Phil's 2008 Picks

Right here:

http://nonightsweats.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-night-sweaty-2008_17.html

Airplay

The people what have played our stuff:

[I'd just like to thank the people at KFJC below who have played our stuff consistently in the past weeks. It's most appreciated.]


KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Dangerous Dan - Dec 13 (hollow bowl)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Natasha - Dec 12 (heat this)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Rocket J Squirrel - Dec 8 (devil in the well)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Natasha - Dec 5 (the freeway temple)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Maybelline - Dec 5 (hollow bowl)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Mitch LeMay - Nov 25 (certainly)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Marlena Poliatevska - Dec 2 (don't leave the light out)
WREK 91.1FM in Atlanta on Dec 3 (look back)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Ray X - Dec 1 (heat this)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Pete Dixon - Dec 1 (hollow bowl)
WREK 91.1FM in Atlanta on Dec 1 (give me a warning)
PBS 106.7FM on Ear of The Behearer Nov 7 (heat this)
WEFT FM in Illinois on Poodles Ahoy Nov 18 (swung and hung)
WEFT FM in Illinois on Poodles Ahoy Nov 11 (freeway temple)
WREK 91.1FM in Atlanta on Nov 21 (kalimbah tweak)
RTRFM in Perth on Posted Nov 26 (catbird)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Justin Outlier - Nov 27 (devil in the well)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Rowan Hawthorn - Nov 25 (give me a warning)
ABC Radio National on Quiet Space - Nov 24 (hollow bowl)
KFJC 87.9FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Natasha - Nov 21 (hollow bowl)
KFJC 87.9FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Morris Minor - Nov 21 (heat this)
KFJC 87.9FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Cousin Mary - Nov 20 (catbird)
KFJC 87.9FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Cinderaura - Nov 19 (certainly)
KFJC 89.7FM in Foothill College, San Francisco on Rowan Hawthorn - Nov 18 (freeway temple)
WMBR 88.1FM in MIT, Cambridge on Aural Fixation Nov 15 (disk 2 1st 4 tracks)
WMBR 88.1FM in MIT, Cambridge on Breakfast of Champions Oct 30 (devil in the well)
On medium rotation at WREK 91.1 in Altanta Oct 31
PBS 106.7 FM in Melbourne on The Art Of Bleep 20 Oct (hollow bowl, devil in the well)
WEFT FM in Illinois on Poodles Ahoy Oct 14 (certainly, catbird)
WCBN-FM [Michigan Uni] on Freeform with Tyler C Oct 12 (The Court On The Left)
WEFT FM in Illinois on Poodles Ahoy Oct 7 (devil in the well, water for the time being)
ResonanceFM in the UK on Kosmische Sept 26 (hollow bowl)
RTRFM in Perth on Difficult Listening Sep 21 (fricket)
RTRFM in Perth on Posted Sep 10 (hard defined)
FBI's Jack Shit Sep 6 (water for the time being / catbird)
RTRFM in Perth on Difficult Listening Sep 7 (box the remainder / heat this)
Hobart's Sonography Aug 27 (fricket / heat this)
2SER's Novum Aurum Australe Aug 25 (certainly)
FBI's Utility Fog Aug 24 (drift down keira)
FBI's Liquid Electric aug 21 (certainly)
Podcast on Avant Music News (devil in the well)
French Le Vestibule (give me a warning)
RRR's The Drift Aug 17 (hard defined)
FBI's Utility Fog Aug 10 (devil in the well)
Triple J's Soundlab (devil in the well)
Dandenong Victorias Spectrum FM Aug 2 (hollow bowl)


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New MySpace Tracks

Just because I thought it was time for an update, I've added a couple of 'recent' tracks / mixes to the MySpace page. And when i say 'recent' I mean "mixed in 2008" - we've not recorded for ages, apart from the live gigs.

These may see the light of day in one form or another at some time in the future, when we can get the time to work it all out once again.

1st up is "A Laurie Driver": This is guitar track by Rob ripped out of it's 3 piece jam and then lightly post-processed. Both Ian and I played fairly well on the recording but taking us out of the equation lets it stand out marvelously. Whilst it doesn't have the all-consuming flow of someone like Keith Fullerton Whitman, you've got to remember that this is a good guitarist with a couple of effects.

2nd is "View To The North": This is another of those spooky, eerie tracks that we seems to be able to produce with some ease. Lots of scratchy guitar; droning, out of kilter bass sounds and clicking electronics.

I hope you like them. Let us know.

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Freq

A terrific review from Freq Online magazine:

A Slow Rip – For The Time Being
Label: Endgame Format: 2CD

For The Time Being is a double CD compilation of ambience, taken from material originally released between 2004 and 2007 by A Slow Rip on 7 CDR albums. The Wollongong based trio take the name from the initials of their first names: Rob Laurie (guitar, percussion, vocals and wind instruments), Ian Miles (analogue synths, guitar and bass), and Phil Turnbull (virtual analogue synth). A pretty impressive list of instruments. A Slow Rip are definitely not laptop artists, which is fine by me; personally, I've always thought they were more suited for spreadsheets than music.

A Slow Rip improvise and record straight to tape. This approach leads to a warm organic soundscape of buzzing synths, long drones and prepared guitar. The first CD is predominantly composed of more drone based music, whereas the second CD is more experimental but still very warm and effortless. The percussion really comes to the fore, in a very spacious and relaxed way. A Slow RIP are slow. Nothing happens that quickly. Their sound has the feeling of time stood still. All in all very nice stuff. They've clearly got a lot more material, so hopefully we'll get to hear more of it soon.

-Alaric-

Video

As part of our 2nd gig at Megaphon studios, Shane and Tegan organised a professional video of the event. All bands were recorded and we each picked a couple of 5 minute sections / songs to be fully edited. Shane mixed our live audio feed and this has been added to the tracks. Hope you like then:

MySpace:

1st Section


2nd Section

YouTube:
1st Section
2nd Section


please give us some feedback here or on youtube / myspace itself.

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Italian Review

Our album was reviewed in the September 2008 issue of Italy's Blowup magazine. Here's the translation (thanks Paz and sister):

Rob Laurie (guitar, percussion, voice) Ian Miles (analogue synthesiser, bass) and Phil Turnbull (analogue synthesiser) are three mature Australian musicians who have an academic experience behind them of jazz and new wave, have played together under the stage name of “A Slow Rip” since 2002 and have produced 7 CD-Rs, arriving only now with their official debut with this double which collates the best moments.

Theirs is an ambience created on the whole with analogue instruments which follow the line between the cosmic German (Tangerine Dream) and certain dark isolationist drifts (Lustmord) wrapping the listener in a tangle which for brief moments dangerously leaves one in a somewhat lackadaisicalness (especially the initial pieces), but then fully redeems itself with the sudden crude rock (Give Me A Warning), beautiful percussion sections (Kalimbah Tweak ) and hypnotic electronic guitar, excellently made (The Court on the Left, The Freeway Temple) all the material focuses almost entirely on the second CD, clearly better than the first CD.

(7) Stephen I. Bianchi

or, for the Italian speakers, the original:

Rob Laurie (chitarra, percussioni, voce), Ian Miles (synth analogico, chitarra, basso) e Phil Turnbull (synth analogico virtuale) sono tre maturi musicisti australiani con alle spalle esperienze accademiche, jazz e new wave che suonano insieme con la ragione sociale A Slow Rip dal 2002 e hanno prodotto sette CD-R arrivando solo oggi alluscita ufficiale con questo doppio che ne raccoglie i momenti migliori.

La loro una ambient realizzata per intero con strumenti analogici che sta sul filo tra la cosmica di stampo kraut (Tangerine Dream) e certe scure derive isolazioniste (Lustmord), avvolgendo lascoltatore in un viluppo che se per brevi tratti si pericola in qualche leziosit (soprattutto i pezzi iniziali) sa poi redimersi ampiamente con improvvise crudelt rock (Give Me A Warning), belle sezioni percussive (Kalimbah Tweak) e ipnosi chitarristiche ed elettroniche di notevole fattura (The Court On The Left, The Freeway Temple), tutti materiali concentrati quasi per intero nel secondo CD, nettamente migliore del primo.

(7) Stefano I. Bianchi

Megaphon Studios, St Peters, Sept 6 2008

Before my memory fades completely I'd better write down some notes about the gig at Megaphon Studio.

I'd never been there before but Shane has had the place going for years. It's on the top floor of a set of old industrial buildings at the railway line end of St Peters. You can get out onto a large roof space area next to the studio and it was glamourly industrial in the slight haze of rain:



These pics are all from Mr Peter Nelson, esq - dear friend of the ages.



They remind me a lot of the shots of Cleveland in Pere Ubu's Datapanik box set.



I've always been drawn to images like these of half decayed industry - all the shots for the album cover came from old factories at Sydenham, just down the road.

