Live show at Electric Knife Records, London, Saturday 10th December afternoon.

On Friday evening 9th December 2016 the first live performance of my synth music will be at the Warped Planet even detailed in the previous post.

On the following afternoon, Saturday 10th December, I will be performing a different set of my synth music at the closing event of Electric Knife Records, 16b Fortess Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 2EU. This is really easy to get to, only 1 minute walk from exiting right from Kentish Town tube, and the event, like Warped Planet the previous night, is free entry.

Also performing will be:

Duncan Harrison
dsic
Paul Watson
Daniel Gregory & Alec McGrory
Kostis Kilymis.

Live show at Warped Planet night, London, Friday 9th December 2016.

The first live performance of the synth music.

Friday 9th December 2016.
8pm to 3am.
Mascara Bar
72 Stamford Hill
London N16 6XS

Free entry

SHAKE YOUR BONES FREE!! FROM ALL THE CRAZY THINGS HAPPENING ON THIS WORLD

The DJ
Private sorrow:
One half of avant-garage group Midnight Mines, resident DJ at These Days and General Echo, Private Sorrow traces the lines between drone, techno and noise with his all vinyl sets!

The Noise/Vox Explorer
Paul Daniel Knowles


The Band
Gutters:...
Two maniacal distributor drivers, Dan BC, & Jon Aye ( ex - Lesbian Boys ) formed a band in between crashing their work's vans down London streets, met Chris P Mowforth in The Rochester Castle to talk about his time in Silverfish & their band, Lampost Gullivers having unfinished noise to make. Ideas were sparked for Chris’s brooding bass, Jon’s stick splintering drums, pinning up Dan’s dark, anarchical free verse. During a brief hiatus Chris Joined Hercules II to add his driving rhythms to the swathing instrumental storms they conjure, when he returned, GG arrived with him to complete Gutters sound, stalking us with his smokey effects laden guitar. We’re in the Gutters, we’re loud, & we’re going to be heard by the stars, the furthest stars away from this increasingly warped planet.


The Dynamic Duo
Elephant House:
London based duo of Shenggy Shen on drums & vocals, Christos Fanaras on keyboards. Shenggy Shen is a former member of Hang on the Box, China’s first all-female punk band. She has since gone on to establish herself a noise artist, as one half of the avant-duo White with Zhang Shou Wang, whose self-titled debut was produced by Blixa Bargeld. Her solo music has also been released on Noise Joy and Little Sound. Christos Fanaras has been performing under the name Jack Shirt since 2006 and has recorded and released 7 solo CDR albums on his own imprint Down Is Up. Alongside M.K. Hauser, Christos is one half of the project Masters both having previously played together in Agaskodo Teliverek. He also played bass and synth in Mothlite, drums in hypnagogic anti-band Temper Temper and keyboards/theremin in Moon Ra




Three live acts until 11pm, dj until 3am.

Free entrance to, well, everyone!!!!!!i

Muhmur Radio: Paul Daniel Knowles special

This edition of the Muhmur radio show features 1 and 1/2 hours of my music including work in my previous incarnations as The Digitariat and Dachise. This includes previously unreleased music created with the show in mind.

The show can be heard in full here on Mixcloud.

https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-soundart-radio-broadcast-27102016/

Review of 'Odosan' album on Yeah I Know It Sucks blog

https://yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/paul-daniel-knowles-odosan/

Review of 'Purple Field' album on the Sigil Of Brass blog.

http://www.sigilofbrass.com/2016/09/paul-daniel-knowles-purple-field/

'Passport Stamps' new download album of original recordings

New album of original synth based music 'Passport Stamps' is available for preview streaming and download on Bandcamp.

All material performed and recorded in London, July and August 2016.

The theme is based on the UK's current state of limbo and on 'Gulliver's Travels'

https://pauldanielknowles.bandcamp.com/album/passport-stamps-2

'Odosan' free download album of field recordings from Japan, on Focused Silence.

http://focusedsilence.com/field-recording/0019/


"I asked Paul if he would submit an album of his field recordings to my label. Paul had the good fortune to have spent some time in Japan previously and he dug through the recordings procured from that time.

