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In Memory Of John Everall & Simon Morris

by BC

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1.
Whole Holds Chasms 10:04
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2.
Relentless (minimal excerpt) 06:03
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Track 1 originally appeared on the Everall compilation, compiled by Charlie Martineau and released on the 30th of August 2014. That compilation was created to raise funds to cover John Everall's funeral costs.

John Everall was responsible for records of intense electronic music released as Tactile, and also known for his label Sentrax, which was among the first to put out experimental work by the likes of Mick Harris of Scorn & Napalm Death, Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, James Plotkin and more.

John was one of the first people to encourage and recommend my own work online upon hearing some of my earliest recordings. I recall he compared what I was doing with Eno's On Land and Lull's Cold Summer, truly a great compliment. His enthusiasm was definitely a factor in my dedicating of myself to musical work. It's not an exaggeration to say that if it weren't for his encouragement, I would likely not be still making music now.

My piece on that release was one of those earliest tracks of mine that he would have heard back then, with the bulk of the track (created from voice and piano and later reworked in the soundtrack to Michael Higgins' film The Poorhouse Revisited) being originally recorded in September 2006 and with additional material recorded and overdubbed in July 2014.

A far longer version of track 2, with a complete vocal, is available on my album The Day and the Night of the Body, released in 2020 on Lumberton Trading Company, and available from Fourth Dimension Records.

Track 2 also features additional modular synth by Damien Donovan and the voice of Simon Morris.

Simon Morris, the frontman of the Ceramic Hobs and author, also encouraged my earliest work. I first contacted Simon through collecting the most obscure music from the fringes of industrial music. We quickly developed a regular correspondence, exchanging cassettes, CDs and records of rare music, eventually meeting in person. He was a naturally entertaining writer, as the readers of his books will know.

In the latter half of the 2000s, I spent almost all of whatever free time I had creating very experimental and mostly improvised music, working with anyone around me who would participate. There was essentially no commercial aspect to what was being created, I was simply making music for myself, that I personally wanted to hear. At one point, Simon recorded his spoken vocals for me, and contributed them along with a handful of mysterious samples. And so, the album The Day and the Night of the Body was created. It remained initially unreleased, as shortly after its recording, I began to work with bands who were producing more conventional music, who were very active live and had established audiences in my native Ireland. The Day and the Night of the Body was finally released in the midst of the 2020 lockdown by Lumberton Trading Company / Fourth Dimension Records.

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released May 7, 2021

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