Omnemapthy presents

Michael Begg | Human Greed

Dirt on Earth: a pocket of resistance

to be released on digipak CD June 2012

Tracklisting:

An Innocent in the Aisles
A Child is a Cup
Kitchen Tools
Invocation of the Scottish Winter
Your Little Hand as Warm as Milk
Pomegranate’s Endurance Medal
Scenes from the Carefree Life of a Roman Lady

Running Time; 71 minutes

“All the lies converge into one colossal falsehood: the supposition that life is a commodity and that those who can afford to buy it are, by definition, those who deserve it! Most of us know this is false, but very little of what we are shown confirms our resistance.”

John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket

Human Greed will be joining Faust, Cindytalk, Zoviet:France, Z’ev ad many more for the second Woodland Gathering Festival in Fell Foot Wood, Cumbria, 17th – 18th August.

Early Bird tickets are, we understand, almost sold out already. Buy tickets directly from Black Forest Radio and Endtyme Records

Radio Black Forest – http://www.radioblackforest.com/

Endtyme – http://endtyme-records.blogspot.co.uk/

Last FM page – http://www.last.fm/event/3216305+Radio+Black+Forest+-+Endtyme+presents:+Woodland+Gathering+II

OFFER NOW CLOSED

ALAN TURING : HONORARY IRISHMAN MEETS MATMOS / FOVEA HEX : THREE DAYS ONLY!!!

Many people are aware that 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, “The Man Who Cracked The Enigma Code”, much of whose work remained secret until after his untimely death in 1952. Less well known is that his Mother was Irish, and his favorite song was Molly Malone, which, so the story goes, he insisted on rendering on the violin to the police who came to arrest him on charges of gross indecency, before agreeing to make his statement to them.

The recording by Matmos of Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex / Mellow Candle) singing Molly Malone, was first featured on their FOR ALAN TURING ep, part of a work commissioned in 2006 by The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkely CA on the opening of their new Mathematics Hall. It will be available as a free download for three days only, March 16, 17, and 18, from the Fovea Hex Bandcamp page foveahex.bandcamp.com . Matmos anticipate that the full FOR ALAN TURING ep will be digitally re-released to coincide with Turing’s 100th anniversary in June 2012

Human Greed will be perfoming their first live show since the release of 2011′s Fortress Longing in Turin, Italy on MAY 31st as part of the Abnomalie season.

To co-incide with this show there will be an exhibition of Deryk Thomas prints featuring work from the deBosch series – opening June 6th in the AB Normal Studio.

aBnomalie poster - lick to enlarge

Also featured among the artists appearing, exhibiting and performing throughout this innovative season are friends and associates Nurse With Wound, Blind Cave Salamander and Nicole M. Boitos – who provided Human Greed with the wonderful, iconic Blue Lamb cover image for Fortress Longing.

page from deBosch by Deryk Thomas. Click to enlarge

From the aBnomalie press release:

“aBnomalie” is an oblique review of visual art and music curated by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Marco “il Bue” Schiavo (both members of the band Larsen) and produced and set up by AB Normal Tattoo Studio (operated by Cristian Restivo and Marco Schiavo) in collaboration with Musica 90 and O.F.F. Booking+Management with the intention of highlighting the connection between the aforementioned artistic languages.
In its first edition the review will present 4 international artists who will display their work at AB Normal, who aims to show the significance of tattooing both socially and artistically, and will be accompanied by perofrmances, concerts and dj sets in AB Normal’s studio as well as other locations involved in (counter)culture and urban research.

More details soon!

Now available as a FREE download at the Omnempathy Bandcamp (http://omnempathy.bandcamp.com/)

Desk recording of the Human Greed performance in Warsaw form December 2008.

“It is not the greatest recording. And it is not the greatest show. But there is something in there. Its a nice document, but of interest to completists only, I suppose”

http://omnempathy.bandcamp.com

Human Greed’s FORTRESS LONGING also received an honourary end-of-year mention in Was Ist Das, whilst the same outlet named Michael Begg’s subsequent low key digital release, LIVE DARK ARTS AT THE CLASSIC as “the most spectral and un-nerving live album I have ever heard”.

