LAND OBSERVATIONS
MODERN COMPOSITION RESPONDING TO HISTORY, LANDSCAPE AND PLACE
Sunday 11 October 2020
Thursday 5 April 2018
ONE DAY SESSION CURATED BY LAND OBSERVATIONS
The One Day Band sessions are an ongoing series of improvisations hosted by Trestle Records. Musicians, sometimes meeting for the first time, are invited to collaborate on a record made in a single day at a fully equipped and engineered studio in East London. The day’s recordings are then mixed and mastered before being uploaded into the archive.
http://www.trestlerec.com/onedaybands.html
ODB 14 was curated by James Scott Brooks who records under the monicker Land Observations, a London based artist known for minimalist, looped guitar compositions that progressively layer into propulsive rhythmical instrumentals. He has released two albums to date on Mute Records and is currently completing the third.
The session features Land Observations leading the way with repetitive finger picking bringing to mind the guitar style of 60,70's American primitivists such as Fahey and Basho and more recently Six Organs Of Admitance. The 12 string guitar flows ever forward setting the mood and rhythm. Gregson’s cello complements with a range of duties from melodic leads to textured dragging, drones and stacatto. The trumpet is also often played in long droning notes, mourneful and with additional effects creating delays and reverb resulting in an atmospheric quality that is beautifully symbiotic with Simon Fisher Turner’s electronic contributions.
"Having received the invitation to curate and record a one day session for the endlessly interesting Trestle Records, I realised it was an opportunity for me to finally improvise with the musicians, Simon Fisher-Turner, Peter Gregson, & Andrew Blick, who I had initially come into contact with during the recording and performing of SFT's Ivor Novello award winning film soundtrack The Epic of Everest. Gathering together at Holy Mountain studios, our intention for the improvised one day session was to explore the various timbres of a cello, trumpet, guitar, and drone ensemble', through a series of cyclical drum-less patterns of varying rhythmic and atmospheric densities.” James Scott Brooks/ Land Observations
Andrew Blick, Trumpet, Recorder, Sound Treatments
Peter Gregson, Cello
Land Observations, Acoustic 12 String, Electric 6 String Guitar
Simon Fisher Turner, Electronics
Sunday 15 October 2017
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Wednesday 20 May 2015
I'M VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE LAND OBSERVATIONS MUSIC WILL BE INCLUDED ON -
BBC RADIO 4's - BOOK OF THE WEEK - 'CHANNEL SHORE'
TOM FORT TRAVELS FROM THE WHITE CLIFFS TO LAND'S END IN SEARCH OF MARITME TALES.
READ BY JONATHAN COY
ABRIDGED BY KATRIN WILLIAMS
The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our nearest, dearest playground where people have sought sun, sin and bracing breezes.
Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us and what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land and seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings and Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe and hunts a shark off Looe. Stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters abound.
25th - 30th MAY AT 0945 GMT DAILY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wkg03
BBC RADIO 4's - BOOK OF THE WEEK - 'CHANNEL SHORE'
TOM FORT TRAVELS FROM THE WHITE CLIFFS TO LAND'S END IN SEARCH OF MARITME TALES.
READ BY JONATHAN COY
ABRIDGED BY KATRIN WILLIAMS
Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us and what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land and seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate's waters, takes the air in Hastings and Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe and hunts a shark off Looe. Stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters abound.
25th - 30th MAY AT 0945 GMT DAILY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wkg03
Saturday 7 March 2015
LOOKING FORWARD TO PERFORMING LIVE IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO - 21.03.2015
http://mute.com/mute/punto-de-encuentro-2015-presents-festival-mute-mexico-on-saturday-21-march-2015
Wednesday 21 January 2015
LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING ANTIGEL FESTIVAL IN GENEVA ON 27.01.2015
http://www.antigel.ch/assets/uploads/AG_GRID_WEBSITE.pdf
VERY PLEASED TO HEAR THE TRACK - 'FLATLANDS & THE FLEMISH ROADS' ON BBC6 MUSIC.
