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we hear you, we hear you 16:13
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plucking it out of the air 02:46
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I've got a new bedtime now, I mean me, an old raver who would have thought 11:28

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Maggie Nicols: voice, piano, tap dance
Odie JI Ghast: voice
Sam Andreae: homemade electronics + alto saxophone
David Birchall electric guitar

Recorded live @ Cafe Oto, London on 25th August 2021 by Adam Matschulat

Mixed by Sam Andreae and edited by David Birchall

Cover and the other paintings by Mio Ebisu

Band photographs by Andrew Brooks

Design by David Birchall

"The second release is Shape Shifters by This Friendship Is Sailing...the tone is set by the playful, childlike sounds permeating "We hear you, we hear you". Several minutes into the mewling cacophony, Nicols launches into a story about hearing a baby cry during a visit to Sicily. Instead of trying to quiet the infant, the adults of the community took a position of solidarity with it, meeting its need to make noise with reassuring vocalisations of their own. In Nicols telling, this anecdote becomes a powerful affirmation of prelinguistic sonority. Although devoid of semantic content, a baby's cries are intensely communicative- an apt metaphor for Nicol's own improvisatory practice"

Wire review March 2023

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released February 6, 2023

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David Birchall Manchester, UK

I am a musician living in Manchester.

I improvise, compose recordings in the studio and perform recordings outside.

I work with electronics, light, sound and making internet structures accessible with Noise Orchestra.

I'm an MA Researcher at the University of Huddersfield.

I organise performances with Curious Ear and Daylight Edition. ... more

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