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2006 – 2007
The Horselover Fat persona has been active in the world since 2006, taking residence and making music in Devon, Oxford, York, Bristol, Brighton, and Luton. The music it makes sounds like an anthropological effort of 2437 discovering written evidence of a once-popular music known as ‘jazz’ and trying to work out what it might have sounded like. It is influenced by everyone, ever.
Horselover Fat are a band, formed in theory on a whim on Brighton, and in practice in a pub in York. The band’s members attempt to split the difference between their relative loves of techno, dubstep, MOR, and noise, sometimes with a surprising degree of success. Daniel Lippard plays the guitar, Robin van Rijn plays theremin and synth, Mark Burton plays more synth and alto saxophone, Tom West plays keyboards and whatever else comes to hand. They’re affiliated with The School of Unthink (R.I.P.2009.)
The band are named after a character from Philip K. Dick’s late novel VALIS, which some of them have even read.
Mark records under the name Oblio; Daniel, under the name Meek Tiger. Tom and Daniel were previously in a sort of indie-rock thing called ‘The Flying Blackbird Ensemble’. They don’t like to talk about it. Tom’s meant to be recording a sort of singer-songwriter-ish record, but don’t hold your breath. Robin is a graphic artist and experimental film-maker, currently working on a project known as Canidae.
We recorded a few albums over the years, and played some gigs. There are some recordings to download for free here:
In Elk Ivory (2008)
A live document. We argued about the release of this for so long, the label stopped existing. Clickthrough to download.
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Shreds (2009)
A compilation of home and rehearsal recordings from the first year of the band’s existence. If you ask us for a physical copy you can see the real artwork, which is far, far more exciting than this is:
End of year project, inspired by the below quote I tried to create a video piece that explored the nature of the quote and showed my opinion upon what it’s meaning to me was. I used variety of recording equipment to capture the sounds and images from various cities of the world and re-formed them into this piece.
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism”
Jean Baudrillard
A large project I took up soon after finishing uni. I joined Gothabilly Luton band Bride of the Atom on the live circuit, acting as the 6th band member and projectionist. I provided a variety of film and live projections for the band using a mix of found footage, stock, my own creations as well as hunting down super 8 film reels of old B movies. I would use both a digital projector and an old super 8 projector with film reels and project the images live to a sheet pinned to the wall while they played. There were a few ocassions where I set fire to the film reels I was projecting much to my own chargin.
I planned to create a video for every single song they played, which was pretty daft and unrealistic considering I wanted a lot of control of each film. I also stupidly did not purchase a laptop to rig up my digital projector with and insisted on using a shuttle pc. I had to carry around so much stuff to every gig.
Here are a few bits I created
bridemontageplaybackmovie from Robin Van Rijn on Vimeo.
A live video of there first performance:
Live visuals that were created for the band Deprovera for a Without Dead Time gig at the Hat Factory in 2006. The videos were mashed together on the fly using lots of different clips and rendered through the real time instrument for live audio visual performance called Resolume.
oktopay from Robin Van Rijn on Vimeo.
Cover design for Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau — Roman Anglais
Sketches are by Felicia Atkinson. The material for the cover is not card as appears but actually scanned card.
From Boomkat:
Accompanied by Sylvain Chauveau’s beautiful instrumental backdrop, Felicia Atkinson intones captivating, mesmeric spoken passages in both French and English. Ordinarily, this reviewer tends to find it hard to truly embrace spoken word albums, but Atkinson’s bilingual tracts unexpectedly draw you in. There’s an aesthetic congruity between these withdrawn, strangely emotive utterances and Chauveau’s opium haze background noise, which at times sounds like something from Charalambides’ “A Vintage Burden”, while at others you’ll think you’re listening to the pulses and bleeps of hospital life support machinery. It’s all quite strange, and often unsettling, yet beguiling all the same. The lulling electric guitar passages of opening tracks ‘Aberdeen’ and ‘How The Light’ transplant you to a mindset somewhere on the brink of consciousness, only for ‘Dans Le Lumiere’ to confuse and disorientate you over the course of its ten-minute journey toward the static absoluteness of its droning coda.
The eighteen minute title track that closes the album is probably the most remarkable of the four pieces, with Chauveau fashioning a far more densely woven musical setting for Atkinson’s voice. Interlocking, sustaining guitars meet and overlap while soft electronic activity hums in the background, retaining a blissful harmonic cogency throughout. It’s all very poetic, and the kind of album you could happily immerse yourself in for hours at a time. Highly recommended.”
Meek Tiger (the origin of the name is a story for some future date) sounds like disaster movies, opaque and dimly lit hollow caverns, the noises made by heavy objects impacting against brittle ones (and vice versa) – imagine, if you will, that all geologic sedimentation observable in the world today was actually a product of the US government performing a seance, resurrecting Alberto Giacometti in1987, and getting him to paint all the patterns in by hand – then claiming they had always been there, and proceeding to use this as an argument for creationism.
The title of his debut release, SyNkr07iK N3kr0N124t10n splits the difference between synchronic necrotization and necrotic synchronisation: the timed and simultaneous death of all life, or a snapshot of the death of one organism. (The School of Unthink would like to be noted, however, that misreadings using other words, such as syncretic, synthetic, and Necronomicon, remain both welcome and encouraged.) Copies are available: contact daniel@vstmrecords.co.uk .
Meek Tiger explores dub soundscapes in search of a sense of self, joining the front lines of the sonic conflict that currently characterizes community dance music. Multiple sound sources — guitars, keyboards, samples, pure accidents of MIDI programming — jostle against each other, struggling to make their voices heard in the mix.
About the Artwork/album cover
Daniel is fellow member of the school of Unthink trusted me to re-create from his sketch what the album cover of his album “Meek Tiger — SyNkr07iK N3kr0N124t10n” should look like. From my own listening experience I devised a textured and warm artwork, I wanted to put across how surreal and warped the music was but at the same time how it seemed to follow a linear plot with pathways, scenes and meeting points.
The city forms a paradox looking inviting and inhabitable in the background, whilst in the foreground I wanted the cryptic clues given to me (which to this day I still don’t understand) to be very prominent and static within the artwork.
This artwork was quite possibly one of the longest and most detailed pieces I have ever made with a photoshop layer count of over 300 layers! Shadows within shadows and very finely cut, warped and manipulated objects that I tried to give some realism to and somehow map as a collage to fit into a very unrealistic photo of a large lake. I really like how I’ve tried in my minds eye to create a photo realistic version of the sketch but failed miserably but at the same time created something with the sonic elements of the music and it’s surrealism that do not fit together quite right but seem to make this sonic map and drawing that I feel perfectly aligns to the story and music.
CD Package photos and description:
- Cd package includes Arigato pak case, green watercolour hand painted.
- Front artwork – glossy full colour photo print
- Back artwork – Hand Calligraphy and spray-painted Godzilla footprint.
- Cd-R with inkjet green Godzilla footprint.
- Linear notes 12 page green booklet 100 gsm, staple bound.
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