Loops and Sada Abe

SADA ABE

i was dreaming of decay
dreaming of atrophy
mythical goddess of disintegration
deep-dreaming
of her earthly manifestation
sada abe -
in the realm of the senses
lulled by the most erotic image
ever seen
Sada Abe
hair cascading down her face
knife clenched between her teeth
seconds before she cuts the dick
off her dead lover
for days she carried around
her treasured keepsake
deep deep inside
for days she wandered
dazed-sublime
beyond passion
beyond pain
beyond passion
beyond pain
beyond passion
beyond pain.

YONDER LOOP


(Yukata girl by Lisa Onomoto,
author as well of the beautiful drawing
on the Transgender Warrior cover).

Homage to Ashwin Street

"At the beginning we rehearsed on the third floor (i lived in the basement), after i moved up the road we moved rehearsals to the basement.It was an absolute joy to be able to rehearse whenever we wanted and at no cost.
It allowed us so much freedom to explore our live set-up and to keep it changing.It's crucial to have the time to connect musically with each other when live improvisation (but NOT self-indulgence) are the aim".

(Cinder,somewhere else on this blog)

(Photos by spaewaif,circa 2004)

Up here in the Clouds

touchedRADIO tR5 :

"Up here in the clouds",
a collection of old and new
cindytalk idea sketches.


Includes a remix of "Transgender Warrior".

(Unfortunately,touchedradio is NO LONGER available.
We are currently working on other audio options)

We all dream of Cindy

Rare promo poster for Kangaroo






THAT voice




"I felt like it was the end. I was at the point where I hated my voice. I felt I couldn't turn in any direction because I'd exhausted myself with 'Camouflage Heart'. Then I did two songs for This Mortal Coil, and, to me, that was a lie. I'd gone in and used by voice purely technically. I'd never done that before. I'd always been instinctive about it.This Mortal Coil was an interesting experiment, but I could live without "Kangaroo" quite easily. It doesn't mean anything to me. As a vocal performance, it astonished me, but it also disgusted me. As soon as I sang it, I knew it was a lie. I knew it was a hell of a lot less soulful than anything I did with Cindytalk...
People tell me I'm perverse. Or difficult. That I should sing properly. Like with This Mortal Coil. I can't see it like that. It's not even a matter of compromise. I just can't think that way."
(Melody Maker, April 16, 1988)


Two versions of this single were released:
one with a silver border and one with a red border on the sleeve and labels.

The run-out grooves read «I dream of Cindy».

It entered the UK Indie Chart on 15/9/84 and spent 20 weeks in chart,
peaking at number 2.

"The static,to connect"

Trailer for the film Madrigal.

"From the romance of destruction to the devastation of near silence"

"Cindytalk is me",quips Scotsman Gordon Sharp,"plus a cast of thousands".
Including John Burn and Alex Wright,who-with Gordon-form the nucleus of the current Cindytalk incarnation on the "In This World" albums.
Yes-albums:two distinct and distinctively-packaged vinyl LPs of the same name.Confused? you will be (and why not?).
Gordon's previous work has included collaborations with the Cocteau Twins
("They came from the same area of Scotland as me and I've known them for quite a few years",he explains,"and did a Peel session with them"),and the first of 4AD's This Mortal Coil projects,
as well as Cindytalk's previous Camouflage Heart album".
Gordon ascribes the delay between Cindytalk releases to "exhaustion.
Basically,I wanted to collect ideas,throw them into a pile and listen-out for new things.
Finding new people to work with can be painful,so I chose to wait for a purpose to do something else,rather than just supply follow-up product".
Rest,recuperation and rethinking led Gordon to consider as an eventual follow-up an album of piano music."But then I decided to do a one-off single,exploring one noisy idea.
At the same time,I was recording something for a Midnight Music compilation,which I thought ended up too good to lose and wanted to add to the single,which was rapidly becoming a mini-LP.
Things were changing shape and form and almost getting out of control.So that's why there are two albums with the same title,as the material grew up together".
But,Gordon,why not then release a double-album?
"That would have been too conceptual.
This way,each record has a similar,but separate,identity.It's not contrived or meant as a ploy,it just happened.Though I like it being playful and mischievous.
That it might be confusing is a pleasing notion to me".
A confusion resolved on the CD release,which contains all the material on the albums.
And,next?
"I don't know.I like to start afresh each time,it's a process of rebirth with each project".


(From "The Catalogue" Issue 57 March 1988)

Eternity Chaos

Bambule Commando DJ mix featuring snippets from the film
Julien Donkey Boy

Art by Hans Bellmer

"Sounds never seen"

Venture IN without a map...

Waiting for the madrigal

The film Madrigal with music by Cindytalk was first screened yesterday in London.

The press pack,downloadable from the Rabblewise Films website,states:

"Cindytalk's original score "The Crackle of My Soul" facilitates our move into interior worlds.Its found sound aesthetic creates song literally from static and mirrors the snatched beauty of the film.As static it melds with the soundscape of the city".

"This salt heals all my wounds"

Solo piano piece released in 1994 on émigré music .
This sampler titled "Dreaming Out Loud" also appeared as a limited edition CD that came with a box that contained a small pillow.
Music to become friends with...

"A distant hand lifted"

Cindytalk will be performing a laptop live set at Otoya,
Kobe,May 7 2006.

"Year zero is every year!"

Bambule Commando DJ mix

Featuring Praxis Records/Widerstand Records/
New Skin Records/Somatic Responses/Dan Hekate/etc.

More on graffiti...

The one with the thistle,on a tree . . .

This photograph was used as the cover for the first edition of Camouflage Heart and also as a promotional poster for said album.

The spirit of a waif,by the wall

"Ragged and standing (the image of a waif)"


Photo by Cliff Ash.
This version is different from the one that was finally used on the cover.

The boat,by the loch

Label on Camouflage Heart by Bruce Corser

"The Perfect Illusion starts here..."

Back at the beginning of Cindytalk,there was a photocopied magazine related
to their ideas and inspirations.Its title was "The Perfect Illusion Starts Here".
The contact address for the band that appeared in both vinyl versions of Camouflage Heart and on the CD was also "the perfect illusion".

Video stills from a Freeze/going into Cindytalk track,"Lullaby in Black"
(and "Quietly Burning"?).

Could Plastic Orcadian and Cinder illuminate more all this?
;-)

"Walking through darkness but having no plan"

Article in Jamming,December 1984
Photo by Alastair Indge

"We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads..."

"'Take care to fall' was recorded in May of 1998 and originally released on cassette under the title 'There can make nothing of difference'. I intended to put it out on CD as early as 1998 or so, then got busy doing this and that and this and that and this and that... after a while it became a joke, people would ask when it was coming out and laugh.
The original title of the CD was to be 'Take care not to fall'.
Gordon Sharp was over for the Cindytalk US tour and I told him the title and he said,
'Oh, that's horrid.If you don't fall you'll never learn to fly. I changed it right then. Although I put 'Take care not to fall' on the other spine, in French, just to confuse people and give people an option to their own fate."

DREKKA -
Take care to fall

Track 11,"...and the first time (in two sections)" contains samples from Cindytalk's
album "Wappinschaw".
The CD credits the sample wrongly for track 10.

Walking and falling

Cindytalk's latest release to date is the remix for Appliance Japan
of a Defeatist track for their Japan Tour 2005.
The track "I walk until I fall" can be heard on
touchedRADIO
under the title "Up Here in the Clouds".

(Unfortunately,touchedradio is NO LONGER available.
We are currently working on other audio options).

lflamex?

bambule? lflamex?
the difference?