Hip Hop Instrumentals

Useless Sounds is an occasional series, an informal presentation of unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds]

The Sound Propositions podcast has a unique format. Rather than two people chatting in front of the mic, each episode is an audio-documentary, blending music, field recordings, and sound design with the voice of each  subject. Sound Propositions features conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. This series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ 

You can also find Sound Propositions wherever you listen to podcasts: Radio Public, Stitcher, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Anchor, or any podcast feed that uses RSS.

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Sound Propositions [podcast]

a mix of tracks from the past two years (with one exception), leaning heavily into hip hop and beats

2020 VISION

billy woods & Preservation - “Versailles (feat. Despot)” (Aethiopes, Backwoodz, 2022)
700 BLISS -  “Candace Parker (feat Muqata'a)” (Nothing To Declare, 2022)
Quelle Chris -  So Tired You Can't Stop Dreaming (feat. Navy Blue) (DEATHFAME, Mellow Music, 2022)
VHVL -  “bonus garbage” (limited garbage, 2020)
Black Star - “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” (No Fear of Time, 2022) 
Lorraine James - “Lets go” (Reflection, 2021)
lilien rosarian - “moseying” (every flower in my garden, 2022)
Open Mike Eagle - “Burner Account (feat. Armand Hammer _ prod. Quelle Chris)” (2021)
Kendrick Lamar - “Purple Hearts (feat. Summer Walker & Ghostface Killah)” ( Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, TDE, 2022)
Earl Sweatshirt - “Tabula Rasa (feat Armand Hammer)” (SICK!, Tan Cressida, 2022)
GENG PTP -  “(sneaker pimps, sunn 0))), alice coltrane)” (Slowness as the Vehicle III, 2021)
Roc Marciano - “Bozak (Instrumental)” (Marcberg Instrumentals, Fat Beats, 2012)
Navy Blue - “Breathe (feat. Yasiin Bey)” (Song of Sage: Post Panic!, 2020)
Armand Hammer “Sardonyx feat. Pink Siifu & Quelle Chris (prod. by Sebb Bash)” (WHT LBL, 2022)
Earl Sweatshirt - “Fire in the Hole” (SICK!, Tan Cressida, 2022)
Swaya - “Say So” (EXsistence, PTP, 2022)
PremRock - “Bardo (ft. billy woods, prod. by Evidence)” (2022)
African Ghost Valley - DEGAS PHAL (DEGAS PHAL, 2021)
Koray Kantarcioğlu - “Schaffhausen feat Ekin Fil” (Loopworks 2, Discrepant, 2022)

the new objective presents 2020 VISION

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re 

with Zavoloka, Burning Woman and Vlad Suppish 

discussing the aftermath of the Russian invasion of February 24 2022 

and issues relating to the sound-centred impact of war.



Tracklisting:

Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Cluster Lizard - Music of Creation 
Troxellemott - Trauma Zavoloka - Obriad
Vlad Suppish - A Hobbyist of Hellworlds
Burning Woman - Nightingale Song
Dmytro Bobryk - Goverla
Stas Teterevlev - Ambience_Kyiv_24_02_022
Vlad Suppish - Bergamot Lyre
Zavoloka - Vilna
Sean Deigh - Gardens of the Mind
Mishka Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen  (reprise)
Vlad Suppish - A Glimmer of Hope

To support Ukraine visit: https://supportukrainenow.org/

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 July 2022 - with Burning Woman, Vlad Suppish, Zavoloka

This mix was selected by Gabe Bogart, old friend and colleague from the site before this one, occasional contributor to ACL. Back in 2013, I asked him for some hip hop producer recommendations, and we put together these beat-centric mixes. We had talked about doing some more mixes in this way (his selection with me doing the mixing) but it wasn't until the pandemic that Gabe sent me over a batch of tracks he’d been enjoying, which I mixed during a particularly cold winter night early in 2021. I sat on that session for a long time, went back and thought I’d mix it afresh but found I enjoyed it as is. (Joseph Sannicandro)

“Aiight breh, like let’s go rob the 7-11 for some Steel Reserve and get mad hammered before we hit the club and try to dance with a belly full of Klonopin!!!” 

