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Wishful Thinking: In Remembrance of Peter Christopherson.
Sat 17th March 2012, 8pm–12am
Myself and Cosey Fanni Tutti will premiere a selection of live remixes from ‘TG’s Desertshore - The Final Report’. These will be preceded by a rare screening of Philippe Garrel’s ‘The Inner Scar’, for which Desertshore was soundtrack and inspiration.
More details and ticket info available here > http://www.avfestival.co.uk
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The New Year dawns and it finds me and Cosey already in the studio since late December working on TG’s ‘final’ studio album ‘Desertshore’. In case you don’t know, our Desertshore project is a cover version of Nico’s entire 1970 seminal Desertshore album. ‘TG’s Desertshore - The Final Report’ (to give it its full title) was conceived by Sleazy on a long flight from Bangkok to Berlin in the winter of 2006, and we’ve been recording elements of the album since then.
And since then a lot happened…
Most of you probably know some of the story and some of you may know most of the story: Genesis walked out on TG at the beginning of the 2010 tour in November (we still have no idea why!) and we three attempted to recover from that disaster with a couple of X-TG shows. Feeling both deflated at TG ending and elated that he didn't have to work with Genesis again Sleazy returned to Bangkok later that month to work on Desertshore using new gear he’d bought for the project and to begin recording the guest vocalists. He died before he worked on a single note.
2011 was probably our busiest year since touring as Chris & Cosey in the 1980s' and 90s' and honestly we're not sure why this should be. You'd think as you get older things would begin to slow down a bit, but they haven't. Ironically we've also had to turn down more offers, projects and shows than ever before - we've felt close to burn-out a few times last year, after all we're only human and there are only 24 hours in a day, but we got through it, just.
All that aside, last year we managed to get all our Desertshore guest vocalists recorded for the album, some were done here at our studio, some in Europe and a few in the USA. Everyone we asked to collaborate said yes and everyone has done a fabulous vocal, Sleazy would be very happy. Sleazy could bluff for England and although when asked "how's the album coming along Sleazy?" he'd appease us with a "fine, I'll have some new mixes ready soon" it transpires that most of the work done on Desertshore was either done here in Norfolk by the three of us or stopped being done by Sleazy in Bangkok sometime in 2009. Oh Sleazy, Sleazy…
Which brings us to now…
All of the Desertshore material that was in Ableton Live (Sleazy's DAW of choice) has been reconformed for Logic Pro (our DAW of choice) - a laborious process! To say these are early days would be a gross understatement, there is still a mountain of work to do - for a start we're still trying to formulate six years worth of existing recordings, audio sketches, rough mixes, scribbled notes, endless lists and recalling things suggested at many, many 'Desertshore discussions' had over a cuppa or three.
Our (self-imposed) schedule is to have the album finished by July for release late 2012 - maybe that's being optimistic, who knows? but we do have a career outside TG and we'd like to get back to it at some point.
Me and Cosey Fanni Tutti discuss Throbbing Gristle and the remastered album reissues with Alexis Petridis, music critic for The Guardian.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE GUARDIAN WEBITE TO LISTEN
WED 2ND NOV, 7PM
To celebrate the release of the remastered TG back catalogue Cosey and myself are doing an ‘In-Store’ at Rough Trade East in London on 2nd November. There will be a Q&A chaired by Luke Turner (The Quietus) and we’ll be “discussing the rich and unique history of TG” and we’ll also be available to sign albums.
Get your free wristbands here... www.roughtrade.com
Well after many months of intense work (February to September!) the remastered Throbbing Gristle albums have finally been completed and have gone into production (see the TG website for release dates).
We decided very early on (even before dear Sleazy passed) that the albums would be remastered and rereleased specifically for each format - Vinyl, CD and DDL. So each of the five vinyl albums comes with an 8-page booklet, as do the five double-CD editions - which include different 8-page booklets to the vinyl. The five digital albums also include 6-page PDF booklets, which are different from the vinyl and CD booklets. So as you can see, this project meant the not inconsiderable task of remastering 20 different album masters, compiling, editing and laying out 100 pages of graphics and photos, and reconstructing (visually remastering) fifteen different 20-year old album covers.
