JUst to let you know that the session mentioned in the last blog has been included in the latest Crooked Stylus show on www.totallyradio.com from 21/10/05ev and is free to listen to for one week. Full details of show below; Crooked Stylus Presenter Darius Akashic Transmission Date: 21/10/05 Show Summary (guests, focus, rarities, mixes etc.) This weeks show brings you two exclusive sessions. The first is 60 minute piece performed by Under Mother Bungalow on the 13th October, 2005ev at the Disaster Lounge, Brighton. The piece is called ‘The Pre-Natal Suite’ and has three distinct moods; Womb-State, Birth and After-Birth. By turns beautiful and sublime, this is truly a headphone trip. Barely controlled sanity (a bit like life). The second comes from the alchemist of sonic expression, from the UK’s West Coast, the one and only Rarg. He has sent me an hours worth of works in progress for you to savour. Details about where to find out more about both bands will follow. Under Mother Bungalow; www.myspace.com/armchairastronaut  or  www.wireless-music.com Rarg;  www.rarg.net Artist Track (incl mix) Label Details 1. Under Mother Bungalow Pre-Natal Suite Armchair Astronaut 2. i) Wombstate 3. ii) Birth 4. iii) Afterbirth 5. 6. Rarg Session (Works in Progress) 7. A Drop In The Ocean 8. Inter zone 9. Ear Drops 10. Alarm! 11. In Arcadia, I 12. Bangin’ 13. Four Sharp Knocks 14. Trace Elements 15. Ambient Stupid 16. The Real Ghostbusters Many thanks to Rarg for such an inspired creation. I strongly urge you to check him out further (see URL above) and also his band, Smokehand. Anyone else with a fistful of tunes they want on air, feel free to contact me. Sessions coming up; Colorforms/9 Volt Haunted House, Colin Potter (NWW, Ora, Monos), Black Sun Productions, Req, Caribou (Leaf Records) and amazing cellist, Bela Emerson, Pantaleimon, Beta Lactam Records, Tactile, Sonic Boom (tbc), Cicle/Pharoah Overlord plus an exclusive interview with Keiran Hebdae (Four Tet/Fridge)

This weeks recording session at the Disaster Lounge studio was one celebrating impending birth and acknowledging death as part and parcel of this thing called existence. Wireless slipped into their Under Mother Bungalow alter-ego and played one long, evolving piece in three distinct parts; Womb-state, Birth & After Birth.. Without shadow of a doubt, one of the finest and spontaneous performances yet. Marcus finally got his kick-drum back and Richard had some new devices to play with. This set will probably be the next release on Armchair Astronaut, it really was that good. For a sneaky preview, at least one part will be broadcast on the next Crooked Stylus (www.totallyradio.com) Space this watch!

Greetings blog readers - just to let you know that last weeks Wireless session recording was an absolute stunner. Marcus has been given his feet back after a period of self-imposed restraint (he's the drummer with his kick back) and provided a subtle yet undeniable motorik groove. Richard went into a state of micro-sound playing with his guitar work, working the notes in a repetetive but not riff-tastic way. Bens keyboards were applied with easy confidence (that boy never seems to put a finger wrong, even when he introduces one of his inimitable comic touches...) Paul played his XPiano like a dream, generating long, attack-free notes that hung in the air like a musical mist and were replaced by melodic pluckings, bowings and scrapings. My role, as the bands ears, was to marshall and organize these sound down to two-track.

The resulting sublimity can be heard from Friday 7th October on my internet radio show, Crooked Stylus (www.totallyradio.com) As always, feedback is most helpful.

Thanks to you all,

darius akashic

On this weeks Crooked Stylus i have featured the entirety of our Autumnal Invocation for the Balance Of Light, recorded on 22nd Sept '05ev. There follows the playlist in completeness; Wednesday, September 28, 2005   Playlist for Crooked Stylus 30/09/05 (www.totallyradio.com) Current mood: All you have to do to hear the current show is go to www.totallyradio.com, click on New Shows and select Crooked Stylus from the chill (!?) category. To hear archived shows for free, log on thusly; User; dariusa Pass; totally Please, please, feedback to me about what you think (especially about the Wireless session) Show Name Crooked Stylus Show Cut No(s):70500 Presenter Darius Akashic Transmission Date: 30/09/05 Show Summary (guests, focus, rarities, mixes etc.)  This weeks show features an exclusive recording of the Wireless Autumn Equinox Invocation, Finnish shamanistic music for magic from Tapio Kotkavuori, Colorforms and a very strange sound collage put together by A-Soma & Eve Libertine (Crass) interspersed with songs from the new Vashti Bunyan album, Animal Collective and David Sylvians new project, Nine Horses. Artist Track (incl mix) Label Details 1. Sierra Cassidy - Of Gentle Blood - Voodoo Eros 2. Aphex Twin - Nannou - WARP 3. Animal Collective - Daffy Duck - Fat Cat 4. Colorforms - Waterslide Ocean - Colorforms 5. Wireless - Light In Balance, an Autumnal Invocation - Armchair Astronaut 6. Tapio Kotkavuori - Auringon Kehra - Gemini Stella/Someplace Else 7. A-Soma & Eve Libertine - A Miscellany Of Displacements - Red Herring 8. Nine Horses - The Librarian - Samadhi Sounds 9. Vashti Bunyan - Feet Of Clay – Fat Cat

Just to let you know that the new, full-length audio journey from Wireless is near completion. It is called; 'End Of Summer' and, as the title suggest, is as evocative as the turning of the leaves from green to red. Like the dog days, those English evenings of Indian summers, the lengthening of shadows as the sun rises to a lesser and lower height, the quality of the light itself as it encroaches on Winters time. You are going to love it. We do. Space this watch for details to cum....

Greetings fellow beings (from whatever provenance) On the 22nd September, Wireless convened at mission control to play and record a seasonal invocation for the light as the daytime dwindles. The resulting sounds were captured on a two-track recording device, subtly manipulated and enhanced from their sources by the nimble fingered acroanaut. The resulting interplay of sounds evoke both light and darkness in equal amounts (appropriately enough for an Equinox expression) and are in the process of being edited for possible availability in the future. A segment/extract will be uploaded to the page in the near future. Space this watch...

This space is a sister site to www.wireless-music.com and covers the musick of Wireless, XPiano, Under Mother Bungalow and the Acroanaut.

We are a Brighton based collective creating and devising musick for travel without motion, inner-exploring and ganglian fry-ups (yum!)

We convene weekly in Brighton in a strangley beautiful and somewhat chaotic industrial space and play until we're done (anything from 20 mins to 1 hour) If you would like to sit in, contact Darius; crookedstylus@hotmail.com for details.

There is a related MySpace; www.myspace.com/crooked_stylus which is a platform for an internet radio show called Crooked Stylus (www.totallyradio.com) so, please, take a look and say hi.

Mooning at the dark side,

darius akashic