Releases

TO:91 | Phill Niblock – “Touch Five”

DCD – 5 tracks

Tracklist:

CD One
1. FeedCorn Ear (featuring Arne Deforce) – [you can hear an extract here]
2. A Cage of Stars (featuring Rhodri Davies)

CD Two
1. Two Lips (featuring Zwerm Guitar Quartet)
2. Two Lips (featuring Dither Guitar Quartet)
3. Two Lips (featuring Coh Da Quitar Quartet)

Phill Niblock writes:

“These CDs include pieces made in two different ways. Traditionally (since 1968), I recorded tones played by an instrument (by an instrumentalist), arranging these single tones into mutli-layered settings, making thick textured drones, with many microtones. In the early days, I prescribed the microtones, tuning the instrumentalist, when I was using audio tape. Later, I used the software ProTools, and made the microtones as I made the pieces. FeedCorn Ear and A Cage of Stars were made this way. In 1998, Petr Kotik asked me to make a piece for orchestra, so, I began to make scores for the musicians to play from. The form of that piece, and the subsequent six scored works, were patterned after a piece in 1992-94, where the musicians were tuned by hearing tones played from a tape through headphones. These are the instructions for the scored piece on the second CD, Two Lips. The score was prepared by Bob Gilmore, from specific directions by me. TWO LIPS, aka Nameless, is conceived as two scores, A and B, to be played simultaneously, lasting 23 minutes. Each score consists of ten instrumental parts. The twenty separate parts should be distributed randomly amongst the musicians of the ensemble; the ‘A group’ and the ‘B group’ are not separated spatially.”

TO:79 | Phill Niblock – “Touch Strings”

DCD – 12 tracks

Artwork: Jon Wozencroft
Photography: Phill Niblock

Tracklist:

CDOne – 59:03 (6 tracks)
1-6: Stosspeng (59 minutes)
Susan Stenger and Robert Poss, guitars and bass guitars

CDTwo – 69:28 (6 tracks)
1: Poure (23:30)
Arne Deforce, cello
2-6: One Large Rose (45:55 minutes)

The Nelly Boyd Ensemble, Hamburg – Robert Engelbrecht, cello;
Jan Feddersen, piano strummed with nylon strings; Peter Imig, violin; Jens Roehm, acoustic bass guitar strummed with nylon strings or e-bow

CD1: Stosspeng (59 minutes) Susan Stenger and Robert Poss, guitars and bass guitars
CD2: Poure (23:30) Arne Deforce, cello and One Large Rose (46 minutes) The Nelly Boyd Ensemble, Hamburg – Robert Engelbrecht, cello; Jan Feddersen, piano strummed with nylon strings; Peter Imig, violin; Jens Roehm, acoustic bass guitar strummed with nylon strings or e-bow.

Stosspeng was completed in April 2007; Poure in September 2008 and One Large Rose in May 2008

TO:69 | Phill Niblock – “Touch Three”

TO69 - Touch Three - Phill Niblock

Tracklist:

CDOne
1. Harm
2. Sethwork
3. Lucid Sea

CDTwo
1. Parker’s Altered Mood, AKA, Owed To Bird
2. Zrost
3. Not Yet Titled

CDThree
1. Valence
2. Alto Tune
3. Sax Mix

TO:59 | Phill Niblock – “Touch Food”

TO59 - Touch Food - Phill Niblock

DCD – 8 tracks

Tracklist

CDOne
1. Sea Jelly Yellow
2. Sweet Potato
3. Yam Almost May

CDTwo
1. Pan Fried 70, Part 1
2. Pan Fried 70, Part 2
3. Pan Fried 70, Part 3
4. Pan Fried 70, Part 4
5. Pan Fried 70, Part 5

TO:49 | Phill Niblock – “Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice”

TO49 - WORKS FOR HURDY GURDY and VOICE - Phill Niblock

CD – 3 tracks

Tracklist:

1. Hurdy Hurry
2. A Y U, AKA “As Yet Untitled”
3. A Y U, Live