In the past this amount of workload for this type of project would have been split between myself, Cosey, Sleazy and Mute (as with TGV, TG24 etc.). But having left Mute last year, and with Sleazy refusing to work from the afterlife, Cosey and myself decided to undertake the bulk of the work ourselves. Although I guess you may be asking yourself why didn’t we ‘farm out’ some, or all of the work to an outside design/production company? Well there are a number of issues to consider that would be familiar to anyone running an independent label. Obviously a major factor for not using an outside company (or even friends/acquaintances) would be the considerable additional costs for so much high quality production work. But also… historically TG (and Chris & Cosey) have functioned independently in as many areas as possible and between us we have acquired an extensive skill-set to cope with producing these kinds of projects. In fact you name it and one of us has probably done it, or would be willing to learn how to do it. But… this approach also has its drawbacks, as we’ve become ‘control freaks’ and any work we do assign to outsiders or non-TG-extended-family ends up going through endless revisions, tweaks, adjustments and rewrites… or is just rejected. Years ago we realised that for the majority of what we ‘do’ it’s often a lot faster and more cost effective in the long run to just “do it yourself”.
Which brings me back to the TG catalogue. Because, the remastered albums aside, there are still a few choice projects left to be released on Industrial Records from our reacquired Throbbing Gristle archive. The first of these will be TG’s Desertshore project in 2012, which me and Cosey (and a few friends) have been continuing to work on this year, between the TG remastering. Hopefully in 2013 we should be in a position to release the ‘TG in Berlin’ project (recorded 2005-06) and recordings and videos from our TG 2009 USA tour.
Well now I say ‘hopefully’ because Cosey and me also have to factor in our own non-TG projects, which are many. Even without all the TG work we’ve done, this year has been unbelievably busy for us - with Chris & Cosey and Carter Tutti performances, projects, collaborations and remixes and of course Cosey’s own successful Art career. Basically what I’m saying is be patient and bear with us, we’re doing the best we can but we’re only human and are trying to avoid burning out to soon.
btw: Genesis’ contribution to the ‘TG Remastered’ project was to offer some photos from his archive, which we agreed to… but he sent us nothing.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Chris Carter are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Industrial Records Ltd.
Carter Tutti at Sonic City Festival - Kortrijk, Belgium
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter will be performing their new CARTER TUTTI/HARMONIC COACTION set at the Liars curated Sonic City Festival, Belgium on 29th October. Please visit the www.soniccity.be site for more details.
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Chris & Cosey at Unsound Festival - Krakow, Poland
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter will be playing their new CHRIS & COSEY set at the Unsound Festival in Poland on 15th October. Please visit the Unsound website for more details.
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Chris & Cosey at Bodies of Babel Festival - Frankfurt, Germany
We’ll be playing our new CHRIS & COSEY set at the Bodies of Babel Festival in Frankfurt on 29th September.
Please visit the Mousonturm.de website for more details.
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The new Chris & Cosey / Carter Tutti website is now up and running. The site contains many new features, including free audio and video clips, extensive discographies, interviews and photos. www.chrisandcosey.com
Cosey and myself took part in an 'Invisible Jukebox' session for the October issue of The Wire. Details here.
The Wire are also hosting two previously unreleased Carter Tutti tracks, which can be streamed via this link.
Me and Cosey have recently remixed the new S.C.U.M. track Whitechapel, from their debut album Again Into Eyes. It is available now on 12" vinyl. Listen to the remix HERE.
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Live Premiere of TG's Desertshore Album at AV Festival
12-01-12
Wishful Thinking: In Remembrance of Peter Christopherson.
Sat 17th March 2012, 8pm–12am
Myself and Cosey Fanni Tutti will premiere a selection of live remixes from ‘TG’s Desertshore - The Final Report’. These will be preceded by a rare screening of Philippe Garrel’s ‘The Inner Scar’, for which Desertshore was soundtrack and inspiration.
