December 2012

Another year draws to a close which has seen some releases I’ve been very happy with (collaborations with Caught In The Wake Forever, David Newlyn, thisquietarmy for the Death:Valley CD, and Dirk Serries for the Sleep of Reason LP trilogy and tour), a split CD with Egsun, the reissue of OLD and of course merry6mas.

On the subject of merry6mas, Norman Records gave it 4 stars and it’s still available from the yellow6 website, Norman Records and Pirate Ship.  Get it before they all go….

Pirate Ship are also doing a special 6mas extravaganza mail order special where you can get merry6mas 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 for $25!!!  http://www.pirateshiprecords.com/

In case you need further inducement to get yourself a copy, there are two tracks to listen to on SoundCloud here:  https://soundcloud.com/yellow6/sets/merry6mas2012

(It will be on Bandcamp at some point soon)

Also from the shop, the last few copies of the Sleep of Reason LP trilogy and,  making a return to the store for a limited time, saved from the recycling plant/landfill, I have some copies of Painted Sky (Resonant Records) at bargain price.

The shop… http://www.yellow6.com/shop.php

Final release of the year, with a contribution from me, is Aidan Baker’s Origins and Evolution.  A collaborative guitar drone album available here: http://blackbox-utilities.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=92

Here’s some words about it:

Aidan Baker returns to INSTALL with a appropriate follow up to his 2009 record 'Dry'. 'Origins & Evolutions' . For this one Aidan has brought some friends along to create an immersive composition for multiple guitars recorded by guitarists from all over the world and assembled by Aidan himself. 'Origin One (Drone)' starts the record with a layered, dense drone that sets the frame work for the record. Further on the composition descends quickly into the obtuse with 'Evolution One (Percussive)' and 'Evolution Two (Chime Drone)'. The record is brought full circle by the ending piece 'Origin Two (Melody)'. Limited to 300 replicated CDs in full color 4 panel eco-wallet. 

With Guitarists:

Jon Attwood, Aidan Baker, Mick Barr, Bryan W. Bray, David Daniell, Jonathan Demers, Richard Graham, N, JF Sebastian, David Tagg, Velladon Vampillia, Slash Vampillia, Matej Volgar, Brian Wenckebach, Nigel Wright
Thanks again for your support in 2012 and I’ll be back with more I’m sure in 2013.

Sunday on koop.org

posting from dj progscot:

I will be hosting a very special Fade To Yellow - KOOP radio show on Sunday. The first hour of the show will be dedicated to the music of Jon Attwood who records and performs as Yellow6. So the show will be called Fade To Yellow6 and you ca

n hear chat and music from throughout his career and a new track from his latest merry 6mas series. So please join me 3-4.30pm CST on Sunday for this special show on 91.7fm in the Austin area and for the rest of the world it will be available to stream at www.koop.org

merry6mas2012... it's here

shipping saturday 24th November!

news early november 2012

Updates for November…. It’s 6mas time again!  See below for pre-order details

Sleep Of Reason trilogy and tour:

The Sleep of Reason (Dirk Serries and Jon Attwood) LP trilogy is available to order now from Tonefloat records:

http://www.crazy-diamond.nl/tonefloat/html/store.htm

A small number will be available from the website.  As it’s a heavy weight 4 LP set, for EU customers it may be cheaper to buy from Tonefloat

Tour recap… the five shows we did (London, Cologne, Leuven, Nuremburg and Heerlen) went well with each one a different venue, different feel and different end result, but all very enjoyable shows.  Unfortunately I had to pull out of the last 2 shows so apologies to anyone hoping to see them – Dirk did a fine job of a solo set at them.

So the Sleep of Reason has concluded it’s work – get the LP while you can.

Yellow6 & David Newlyn ‘O.S.’ CD

Limited edition cds of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in lovely hand-stamped cardboard envelopes with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper.

cd costs 10 euros (price includes shipping worldwide!) and you can pre-order it by paying with paypal directly to: geezertek(at)yahoo(dot)gr

I have a small number of these available now – please email me on a first come first served basis.  £10 (UK), £11 (EU), £12.50 (R.O.W.)

