Cheeky last minute @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show added in Paris on 28th October>> dice.fm/event/6dbqe7...

ISTANBUL! Did you know there is a @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show scheduled for 9th November? Tickets here>> www.biletix.com/performance/...

This is Marcus who sometimes plays with @jamesholden.bsky.social - see you there?

BELGIUM! Gent is due a visit from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel on 29th October, and you can secure your tickets here>> apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/voor...

The @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show at London's ICA on 23rd October will be an in-the-round affair. And a little bird tells me we've sold 79% of the tickets, so if you are hoping to join them it is time to shit-or-get-off-the-pot>> birdonthewire.gigantic.com/holden-zimpe...

can't wait for this, pattern-based music being my favourite thing.. + nervous excitement: i'm going to try a 'from scratch' kind of set using benny...

oh, it's nothing, baby — just the brand new Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter featuring extra insight on ambitious sax guy Sean Imboden, cosmic explorers James Holden + Wacław Zimpel, and ritual tone-shifter Lingyuan Yang plus reviews of new ones from Bit Cloudy + Avi C. Engel head into the zone ✨ →

British music producer James Holden and Polish clarinet virtuoso Wacław Zimpel built The Universe Will Take Care of You in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking. Interview — James Holden + Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound: @jamesholden.bsky.social

enjoyed this month's pattern club radio - some amazing music & an interesting (hopeful, inspiring) discussion of human-centered algorithms www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/pc...

We are huge fans of the @cosmicchambo.bsky.social podcast so I'm pretty chuffed that something from the new @jamesholden.bsky.social & Zimpel album made it into his latest mix>>

i'll be doing a brief talk on benny (what is it? why does it exist?) at the london creative code meetup next month: www.meetup.com/creativecodi...

And it's an 8.0 from @pitchfork.com ! The esteemed @philipsherburne.bsky.social goes in deep on @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's 'The Universe Will Take Care Of You'>> pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

This also went up at the weekend: @jamesholden.bsky.social 's contribution to the Herb Sundays playlist repository, plus a handy recap of his career to date according to Sam Valenti IV. "An actual Sunday from one of our great living musicians.">> herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sunda...

...and there's an extra @jamesholden.bsky.social Japanese show happening at Tokyo's VENT on Friday 29th August>> ra.co/events/2186902

I wrote about @jamesholden.bsky.social and Wacław Zimpel's phenomenal new album for @bordercommunity.bsky.social, the aptly named The Universe Will Take Care of You pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Thanks for the reassurance @jamesholden.bsky.social - yourself, Mr Zimpel and the postman certainly are 😀

Et il le prouve encore une fois… s’en est presque lassant. Trop de talent, ça m’épuise. Merci @jamesholden.bsky.social pour toutes ces belles textures jouissives 💦 #IDM #electronicmusic youtu.be/MFpP1KtVWn8?...

Today soundtracked by another marvel from @jamesholden.bsky.social. What a beauty. jamesholden.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...

Welcome to the Bleep Weekly Roundup, our guide to the best new releases and warehouse arrivals. bleep.com/weekly-roundup Featured releases by @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social, @thecure.com, @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel, @faltydl.bsky.social, @abulmogard.bsky.social + more!

It's out! People keep sending me DMs about ascending! Happy. (This rose is from the bush on the cover, thanks Victoria!)

HELLO EVERYONE WE WILL SEE YOU SOON! we'll be conjuring gentle magicks in cities near you. At dekmantel we'll be joined by special guest hubert zemler on percussion. In London we'll play in the round. Ticket links for all on my website (jamesholden.org) 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

JUST IN! 'The Universe Will Take Care Of You' by Holden & Zimpel James Holden and Waclaw Zimpel follow their 2020 EP 'Long Weekend' with their first full-length collaboration, hearing roaming analog synths meeting acoustic instrumentation. www.normanrecords.com/records/2088...

here's my talk on my live music software "benny" (mostly why and a bit what) from crux festival london earlier this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgF5...

#ThrowbackThursday to @jamesholden.bsky.social 's first trip to Morocco to work with Maalem Mahmoud Guinia: @electronicsound.bsky.social go in depth on the recording of true trance anthem 'Bania' (as heard on the visionary 'Marhaba' EP)>>

If anyone is following from Japan, you might be interested to know: @jamesholden.bsky.social is coming! He'll be Imagining This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities one final time, c/o the Global Ark Festival which takes over Asamagakushi Hot Spring Village (Gunma) from 29-31 August.