I'll admit it now that getting all the gear up those tiny sets of stairs was a chore and Ian was a little tired after helping to lift in the PA. The Dead Sea were set up when I arrived and, due to the amount of gear they had, really couldn't be moved in and out so we set up in the smaller area next to them.



Rob somehow managed to leave his specially prepared little box of tricks at home and was crammed into a corner right next to the lights (for the video recording) but he played well in spite of these handicaps.



Peter didn't manage to get any shots of Rob unfortunately so here's 2 of me!



And an atmospheric one of Ian and me.



As much as I could see, the audience were interested and intruiged and gave us good applause after the 40 mins:



Rob was a bit dissappointed (mainly because of the missing gear) and Ian didn't think it was as good as Music Farmers but I felt it was a cohesive performance with some lovely nuances. Tegan and Shane agreed and both thought it was better than last time! Shane was mixing the recordings this week in preparation for the video pieces (which will probably appear at MySpace and Endgame in due course).



Tom's show was a bit hampered by the column in the middle of the studio but it was as clever as last time.



The Dead Sea were terrific this time - much quieter and all the better for it. I didn't stay for Modern Gong Ritual but, apparently, they were better than at Music Farmer's as well.

Thanks once again to Aaron, Tegan, Shane and all who helped tomake these two gigs so splendid.

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Photos

Arron has added some photos of the gigs to his FaceBook 1/4" group.

And here are a couple in all their glory...













All shots by Aaron Hull 2008 whom you can find at 1/4"

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Availability

A rolling thread for places to buy our fabulous record:

For the less internet inclined:

Fuse (Crown St Surry Hills)
Redeye (King St Sydney)
Bravery, Repetition & Noise (King St Newtown)
Repressed Records (King St Newtown)
Music Farmers (Wollongong)
Redback (Wollongong)
Trackmasters (Thirroul)
Ekho (Thirroul)

JB Hi-Fi are taking a swag of them (with a large order from Psy-Harmonics)!!!
The NSW stores which have a copy are:

Sydney (George St)
Strand Arcade
Ipswich (I think that's Qld)
Parramatta
Blacktown
Kotara
Newcastle
Parramatta Westfield
Erina
Bondi
Leichhardt
Hornsby
Penrith
Glendale
Liverpool
Castle Hill
Chatswood
Miranda
Tuggerah
Macquarie Centre (North Ryde)
Macarthur Square (Ambervale)
Warrawong
Warringah Mall (Brookvale)
Rouse Hill

Then there's:

1st and foremost - Endgame

Next found: Recordstore.co.uk

And it's up on iTunes now as well.

As at 14th August it's also on Napster UK.

Damn - someone wants to swap it already.


As at 28th August it's on MTraks

Weirdly, at 31st August it's in Target

1st September at CDOnline.au

and, for also the Finnish peoples of the world.



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Music Farmers 30th August 2008

So, 1st gig in 23 years and I was surprisingly calm thoughout. I suppose I'm in some sort of middle-aged post-caring thought-stream or something. Back in the day my hands would have been sweaty and my pulse right up to the limit but now, except for one track, I really don't need to remember chord changes or, even, vocalisations whilst moving fingers over keyboards. In any case, I think it went pretty well. There were lots of good moments including a quite lovely end with "The Slug of Aznaroth" :-( and some hairy moments that Shane managed to fix with his magic SFX. The feedback was good including some unexpected positive comments from friends who, really, just turned up to be supportive.



Modern Gong Ritual were slightly shambolic but good natured and sometimes quietly elevating. They're not too different from us except that we use synths rather than guits (and gongs) and I think we have a little more variety in the output. The use of the moo-cow thingy put Rob in a lather as he was hoping to use it to splendid effect as well.



Tom Ellard was a hoot. I'd only ever spoken to him once or twice before and he hasn't seemed to have changed the sardonic humour one iota. The music was all over terrific in that electro-dance way he's perfected. Sometimes the videos were too chaotic for me but the one based on relgious TV imagery perfectly matched the less frenetic track.



I didn't take any pics of The Dead Sea, unfortunately, as they had terrific, well matched visuals. They play a kind of heavy, grandiose, progressive post-rock that sounds enormously difficult to pull off. The array of stuff they utilse and the ease with which they use it is amazing as well. However it got a little loud and peircing for my ancient ears.

So... thanks must go to: Aaron for his unfailing positivy and calm; Shane for mixing everyone with clarity and aplomb; Tim V for gear and assistance; Tegan for promotions (and the rest); David for the polarised slides and all the others who helped to make it happen (including the lovely person who did all the stuff at the door - but whose name I, regretably, can't remember Emma).

Bring on next Saturday!