Episode 6 A Lover’s Cheekbone

A Mixtape Radio on Resonance Extra, UK

EP 6 Field Notes 

Feat. FAREWELL TOUR recorded at Chicken House. Farewell Tour is a new rock band project by Joe and Chanelle developed throughout 2023 and  2024, mixing field recordings and long form psych rock, with Joe on guitar and pedals and Chanelle on vocals and samples.

Side A - Lover’s Cheekbone 

“I saw you standing. Long days, long nights, waiting on the stage and those hallowed lights. Screaming to the wild and dancing with the wind, just as it starts, it always ends. This could be the last time I see you, this will be the last time I see you. I saw you standing through the window of your apartment, saw you standing naked in your beautiful garment. Garment, yeah! All this trouble and the devil we have”. [distortion/delay]

Side B - In Defence of Submission  

Notes on a Sound Art Practice: MIXTAPES

Sound is a time based medium and is therefore about time. A site specific music that incorporates field recordings. Each sound has a location in time and space, that repeats again in a kind of nietzschean time travel. Playback, delay, and looping are the eternal recurrence. It is this life, now, living in terminal diagnosis. Living with an acute awareness of the limitation in the availability of time. The here and now is filled with the presence of time and mortality, ART and DEATH. 

Sound art in the medium of mixtapes: a practice combining textiles and sound. It is for those wanderers willing to make a sidestep to embrace resistance, agency, or refusal. An intentional pause for creative procrastination inspired by a Situationist spirit. It is anxiety and method, irreverent of its resources. This practice, only a labor for love, ingests, internalises, and releases. This is mechanical reproduction via cassette, which is an un-living agent, a prop, and a gift. Through cables sprawling to construct a signal chain where authority resides in the binary input and output solution. Companions consenting to a noise domain, Heavier Than A Death In The Family. A sound ambition that finds the silent friendship of grief. A Farewell Tour rock band project.

• Joe Wilson