Tracklist

Torn Relics - Abolish the Dogma (Abolish The Dogma, Leyla, 2020)
Clark - Forebode Knocker (Kiri Variations, Throttle, 2019)
Andy Stott - Promises (It Should Be Us, Modern Love, 2019)
Kelly Lee Owens - Evolution (Kelly Lee Owens, Smalltown Supersound, 2017)
GAMING - Abandoned Suburbs (Scenes From A Deserted City, Hobbes Music, 2019)
Sand Circles - Downtown Holdup (Motor City, Posh Isolation, 2016)
Pye Corner Audio - I Got Bit (I Got Bit, self-released, 2019)
Jennifer Touch - I Love You, Let's Go (Behind the Wall, FatCat, 2020)
Jay Glass Dubs - Apple Sliced (Soma, Berceuse Heroique, 2020)
TOBACCO - Pit (Hot Wet & Sassy, Ghostly International, 2020)
Luke Abbott - Earthship (Translate, Border Community/Dinked Edition, 2020)
Rival Consoles - Forwardism (Articulation, Erased Tapes, 2020)

Gabelicious Thee Most Delicious Mix Fart Un

Selected by G. Bogart.
Dubbed by the new objective

Read more, including tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com


Bogart's Select Hip Hop Instrumentals

Selected by G. Bogart.
Dubbed by the new objective

tracklist and more at http://acloserlisten.com/2014/02/11/lcnl-043-hip-hop-instrumentals-mix-part-ii/

Bogart's Select Hip Hop Instrumentals II

Jessica Moss has just released Galaxy Heart, a surprising collection of ten songs that form a companion to last year’s Phosphenes. The Montréal-based composer, violinist, and vocalist recorded the material for both records (and more) during the peak of early pandemic lockdown, allowing her songcraft to take new forms, as well as welcoming collaborators into her solo music for the first time. Moss, of course, is a prolific collaborator, and we have been a fan of her work for over two decades, particularly her 15-year tenure with Silver Mt. Zion. In this episode, Moss dives into the making of her two recent solo albums, the highs and lows of pandemic touring, the return of Black Ox Orkestar,  and her collaborations with Vic Chesnutt and Jem Cohen.

TRACKLIST

Jessica Moss - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, Constellation, 2022)
SP INTRO
JM - “Memorizing And Forgetting” (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
JM - “UNDER” (Under Plastic Island, self-released, 2015)
JM - “Uncanny Body [Violin Study #1]”  /“Uncanny Being [Violin Study #2] feat. Thierry Amar and Jim White” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Sibelius / (Gil Shaham / Philharmonia Orchestra / Giuseppe Sinopoli)  - “Violin Concerto in D minor, Op47 - 1st movement: Allegro moderato” (Violon Concerto - Violinkonzerte, Deutsche Grammophon, 1993)
Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir - Mihail Milkov - “Svyatii Bozhe” (Orthodox Chants, Балкантон, 1998)
Black Ox Orkestar - “Golem” (Nisht Azoy = נישט אזױ, CST, 2006)
Black Ox Orkestar - “Mizrakh-mi-maarav” (Everything Returns, CST, 2022)
K.C. Accidental / Broken Social Scene medley
ZU - “The Dawning Moon of the Mind” (Jhator, House of Mythology, 2017)
JM -  “Fractals (Truth 1)” (Entanglement, CST, 2018)
Excerpts of David Garland interviewing Silver Mt. Zion (Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - “there’s a river in the valley made of melting snow” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band -  “Hang On To Each Other” (Horses In The Sky, CST, 2005)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra feat. Ariel Engle - “Any Fucking Thing You Love”  (Hang On To Each Other, CST, 2014)
JM - “Entire Populations (Pt III)” (Pools of Light, CST, 2017)
Vic Chesnutt - “Splendid” (North Star Deserter, CST, 2007)
VC - “You Are Never Alone” (North Star Deserter, CST, 2007)
VC - “Glossolalia” (North Star Deserter, CST, 2007)
Fugazi - “The Argument” (The Argument, Discord, 2001)
Sarah Davachi -  “Matins” (Gave In Rest, Ba Da Bing!, 2018)
Matana Roberts - “Jewels Of The Sky: Inscription” (Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, CST, 2019) 
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - “Horses in the Sky” (Live on Spinning on Air, WNYC, 2005)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series 2020-2021, CST, 2020)
JM - “Opened Ending” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Carla Bozulich – “Evangelista I” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
Oiseaux-Tempête – “Weird Dancing In All-Night I” (From Somewhere Invisible, Sub Rosa, 2019)
Anonymous - “Valle Popullore” (Cry You Mountains Cry You Fields: Albanian Folk Music, Saydisc Records, 1999)
PJ Harvey - “Hanging In The Wire” (Let England Shake, Vagrant, 2011)
Eve Parker Finley - “Alone / Together” (Chrysalia, 2020)
Carla Bozulich - “Prince of the World” (Evangelista, CST, 2006)
Set Fire To Flames – “Barn Levitate” (Barn Levitate, self-released, 2020)
Jessica Moss - “Enduring Oceans” (Galaxy Heart, CST, 2022)
Jessica Moss - Distortion Harbour (Phosphenes, CST, 2021)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

