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In 1995 my flatmate Miles Champion was introducing me to the world of Avant Garde music. We went along to a church near Waterloo Station in London to an evening with Charelmagne Palestine. This turned out to be a formative experience for me, as experimental music was new to me, and I learnt a lot that night. Charlemagne is an individual with great presence of character. The things I remember were waiting for 20mins for the Bass to arrive in his durational organ piece. This seemed a long time, and I take a lot from people who expand my horizons. I liked it, sitting there in a swarm of sound, inhabiting it. Studying architecture at the time it struck a chord! The next piece was a very simple field recording of Brooklyn where Charlemagne grew up. Nothing clever or fancy about it. Played from four speakers surrounding us, he began simply describing the context of the recording to us, and then walking around the outside of the audience in the pews. Circling us, and getting faster on each circuit, until he was running full pelt around us.

It struck me that I could not do that, but it totally suited his personality. Direct and straightforward. I usually feel the need to make ideas complicated or clever to give them value. But I learnt that one should always try to expand the boundaries of what you yourself are capable of. That's something I have tried to develop since
Keep it simple stupid
He inspired me

Many years later in 2008 I found myself at his home beginning an album collaboration together. We talked and dined and drank and played and worked together on a few occassions over the next year, using his new enormous Charleworld Studios in Brussels as a base. I found the Cariillon bells in the far corner, we improvised with the shruti box, pedals, electronics, mixed instruments and vocals etc. We then took walks to the local street carnival making location recordings where we took an octave of delightful desk bells and asked the public to play them. We were open to exploring whatever took our interest. The results were then composed for a luxurious LP format. A two slided slab of sound named after a far away island where once a year they all stay indoors to let the Demons have the run of the streets for a day.

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released May 1, 2012

Released on flame red vinyl by Desire Path Recordings USA
Artwork, Layout – Chris Koelle
Mastered By – James Plotkin

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Janek Schaefer England, UK

Sound Artist, Entertainer, Professor, Janek Schaefer trained as an Architect at the Royal College of Art, where he developed his focus on the relationship between sound, space and place. He has exhibited & performed in 30 countries worldwide, from The Tate Modern to The Sydney Opera House. The Bluecoat gallery exhibited a Retrospective of his career in 2009, & has released 39 album projects. ... more

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