text.

1st Hour – In House (The Greenhouse Effect)

The Greenhouse Effect [Recorded by the author in Felpham, West Sussex April 2023]
Souls on Board with Bruce Gilbert – Hole [split vinyl with Meltaot, Ash International 2010]
Bana Haffar – Elemental [intimaa’, Touch 2023]
Stefan Goldmann – Naive Prober [Call & Response, Ash International 2023]
CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla – Ramayana Merukat [Travelogue: BALI, Touch 2023]
Ella van der Woude – Leave It Be [Moloch, Ash International, 2022]
Yenting Hsu – Summer Whispers [Bis dat, Spire 2022]
Philip Jeck & Chris Watson – Salt End [Oxmardyke, Touch 2023]
drøne – altamira [the long song, Pomperipossa Records 2023]
Last Few Days – Too Much Is Not Enough [Too Much Is Not Enough, Touch 1986]
Mark Van Hoen – Life Gives Unto Light [The House of Tomorrow, Channel of Light 2023]
Patrick Shiroishi – A Trickle of Water Led to a Quiet Pool, Where Still, Black Water Reflected the Night Sky [Evergreen, Touch 2022]

2nd Hour

Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Amorph [Cendre, Touch 2007]
Mileece – Aube [Formations, Lo Recordings 2002]
(Whatsapp Voice memo)
Pauline Oliveros – Tara’s Room (extract) [Tara’s Room, imprec 2019]
Worriedaboutsatan – Part 1 (Munich) [I Hope You Like The Bundesliga, Golden Ratio Frequencies, 2023]
Soft Focus feat Jimi Tenor, Lary 7 & Mia Theodoratus –Syntillating [Soft Focus, Sahko Recordings, 2013]
M. Geddes Gengras & Psychic Reality – Wide Pastures [The Encyclopedia of Civilizations Vol. 4: Zoroaster, Abstrakce Records 2023]
Mike Dobler – bismuth [Xtreme Napping, 2023]
KMRU – ib07 [Alternate African Reality – Electronic, Electroacoustic and Experimental Music from Africa and the Diaspora, Syrphe, 2020]
Laraaji – Kalimba (extract) [Segue To Infinity, Numero 2023]
Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Thorns [Shape Memory, 12k 2018]

Long Wave 12.7

Long Wave 12.7 | 10th March 2023

Water Memory

“Into the water I’ll go
as it’s the water I’m from.” Bone Marrow

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing.

1st hour

Jana Winderen – Interview with Carlos Duarte [Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, Touch 2018]
Laura Shumate – Harmonic Wave [Laurita, Simballrec 2023]
Patrick Shiroishi & Dustin Wong – が砕けて [森の穴, 2023]
Terry Riley – Keyboard Study No.1 [Keyboard Studies, Another Timbre 2023]
J.WLSN – Counting To 10 [1993, Room40 2022]
Fennesz – Crystal Canyons [Mutatis mutandis, Spire 2020]
Chris Watson – Vatnajökull [Weather Report, Touch 2003]

2nd hour

Bone Marrow – Water Memory (extract from audio essay)
Seefeel (Autechre Remix) – Spangle [St / Fr / Sp, Warp 2021]
Francisco López – untitled #300 – under water (excerpt) [untitled #300, Taiga 2015]
Harry Oldfield – One [Current 93 Present Harry Oldfield – Crystal, Durtro 1990]
Elisa Faires – For The Flowers II [Animisme, EROTOTOX DECODINGS, 2022]
Loscil & Lawrence English – Aqua [Colours of Air, Kranky 2023]
Richard Devine – Hydrophone Recording of Burning Embers Underwater [Soundcloud 2013]
Nakayama Munetoshi – Admission [Court, Muzan Editions 2022]
Nakayama Munetoshi – Piloti (extract) [Court, Muzan Editions, 2022]
Seefeel – Monastic [Succour (Redux), Warp 1995]
Tomoko Sauvage – Fortune Biscuit [Musique Hydromantique, Shelter Press 2017]
Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain [Ocean Rain, Warner 1984]

Long Wave 12.6

Long Wave 12.6 | 10th February 2023

Metempsychosis

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being is continually beginning new life in different forms and bodies.