In the wake of Fortress Longing there were a number of noteworthy interviews with Michael Begg:

• The Quietus – Chance Encounters and Exquisite Corpses
• Blow Up – The Stars Were Worlds
• Brainwashed – The Evolution of a Voice

I:I XII Hail Hope

Fovea Hex

Ladies & Gentlemen!
The darkest day is here again – time to take cheer!
It seems we are not alone this year in feeling that our claim is even more resonant than before – the darkest and most midnight hour is the hour to begin to sweetly sing about the breaking dawn…..
and so….
We are happy to announce that HAIL HOPE, is making a timely reappearance. Timely, and tangible, in the form of a CD single.
Whilst Carol remains, as before, a slide and shift through darkest night, Lullaby (debris mix) has been revisited by spectral voices and pulses, and produced by Michael Begg.
If you like your dark a little sweet, your lightness a little sinister, and your promises lustrous, you’ll take these two strangely perfumed songs deep into your own winter cave and learn again to sing.

Digital Release available from foveahex.bandcamp.com from Dec 21st €2.15, and you can order CD at Bandcamp for €6 (inc P&P) and receive immediate download of digital files in a format of your own choosing, plus delivery of CD from Jan 4th

Pre-order CD from Omnempathy…

Live Dark Arts At The Classic
(Volume III of Scenes From The Carefree Life of a Roman Lady)

by
Michael Begg

(with Mary Millington (viola) and Fiona Richmond (cello) who appear courtesy of Soho Strings Attached)

Digital only release available exclusively through the Omnempathy Bandcamp Page

Available Now from the Omnempathy Bandcamp. Order Here http://omnempathy.bandcamp.com/album/live-dark-arts-at-the-classic

Tracks:
1. A Child Is A Cup
2. An Innocent In The Aisles
3.Tuath (Klosterruine coda)
4. Time Piece
5. Your Little Hand As Warm As Milk

Further Info, slipped under the door, written on blue paper…

The third in a series of occasional recordings intended to be imbibed, digested and consumed with red wine and moonlight.

The Classic is La Scala. the works contained here were delivered to ghosts who lingered in the stalls.

Here is where you brought the gifts of black water, sheep pellets and hill grass to the knees of Mondo Erotica. The light of a certain star takes 21 years to reach me here. In the light, Mary and Fiona hand me fragrant copies of Park Lane Monthly and invite my little boy memory to the Soho Press Bar. Now practise your lines, “Honest mum, we went to see The Empire Strikes Back”

“Late in some evening of your middle age the truth will out. You saw instead the measure of your future. Do you remember lust? I remember it distantly, and almost as well as my innocence. Well, I turned and filled that old porno theatre in the same manner as I have filled cathedrals. I claim my past and I claim that cold star whose light, travelling at 185,000 miles per second, takes 21 years to reach me.”

Boomkat – “Massive in scale and often brutally powerful… this is clearly an album shaped by the hands of two seasoned masters in the art of soundscaping.”

Vital Weekly – “Slow, minimalist changes of glacier like moving masses. This is of course the kind of music that needs its time to develop. A great work indeed. Potter is one of the masters of the genre, and this release is easily one of his best.”

Brainwashed – “…a sublime hybrid between the real world and a fantastic alternative… Although it is a live album, Fragile Pitches never truly feels like it happened here on earth”

Musique Machine – 5* – “Circular, tidal movements slowly change into intense, ringing carillon chords setting off the defensive trills and squawks of unknown creatures at night. Shimmering curtains of constantly moving timbres play the same note over avalanches that ultimately reveal a solemn waltz on the wind before it disappears along with all other reverberations into the cathedral’s interior, swallowing like a black hole.”

Fragile Pitches Sampler by OMNEMPATHY

Third Human Greed album, feat. Guest appearances from Julia Kent, Clodagh Simonds, Fabrizio Palumbo and David Tibet.

“Human Greed lie somewhere between the gorgeous drones of Stars of the Lid and the haunting and solemn “Symphony No. 3” by Henryk Górecki… This is powerful stuff and takes a while to fully digest it. The oily darkness that the music conjures up gets deeper and deeper with every listen, a resonant and otherworldly tremor that is at once human and sublime.” Brainwashed