"Side A, ‘Swinging’, is so titled because the musicians hang three drums from the ceiling and have them create noise – aqueous, haunted, tense – with proximate contact mics and feedbacking mini-speakers. Perhaps improbably, this piece has a rock-adjacent sense of abandon to it, which is less the case for flip track ‘Oscillating’, though intrigue is inherent to these waves of sine (which occasionally coalesce into something foley effect-worthy) and their effect on taut vellum." - The QuietusThe second release from the trio of Conal Blake, Regan Bowering and Li Song. Two Movements extends the ideas which underpinned their first outing, ‘Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers’ (Infant Tree, 2023), by incorporating motion in two distinct ways. The two sides, ’Swinging’ and ‘Oscillating’, were recorded live at Cafe OTO and Hundred Years Gallery, London.Recorded by @billy_steiger and @hbrownsoundMastered by Taku Unami

An invigorating, deeply interwoven recording from the pairing of Glasgow-born, London-based musician, Conal Blake and percussionist, improviser and sound artist, Regan Bowering. Having collaborated in a trio alongside musician and computer programmer Li Song since 2022, this was their first duo performance, recorded at OTO in January 2025 on a bill alongside Beachers and picoFarad. For this set the pair combined microphone feedback with acoustic percussion - augmented with a delay pedal - where the mics picked up the acoustic, tactile percussive gestures and used them to generate more feedback, which in turn resonated the drums. The result is a highly present, deeply symbiotic setup, whereby Blake and Bowering react to one another, but also the equipment itself, with the resulting strands building to something as densely intertwined as a Piranesi etching. Over the set's 21 minute runtime, Blake crafts woozy squalls of feedback, ranging from shrill, questioning tones to ragged, guttural growls, with a highly tactile grasp of the timbral possibilities of the set-up. Alongside this (within, under, over, through), Bowering's clipped percussive ricochets and sharply curtailed rolls spill into an intricate approach that delves deeply into the sonic possibilities of the kit; coaxing new textures and forms from the feedback loops, that in turn galvanise the entire sound palette into new territories. With such a synergetic sound and interplay, it's perhaps pointless to home in on the component parts too closely, though. Whatever the source, the sound that the duo create is curious, enthralling and fully alive. --  Recorded, mixed and mastered by Billy Steiger

Two Speed presents solo material by Conal Blake, recorded between 2021 & 2023. The material is woven together into a single piece and more specifically, the piece is presented over two sides, once as a live recording and again as a studio mix."The main chunk of this material comprises of no-input recordings that I made at a shared studio in Limehouse. These recordings were pretty raw, ugly and were almost binned. But I decided to try and zoom in on them and find fragments of sound that could be worked on, and added to, to form new compositions. I took straight tones and layered them, and took more rhythmic sections to make loops. The opening of the tape is a high pitched feedback tone which is then joined by a small fragment of sharp feedback which is repeated and rotated at varying pitches. Further along in the set I add some scattered hi-hats and mangled vocal samples. released December 16, 2024Accidental recorded live at Cafe OTO by Billy Steiger, 06/11/23Intended recorded and edited between Limehouse and Tottenham, 2021-23.Mastered by Murray Collier at La Chunky Studios.The artwork is some hand written type that has been warped, abstracted and made better by Jessica Hickie-Kalenbach.Feedback Moves 2024