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing.

1st hour

Iain Armstrong – St. Martin’s Church Bells [Sacred & Profane, Gruenrekorder 2015]
Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla – Rahajeng Semeng [Travelogue [Bali], Touch 2023]
Oort Smoog – is your brother [Every Mortherfucker is Your Brother, Oort Smoog 2022]
Pinkcourtesyphone – But it Felt/In Other Dreams [Shouting at Nuance, Helen Scarsdale 2022]
Chandra Shukla – Chatthisghar [unreleased]
Mark Van Hoen – The Rite [Fidelity to Principle, s/r 2021]
William Basinski – The Clocktower at the Beach 1979 [The Clocktower at the Beach, LINE 2023]
Hildur Guðnadóttir – World Citizen I Won’t Be Disappointed [Remodels, 2023]
Ian Wellman – Dusk [Sedge, Luminous Drift 2023]

2nd hour

Ragnar Vigdal – Jeg Har Så Lun en Hytte [Tonereise Til en Gamal Samtid, Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1979]
Andrea Centazzo – Meditating in a Kyoto Temple (extract) [Sacred Gong Dive, Ictus 2020]
Ulla – New Poem [Tumbling Towards A Wall, Experiences Ltd 2020]
Dominique Lawalree – Minimum II [First Meeting, Catch Wave LTD./ Ergot Records 2017]
Wayne Shorter – Face of the Deep [The All Seeing Eye, Blue Note 1965]
Verena Paravel & Lucein Castaing-Taylor – Leviathan (film audio extract) [2013]
Endurance – The Past [Long-Term Memory, Muzan Editions 2021]
France Jobin & Klara Lewis – soar [Death is perfection everything else is relative, Editions Mego 2020]
Ian Wellman – Flights (extract) [Sedge, Luminous Drift 2022]
Tara Clerkin Trio – What? [Tara Clerkin Trio, Laura Lies In 2019]

Long Wave 12.5

Long Wave 12.5 | 13th January 2023

Galactic Chariot

Hosted by Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing.

“The Chariot speaks to us about the supremacy of the underlying cycles in the universe. Every planet has a cyclical relationship to the star it revolves around, and each star maintains a relationship to the center of the galaxy. These are the multiple wheels of the galactic chariot.” Alexandra Genetti, The Wheel of Change Tarot

Table Saw – Saturday in Quepos [WhatsApp field recording 2022]
U.G. Krishnamurti and Willem de Ridder – “Conversations with U.G.” Amsterdam (extract) [1990]
Mark Fell – Intra-5 [Intra, Boomkat Editions 2018]
Mark Fell – Intra-8 [Intra, Boomkat Editions 2018]
Bitchin Bajas – Geomancy [Bajascillators, Drag City 2022]
tarotplane – dé irones [Lysergic Forgeries, Lullabies For Insomniacs 2021]
Irreversible Entanglements – The Code Noir / Amina (feat. Keir Neuringer) [Who Sent You?, International Anthem 2020]
Alejandro Jodorowsky speaking with Jonathan Ross (extract) [1990]
Cutaway [Bruton BRH7: Contemporary Sound Scores, UPPM Records 1979]
Agnese Toniutti, piano live performance – Dick Higgins – Emmett Williams’ Ear. MAP FVG – Art Park Verzegnis, Ud, Italy [2018]
Jerusalem In My Heart – Qalouli [Corona Borealis Winter 2021, Constellation Records 2021]
Aswad – Hey Jah Children [Babylon (The Original Soundtrack), Takoma 1981]
Evan Gallagher – The Dead (Composed by Judy Dunaway for performance artist Diane Torr’s “Crossing the River Styx,”) [1990]
Bettina Maylone – Distant Islands (animation extract) [National Film Board of Canada 1981]
Thomas Köner & Jana Winderen – Cloitre (Live) (extract) [Cloitre, Touch 2014]
Philus – Tele-ctro [Kolmio, Sakho Recordings, 1998]
Tyondai Braxton – TK4_Overgrowth (extract) [Telekenesis, Nonesuch 2022]
Biosphere – Sphere of No-Form [Subtrata (Alternative Versions), Biophon Records (Norway) 2022]

