Arriving all the way from Poland to perform live in session on the show today is the artist Izes. Also; lending their choral talents to the show we have Goodbye Leopold.

After her debut as an actress in Barry Adamson’s movie “Therapist“, started to work on her solo project as a singer and composer, cooperating with polish improv musicians Marek Rogulski, Andrzej Izdebski, Michal Gos, Irek Wojtczak and classic violonist Ewa Kaszuba. She returned to acting, playing a role in the punk-rock group Vulgar in their music video for “Tschenstahau”, which premieres in early 2012.

Izes is an artist that experiments within many areas of art. She has worked with photographers Sylwia Makris and Christian Weiss and clothing designer/artist Bartholomäus Wischnewski. As well as creating visualisations and short films she also composes music for shows (most recently for the Theaterkontor in Bremen (Germany) for the project Urban Desert, collaborating with director Tobias Pflug.)

Goodbye Leopold combine the ethereal sound of three blended voices, choreography and a unique aesthetic to communicate their ideas, intrigues and passions. Their holistic approach to delivering music stimulates all the senses. Their focus is to create alluring atmospheres within which the audience is easily connected to the concept the piece is illustrating whilst being given the freedom to imagine their own meaning. Their work is either self- composed or their original arrangements of obscure songs from across the globe. They experiment with the extremities of the human voice with improvisation, adopting abstract sounds and techniques and playing with tension and release in their dynamics. Each Goodbye Leopold set explores a different concept. At the moment Goodbye Leopold are experimenting with singing Christmas Carols in reverse.

Track list:
Unit – The Signals*
Izes – Execution (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – No Future (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – Purgatory’s Gate (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – White Devil (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – Blood (LIVE SESSION)
Barry Adamson – Aaa Kotki Dwa (from soundtrack to ‘Therapist’)
Izes – ’Interview’
One True Dog – Dog
Lime Headed Dog – Proof
Slate Islands – Trial Seperation
Sergeant Buzfuz – God To Holloway
Goodbye Leopold – My Ach Ba (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – A Picture Of You (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Yovano (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Yarsh (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Sonnet (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Chant (LIVE SESSION)
Flameprooth Moth – Thomas Rhymer (HG archive)
Goodbye Leopold – ’Interview’
Peepholes – Step One

Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin, Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp.

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Hello GoodBye 4 Feb 2012: Izes and Goodbye Leopold [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A bit of a Radiophonic theme on the show today with live music on the show today from both Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse.

Alexander Tucker began his musical career as singer in punk and post-hardcore bands and since the early part of this century his solo music has channelled widely varied influences from folk to musique concrète-style tape experimentation to the English psychedelia of the Cardiacs. From his earliest records Old Fog and Furrowed Brow on ATP Recordings to his latest song-cycle Dorwytch on Thrill Jockey, his records are at once brooding and intense, joyful and humourous. Deceptively simple, the harmonies are heavily layered and often use accidental ambient sounds (Victoria Line trains rumbling by are audible on his first two albums). His discography is spiralling out of control, having released at least 9 albums since 2004, often in collaboration, including Stephen O’Malley of Sun O))) and previous guest on this show, Duke Garwood.

Alexander will perform live in the Resonance FM studio today and also talk about his latest record, the second released in collaboration with electronic musician Daniel Beban under the name Imbogodom, out this week on Thrill Jockey. Using vintage analogue equipment and recorded at the BBC’s Bush House, Imbogodom recreates the techniques and textures of those early pioneers of electronic sound at the Radiophonic Workshop.

“… when I got it home to a pair of monolithic 1970s stereo speakers [Dorwytch] transformed into a pool of potential deep listening. A relatively still surface daring you to dive in, its sharp, cold depth containing bindweed, or maybe worse… things that threaten to drag you under, away from surface beauty into a totally different, forbidding world.” – John Doran, The Quietus review of Dorwytch

Paper Dollhouse is the work of Astrud Steehouder; dark minimal gothic folk which comprises haunting vocals, acoustic guitar, effects pedals, found sounds, slide projector and minimal electronic atmospherics. Her debut album ‘A Box Painted Black’ was recently released on Bird Records, the femme-folk off shoot of the Finders Keepers family.

Inspired by early 60s electronic pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Eliane Radigue, bleak British television soundtracks, minimal dark electronica, Arthur Russell, Christine Harwood and France Galle, the music combines simple folk songs with environmental and electronic textural sounds and visuals to create a pared down, beautiful experience.

Named after the 1988 cult horror film Paperhouse “I watched the film when I was about 10 and was really drawn in by it. Something about the quality and tone of it, the psychology and aesthetic has stayed with me ever since. I’m into actual dollhouses and models of things as well. I used to make these little viewfinder boxes containing little scenes in them as a child for fun, I found them magical.”

