just to let everyone know, the latest Uniform album titled 'Protocol' has been released on the Planet Mu label....there's some pretty discordant voices on the album (including lydia lunch, alan vega from suicide, dalek.....) and to give you some idea, it's a dark fractured schizo-electronics sound....
the tracklisting is :
01 sex is a contract, history is a trick (featuring lydia lunch) 02 lucid lucid lucid 03 day 7 in the season of mistakes (featuring olga naiman) 04 a swollen vendetta (featuring dalek) 05 are faces objects ? (featuring germseed) 06 if 07 the cynics lantern 08 no one saw the difference (featuring franko b ) 09 warmth is ebbing from things 10 when the sun turns to numbers (featuring alan vega) 11 the symbolist (featuring terry edwards) 12 he's above his station
there's gigs and events happening here and abroad and both Alice and myself will endeavor to keep everyone informed...at the moment i'm making the music/sound score for an installation by the Royal Festival Hall in london as part of the refurbishment of the Southbank and thats taking up most of my time but if you have any queries, direct them to miss kemp of alice kemp fame or to me....
we've finally succummed to the myspace phenomena so you can go there to check out 4 tracks....2 from the new album and 2 from the debut :
here's some pics of the recent gig at the nottinghill arts club in london with some shibari (japanese rope binding) experts as part of our performance....
the Uniform site has been updated with a new layout including a photo gallery where shots from gigs will be posted up regularly, a mailing list, a more comprehensive background on who's involved in the project, a discography, a list of up and coming events including gigs and other performance/installations we recommend.....check it at www.youkneeform.com
a forum/discussion board is now up and running on the Uniform site where we're hoping to get some lively debates going about sonic art, live-art and anything else worth it's weight in salt....our intention is to combine takes on academic practise within contemporary music and sonic art with the urgency and intensity of rock n roll....we will at some point be creating an FTP upload area where people can post mp3's and soundclips but these will be strictly for experimental compositions from the past to the present with the intention of sharing and discussing work...anything other than challenging or academic work will be binned....the forum itself still doesn't look totally right yet but we dont want to get pedantic about it....it'll get better as we go along....you're invited to join
members of Uniform have set up an independent record label with the intention of releasing experimental music, or more precisely music made by experimental minds...this means we're not restricted to genre or styles and so have a variety of artists onboard with sounds ranging from full on sonic-art noise to off-kilter folk-rock to unnerving hip-hop....the debut release is by the infamous Sudden Infant and is titled 'Three Puppets EP'....the sleeves are specially created silk-screen prints on italian watercolour paper so they look and feel as special as the music itself....all releases will be limited to 100 copies only so once they sell out, that's it - no reprints or reruns....
the release date is the 20th of April but you can order a pre-release copy here at a cost of £3.50 each :
Uniform site updated with new features including blogs, mailing lists and new artwork.....the forum is full of discussions on sonic art, live-art, literature and anything else worth it's weight in salt....info on side projects too including Scrapclub, Needlesoup, Vatican X-Ray Department, Dirthole and other events....get to it at :
