Recording: New Tendencies

Artist: New Tendencies

Song: [last section]

Recorded at Handlebar, January 31, 2019.

New Tendencies - [last section]

A frigid Sunday night was the scene for a night of electronic experimentations, anchored by the celebration of Matt Nish-Lapidus's new Batch 0008 album, out on London's SM-LL label. Finding the best way to engage the crowd for a set of modular live-patching, Nish-Lapidus set up of the floor facing the stage, giving the audience a full view of his impressive rack.

[A version of my full recording of this set is now available over at the New Tendencies bandcamp.]

Recording: Patrick O'Reilly & New Tendencies

Artist: Patrick O'Reilly & New Tendencies

Songs: [excerpt, in two parts]

Recorded at Array Space (Audiopollination 60), March 10, 2018.

Patrick O'Reilly & New Tendencies - [excerpt, part 1]

Patrick O'Reilly & New Tendencies - [excerpt, part 2]

This tasty night of self-curated sounds saw four different ensembles take the floor, backed by visuals generated by Kelley Mitchell. This pairing led things off, mixing Matt Nish-Lapidus' bricolage of analog synth toys with Patrick O'Reilly's 16 Second Delay abstractions and finding some complementary sonic zones to linger in by the time the processed vox and music boxes showed up.

Recording: New Tendencies

Artist: New Tendencies

Song: [third section]

Recorded at The Baby G, February 22, 2018.

New Tendencies - [third section]

This cozy night at The Baby G featured mostly leftfield electronic experimentation, including a series of buzzes and drones from Matt Nish-Lapidus (who also wrangled this night together), wringing admirably-disreputable sounds from his modular synth setup.

Recording: New Tendencies & Priya Thomas

Artist: New Tendencies & Priya Thomas

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at The Steady Café (Track Could Bend #31), October 3, 2017.

New Tendencies & Priya Thomas - [excerpt 1]

New Tendencies & Priya Thomas - [excerpt 2]

This was, as usual, a joyful night of acoustic and electronic sounds that was rendered a little bittersweet in retrospect with news of The Steady's closing. This pair brought some weird synths, pickup mics and a violin to create some spiky/menacing sounds whose genre tag might be "Cthulhu love themes".

[These two will be making some rather different sounds as members of Paul Lawton's new band Don't Bother, who are making their live debut tonight (November 9th) with Grids and Our Father Star at the Smiling Buddha. You'll be able to find Track Could Bend at The Belljar Café on Tuesday, December the 5th.]

Recording: New Tendencies

Artist: New Tendencies

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Handlebar, June 18, 2017.

New Tendencies - [excerpt]

Billed as "a quiet night" by organizer Matt Nish-Lapidus, this evening featured plenty of patchcords and three different flavours of electronic experimentalism. Nish-Lapidus brought his own New Tendencies project to the night as well, creating some slowly-morphing purps and sputter-rhythms that looped into themselves just like the circle in the generative video being projected behind him.

[New Tendencies will be celebrating new album Missed Month with a release show, Wednesday, July 19th at The Baby G with support from Dirty Inputs and Doom Tickler.]

Recording: New Tendencies

Artist: New Tendencies

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Steady Café, April 23, 2017.

New Tendencies - [excerpt]

This project from Matt Nish-Lapidus (who also serves as guitar-wrangler in post-punkers Several Futures) began as an experiment in treating field recordings with various post-ambient effects, but has tranformed from a software to a hardware project for live performance. Working with a modular synth, the m.o. for this set seemed to be to twist knobs 'til everything got complicated.

[There will probably be some different tones generated on Sunday, June 18th at Handlebar, at a gig billed as "A Quiet Night", with Matt N-L being joined by Heraclitus Akimbo and Bachelard.]