Made this collage the night he died. Used these sampled loops for a live performance at Mostra Barcelona 2023

https://ryuichisakamoto.bandcamp.com

Sakamoto Tribute Collage

Thx HOC radio X Mostra for adding my ambient mix "We Carry Eden" to your great playlist. You can listen to the voice of American minimal poet Robert Lax (photo) who lived on Patmos, Greece. Music contains samples from artists like Sigur Rós, Shabaka, Sam Gendel, Ulla, Arooj Aftab, Houeida Hedfi, Mira Calix, O Yuki Conjugate, Jon Hassell, Nala Sinephro, Pharoah Sanders and more. 

Vocal samples in this mix from the "Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep" docu by Demetrios. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq-l26UOhw&t=433s

Coming soon the "We Carry Eden" album by Son Of Chi

Listen more:
https://soundcloud.com/hoc-radio

We Carry Eden - Son Of Chi Mix for HOC Radio X Mostra Barcelona

A 70 minutes compilation by Son Of Chi, taken from Astral Industries Releases 2016-2023. All tracks recorded and produced at the Chi Factory Studios, Rotterdam.

AI-05 * Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings (2016)
AI-07 * Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings (2017)
AI-09 * Chi Factory - Red Lantern At The Kallikatsou (2017)
AI-12 * Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings (2019)
AI-15 * J.Derwort - Bamboo Music (2019)
AI-18 * Son Of Chi - Travel In Peace (2020)
AI-25 * Son Of Chi & Radboud Mens - Transition Recordings (2021)
AI-29 * Son Of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes (2022)
AI-32 * Son Of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings (2022)

Order all vinyl releases at:
www.astralindustries.bandcamp.com

Contact the Chi Factory/Son Of Chi:
https://www.instagram.com/hanyo_sonofchi/

Seven Years @ The Chi Factory

Made this ambient podcast for Last Drop Records back in 2018. 
instagram.com/lastdroprecords 
soundcloud.com/lastdroprecords

Tracklisting:

1. Hector Zazou + Asia Argento Mix
2. Masayoshi Fujita + Jan Jelinek
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto
4. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe + Einstein + Arvo Pärt Mix
5. Ariel Kalma
6. Mouse On Mars
7. Holger Czukay + Hopi Elder Radford Quamahongnewa Mix
8. Roberto Musci
9. Jon Hassell + Arvo Pärt Mix
10. Stanley Cowell
11. Biosphere
12. Yelli Baka
13. Bill Laswell
14. Mouse On Mars
15. DJ Krush + Pablo Casals Mix
16. Tony Anderson + Charles Bukowski Mix
17. Ben Goza + Robert Lax Mix
18. Brian Eno + David Byrne
19. Terry Riley + Dunya Yunis + Stockhausen Mix
20. Ryoji Ikeda
21. Kangding Ray + Sun Ra Mix
22. Can
23. Freeform Arkestra
24. David Sulvian & Jon Hassell
25. Lino Capra Vaccina + John Cage Mix
26. Don Cherry
27. Ryuichi Sakamoto
28. Holger Czukay
29. Múm

Beautiful Mistakes Podcast

A 13.30 minute collage of the album "Travel In Peace" that i recorded in 2019 as a requiem for my soulbrother J.Derwort. 

At 11.30 min you can hear his last flute ever recorded. I call this piece "Last Breath". It was a sunny day in january 2019 at his house in Santa Fe, where he moved december 2018. I put out a comfortable chair with a blanket in the winter sun. And a small table, a cup of tea and his first ever made bamboo flute. He said: thank you but i can not play anymore. After 30 minutes he still picked up the flute and played for a few seconds, that i recorded on my telephone. He said: it's no good at all, but still it's oke, i know you will put your magic to it later. He borrowed me this flute that he made at the Kallikatsou early eighties to record more myself. It was a kind of farwell. A month later he died. Of course i was there too and his best friends.
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You can download the original album (2 x 21 minute) here:
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-18-travel-in-peace
The vinyl was sold out shortly after the release. They now sell copies up to Є 200 on Discogs, which is of course crazy.  I hope Astral will do a repress soon. 

