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16 November 2009 @ 11:36 am

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It is with great pleasure we can announce the launch of our new store which will eventually include mp3 downloads, clothes and ringtones

"Again..." - This Window

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Available from all major download stores from 1st December 2009.

Track Listing

1	Again	4:22
2	Wedding Day	1:45
3	A Moment Longer	3:20

Label: M4tr Productions

Catalog#: 3661585186496

Format: File, MP3

Country: UK

Released: 01 Dec 2009

Genre: Electronic

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04 October 2009 @ 09:06 am

Newsletter 3 October 2009

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing artists. Each interview has the artists link widget and player on it. If you want an interview on SystemCulture.org - We want to ask you some questions; contact us if you want to participate - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

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29 September 2009 @ 07:18 pm

First Aid 4 Souls - Interview

Below is an email interview with István Gazdag of First Aid 4 Souls. All interviews are published unedited.

First Aid 4 Souls - Interview on SystemCulture. Questions by This Window.

* How important is playing live?

So we play live with two drummers and we use a very precise visual scene, cut for the music in seconds for the real visual orgy. So we can give the people a real audio-visual cathartic experience of our music.

* What do you have planned for the near future?

In this autumn will be release the new album called BRUTPOP in Electro Arc Label edition. The album is an interesting attempt between the easy catching electro pop and experimental intellectuality of electronic. Uncategorizable music, uncategorizable people from uncategorizable people. Due to complexity of compozition the album will have surprising combinations, maybe not for everybody, who pick on long standing stereotype, maybe a little bit is rounding the square... At the beginning in an exclusive format will appear a specimen limited to 500 with huge online downloadable opportunity. The Brutpop partly represents a quibble toward Britpop trend, partlyis a smiling determination of the album.

In the following year, a lot of concerts can be expected in various places, with various styles. We want to open to the West-European public, and we pay special attention to play the appropriate music for the audience of the locale. The electro-industrial scene will hear electro-industrial, for the ones who are hungry for electro, we'll play electro. Also, we are planning to take a step in the direction of
the club scene.

Now there is a very severe industrial CD is in production with the cooperation of Péter Kecskés (United Gods), incorporating his magical lyrics, impulsive performance, and my own darkest music...

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23 September 2009 @ 11:50 pm

Dastards - Interview

Interview with Jake Bright and Josh Mudie from the Dastards. Jake has been playing bass for the Dastards for a couple of years now and 'Mudie' is the newest member on drums, whose first gig was a baptism of fire; supporting Squeeze in front of thousands of people, a task he and the rest of the band coped with. The other members of the band are Wake on vocals and guitar and George on lead guitar

SS: Your live sound is very different to the studio sound. Why is this and which do you prefer?

Josh Mudie: I like the sound of the studio work but I feel it can sound a little over produced. I personally prefer the live sound, but I'd say it was more just the atmosphere of a live gig that I enjoy.
Jake Bright: Playing live allows us to strip the sound right back. The studio stuff's great – there're loads of layers and it's really full, but live it's a raw, hard sound. I guess the main difference is that a lot of the studio work is synth based and live we all play guitars.
JM: And drums.
JB: Yeah, and drums.

Don Campau - Interview

Below is an email interview with Don Campau. All interviews are published unedited.

You have begun a massive project - cataloging and writing about the early days of 'Mail Art'', "DIY Recording" and the "Cassette Culture" scenes of the 1970's, 80's, 90's and beyond, would you give us a little insight into the project and explain a little about what you are doing?

For years I have been thinking about my role in cassette culture/underground music. How could I contribute my experiences to the history of this narrow but important do-it-yourself movement? Finally it came to me. Instead of trying to do some kind of comprehensive history of this scene I could only give my experiences and my perspective. Of course I have enlisted other people to help me and chip in with their thoughts and that has been revealing and interesting to me. This is not about me, but it is mainly from my viewpoint.

How do you think Internet networks compare with the postal networks of back then? (ref. MySpace et al.)

The biggest difference to me is immediacy and effort. Then,I had to write a letter, post it and wait for a response and maybe get a tape in trade.This could take days, weeks or months. This became second nature to me though and part of my schedule then. It also made me consider my responses perhaps a bit more. And, as everyone knows, it is efficient, easy and immediate now. That's a good thing I'd say although sometimes I wonder if the spirit is the same. It seems more superficial somehow to me and less of a community.Maybe that's just me.

