Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the ball of elastic bands, tagged with “Doings”. Within is contained the tenth folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic…

TRACKLISTING:

The Muppet Show Theme – The Muppets
Wacker – Johnny Pearson
CRAZY – Nightwave
To Know You Is To Love You – Syreeta
Manhattan Tower – Brian Dee
If You Do What You Gotta Do – The Pipe Dream
Animal Crazy – Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls
May I Have The Next Dream With You – Malcolm Roberts
Dogwood Blossom – Fionn Regan
Another Britain – Golau Glau
Walking In Different Circles – Peppermint Rainbow
Holy Mackerel! (Rugby Special) – Brian Bennett Band
Good At Making Friends – Margery Gray
Round The Bend Of The Road – Paul Robeson
Na Na – Clarissa and the Straightjackets
I’m Nobody’s Baby Now – Reparata & The Delrons with Hash Brown & His Orchestra
Inside The Wave – Pye Corner Audio
Love Radiates Around – Euros Childs
Bric Brac – Roland Kovac New Set
Oblivion – Grimes
Social Work Interlude 1 – Golau Glau
Magic Journeys – Disney Studio Chorus
Birdsong – Saint Saviour
Before We Betray – Olfar
Chicano Chaser – The Ian Langley Group
Walk Like A Dragon – I-Roy
Still Goin’ On – Leftside Wobble
As Long As He Needs Me – Shirley Bassey
Unmarked Grave – David Thomas Broughton
Rush & Rattle – Golau Glau
Mother Necessity – Bob Dorough, Blossom Dearie, Essra Mohawk & Jack Sheldon
Sandman’s Song – Anne Briggs
Now You’re All Alone – David Hess
All Time High – Rita Coolidge

STREAM THE SHOW ON MIXCLOUD

Listen live online from 6-8pm UK time, with an archive stream of the show up on Mixcloud later on. Tune in and chat about the show on Twitter using the usual hashtag #thesilversatchel

It has been a quiet start to 2012 in GG Towers.

This is because we’re knuckling down on writing our book on public libraries, ‘Public Interest’, to be published later this year. We also have new music and art in the offing.

See you on the other side…

• a Christmas EP, ‘The Masque Of Bruma’, that you can download for the price of an email address (including  a mummers play, carols, an Icelandic myth…)
• A video for said Icelandic myth, ‘The Yule Cat’
• A 2 hour mix of Christmas music
• A playlist of past Christmas mixes, so you can fill your day with festive tunes

We’re about to lock up GG Towers for the holidays, so have a wonderful Yule and we’ll see you in the New Year.

“Nollick Ghennal” is Manx for “Merry Christmas”.

You can stream and download two hours of seasonal music from Mixcloud.

TRACKLISTING:
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas – Santa Claus and the Polar Elves
The Owd Tup – Golau Glau
Reggae Christmas Eve in Transylvania – Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty)
Pas De Cadeau – Un Drame Musicale Instantane
Santa Send A Fella – Rose Marie
Christmas Time is Here [Vince Guaraldi cover] – Woods
Quand Il Neige Sur Mon Pays – Herman Apple Ses Carillons Et Ses Percussions
Santa Brought Me Choo Choo Trains (But Daddy’s Having Fun) – Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Christmas Wants – Hank Snow
The Christmas Queen – The Muppets
Motown Christmas – mojochronic
Walking in the Air – Hong Kong In The 60s
Twinkle Toes – The Crew Cuts
Yuletide Throwdown – Blondie
Snowfall – The Ramsey Lewis Trio
The Twelve Days Of Christmas – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town – The London Sound 70 Orchestra and Chorus
Love’s What You’re Gettin’ For Christmas – Bobby Sherman
Over The River And Through The Woods – Barney
Oak Moon (The Advisory Circle Radio Edit) – Golau Glau
I Wish That… – Josie Long
Y Ferch Nadolig – Trwbador
I Believe In Santa Claus – Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Christmas Rock – Franck Lester
Xmas Party – The Snowmen
Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of Year (Reprise) – The Flintstones Cast
Christmas On Mars – Groovie Ghoulies
The Yule Cat – Golau Glau
Christmas Is Here (But, Not For Long) – Baskerville Hounds
Santa & The Touchables – Dickie Goodman
The Christmas Riddle – Peggy Lee
Space Christmas – Shonen Knife
Don’t Drink And Drive, Duh! – Pee-Wee Herman
Christmas Lullaby – Cary Grant
Christmas Christmas – Cheap Trick
Mystery Of The Missing Santa (Extract) – Scooby-Doo And Friends
Christmas Bop – Marc Bolan
Christmas All Over The World – Jim Nabors
Christmas Countdown – Frank Kelly

Download ‘The Masque Of Bruma’ free from Bandcamp

You can also read blogs about the EP from Warren Ellis, Paul Cornell, Jim Jupp (Ghost Box), Stubby’s World Of Christmas, Chatiryworld and Dans le mur…du son! 

