The latest edition of The Field Reporter Radio features two tracks from Glenn Bach’s ‘Radia’.

The Field Reporter Radio #5

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1. (fragment) ISZ from Form 01 from “Forms” (Inside 2011)
2. (fragment) CHRIS WHITEHEAD from Tethys from “Gryphaea” (Obs 2012)
3. (fragment) THE BEIGE CHANNEL from Part One from “The Nail House of Yang Wu” (Stasisfield 2011)
4. Moraine GLENN BACH from “Radia” (Dust, Unsettled 2012)
5. (fragment) MARK VERNON from Untitled (track 1) from “Static cinema” (Entr’acte 2012)
6. (fragment) FRANCOIS-EMMANUEL FODERE from Enfer Mecanique from “3pr(iii)3 ses” (Earsheltering 2012)
7. (fragment) GLENN BACH from Basin 1 from “Radia” (Dust, Unsettled 2012)

Here’s what’s still available on Dust, Unsettled.  Some titles are very low in stock. Order soon if you don’t want to be disappointed!

DU01 - Brian Lavelle - Just a Song at Twilight - 25 copies left from edition of 150

DU05 - Andrew Paine - After Wednesday - 10 left from edition of 100

DU06 - Alistair Crosbie - I’ve Never Had A Face - 5 copies left from edition of 100

DU08 - Glenn Bach - Radia - 40 copies left from edition of 100

From Vital Weekly 821:

GLENN BACH - RADIA (CDR by Dust, Unsettled)
Although the name sounded familiar, I may not have heard of Glenn Bach before. He leads the improvising ensemble Double Blind (‘a vehicle for collaborative soundscapes) and Intense Situations Of Peril (all electronics ensemble) and has worked with John Kannenberg on ‘Two Cities’, ‘an audio-visual meditation on ambulatory experiences of place’. Besides that he has a net-label MPRNTBL, about field recordings, lowercase, analog noise and collaborative soundscapes. This solo release uses guitar feedback and field recordings captured in various state parks in California and Wisconsin. This is quiet music, sometimes almost below the threshold of hearing, but it sounds great. Lowercase is a term we don’t hear that much anymore, but it certainly applies to this music. Whatever field recordings he has captured (at some instances I recognized the sound of water and birds), or whatever processes he applied to them, they sound like blurry static pieces of hiss like sounds, in which he places his sparse guitar sounds. There is a lot of space in the music - not in a cosmic sense of the word, but in the sparseness of the sounds used to create this music. This is not the kind of music you put on for ‘fun’, or as ‘background’. This music requires active listening and without such concentrated effort it rather fails to impress the listener. It might be over before you know something had started. That is, I think, a great quality. (FdW)

Glenn’s album Radia is now available to purchase from Infinite Limits.  

Copies will soon be available from Ben Owen’s wonderful Winds Measure Recordings in the US.

Here’s a link to the promotional one-sheet for Radia.  Pre-ordered copies of the album are now being sent out, with the official release date being Monday 13 February.

Dust, Unsettled’s highly trained staff get to work unboxing our latest release, Glenn Bach’s ‘Radia’.

Glenn Bach’s Radia is almost here.  9 tracks of isolated minimalism, comprised of subtle guitar feedback and field recordings captured at various state parks in California and Wisconsin.  It will be out by the middle of February and pre-orders will go up before then.

Purchase/listen here