WOOHOOO this is now today's
#5
best-selling release across *all genres* on Bandcamp - can we get it to
#1
?? (only up against Kode9, AFX and Skee Mask, no sweat right?๐ )
the september mixtape is going to be a bit late. please enjoy this clip of me playing a track from the august mixtape instead - my fave so far, getting the most replays and love ๐ Add it to your B*ndc*mp collection now ๐ฉต๐ซ๐ฆข Listening notes & Audio in the usual places๐
connected a mic to an envelope follower to a drum machine to a dub delay to a tape loop module to your ears
evenings draw in, dust motes float, jazzy scats with the cat ๐ (listen til the end for that)
i turn my face up and it seems then that he is casting something so bright and fine it must be a spell. It snags the fabric of the sky and the snag becomes a tear and the tear becomes a thinning
OH MY GOSHHH!!
Jaw on the floor here ๐ โจ๐ค๐ ALBUM OF THE WEEK!
Thank you so much
@theQuietus
and to the brilliant
@laurarecorder
for this beautiful long form review. Means the world that you listened and loved. ๐คฉ๐๐
In thew new album of electronic music by Loula Yorke, Laura Cannell hears synth lines extending like roots across the forest floor
@loulayorke
's Volta is tQ's Album of the Week
WE DID IT!!! ๐ Woke up this morning to the news that 'speak, thou vast and venerable head' is
@bandcamp
#1
Bestseller across *all genres*!! HUGE thanks to everyone who is supporting!!
Can we stay there a whole day?? ๐ซ
๐
@quietdetails_
Good morning! ๐ฅณVolta is OUT TODAY ๐ Needless to say I am crazy proud of this album and the response from listeners to the tracks I've shared so far. Please now enjoy the full release ๐ค The *very last* of the tapes and 1st Ed CDs are
@boomkatonline
via
๐ to the folks who've just arrived fresh in the Loulaverse! Here's a recent deep dive into my studio practice with online magazine Headphone Commute, with some better shots of my cases ๐ฟ๐๏ธ
@H_C
โจ๐ woooww someone needs to work out how to bottle feeling of having Tom Ravenscroft saying your album is 'absolutely gorge' live on BBC Radio 6Music
thanks soooo much to
@djdebgrant
&
@tom_ravenscroft
for selecting 'Staying with the Trouble' on last night's New Music Fix ๐
My modular live set from Wavetable in Edinburgh last week is up online to watch.
Iโve just made the audio from this set available to my wonderful Bandcamp subscribers ๐
OMG I have just seen that 'Volta' is the lead review in this month's
@ElectronicMagUK
magazine! Thank you so much โค๏ธ and to
@MJASmith
for your ears.
This beautiful music is out today! Really honoured to have my track โEalaโ opening the latest instalment in the Tone Science compilation series, put together by
@ianboddy
and featuring beautiful tracks by
@sulkrooms
@swansither
and many many mooore ๐ซ๐ช
๐ค Launching! nay catapulting! Volta into the stratosphere LIVE on
@bbcintroducing
East in session with the lovely
@handgeI
at 8.15pm GMTTTT ๐๐ woooop
I'm so glad to hear Volta music resonated with you in the way I always hoped it would with listeners.
Laird writes "As I sit gently weeping and feeling while listening tonight I think it is more accurate to call thisย soul music" ๐
BFI has a 1986 doc on the life and work of Cornelius Cardew up to watch for free for those in the UK (or just vpn it elsewhere!)
(i've just finished watching it โย thanks to
@robinrimbaud
for the tip!)
had the pleasure of interviewing
@loulayorke
, the Oram Award winning live modular synthesist whose excellent new album โVoltaโ is released at the start of 2024 ๐๐๐โก๏ธ
๐ฟ๐คฉ๐ thank you SO MUCH to everyone who is buying the release and to quiet details for inviting me to be part of the series!! I donโt think I ever thought Iโd see my name in the album charts ๐คฏ
Super happy to see qd19
@loulayorke
reach no. 41 on the
@officialcharts
๐
Thanks so much for all your support - amazing to see true independent music go so far, couldnโt do it without you ๐
Hooooj thanks to
@thewiremagazine
for a stunning double review of โVoltaโ and โspeak, thouโ in the new edition. I am so appreciative of being given a close listen by the expert ears of music writer Xenia Benilovski ๐ฟ๐โจ๐ณ
The Wire 486 is out now!
