Luke Wyatt descends on London venue Moth Club this week with CFCF and Lord Tusk in tow and we have passes up for grabs.
In Native mythology, Torn Hawk (aka Luke Wyatt) might fit the archetypal “trickster” persona – the Coyote whose hunger leads him to cleverly deceive those around him, or the shape-shifting Nanabush, whose duplicity comes from a knack for survival. Wyatt has skirted around dance music’s fringes for years now in a number of morphing identities- sometimes taking the form of his “video mulch” productions for Steve Summers, or directorial collaborations with Aurora Halal & Ital. Other times, his creations extend to the verbose, drunken prose that accompanies Juno Plus mixes and interviews, as if the keyboard he’s typing from is soaked in bourbon, regret, and decades of memories.
The inimitable Luke Wyatt will release the superbly named album Let’s Cry And Do Pushups at The Same Time through the New York label in November.
A suitably jagged production from the producer’s forthcoming Rush Hour No ‘Label’ release has surfaced.
Sink into a cut from that man Luke Wyatt’s forthcoming cassette release due on Not Not Fun.
The musical project of Luke Wyatt is once more blessed by his skilled filmmaking with a typically trippy video to the recent L.I.E.S. cut.
Luke Wyatt is a storyteller. Though you’re probably most familiar with his Torn Hawk alias, Brooklyn-based Wyatt is also an obsessive video artist, whose painstakingly detailed music videos are pulled from a “shuffling droney archive of digitized video clips on hard drives as well as way too many tapes lying around”, as he reported to Juno Plus earlier this year for this site’s 65th podcast. He’s also somewhat of a writer, as the tracklisting for that mix eschewed tradition, providing a beautiful, rambling monologue that only vaguely referenced song names. It reads like a short story where Tom Waits and Joan Didion reminisce about their younger days while swigging drinks in the bar from Twin Peaks, and though you may not take anything particularly clear away from it, one thing that’s clear is that Wyatt embraces the idea of narratives.
The Brooklyn-based producer will return to his own label next month with the two-track We Burnt Time single.
As a multimedia adventurer with many years experience behind him, only in the last couple of years has Luke Wyatt started to take shape as an artist in his own right with choice releases in interesting places. Appearing on L.I.E.S. has no doubt helped his profile, with last years’ Tarifa EP drawing plenty of heat for a performer whose preoccupation with the absurd had previously led to creative energy expended on such ventures as the Weenus Training Loop series.
Luke Wyatt’s musical ascent hasn’t exactly been meteoric, but he’s certainly risen to prominence fairly quickly. Initially known as a visual artist – primarily for his work on Peoples Potential Unlimited brilliant PPU Video Party DVDs, but also for the likes of I:Cube and Mock & Toof – he’s spent the last 18 months impressing with a sludgy, atmospheric and often emotion-rich musical experiments. So far, he’s released two albums; the decidedly out-there collection of experimental off-cuts, Fragments So Far, and March’s 10 For Edge Tek, described by this reviewer at the time as a cross between “a latter day Steve Reich with drum machines and effects units”, and “early ‘80s industrial noise”. Add to this Tarifa, an EP for the L.I.E.S white label series that has become one of the hyped imprint’s most sought-after releases. This is due in no small part to the title track, a krautrock-influenced fusion of bubbling, slo-mo drums and glistening, ethereal guitars. For this writer, it remains one of L.I.E.S most thrilling and rewarding releases.
Scott Wilson looks at heat-warped kosmische, sweaty deep house, precise, cooling electronics and alternative takes on dub for hot summer’s nights in this month’s Scratching The Surface.
Step into the tape saturated world of Torn Hawk across a mix that spans 100 minutes of mulchy delights.
No Pain In Pop are to issue a 12” containing Torn Hawk reworks of Gwyer’s Needs Continuum LP.
Glimpse at a forthcoming Juno Plus podcast from Torn Hawk with this especially made video.
Emotional Response will release an album of early productions from L.I.E.S. producer and video artist Luke Wyatt.
Luke Wyatt mops up a smorgasbord of cutout 90s VHS imagery on the new video for his Torn Hawk contribution to the American Noise compilation.
Visual artist and musician Luke Wyatt introduces us to the wonderfully vivid concept of “mulch synth grime house” on a new Torn Hawk CD.