A more melancholic drift than usual, maybe a dream of a time when all the venues are closed and the festivals are bankrupt and we rely solely on the buskers. This mixtape includes multiple ‘duets’ created by combining captured fragments of buskers and street music performances (including some Holy Week processions as it seemed timely). I enjoy the idea that these performances were greatly separated by time and space and now hang together in one imagined moment. There’s also some extracts of small improvisations I recently recorded with my long time collaborator Sarah Anderson and some field recordings to build worlds around all of these sounds.
No timeline for this one, but rather just a list of locations and material, but as ever it’s the space created by overlaps that really matters. Enjoy.
April 2025 Contents -
Bilbao Holy Week processions; Improvisations with Sarah Anderson, Walthamstow; Car boot sale, Lewes; Trumpet player, Mexico City; Arc welders, Mumbai; Acapella vocalist, Hong Kong; Oktoberfest choir, Berlin; Mahjong hall, Guangzhou; Muted bridge guitar sketches, Bristol.. and more.
(and yes.. I did nearly name this episode Ghost Buskers)
