Releases
This page lists all A Name For Both Of Us releases so far in chronological order, starting from the most recent.
Click a title below to jump to a specific release. If you're wondering where to start, try Photina Lodge, and seem to make promise... or Marble Surf 2:
and seem to make promise of meeting again tomorrow
5th July 2024
"Chinese netizen shared an interesting duck friendship online: every day the neighbour's ducks come to his door and call for their friends.
Then all 11 ducks go to the river together.
Sometimes they wait for each other on the road if some of them lag behind.
At sunset, the ducks part ways reluctantly and seem to make promise of meeting again tomorrow."
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Inspired by a short video from People's Daily China about a group of ducks who would meet up together every morning and go to play at the river. These tracks imagine a day in the life of those ducks.
Recorded over around four years, this tape also takes great inspiration from some of my favourite music from Africa, especially mbira, highlife and soukous, combining both original pieces influenced by these styles and some remixes and covers of particular favourites.
Note on the various samples and sources used:
- Track iv is an interpretation of the Shona mbira song 'Karigamombe'
- Track v is a remix of 'Rhoda' by Soukous Stars
- Track vi samples part of the 1991 Gatorade commercial #BeLikeMike
- Track vii is a cover of Jonah Sithole and the Deep Horizone's rendition of the Shona song 'Torai Mapadza'
- Track viii by Dareen Mohamad, a kalimba interpretation of the Karen Dalton song 'In The Evening (It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best)'
Stumbling Into Eden
1st August 2021
Recorded 28th March 2021
Single-take recordings made with a casio sk-1, loop pedal, delay pedal and reverb pedal.
A Teardrop Descends The Last Face Of Heaven
1st August 2021
Recorded 10th & 25th of April 2021
Single-take recordings made with a casio sk-1, loop pedal, delay pedal and reverb pedal.
Marble Surf 2
20th January 2021
Cover of 'Memory Theater' from James Ferraro's Marble Surf (2008).
For دارين
The Great Atlantic Rainway
22nd March 2022
Coda to the album Photina Lodge, originally released as B side to the Photina Lodge cassette.
"In these overcast days I tell you I need no explanatory framework for rainfall... What I want is my unabating wonder and my silly smile whenever the rain falls. Every time as if the first time, a child bewitched and the magic of the world."
- باسل الأعرج
Growth Of The Night Plants
2nd September 2020
First in an occasional series of pieces based on works by Paul Klee.
Part I featuring Dareen Mohamad on harp recorded in nighttime Florida wilderness.
Photina Lodge
7th May 2020
"waves are each other's toys for drowning"
Winter. Woke again in the single bed, the room a liminal sepia, from the morning sun through the thin brown curtains. From a dream, of a butterfly in the same room, identical palette. It got stuck in something, like a jar of honey or cup of tea, and we couldn't free it. Then, awake, she said, the first thing she said, there's something I want to go see. A boat, in Little Venice, they do puppet shows. Tonight a Lorca play, 'The Butterfly's Spell' or something. An injured butterfly stranded among the other insects. A cockroach poet falls in love and... I explained my dream. Well damn we said. The next day you were wearing the ticket clerk's Matisse earrings. In the intermission we explored the canals and saw the waves splashing across the face of a sundial.
for دارين
Sawt al...
1st February 2020
Artwork by Dareen Mohamad.
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20th June 2011
Old release from 2011 under a previous alias. Don't think it's held up too badly and thought some of you might find some interest in hearing it, thanks for listening!