Torturing Nurse - Interview

When you sit down and listen to music all you are doing is listening to noise, so listening to pure noise makes total sense to me. I love Torturing Nurse from China - they take you back to the basics. I asked Junky of Torturing Nursea few questions here are the replies . All interviews are published unedited.

Is your work music or art (or both)?

i think anti-music and art

2 Where do you come from and how important is that to your work (is the culture around you important)?

i am from shanghai,china,here almost cultural desert

3 How would you describe your music?

harsh noise,pure noise

4 What other project are/have you been involved in?

i do Torturing Nurse only currently

5 Has the 'Internet Underground' been vital in getting your music/art heard (if so which networking site do you think delivers the best quality leads)?

i think yes,MySpace is

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23 September 2009 @ 11:42 pm

First Aid 4 Souls

First Aid 4 Souls - Interview

Below is an email interview with István Gazdag of First Aid 4 Souls. All interviews are published unedited.

Do you think your music is an intellectual, artistic project or do you just do it for fun?

The question is right, but I have to say, that in this project, the main point is on intellectuality and art. Maybe the black humour based on my experiences in the world is the thing what can be felt in some songs, but not in all of them.

The intellectual integrity and the roots of the group rely profoundly upon great intellectual achievements in history with an emphasis on ideas from classical philosophy - Heraclites, Plato and Hegel playing a large inspirational role. This conscious identification with our intellectual frequency serves us well creatively and also represents the group’s pride in its well rooted European culture. Regarding
transcendence, there are distinct religious, philosophical and magical traditions making appearances in our themes, but the band definitely refuses the negative energy of Satanism and New Age philosophy hasn’t served to inspire the group musically in any way to date. Essentially, the maintenance of the spiritual, mental balance is of great importance to us. We are constantly moving toward the essence behind this existence believed to be reality.

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14 September 2009 @ 09:29 am

Finish The Story - conversation pt 1

Recording ‘Doorways’ the beginning and the end, a conversation between Gary Smout and Peter Bright, to be overheard by other people who know nothing about Finish The Story. Transcript by MDM.

“Tell me, after the Malvern gig did you take the synths back to Bromsgrove? How did they end up there because as far as I recall there was never any intention at that point to take FTS further and our going to Bromsgrove was more of an autopsy/end of gig thing - wasn't it? That's sort of how I remember it.” (Garry)

The only thing I can remember is my parents were on holiday and the three of us ended up at 59 Crabtree Lane. At some point you went back to Bristol and Nicola was still with me in Bromsgrove. I can vividly remember walking into the newsagent, buying ‘Record Mirror’ 1and reading a review of the Malvern gig. The review was full of praise and contained an intriguing and telling couple of lines at the end ‘..the crowd were obviously impressed, even though the band weren’t. Quite a début.’ I think we were prepared for an autopsy but not prepared for the praise. It was at this point we got our heads together and decided we would ‘have a go’ to see if we could build on the success. Unfortunately we weren’t strong enough emotionally or as a unit to cope with the sudden roller coaster ride - we weren’t allowed to make our mistakes in private (in the rehearsal room) we had to test-drive new material before we could actually play it with confidence. It was a bizarre journey – to be in the music press described as a ‘band’ with Nicola not knowing who I was and me not knowing who she was – you had to be the artery for our creative juices (yuk!). You could argue that this was pure, a creative, adrenalin driven ideal scenario for the creation of something different and unusual. - I would agree to that in theory but in reality it was incredibly stressful. We had got our product to market too quickly; we hadn’t invested enough time in development. We were ‘…better than the second coming of Jesus Christ’ – we proved that eighteen months later when we had matured and got to know each other better.

‘Doorways’ was recorded on a 4 track Tascam 144 cassette recorder – I had bought this in Birmingham – the store fleeced me with excessive repayments – they were expensive bits of kit and a piece of cutting edge technology - in comparison with today’s digital audio world they were positively primitive. This was a massive investment for me and at the time - it was the best available home recording equipment on the market and Finish The Story had two of them. (Peter)

“Yep, two tascams, mine and yours. We both saw the Tomorrow's World when they appeared and instantly wanted one - took some time I seem to remember. I don't think though you bounced down to each other - I was sure you had a reel to reel but if not it does explain how it was recorded.”

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17 August 2009 @ 10:35 pm

LisaBe - Interview

Below is an email interview with LisaBe. All interviews are published unedited.

How would you describe your music and what has been your biggest influence?

