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TUSK Editions

Posted on: February 17th, 2021 by Lee

April also sees us launch TUSK Editions, a monthly digital publication that merges the old school record club idea with the current evolution of digital publishing and music releasing in the age of Covid/Brexit. TUSK Editions will launch with the first collaborative album by renowned Tyneside electronic producers Stephen Bishop (Opal Tapes) and Mariam Rezaei, an exclusive archival live recording from the legendary Jim O’Rourke, an intercontinental mix from the Hive Mind Records label.

Over 2 hours of exclusive digital music releases are accompanied by a 42-page full-colour digital magazine led by Stewart Smith’s 5000-word interview with the legendary William Parker , lockdown thoughts from our first TUSK TV host Jennifer Lucy Allan and more.

TUSK Editions#1 is now available for pre-order here

**TUSK Editions will cost £10 monthly – those joining our membership scheme will find it automatically in their inbox on the first Friday of each month.

 

TUSK TV

Posted on: February 17th, 2021 by Lee

TUSK TV April 2021 Replay from Tusk Festival on Vimeo.

Direct link to the vimeo channel https://vimeo.com/532258656
Direct link to the chat https://vimeo.com/live-chat/532258656/interaction/

On April 2, we launch TUSK TV featuring all the diverse international musical brilliance you’d expect from us in one potent monthly microdose. This first show is just over 4 hours long and totally free to view, repeated on a 12hour delay again to maximize overseas view-ability and then added to our online archive.

Featuring in Episode 1, presented by writer/presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan (BBC Radio3 etc) will be free jazz hero William Parker, US rapper Nappy Nina, Italian percussionist Valentina Magaletti and Norwegian skronk supergroup SPUNK.

The show will also feature William Parker in conversation with Stewart Smith, Maja and Kristin from SPUNK in conversation with Joe Murray; and Mariam Rezaei talking about Veil, her first duo album with Opal Tapes‘ Stephen Bishop.

A regular feature of TUSK TV will be Giant Tank’s Pot Luck, where Ali and Collette Robertson of the Edinburgh label lure two musicians/noisemakers into a ‘blind collaboration’ – this month they bring together Greg Kelley (in Boston, Mass) and Joyce Whitchurch (in Newcastle).

And we are also delighted to present the film Marshlands by Canadian artist and sound-maker Chik White, plus an exclusive video mix by the great Hive Mind label.

All free to view via this site from 8pm UK on Friday 2 April.

MEMBERS

Posted on: February 17th, 2021 by Lee

Unprecedented times, eh? Music and how it, its creators and presenters work is, like everyone else, adapting to unprecedented challenges. So we’re launching TUSK TV, TUSK Editions and we’re launching our first Membership scheme.

This is our response to the Covid/Brexit double-headed hydra. This is how we hope to survive it.

In this world of shifting sands and unpredictable tides, we invite our audience to become TUSK members. From as little at £7 monthly, supporters will receive the monthly TUSK Editions direct to their inbox and other occasional treats and freebies.

Please sign up here and from April 2 you will receive the monthly issues of TUSK Editions and help us to keep doing what we do – www.patreon.com/TUSKmusic

 

SPONSORS

Posted on: March 29th, 2021 by Lee

Huge thanks to our sponsors who made this first month of TUSK TV and TUSK Editions possible.

If you’d like to sponsor our work, please contact Lee at tuskmusic1@gmail.com

DONATE

Posted on: September 13th, 2020 by info@shaunblezard.com





TUSK Virtual is completely free and all artists involved do get paid. However in the current crisis, the future of TUSK is uncertain just like everyone else’s. If you would like to donate to our continued survival and work, it would be enormously appreciated.