SP* Episode 27: ATTUNEMENT - with Jessica Moss [podcast]

Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early) minimalism” and the later canonization of Minimalism as we know it since the early 1980s. In addition to the book, we discuss searching for obscure records online, our shared love of Constellation Records, and the influence of Tony Conrad.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

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SP* Episode 32: INDISCREET MUSIC -  with Patrick Nickleson [podcast]

An edited soundwalk consisting of field-recordings made on July 20th during the Sonic Delights festival at Caramoor in Katonah, NY.  As much about the incidental sounds as the art works themselves.  A reflection on the limitations of the term 'sound art.' Assembled by thenewobjective

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com
Visit the exhibition until November 1st, more at http://www.caramoor.org/events/garden-sonic-delights/

[HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED]

A Machine In The Garden

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях
ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk
Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване
ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine

be_ca_di created an ambient, calm and deep mix consisting only of releases and unreleased tracks from his label ОЧІ (OCHI). It showcases vibrant Ukrainian electronic music and highlights the recent fundraiser compilation for Musicians defend Ukraine - "24.2.24", as tracks used in this mix are also part of this compilation.

Anton Malinowskyi – doppelgänger (unreleased)
Leo Buy - thoughts before sleep (released on ОЧІ)
Piragranty - no concept (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
3sds - 3 days at frontline (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
Parking Spot – Hiddén (released on Dnipropop)
Kotyk Arrangement by Kotyk Murkotyk (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
Anton Malinowskyi – semblance (unreleased)
be_ca_di - the dawn (released on ОЧІ)
theplo – untitled (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
ummsbiaus & Difference Machine – hodynnyk (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
seraphina & no justice – from the abyss (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
Anton Malinowskyi - for all the dawns (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)
monotonne - 1 november (released on ОЧІ – ’24.2.24’ V/A FUNDRAISER COMPILATION)

be_ca_di presents Musicians defend Ukraine [mix]

AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

AGF  - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
SP Intro
AGF - “SKINgame”  (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)
AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)
AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)
AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)
Laub -  “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)
Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)
Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)
AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)
AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)
KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)
Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)
AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)
AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)
AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)
RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)
J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)
AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)
Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)
AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)
Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)
AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)
AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)
PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)
Kevin Richard Martin /  KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)
Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)
AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

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SP* Episode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGF [podcast]

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist 
Lostlojic - Майструймо гучну культуру ( Let's make a loud culture)
Clasps - Re-Rooting (ft. Daryna Panas)
Lostlojic - Bayraktar (excerpt)
Lostlojic - Night Explode (excerpt)
Distortion (UA) - Jaguar (excerpt)
Clasps - Shibboleth (excerpt)
Clasps - Take Charge And Move In (excerpt)
Slava Los - Snus (excerpt)

Ukrainian Field Notes

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps

C. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives. She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm, a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Propositions podcast, we discuss the influence of Pauline Oliveros, how working as an educator led to writing Transcendent Waves, and the evolution of the relationship between her practice as a sound artist and sound healer. (Joseph Sannicandro)

Read more including tracklisting at www.acloserlisten.com

cover image: Sonia Louise Davis - emergence: stardust from tomorrow (2023)

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SP* Episode 36: CREATIVE LISTENING - with C. Lavender [podcast]

France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great Room40 label.We sat down in Montreal to discuss her formative sonic experiences, her origin in a blues band, her interest in physics, and a growing body of audio-visual work with Markus Heckmann.