Yellow6 Live show

A rare live show by Yellow6 at Nottingham Chameleon on 20 November 2012, with Thought Forms, The Cult Of Dom Keller, Sunwolf and Tricolour Sun.  Yellow6 will be on second shortly after 8pm and it’s £4 on the door.  It’ll be a short set and partly improvised (around themes of Cut and Egg)

Merry6mas2012

Continuing the series started in 1999, the 14^th merry6mas arrives late November.  This time it’s a pressed CD in a colour card sleeve in an edition of 200 copies.  It features music recorded for a film soundtrack (film still in production).  These are selections from music recorded during 2012, some of which will be in the film, some not.  More on the film in good time. 

This will be available to pre-order from the website soon at £7 (UK), £8.50 (EU), £10 (R.O.W) or just email to reserve

(It will also be available to buy / download from Bandcamp in early 2013.)

Thanks again for your support during 2012 and there will be more to come in 2013….

Yellow6 News October 2012

The latest……

Sleep Of Reason trilogy and tour:

The Sleep of Reason (Dirk Serries and Jon Attwood) LP trilogy is available to order now from Tonefloat records:

http://www.crazy-diamond.nl/tonefloat/html/store.htm

Tour dates:

October 28, 2012 - 229, London - UK (part of the tonefloat event)

October 29, 2012 - Stadtgarten, Cologne - Germany (org: Auf Abwegen)

October 30, 2012 - Stuk, Leuven - Belgium

October 31, 2012 - K4, Nürnberg - Germany

November 1, 2012 - (h)ear at Kunstencentrum Signe, Heerlen - The Netherlands

November 2, 2012 - Markthalle, Hamburg – Germany (CANCELLED)

November 3, 2012 - Christuskirche, Bochum - Germany (org: thepostrock.de)

November 4, 2012 - Paradox, Tilburg - The Netherlands (part of the tonefloat event)

Yellow6 & David Newlyn ‘O.S.’ CD

Two new full length albums will be released by Sound In Silence on October 29.

Yellow6 & David Newlyn – O.S.

Good Weather For An Airstrike – Lights

Both albums are in limited edition cds of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in lovely hand-stamped cardboard envelopes with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper.

Each cd costs 10 euros (price includes shipping worldwide!) and you can pre-order it by paying with paypal directly to: geezertek(at)yahoo(dot)gr

Yellow6 Live show

 A rare live show by Yellow6 at Nottingham Chameleon on 20 November 2012, with Thought Forms, The Cult Of Dom Keller, Sunwolf and Tricolour Sun.  Yellow6 will be on second shortly after 8pm and it’s £4 on the door.

Merry6mas2012

In a continuing series started in 1999, the 14^th in the series arrives late November.  This time it’s a pressed CD in a card sleeve in an edition of 200 copies.  It features music recorded for a film soundtrack (film still in production).  These are selections from music recorded during 2012, some of which will be in the film, some not.  More on the film in good time.  And more on availability of the CD when it’s ready.

That’s about all for now.  More to come in 2013 with a couple of potential releases….

Thanks for reading this far.

Jon./Yellow6

www.yellow6.com

yellow6.bandcamp.com

Nottingham Gig 20th November

Chameleon, Nottingham Tuesday 20th November 2012

O.S.

Two new full length albums will be released by Sound In Silence on October 29.

Yellow6 & David Newlyn – O.S.
Good Weather For An Airstrike – Lights

Both albums are in limited edition cds of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in lovely hand-stamped cardboard envelopes with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper.

Each cd costs 10 euros (price includes shipping worldwide!) and you can pre-order it by paying with paypal directly to: geezertek(at)yahoo(dot)gr

New September 2012 (The Sleep of Reason)

Hi

Not much Yellow6 news for now… but some collaboration news.