‘A Box Painted Black’ was recorded entirely in the kitchen and garden of her London home amongst the incidental sounds of trains passing, children playing, door slams and running water, “the album’s like a Pandora’s box of messages. It was kind of a dark solace for me, the slight way the album happened. Almost hidden.”

Track list:
Imbogodom – Borogmog’s Clock
Alexander Tucker – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Imbogodom – Heir Looms
Alexander Tucker – ‘Interview’
FC Judd – Steel Particles
Daphne Oram – Hamlet Youth Theatre
Li De La Russe/Nikki St George/Don Harper – Liquid Energy
Frieder Butzmann – No Title
Paper Dollhouse – Daisies (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – Golden Ships (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp.

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Hello GoodBye 28 January 2012: Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We have a good and wholesome, double dosage of pure and unadulterated noise planned for this lunchtime with live performance’s from Temperatures and Tiger Walking Downhill.

Jetting in from up the Kingsland Road we have Dalston’s Temperatures, the improvised avant rock duo comprised of Peter Blundell (bass) and James Dunn (drums/synth). Temperatures’ sound (no ‘The’) is a guttural, dense and relentless unleashing of some intense unspecified emotion (is it anger, is it hate, is it love?), by turns hypnotically repetitious and wildly tangential.

“Mankind’s destiny is played out in primal terms on this exciting LP, a blistering recorded performance.” Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector / Resonance FM.

“It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into– which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things” – Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth (from OhNoTheyDidnt.LiveJournal.com)

Also, hear our regular Hello GoodBye Show sound engineer Kacper Zienianin navigate an on-air roll reversal, leaping from behind the scenes to centre stage with his Noise-Improv outfit; Tiger Walking Downhill.

Track list:
Mucky Sailor – Requiem for a Sports Car
Temperatures – Zen Brick (LIVE SESSION)
Tylehurst Children’s Arkestra – Four Hours in the Lettuce Factory
Temperatures – ‘Interview’
Imbogodom – Bvsh Hovse Ghost
Paper Dollhouse – Moon
One Unique Signal – Villains
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Lime-Headed Dog – Barcelona
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Hello GoodBye 21 January 2012: Temperaures and Tiger Walking Downhill [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our first show of 2012 kicks off with live music from Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences and Black Spot.

We will also be re-airing a selection of our favourite pieces of music recorded live here on Hello GoodBye throughout 2011.

Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences formed in 2006 as a collaboration between maverick singer-songwriter Hawkins and Death in Vegas guitarist turned producer Ian Button and have gradually expanded into a six-piece. The band have released two albums and numerous singles and have built up a loyal cult following, with fans as far afield as Holland, France, Belgium and America. Their last EP ‘The Wrong Life‘ (Audio Antihero) was released in July 2011 and their new album will be released later this year.

Black Spot is the new solo moniker of ex-Congregation guitar player and singer with The Tap Collective, Benjamin Prosser. Black Spot acts as a place where the territory Benjamin’s early solo work (released on Sexton Ming’s Rim Records) left off. Though still demoing onto tape recorders and dictaphone’s Benjamin has now upped the analogue stakes recording the final versions of his new material at Gizzard Studio in the east-end. Combining an intricate finger picked intimacy with instrumentation including rythmn generator, Oscillator and found sounds Benjamin’s latest work is in his own words “the closest I’ve ever come to truly valuing, giving credence to what I do most naturally, to really speaking, saying what I believe is worth saying.”

Track List:
Horse Brothers – Good Umbridge (HG archive)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – I’ve Left The New World Order (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – Somewhere I have To Be (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – How We Lost The War (LIVE SESSION)
Design A Wave – Remedy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – ‘Interview’
Poino – Bad Bag (HG archive)
One True Dog – It’s A Delay (HG archive)
Delphic Vapours – Pink Floyd European Tour 1968 (HG archive)
BlackSpot – Cremation (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Your Ox Will Carve (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The Watcher In The Night (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Jewel (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The 11th Commandment (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Heaven’s Gate (LIVE SESSION)
Hamilton yarns – When Times Are Good (HG archive)
BlackSpot – ‘Interview’
The Monochrome Set – He’s Frank (HG archive)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (HG archive)

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Zienianin & Tom Kemp.

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Hello GoodBye 12 January 2012 - Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences and Black Spot [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello!