David Lynch & Chrystabell: The director and singer
unpack their dream-like songs over a damn fine cup of coffee. By Britt Brown.
Plus: 19 pages on The Sound World Of David Lynch, Dhangsha Invisible Jukebox, Discreet Music + more!
got to take home a bit of the set from last nightโs gig - we packed out the stage with buckets of stunning flowers that had โgone overโ (so no longer saleable) donated from an amazing local grower friend!! Need to be accompanied by these at every gig from now on sorry ๐ฉต
๐จ I'm on the radio sometime btwn now and 12.30 ๐ค
I recorded a wee segment about my track 'It's been decided that if you lay down no-one will die', which is today's 'Hit Reset' feature track as chosen by the one and onlyyyy
@maryannehobbs
๐ซ !!
The Tone Science journey continues with Volume 9 - Theories and Conjectures to be released on limited edition Digipak CD & download on April 19th. Another nine sonic adventurers explore the endless possibilities of modular synthesis.
never thought I'd see my name in a spanish language music blog sandwiched between an item about tame impala and pharrell's brand partnership with lego, but the universe moves in mysterious ways ๐ซ
and i'm here for it!
Incredible double review for my 2 latest releases โย YOUL and Floresence in this months
@thewiremagazine
!! Many many thanks to
@drlouisegray
for taking time to listen and interpret ๐น Both albums are for sale now via โจ
We can't wait for
@loulayorke
playing an exclusive live set here next Friday, 19th July at 7:30pm. Tickets at ยฃ15 available from our website or on the door. Roll up, roll up and let's get modular!
#electronica
#electronicmusic
Find me in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire this Friday presenting a new talk Iโve put together for
@wutheringbytes
, taking in a slice of the history behind modular synths and making music by letting go โ plus Iโll be DJing at The Social in the evening too ๐ชด
This week I launched a new 1hr monthly ambient sound offering made fm original material by me. Each edition comes with liner notes to add context, expand on themes and tell stories.
Itโs all on for 1 single pound sterling (or more) ๐๐ฟ
#BandcampFriday
ladies if your man
- needs to be turned on before heโll make any noise
- smokes when his polarity is reversed
- causes bystanders to ask if you โknow what all of this doesโ
heโs not your man, heโs a modular synth
This is the nicest thing that has happened to me all year ๐ค๐ฅณ๐งกreally looking forward to getting to know all these massively talented artists as well as 2 being mentored by the folx from the New Radiophonic Workshop! Thank you
@oram_awards
/
@ace_national
/
@PRSFoundation
itโs here โฆ ๐๐ณ
skylarks suspended in the air, a street saxophonist in New York, a mysterious grove of trees, mud and flowers growing in a lake
ayyyyyy
@boomkatonline
thanks for asking me what music floated my boat this year ๐งก I went with synthy things, jukey things, Sean-nos singing and sideways Christmas ๐ถ
Many many thanks to
@acloserlisten
for reviewing 'Volta' ahead of its release tomorrow โจโค๏ธ
So grateful to the music writers still listening, writing and blogging, giving their time and their ears in this utterly bonkers climate ๐
๐๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐น๐ต๐ โโโโโโ make a date with the July mixtape โโโโโโ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐จ
๐ง
๐
early purple orchid spotted today in the wood about 30 mins walk from my front door ๐ณ I went out on a long field recording mission for my new โmonthly ambient mixtapeโ project
more details when Iโve got them but planning to drop some luscious ear candy on 1st May ๐ฉต๐
the august mixtape has been incredibly well-received THANK YOU ๐ช I really want to get this one out as far and wide as I can as itโs pretty special so if you loved it please spread the word ๐ฉต and if youโve yet to dip your toes in then head over to my b*ndcamp ๐ฆข
Loula Yorke - speak, thou vast and venerable head
oh my god. I've died and ascended to modular synth & field recording heaven. total mindwarp resonance, headphone trip through a black hole. instant addition to my 2024 favorites list.
