Filed under: Music | Tags: avant rock, dan hopkins, hurra caine landcrash, split femur recordings, the wire
Dear All.
This year has led to an interesting amount of creative endeavours so far.
1. Album
The most exciting was the release of my fourth album of experimental music on the record label ‘split femur recordings’
http://www.splitfemurrecordings.com/
The album called ‘Unanswered Questions’ was a proper CD release and also available on i-tunes and various other download stores.
It has been having some good reviews. In particular The Wire Magazine said
‘Unanswered Questions is a strong collection of pieces, where editing and (re)assembling take precedence over spontaneity, with the momentum on the majority on these tracks provided by Hopkins’s layering and juxtaposing of edits. For the most part, he resists the sort of drone based sound that dominates so much Ambient experimentation, and instead places the stress on reverberation and crackling, percussive noise. There’s not much capacity for drift – deep pulses, the hard twanging of guitar strings and the repetition of echoes sit at the core of Hopkins’s work.’
Page 61, The Wire, Sept 2008.
To the uninitiated I make music under the name of ‘Hurra caine Landcrash’ and have a website and myspace where my music can be listened to and downloaded.
http://www.landcrash.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/landcrash
http://www.last.fm/music/Hurra+caine+Landcrash
http://landcrash.wordpress.com/
2.Gig
I also have a musical performance coming up on the 27th of September at the events called ‘Pins and Needles’ at Café OTO in Dalston on London.
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/
Tartaruga Records present ‘Pins and Needles’ – an alldayer of folk, improv, avant, drone, and spine-shivering noises.
www.myspace.com/pinsandneedlesnoises
Best Regards
Dan
Dan Hopkins
Filmmaker, Musician, Artist.
email: dan@noground.co.uk
web: http://www.landcrash.co.uk
label: http://www.noground.co.uk
myspace music: http://myspace.com/landcrash
myspace film : http://myspace.com/landcrashfilm
Filed under: Music | Tags: dan hopkins, fennesz, hl, hurra caine landcrash, split femur recordings, unanswer questions, Wonderful Wooden Reasons
New Review of ‘Unanswered Questions’ from Ian at Wonderful Wooden Reasons
http://wonderfulwoodenreasons.homestead.com
From the review
“Fortunately it’s also the shortest track on what subsequently opens up into a sumptuous and absorbing recording characterised by the slow moving flow of the guitar’s misshapen melodies and the fluttering micro-sounds that garnish each track. In parts this recording brings to mind Fennesz in others it is the work of melodic abstractionists like the above mentioned BoC.”
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Well after lots of thinking about it I am finally updating my website.
It is taking time though so bear with me.
Dan
Filed under: Art, Music | Tags: arts, blank media arts collective, chorlton arts festival, exhibition, hurra caine landcrash, manchester, Mark Devereux, Music, She's Lost Control, Si Mills, St. Ninian's Church
Below are some images from a recent show at the Blank Media Exhibition ‘She’s Lost Control’
This exhibition was at St. Ninian’s Church, Chorlton, Manchester, on the 16th of May 2008
At this show I was performing as Hurra caine Landcrash.
http://www.blankmediacollective.org
Thanks for Mark Devereux and Si Mills for taking these photographs.
Filed under: Music | Tags: deupree, fennesz, hurra caine landcrash, microsound, Music, split femur recordings, vital weekly
This review is from The email webzine Vital Weekly, Republished here. This review was written by Frans de Waard.
HURRA CAINE LANDCRASH – UNANSWERED QUESTIONS (CD by Split Femur Recordings)
Along time ago, in Vital Weekly 500 we reviewed work by Daniel Hopkins, also
known as Hurra Caine Landcrash, as well as HL. Back then his work was
released on his own No Ground Processes, here he finds his way to the real
CD format on Split Femur Recordings. Back then we already noted his shift
towards the use of the guitar, which he now worked out into ‘Unanswered
Questions’. If I understood things correctly Hopkins drops shells, pebbles
and stones on a guitar, picks up the sound in his laptop using ‘various
filters and effects’ and explores as such the guitar. The blurb raves about
‘on one hand of no wave punk and then sweeping to more ethereal esoteric
sound-scapes’. I must say I had a hard time hearing the no wave punk, but
then perhaps I had the wrong records when I was young. The ‘ethereal
esoteric’ part I can dig, but that sounds a bit negative, or rather some
musical area in which you rather not be. Hurra Caine Landcrash’s ‘Soul’, the
opener is kinda not like the album: it
distorts and not in a nice way. The tracks to follow are much nicer and work
from a microsound/drone perspective. Even when Hurra Caine Landcrash doesn’t
do an original job here, despite his perhaps somewhat curious approach in
working, the music sounds all quite nice, except of course for that first
track, which is an odd ball. Think Fennesz, of course I’d say, Deupree or
other microsound artists, and Hurra Caine Landcrash fills in the holes they
left with quite an intelligent mixture of his own techniques. Moody,
atmospheric and with the guitar leaping into sound areas which may seem to
be from an altogether different nature, this is quite a nice album. (FdW)
Address: http://www.splitfemurrecordings.com
Filed under: Music | Tags: angry ape, experimental, hurra caine landcrash, knife, michael henaghan, Music, split femur recordings, svarte greiner, tietchens
The first review of my latest record as Hurra caine Landcrash, this review is by Michael Henaghan who writes for the web magazine Angry Ape.
From the review
Starting with the drowsy bluesy drawl of ‘Soul’ and through to the deep caverns of ‘Autumn Leaves’, where the incessant water drips form into little pools of sound that recall Tietchens’ recent ‘Eta-Menge’. Both ‘Blood Letting Go’ and the excellent ‘The Ultimate Ever’, meanwhile, process sounds out of shape in such a way that they begin to resemble an old vinyl record spinning hypnotically on a ramshackle record player, creating deconstructed rhythms and percussive thumps from thin air seemingly. The former especially dabbles in the acoustic doom atmospherics that were such a feature of Svarte Greiner’s Knive release.
Link Below
http://angryape.com/reviews/2008/05/29/hurra-caine-landcrash-unanswered-questions
Thanks Michael
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well this so called blog, is about all the web based activity of myself. Which now sounds really selfish. Which I guess alot of this social networking website activity is all about.
