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"Hit record and mixed tracks from 2017-2018. Turns out I made an album, by mistake. old school BM guitar-&-drum machine, a Linn-Drum and a Fred Moten sample, Serge drone, FM synth kicks and a YMO interview and a robot, 'shut up and listen to him play', 808 acid funk, 280bpm Gescom memories, a taiko ramen break rounded and a just intonation poem -- abc, the whole alphabet: performance from within fugitive study. I like to enjoy myself." --Simon Pomery, London, 28 December 2018
Blood Music is Simon Pomery: London-based, Irish-born producer, musician and maker of the "infinity-poem". The name Blood Music is one English translation of the Japanese word "Kodo": "mind-before-thought", "children of the drum", "music heard in the womb", or rather, "blood music". He has two 12-inches on Diagonal Records -- Blood Music EP" (2013), and Chicks/Badgering (DIAG 022EP, 2015) -- digis on dingn\dents and self-released works. GPS Poetics is influenced by Pomery's research into poetics and ethics: Fred Moten's writings on poetry and improvisation from In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003), Joan Retallack on Gertrude Stein, John Cage and aleatoric composition in "The Poethical Wager", and Édouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation (1990). The notion of "the center" is exploded in favor of fugitive research into the relational. The result here is a live mix of cross-genre blood musics, given to that most freely proliferating, streamable, downloadable, capitalist communication of consumer taste: the DJ mixtape. Pomery's use of text and voice in Blood Music continues his investigation of text-sound compositions of the '60s and '70s. His "infinity poems", which are algorithmically produced for print as well as for his A/V show "SPEED READING WITH BLOOD MUSIC", provide the visual art and language for his relational poetics. Blood Music has played Berlin Atonal (Germany), Elevate (Austria) Les Urbaines (Switzerland), Ochiai Soup (Tokyo), Club Stomp (Osaka), La Cheetah (Scotland), UH Fest (Hungary), Les Atelier Claus (Belgium), Incubate (Holland), a water tank in Lewisham and at Cafe Oto in London, where Pomery curates PRAXIS (2016-), a series of events devoted to text-sound compositions.
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DIAG 022EP
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On this long-gestated follow-up to 2013's eponymous EP, Simon Pomery's Blood Music project continues to rage, syncing Taiko-inspired drumming patterns with vicious metal guitar dissonance and contact mic haptics. "Chicks" runs at a febrile EBM heartrate, pelting modular palpitations made alongside Russell Haswell against walls of guitar feedback-as-melody like a thuggish Keiji Haino. "Badgering" reengages the 'floor with improvised, squabbling electronics around rowdy drums and bugged-out vocal glitch, recalling Endless-era Pan Sonic and strobing Bunker acid parties. Luke Younger aka Helm's remix of "Chicks" uses electroacoustic phasing to reimagine the original's techno cravings and bring forward the original Taiko inspiration.
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