Second single from 'Volta' is out today. 'The grounds are changing as they promise to do' has melody at its heart. Built out of 6 sequences, which are iterations of one another. Lots of delay, harmonics and saw waves!
Listen here:
The second run of 'Volta' CDs started their outward journey this morning for UK folks ๐คฉ International orders have been packed and will be going out tomorrow (it's just easier for my brain that way!)
And people now a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here. And hold their personhoods cheap whilst anyone speaks that fought with us upon Levitation weekend.
Eight tickets left.
FLORESCENCE is here! it's a big day for me, 2 years since i've released anything solo. Wearing my heart on my sleeve a bit more with this one. Your support is really valued ๐
@meslackman
@thejessicadore
"She left without closure. She left without having to hear the lonely hunter say, you know what youโre right, Iโve wronged you, you should go. How many of us are in bad situations still waiting, wanting, holding out for permission to leave."
big cheers to the very awesome Headphone Commute blog for asking me to share my thoughts and some new pics of my music workspace for this week's 'In The Studio' feature ๐ซ
@H_C
ftw
the loudest part of me was *very sure* I wasnโt going to put together a mixtape for September, but another, smaller part of me had been quietly collecting sound recordings and making notes that whole time โฆ
nearly 2hrs late to
#wildflowerhour
and cheating because this cluster of snakeshead fritillary actually grows in my garden, but too beautiful not to share and will be over all too soon
Iโm floored by how good this book by
@NoreenMasud
is!! I devoured it in one hit and now I have too many good things to say about it to make any sense at all so Iโm not going to try except to say: thank you for writing it ๐and HARD RECOMMEND
Another run of Volta on CD is on its waaaay โจ available to pre-order now through my bandcamp ๐ค There will be another super short run of tapes too which i'll be listing early next week ๐๐ซ thanks for all your support, it's amazinggg ๐น
Thank you SO MUCH to
@JenniferLAllan
for selecting โItโs been decidedโฆโ for Late Junction on
@BBCRadio3
on Friday night ๐ and for including news of Volta and the mailing list ๐ ๐ซโจ
?
Office Ambience 486
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our August 2024 issue, including
@suziAnalog
,
@loulayorke
, and more:
i would also have to source a time machine, travel 4 years forward in time, buy a copy of Candi Staton's You Got The Love (The DJ Eren "Original Bootleg" mix, with her vocal over Frankie Knuckles 'Your Love') and pop it into that sweet little cassette deck ๐ป
This week on Songs of Our Lives, it's Loula Yorke! We talked about Mira Calix & Oliver Coates, Candi Statonโs greatness, dance music & punk's connections, The Roches unhinged, Liquid Crystal vs Mozart + more! Listen via Foxy Digitalis or wherever you listen podcasts.
the august mixtape came out today ๐ซ it's half-price til midnight Friday 2nd Aug (UTC +1)
(they're saying it's the best edition so far, on repeat and the like, do not sleep and so forth)
๐โ๏ธ๐ links below ๐
๐คฉ 'The grounds are changing as they promise to do' was played on BBC R3's Unclassified show last night ๐ thanks to the curation skills of hostest with the mostest
@elizabethalker
produced by
@reducedlisten
๐
I've rustled up 5 (five!) extra CD+postcard bundles of 'Volta' celebrate Bandcamp Friday ... head over to my page โ๏ธโจ Stay frosty if you missed earlier runs!
I'll also have some ๐ฟ๐ฟ with me at my gig
@FirstColchester
tonight ๐