We had a great year on the Hello GoodBye Show in 2011, with over 70 live performances on the show. This epic podcast compiles all the best tracks of the year, including performances from Mekons, The Monochrome Set, Jad Fair, Comus, Serafina Steer, Sexton Ming and more, plus a couple of tracks previously unbroadcast. Also included in full is the best session of the year (as chosen by Richard, Michael and our engineers Leanne and Kacper), The Oscillation.

All songs, unless noted, were recorded live in Resonance FM’s cosy Borough St studio by Leanne Bower and Kacper Ziemianin.

Happy new year from Richard and Michael, we look forward to what delights 2012 has in store for us…

GoodBye!

Track list:

22 Jan – Hamilton Yarns: Hello
15 Jan – Smoke Fairies: Hotel Room
05 Feb – Ulysses Storm: Genie Looks to the Skies
12 Feb – Pheromoans: Derby Joan & Fosters
29 Feb – Monochrome Set: He’s Frank
26 Feb – Design-A-Wave: Remedy
12 Mar – Chips for the Poor tour diary (excerpt, recorded to cassette on the streets of Chicago)
12 Mar – Poino: Bad Bag
02 Apr – Comus: Song To Comus (engineer James Torrence)
16 Apr – Baaneex: Jumping Chinese Restaurant
07 May – Dominic Felix: Nessun Dorma
21 May – Mekons: Corporal Chalkie
28 May – Skinjobs: Money in the Pocket v Money in the Bank (pre-recorded session in the band’s kitchen!)
28 May – Gerry Mitchell and Ten: Die To Love/Faker Quaker
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Soundcheck
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Night Before the Mutiny
04 Jun – Lime-Headed Dog: Labrador
10 Sep – Emily & The Faves: This Time
10 Sep – Sexton Ming: Feed the Bread to the Byrds
17 Sep – Bob Rafkin: Changes
17 Sep – Fighting Kites: Cat is Egg
24 Sep – Delphic Vapours: Pink Floyd European Tour 1968
01 Oct – Zappopin’: Calves & A Hymn For Eton After The Apocalypse
08 Oct – One True Dog: It’s A Delay
15 Oct – The Protagonists of David Gadson: My Private Anarchy
22 Oct – Band Of Holy Joy: Oh What a Thing This Heart of Man
22 Jan – Duncan McAfee: Your Voice Travels, ep 1 (
22 Oct – Agathe Max: Live at XOYO (Live sound: Thom Hollands)
29 Oct – Eternal Tapestry: Live at Corsica Studios (previously unbroadcast! Live sound by: sound by Amir Shoat, thanks to Adrian Jones at Corsica)
29 Oct – Way Through: Henry My Son
05 Nov – No Cars: Geisha Girl in a Sentimental Mood
12 Nov – Patrik Fitzgerald: Inside Me There is Nothing
12 Nov – Date Palms: Honey Devash (Previously unbroadcast! Live at Cafe Oto, live sound by Antoine Bertin)
19 Nov – Horse Brothers: Good Umbridge
03 Dec – Jad Fair: I’ll Change My Style
10 Dec – The Oscillation: Waste The Day, Third Harmonic, Hear Your Sadness
17 Dec – Piney Gir: Say GoodBye

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The final Hello GoodBye Show for 2011 with The Piney Gir Country Roadshow and Waterpuppet performing live in session, plus an interview with the author Marcus Gray about his book Route 19 Revisited which explores the roots and making of the classic album London Calling by The Clash. And we preview some of the upcoming sessions we have in 2012 and spin some favourite festive tunes to warm yourself by the fire to.

London based Kansas gal Piney Gir hollers out her war cry as she prepares to do battle with a selection of songs taken from her new LP ‘Geronimo’ (Damaged Goods)

Electro-folk band Waterpuppet sing tales of love gone wrong, fractured selves and supernatural Bonnie and Clyde’s.

Get a bucket of mulled wine, a mountain of mince pies, stick your Christmas socks on, download and listen in! YO HO HO.

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… and please email us your favourite sessions of the past year, as our first show of 2012 we’ll look back at 2011’s best sessions and play the very best one in full! That address is dexterbentley@hotmail.com

Track listing:

Piney Gir – Christmas Time
Waterpuppet – Enigmatic Gaze (LIVE SESSION)
Waterpuppet – Weightlessness (LIVE SESSION)
Waterpuppet – Flash Company (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Chant
Waterpuppet – ‘Interview’
Paul Hawkins & the Awkward Silences – You Can’t Make Somebody Love You
The Clash – London Calling (Vanilla Studio demo version)
Interview with Marcus Gray (author of ‘Route 19 Revisited’ the making of London Calling by The Clash)
Aztec Camera – Hot Club of Christ
Izes – Blood
Imbogodom – Calibos
John Baker (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Christmas Commercial
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Outta Sight (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Here’s Looking At You (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Oh Lies (LIVE SESSION)
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Longest Days (LIVE SESSION)
Female Band – One Day The Sea Will Swallow Me
Piney Gir – ‘Interview’
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Say Goodbye (LIVE SESSION)

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp.

