Our new album, the soundtrack to Owen Hatherley’s book A New Kind of Bleak, is available for pre-order from iTunes now. It is released on 3rd September 2012.
The album is digital-only, but will be available from other sites such as Juno (including lossless formats) in due course.
A minisite for the album is coming soon.
The 2011 Golau Glau seasonal spectacular is here!
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.
Our exhibition at Test Space in Leeds opens tonight (Thursday 10th November 2011), with a launch party. The exhibition runs until Sunday 13th November and entry to the exhibition and all events is FREE.
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.
LAUNCH: Thursday 10th November, 7.30pm, FREE ENTRY
HOOKWORMS (LIVE) – amazing psych dream stare rock - http://parasiticnematode.blogspot.com
RUNNERS (DJ) – celebratory electronics and all the best ideas - http://longdistancerunners.wordpress.com/
EWAN JAMIESON (DJ) - from ace local music website A Negative Narrative - http://anegativenarrative.com
Come down from Fri-Sun if you can’t make the launch, and there is another event as part of the exhibition on Saturday:
LIBRARIES AND VINYL: Saturday 12th November, 2.30pm, FREE ENTRY
James Balf from Sonic Router - http://www.sonicrouter.com - will be playing a laid-back vinyl-only DJ set and library campaigner Lauren Smith (from Voices for the Library) will be speaking about public library closures. Lauren’s comments on the event: http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/libraries-and-vinyl/
Equilateral have posted an excellent preview of our exhibition next week at Test Space in Leeds.
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:
Golau Glau’s first art exhibition takes place soon at Test Space in Leeds.
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
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.
There will be announcements later on, we are told. We are deeply saddened by this news. ‘HENRY’ was conceived and created especially for the festival, our first major sonic art work. We will update this site and the ‘HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)’ mini site when we have more news and maybe ‘HENRY’ will be installed somewhere else at a later date.
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Here is the choppy-chirpy-cheap trailer for the Golau Glau sound installation at Beacons festival, ‘HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)’. You can read all about it here:
Sonic art and visuals by Golau Glau, illustrations by Mr Steven Horry the Second.
‘HENRY (The Methods of Ethics 2011)’ is the title of the sonic art work we have created for Beacons festival, which takes place from 11th-14th August 2011.
A trailer for the work is coming soon. You can read more and follow HENRY on Tumblr: HENRY (The Methods Of Ethics 2011)
We remixed a couple of the bands who are playing Beacons:
FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS:
TOM WILLIAMS & THE BOAT:
And DAVID TREVILLION from Tom Williams & The Boat remixed us:
Ghosting Season, who are playing on the Friday of the festival, were commissioned by Golau Glau to provide extra field recordings (because they go to more parties than us), and we are very grateful for their excellent contributions to ‘HENRY’.