Currently being mastered by Fraser McGowan (Caught In The Wake Forever) is a collaboration between David Newlyn and Yellow6 which will be released this autumn by Sound In Silence.  More on that soon…

But the big news is that The Sleep Of Reason is almost upon us.  The long awaited trilogy will be released by tonefloat as a 4LP set on 09 October 2012.  It is available to pre-order now at the Tonefloat store for 39.99 Euro  http://www.crazy-diamond.nl/tonefloat/

I may have a few copies but most will be reserved for the tour dates (below).  To ensure you get a copy, please pre-order from Tonefloat.

There are sample tracks to listen to on the Tonefloat Soundcloud page:

http://snd.sc/PBk3MP  and  http://snd.sc/PBkczO

the official info and tour dates are below.

That’s all for now

Jon/Y6

Over the past few years, alongside their own solo projects, Dirk Serries and Jon Attwood [Yellow 6] have been slowly working on a trilogy of albums as The Sleep Of Reason. This trilogy combines their own individual takes on guitar drone and ambience into something with its own character and style. The resulting music sees their guitars blend into slowly shifting soundscapes that take you to a different place and time. Each album is a continuation of the previous one but differs on an almost subliminal level, making the listener realise over time that the sleep of reason is a slowly mutating, thematic and specific musical entity.

Limited to 200 copies only, the set not only includes the trilogy of lps, but also a one-sided live lp recorded during the tonefloat label night 2011, and a cd with a selection of tracks taken from the three studio albums.

The release date is October 9 - 2012, and it's available for pre-order now from the tonefloat store.

In concert :

October 28, 2012 - 229, London - UK (part of the tonefloat event)

October 29, 2012 - Stadtgarten, Cologne - Germany (org: Auf Abwegen)

October 30, 2012 - Stuk, Leuven - Belgium

October 31, 2012 - K4, Nürnberg - Germany

November 1, 2012 - (h)ear at Kunstencentrum Signe, Heerlen - The Netherlands

November 2, 2012 - Markthalle, Hamburg - Germany

November 3, 2012 - Christuskirche, Bochum - Germany (org: thepostrock.de)

November 4, 2012 - Paradox, Tilburg - The Netherlands (part of the tonefloat event)

after a long dream of sleep....

Title – After a Long Dream of Sleep

Label – mini50records

‘After a Long Dream of Sleep’ is a record raising money for Crisis Scotland, an important and valued mental health resource.

The record, compiled by mini50records, has been over a year in the making. It brings together a range of artists from all over the world, united in their effort to highlight the importance of access to local mental health facilities in all our communities. At this time Crisis Scotland faces the very real threat of closure due to lack of funds, and so it was felt that the record could be a force for good.

‘A Long Dream of Sleep’ will be released via the mini50records bandcamp (http://mini50records.bandcamp.com) for download only from Friday 30^th March 2012.

Full track listing is:

1. Matthew Collings – Hraunberg

2. Mirrorzisland – Anonatoll

3. Spokes – Give it up to the Night (Fieldhead Remix)

4. Cory Allen – Transcender’s Theme

5. Yellow6 – And in the Distance

6. Richard A Ingram – Vort Halicon

7. David Newlyn – Stop Motion

8. Talvihorros – Dead Sea Scrolls

9. Chantal Acda (Sleepingdog/True Bypass) – Missing Heartbeat

10. M.Ostermeier – Winsome

11. FiRES Were Shot – Giffords Green

12. Guy Gelem – Recent Waves

13. Christian Eldefors – Daylight

14. Antonymes – Gravity Versus the Pull of Beyond

15. glacis – May this Night never see Morning

16. Caught in the Wake Forever – I Restore Myself When I’m Alone

17. Hiva Oa – Exile

The whole record can be downloaded for £6, with individual tracks available for £1. All proceeds will go to Crisis Scotland.

Cover art is by the talented Jamie Mills, you can view more of his art at www.jamie-mills.com .

