If you haven’t yet listened to the Bowscapes Project 2 compilation in memory of Jürgen Bräuninger find it here. My piece in tandem explores how the bow can be manipulated into disparate threads which travel alongside each other, moving in and out of context to their surroundings. I use various recordings made by Cara Stacey in 2014 and 2017 on the umrhubhe and umqangi bows.
'Harbour Arms' single out now!
Have a listen to my latest sunny collab with Richard Greenan, Mr Beatnick and bb sway ‘Harbour Arms’ from the album ‘Coasty’ which comes out on Kit Records in late October.
'Strength'
Check out my latest sound job for the lovely animator Helena Kampen
Funded by Adobe Creative residency.
Watch Strength here
'All the Way Round' featured on new film by Russel Agrò
A song recorded a while back with Kelpe is now featuring in this wonderful film by Russell Agrò
Tonight at Cafe OTO
This evening I will join the formidable Cara Stacey and Max Hallett at Cafe OTO. Later in the night catch the dreamy Roméo Poirier and DJ Richard Greenan from Kit records.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/romeo-poirier-cara-stacey-ensemble-kit-records-dj/
Listen to Run Amok Episode 2!
New animation soundtrack for the International Rescue Committee
RUN AMOK - a new show on The Other Radio
RUN AMOK
What did you do today? I watched a family of Egyptian geese cross the road in heavy traffic and found the perfect song for it. Halfway to vaporwave with a quaver shaved off. Had a weird dream last night. I was cooking a fryup for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the eggs danced back into their shells to mellow guitars with Balla Onivogui on top. It’s cold outside. Put the radio on and get back into bed.
Join us for the pilot episode of Run Amok - with your hosts: musicians Cara Stacey and Galina Juritz. From Jozi to London, we bring you an eclectic mix of tunes we’ve had on repeat this season, from Jon Bap, Auclair & Matmos to Kwaa Mensah, Bill Wurtz, Aden and more.
Lockdown Strings
Lovely to hear some lonely sessions during the bleak period of lockdown #1 surfacing now with recent releases of Cosima’s new single ‘Lonely Girls’ and Vassilina’s new album ‘Fragments’.
LIKE THE GRASS ATELIER NOW LIVE
Like the Grass Atelier is a collaborative online ‘open studio’ shared by a quartet from South Africa, Switzerland and Germany. The Like the Grass ensemble consists of guitarist Beat Keller, violinist Galina Juritz, harpist Antonia Ravens, and pianist and musical bow player Cara Stacey. As Covid-19 has prevented the group from meeting up and performing together in the past year, Like the Grass Atelier serves as a digital tour through which these improviser-producer-composers create music together and for each other, from their respective cities. Each week (for four weeks in May and June 2021), a new piece of music and accompanying film will be released continuing their exploration of place, musical process, chance, and structure. 'Part One: Process (with a tip of the hat to Brian Eno)' explores the interior world of making: How do ideas germinate? How do we make decisions about sound? How do these sounds find a home in broader structures? For improvisers and composers, the process of collaboration is often unpredictable, humorous and vulnerable, as we step together into the unknown.
'Summer Flowers' - a New Film by Ilze Wolff
A few months back I had the fortune of contributing to Cara Stacey’s beautiful score for ‘Summer Flowers’ a film by Ilze Wolff which explores the life and work of the iconic author and activist Bessie Head.
Sonic Scope Journal Issue #2 Out Now
Sonic Scope Journal Issue #2 features my latest film Dionysus Dies. To watch the film and read about the process of making it, follow the link…
New Animation for the IRC
Another collaboration with Jocie Juritz for the International Rescue Committee.
These are the words of Audrey, Baimba and Hassan who, despite everything they’ve been through, have found the courage within themselves to continue on.
Along with hundreds of other refugees, they’ve received mental health support from the IRC whilst living in Greece’s overcrowded camps. They’ve confronted the traumas of the past whilst living in conditions that no one should have to endure.
You can learn more about Audrey, Baimba and Hassan's stories here - rescue-uk.org/courage-to-continue
This piece was made in collaboration with Pal.
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Client - International Rescue Committee
Produced by - Pal TV
Direction/Animation - Jocie Juritz
Animation - Shuna Luo
Colouring - Daria Zadęcka & Hannah O’Brien
Sound/Music - Galina Juritz
New Animation for The On Being Project
I was lucky enough to work again with the super talented Jocie Juritz on this wonderful animation for The On Being Project. Poem written and read by Elizabeth Alexander.
DIONYSUS DIES: COMING SOON!
My Grad Show film Dionysus Dies premieres at Puregold festival https://www.puregoldfestival.com 2-7 November. Be sure to catch all the other wonderful work on show by Goldsmiths MMus students.
New Video for Like the Grass
Like Grizzly bears and free improv? Me too. Watch the new video by Kit Records founder Richard Greenan. This one’s from the A side.
Watch Our New Video by Dylan Valley
The wonderful Dylan Valley has made us an eery video for these strange times. Like the Grass available on LP, digital and all streaming platforms!
'TRIPLE BLUFF' BY HESITATION OUT TODAY!
"Triple Bluff" is the second LP by Kit Supergroup HESITATION, comprised of Chris Catlin (Reckno / Yaaard), Richard Greenan (Devon Loch / Devonanon), John B McKenna (Undermedvetenheten), Galina Juritz (Stacey Juritz Ravens Keller) and Francis P Brady (Frand).
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Open the scrapbook and catch tumbling, Velvets-esque guitar, deep (no)thinking kraut gold and tear-soaked fine line sax that might see Alabaster DePlume nod in approval. A cacophony of clipped ambitions, whittled down scratches and smiling lamentations.
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Triple Bluff was recorded live over a rambling, three day residency at the Malmö Inter Arts Centre, in Sweden. Recommended for fans of early Kraftwerk, Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 500.
'LIKE THE GRASS' OUT TODAY!
A long time in the making, today we release our cross-continental collaboration ‘Like the Grass’, featuring Cara Stacey , Tom Skinner , Beat Keller, Antonia Ravens, and Object Agency!
'Like The Grass' now available for pre-order!
https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/like-the-grass
Like the Grass documents and reimagines a warm summer’s evening in Basel, Switzerland. In June 2018, four musicians convened: Johannesburg composer and bow expert Cara Stacey, South African violinist and composer Galina Juritz, German harpist Antonia Ravens and Swiss guitarist and sonic explorer Beat Keller.
Together they improvised using a graphic score titled “Luhlata njengetjani” (“Green like the grass” in the southern African Siswati language), inspired by the rivers of eSwatini, blackbirds in the parks of Basel and the evocative, red-flowered umcinci or erythrina tree. The South African umrhubhe mouthbow’s dense harmonics folded around skittering, fractal violin loops; temperate swells of guitar were punctuated by agitated harp pings and the hearty thuds of Ugandan and Mozambican lamellophones.
This joyous, unfettered outpouring criss-crossed between southern Africa and Europe, forwards and backwards, for the following two years. Joined by two of their favourite producers in Michael Marshall (Object Agency, Poirier Marshall Partners) and Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny, Okumu Herbert Skinner Trio), Stacey and Juritz turned their attentions to the B side, unpicking the live fruits and arranging four new mosaics - ranging from frenetic techno to fractured R'n'B introspection, via languid hip hop and Cara's rambling, euphoric closer.
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Recorded as part of Cara Stacey’s studio residency in Basel, Switzerland, supported by ProHelvetia Johannesburg.
Mastered by Sam Annand. Design by Rich Greenan.
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releases July 3, 2020