At last a bit of news to report.  Most of you probably already know this from following my bandmates Myspaces but Blind Cave Salamander has two releaases out this past month.  First there is the second full length studio album - Troglobite, which has been released by our Swiss friends Shayo.  Second is the wonderfully packaged special edition release of The Nietszche Fabrik Sessions / Transmission by Radical Matters.  This is a two part release: the first part being a recording of the site specific performance that Salamander did for Nietszche Fabrik in 2008 as part of the Torino World Design Capital festival, the second part being the same piece broadcast and re-recorded using FM and SW radio signals by Pietro Riparbelli/K11 inside the Etruscan necropolis of ancient Kysra.

In other project news, yet another new project seems to be taking flight.  This time a loungy, funky, heavy metal project between Beauchamp, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound).  This was originally intended as aperitif background music during the PRE Final Fest in Rome but we enjoyed ourselves too much to let it stop there.  A short video of the performance can be seen here.  Thanks Claus!

Speaking now purely about myself the first of three EPs in the Sala B opera, Sala B: Rupture is now available for download through the Turinian netlabel Chew-Z with a special edition hard copy release available for purchase featuring a remix by Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound).  Work on the second edition has begun and is tentatively scheduled for release in early 2010.  There are several other exciting developments concerning Sala B which shall be elaborated on in the near future.

As far as live is concerned a repeat performance of the onstage collaboration between Beauchamp, Palumbo and Jochen Arbeit (Einsturzende Neubauten) has been confirmed for January (check upcoming gigs for details) along with more Salamander scheduled for 2010. 

The first of a three part EP series by Paul Beauchamp is now available from my good friends theTurinian netlabel Chew-Z.  www.chewz.net

The EP is titled Sala B: Rupture and is a sonic recollection of my near death experience in the hospital 4 years ago of which the surgeons said it was a miracle that I survived.

The EP is available as a free download in accordance with the Creative Commons License.

I also reccomend downloading the other artists available at Chew-Z which are all top of the line experimental / electronic works worth a listen.

I have the pleasure to announce that a commissioned piece of mine titled "Patchwork" is currently in exhibition as part of [Design]Crisis which is in turn part of Design Week Milano.  The exhibition is running from the 22nd till the 27th of April, from 10am till 8pm, and can be found in the P4 Temporary Gallery located on Via Pestalozzi 4 in Milan of course.  My thanks go to Marco Ruffino and everyone else involved with the project for giving me the chance to take part.
If you would like more info feel free to contact either myself or the good people of the exhibition at designcrisis at gmail.com.

Blind Cave Salamander will play a special performance/sound installation tonight on the roof of Nietzsche Fabrik in Turin as part of the World Design Capital 2008 festival.  In addition to Salamander there will also be an opening performance by Julia Kent and Monuments II.  Info and directions here...

http://www.nietzschefabrik.com/

Blind Cave Salamander has finally surfaced out of the cave once more and found a home on Myspace...

http://www.myspace.com/proteidae

A new Paul Beauchamp track has been released by the Turin based Chew-Z netlabel...

http://www.chewz.net/

The track "Nevica" is part of Treatment Effects, a compilation release celebrating the one year anniversary of Chew-Z.  You can download individual tracks or the entire compliation for free here...

http://www.chewz.net/samplers.aspx?id=CWS002

Many thanks to the fine fellows at Chew-Z for honoring me with a request to participate and for the privelage to appear alongside such great artists!

-Paul

Blind Cave Salamander made it's second incarnation last Friday during the Happy New Ears Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium this time sharing the bill with Johann Johannsson (with Hildur Ingveldardottir) and Larsen and Friends.  The evening was simply incredible.  Our hosts, the wonderful people of Happy New Ears, were absolutely extraordinary and I was honored to share the bill with such illustrious artists. 

Future events confirmed are Spain in October, Berlin and Venice in November and Italy again in December.

Thanks again to all who were involved in Kortrijk!

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to recent and future friend requests for having taken so long to approve (or deny for that matter but I don`t imagine that those people are reading) but my internet access in these days is sporadic at best.  Plus, even when I get a chance at the internet I usually do so from a pc without speakers and I don`t want to approve or deny anyone without hearing their music first.  Thusly I kindly beseech you all for patience.

Fimbulwinter, a limited edition handpainted EP featuring the tracks Winter Sign, Melting and a live version of Yggdrasill is now available for purchase through the Gullinkambi website.

www.gullinkambi.com

 

Just a quick note to announce two more duo performances with Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, details can be found under my "upcoming shows".