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room40, 2024)
SP INTRO
Christopher Tyng - “Futurama Theme” (Futurama, 1999)
Pierre Henry / Michel Colombier - “Messe Pour Le Temps Présent: Psyché Rock” (Les Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart, Philips, 1968)
I8U (France Jobin) - “29 Palms [excerpt]” (29 Palms, Dragon’s Eye, 2010)
France Jobin + Fabio Perletta - “Parallel” (Mirror Neurons, Dragon’s Eye, 2015)
Son House - “Forever On My Mind” [1964] (Forever On My Mind, Easy Eye Sound, 2022)
Marc Nerenberg - “Cocaine Blues [edit]” (Live at the Yellow Door Hootenanny, Montreal, Nov 2023) 
The Twelve Bar Bluesband - “Life is Hard (when you play the blues)” (Live at bluesmoose Radio, 2014)
I8U -  “10³³CM [excerpt]” (10³³CM,  Room40, 2009)
France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu - “Sea Song IV” (RADIANCE II: Music for the Answer, Schwebung, 2016) 
France Jobin - “The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist” (The Fluidity Of Time Does Not Exist, Room40, 2021)
France Jobin - “Unified Quantum State” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)
France Jobin - “f6e36b” (Hues, SUPERPANG, 2021)
France Jobin  - “Random” (Source of Uncertainty, Luminous Drift, 2022)
France Jobin + Richard Chartier - “DUO 4” (DUO, Matter, 2018)
France Jobin - “Casino Music” (Casino Music, 2023)
France Jobin - “EMS Synthi” (#evenmoresynthporn, 2020)
France Jobin - “A little buchla something​.​.​.” (A little buchla something​.​.​., 2022)
France Jobin - “Dégel” (Symbiose X - Dix Ans De Musiques Expérimentales - Ten Years Of Experimental Music, [walnut + locust] – wl076, Symbiose, 2022)
France Jobin - “Superposition [excerpt]” (Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), Room 40, 2024)

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

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SP* Episode 37: QUANTUM BLUES - with France Jobin [podcast]

Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories left behind. Coming out of the fertile hybrid music scenes of Chicago, Roberts resists being pigeon-holed into any one genre, and has a particularly complicated relationship being labeled as a “jazz” musician. In fact, as they point out in this episode, Roberts rejects binaries in general, preferring to explore other ways of being, a theme which is also reflected in the narratives of each of the chapters of COIN COIN. In this episode, we discuss Chapter Five, the loss of jaimie branch, and the lessons they learned from Montreal.  
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2024/09/15/sp-episode-38-dis-placed-with-matana-roberts-podcast/

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SP* Episode 38: DIS/PLACED - with Matana Roberts [podcast]

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:
* NINA EBA - DOVES (Whaler Remix)
* Whaler - Unity
* Whaler - Tanok
* Whaler - Underwater
* Whaler - Викид
* Potras23 - Kotuky (feat. Sofia Leshyshak)
* Whaler - The Event Horizon
* Whaler, Хор "Осоння" - В темную нічку
* Група Б - Нічні кімнати

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler

Jeunesse Cosmique showcase mix 
Curated for A Closer Listen by Stefan Christoff

Stefan Christoff is a friend and collaborator of mine, who has often contributed mixes to this blog. We are pleased to announce that our latest tape will be released as part of the third batch from Polish label OKLA, alongside a new work by the great Manja Ristić. But before we get to that, Stefan has put together a mix to celebrate Montreal tape label Jeunesse Cosmique, who released our previous collaboration, Across Time Patched Together. The label is run by Chittakone Baccam Thirakul, and has released projects from many of our favorite local artists, including Hazy Montagne Mystique, YlangYlang, A Sacred Cloud, Hobo Cubes, Anarchist Mountains, Alexandre St-Onge, and Hellenica, as well as records from out-of-towners, such as Arrington De Dionyso, Forest Management, and Lost Trail. This mix showcases some other artists from the recent Jeunesse Cosmique catalog, including some selections at the end from our recent tape. Enjoy. 

Read more from Stefan Christoff about this mix at www.acloserlisten.com

(accompanying photo by casi tankó)

Track listing 
(Artist name / track name)

01. agate - adrift
02. Hazy Montagne Mystique - je t_avais acheté 2 pamplemousses parce que je sais que tu aimes ça
03. Black Givre - Imaginaire Drumscape, Pt. III
04. ternet - cinoche vidéo
05. Clément Nectar - Tornade
06. Paraphonique - Minos - Corridors
07. Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - Across Time II
08. Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - Night Time Thoughts in the Me​́​tro
09. Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - After The Teargas

A Closer Listen

Stefan Christoff presents a Jeunesse Cosmique showcase [mix]

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist
Folk Group Fos - Bugdanku
Sartanskie Samotsvety ensemble - Of, mana, vay!
Nadiia Kalus - Ditty (udrama) "Ela miia kamiia"
Bir Taifa group - Dushenkalar
Bir Taifa group - Chikhmakh Khirimda
Vasyl Tanacha - track 9 (button accordion) 
Suren Voskanian, Yaryna Dron, Andrii Levchenko - Vari-ava

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки

Dope pitch shifted collage sampler mix from Alex Gray aka Deep Magic aka DPI.  