Long Wave 12.4

Long Wave 12.4 | 9th December 2022

Sound and Gestures

Hosted by Natasha Pirard, who also provided the photograph.

“Just as certain creatures are the last examples of a form of life which nature has abandoned, I wondered whether music were not the solo example of the form which might have served —had language, the forms of words the possibility of analysing ideas, never been inverted —for the communication of souls. Music is like a possibility which has never been developed, humanity having taken different paths, those of language, spoken and written.” Marcel Proust.

Women of The Voices of Ascension – O Virga Ac Diadema [Voices of Angels (Music of Hildegard Von Bingen), Delos, 1997]
Laila Sakini – Stephen’s Secret [Strada, Boomkat Editions, 2020]
Ameel Brecht – Stay up All Night [Kraak’s 10s and 20s, KRAAK, 2020]
JAB – Nowhere [Out there in the middle of Nowhere, Poole Music, 2022]
Simon Scott – The Black Fens [Long Drove, Room40, 2022]
J.WLSN – 1993 [1993, Room40, 2022]
Tujiko Noriko – Fossil Words [Crépuscule I & II, Mego, 2023]
Christina Vantzou – Kimona II [No.5, kranky, 2022] Felicia Atkinson – L’Oeil [A Readymade Symphony, Shelter Press, 2015]
Elisabeth Klinck – Débrouillage [Common Ground vol.2, Safe Ground, 2022]
Clara Levy – Directionless Motion [13 Visions, Discreet Editions, 2022]
Olli Aarni – Alhaalla [Koko Maailma, Students of Decay, 2022]
Patrick Shiroishi – a trickle led to a quiet pool, where still black water reflected the night sky [Evergreen, Touch, 2022]
Aponogeton – A Quiet Place [A Place of Solace, STROOM, 2019]
Malibu – So Far Out of Love [Palaces of Piety, UNO NYC, 2022]

Long Wave 12.3

Long Wave 12.3 | 11th November 2022

Dreme

Hosted by Mike Harding and Bana Haffar, who also provided the drawing.


“Those who dream of a great feast may weep the next morning. Those who dream of weeping may enjoy the hunt the next day. While they dream, they do not know they are dreaming. They may even interpret their dreams while still dreaming. Only after they awake do they know it was a dream. By and by, there will be a great awakening; then we will know that this is all a great dream.” – Inner Chapters, Chuang Tsu [4thC BCE]

1st hour

Ezra Pound – Envoi 1919 [recorded at Harvard University in 1939]
Kode 9 + Space Ape live [private recording, London 2012]
RAZEN – Blue Rot 3rd [Blue Rot, Hands in the Dark 2021]
Alice Coltrane – I.H.S [Huntington Ashram Monastery, Impulse 1969]
Fennesz – Nebenraum [Hotel Paral.lel, Editions Mego 2007]
drøne – vistula [The Stilling, Pomperipossa Records 2020]
Mark Van Hoen – In The Service Of Others [Fidelity to Principle, s/r 2021]
Charbel Haber – Last Evenings on Earth [Of Palm Trees, Affairs And Decomposition, 2016]
Biosphere – Knives in Hens [Touch Sampler.3, Touch 1998]
Charlie Campagna – untitled [unreleased]