This will be the North American debut for this @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel collaboration>>

#ICYMI - @jamesholden.bsky.social + Waclaw Zimpel = an eight-and-a-half-minute slice of bliss to ease you gently into Bank Holiday weekend mode>> open.spotify.com/track/46Mk9f...

James Holden & Zimpel announce debut album The album features six expansive tracks that blend improvisation with psychedelic soundscapes, ranging from the skittering 'You Are Gods' to the monumental title track finale. www.theransomnote.com/music/news/j... @jamesholden.bsky.social

hello everyone! good news, @zimpelwaclaw and i have made an album. it's called THE UNIVERSE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU there's one song to listen to now and it's out in june. jamesholden.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...

@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social and I review a great edition of Leiden’s Peel Slowly & See festival on @louderthanwar.bsky.social with me raving about the @jamesholden.bsky.social & Wacław Zimpel show louderthanwar.com/peel-slowly-...

I’ve seen a lot of gigs in my time but I’m hard pressed to think of many as spiritual and giving as James Holden & Wacław Zimpel’s last night at Peel Slowly & See festival in Leiden. Still vibing from it!

On the road again! Classical ensemble we met in the Eurostar weren't impressed by my packing at first but I think I blew their minds when I explained how much they could save buying their violins on AliExpress

INCOMING! @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel are coming to Stroud for this year's edition of @hiddennotes.bsky.social . Tickets & more info here>> hiddennotes.co.uk

CANADA! @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel will be continuing their adventures in clarinet & synth this August at Montreal's legendary @mutek.bsky.social >> montreal.mutek.org

SPAIN! @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel have been working on new music, and they're bringing it to Donostia / Madrid / Barcelona & Valencia next month. Tickets links on>> bordercommunity.com

"I Wish There Was A Place Like That" is out NOW! CD and digital, streaming to follow. Listening Party tomorrow evening UK time. I hope you enjoy this - please do share and let me know what you think of it!

++OUT TODAY++ 'Folly' – the debut release by Hastings band Black Arches called a collaboration with Medway artist Sexton Ming A deep, hypnotic journey into a world of dark psychedelia, one for the proper 'heads' out there Ltd to 250 copies on Black Hole vinyl: rocketrecordings.com/products/folly

#ThrowbackThursday to the 2023 edition of Holland's Draaimolen Festival, when their sublime Chapel stage was handed over to @jamesholden.bsky.social & friends for a heady hour of rave-tinged pastoral bliss>>

spain! waclaw and i are coming to play beautiful music :)

#ThrowbackThursday exactly 5 years ago to the eve of the pandemic, when the tentative studio experiments of @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's richly textured 'Long Weekend EP' were first unleashed upon the world. Vinyl still available via our @bandcamp.com >>

And the Dekmantel day splits are out... @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel play Thursday 31st July, Aan Het IJ, Amsterdam. Tickets here>> tickets.dekmantelfestival.com/b1892914b255...

ET Space Dog…Colored! . . . . . #comicsart #illustration #spacedog

my remix of THE SMILE is out! it's on streaming platforms and bleep and boomkat have files for sale. bleep.com/release/4935...

#ThrowbackThursday to last year's @jamesholden.bsky.social support tour with The Smile. Photo & review from the Manchester show c/o @louderthanwar.bsky.social >> louderthanwar.com/the-smile-o2...

i'll be doing a presentation about my music software 'benny' at crux festival london this april. tickets available on the rich mix website

Just announced! @jamesholden.bsky.social + Waclaw Zimpel will be combining forces again this year for Amsterdam's Dekmantel Festival (July 30th - August 3rd)>> dekmantelfestival.com

live.eulerroom.com going off rn (all night solstice livecode algorave)

Pascal Comelade is still going strong and back in the 1970s was making brilliant underground sounds. Listen to this track from his first album (Fluence by Fluence). Richard Pinhas guested on guitar on one track. Feel the repetition & hear the US minimalist influences. youtu.be/aoRDQ5yNroM