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

Yellow6 end of year news

Hi

So, the end of another year draws near and a busy and eventful one it has been.

I played some shows in France, Belgium and Holland in the spring which included one in Lille, viewed by a few people there (including me) as one of the best I have ever played….of course this was the one show on the trip that wasn’t recorded but such is the way of things.

The trip started with my third Plane Ari Home Gig, as ever a great experience, and a recording of one of my rehearsals the afternoon of the gig appears on the Silber free download Christmas compilation. My track was written and recorded on a keyboard remaining at the house after the Library Tapes gig the previous week so thanks to Marc for inviting me to play, Do for the piano and Brian for asking me to contribute to the comp. here’s the details from the Silber newsletter:

“It's called "Six Feet Below the Snow" & I'm pretty stoked about it. Goes all over the map genre wise & some stuff is serious with other stuff being dumb fun. Go to www.silbermedia.com/comps/sixfeet to listen or download it for free. The artist roster is Charles DeMar, Jon DeRosa, Thorn1, Landerim, Miss Massive Snowflake, Goddakk, Origami Boe, Moodring, Remora, Pacific 231, Sibyll Kalff, Yellow6, Lullabier, Feel No Other, Tony Whitlock, Les Marquises, Løzninger, Electric Bird Noise, Parties, & Drekka with Michael Demery Toran. “

During the tour, one show was the ToneFloat tf100 show where Dirk Serries and I played our first and only (so far?) show as Sleep of Reason. This show was recorded and will be released as part of the Sleep of Reason trilogy on tonefloat early 2012 – a very limited 3LP + 10” vinyl set.

The final show of the tour was the Antwerp Live Looping Festival. This show was recorded as audio and video and forms the centrepiece of the Sounds and Moving Pictures CD/DVD set recently released by Luansylum/Editions6.

Also released during 2012 was VALLEY, the second part of the 2 album set with thisquietarmy. The 2CD set of both albums plus additional tracks (bonus from the original sessions, live track, Fear Falls Burning remix) will be released early 2012 with cut price available for anyone who bought both vinyl editions.

Hibernate records released the David Newlyn and Yellow6 ‘Minatures’ 3” cdr in the postcard series and it was the fastest selling of the series so far with all 100 copies going quick. If you missed out you can download it here: http://davidnewlyn.bandcamp.com/ for £2. There will be more David Newlyn and Yellow6 recordings released in 2012.

Also for download is the compilation ‘Orphan Songs’ which is free from Bandcamp here: http://yellow6.bandcamp.com/releases

Later in the year came the highly regarded Larkian & Yellow6 album ‘Offtempo’ released by Basses Frequences, and there are plans for a second collaboration to come in the future.

Lastly , I released the above mentioned Sounds and Moving Pictures CD/DVD set and the latest in a long line of merry6mas CDs, this one being titled ‘Drifting for the Horizon’ and also the first as a pressed CD rather than cdr, but still with hand finished packaging.

For next year? Lots of collaborations, some ongoing work on a film soundtrack, the first in the planned ‘letterpress series’ on Hiberante records – a collaboration with Fraser McGowan (Caught In The Wake Forever) – a mix of field recordings and guitars, and whatever else comes out when I pick up the guitar.

Also to end the year, I have to mention the end of Make Mine Music after 10 fine years and a legacy of great music. The final digital release MM070 is available to download form the MMM website. Unfortunately I missed the deadline for getting a track on it for various reasons, but there’s loads of good stuff from label favourites and mainstays so worth checking out. http://www.makeminemusic.co.uk/releases.php All MMM releases are now deleted but remaining back catalogue is available from Norman Records, and Y6 releases from me.

Too late for Christmas gifts, but maybe something to spend the Christmas money on…. All of these are still available from the Y6 shop http://www.yellow6.com/shop.php

Larkian and Yellow6 - Offtempo

Thisquietarmy&yellow6 - Valley (LP silver vinyl)

Drifting For The Horizon [merry6mas2011]

Sounds and Moving Pictures

Also:

CUT

In Time This Too Will Fade

close/r

Thanks again for your support in 2012, and huge thanks to all who have shared their music and artwork for this years releases, and to all who have helped or contributed in any way, especially by buying releases which helps keep them coming.

Finally, for those interested in such things, some of my favourite listening of the year has included (not all released this year):

Low – C’Mon

Richmond Fontaine – High Country

A Winged Victory for The Sullen

Two People In a Room

Azusa Plane – Where The Sands Turn to Gold

Tom Waits – Bad As Me

The National – High Violet

Sonic Youth – Simon Werner a Disparu

Steve Reich – WTC 9/11

Kuniko plays Reich

Dangermouse and Daniel Luppi – ROME

Cowboy Junkies – Sing In My Room

Eraas - Eraas

Magic Numbers – the Runaway

Esmerine – La Lechuza

Coldstream – South Island

And still trying to make up my mind about Lou Reed and Metallica!

merry christmas, happy holidays and a happy new year

jon./yellow6

Norman Records Reviews

those lovely people at Norman Records have reviewed a couple of the recent reviews and given each of them 5 shiny Norman stars... for 'Merry6mas' I have been referred to as "the Santa of minimal"

OFFTEMPO:

Ooh I like this a lot. I played this the other morning and it totally set me up for the day. In a word it’s fucking lovely. OK that’s two words but counting was never my strong point. Larkian is a name from the past who I’ve not heard of in a while but I remember hearing a single by him on Tricycle Evolutif back in 2001 (yes 10 years ago). Yellow 6 you’re all of course familiar with and the pair have teamed up for this collaborative effort on Basses Frequences/Three Four Records. This is one of those file sharing things where artists batter musical tracks too and from across the Internet until an album is born. It features the usual Yellow6 post rock melodies as well with more of a shoegazey vibe running through some of the tracks. There’s plenty of reverb and atmospheric sounds-capes to indulge yourself in as well. It’s drifting and evocative music which works really well. This is a fine collaboration and you should already be getting excited in case they do another one!

http://www.normanrecords.com/artists/23896&artist=Larkian%20&%20Yellow6

and DRIFTING FOR THE HORIZON (MERRY6MAS2011)

Look. It’s Christmas soon and that means that there’s a few definites.... There’s gonna be time off work, family, food, booze, presents and a new Yellow 6 xmas CD. It’ll be sad when these things end and I have to say it’s a thoroughly nice tradition to do a limited release at the end of each year just for the fans in the name of Christmas (said the jew). Drifting For The Horizon is the 1st of these festive releases which isn’t on a CDR and there’s 250 of the buggers so this one shouldn’t last more than 5 minutes. You know what you’re getting with Yellow 6. He’s not gonna win over any new fans with his brand of cinematic instrumental drifty post rock (without the rock) but he’s gonna keep his legions of fans sweet with this 63 minute beastie. It’s lovely and drifty and I don’t really know what else to say about it cos I’ve reviewed about a gerjillion of his CD’s already but he’s one of a handful of artists I can never get enough of. There’s some beautiful guitar work here and it’s an emotive listen! Nice work Mr 6.

http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/130213-yellow-6-drifting-for-the-horizon-merry6mas-2011