Here are a few of the reviews:

Fred Mikardo-Greaves for Norman Records:
‘Travel In Peace’. Sound advice. Our own Ant rather delightfully described Chi Factory’s ‘Travel In Peace’ as a ‘mind lozenge’, and this latest set is certainly a balm for the soul in extraordinary times. The two side-long meditations here are sonically rather amorphous - aquatic drone, fourth-world soundscapes, spiritual incantations and far-out flurries of field recording can all be found across the course of the LP. Jon Hassell, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra and ‘Tower Of Meaning’-mode Arthur Russell keep watch over both band and listener throughout. ‘Travel In Peace’, and leave refreshed.

Juno Records:
"Following the death of his one-time Chi Factory partner J.Derwort in February 2019, Hanyo van Oosterom went back to Patmos, the magical island where they once recorded their most famous works, armed with some of the artefacts and hand-built instruments they'd collected together. While there, he made the field recordings and musical sketches that form the backbone of "Travel In Peace", Oosterom's emotional final album as Chi Factory. Poignant, atmospheric, melancholic, dreamy and otherworldly with a genuine sense of time and place (you can almost smell the surrounding flora and fauna), the album's two lengthy tracks - collages of interlinked sketches and recurring musical motifs - are fittingly fantastic. As curtain calls go, we can think of few better".

Here's an interview with "A Vague New World" from 2019. It's all about the story behind CHI, The Chi Factory and Son Of Chi:
https://vaguenewworld.substack.com/p/in-conversation-hanyo-van-oosterom

And a video collage on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6scnruYei0Q

Travel In Peace Collage

Not for sale, free download here

"Inspired by my visit at the house of the American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) on Patmos, Greece October 2015. Back home I started making random samples from Youtube and creating soundscapes. All loops are realtime and randomly put together. While doing this i got the test vinyl of the "Original Recordings" by CHI, that we made 30 years ago. To be released in 2016 by Astral Industries (UK). It felt like the circle was closed.

"My first ambient track ever was called Hopi (1983). This new soundscape closes with a Hopi message. The photo is a Hopi Angel (this is what i googled). The soundscape created itself. I was only putting it together. It all came random and easily.

"A collective of sounds and voices from around the world. You'll hear poetry by Robert Lax, a Bukovski reading by Tom Waits, samples of Sun Ra, Nikos Eliou (Patmos), Koos Derwort (CHI) the voice of Nelson Mandela, John Cage, Inayat Khan, Ram Dass and much, much more. Hope you'll like it".

One Moment, Not Separate

First sketches for a collab with Radboud Mens from 2018, that did not make it to the final album "Transition Recordings" (Astral Industries 2021). It was a bit "too funky" for Astral but still too nice not to share. I never did the overdubs i had in mind....

Discogs gives the final album a rating of 4.9 (out of 5). Great to see so many people love these final recordings, my first after the loss of my best friend and soulmate J. Derwort, bless you. I believe the outtro is a wonderful 4th world scape that i almost forgot, but still love a lot. Free download for now on Soundcloud for you earlybirds. 

We are working now on a brand new double album called "Son Of Chi & Radboud Mens - Return To The Kallikatsou" to be released in 2024 TBA. Looking forward!

Boomkat on Transition Recordings:
"Astral Industries’ fave Hanyo van Oosterom (The Chi Factory) re-enters the label’s orbit in duo with fellow dutch ether explorer Radboud Mens for a minimalist but lush ambient trip".

"Following the 2019 death of The Chi Factory’s J. Derwort, ‘The Transition Recordings’ see Hanyo continue to expand the group’s legacy, looping in explorative sound artist and producer Radboud Mens to assist in unfurling his vision of diaphanous pads threaded with silvery solo piano keys, murmuring ether voices and mesmerising touches of Hassellian 4th world wind".

"In combination they cultivate a sort night garden sound full of sensory inference and esoteric suggestion, where sounds synaesthetically take on both visual and olfactory symbolism but never fully reveal their whole shape, kept in a state of transient impermanence or ephemerality that totally seduces the horizontal and plays out on the back of one’s eyelids".

Juno on Transition Recordings:
"Newcomers to Astral Industries have happened upon the label at a great moment here. Hanyo van Oosterom is continuing the fantastic work he was involved in with J. Derwort under the Chi project name following the latter's death in 2019. Now producing under the moniker Son of Chi, it's an extension rather than a repetition of what has come before it".