Hello GoodBye 17 December 2011: Piney Gir, Waterpuppet and Marcus Gray [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We have The Oscillation plus Simeone performing live in session on Resonance FM this afternoon.

The Oscillation began as the solo project of Demian Castellanos, a synth-led outfit which released its debut album ‘Out of Phase’ in 2008. Forming a live line-up, The Oscialltion have toured the world to great acclaim, accompanied by a pschedelic lightshow from collaborator Mr Hand. From the tightly crafted songmanship of Sandstorm to the full-on trip of Telepathic Birdman, 2011?s ‘Veils’, sees Castellanos taking a more rock driven direction, with prominent guitars and driving rhythms, reminiscent of Can and the darker side of The Cure and The Banshees.

Lee Simeone is a multi-instrumentalist who composes atmospheric synth-pop. His self produced debut album, ‘The Dream Weaver’ was recorded at The Mad Professor’s complex in Surrey back in 2009 and was released on Kevin Mooney (Adam & the Ants) and Gary Asquith’s (Renegade Soundwave) ‘Le Coq Musique’ label (a track from the album was included in an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.) Simeone’s new album ‘An Introduction To Simeone’ sees him being hailed by Rough Trade as ‘a wunderkind multi-instrumentalist’.

This week we played a bunch of session tracks from the past year as the first Hello GoodBye Show of the new year will be a roundup of 2011’s best session tunes. Get in touch and let us know your favourites! The best session gets repeated in full! Email us at dexterbentley@hotmail.com

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Track list:
The Pheromoans – Not Doing Nothing (HG archive)
The Oscillation – Waste The Day (LIVE SESSION)
The Oscillation – Third Harmonic (LIVE SESSION)
The Oscillation – Hear Your Sadness (LIVE SESSION)
Maria & the Mirrors – Blonde September
No Cars – Help Me Octopuss (HG archive)
The Oscillation – ‘Interview’
Booze – Bronze Release
Baaneex – Jumping Chinese Restaurant (HG archive)
Waterpuppet – Enigmatic Gaze
The Piney Gir Country Roadshow – Say Goodbye
Simeone – Vertigo Romeo (LIVE SESSION)
Simeone – Little Lost Soul (LIVE SESSION)
Simeone – A Forget Me Not (In An Evergreen Dream) (LIVE SESSION)
Simeone – In The Stars (LIVE SESSION)
Soe’za – Talking To The Back Of His Own Head
Simeone – ’Interview’

Hello GoodBye 10 December 2011: The Oscillation and Simeone [ 1:29:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Performing live in session on this week’s Hello GoodBye we had the lo-fi, living legend Jad Fair. Jad was joined by regular collaborators Mick Hobbs on guitar and Gilles Rieder on percussion.

Jad Fair embarked upon a musical career when he formed the group Half Japanese with his brother David back in the late 1970?s. Jad has since gone on to carve out an incredibly impressive and mind-bogglingly productive career, with over 50 albums to his name (including a multitude of collaborative projects with the likes of Mo Tucker, Daniel Johnston, Yo La Tengo, Teenage Fanclub and many many more.) Jad’s childlike enthusiasm and creativity remain entirely undiminished and he is nowadays almost as well known for his striking and poetic ‘Paper Cuts’ artwork as he is for his music.

A collection 109 songs from Jads gargantuan back-catalogue are currently available on the triple CD ’Beautiful Songs (The Best of Jad Fair)’ through Fire Records.

Track list:
Jess Cahill – Mon habit n’a qu’on bouton / Ou sont donc tous ces amants
Jad Fair – Song of Joy (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – Secret (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – Red Dress (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – Candy Land / Superman (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – Mule in the Corn (LIVE SESSION)
Iggy Pop – Monster Men
Jad Fair – ‘Interview 1?
Lovely Eggs – Allergies
Jail – Irene
Gentle Friendly – The Shake Up
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Untitled’
Rude Mechanicals – The Vicar of St. Martins
Jad Fair – Firecracker (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – Cherry Pie (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – True Believers (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – 1,000,000 Kisses (LIVE SESSION)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (LIVE SESSION)
Dead Rider – The Pointed Stick
Big Joan – Noah’s Farm
Jad Fair – ‘Interview 2?

Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Leanne Bower

Hello GoodBye 3 December 2011: Jad Fair [ 1:30:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download