***STOP***

For more information please contact Euan McMeeken – mini50records@hotmail.co.uk

Crisis Scotland’s website is here – www.crisiscounselling.co.uk

www.mini50records.co.uk

http://mini50records.bandcamp.com

Basses Frequences :: Death Valley 2CD and more (Yellow6 news March 2012)

Hi All

I hope the spring is being kind to you all as the summer fast approaches and another year seems to fly by already....
Times have been quiet musically for Yellow6 but there are a few upcoming collaborative projects to mention, more news on which will be given as time moves on.... I have been working sporadically on music for a film soundtrack, but aside from a live date in Cragg Vale, Yorkshire on 23rd June (tbc) there are no live dates or new releases planned for Yellow6.  

There are these though....

DEATH:VALLEY 2CD set
After the vinyl releases of each individual LP comes the 2CD set which includes an extra track from the original session, a live recording from the following evening in Montreal and a Fear Falls Burning remix.  Full details are below in the forwarded Basses Frequences mailout.  I will have a small number of copies available in the UK at £12.  For those who purchased both vinyl volumes there is a discount to £7.50 by providing your LP download codes.  I won't be putting this on the shop so I can cover copies for people who bought both vinyl volumes so email me if interested.

Unlabel compilation
The otherwise unavailable Yellow6 track 'Red Candy' is on the Unlabel digital download compilation " the23rdproject-02-february-2012" which you can listen to or download (name your price) at Bandcamp.  Get it here:  http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the23rdproject-02-february-2012

Caught In The Wake Forever and Yellow6
Fraser McGowan and I have recorded two pieces for a 3" cdr to be released by Hibernate as the first in their upcoming 'collaborations' series. (due April-ish)

Mini50 compilation
The long planned compilation 'After A Long Dream Of Sleep' will be available from 30th March on Bandcamp, with an exclusive Yellow6 track.
Full tracklist is:
The full track listing is:

1. Matthew Collings – Hraunberg
2. Mirrorzisland – Anonatoll
3. Spokes – Give it up to the Night (Fieldhead Remix)
4. Cory Allen – Transcender’s Theme
5. Yellow6 – And in the Distance
6. Richard A Ingram – Vort Halicon
7. David Newlyn – Stop Motion
8. Talvihorros – Dead Sea Scrolls
9. Chantal Acda (Sleepingdog/True Bypass) – Missing Heartbeat
10. M.Ostermeier – Winsome
11. FiRES Were Shot – Giffords Green
12. Guy Gelem – Recent Waves
13. Christian Eldefors – Daylight
14. Antonymes – Gravity Versus the Pull of Beyond
15. glacis – May this Night never see Morning
16. Caught in the Wake Forever – I Restore Myself When I’m Alone
17. Hiva Oa – Exile

An excellent line up of artists for the price of £6 (£0.75 for an individual track) with all proceeds to Crisis Counselling Scotland.  From the mini50 records bandcamp page:  http://mini50records.bandcamp.com/

Sleep of Reason
Big news for later this year is the release of the Sleep of Reason trilogy and accompanying short tour.  After a long gestation, the 3 LP trilogy will be released in the autumn by Tonefloat.  The limited box set will comprise the 3 volume LP series, live one sided LP (recorded at the Tonefloat tf100 festival in Tilburg 2011) and a CD compiling selections form the 3LPs.  More on that nearer the time.
The tour will take in the following:
Oct 27th - Use of Ashes and Sleep of Reason, London (tbc)
Oct 28th - 229, London - the tonefloat event
Oct 29th - Stadtgarten, Cologne - Germany
Oct 30th - Stuk, Leuven - Belgium
Oct 31st - Zentralcafé, K4, Nürnberg - Germany
Nov 1st - (h)ear, Maastricht/Heerlen - The Netherlands
Nov 2nd - Markthalle, Hamburg - Germany
Nov 3rd - Christuskirche, Bochum - Germany
Nov 4th - Paradox, Tilburg - The Netherlands - the tonefloat event

OLD - Reissue
The OLD box, released last year in a limited edition of 6 copies by Cathedral Transmissions gets a limited re-issue in more frugal packaging in the near future.  Just working on the packaging but the music will be the same.  Digital download version is at bandcamp:  http://cathedraltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/old-box-set


