The Rothko Chapel have emerged from an Eastern-imposed stasis to contribute a track to Hibernate Recordings “Dayalu” compilation, with all proceeds to the British Red Cross working in Nepal. Due to the urgency, tracks are added as they come and it’ll be released when fully ready; but you can preorder the album now. Already, in less than a week, £985 has been raised. If you can, please do.
From “Your Empire, In Decline”, release date January 15, pre-orders from January 1. Digipak edition of 100.
Art/Layout by Phil Gardelis
Mastered by Mark K @ Unknown Tone
Music by Tim (Maps and Diagrams) Martin and Charles (y0t0) Sage.
Internecine is extremely pleased to announce that it has secured project funding from the ACT Arts Fund, ensuring full delivery to vision of the Vanished Musicians online multimedia project to be exhibited at Nishi Gallery Canberra in September 2015. The next few months will be spent laying the…
Internecine is proud to be partnering with Australian Artists For Asylum Seekers, a project aimed at raising money for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre for Christmas 2014. The compilation album - ‘Australian Artists For Asylum Seekers – Christmas Benefit’, will be available as a download on…
“Phase Reflection”, a communication piece created for the Melbourne School Of Land and Environment:
“Water: it’s something we come into contact with every single day, yet we don’t for one moment stop to consider just how important it is to our very survival.
We can change its state, manipulate the direction in which it flows and use it in every which way we care to imagine, but how often do we sit and contemplate the beauty and enormity of our most precious resource.
With only 2.5% of all the Earth’s water existing as fresh water and only 0.3% of that in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere, it is an incredibly scarce commodity. And therein lies one of the greatest challenges of our existence as water is increasingly seen as a commodity rather than one of the most important constituents of the ecosystems that support life on our planet.
Contemplation of the big picture of our environment and how we choose to live within it is vital. Here, we have some space to think about our predicament, the complex network and interconnected systems that we rely upon, and the tactile elements and true beauty of water.”
The rather amazing Elements Two is available for pre-order now. The album is a compilation, one of five, to celebrate Japanese label Home Normal’s 5th birthday. With over 60 artists from their past, present and future involved, this five disc compilation is raising money for 5 different charities close to their heart. All profits from Elements Two (水) will be donated to The British Heart Foundation who fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease. I was very pleased to have a y0t0 track feature on the disc that supports coronary health, given my own cardiac pacemaker…
The other discs support:
The Archway Foundation, a charity that was set up by label founder Ian Hawgood’s father, which aids those who suffer from loneliness through outreach, social events, and befriending.
Habitat Japan, who help to build houses for people who lost their homes in Sendai and Fukushima.
Kalaweit, who save the gibbons of Indonesia and their habitat. In addition to this they also educate the local community about deforestation, as well as the dangers of increased use of palm oil leading to a rapid destruction of their habitat and continuing loss of biodiversity.
ecoACTIVE, an innovative environmental education charity with a reputation for using hands-on, practical and fun approaches to explore complex issues of sustainability.
To further celebrate, the label is holding a birthday party of sorts at Cafe Oto in London on Friday 21st March. Tickets are £5 on the door, £10 advanced:
Appears on Elements Two, available for pre-order now. The track is from The Glass Canoe, a visual album CD/DVD to be released by Home Normal later this year. Video by the quite frighteningly talented zenbullets.
“Sophrosyne” is a reworking of the Werner Baer piece “Hay For Happy”. The song was written as a reaction to being interned in the Hay POW Camp in NSW. The audio was processed through reel to reel recorders, filtered, and mixed with location recordings by Nik Harrison. The spoken word at the end is from the Fine Music 102.5FM/2MBS FM show from 1992, “Werner Baer Remembered” (audio used by permission). Arranged by Charles Sage and mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi.
Over the last 12 months I’ve been working on an audiovisual project based around WWII immigration, refugee resettlement and analogue processing; as part of the project’s development towards an exhibition in 2015, I’ve started a blog and uploaded some audio excerpts: