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Flexagon
@flexagonmusic.bsky.social
Guernsey based sound mangler.

Links, music, mailing list etc. http://linktr.ee/flexagon
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Hello new followers! I'm not making new music at the moment. Instead I'm enjoying a deep dive into playing and performing traditional music.

My last release, Un Vert Bocage, came out a year ago today. Looking back now it clearly foreshadowed what I'm now doing!

#folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic
Flexagon and Lihou - Un Vert Bocage - A Traditional Guernsey song re-imagined
YouTube video by Flexagon
www.youtube.com
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Just in case anyone doesn't have this from the olden days, you should always fill out an Authorization To Make Music form BEFORE you start making any music. It can help reduce mistakes and optimize your reliability and, also, it's legally mandatory.
March 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A squirrel, in Guernsey!

News story of the year and it's still only February.
February 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I recorded and mixed this album for Kiya recently. It's mainly live, stripped back and very acoustic. But on the last song Dizzy, she said to go off and do what I like with it. So I did. 😊

kiyaashton.bandcamp.com/track/dizzy-...

...also available on all the streaming sites too.

#folk #folkmusic
Dizzy (with Flexagon), by Kiya Ashton
from the album Changing Seasons
kiyaashton.bandcamp.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Been thinking a lot recently about my pivotal musical moments and influences.

Keep coming back to hearing this on the radio.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-U6...

Happy remembering if you were around back then, happy discovering if you weren't.
The Shamen - Re:Evolution (1992)
YouTube video by IchigoMe
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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All music events, large and small, should have a halftime show in the middle where some people play a sport for ten minutes or so.
February 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Dug out my old MiniDisc Walkman today.

Why? Because it's going on display in a museum tomorrow!

Feeling old........
January 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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You can find all the info and where to listen to last night’s BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show featuring a preview of Kiya Ashton’s new album and lots more here: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/b...

#music
#newmusic
#bbcintroducing
#channelislands
#guernsey
#jersey
#radio
BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Kiya Ashton – 25/01/25
With more new releases in the space of a month than I can recall 2025 has started off stronger for new music in the islands than possibly any year before, so it led to an understandably packed edit…
tommygirard.wordpress.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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I would have more respect for Bob Dylan if he mastered his own tracks. There are so many free tutorials out there now.
January 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A flavour of #MixedFeelings, with @katyskylab.bsky.social - Chilled music curated from the heart. Tomorrow night at 10pm on Skylab.

Thank you for bearing with us as we’re carrying out essential maintenance to our systems and processes. 🎧🧡
January 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Friend of mine found this in a charity shop today. They thought it was a vinyl lathe for one off discs or acetates. It's not. It's a dictation machine from the 50s that records on a magnetic disc.

"Do you want it? It's £35"

YesNoYesNoYesNoReallyShouldn'tYesNoYes
January 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Catch up with the December edition of #MixedFeelings with @katyskylab.bsky.social via Skylab Radio On Demand…

skylabradio.com/mixcloud

Plus, listen again to the previous editions of #TheSpaceStation, #TheLaunchpad and #SuburbanCalm, along with the recent #ClubAeterna guest mixes.

🎧🧡
December 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Welcome to the family.

Brought home this lovely old Eko 12 string guitar today. From the 60s or 70s, haven't managed to date it yet.
December 6, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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Welcome to all our new followers! We are an art science collaboration inspired by the "sounds" of space from Earth to beyond the galaxy. Listen to theses amazing "sounds" as recorded by the @bas.ac.uk VLF receiver in the Antarctic accompanied by ambient music on a grand piano 🌎📡🎼🎵🎹.
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The Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations 12.00 PM, by Sounds of Space Project
from the album Aurora Musicalis
soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Orgone SVH (Flexagon Rework)
Citizen-X · Single · 2020 · 1 songs
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:43 PM
My Great-grandfather made this mandolin in 1933. After years in a mess it was restored last year & it's playable again!

I learnt enough to join in at an Irish session, as a one off so my Dad could hear it played again.

Turns out it wasn't a one off, I'm a trad musician now. #mandolin #folkmusic
November 19, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Hello new followers! I'm not making new music at the moment. Instead I'm enjoying a deep dive into playing and performing traditional music.

My last release, Un Vert Bocage, came out a year ago today. Looking back now it clearly foreshadowed what I'm now doing!

#folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic
Flexagon and Lihou - Un Vert Bocage - A Traditional Guernsey song re-imagined
YouTube video by Flexagon
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Catch up on the December editions of…

- Mixed Feelings
- Suburban Calm
- The Launchpad

via Skylab Radio On Demand…

skylabradio.com/mixcloud
ON DEMAND | Skylab Radio
skylabradio.com
December 16, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Thanks for all the interest and lovely feedback on the Un Vert Bocage single. Link in bio to that etc.

Here's the mini-documentary about the band Lihou, Guernsey, and where the song I used came from.

vimeo.com/871018993
LIHOU
This is "LIHOU" by Little River Pictures on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
November 29, 2023 at 11:49 AM
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Top FOTN mod @louiseann.bsky.social reviews our readers faves at freshonthenet.co.uk/faves510 feat:
AODHAN
BETH AND BLUE
BLAKE HARLEY
BLOKEACOLA
BORED AT MY GRANDMAS HOUSE
FLEXAGON AND LIHOU
SHORT SHARP SCRATCH
TELSTEP
THE MANTECAS
XY BIRD
Graphic: BoredAtMyGrandmaHouse by @steveharris.bsky.social
November 27, 2023 at 1:10 PM
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Phantom Circuit #406: Principles

An extended edition with tracks by @flexagonmusic.bsky.social & Lihou, Laibach, Death Dive into Saturn, The Blues Magoos, Coil and many more.

First heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/BeachyHeadRa...
Mixcloud
www.mixcloud.com
November 24, 2023 at 1:32 PM
Here's the new track on Spotify.

"Le long d'un vert bocage, près d’un courant ruisseau"

"Along beside the green hedgerows, beside a flowing stream, the small birds are singing."

It's the start of one of those songs about taking advice from birds...
Un Vert Bocage
Flexagon · Song · 2023
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2023 at 8:49 AM
Out now, my new single, a collaboration with the band Lihou. A traditional Guernsey song re-imagined.

flexagon.bandcamp.com/track/un-ver...
Un Vert Bocage, by Flexagon and Lihou
track by Flexagon and Lihou
flexagon.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2023 at 2:57 PM
I've just released my new single. Since it's only nice people here, have some from free download codes. Hope you enjoy it!

flexagon.bandcamp.com/yum

6x6v-bls8
k4y7-xmc2
ke2a-egsc
n6l8-ubhw
lzsy-exms
4tq3-u5yd
cu8l-vf2h
cwzh-6pxv
cstj-yne8
p4u8-bjf2

...did I mention it's a song yet?
November 17, 2023 at 12:20 AM