Feast of the Epiphany - Practicing Loss

Feast of the Epiphany 'Practicing Loss'
Double LP Out 9.13.19 on Kincsem Records



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Rest In Peace David Berman

David Berman's work touched me deeply.  I'm thankful to have come into contact with it for it has greatly affected me and my own outlook and practice.  I never had the chance to meet him but seeing the Silver Jews in the early 2000s live meant a great deal.  I remember grinning ear to ear, happy for him that he had decided to face stage nerves (the reason, as I understood it, for them never performing live) and selfishly ecstatic to receive directly this body of work that he had made.  The Natural Bridge left an unremovable mark on my sense of song and self and stands as one of my favorite albums ever written.  Something in it makes the ear, the mind, the intellect squint to get its meaning and leaves one feeling like there's more still.  I've always felt that way and still do.  There's a complexity to its emotional palette and it doesn't quite sit clearly to one side or another.  Asymptotic as art may be this feels the closest to resembling life and the natural world as it can get.  Clearly we all have our own personal resonance and mine was very sympathetic to that of his work.  Thanks for the asymptote, David.  It's stretching further than you could have ever expected or intended.  I'm so fortunate to have gotten in the way of its light.  

PLAYLIST #240

1. Cate Le Bon - Here It Comes Again
2. Notchnoi Prospekt - Road To Mountains
3. Derdiyoklat Ikilisi - Alman Marki
4. Camberwell Now - Working Nights
5. Wipers - Mars
6. Willie Nelson - How Will I Know I'm Falling In Love Agan
7. Blue Oyster Cult - Harvest Moon

PLAYLIST #239

1. Cleve Pozar - Cosmic Piece
2. Pharoah Sanders - Olé
3. Clannad - Tower Hill
4. Buck Curran - War Behind The Sun
5. Pete Wyoming Bender - Born To Be Indian
6. John Renbourn - Trotto/Saltarello

PLAYLIST #238

1. Malicorne - La Conduite
2. Robert Quine/Fred Maher - Pickup
3. Culver - Acid B
4. Sebastian Gandera - Et L Obscurite Toute Entiere Pour Me
5. Iury Lech - Barreras
6. Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing
7. Aksak Maboul - Bosses De Crosses
8. Stargazer - The Scream That Tore The Sky

PLAYLIST #237

1. Rob Smit - Metaal I
2. Idee Du Femelle - Java
3. Daniel Higgs - Beyond and Between (2)
4. Black Hole - Bells of Death
5. Sebadoh - Beauty of the Ride
6. Arian Shaffie - Muted Heather
7. Joe Weaver & Friends - May
8. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Slipped Disc

PLAYLIST #236

1. Zoviet France - Shamany Influence
2. Ramleh - Product of Fear
3. Howard Shore - Crash
4. Indoor Life - The One I See
5. Eyeless In Gaza - Hours Grow
6. Sonny Sharrock - Once Upon A Time
7. Steve Tibbetts - Bloodwork
8. Robbie Basho - Kowaka D'Amour

PLAYLIST #235

1. Sedativ - Дом
2. Lentu Gabalini - Rudens Pastaiga
3. Demolition Group - You Better...
4. Cliff Martinez - You've Got A Problem
5. Pharoah Sanders - Harvest Time
6. Bajaga i Instruktori - Tisina
7. Regime - Illusions of You
8. Alice Coltrane - Jai Rama Chandra

PLAYLIST #234

PLAYLIST #234

1. The Incredible String Band - Secret Temple
2. Martin Dupont - Bent At The Window
3. Locate S,1 - Same One Smile
4. Robert Fripp and the League of Gentlemen - Heptaparaparshinokh
5. Mike Oldfield - Amarok (excerpt)
6. Bob Welch - Easy To Fall
7. Caedmon - Sea Song
8. Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized

PLAYLIST #233

1. Księżyc - Kapkowa
2. Yeghishe Manukyan - Where Is She?
3. Maeror Tri - Emotional Imprinting
4. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - A Chaos of Desire
5. Ziemba - The Relic Is Right
6. Ava Luna - Centerline
7. Snakefinger - Bring Back Reality
8. Zhanna Aguzarova - Eagle

PLAYLIST #232

1. Julian Cope - Upwards at 45 Degrees
2. Peter Gabriel - This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)
3. Stern - Tarry
4. Kevin Hufnagel - Separations
5. The Modern Art - Death Wish
6. Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man
7. Andrew Chalk - A New Heaven
8. Maurizio Bianchi - Colours