My music is my therapy, my reason to live, and my observations on the human condition. My biggest influence has been David Bowie pre-Young Americans (although I like that album as well as some of his later music too!) Brian Eno, Nico, The Dead Kennedy's (I used to live with Jello Biafra) have strongly influenced my direction in music.

Tuxedomoon, Dead can Dance, Sisters of Mercy, Peter Murphy,Bauhaus and other bands in the punk,gothic, post punk genre have influenced me. Everything and everyone influences me...This Window, Out of Quebec, and Steven Does influence me, my garden influences me, my friends and the world influences me. People into higher consciousness inspire and influence me. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Rodney Collin, Buddha, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Karl Jung, modern physicists, atheists, all the great painters and artists, and classical musicians such as Bach and Vivaldi influence me.

A beautiful flower influences me. So you see everything is an influence.

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01 August 2009 @ 12:10 am

Out of Quebec

When things are stripped down to the bare minimum you always end up with a purity of thought. I am envious of the ability to make something that is minimal, sound as big as the world. Old school (German?) electronic music sounded like this, there was a limited amount of equipment available to use so their resources dictated the sound of the final product; these days we all have an unlimited supply of samples and virtual synths, we can be as big and as fat as we want - the trick is to be selective. There is an old blues guitar saying, 'it is not what you play, it is the spaces you leave that make a good song'. Out of Quebec make the spaces sound massive and give me butterflies in my stomach.

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30 July 2009 @ 05:01 pm

Emotional Arsonist

In the last century I was privileged to support Bauhaus for several gigs in London (we had the same minder). It was obvious in those early days of Goth that something special was happening. The legacy of bands like Bauhaus is still important today and many new artists and bands circle around the rotting flesh of these 30 year old sounds, rip out a piece and make it theirs. Some totally miss the point and a small few really get it. The big question is....do Emotional Arsonist get it?...Well, YEP I think so!

'Scar Twisted Metal' is a 21st century folk song, haunting, simple but very clever and is, without a doubt, my favorite track. The rest of the bunch are all worthy of listening to over and over again and I'm looking forward too hearing more...

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29 July 2009 @ 10:56 pm

The Uragany

Why has Russia become the most exciting place musically in the world? How come raw energy explodes out of this former iron clad growling bear? Maybe there lies the answer and the reason? It was a state controlled, media censored, draconian empire and now....?

This is a band I want to be in! They are wild, have a mission and know how to throw a party. Yes it is 1970's punk (sort of) but so what. I want to be in there, sweat like a pig and drink vodka.

I have been listening to them for a few days now and I can't wipe the smile off my face, a smile that is of admiration, not of amusement.

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27 June 2009 @ 10:32 am

Microsoft give away free mp3 downloads!

Download Free Track

This has been a great week for me, not only has Microsoft made it possible for us (This Window) to give away a free download without it costing us money but the track, ‘You Have The Power‘, has out performed our wildest expectations, with loads of people taking up the free download offer.

Get our free, exclusive download of ‘You Have The Power‘ here http://bit.ly/ix9jM , made possible by Microsoft.

Not only this but…This Window have made the top 30! We’re pleased to announce we are number 30 in the ReverbNation Alternative charts for the UK! www.reverbnation.com/thiswindow .

Due to this unexpected luck, my painting has had to be put on hold.

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17 May 2009 @ 05:51 am

Sabine Baring-Gould's desk

Sabine Baring-Gould's desk
Originally uploaded by This Window

The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists over 500 separate publications. His family home near Okehampton, Devon, Lewtrenchard Manor, has been successfully preserved as he rebuilt it and is today a hotel.

He is particularly remembered as a writer of hymns, the best-known being Onward, Christian Soldiers and Now the Day Is Over, and the desk at which he wrote these hymns is still preserved at the hotel.

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04 May 2009 @ 01:07 pm

Interviews - links to mp3

Over the past few months I have been doing a few interviews for SoundArt Radio:

I did an interview with Jake Bright about the difference between playing bass for ‘The Dastards’ and double bass with The North Devon Sinfonia. This interview took place in-between rehearsals for the Sinfonia’s performance at the Landmark Theatre (Ilfracombe) which was on April 18th 2009. The programme included: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the soprano Naomi Harvey from the Welsh National Opera and finally Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, op.64. The disciplines require for both instruments influences Jake’s own compositions.