More details and ticket info available here > http://www.avfestival.co.uk
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A New Year… and the final TG album
04-01-12
The New Year dawns and it finds me and Cosey already in the studio since late December working on TG’s ‘final’ studio album ‘Desertshore’. In case you don’t know, our Desertshore project is a cover version of Nico’s entire 1970 seminal Desertshore album. ‘TG’s Desertshore - The Final Report’ (to give it its full title) was conceived by Sleazy on a long flight from Bangkok to Berlin in the winter of 2006, and we’ve been recording elements of the album since then.
And since then a lot happened…
Most of you probably know some of the story and some of you may know most of the story: Genesis walked out on TG at the beginning of the 2010 tour in November (we still have no idea why!) and we three attempted to recover from that disaster with a couple of X-TG shows. Feeling both deflated at TG ending and elated that he didn't have to work with Genesis again Sleazy returned to Bangkok later that month to work on Desertshore using new gear he’d bought for the project and to begin recording the guest vocalists. He died before he worked on a single note.
2011 was probably our busiest year since touring as Chris & Cosey in the 1980s' and 90s' and honestly we're not sure why this should be. You'd think as you get older things would begin to slow down a bit, but they haven't. Ironically we've also had to turn down more offers, projects and shows than ever before - we've felt close to burn-out a few times last year, after all we're only human and there are only 24 hours in a day, but we got through it, just.
All that aside, last year we managed to get all our Desertshore guest vocalists recorded for the album, some were done here at our studio, some in Europe and a few in the USA. Everyone we asked to collaborate said yes and everyone has done a fabulous vocal, Sleazy would be very happy. Sleazy could bluff for England and although when asked "how's the album coming along Sleazy?" he'd appease us with a "fine, I'll have some new mixes ready soon" it transpires that most of the work done on Desertshore was either done here in Norfolk by the three of us or stopped being done by Sleazy in Bangkok sometime in 2009. Oh Sleazy, Sleazy…
Which brings us to now…
All of the Desertshore material that was in Ableton Live (Sleazy's DAW of choice) has been reconformed for Logic Pro (our DAW of choice) - a laborious process! To say these are early days would be a gross understatement, there is still a mountain of work to do - for a start we're still trying to formulate six years worth of existing recordings, audio sketches, rough mixes, scribbled notes, endless lists and recalling things suggested at many, many 'Desertshore discussions' had over a cuppa or three.
Our (self-imposed) schedule is to have the album finished by July for release late 2012 - maybe that's being optimistic, who knows? but we do have a career outside TG and we'd like to get back to it at some point.
The Guardian - Music Weekly Podcast
05-11-11
Me and Cosey Fanni Tutti discuss Throbbing Gristle and the remastered album reissues with Alexis Petridis, music critic for The Guardian.CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE GUARDIAN WEBITE TO LISTEN
In Conversation With TG, at Rough Trade
01-11-11
WED 2ND NOV, 7PMTo celebrate the release of the remastered TG back catalogue Cosey and myself are doing an ‘In-Store’ at Rough Trade East in London on 2nd November. There will be a Q&A chaired by Luke Turner (The Quietus) and we’ll be “discussing the rich and unique history of TG” and we’ll also be available to sign albums.
Get your free wristbands here... www.roughtrade.com
Trying to avoid burning out
03-10-11
Well after many months of intense work (February to September!) the remastered Throbbing Gristle albums have finally been completed and have gone into production (see the TG website for release dates). We decided very early on (even before dear Sleazy passed) that the albums would be remastered and rereleased specifically for each format - Vinyl, CD and DDL. So each of the five vinyl albums comes with an 8-page booklet, as do the five double-CD editions - which include different 8-page booklets to the vinyl. The five digital albums also include 6-page PDF booklets, which are different from the vinyl and CD booklets. So as you can see, this project meant the not inconsiderable task of remastering 20 different album masters, compiling, editing and laying out 100 pages of graphics and photos, and reconstructing (visually remastering) fifteen different 20-year old album covers.
