In part two of The Battleground’s 7 July session at MayDay Rooms, Duncan Simpson and Joel Schalit play “Isleworth Window Noisy Arrest, Hounslow” — the most gripping track on their new LP, Outsidergrad — and unpack its context.
For them, field recording is as much a tool for consciousness-raising as it is a documentary practice: sound alone, without images or narration, can capture the human condition in ways traditional reporting cannot. The discussion begins at 5:38.
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