The One Day Band sessions are an ongoing series of improvisations hosted by Trestle Records. Musicians, sometimes meeting for the first time, are invited to collaborate on a record made in a single day at a fully equipped and engineered studio in East London. The day’s recordings are then mixed and mastered before being uploaded into the archive. http://www.trestlerec.com/onedaybands.html ODB 14 was curated by James Scott Brooks who records under the monicker Land Observations, a London based artist known for minimalist, looped guitar compositions that progressively layer into propulsive rhythmical instrumentals. He has released two albums to date on Mute Records and is currently completing the third. The session features Land Observations leading the way with repetitive finger picking bringing to mind the guitar style of 60,70's American primitivists such as Fahey and Basho and more recently Six Organs Of Admitance. The 12 string guitar flows ever forward setting the mood and rhythm. Gregson’s cello complements with a range of duties from melodic leads to textured dragging, drones and stacatto. The trumpet is also often played in long droning notes, mourneful and with additional effects creating delays and reverb resulting in an atmospheric quality that is beautifully symbiotic with Simon Fisher Turner’s electronic contributions. "Having received the invitation to curate and record a one day session for the endlessly interesting Trestle Records, I realised it was an opportunity for me to finally improvise with the musicians, Simon Fisher-Turner, Peter Gregson, & Andrew Blick, who I had initially come into contact with during the recording and performing of SFT's Ivor Novello award winning film soundtrack The Epic of Everest. Gathering together at Holy Mountain studios, our intention for the improvised one day session was to explore the various timbres of a cello, trumpet, guitar, and drone ensemble', through a series of cyclical drum-less patterns of varying rhythmic and atmospheric densities.” James Scott Brooks/ Land Observations Andrew Blick, Trumpet, Recorder, Sound Treatments Peter Gregson, Cello Land Observations, Acoustic 12 String, Electric 6 String Guitar Simon Fisher Turner, Electronics
I'M VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LAND OBSERVATIONS MUSIC WILL BE INCLUDED ON - BBC RADIO 4's - BOOK OF THE WEEK - 'CHANNEL SHORE'
TOM FORT TRAVELS FROM THE WHITE CLIFFS TO LAND'S END IN SEARCH OF MARITME TALES.
READ BY JONATHAN COY ABRIDGED BY KATRIN WILLIAMS
The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our nearest, dearest playground where people have sought sun, sin and bracing breezes. Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us and what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land and seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings and Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe and hunts a shark off Looe. Stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters abound. 25th - 30th MAY AT 0945 GMT DAILY http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wkg03
I'M VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE NEW LAND OBSERVATIONS ALBUM - THE GRAND TOUR, WILL BE RELEASED ON THE 28.07.2014. HERE'S A DRAWING I MADE AT THE START OF WRITING THE ALBUM WHEN I WAS FORMING WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT.
SIMON FISHER TURNER ENSEMBLE - ENJOYED PLAYING THE LIVE SCORE TO THE EPIC OF EVEREST SOUNDTRACK AT THE TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY. http://trentofestival.it/en/
LAND OBSERVATIONS TO PERFORM LIVE AT - LES ABATTOIRS - AUDITORIUM 19.00 - 20 JUNE 2013 MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN A TOULOUSE 76 ALLEES CHARLES-DE-FITTE 31300 TOULOUSE FRANCE http://www.lesabattoirs.org/
PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT LAND OBSERVATIONS WILL BE RE-RELEASING THE 'ROMAN ROADS' EP ON ENRAPTURED RECORDS FOR RECORD STORE DAY ON THE 20TH APRIL. IT WILL BE AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION 7" WHITE VINYL WITH A POSTCARD.
PLEASED TO CONFIRM THAT LAND OBSERVATIONS WILL BE PLAYING THE UNION CHAPEL, ISLINGTON, LONDON - ON MARCH 23, AS PART OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE - DAYLIGHT SESSIONS.