14.10.13 - 08:23am
I would write a long, thoughtful and knotty post on the subject of moving-on but I gotta move-on so I think this place is closing down soon and I think the new place will be here.
That’s:
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05.09.13 - 09:54am
An hilarious look at the spotty availability of yr grist, were you wishing to avoid international shipping cost+hassle, as it were.
Asia: No dice.
Africa: No dice
North America: Happily, the good folks at Mimaroglu are selling Can’t Get Started
They were good enough to say this:
“december 2011 release ; … fascinating overview of the work of contemporary uk “outsider” peter “um” gregory, a cantabrigian trawler of intersections between barrett-esque mumblecore & a-synchronous electro babble (with hints of uk post-punk diy squawk) …
… covering his “early years,” this comes (chronologically) after the (tyfus-covered, felix kubin-issued) “no pressure” lp for gagarin & the self-issued “babysitting the apocalypse” full-length ; highly recommended !!!”
South America: No dice.
Antartica: No outlets as yet.
Europe: Let’s subdivide this.
Germany: Deutschland is the only place you can buy No Pressure, my record on Felix Kubin’s Gagarin label. You can buy from Stora (where you can also get the Pete Um/Miss Hawaii spilt 7″) or from A-Musik
Actually, thinking about it, Gagarin might have been able to get copies of this in other places in Europe but I know they didn’t get none to Blighty.
Russia: Another Um exclusive for this mysterious ‘n’ cool lathe-only label Cyland Audio Archive. CAA#8 is a double 7.5″ EP of watery tape music from the fathomless pool of such recordings what I have done. To be fair I think it might cost you $35 whether you live in Saint Petersburg or in Godalming or Ghanzi but fuckit.
They said this:
“The use of amateurism and error as a means of composition characterize the art of Pete Um. It is important to understand that to be able to appreciate Pete’s work for CAA. His off-kilter methodology and stumbling attitude is still present, but it’s drenched in an abrasive and tape-hissy miasma. Worth it alone for transmutation. Here are the most intricate drones one has ever heard, analog meditations on life, anxiety, and death, bringing an incredible depth to what could have been a very flat sound, tape hiss clear as day with the distant warbles and close ripples sounding as if they’re inside your head, immaculate dreams filled with soft synths, galvanic and calming on so many levels, the silence is anything but, embedding the slightest shred of suddenness into every next moment, and going full on lumpy euphoria in the most restrained way, a heaven we never knew existed and never want to leave, this is masterful in its strange beauty, a perfect goddamn record.”
UK. By far and away the greatest suppliers of all Pete Um grist is Leeds-based online music retail heroes Norman Records, where you can buy reasonably-priced copies of Can’t Get Started, The New Album, Babysitting The Apocalypse and Giraffe! Amazing. Well done everyone.
I’m not going to mention Boomkat but I think you can get the split with Ascoltare there still too, but then you might as well just get that off Discogs cos even if you were shipping to the moon it’d still probably be cheaper and you wouldn’t have to read any of that “Don’t sleep!” business.
Australia. Nothing.
So yeah, if you live on Earth and you don’t do Bandcamp or you loathe global commerce or whatever, that’s what you’re up against. If there’s any way anybody out there can help with distribution I would be very pleased to hear from you. I don’t mind sending small numbers of stuff on flexible terms and so forth.
23.08.13 - 07:56pm
Nice sniff at the MFU guitar-poop, I’d say. Sorry I haven’t been posting much. Apparently the site due for demolition but transferring to some new shizz is proving a typical black magic headache. Any-ways:
30.04.13 - 12:48pm
I’m on this comp with all these other people I know! I know!
My effort:
£3 download or £5 CD. Cheap!
26.04.13 - 02:42pm
My favourite song off The British Public record now has a video crafted thoughtfully by Man From Uranus. This is it.
26.04.13 - 02:30pm
Great little film from that event at Reworks I played at some rainy day at the end of last year. I still need to do a post about that. I’m in the video doing my old-man-ranting-at-table act, or whatever it is.
Vapour from Ann Evelin Lawford on Vimeo.
Vimeo blurb sez:
UK / 2012 / 3’35” / Nikon D90
VAPOUR performed at the Reworks closing show on the 24th November 2012.
VAPOUR are a collective of musicians and artists based in Cambridge, UK whose performances feature improvised live manipulation of real-time spoken word, pre-recorded and real-time generated sounds, hand made art works, and overtly processed video. They are actively involved in live performance (both musical and theatrical), art installations, and Internet radio broadcasts.
23.04.13 - 08:46pm
I’m becoming a big fan of this guy’s videos. He’s such a dude. If I had a terminal disease I’d go to India for a bit and then ask for 12 hours in a comfy chair round his. Check out his things on free jazz and punk too.
17.04.13 - 08:03pm
Sealed copy!
No spoilers for scrollers but this particularly hit home cos his female artist find is a flavour in the poor Mouse taste.
Also, I’m all about I got this for nothing and it’s worth a little bit more than something but fuck this guy. There’s more honour in the pointless Smaug-hoarding I’m guilty of than matey’s trembly-handed Tori score. “Not so much in selection, but in what I got.”
15.03.13 - 12:37pm
In a weird twist my brother has discovered the internet and uploaded some old Antiques Roadshow footage here of me doing Just Like Kurt. Actually I don’t think it’s that old cos I’m guessing it’s me supporting Steve Mason at The Haymakers when he described me as an old man in a pub or something and Simon Baker paid me in Guinness. I wrote about it elsewhere on these pages somewhere…