Read more at: http://acloserlisten.com/2012/06/27/lcnl-09-deep-magic/

Deep Magic - ACL MIX [repost]

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 November 2024 
Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

Alexander Stratonov - Traces of Ember
Hockins - Arzamas On Fire
Juli Riot - Bozhevillia
Zahvat - Bouquet for Olha
Septim - Cyber Thoughts
Phite Noise - Hydrogen
Myroslav Trofymuk aka. AЙKTRONER - 31.03.24
Kirik & Sidletskyi - area of passive recreation

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 November 2024

Negativland has always been about media literacy; their sound collages and pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their  relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met with a shrug today. While sampling has become less essential to their work, the group continues to reappropriate and recontextualize human speech, and in an age of AI voice clones, the importance of using actual voices becomes even more significant. Last fall, I sat down with Negativland’s Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) at Krakow, Poland’s Unsound festival to discuss the history of their long running group, the importance of radio, and how the changing mediascape has transformed the meaning of their work as collage has gone mainstream. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Negativland - “Is It Or Isn’t It” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
SP INTRO
Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)
Negativland - “Content” - (The World Will Decide, Seeland, 2020)
Negativland - “5” (Negativland, Seeland, 1980)
Negativland - “The Answer Is…” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Negativland - “Christianity is Stupid” (Escape from Noise, SST/Seeland, 1987)
New Order - “Blue Monday” (Blue Monday 12”, Factory, 1983)
Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Sarah Davachi - “ghosts and all” (Vergers, Important Records 2016)
iPad Synth demo youtube Ipad Synth or Original IVCS3 compared to EMS Synthi AKS
Negativland - “[Excerpt]” (Live at Unsound, 2023)
Edgard Varèse  - “Poème électronique” [1958] (Poème Electronique And Other Selections, EAV Lexington, 1973)
Karlheinz Stockhausen  - “Kontakte” [1958–60] (Kontakte, WERGO, 1963)
Wobbly - Failure Analyst (Failure Analyst, Bandcamp, 2024)
Christian Marclay - “Excerpt” (Live on Night Music 1988)
Charli - “Apple” [tiktok] (brat, 2024)
Negativland - “Failure” (The World Will Decide, Seeland,2020)
Negativland - “True or False” (True False, Seeland, 2019)
Negativland - “The Stain of Music”  (Over The Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel, Seeland, 2016)
Negativland - “Death Is Optional” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Negativland - “Algorithmic Me” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
Chopping Channel - “Happiness Is The New Productivity” (Independent Therapy, 2016)
Bana Haffar - “Castles in Beirut” (Castles in Beirut, Bandcamp, 2019)
Negativland - “The World Will Decide” (The World Will Decide, Bandcamp, 2020)
Over the Edge - “1991/06/06” (⁠The Best of Over the Edge⁠, Archive.org, 6 June 1991)
E L U C I D  - “[excerpt]” [2020] (SEERSHIP!, PTP, 2022)
Ween - “I Hate Morrissey (Home Demo)” (Boognish Rising 2013 Sampler, 2013)
Negativland - “A Nice Place To Live” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Chopping Channel - “Safe Place Orientation” (Independent Therapy, Seeland, 2016)
Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)
—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

SP* Episode 39: REVERSE POLARITY - with Negativland [podcast]

The second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music, but to very different affects. That is to say, this is an episode that leans into contrasts: the US and Europe, home and away, morning and night, quiet and noise. We discuss non-dance DJ sets, the relationship between music and fashion, the joys and difficulties of traveling as an artist, and the adventurous programming of Unsound. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Antonina Nowacka - “Transit” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Antonina Nowacka - “Part 7” (Lamunan, Mondoj, 2020) 
Antonina Nowacka - “KOGUT 2” (Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca, Takuroku/Mondoj, 2021)
A.N.R.S - “III” (A.N.R.S., Requiem Records, 2016)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - “Behind The Hill” Languoria, Mondoj, 2022)
WIDT - “Soma” (WIDT, Zoharum, 2016)
Antonina Nowacka - “Turning Into Dolphins” (Sylphine Soporifera, Mondoj, 2024)
Mentos Gulgendo - "Ionesendr" (Mentos Gulgendo, 2020)
DREAMCRUSHER - “CISHET” (CISHET, 2019)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Shopping” (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Side A [excerpt]” (Another Country, PTP, 2020)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Sick World” (Sick World, 2016)
Kill Alters - live excerpt (Unsound Krakow, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER (ft. Dis Fig) - Chrysalis (Chrysalis (Suite), Bandcamp, 2022)
KING VISION ULTRA - “UNTRAPPINGS (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
KING VISION ULTRA - “Paper Chase (with Dreamcrusher)” (Shook World (Hosted by Algiers), PTP, 2023)
Armand Hammer - “Gripewater” (BLK LBL, 2024)
Armand Hammer - “[Dreamcrusher interlude] (We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, Fat Possum, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - (Side B [excerpt]” (Panopticon!, PTP, 2020)
Centennial Gardens - “dreamstate” (archive live 03​.​26​.​2023 mucho stereo, PTP, 2023) 
DREAMCRUSHER - “In Due Time”  (Suite ONE, PTP, 2023)
DREAMCRUSHER - “Antifa Baker”  (Suite TWO, PTP, 2023)
SP Outro