"Tonal vocabulary expanded, it feels more immersive and grander than ever before, and yet retains the fundamentals that first enraptured us. Organic instrumentation and the sense of falling ever deeper into dreamlike states of consciousness are just two ways of describing what both Chi and the new offspring concept bring to the table. These are new sonic worlds opening up before our mind's eye, packed with mystery, lamentation, and hope for tomorrow'.

Radboud Mens @ The Chi Factory Part One (demo 2018)

In 2016 i remixed the original soundtrack of the 2007 Argentine fantasy drama film written and directed by Esteban Sapir. I created loops of samples from the filmscore.

November 2016 we performed live at Kino Rotterdam during the "La Notte" Filmfestival. The same hall where we once did the premiere of CHI, The Original Recordings (1986). The place was then called "Lantaren/Venster". 

For this special event we were invited by CineSonic. We improvised live on the basic sketches under the filmscrene. We each had a video monitor. On the photo (from left to right): 
Hanyo van Oosterom - Jacobus Derwort - Michel Banabila

Find out more:
https://ra.co/events/895772

Son Of Chi - La Antena Remixes (skecthes 2016)

Remix i did in 2016 of "Song Of The Brids" by the great Pablo Casals. I was working on the "Mantra Recordings" album of the CHI Factory. I sampled audio and video from his live performance at the United Nations on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8DjwLt_c4

You can hear the breathing and the introduction by Pablo Casals. I was lucky to find the bird on Youtube, answering the music without editing, completely in tune and in the beat. This remix never made it to the album, but the bird and some samples did :)

Listen to Part one (13.40):
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-12-the-mantra-recordings

Song Of The Birds (remix)

Preparing for the (5 year) memorial concert for Jacobus Derwort in Valencia, February 6th 2024 @ Madame Mim, i made a random collage of tracks i have been listening to the last days. Half way i started mixing them together a bit more...

Live i will perform a selection of new Son Of Chi works. This collage is just for tuning and inspiration.  Please scroll down for the credits of this collage and make sure to visit all the artists profiles and sites for more music and info. Thank you!

The Valencia Collage

1. Zylva
2. The Black Dog
3. Taylor Dupree
4. Hania Rani
5. Toki Fuko
6. Andre 3000
7. Mauve Rose
8.  Sonmi 451
9. Civilistjävel
10. Ulla
11. Amber Meulenijzer + Kmru (mix)
12. Megan Leber (live)
13. Monolake + Don Cherry (mix)
14. Mira Calix
15. Shards
16. Rival Consoles
17. Night Sea + Shards (mix)
18. Andrew Pekler
19. Carmen Villain + Jon Hassell (mix)
20. Yana x Terre Thaemlitz  + raga + Sakamoto (mix)  
21. Laurie Anderson
22. Michael Brook x Brian Eno

The Valencia Collage (Abstract Trips)

A silent collection i made for a friend doing Qigong workshops. A mix of classic and contemporary Chinese music and some great piano scapes by Ryuichi Sakamoto and a few pieces from the legendary album "Music for Zen Meditation" by Tony Scott.

Fieldrecordings are from the Kallikatsou, Patmos (Greece)

Tai Chi Collage

Collage i made for the reopening of the Rotterdam World Museum in 2009. It was played in a loop on hidden speakers (on low volume) as people were walking through the expo. 

I sampled fieldrecordings and original African live music and soundscapes from Youtube from all the different cultures that were represented at the exposition. 

A lot of these African pieces of art have recently been returned to the rightful owners, which is good news of course.

Africa Collage

Founder of CHI (1984) and the Chi Factory (2016). Member of Soundcloud since August 2023. Performing, recording, producing 
as Son Of Chi since 2020.

Find out more on future Son Of Chi releases on instagram and Astral Industries.

The Chi Factory has performed live at festivals like Signal Russia, Rewire The Hague, Intrinsic France, Berlin Atonal, Astral Industries Weekender, Off Sonar, La Nature, Mostra Barcelona and more. Hope to see you soon live.

For bookings of Son Of Chi & Arthur Flink you can contact Gea Russell at Rubrecordings:
https://www.rubrecordings.com/son-of-chi--arthur-flink.html

For special Chi Factory live events, licensing, remixes etc you can contact Ario Farahani at Astral Industries:
info@astralindustries.co.uk
hanyo@ziggo.nl

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