Certain dance forms lead us to communicate in curious ways.
Contact Improvisation dance floors are at the fringes of culture – but where they prosper, there are strange exhilarations: less bounded expression and a kind of fluid intimacy.
Contact dancers move imaginatively, to whichever sounds they hear – sometimes also drifting to permutations of silence.
Taking journeys of sensation far into the realm of touch, all the better to feel.
This collection of songs evokes the delicacies of contact. Some we hope might directly soundtrack your motion, others just pay crooked homage to a culture that conjures.
This is a study into certain ideas about movement and people. Nothing is expected, nothing confirmed.
With fingertips.
Performance: at your home_(window)
To mark this release, we are offering a delivery of sound to your window. We visit and play music from Shimble’s release ~Contact~ [Dec 2024] on the portable soundsystem, trundled across town, to make a rare auditory visit.
Deliveries can be made to locations that are a 20 minute walk from any London overground station: www.speckle.se/delivmap. Available Mon-Thurs 6-8pm.
Tracks played: Any two tracks from the Contact E.P.
We fill the street with sound for a short period.
Live To Feel mastered by peace-loving counsellor KMJ45.
All other tracks defiantly monstered at the loving Sacred Walls studio.
Support Shimble, buy the release: https://speckle.bandcamp.com/album/contact