2nd hour

Bana Haffar – untitled [unreleased]
Julia Sabra and Fadi Tabbal – Past Tense [Snakeskin, Beacon Sound & Ruptured 2022]
Jen Reimer – The Loudest Tone [The Loudest Tone, Oral 2022]
Mr Daydream – (excerpt) Mr. Men Series 2, narrated by Arthur Lowe [1977]
Shackleton – The Light that was Hidden [Departing Like Rivers, Woe To The Septic Heart! 2021]
Marco Shuttle – Bembe Bongo [Cobalt Desert Oasis, Incienso 2021]
Time to Love – (interlude) Directed by Metin Erksan [1965]
Simon Scott – Evening Temple (Live) [Simon Scott Live 2022, KESH 2022]
Patrick Shiroishi – here comes a candle to light you to bed [Evergreen, Touch 2022]
Kit Monteith & Jeremy Moors – One Micron [Chalybeate Spring, Golden Ratio Frequencies 2022]

Long Wave 12.2

Long Wave 12.2 | 14th October 2022

The Winged Serpent

Hosted by Bana Haffar & Mike Harding. Drawing by Bana Haffar.

1st hour

Cleared – Of Endless Light [Of Endless Light, Touch 2022]
Zane Trow – Part I [Still Life, Room40 2021]
film audio excerpt from “Tokyo Story” Yasujirō Ozu, 1953
Marie-Louise Von Franz – film audio excerpt from “The Way of the Dream” Fraser Boa, 1985
Jana Winderen – Silencing Of The Reefs [Ocean Archive 2013]
Adam Asnan – Carrier I [Carriers, PA, mappa 2016]
Albert Van Abbe & Jochem Paap – Rel 3L 212c LC-pi [General Audio, Avian 2022]
clipping. and Evicshen – Sheba [REMXG 2.1, Sub Pop 2022]
Chris Watson – Low Pressure [Stepping Into The Dark, Touch 1996]
Jez Riley French – dawn chorus with rain # 1(from the tin shed), Sweden [a quiet position | emplacement, Engraved Glass 2013]
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharaoh Sanders – La Allah Dayim Moulenah [The Trance Of Seven Colors, Axiom 1994]

2nd hour

RAZEN – Blue Rot 4th [Blue Rot, Hands in the Dark 2021]
Threshing Floor – Threshing Floor [Threshing Floor, REBOOT 2021]
Charlie Campagna – Hurricane Irene Approaches [unreleased, 2021]
Howlround – Frosi [Trespass And Welfare, Buried Teasure 2022]
Yann Novak – A Trembling of Light [Reflections of a Gathering Storm, PLAYNEUTRAL 2022]
Alcibiades – Omicronology [Bis dat, Spire 2022]
Anna von Hausswolff – Ugly & Vengeful [Dead Magic, Pomperipossa 2018]

Long Wave 12.1

Long Wave 12.1 | 9th September 2022

enantiodromia

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar

“The moon in the shadow of the earth” from Marie-Louise Von Franz’s Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. Inner City Books, 1980.

“The coniunctio takes place in the new moon, in the underworld. In the deepest depression, in the deepest desolation, the new personality is born.” Marie-Louise von Franz

First hour:

William Fowler Colllins – Death Acquires A Different Meaning (featuring Johanna Hedva) [Hallucinating Loss, Western Noir 2022]
LOCRIAN – Incomplete Map of the Voids [New Catastrophism, Profound Lore 2022]
Jim Haynes – Variant, number four [Insomnia, Sentimental Production 2022]
Angel Deradoorian, Dylan Fujioka, Patrick Shiroishi – Basic Flowers (extract) [Basic Flowers, Shinkoyo/Artist Pool 2022]

Second hour:

The Caretaker – Internal unravel [Everywhere, an empty bliss, History Aways Favor The Winners 2019]
Abul Mogard – Like Water [Strega Musica, Make Noise Music 2022]
Dimitris Savva – Disruption 5 [Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Greece, Unexplained Sounds Group 2022]
Merzbow & Lawrence English – The Visit [Eternal Stalker Dais 2022]
Xambuca – Thaum (Ascending) [Thaum, Flesh Prison 2021]
Yenting Hsu – January [Flash, Ash International 2022]
Shida Shahabi – Smygkatt [Homes, Sing A Song Fighter 2018]
Gnod – Spotlight [Hexen Valley, Rocket Recordings 2022]