PLAYLIST #230

1. Mark Knopfler - The Rocks and The Water
2. Astral Sounds - Tides
3. Googoosh - Gol Bi Goldoon
4. The Music Machine - Masculine Intuition
5. New Rose - To Katarameno Tragoudi
6. Sandra de Sá - Olhos Coloridos
7. Enno Velthuys - Swamp
8. Chris Isaak - Lie To Me
9. Zé Roberto - Lotus

NF PRESENTS: Sofie Herner (SE) + Nolan Throop (Kakerlak)

JULY 7th, 2018

NEW FIRMAMENT PRESENTS:

Sofie Herner (SE) + Nolan Throop

Andrew Smiley

New Firmament

Stevie May

Films of Miles Pflanz

DJ "Sets" by Amy Mills

@ The Footlight 

465 Seneca Ave. Ridgewood NY
(Dekalb L / Seneca M Train)

8pm Sharp!

NF Presents: Sofie Herner (Sweden) guitarist of experimental noise duo Neutral in collaboration with American electronic noise artist Nolan Throop (Kakerlak).  

Joining them will be Andrew Smiley (guitarist of avant-jazz quartet Little Women and frequent collaborator of rising luminaries Chris  Pitsiokos, Henry Fraser, et al) performing solo work for guitar and voice.  A very rare, unsung, harsh and beautiful moment for solo guitar.  New Firmament presents ambient synth for fans of Paysage d'Hiver, John Carpenter, Vangelis, Messiaen.  Performance-Sound artist/Dancer Stevie May revives "Hall of Gems". 

The films of Miles Pflanz and DJ "sets" performed live by Amy Mills round out the evening.

PLAYLIST #229

1. Frank Ricotti - Silkscreen
2. Timon - Now She Says She's Young
3. Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band - Sintayehu
4. Bert Jansch - Chambertin
5. Frugivores - Edge of My Heart
6. Peter Walker - White Wind
7. UK - In the Dead of Night
8. Fleetwood Mac - Isn't It Midnight

PLAYLIST #228

1. Kurt Schwitters - Niessseherzo/Hustenscherzo
2. Hammerhead - Mr. Bizmuth
3. Sun Dial - Plains of Nazca
4. Saracen - Heroes Saint and Fools
5. Samson - Vice Versa
6. Todd Tamanend Clark - Mathematics Don't Mean A Thing
7. Ihssan El Munzer - Khabarie
8. Gary Scruggs - Gentle When You Say The Word

PLAYLIST #227

1. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Sheriff of Hong Kong
2. US Maple - Bumps and Guys
3. Dawn Culbertson - Iron Man
4. The Chameleons - Swamp Thing
5. Naked Eyes - Flag of Convenience
6. P-Model - Speed Tube
7. Todd Rundgren - Influenza

PLAYLIST #225

1. K. Leimer - Assemble and Diffuse
2. Sad Lovers and Giants - Things We Never Did
3. Big Country - East of Eden
4. Zanna Aguzarowa - Orzeł
5. Morena y Clara - No Llores Mas
6. Adib Abou Antoun - Aaldayr
7. Spike - The Golden Eye
8. Legend - The Destroyer

PLAYLIST #223

1. Ramsay Mackay - Tarzan and the Humans
2. Labi Siffre - I Got The...
3. Pendet - Gong Gunung Sari
4. Itsuroh Shimoda - Everybody Anyone
5. Tarawangsawelas - Kecemasan
6. Joan Armatrading & Mark Knopfler - Did I Make You Up
7. Rupa - Aaj Shanibar

PLAYLIST #222

1. Jóhan Jóhannsson - Orphic Hymn
2. Allister Brimble - The Lawnmower Man OST: The Shop
3. Pete Wyoming Bender
4. Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
5. Planet P Project - Why Me
6. The Congos - Fisherman
7. Hollinsferry - The Journey

PLAYLIST #221

1. William Olvis - Red Rock West
2. Supreme Jubilees - It'll All Be Over
3. Orchestra Cometa - Obstinacy
4. Pink Rhythm - Melodies of Love
5. One Tongue - Coffee
6. Ozel Turkbas - Bouzoukia Solo
7. Radio Rats - ZX Dan
8. Foreigner - Starrider