The Balky Mule – Brixton Sessions

Brixton Sessions #016 – The Balky Mule ‘Dust Bird Baths’ from Blindeye | Films on Vimeo.

Brixton Sessions #016 – The Balky Mule ‘Wireless’ from Blindeye | Films on Vimeo.

Some Sounds

echosynth by johnchantler

This is a ‘live-at-home’ (ie. one take, no edits) recording of some solo synthesizer.Bit too heavy of the echo and classic ’space-synth’ vibes for the record i’m working on, but figured I was pretty fun just the same so up here it goes.
enjoy.
If you would like me to bring the blips to a room in your town please email john [at] room40 [dot] org.
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Holy Family – ‘Anoint’ C25 (Digitalis Ltd)

I have copies of this now… tis sold out at source as they say.

You can purchase it direct from me for £6 postage paid worldwide.
paypal to john-[at]-room40-[dot]-org

If you are stateside, a better bet might be Mimaroglumusicsales.

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label description:

this one is for the gold, all the way and all the time. holy family is the modular synth duo of lawrence english and john chantler (room40 extraordinaires). and you know what’s coming. it opens onto a putrid, rotting corpse hanging from the bedchamber. chantler & english aren’t fuckign around. their synths sound like they’re dying, every note stretched to the point of breaking oscillating into the ground. this is not child’s play.

before you know it your blood stops flowing, turned into a molasses. faint echoes try to scratch their way to the surface, totally buried alive. every so often you think you hear a melody whirring from behind, but everything gets swallowed back down into this deep, dark pit. intense. incredible. edition of 125.

Organ Octet @ David Roberts Art Foundation – 20/01/10

Organ Octet.

Damien Roach exhibition / David Roberts Art Foundation
111 Great Titchfield Street. London. W1W 6RY.

20th January 2010. 7pm.

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Holy Family Sunday Service

Gig news

Thanks to all who came to OPENFRAME.   good times.  Great sounds.

A quick final blast before the year ends in the shape of a gig with Bradford Bailey at Brown Gallery, Hoxton Square this coming wednesday 16th December…  will update with times etc as I know more… i think i’m playing drums. likely to be raw and a bit punk.

Cheers!

10 in 2010 cassettes…

ROOM40 will be 10 in 2010. We’re doing a series of cassettes and Lawrence and I will be doing a side each of the first one. I’ve just put the pre-order up, so if you are keen, I’d recommend getting in soon as we’re only doing 100.

Rest of the line-up looks awesome, too:

RMTP402 – TAYLOR DEUPREE vs PIMMON
RMTP403 – DJ OLIVE vs ERIKM
RMTP404 – ULRICH KRIEGER vs BEN FROST
RMTP405 – TENNISCOATS vs LEIGHTON CRAIG
RMTP406 – SPECIAL GUESTS – a secret for now!

link: http://www.room40.org/releases-10yeartapes.shtml

ROOM40 LONDON OPENFRAME – 9 & 10 December 2009

Wednesday 9 December 2009

  • Steinbrüchel (Switzerland)
  • Mike Cooper (UK/Italy) and Pat Thomas (UK)
  • Organ Octet (UK)
  • Sébastien Roux

Thursday 10 December 2009 ***TIMEOUT CRITIC’S CHOICE***

  • Tujiko Noriko (Japan) / Lawrence English (Australia) / John Chantler (UK) – trio
  • Dolphins into the Future (Belgium)
  • Tomasz Bednarczyk (Poland)
  • Makino Takashi Film screenings w/ music by Jim O’Rourke & Lawrence English

Cafe Oto. 18-22 Ashwin Street. London. E8 3DL.
Tickets Wednesday £7 // Thursday £10 // both days £15
http://www.wegottickets.com/f/1212

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Maher in London…

MAHER

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LGVs and cycling.

please sign this petition:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/LGV-Cycle-Safety/

thanks!
John