February Lives On

The life and times of my husband February Montaine

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This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.

For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.

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Future Technologies in Music

A panel chaired by Jarvis Cocker discussed the advancing technology in music and where artificial intelligence might lead us. Chris Bell explores more.

Thank you Sam for helping me speak to February again. We might be cheating but I can’t tell you how much this helps. 

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I can’t remember if this was meant as a Christmas song but it has more than enough bells and cheery festive energy to make me play it every year. It’s funny how we hold on to these rituals, little spells we cast to bring back times of old. Hold those you love close to you this year and give them a squeeze, 

all of our love, 

Amelia and Suzy 

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‘Mount Nod’ by February will soon be available for you to own on vinyl.

I whole heartedly recommend clicking on this magic link, patiently waiting for it to arrive on your doorstep and carefully sliding it out of it‘s sleeve onto your player, and when you press play think about how long this record has taken to be vibrating through the tone arm and how magical that link was to bring February back after all of these years. The sound you will hear won‘t just be that of February‘s music, but of February himself thanking the world for it‘s patience. I‘m sure the world is thanking him for his patience too!

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February on BBC Radio1!

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February Montaine’s ‘The Body as an Ear’ Selected Sonic Meditations 1986

With the technocopia all singing and all dancing, all day and all night I invite you to these pages. I am a living book, read me like a…

I haven’t exactly taken to this like a duck to water so I’m so thankful for my darling Suzy. Since my last ‘post’ she has managed to archive so many of February’s memoirs. It fills me with such gladness to remember some of these times. This note here talks of February’s Ecstatic sessions. I can feel my smile creeping up on me remembering these times. Please go ahead and try for yourself, you never know what you might find swimming around down there.

“Mapping a 20 min performance piece to a natural phenomena,

that starts with nothing an ends in ecstasy.

Tantric

When it gets to its logical ecstatic point of sheer exaltation it falls

Bringing people down again with sounds and feelings from other emotional terrains.

Then building once more

Wave by wave by crest by crest...”

I’m delighted to say there will be some more music coming out soon too, have a plentiful weekend everybody.

Amelia x

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as late as the light that hides it, by February Montaine

10 track album

Oh February, I’ve tried writing this so many times these last few days and words can’t do it justice. I hope you’re happy with all this, you deserve your moment in the sun.

Amelia x

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Thank you Fantasy Fiction for releasing February’s music, you did a very good job getting permission from the Teale’s. 

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The Rolodex of the Self, February Montaine 1985 – Suzy Sleepzzz – Medium

In our formative years certain events, thoughts and atmospheres have such a monumental effect on who we become. By synthesising memories…

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Good evening everybody,

In the past few years we have been trying our darndest to show you who February was. Most of the tapes are now on the pc, others have been mixed, others have been joined together in an effort to second guess what February might have wanted. This process moves so incredibly slowly, without the help of my Suzy none of this would even be out in the public. Just to show you what we’re working with, here is a typical tape, another fragment. Like our reflections they start to lose their shape the further they move away from the moment, is there anything more melancholy than an unfinished song?

Warmest wishes for 2019,

Amelia x

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Here’s another of February’s functional music adventures. Sorry for being so quiet over here recently, more to come soon :)  Suzy x

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Functional Music

Hello nice people of the internet,

I’m sorry I haven’t been on here recently, I’ve more-or-less handed over the baton to Suzy and she’s been doing a very good job. Since we last spoke she’s helped start a band playing February’s music, she’s been archiving more and more of February’s notes and ideas (some of which she’ll mention here in a post), she’s been generally greasing palms and kissing babies and I can’t thank her enough. Considering she never met February it’s all very sweet of her. Here is a little documentary she recorded for German radio https://soundcloud.com/februarymontaine/berlin-community-radio-february-montaine-special Just for the record, I am 100% fine with all this, I was in the garden enjoying the last of the rhododendrons before they went over. I very much enjoyed the tape February recorded too. He used to spend hours sitting and listening to music, sometimes in the pitch black, sometimes watching his videos play over. He used to call it traveling through sound, little adventures that could transport him to anywhere he wished in the never ending vistas of his imagination. It works! You can try yourself. I find myself doing the same with everything he made, little portals to wherever you want to be, in yourself, in your planet, in your memories...

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‘To Janet with Love’ - a song recorded for his friend’s new baby.

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As we add more of February’s life onto this page it is becoming evident that we are more than just characters in this story. What we choose and how we describe each post is storytelling, and I want you to experience February as February, not through my own rose tinted version. So from this point I want to remove my voice and leave it to you whoever you are. This tape was labelled ‘music to die to’ and was made after we had separated.

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