What I did not expect was an album of such beauty. As someone who has never been to Japan, I was immediately immersed into a representation of their culture. This album is an assault. The album, Odosan, starts with a walk through a busy Tokyo street (complete with a Girl Band playing on a massive sound system) and has snippets of everyday Japanese life that to me – as someone who has yet to visit Japan – I could not comprehend. With this album I was both lost & enamored. Tokyo life seems like an assault on the senses judging by these recordings. Neon signs and Geisha girls come to mind. A lot of the material released here is a stereo recording of other media – so we have jointly decided to release the album for free.

The standard of these recording means that this is not an idle facsimile of the original. Paul used his ZOOM H1 to the fullest of it’s functions and got some good recordings – there is, for instance, very little wind rumble.

I had pressed Paul to see if he wanted to write a bit about the album. However, we met up for a beer three days ago and he said that if you had to explain all you did to the point where it was no longer enjoyable and organic it lost it’s point. Academia had taken the fun out of creative shenanigans for Paul, but, as he stated, he is finding his feet again. Paul Daniel Knowles has started to create art for the fun of it once again – however, with this album he has set his own benchmark very high.

The photograph used in the album cover is one taken by Paul, himself, in Tokyo."

- text from Focused Silence.

Rodamondario video

Pictures from the end of July

Dover Traffic Jam




Drowsy 1

Drowsy 2

Drowsy 3

Snowflakes

                                                                  



                                                     

New drawing painting collage

Use String

                                                                 Discreet Paper Bag

Draw in the Middle

Go

Elegant Garden

Pink Blossom

Euston Underpass 1 (Extract) Video

Music albums as yet unreleased.

The following albums are completed and are awaiting release or undesignated as yet for release:

Magpies
1) Curtain Cupboard
2) Two Magpies
3) Six Magpies
4) Cherry Barb
5) Moon E
6) A Dog on an Invisible Leash

Yorkshire Grey
1) Yorkshire Grey
2) Serios
3) Funambulist
4) St Fairy Anne
5) St Helena

Landlocked
1) Katse Dam
2) Mohale Dam
3) Gout Forum
4) Pressure Forum
5) Landlocked

Lotus Eaters
1) Lotus Eaters
2) I Led Them Back to the Ships Weeping, and Sore Against Their Will
3) Floating Flower

Dugong Dugon
1) Dugong
2) Dugon

Rodamondario
1) Rodamondario
2) Rodamondariadia
3) Rodamondariodo
4) Rodamondariomodo
5) Rodamondariodomodido

Paintings and drawings. July 2015.

Painting & collage. February 2015.

For 'Two Hand Stencils'

Original painting and collage on paper for Elizabeth Veldon's 'Two Hand Stencils' album, 2015.

Four music albums for download

It is almost one year since I began recording new music under my own name. There are currently four albums available for download. They can be streamed for preview and downloaded from here:  https://pauldanielknowles.bandcamp.com/


PURPLE FIELD
Four long pieces recorded at the end of 2015.

1) Exiles
2) Purple Field
3) Thread of Light
4) Basingstoke 10

ROOM 301
One 51 minute piece. Recorded using only battery operated equipment. Recordings from Japan: Shinjuku hotel room (stereo microphone,) Shinjuku to Hon Kawagoe train, Hon Kawagoe train to Shinjuku and Shibuya café (mono line input.)
Mixed in London.
February 2016.

DEMOS
A collection of nine tracks recorded between July 2015 and March 2016, which haven't been used for any larger album project. On 'Demos' the nine tracks have all found a home together.

1) Holdloopflupast (take 2)
2) Dirty Chord
3) Pet Something
4) Summer Nights Lawn
5) GN (take 3)
6) Sustain Beat
7) Sauerkraut Diet Cookbook
8) AB Koto
9) JSH 9v

DEVELOPMENT
The most recent of the four albums. This is an hour long album.

1) Domed Park
2) Was a Record Shop, Now an Artisan Bakery
3) Was a Biker Bar, Now a Sports Bar
4) Was a Biker Bar, Then a Sports Bar, Now a Furniture Showroom
5) Was a Cinema, Now the New Ministry of Wrath

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Desidiae valedixi; syrenis istius cantibus surdam posthac aurem obversurus. - I bid farewell to Sloth, being resolved henceforth not to listen to her siren strains.