Left Channel is a difficult thing for me to describe for two reasons. The first being that I myself have nothing to do with Left Channel other than receiving their packages and constructing this page, which is an effort on my part to make sense of what is happening to me. The second reason is that my contact with Left Channel is through a man called Ormonde, a known twister of the truth; an artist of apocrypha, if you like. All I know is that which Ormonde tells me. He tells about the Library and about the conflicting purposes of Anthony and Stuart, who by all accounts are responsible for the music you hear on this page. I'm told that neither one is in anyway a musician or has any real interest in music, other than the interest they have in cataloguing and the creative process. Despite this shared interest they stand at cross purposes; they work in separate offices. Anthony works at one end of the Library and Stuart at the other. Anthony is entirely concerned with the collection of the musical endeavours of one specific sect of the unknown underground of obscure experimentalists and then processing the music, pressing his own unmistakeable stamp onto it, and presenting it as his own to another specific sect of the unknown underground of obscure experimentalists. Ormonde said that he had no idea how many of these sects existed, but that he knew Anthony was a revered presence in several of them. Ormonde gave me one of these projects once. It was a two hour epic comprised of nothing but birdsong, a mandolin and what sounded like a barrel being beaten with a dead fish. Stuart, on the other hand, is fascinated with this music for quite another reason. He is intent on obscuring the obscure. He painstakingly melds together the various works that come out of Anthony's office, weaving songs into other songs endlessly. Each piece will contain anything from ten to a hundred different artists’ work, most of which ends up completely unrecognisable from its original form. The finished pieces are placed in a small black sack, near the Library entrance. Since discovering these regular deposits, Ormonde has habitually gone back at the same time everyday to check for new deliveries although there seems to be no pattern to the completion of the pieces. Ormonde says this is all he knows. I'm not sure why he has decided to entrust them to me, perhaps he thought I would do something like this, and make the music available to a wider audience.
First recorded together in 1999. First single released on 7'' 2003 by Monocle 78 recordings. 6 years searching for one 45. Album released 2010. Second album out now. Third album is being written.
Pablo Picasso. William Morris. Fyodor Dostoevsky. Johann Wolfgand von Goethe. DJ Q-Bert. D styles. The Revolting Cocks. Seinfeld. Steven Wright. James Stewart. Man Ray. Marcel Duchamp. Tod McFarlane. Storm and Stress. Alfred Hitchcock. Peter Greenaway. Michael Haneka. Anais Nin. Henry Miller. New York Dolls. Silver Apples. Charlie Feathers. The Things To Come. The Bruthers. The Eyes. Gustav Klimt. Talking Heads. The Fun Boy Three. Kool Keith. Mix Master Mike. The Deep. Bob Dylan. Shangri-las. Mucha. Italo Calvino. Knut Hamsun. Zachary Thaks. Joseph Mallord William Turner. Jeffrey McDaniel. The Green Fuz. Teddy & His Patches. Dock Boggs. Ian Dury. The Butlers. Buck 65. Odd Nosdam. Freestyle Fellowship. Fabulous Fraulines. The Grove Twilight Press. Museum. Gene Vincent. Mississippi John Hurt. Sage Francis. John Fante. Charles Bukowski. David Lynch. John Fowles. Truman Capote. Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Cats and the Fiddle. Ramones. Roxy Music. Stetsasonic. De La Soul. Z-3 MCs. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. PIL.
MPC, Vestax PDXd3s, Various PC's, Guitars, Finger Piano, Scissors, Mic, Fisher Price, Rice, Animals.