So - that's all for now.  Please visit the shop page on the website if you feel that way inclined as there are still plenty of copies of merry6mas2011, Worth Wasting Time, close/r and CUT.  If you would like a number of CDs mail me and we'll make a deal :-)

Thanks for making it this far and your continued support.... Basses Frequences newsletter below

Jon./Y6

-----Original Message-----
From: Basses Frequences [mailto:jerome@bassesfrequences.org]
Sent: 26 March 2012 14:28
To: jon@yellow6.com
Subject: Basses Frequences :: Death Valley 2CD and more !



Hello everyone !
I hope this Basses Frequences newsletter will find you well. The sun is shining while I'm writting and the air smells spring, wich is always a good news.

I am very happy today to announce the release of the "Death Valley" - CD edition. This was supposed to be released last fall, but as someone very wise said once "better late than never". It is some kind of achievement to propose this edition today. This record has been the most ambitious Basses Frequences release to date. It has also been a great, deep human adventure, and in some way, I'm a bit sad this project is coming to an end. A huge THANKS and LOVE to Eric and Jon; and Dirk too. It has been a great pleasure to work with you, I'm proud of what we have done here.

The CD edition comes just as we wanted it to: mini gatefold sleeve with a 8 pages booklet. Looks really nice. Nothing occurred for once.
"Death" and "Valley" are united at last, with the addition of 3 bonus tracks to have this fully completed. An outtake from the recording sessions, a live track recorded at the Under The Snow Festival prior to the recording sessions, and a massive remix/reinterpretation by Fear Falls Burning.

You can buy it directly from here: http://bassesfrequences.bigcartel.com/product/thisquietarmy-yellow6-death-valley-cd-edition
Or through Eric and Jon who already have their copies, or through Norman Records in the UK, who will have copies very soon.

It is also available on digital here: http://bassesfrequences.bandcamp.com/album/death-valley

Also, as announced a while back, those who bought the two LPs can claim a discount on the CD edition. Just send the two download codes by email and you'll get your discount. (As far as I'm concern, I'll give you back a code to be used on the online shop.) Or, you can purchase the bonus tracks only here: http://bassesfrequences.bandcamp.com/album/death-valley-bonus-tracks

And I guess we're done about "Death Valley" ! I just hope that you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

Beside all that, there are 3 new titles added to the ROD program ! Pummeler "Soul Match Extraordinaire", Bones Of Seabirds "Divinorum" and the "Elementality Revisited" that is available exclusively with the "Elementality" CD. That a nice CD/CDR set now.
All three are now available on the online shop !

Once again, thanks a lot for reading this to the end and for your continuing support !
Live a good life.

Cheers !
- Jerome


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Vital Weekly 824

YELLOW6 - SOUNDS AND MOVING PICTURES (CD/DVD by Lunasylum/Editions6) Although around for a long time, it wasn't until Vital Weekly 815 that we reviewed something again by Jon Attwood, better known as Yellow6. That was a collaborative work with French Larkian, but in spring time last year he toured the lowlands, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, performing at the Tonefloat tf100 festival (along with Dirk Serries as Sleep Of Reason) and in Antwerp at the Live Looping Festival. That is a well-chosen name for a festival where people like Yellow6 perform. Basically a man, a guitar and loop devices. His three pieces from that festival are captured in audio and film, and both can heard and watched. On the CD there are also six pieces recorded from the audience, so we have a curious mixture of guitar playing and audience activities, although which is very quiet most of the time. These six pieces have been manipulated by David Newlyn. Like I remarked when reviewing the collaborative CD with Larkian, this kind of music hardly progresses, and probably

