Kindling Archives Vol. 4

I found the manuscript for the Kindling zine in a box under my house this week. Lovingly typed on my Olivetti, cut, pasted and xeroxed into 60 A5 copies. Published in 1996 as I recall.

It featured an unduly lengthy discourse with Danny Butt (Crabstick, Flies Inside the Sun etc), some incredibly embarrassing interview questions, and some other flotsam, including a failed attempt at a Brisbane mail-order service.

I've included below a few excerpts that made me smile as I thumbed through the silverfished sheets.  Plagal Grind, Verlaines and Small World Experience worship. Bless my 24 year old self!                           

Fig. 4

I Can't Hear the Bells by Fig .

                                                                          

                                 

Recorded 12 July 2102, Milani Gallery

Sunday Evening

Fig. 3

Fig. - Someone by Kindlingrecords

Become the Phase Between Two Ellipses

The new Primitive Motion cassette will be released shortly on A Guide to Saints. Featuring 7 new tracks recorded one fine Sunday afternoon at Kindling House, the album is currently getting some harmonic manipulation in the toaster at Lawrence English's kitchen.  I think that's what he said. It's already been slow roasted by Sandra at Franklins Lab, so this thing's an absolute bakers delight. Hey - don't ask me what it all means, I just push down the little white keys that make sound come out. 

Here's a sample of the kinda deep-space-sub-aquatic-propeller-driven-orbital-curve-action that will be spooling through the tape heads in a month or so.  With cicadas! Keeping in mind, notions are are at right angles and are of the same frequency.  The differences of phase between two ellipses.

Two Ellipses by Primitive Motion

Recording Two Ellipses at Kindling House, 30 October 2011. 

New Time of the Motion Primitive

All works Sandra Selig/Leighton Craig

May/June 2012

Exhibited at Serial Space, Sydney June 2012.

Deep Pulse of a Low Tide

Poster by Primitive Motion

Red Beach, Bribie Island, 5pm

Escape to the Hole in the Sky

Escape to the Hole in the Sky by Primitive Motion

Ullo peeps. Primitive Motion are cobbling together a few albums at the moment and we found this lost space junk in the sock drawer. Ye Gods! Sandy Selig took some helium and slipped straight through the vortex, while FWY! chief pilot Edmund Xavier beamed down the beats from the control bridge at Video West.  Somehow the fuselage remained intact, careering through a dance floor of exploding asteroids. Hold on tight!

Image: Sandra (courtesy Milani Gallery)

Here I Give Thanks to Harold Budd

                                                                                               

                                                                                                                          Leighton Craig, 2002

Kindling Archives Vol. 3: Blowfly Saint

Blowfly Saint in Auckland, January 2006. L to R: Leighton Craig, Stefan Neville 

Blowfly Saint - In the Hole by Kindlingrecords

Stefan with the late Millicent Bystander
 at Kindling House, Dec 2007.

Blowfly Saint occurs when Stefan Neville and Leighton Craig cross paths in the same city for a few days. (Eugene Carchesio was also involved in the first session at the infamous Northgate sheds in 2005.)

The duo share an interest in facilitating closer Trans-Tasman relations, but believe the David Kidwell shoulder charge on Willie Mason in the first test in 2006 was a culturally appropriate act.

BFS has made a swag of recordings, with one piece ("Coast Road") released on the Need for a Crossing compilation that appeared a few years back on the Xeric imprint.

Stabbies etc HQ, Kingsland, Auckland

The track above was knocked out one hot December afternoon in the garage at Kindling House, Brisbane.  The little fella below is from a midnight session at Stefan's old pad in Kingsland, Auckland. Best endeavours were made to keep quiet for snoozing housemates...

Blowfly Saint patrolling the badlands.

Blowfly Saint - Grey Pitman of Huddock by Kindlingrecords

Border Rangers.