The Masque Of Bruma is a festive EP out now for free download from Bandcamp.

A masque is an amateur dramatic entertainment of the 16th to 17th centuries in England, consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, and song, often performed at court. It seems appropriate for our motley collection of: a brand new song about the Icelandic myth of the Yule Cat, a radiophonic take on a classic mummers play, beautiful Christmas carols, a remix by Ghost Box‘s resident genius The Advisory Circle and a little wassailing.

Illustrations by the lovely Dom Cooper.

Coming soon from Golau Glau…free to download later this month. This year: The Masque Of Bruma awaits.

While you’re waiting, we advise that you enjoy SPEKTRMODULE 2 by Warren Ellis, featuring our very own ‘Seeing This Shape’. Or our Christmas EP from last year, Myrrh & Myth.

This is the Ninth Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s radio show. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time, on Space Invader Radio.

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the tarnished pocket watch, inscribed with the word “Time”. Within is contained the ninth folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic…

LISTEN AGAIN MIXCLOUD LINK

TRACKLISTING:

Night Of The Vampire – Moontrekkers
Finding Reasons – New Build
Jumping Balls – Klaus Weiss
Howler Monkey Shits And Roars – David Toop
Monica – Johnny Hawksworth & James Saunders
Someone to Watch Over Me – Ferrante and Teicher
Glaubersalz – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Streetlife – Terry Lynn
Drums On Phasing 9 – Joe Ufer & His Drums
Glad To Be Unhappy – Frank Sinatra
Dead Time – Golau Glau
Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter – Herman’s Hermits
He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes – North Sea Radio Orchestra
Among Angels – Kate Bush
Golden Gate Romance – V.D.B. Joel & Marc Monsen
Plastic Stars – The Society of Rockets
Propaganda Sleep Machine – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
I Can’t Wait To See My Baby’s Face – Montcellos
Viva Forever – Jim O’Rourke
Electronic Fields 7 – Gerhard Trede & His Electronic Instruments
Stitches – Polinski
Straight Razor – Roxanne Shante
Wieder Zusammen – Marianne Rosenberg
Respectable Street – XTC
Nothing Has Been Proved – Dusty Springfield
Dr Who Is Gonna Fix It – Bullamakanka
Bits And Bats – Geoff Bastow
Present News – Klaus Weiss
Raga Todi – Charanjit Singh
This Will Be Our Year (Zombies cover) – Golau Glau
Birth Of Drugs – Jean Dowgierd / Marek Bilinski
Michael And The Slipper Tree – The Equals
Breakin’ The Chains Of Love – Fitz & The Tantrums
Takes Time – Panther
Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers Sing – Richard M. Sherman/Robert B. Sherman/Walt Disney
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye – Vera Lynn
Time Lord: Game Over – Rare Ltd

LISTEN AGAIN MIXCLOUD LINK

We made a mix to reflect the event, with tracks from the bands who played and DJed at the launch, extracts from the sonic works and other tracks. It’s up now at one of our favourite sites, Pontone.

Listen to and download: Golau Glau – Exhibition Mix

To find Test Space, their address is Unit 2-4 Melbourne Street LS2 7PS (near the Reliance and the Leeds Guide offices).

About the Exhibition:
The exhibition features two audio installations, one accompanied by visuals and the other supported by photographs. The former is ‘HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)’ – more information available at the mini site for ‘HENRY’.

The latter is ‘Public Interest’, a work dealing with the issue of library closures. For ‘Public Interest’, Golau Glau recorded the sound of public libraries under threat of closure, many of which have since closed and therefore are extinct audio environments. The project has encompassed libraries in Leeds, North Yorkshire and Camden, to cover a spread of different library types. Many of the libraries were in deprived and socially isolated places, however some were in  affluent areas. One thing remained constant – no library was silent, and every library was unique.

A selection of prints by the collective completes the exhibition.

RUNNERS (DJ) – celebratory electronics and all the best ideas - http://longdistancerunners.wordpress.com/

Preview: Golau Glau

Also ‘HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)’ will be showing at Bank Street Arts and other venues as part of Pandemic in Sheffield, which runs for a week from 5th November. Programme below:

The exhibition, which runs from 10th-13th November, will feature a new sound and photography work about the closure of public libraries, ‘Public Interest’, and a selection of other sound works, videos and photographs by Golau Glau. There will be a programme/zine to accompany the exhibition, and it’s free to get in.

EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Thursday 10th November, 7.30pm, FREE ENTRY
The launch night is a free gig that features people Golau Glau like:
HOOKWORMS (LIVE) – amazing psych dream stare rock
RUNNERS (DJ) – celebratory electronics and all the best ideas
EWAN JAMIESON (DJ) -  from ace local music website A Negative Narrative

There is also an additional event during the exhibition:
LIBRARIES AND VINYL: Saturday 12th November, 2.30pm, FREE ENTRY
James Balf from Sonic Router will be playing a laid-back vinyl-only DJ set and Lauren Smith from Voices for the Library is doing a talk on public library closures.