—-
Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

SP* Episode 40: FASHION (or, MONEY IS FERTILIZER) - with Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 December 2024 - with Antuanetta Mishchenko and Natalie Beridze


Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re


Tracklist
Dmytro Radzetskyi - "Ukraine On Fire" performed by Antuanetta Mishchenko and Maja Nußbaumer
Nikakoi - "Lullaby for Tanya" (background)
Natalie Beridze - "Holes"
Nina Simonishvili - "Meanwhile"
Anushka Chkheidze - "War Generation, Again"

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 December 2024 - with Antuanetta Mishchenko and Natalie Beridze

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 January 2025 - with Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Lvcerate and Vladyslav Putistin

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist
* Vladyslav Putistin & Lvcerate - Between Joy and Fear
* Lvcerate - Velvet Suspense
* Lyudska Podoba (Lyric & singing: Arthur Snitkus, Сomposer: Gosha Babanski) - Petite Mort (excerpt)
* Human Margareeta - Kryshtal
* Lenoczka - Just chilling in a hammock over the abyss
* Heinali - Beatrice (excerpt)


Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 January 2025 - with Human Margareeta, Lenoczka, Lvcerate and Vladyslav Putistin

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 February 2025 - with Danya Isaenko (aka Aspen Grove), Tetiana Khoroshun and Yulia Shcherbak

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist

Tetiana Khoroshun - I see the sea
Aspen Grove - Glybyna
Tetiana Khoroshun - Crimean Titan
Aspen Grove - Ne Zabuwai mene
Tetiana Khoroshun - Yalta
Aspen Grove - Druzhe


Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 February 2025 - with Danya Isaenko (aka Aspen Grove), Tetiana Khoroshun and Yulia Shcherbak

Shimmering Moods founder Paul mixes together 17 tracks from recent and upcoming releases into a stunning mix of light electronica and dark ambient, full of powerful moods and intriguing textures. 

Read More at www.acloserlisten.com

Shimmering Moods presents "Tales of the Field"

Luminance Ratio is an Italian psychedelic drone super-group consisting of Gianmaria Aprile (Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick), Andrea Ferraris (Airchamber 3, Ur), Luca Mauri (I/O) and Luca Sigurtà (Harshcore).  Inspired by their most recent LP Honey Ant Dreaming (Alt.Vinyl, 2016) they combine their eclectic influences into a deep mix.

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

LCNL 079

Luminance Ratio's Honey Dream

This mix was made by Joseph Sannicandro (A CLOSER LISTEN) for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014. 

Read more about the mix, including tracklisting: 

http://secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannicandro-a-closer-listen-mix/

https://acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-mix-for-secret-thirteen/#comment-127414

Secret Thirteen Mix

Secret Thirteen Mix 139 - A Closer Listen

Zachary Corsa (NONCONNAH, Lost Trail) puts together a mix of his favorite "witch house" tracks to prove the journalist-derived micro-genre still has more gas left in its frozen tank. 

Read more: www.acloserlisten.com

LCNL 091

▲†NONCONNAH'S Long Live Witch House Mix '18†▲

It's been nearly seven years since this series debuted, and somehow we're still here doing this 100 mixes later. There are some exciting new things in the air, but before we look forward we should look back and commemorate this milestone in style.  So here's a look back at our roots, with 36 following up his mix from fall 2011, the very first in our series. 

Read more, including a tracklist, at: www.acloserlisten.com

36 - ACL100MIX

Shida Shahabi is an Iranian-Swedish pianist and composer, with a background in sound art.  Early Autumn is timed to coincide with the release of Homes, Shahabi's debut album. Mainly featuring an old Swedish upright piano as its sole instrument, Homes delves deep into explorations of intimate piano tones, assured in its imperfections and sparse arrangements. This mix brings together old favorites with new releases in honor of her debut solo release. 