Long Wave 11.8

Long Wave 11.8 | 12th August 2022

Yellow Mellow

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar, who provided the drawing

First hour:

Anna Själv Tredje – Tussilago Fanfara (extract) [Silence, 1977]
Patrick Shiroishi – you will never walk alone (for m.c.s.) [you will never walk alone / a circle with many centers / move the air, monocreo 2022]
Howlround – Thibauts Lacuna[ Trespass & Welfare, Buried Treasure 2022]
CLEARED – Of Endless Light [Of Endless Light, Touch 2022]
Manja Ristić – Jarbol [Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled, 2022]
BARNETT & COLOCCIA – Fountain ll [Third Wilderness, Sige Records 2022]
Garek Druss – A prolonged Forgiveness [Soft Fascination, Debacle Records 2022]
venoztks – Very Strange Convo [unreleased, 2021]

Second hour:

Maung That Win – On the Hill (Autpyin Mode) [Myanmar: Music by the Hsaing Waing Orchestra: The Burmese Harp, UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, 1998]
Lee Gamble – Girl Drop [Kuang EP, Pan (3) – PAN 56, 2014]
Lars Blek – 3_11 [Lars Blek, 2020]
Jez Riley French – jetty, alghero, sardinia [a quiet position | emplacement, Engraved Glass – eg055, 2013]
Kevin Drumm – Far Off From Difference [120121, Vaknar, 2022]
Dan Bean – Brian D [Thus, 2021]
Meat Beat Manifesto – Agelast [Opaque Couche, Flexidisc – FLX014, 2019]
Skee Mask – Hachures [ISS007 – ISS007, Ilian Tape, 2022]
Sosena Gebre Eyesus – Seqelew Eyalu [Sosena Gebre Eyesus, Little Axe Records, 2018]

Long Wave 11.7

Long Wave 11.7 | 8th July 2022

Fractal Patterns

Hosted by Natasha Pirard, who also provided the picture

Felicia Atkinson – Our Tides [Image Langage, Shelter Press, 2022]
M. Sage – Claiming Air Rights [Catch a Blessing, Geographic North, 2019]
Sarah Davachi – En Bas Tu Vois [Two Sisters, Late Music, 2022]
K. Leimer – Art and Science [Music for Land and Water, Les Giants, 1983]
Minamo & Asuna – Purkinje Fluctuations [Tail of Diffraction, 12K, 2022]
Claire Rousay – Everything perfect is already here [everything perfect is already here, Shelter Press, 2022]
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Modena [Playthroughs, kranky, 2002]
AV Moves – Sorry Too Much [In a Pause, Leaving Records, 2020]
Vlad Dobrovolski – Opus 3, May Voices [Natursymphony No.1 – Spring Music, Mappa Editions, 2020]

Track listing:

Long Wave 11.6

Long Wave 11.6 | 10th June 2022

Hidden Patterns

Hosted by Natasha Pirard, who also provided the picture

Track listing:

Mica Levi – Lobo Y Lady [Monos, Invada, 2019]
Alexandra Spence – Blue waves [Blue waves, Green waves, Room40, 2022]
The pale faced family on the hill & Oliver Coates – Slime Light Bends 2 [The pale faced family on the hill, Line Explorations, 2022]
Toshimaru Nakamura – Nimb Numer 43 [Egrets, Samadhi Sound, 2010]
Carmen Villain – Light in Phases [Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita, Geographic North, 2021]
Norman Westberg – The All Most Quiet [The All Most Quiet, Hallow Ground, 2019]
Tomoko Sauvage – Deluge [Fischgeist, Bohemian Drips, 2020]
Matt Rösner – Three Sheets to the Wind [No Lasting Form, Room40, 2021]
Phew – The Very Ears of Morning [Vertigo KO, Disciples, 2020]
Malibu – Tilting on Windmills [One Life, UNO NYC, 2019]
Olivia Block – Wuther [Wuther, Touch: Displacing, 2020]
William Basinksi – 92982.3 [92982, 2062, 2019]
Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann – Daniela [Mother Of Pearl, Recital, 2021]
Olivia Block – Through Houses [Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea, Room40, 2021]
Suzanne Ciani – Morning Spring [@0, Coldcut, 2021]
Mica Levi – Love [Under The Skin, Milan, 2019]