Test Space are event producers, promoters, artists and curators. Test Space is also currently a physical space in the centre of Leeds, hosting exhibitions, gigs, live performance, theatre, pop up restaurants and club nights.
Test Space, Unit 2-4 Melbourne Street, Leeds LS2 7PS

This is the Eighth Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s monthly radio show on Space Invader FM. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time.

THE SILVER SATCHEL – THE EIGHTH FOLIO 28 SEPTEMBER 2011

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the fat leather-bound almanac marked “Autumn”. Within is contained the eighth folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic…

TRACKLISTING:

A Darkness at Collinwood – The Robert Corbet Orchestra
Spiritual Rebirth/Light In Darkness/Infinite Spirit – Albert Ayler
Our Darkness – Anne Clark
Beware Of Darkness – George Harrison
Dark Turn Of Mind – Gillian Welch
Magic In The Dark – Woo
Dancing In The Dark – Mel Tormé
In Dark Trees – Brian Eno
The Mirror Of Simple Souls – Tassels
Dark The Night – Sandy Denny
Near Dark – Burial
Blackmagic (Untold Remix) – Jose James
The Loneliness Of Autumn – John Barry
Chalk On The Wall – Fairfield Parlour
Autumn Concerto – Cyril Ornadel and The Stereo Action Orchestra
Wringle Wrangle – Fess Parker
Forever Autumn – Justin Hayward
Murmuring Leaves – Nino Nardini & Roger Roger
Music For Schools – King Of Woolworths
Things Fall Apart – Zomby
Our Way To Fall – Yo La Tengo
Marshmen Emerge from the Mistfall – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Why do Leaves Change Their Colors? – Tom Glazer and Paul Tripp
Night And Fog – Claude Vasori
Instant Night – The Loved Ones
All I’ve Got To Do – The Beatles
Cathing – Joan La Barbara
Leaving The Dales – Mr Fox
Ride A White Horse – Sven Libaek
Conjunction Junction – Jack Sheldon & Terry Morel
Stay Frosty – Runners
The Story Of My Life – Michael Holliday
Stardust – Billy Butterfield
Hocus Pocus – Focus

It has been quiet around here, due to unavoidable issues in our private lives, but full details of the first Golau Glau art exhibition from 10th-13th November in Leeds will be available soon.

Tracklisting

Listen Again until Saturday night

We are gearing up for our exhibition at Test Space Leeds in November, but made time recently for a few days of recording and taking pictures in North West Wales.

Click to view the full photoset

This is the Seventh Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s radio show on Space Invader FM. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time. The show is now up to stream on Mixcloud (tracklisting below):

THE SILVER SATCHEL – THE SEVENTH FOLIO 24 AUGUST 2011

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the pile of papers marked for shredding and stamped with “Unrest”. Within is contained the seventh folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic…

TRACKLISTING:

Barbaric, Classical, Solemn – The National Gallery
And I Love You So – Perry Como
Pulse Persephone – Daphne Oram
Madeleina (12″) – Pablo Lubadika Porthos
Big Baby – Spectrals
(You’re) Timeless To Me – Christopher Walken & John Travolta
Indian Love Call (GG Refix) – Slim Whitman
5 The Party – Golau Glau (an extract from ‘HENRY – The Methods of Ethics 2011′)
Black Dot, White Spider – Seeland
Somewhere – P J Proby
All In The Golden Afternoon – Disney
Fruhstuck, Fernsehen, Schlafen – Staubsauger
Doctor My Eyes – Jackson 5
Jordu – Emil Richards and The Microtonal Blues Band
Discussions With Salome, Daughter Of Herodius – Milo Moesche
Dil Sajan Jalta Hai – Asha Bhosle
I Resign Myself To Being Here – John Giorno
Inaugural Trams – Super Furry Animals
Polly Vaughan – Shirley Collins
Mr Taylor’s Trousers – Dolly Dolly
I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman – Whistling Jack Smith
Inspector – Golau Glau (an extract from ‘Public Interest’)
Scared Of Spiders – Kenickie
We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (When The Revolution Comes) – It’s Immaterial
Glad To Be Gay (Secret Policeman’s Ball) – Tom Robinson
Keep Your Heart Right – Terry Callier
Right Field – Peter, Paul & Mary
Flowers – William Loose, Stu Phillips, Marvin Elling
Police On My Back – The Equals
Eudemonics/Naked Space – Golau Glau
You Will Keep Me Then – John Barry
Moondancer – Meco
My Name Is Nobody – Ennio Morricone
An Argument With Myself – Jens Lekman
Two Of The Beatles Are Dead – Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie All-Star Celebrity Backing Band
I Am A Call Girl – Ranu Mukherjee
Mr Sandman – The Chordettes

Details

New music inspired by the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie – Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

The Golau Glau tune ‘Seeing This Shape’ kicks off the album, which also features tracks from the likes of Pye Corner Audio and Dolly Dolly.