LISTEN TO THE RADIO SHOW -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ynw8r
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael
LISTEN TO THE RADIO SHOW -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ynw8r
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael
Monday 27 October 2014
Sunday 14 September 2014
Saturday 16 August 2014
Saturday 19 July 2014
ANOTHER TRACK FROM THE NEW ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM -
'RETURN TO RAVENNA'
HAVE A LISTEN
m.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-land-observations-return-to-ravenna
'RETURN TO RAVENNA'
HAVE A LISTEN
m.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-land-observations-return-to-ravenna
Wednesday 2 July 2014
A TRACK FROM THE NEW ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD -
ON LEAVING THE KINGDOM FOR THE WELL-TEMPERED CONTINENT
https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/land-observations-on-leaving-the-kingdom-for-the-well-tempered-continent
ON LEAVING THE KINGDOM FOR THE WELL-TEMPERED CONTINENT
https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/land-observations-on-leaving-the-kingdom-for-the-well-tempered-continent
Tuesday 24 June 2014
NEW TRACK AND VIDEO OUT TODAY -
ON LEAVING THE KINGDOM FOR THE WELL-TEMPERED CONTINENT
TAKEN FROM THE NEW ALBUM - THE GRAND TOUR
HAVE LOOK AND LISTEN ON -
http://www.wonderingsound.com/news/video-premiere-land-observations/
http://www.factmag.com/2014/06/24/mutes-land-observation-announces-new-album-of-motorik-psychogeography-the-grand-tour/
Sunday 22 June 2014
Friday 20 June 2014
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Sunday 4 May 2014
SIMON FISHER TURNER ENSEMBLE -
ENJOYED PLAYING THE LIVE SCORE TO THE EPIC OF EVEREST SOUNDTRACK AT THE TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY.
http://trentofestival.it/en/
Monday 14 April 2014
Friday 21 February 2014
LAND OBSERVATIONS TO PERFORM LIVE AT -
MONOMANIA FESTIVAL, CAMBRIDGE
8TH MARCH 2014
http://www.monomaniafestival.co.uk/#/main
Saturday 12 October 2013
18 OCTOBER - 2013 - ODEON WEST END CINEMA, LEICESTER SQUARE
LAND OBSERVATIONS/ JAMES BROOKS PERFORMING AS PART OF SIMON FISHER TURNER'S LIVE ENSEMBLE FOR THE BFI PREMIER OF THE RESTORED 1924 FILM - EPIC OF EVEREST.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/epic-everest-announced-lff-archive-gala
Thursday 29 August 2013
LAND OBSERVATIONS HAS DONATED A PIECE OF UNHEARD MUSIC FOR THE DARK STAR LOUNGE EVENT AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ART FESTIVAL SCOTLAND.
http://www.environmentalartfestivalscotland.com/event/eafs-gathering-2-sound-nature-dark-skies/
Friday 5 July 2013
Saturday 22 June 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Sunday 9 June 2013
Saturday 4 May 2013
LAND OBSERVATIONS TO PERFORM LIVE AT -
LES ABATTOIRS - AUDITORIUM
19.00 - 20 JUNE 2013
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN A TOULOUSE
76 ALLEES CHARLES-DE-FITTE
31300 TOULOUSE
FRANCE
http://www.lesabattoirs.org/
LAND OBSERVATIONS TO PERFORM LIVE AT THE -
B-SIDES FESTIVAL
15 JUNE 2013
SONNENBERG
6010 KRIENS
LUCERNE
SWITZERLAND
http://b-sides.ch/blog/events/event/b-sides-festival/
Thursday 25 April 2013
Monday 8 April 2013
LAND OBSERVATIONS TO PLAY A LIVE SHOW AT -
NEW RECORD RECORD SHOP, VIA DE GIOSA, 59 BARI, ITALY
20TH APRIL 2013
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venue/5800
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Saturday 2 March 2013
DOCUMENTARY ON ALASKA
A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WATERLESS LIFESTYLES AROUND FAIRBANKS, ALASKA WITH MUSIC BY LAND OBSERVATIONS
Created by Rebecca File
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CILcdkcJL8&feature=youtu.be
Sunday 27 January 2013
Thursday 20 December 2012
VERY PLEASE TO ANNOUNCE THAT ROMAN ROADS VI - XI WAS VOTED THE 18TH BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR BY DOTS AND DASHES -
http://dotsanddashes.co.uk/features/dots-and-dashes-records-of-2012/
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