Mimo-Soto was recorded in London over two sessions in October and November, 2019 --- Ken Ikeda / buchla music easelDaniel Kordik / modular synthesiser and korg sequencer SG-10 --- Mixed by Ken Ikeda and Daniel KordikMastered by Daniel KordikCover by Daniel Kordik Earshots RecordingsDigital Editions2020

This recording documents the first time meeting between two great double bass players, Tom Wheatley and John Edwards. Recorded at the Hundred Years Gallery on 22.02.14 as part of the ongoing Earshots concert series. ---John Edwards / double bassTom Wheatley / double bass ---Recorded by Daniel KordikMastered by Rupert Clervaux Cover image by Daniel BlumbergDesign by Earshots/DEPT2

In October 2018 we took several recordings in and around Eddie Prévost’s home village of Matching Tye in Essex, where he has been living for the past fifty years. The majority of the pieces that made it to this LP took place in All Saints Church, High Laver, the burial site of John Locke. This fact was notable in the choice of title for this set of recordings, and it seemed necessary to put forward Eddie’s own take on Locke that he offered in our correspondences: “Scholars of Locke’s philosophy will be familiar with the idea of mixing labour with materials as a fore-running notion of possessive individualism and basis for private property. Such ‘mixing’ is a persuasive description of a creative act. But the theory is more worthy of a social dimension.” As for the individual titles for each of the studies on the LP, each takes ideas and elements from music past. For example, MaxPlus makes a nod towards bebop pioneering drummer Max Roach who offered an earlier hit-hat study. Eddie utilises such examples, offering further creative insights which can then be woven back into the common wealth of sound. The final track, returning to the bowed cymbal method of the first, was recorded outdoors on a breezy green, and is pictured on the back cover of the sleeve. It was an attempt to capture the playing in its ‘metamusical’ relationship with the untempered sounds of the external environment. Eddie has written about Metamusic in his book The First Concert (Copula, 2011): invoking childlike ‘protomusical’ behaviour, or the sense of music that a person might possess before the inevitable influences come to play any role in their productive, and appreciative, musical development.* Ross Lambert provided a few words along side his cover drawing entitled ‘The Metamusician’: “The eyes would symbolise for me things like searching, examining, closeness or friendship I think; engagement with the world. Decisions in making the image were completely intuitive, this is just me looking for the meaning, post-analysing, post rationalising.” - Daniel Kordik & Edward Lucas, March 2019 A set of solo percussion studies played in locations near Eddie's home in Matching Tye. Artwork by Ross Lambert. 

Tom Mills is an electronic musician based in London. In addition to his solo work he plays Theremin in the group Bobhowler with Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Andrew Woodhead and also played on the album ‘Improvisers Inside Electronics’ alongside Antonio Acunzo, Tony Hardie-Bick and N.O Moore. --- Tom Mills /  electronics --- Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Photograph by Tom Mills Design by Earshots

A selected series of piano shorts by Antonio Acunzo "Antonio Acunzo is a versatile musician, improviser and lover of all music, from Debussy to Joy Division. After a few years in Manchester, he moved to London in 2012 and became a regular of Eddie's workshop. He grew up in Rome influenced by Zappa and Coltrane but it is punk that inspired him to start his first band Wild Union (1980/81) followed by Clanjark (1984/92) after his military service, then the experimental outfit Memoria Zero, still going strong with 2 CD releases, Free Sdraio (2001), Between (2013). He plays drum with London based darkish esoteric band The Butterfly Wheel and co-founded the Shadow Sounds project with Tony Hardie-Bick." - Emmanuelle Waeckerle --- Antonio Acunzo / piano and objects --- Recorded in September 2018Recording and master: Edward LucasMix: Daniel KordikCover image: Mirei YazawaDesign: Earshots

Recorded in London in two sessions during 2016 --- Edward Lucas / tromboneDaniel Thompson / acoustic guitar --- Recorded in 2016 by Daniel KordikMixed and mastered by Edward LucasPhotograph by Edward LucasDesign by Earshots/Dept2

Ken Ikeda / synthesisers Edward Lucas / trombone & feedback --- recording, mix & photographs by E.Lucasmastered by Rupert Clervauxdesign by Earshotsrecorded in 2018 at Lock Down Studios in the lost tower hamlet of Ratcliff

Two duets and a quartet recorded at Iklectik, London on 5th May 2017 --- Edward Lucas / trombone & feedbackRachel Musson / tenor saxophoneN.O.Moore / guitar & electronicsSteve Noble / drums --- Recorded at Iklectik, London on 5th May 2017 by Giovanni La RovereMixed by Edward LucasMastered by Rupert ClervauxCover Artwork: Detail from a painting by Mirei Yazawa and Sarah Woolfden

Live recording of a guitar duet played by Ross Lambert (sitting on the left side) and John Russell (sitting on the right)Recorded at the Hundred Years Gallery as part of Earshots concert #4, June 2014 Recording, mix, and master by Daniel Kordik and Edward LucasPhotographs by Andrej ChudyDesign by Daniel Kordik/EarshotsEarshots RecordingsDigital Editions2020