Long Wave 11.5

Long Wave 11.5 | 13th May 2022

A tribute to Philip Jeck

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar

Drawing by Bana Haffar

First Hour:

Philip Jeck – Live in St. Michel & St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels, Belgium 7th May 2006 [Spire – “Fundamentalis”, Touch, 2008]
The Ken Shabby Orchestra – Live in Kyoto, Japan 22nd February 2000 [Unreleased]
Philip Jeck – Live at ésam Caen/Cherbourg, Caen, France 28th February 2015 [Unreleased]

Second Hour:

Philip Jeck – Anatomy [Loopholes, Touch, 1995]
Philip Jeck – Wholesome [7, Touch, 2003]
Philip Jeck – Casio [Loopholes, Touch, 1995]
Philip Jeck – Spirits Up [Surf, 1998]
Philip Jeck – Pax [Stoke, Touch, 2002]
Philip Jeck – Louie’s Riddle [Loopholes, Touch, 1995]
Philip Jeck – The Christian Sink [Loopholes, Touch, 1995]
Philip Jeck – Open [Stoke, Touch, 2002]
Philip Jeck – Wipe [7, Touch, 2003]

Long Wave 11.4

Long Wave 11.4 | 8th April 2022

Touch. Generation

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar

Photo by Jon Wozencroft

First Hour:

Bruce Gilbert – Sliding off the World [Touch 25, Touch, 2006]
AER – Just Before Dawn [Touch Movements, Touch, 2017]
Mika Vainio – Leslie [Kajo, Touch, 2000]
AER – I Am Here to Prepare (Ukrainium) [Unreleased, 2022]
Philip Jeck – all that’s allowed (remix) [An Ark for the Listener, Touch, 2010]
Rosy Parlane – Atlantis [Touch 25, Touch, 2006]
AER – Mach .853 (Moscow Air Traffic Control Over Turukhansk, Siberia, October 1990) [T_ZERO_0, Touch, 2000]
Chris Watson – A Celebration [T_ZERO_0, Touch, 2000]
AER – As You Wander Round [T_ZERO_0, Touch, 2000]
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Tu non mi perderai mai [Touch 25, Touch, 2006]
AER – Bread Upon The Water [T_ZERO_0, Touch, 2000]
Biosphere – Knives in Hens [T_ZERO_3, Touch, 1998]
AER – “Prediction” [T_ZERO_3, Touch, 1998]
Disinformation – Loran-C VLF [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 19997]
AER – “Don’t Try This at Home” [T_ZERO_3, Touch, 1998]
John Duncan – Priority [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 1997]
AER – Couldn’t this Lengthy Therapy…? [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 1997]
Anthony Phillips – Danza Cuccaracha [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 1997]
Darren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen – Supermind’s Light Becomes Part of the Earth [T_ZERO_1, Touch, 1995]
AER – London in a Week [Unreleased]
AER – Air Traffic Control [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 19997]
AER – North, Speed [T_ZERO_3, Touch, 1998]
AER – The Education System [T_ZERO_2, Touch, 19997]

Second Hour:

Leif Elggren & CM Von Hausswolff – The Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem No. 1 (excerpt) [The Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem No. 1, Ash International, 1996]
The Eternal Chord – Omnia transeunt [Bis Dat, Spire, 2022]
Bethan Kellough – Of Air [The Key CLEARED, Touch, 2020]
Philip Jeck – Arcade (excerpt) [Arcade, Touch, 2018]
Robert Takahashi Crouch – Descension [Sublunar, Touch, 2017]
Geir Jenssen – Tingri – The Last Truck [Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings From Tibet, Ash International, 2006]
Bana Haffar – Conference of the Birds [Touch: Isolation, Touch, 2020]
Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck – Speaking Stone [Stardust, Touch, 2021]
Ipek Gorgun – Martyrs [Aphelion, Touch, 2016]
Robert Takahashi Crouch – Coda (Sailing Stones) [Sublunar, Touch, 2017]

Long Wave 11.3

Long Wave 11.3 | 11th March 2022

Repeat of Long Wave 11.1 | 14th January 2022

Touch 1982-2022+ – 40 years of Touch

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar

Original photography by Jon Wozencroft, collage by Bana Haffar

First Hour:

Scala – Think in Japanese [Beauty Nowhere, Touch, 1997]
Pece Atanasovskog – Postupano Oro [Narodna, Touch 1997]
Hilmar Örn Hilmarrsson – Ascension [Children of Nature, Touch, 1996]
General Strike – My Other Body [Danger in Paradise, Touch, 1984]
Touch Ritual Cut-Up [Touch, 1988]
WIR – Sexy And Rich (Janet) [Wirvien, Touch, 1997]
Koto Numariya – Nakano-xu [Touch33, Touch, 1983]
Andy Ross – Bush/Xylatymbou [Touch33, Touch, 1983]
King Rama [Islands Inbetween, Touch, 1984]
Prediction
Yanomamo Shamanism featuring David Toop/Köln Peals/Old Silk Route – Mule Bells [Touch Travel, Touch, 1984]
Derek Jarman – The Archaeology of Sound [Meridians Two, 1983, Touch]
Hear Me Church!
Soviet France – ram [Lands End, Touch, 1985]
The Bagamoyo Group of Tanzania – 13-string Issue [Drumming for Creation, Touch, 1985]
North, Speed
Onward Christian Soldiers [Berlin, 1945]

Second Hour:

Ryoji Ikeda – 0° : : zero degrees [1] [0°C, Touch, 1998]
Hazard – Village [Wind (with Chris Watson), Ash International, 2001]
Jana Winderen – Pasvikdalen (extract) [Pasvikdalen, Touch, 2019]
Fennesz – Rainfall [Agora, Touch 2019]
Ipek Gorgun – Neroli [Ecce Homo, Touch, 2018]
Oren Ambarchi – Remedios The Beauty [Grapes from the Estate, Touch, 2004]
ELEH – Living space (extract) [Living Space, Touch, 2019]
Chris Watson – Low Pressure [Stepping into the Dark, Touch, 1996]

Long Wave 11.2

Long Wave 11.2 | 11th February 2022

Hosted by Bana Haffar

Microbius Sonicus

Drawing by Bana Haffar

First Hour:

First Hour

Jana Winderen – Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone – Monitor Mix (extract) [Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, Touch, 2018]
Vladisalv Delay – Vihollinen [Visa, Ripatti, 2014]
Bernard Parmegiani – Points contre champs [De Natura Sonorum, INA-GRM, 1978]
Curtis Roads – Now [Point Line Cloud, Asphodel Records, 2005]
Bjork – Undo [Vespertine, One Little Indian, 2001]
venotks –
Avola – Cave Rave [Saikor, 2022]
Valery Vermuelen – Mikromedas AdS-CFT 001 05 [Mikromedas AdS / CFT 001, Ash International, 2021]

Second Hour

Ismo Laakso – Translucent [Ofelia, Sahko Recordings, 2018]
Chris Watson – Cracking Viscera [Outside the Circle of Fire, Touch, 1998]
Chris Watson & Marcis Davidson – The Bee Symphony [Cross Pollination, Touch, 2011]
Amon Tobin – Horsefish [Foley Room, Ninja Tune, 2007]
Jez Riley French – sulpher pools, iceland [a quiet position | emplacement, Engraved Glass, 2013]
Steinbrüchel – These 1 [Basis, Room40, 2007]