In the past this amount of workload for this type of project would have been split between myself, Cosey, Sleazy and Mute (as with TGV, TG24 etc.). But having left Mute last year, and with Sleazy refusing to work from the afterlife, Cosey and myself decided to undertake the bulk of the work ourselves. Although I guess you may be asking yourself why didn’t we ‘farm out’ some, or all of the work to an outside design/production company? Well there are a number of issues to consider that would be familiar to anyone running an independent label. Obviously a major factor for not using an outside company (or even friends/acquaintances) would be the considerable additional costs for so much high quality production work. But also… historically TG (and Chris & Cosey) have functioned independently in as many areas as possible and between us we have acquired an extensive skill-set to cope with producing these kinds of projects. In fact you name it and one of us has probably done it, or would be willing to learn how to do it. But… this approach also has its drawbacks, as we’ve become ‘control freaks’ and any work we do assign to outsiders or non-TG-extended-family ends up going through endless revisions, tweaks, adjustments and rewrites… or is just rejected. Years ago we realised that for the majority of what we ‘do’ it’s often a lot faster and more cost effective in the long run to just “do it yourself”.
Which brings me back to the TG catalogue. Because, the remastered albums aside, there are still a few choice projects left to be released on Industrial Records from our reacquired Throbbing Gristle archive. The first of these will be TG’s Desertshore project in 2012, which me and Cosey (and a few friends) have been continuing to work on this year, between the TG remastering. Hopefully in 2013 we should be in a position to release the ‘TG in Berlin’ project (recorded 2005-06) and recordings and videos from our TG 2009 USA tour.
Well now I say ‘hopefully’ because Cosey and me also have to factor in our own non-TG projects, which are many. Even without all the TG work we’ve done, this year has been unbelievably busy for us - with Chris & Cosey and Carter Tutti performances, projects, collaborations and remixes and of course Cosey’s own successful Art career. Basically what I’m saying is be patient and bear with us, we’re doing the best we can but we’re only human and are trying to avoid burning out to soon.
btw: Genesis’ contribution to the ‘TG Remastered’ project was to offer some photos from his archive, which we agreed to… but he sent us nothing.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Chris Carter are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Industrial Records Ltd.
Last Chris |||amp; Cosey/Carter Tutti performances of this year
29-09-11
Carter Tutti at Sonic City Festival - Kortrijk, Belgium
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter will be performing their new CARTER TUTTI/HARMONIC COACTION set at the Liars curated Sonic City Festival, Belgium on 29th October. Please visit the www.soniccity.be site for more details.
______________________________________________________
Chris & Cosey at Unsound Festival - Krakow, Poland
Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter will be playing their new CHRIS & COSEY set at the Unsound Festival in Poland on 15th October. Please visit the Unsound website for more details.
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Chris & Cosey at Bodies of Babel Festival - Frankfurt, Germany
We’ll be playing our new CHRIS & COSEY set at the Bodies of Babel Festival in Frankfurt on 29th September.
Please visit the Mousonturm.de website for more details.
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New Look Chris |||amp; Cosey Website
22-09-11
The new Chris & Cosey / Carter Tutti website is now up and running. The site contains many new features, including free audio and video clips, extensive discographies, interviews and photos. www.chrisandcosey.com
The Wire - Invisible Jukebox
02-09-11
Cosey and myself took part in an 'Invisible Jukebox' session for the October issue of The Wire. Details here.
The Wire are also hosting two previously unreleased Carter Tutti tracks, which can be streamed via this link.
S.C.U.M. Remixed by Carter Tutti
02-08-11
Me and Cosey have recently remixed the new S.C.U.M. track Whitechapel, from their debut album Again Into Eyes. It is available now on 12" vinyl. Listen to the remix HERE.
The Opiates Remix
01-07-11