  doesn't

want to either. With all of this audio and video material, quite an overload. As a music lover I should say I enjoyed the CD more, but that's not entirely true. The CD contains great music, but perhaps music that I also know well quite now. Therefore I had more joy here with the DVD, especially his playing at the Live Looping festival, which lasts thirty minutes. Its interesting to see Attwood at work, playing few notes and then starting to loop them around, adding a few more, more loops, a texture, a strum, loop and loop. The floor is covered with all sorts of boxes to transform sounds, color them, change them. Attwood is playing them with great care and hardly a guitar hero, rock god type of musician. On the DVD there is a bunch more of bonus material, such as a spacious film and likewise spacious soundtrack by various film makers and even a slide show of tour pictures. Video and images work well together here and that's nice. But obviously sometimes you just want to sit back and enjoy 'just' music and then the CD is perhaps the best alternative. Like said, in this particular world 'innovation' doesn't seem to be that important, but quality is delivered no less. An excellent tour report. (FdW)

Address: http://lunasylum.consouling.be

also on the podcast.... http://www.vitalweekly.net/podcast.html

Unlabel compilation - Red Candy

Unlabel download compilation for February including otherwise unavailable Yellow6 track "Red Candy".  Planned for the final MMM release (if i'd made the deadline) this was played live on the last euro tour but never formally recorded or released (this is a rehearsal take).
download free here:

http://unlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the23rdproject-02-february-2012

concorde - the start of our decline

anyone who has bought the Yellow6/Egsun split CD 'Worth Wasting Time' and wondered about the origin of the titles of my contributions.... here's the story:

as a child i remember Concorde flying over my house. It was an amazing creation and with the ability to halve the travel time across the Atlantic. admittedly this was only available to a select few businessmen and celebrities (in the days when celebrity meant that the person had an achievement or talent to be celebrated, not the modern day use of the word to describe a lifestyle desired by those with no ability or desire to work for a living). these were times when the average person could only dream of seeing New York where in recent times a weekend break has been within the reach of many.

back to the point.... for hundreds of years, each technological advance made by mankind has been replaced by something bigger or better or more efficient.

when Concorde was grounded, there was nothing - it was a return to the longer slower flight times the rest of use had expect, and no bigger better faster new development.

for me, this seemed to mark a turning point for human kind. the life we have know of constant growth and improvement may be coming to an end.

i have felt for a long time that the constant desire for more is unsustainable, and ultimately empty. do we really need a faster car, bigger TV, more computer games etc.? Does that make us happy or leave us wanting even more?

similarly for companies and nations - is growth in economic and financial wealth really the best most desirable option? it certainly is not sustainable. things can't continue to grow forever and at some time will start to go backwards as more people and less resources will not allow it to continue. then what? who knows...

so, that's the thinking behind those titles... just my own thoughts and ponderings

jon.

yellow6 news Jan 2012

Hi

I hope you had a good holiday season and are surviving January so far.

A couple of bits of news for you to keep sprits up in the long dark days….

A highly recommended watch: The Silent Surgery – a film by Sean Townsend (Somnambulist Red) featuring music by Yellow6 in chapter 1

http://youtu.be/QJ96CPzoeoU

The Yellow6 track is “Leaves Fall”

And… somehow I managed to miss this off my last few updates, but arriving in the mail from Greece today were copies of the new Yellow6/Egsun split CD “Worth Wasting Time” on Somehow Ecstatic Records. This 4 track CD features two new and exclusive Yellow6 tracks: ‘Concord’ and ‘The start of our decline’ by Yellow6 along with 5 excellent tracks by Egsun.

Some description:

Minimal drone guitar sounds and cool "labradford" like motifs on one hand (yellow6) and quite esoteric minimal music, using cello, music boxes and lots of other instruments on the other (Egsun) .It's released in CD format in 300 hand-numbered copies. The artwork is stamped with an awesome-looking glitter ink on 100% recycled paper cd-wallets.

Available from Yellow6 (in the store shortly) or from Somehow Ecstatic (where you can sample an Egsun track): http://somehowecstatic.blogspot.com/

Lastly, Sounds and Moving Pictures will be available through Bandcamp in the next few days as a name your price download of the audio CD and physical purchase of CD/DVD

That’s all for now

Jon./Yellow6