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Shida Shahabi presents Early Autumn

A binaural recording, headphone listening recommended. 

I left Palazzo Venezia heading west on via Benedetto Croce, crossing Piazza del Gesu’ Nuovo, across via Santa Anna dei Lombardi, up via Toledo, and finally stopping at via Tarsia. 

Useless Sounds is a weekly series by Joseph Sannicandro, sharing short, unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds] - Walking via Benedetto Croce to Via Toledo, Saturday night, 19 January 2019

Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.

The inaugural episode of our new podcast, Sound Propositions, features interviews (with Resina and Lea Bertucci) and field-recordings recorded during the 2018 UNSOUND festival in Krakow, Poland. (You can read my review of the festival here.) The theme of this year's festival was "Presence," and so that became the point of departure for my interviews, particularly the ways in which absences can also be felt as a "presence."

Special thanks to Resina, Lea Bertucci, Ryan Diduck, Corey Bracken, and the entire Unsound team.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

SP* Episode 1: (PRESENCE, or ) A METAPHYSICS OF ABSENCE – with Resina & Lea Bertucci [podcast]

A binaural recording, headphone listening recommended.

Some chatter outside the bar, I head in, order a coffee, it gets made, I drink it, and leave.

Useless Sounds is a weekly series by Joseph Sannicandro, sharing short, unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds] - Having an espresso at Bar Roma

A binaural recording, headphone listening recommended.

I walk around the market at Porta Nolana, past a table selling CDs blasting the song  "P' Secondigliano" by Geôlier and Nicola Siciliano, witness someone play fighting with a dog, and then walk down a side street of the Mercato neighborhood.

Useless Sounds is a weekly series by Joseph Sannicandro, sharing short, unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds] - The market at Porta Nolana, Napoli, and surrounding, 29 January 2019

A binaural recording, headphone listening recommended.

From via Tarsia, I head up the stairs of Vico Mastellone (pictured), up Salita Pontecorvo, across the parking lot/piazza of Largo Tarsia, up Salita Tarsia, to Piazza Mazzini, and head home down the Corso Vittorio Emanuele.

Useless Sounds is a weekly series by Joseph Sannicandro, sharing short, unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds] - Walking up Salita Tarsia, Saturday night, 19 January 2019

Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.

This episode features saxophonist and composer Phillip Johnston, known for his work with genre-bending jazz ensemble The Microscopic Septet, the Beefheart tribute Fast 'N Bulbous, and as the composer of silent film scores. Johnston moved to Australia over a decade ago, but NYC still feels like his home turf. We were both back in town last November for Thanksgiving, and we met to discuss memory, music, media, the history of silent film, and his long-association with the various music scenes of NYC.

Special thanks to Phillip, Joyce, Steve, and Smalls.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

SP* Episode 2:  DANCING ON THE HYPHEN - with Phillip Johnston [podcast]

For the past two months, this has been the view from my kitchen balcony. The other side of the apartment, my bedroom balcony, faces an interior courtyard.  This installment stitches together some commonplace sounds heard coming from outside the window: church bells, other church bells, people talking, people working,  car and motorino engines on nearby Salvator Rosa and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, sawing, birds over head.

Useless Sounds is a weekly series by Joseph Sannicandro, sharing short, unprocessed field-recordings.

[Useless Sounds] - Outside my Window

Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.

This episode features Efraín Rozas, Peruvian-born, Brooklyn-based performer/composer and robotics/software developer interested in new paradigms of cognitive technologies and mythologies. He leads the psychedelic salsa group La Mecánica Popular, fusing groove-based Latin music with electronic and experimental explorations. Rozas' Myth and Prosthesis series utilizes software programming and robotics to produce sound installations and music, utilizing Latin American influences and modern technology to uproot Western concepts and mind/body duality. 

We discuss all these projects and more, including the role of NYC in the history of Salsa, and the future of electronic Latinx music to come. 

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

SP* Episode 3: ROBOT, TEACH US TO GROOVE - with Efraín Rozas [podcast]

Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice.

This episode features John Daniel, a Chicago-based musician best known for his ambient solo project, Forest Management.  I caught up with him from his childhood home in Cleveland over the holidays.  We discuss his latest LP Passageways (inspired by his childhood home), his influences, how his approach to music has changed, his new imprint Afterhours, and the importance of place, space, and community.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

SP* Episode 4: GOING HOME AGAIN - with Forest Management [podcast]

Sound Propositions the podcast has the same mission statement as the written Sound Propositions features: to share in depth discussions with artists whose work we love, to delve into the details of their creative practice. Headphone listening recommended.

