Originally only available on
thewire.co.uk and now downloadable with all profits going towards Liverpool Migrant Solidarity Network - a collective of people working together to resist the hostile environment that migrants face in our city & beyond.
Coronavirus is affecting everyone's lives - and people with insecure immigration status are some of the hardest hit. Many have no right to work so are in low-paid, precarious jobs and have to continue to work despite the risk to their health. Many people have been abruptly laid off from their jobs and left with no income to pay for rent, food or medication.
As a result of the government’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy, most migrants are not entitled to any benefits or financial support. The government’s hostile environment policy also stops many people seeking help and support, as this could lead to their detention or deportation. As a result, this is a really difficult time for many migrants, particularly people with insecure immigration status. This Fund for migrants without access to public funds will go directly to the people who need it to give emergency financial support during this period.
---------------------------
---------------------------
Liverpool based producers JC Leisure and Jon Davies aka Kepla have teamed for a new project called Local Habits, recorded in their home over the last few weeks. The resulting EP sees Pale Master label founder and rave cassette enthusiast JC Leisure combining tape manipulation, field recordings and vocals to serve as a minimal canvas for Kepla's cello playing.
“For me, this work is an exercise in reduction,” explains JC Leisure via email. “The textures in these five parts were created by slowing down the cassette tapes that I sampled in the album Mutations For to their absolute limit and extracting their micro sounds. I also took recordings of the room whilst it was empty and folded this back in on itself. Both of these processes are a way of creating a split in these temporalities; of the cassette tapes and of the space where the work was performed. There’s a playful aspect of giving Jon the bare minimum of material with which to respond to and seeing what he does with that space.”
“I'd say that my main interests in this were improvising with small sounds,” adds collaborator Kepla, “and creating a local logic between us two (learning a musical relationship and anticipating gestures). Then, on a personal level, I'm both relearning and unlearning an instrument, attempting to iron out habits.”
- The Wire, May 2020