This is an archival recording of the first time meeting for vocalists and electronic musicians Anat and Kamura. Recorded live at the Hundred Years Gallery as part of the Earshots concert series on 04/10/2014 -- Anat Ben-David / voice and electronicsAtsuko Kamura / voice and electronics -- Daniel Kordik & Edward Lucas: recording / master / designAndrej Chudy: photograph

A collection of solo recordings made on (24 March 2018) at the Cafe Oto Project Space, and from the back seat of a car in three South London locations. Available from 27 July as a CD and download. "Just as American Primitive is a recognised and recognisable genre of music played by guitarists in thrall to John Fahey, so there is an equally distinct, though unnamed, school of guitarists dedicated to perfecting and developing the innovations of Derek Bailey. Northern Irish guitarist Ross Lambert is one such acolyte – the improvisations on this CD are even mostly performed on an axe that previously belonged to John Russell, perhaps Bailey’s best known student. Certainly, you can hear the great man’s influence in Lambert’s glancing harmonics and jagged runs, but there are other, more personal imperatives at work, too. The opening piece, ‘Floating Blossoms,’ begins with what sounds like tuning forks being struck and then vibrated against the guitar’s body, before Lambert heads into a dense and thorny deconstruction of the blues with echoes of Bill Orcutt’s admittedly more gnarled approach. Elsewhere, Lambert talks to himself and absent-mindedly hums along with his own melodic fragments, creating the sense that we’re eavesdropping on a private daydream. It’s an intimate affair, well worth waiting for from the conspicuously under-recorded Lambert." – Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise, October 2018 -- Ross Lambert / solo guitars and objects --  recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Kordikand Edward Lucascover illustration: detail from a drawing byRoss Lambert; ‘3 oligarchs visit Cafe Oto’;ink on paper.back cover photograph by Samantha Hayley notes by Ross Lambert and Eddie Prévost design by Earshots/dept2

Daniel KordikJames L Malone -- Recorded / Mastered by Edward LucasMixed by Daniel KordikCover image by Andrej ChudyDesign by Earshots Recordings/dept2Earshots Recordings 2017 . Digital Edition

John Edwards / double bassTom Wheatley / double bass -- Live at the Hundred Years Gallery 20.05.15Recorded by Daniel KordikMatered by Rupert Clervaux -- Drawing by Daniel BlumbergDesign by Earshots/Dept2

"A finely detailed and expressive group that is both elegant and eloquent. All aspects of sound production are scrutinized and employed as valid musical material which in turn gives an immersive and complete listening experience." - John Russell "This meet-up recorded in London is something of a textural boxing match. However, the trio involved are playing an analogue synthesizer (Daniel Kordik), a digital synthesizer (Ken Ikeda) and a trombone (Edward Lucas), so the results are consistently intriguing. More often than expected, the synths and trombone mesh indiscernibly into one creaking atonal lattice. The opening track is the oddest and noisiest of the lot, with both synths aggressively carving out some sharper frequencies while the trombone can do little but hurl blunt parps into the battleground. The rest of the release settles into a more peaceful mode, resembling murmured scheming between home appliances." - Tristan Bath, The Wire Jan 2017 -- Daniel Kordik / Vostok synthesiserKen Ikeda / DX synthesiserEdward Lucas / trombone -- Studio recording, London, September 2015Recorded & Mixed by Edward LucasMastered by Rupert ClervauxCover image detail from a drawing by Ross Lambert

Guillaume Viltard double bass solo set, recorded live as a part of Earshots! at the Hundred Years Gallery. London 13/07/2013 --- Guillame Viltard / double bass ---Recorded by Daniel KordikMastered by Rupert Clervaux at Grays Inn RoadDesign: Ben Polhill (DEPT2)Cover drawing: Mia Gubbay

Tom Wallace presents six forest recordings taken in South East Asia sampling a number of acoustic landscapes at different times of the day, from dawn until dusk, and into the night. Graham Dunning performs a DJ set using dubplates that he has produced with field recordings of the local urban environment and its people; this set was recorded live on four microphones at Corsica Studios, London, in March 2016. --- Tom Wallace / field and voice recordingsGraham Dunning / turntables ---Mastered by Edward Lucas & Daniel KordikCover image by Jim Ferris; Design by Earshots/DEPT2

Ute Kanngiesser's first cello solo release, recorded direct to tape at two locations: The Cafe Oto Project Space, and the clock room at St Augustine's Tower, Hackney. --- Ute Kanngiesser / cello --- Recorded and mixed in Spring 2015 by Edward Lucas and Daniel Kordik.Embroidery by Meghan Springer Thanks to Cafe Oto and Hackney Historic Buildings Trust.  

Daniel Kordik and Edward Lucas are two London based improvisors who play together as a regular duo. They have developed a musical rapport that concentrates at times on the common unconventional ground found between the two instruments, and at other times on their histories in jazz and electronic music. "The trombone and the analogue synth provide a full set of cultural resonances to destabilise, disrupt and destroy. They are avatars visiting worlds where new meaning is forged in rebellious acts of listening."- Tony Hardie-Bick--- Daniel Kordik / analogue synthesisers: vostok + roland mc202 Edward Lucas / trombone ---Mastered by Rupert Clervaux at Grays Inn RoadDesign: Ben Polhill; Cover drawing: James Ferris