P a r t i a l l y Blocked
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'Partially Blocked' is a debut album of 18 bootlegs some also available as audio visual mashups made by pulling apart familiar recordings from 20th century British and American culture and placing the pieces in homes they were never meant to inhabit. Vocal stems find their true meaning on unfamiliar instrumental beds. Poets read over music they would never have chosen. Theme tunes become elegies. The results are funny, then devastating, sometimes simultaneously.
The album draws on over twenty-seven years of practice as an interactive artist and VJ, working with consciousness, nostalgia, and lost histories. In 2025, for the first time, the artist placed herself inside the AI-generated visual worlds built around each track — directing her own surreal narrative from within a difficult domestic period. The work that emerged is autobiographical without being confessional, dark without being without humour.
Ten tracks from this album have aired on Resonance FM, The London Ear, October 2025 —March 2026, where the host discussed the source material and its alternate meanings at length.
It all started in September 2025 when I won a vinyl album in Hastings' monthly jazz club 'The berth of the cool' raffle hosted by Ben Thompson, it was 'Betjeman's Banana Blush' featuring Sir John Betjeman reading various poems set to music by Jim Parker. I was immediately struck by his delivery of 'Working Girls' and my earworms jumped in delight for 24 hours, compelling me to compare how Ian Dury delivers his lyrics in 'Hit me with your rhythm stick' a tune my family owned and I had grown up. Initially, they worked well without sound collaging, but I had just bought a piece of software much simpler than Albeton Live, called DJ Studio to enable my first bootleg 'Minder Games' a detailed 4-layered obsession. I made a quick video mainly for YouTube without AI for 'Business stick' and submitted it to Ben Thompson, who is the curator and host of The London Ear. The response was warming and then I swiftly delved into Phillip Larkin for his darkness revealed in mashups 'Hard Day's Aubade' and 'Gigolo toad'.
They made a lot of sense to me after I completed each one, they were not predetermined logically. The earworms enslaved me, and the only way to release each compulsion was to fix it, making a new mashup.
I realised I wasn't alone in imagined mashups and keeping them in mind for months or years when I met someone over Xmas who told me their idea was This is The End by the Doors playing with 'If i was a carpenter and you were a lady' by Bobby Derin ( a tune I had known as a cover in the 70s ), becoming 'End of a lady' listed at the bottom of this page.
The London Ear on Mixcloud (shows featuring Token Girl as I was called before renaming as 'Cloth Mother'
March 12th 2026 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-12-march-2026-iran/
January 29th 2026 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-29-january-2026-ish/
December 11th 2025 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-11-december-2025-flock/
November 27th 2025 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-27-november-2025-rosalia/
October 23rd 2025 https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-london-ear-23-october-2025-cbm/
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