Long Wave 11.1

Long Wave 11.1 | 14th January 2022

Touch 1982-2022+ – 40 years of Touch

Hosted by Mike Harding & Bana Haffar

Original photography by Jon Wozencroft, collage by Bana Haffar

First Hour:

Scala – Think in Japanese [Beauty Nowhere, Touch, 1997]
Pece Atanasovskog – Postupano Oro [Narodna, Touch 1997]
Hilmar Örn Hilmarrsson – Ascension [Children of Nature, Touch, 1996]
General Strike – My Other Body [Danger in Paradise, Touch, 1984]
Touch Ritual Cut-Up [Touch, 1988]
WIR – Sexy And Rich (Janet) [Wirvien, Touch, 1997]
Koto Numariya – Nakano-xu [Touch33, Touch, 1983]
Andy Ross – Bush/Xylatymbou [Touch33, Touch, 1983]
King Rama [Islands Inbetween, Touch, 1984]
Prediction
Yanomamo Shamanism featuring David Toop/Köln Peals/Old Silk Route – Mule Bells [Touch Travel, Touch, 1984]
Derek Jarman – The Archaeology of Sound [Meridians Two, 1983, Touch]
Hear Me Church!
Soviet France – ram [Lands End, Touch, 1985]
The Bagamoyo Group of Tanzania – 13-string Issue [Drumming for Creation, Touch, 1985]
North, Speed
Onward Christian Soldiers [Berlin, 1945]

Second Hour:

Ryoji Ikeda – 0° : : zero degrees [1] [0°C, Touch, 1998]
Hazard – Village [Wind (with Chris Watson), Ash International, 2001]
Jana Winderen – Pasvikdalen (extract) [Pasvikdalen, Touch, 2019]
Fennesz – Rainfall [Agora, Touch 2019]
Ipek Gorgun – Neroli [Ecce Homo, Touch, 2018]
Oren Ambarchi – Remedios The Beauty [Grapes from the Estate, Touch, 2004]
ELEH – Living space (extract) [Living Space, Touch, 2019]
Chris Watson – Low Pressure [Stepping into the Dark, Touch, 1996]

Best of 2021

Although for many its been a desperately sad year, with hundreds of thousands impacted in various ways by COVID-19, Brexit and other local, personal, national and international events, it’s been an extraordinary year for musical releases.

I have chosen 13 recordings to suit the mood, in no particular order, for Squatney Council (UK):

Youmna Saba – Al-Sobh for the conference “Working Through Crisis: Innovations, Possibilities and Limitations of Research in a Volatile Lebanon”, organized by the RELIEF Center, in March 2021
Marsha Fisher – Cloquet Sketches (s/r)
Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck – Stardust (Touch)
Manja Ristić – Kairos & The Dwellers (f-o-m)
Steve Roden – Stars of Ice (Room40)
Patrick Shiroishi – Hidemi (American Dreams)
Gabie Strong – Wilding Sun (Dragon’s Eye Recordings)
Lina Tullgren – Visiting (s/r)
Melissa Pons – Wolf Soundscapes (s/r)
Geneva Skeen – Double Bind (ROOM40)
CM von Hausswolff – The Wind In Kirtipur (Erototox Decodings)

And two items I found myself:

Little Man, Big Voice – a recording from the streets of Los Angeles
venoztks – Light Breaker (Vtks)

I couldn’t find room for excellent work from Olivia Block, Susje Ritsch, Strom | Morts, Ian Wellman, Yann Novak, Brook Hinton, Jeremy Young, Tony Elleh, Innode, Travelogue, Charlie Campagna, Jim Haynes, Yenting Hsu, Ian Hawgood, Mike Dobler and countless others suffering to various degrees.