We hope you had a good Christmas and New Year. The state51 team had a lovely time just before the break with a delicious roast and a game of Task Master, which included such highlights as 'who can get the egg highest, you have three minutes.' 

We have two pieces of news for you this week. Let's go...

Moof Magazine

The first is that the excellent music magazine Moof has joined the Greedbag community and pre-orders for issue 11 are now open. 

100+ pages of underground music, art & culture, cover artwork by Jeremy Deller: this issue features interviews with Pete Brown, Dana Gillespie, Gruff Rhys, Alex Merry and Benjamin Myers, as well as features about the lesser-known UK free festivals, Argentinian underground magazine Expreso Imaginario, Gwawr Records, The New Eves, Burd Ellen, Aphex Twin, album/live music reviews & much more... Limited edition Jeremy Deller / MOOF postcard included in all pre-orders.

https://moof.greedbag.com/buy/moof-issue-no/

Waclaw Zimpel - Train Spotter

We're also just about to announce a new release by Waclaw Zimpel, but we thought we'd let you know about it first. Train Spotter is Zimpel's fourth album. In the office we've been calling it techno-clarinetism.

In the seven years since the release of his debut solo album, ‘Lines’, Wacław Zimpel has developed from his idiosyncratic approach to jazz to growing into a potent and inventive force in the field of electronic music.

‘Train Spotter’ was created for a specific brief from The City of Warsaw: to capture the Sound of the City of Warsaw. But, as Zimpel soon found out, the sounds of a city don’t exist in isolation; they’re part of a wider environment that is itself undergoing upheaval against a background of internal and external forces.

Spread over six tracks, the manipulated samples are blended with Zimpel’s own electronic production flourishes and playing to create a seamless blend that’s uniquely his. Recording a variety of mechanised and repetitive sounds including tramlines, baggage carousels and bouncing basketballs in municipal parks among many other found sources, Zimpel fed the results through a host electronic equipment including synthesisers, keyboards and plug-ins.

For all its production methods, ‘Train Spotter’ bears an organic warmth that reflects the city that inspired it. But what also adds to the sonic intrigue is a rise in intensity within each of the individual tracks that themselves become ever more forceful as the album continues.

Look at these beuatiful images - as ever we're doing 51 very special editions exclusive to the shop.

You can listen to a teaser here.

 

Thanks for supporting what we do,

the state51 team