There is also an interview with Dave and Sadie Green. Dave is a photographer and Sadie has spent the last few years in the funding side of the Arts. This interview discusses the demise of ‘ArtsCulture’ in Devon and the vacuum left behind by this organisations disappearance.
What’s it really like living with creativity? Look back over the years at the tortured artists, drunken writers and drug-crazed musicians who litter our heritage and you might start to ask the question: is creativity a blessing or a curse?…the temptation to contain creativity and make it conform to ‘the norm’ is what normally happens in businesses. You can’t have a random, inspired, maverick shooting off left right and center - this is chaos….or is it?

Juggling with creativity, trying to make it fit into your daily life is a logistical nightmare. In an interview I did with Claire Barker, an artist, illustrator, author, mother, wife, farmer, she explained to me how she talked to the solicitor of the estate of Ted Hughes (UK poet) to get their permission to use one of his poems and still managed to deliver lambs.

Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout, who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white video cameras in the 1970’s, pioneering literary review website the Barcelona Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem with being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.

Creativity is something we are all born with to greater or lesser degrees. It is a vital part of our physiological make up and development. We learn to play and fantasize as children, skills we carry forward into our adulthood. However, if creativity takes hold of your entire existence then it becomes a disease that is parasitic, eating away at your whole world. It might sound melodramatic but creativity can become a cancer of the body or the trigger for psychotic episodes.

Listen to Alisha, a doctor, a GP who is also a poet. I try to find out if creativity is a madness, a disease, an anesthetic or a poison but find out that maybe it could be a ‘Zebra’. Does she use creativity in diagnosis and consultation?

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18 March 2009 @ 07:47 am

#thiswindow

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I love twitter.com - you have to say so much with so little - and I love #hashtags, which were designed to accommodate the real-time news community. We provide analytic reports and indexing features to allow users to track what's happening now.

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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15 March 2009 @ 05:03 am

HMS Belfast from Tower Bridge

HMS Belfast from Tower Bridge
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Not only do I love steam power I love battleships. I took this snap just before Christmas 2008. I went to the Rothko exhibition. ....both were powerful in their day (HMS Belfast & Rothko).

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15 March 2009 @ 04:42 am

London Bridge - Engine House - Steam Blogging

London Bridge - Engine House
Originally uploaded by This Window

Don't you just love steam engines? Far more interesting than the Internet - I hate blogging.

Blogging is that naughty puppy you bought from the dogs home - a whimsical error of judgment. It was a good idea at the time but now a few months on you are still dealing with the crap and as it grows it needs more and more attention and more and more food to sustain it. You can't plan a vacation until you have sourced and paid for its care in a kennels - you can't leave it alone for more than a few hours in case it gets up to mischief. The naughty puppy has become an uncontrollable beast that needs to be returned to the dogs home or destroyed with a lethal injection or a bullet to the head.

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15 March 2009 @ 04:26 am

Interview Archives

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Juggling with creativity, trying to make it fit into your daily life is a logistical nightmare. In an interview I did with Claire Barker, an artist, illustrator, author, mother, wife, farmer, she explained to me how she talked to the solicitor of the estate of Ted Hughes (UK poet) to get their permission to use one of his poems and still managed to deliver lambs.

Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout, who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white video cameras in the 1970’s, pioneering literary review website the Barcelona Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem with being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.

Creativity is something we are all born with to greater or lesser degrees. It is a vital part of our physiological make up and development. We learn to play and fantasize as children, skills we carry forward into our adulthood. However, if creativity takes hold of your entire existence then it becomes a disease that is parasitic, eating away at your whole world. It might sound melodramatic but creativity can become a cancer of the body or the trigger for psychotic episodes.

Listen to Alisha, a doctor, a GP who is also a poet. I try to find out if creativity is a madness, a disease, an anesthetic or a poison but find out that maybe it could be a ‘Zebra’. Does she use creativity in diagnosis and consultation?

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10 February 2009 @ 10:32 am

SoundArt Radio - my first show - Coping With Creativity?

SoundArt Radio now broadcasting on a new frequency 102.5fm …….Arts-based radio for South Devon.

Coping with Creativity? Peter Bright Sat, 14 February, 16:00 – 16:30 repeated Mon, 16 February, 13:30 – 14:00

I think everybody is creative in their day to day lives - it is just that some of us are pseudo intellectual about it, no body is creatively unique - but a lot of us think we are.

The first show is an interview with a doctor, a GP who is also a poet. I try to find out if creativity is a madness, a disease, an anesthetic or a poison but find out that maybe it could be a ‘Zebra’. Does she use creativity in diagnosis and consultation? Read more…

Click on image below to listen online

If you want to be kept up to date with the show join the mailing list below or if you want to comment or appear on the show go to the contact page

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