This episode features Joe McKay, profiling his label Dinzu Artefacts. We talk about his previous label, Spring Break Tapes!, his own artistic practice (as Monte Burrows), the importance of listening to the quotidian, and the persistence of physical media in an increasingly digitally mediated world.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

Cover image: still from Bill Fontana's "Arche Sonore" (1994)

SP* Episode 5: B SIDES - with Dinzu Artefacts [podcast]

Deep Minimalism (i) is a gentle excursion perfect for our shared moment of collective unease. Newsha Khalaj is a Vancouver-based violist and the author of this mix. She put this tracklist together with a purpose. As she explains, "I needed these soothing, shifting, deep-moving sounds—life was a little heavy for a while, for personal reasons—and these songs, this mix, is that."  Khalaj sent me the tracks and I mixed them live, which was a really meditative process.

In July, Khalaj played as part of the Slow New Way Ensemble for Nadia Sirota’s Living Music series, one of the more interesting quarantine concerts I've seen. The Ensemble performed the world premiere of a new work by Richard Reed Parry [Bell Orchestre, Arcade Fire], made especially notable as it was performed live via Zoom by musicians in Berlin, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles. The rest of the episode is equally worth your time, of course, including a performance by Clarice Jensen.  

Read more, including tracklist and interview, at https://wp.me/p25H4R-nM1

Newsha Khalaj presents Deep Minimalism (i) [mix]

This mix accompanies the LISTENING THROUGH MIMAROĞLU episode,  featuring director Serdar Kökçeoğlu discussing his work and the Mimaroglu project in particular. I originally had in mind a second episode with interviews with other musicians I met while in Istanbul, but for a variety of reasons not everyone was comfortable speaking for audio, or we were otherwise unable to find an opportunity to record.  Of course there are also linguistic barriers. Save polished corporate aesthetics for the professionals, this podcast is more interested in something else. So instead I present İSTANBUL EKSPRES, a bonus mix of music from Istanbul artists old and new.

You can also read my interview with Ipek Gorgun. at www.acloserlisten.com

We spoke about some of her favorite Anatolian psychedelic bands, among other things. Since the 1990s, international music publications like the Wire have become hip to Turkish rock from the 60s and 70s. Artists from that era were often incorporating folk instruments from around the region into a rock ensemble context.  But that's just one facet of Turkish musical heritage.

Sample-based producers like Group Ses, working in styles influenced by hip hop, trap, beat tapes, etc, make up a vibrant scene of crate diggers, mining the rich history of Turkish (and Ottoman) recordings. 

İSTANBUL EKSPRES is my attempt to share some of this music. I don't claim any expertise, or pretense of exhaustive knowledge, just wanted to share  the music and voices of the amazing artists I met in Istanbul. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Grup Ses Beats – “Atardamar Operasyonu (DS2 Edit)” (Davulun Sesi Vol.2, Tektosag, 2013)
Erkin Koray – “Cemalim” (Elektronik Türküler, Doğan, 1974)
Ipek Gorgun  - “Fata Morgana” (Aphelion, Touch, 2016)
FIELD-RECORDING – Grand Bazaar 2019
Arif Sağ ‎– “Irfani (Silifke)” (Anadolu Döktürmeleri, Türküola, 1984)  
Koray Kantarcıoğlu -  “09 22 47 91 Take 2” (Loopworks Wounded Wolf Press, 2016 / Discrepant, 2018) 
Atay İlgün – “airn”  (radiant.data (music for vertigo)” [taiga], Wounded Wolf Press, 2017)
Ekin Fil – “Windblow” (Windblow, Longform Editions, 2018)
Sufus Hufus - ailerons (w- Kuntay Seferoğlu) (Pianissimo 2019)
Ipek Gorgun – “To Cross Great Rivers” (Ecce Homo, Touch, 2018)
Moğollar – “Eastern Love (Kara Dut Parmak Gibi)” (Eastern Love / Artık Çok Geç 7" Sayan, 1968)
Kunsf - Fireflies (2019)
Erkin Koray – “Türkü” (Elektronik Türküler, Doğan, 1974)
Grup Ses  - “ayran spill with gantz” (Alliance, Besides Records, 2016)
Ekin Fil – “Dead End” (Koma, Possible Motive, 2019)
Timur Selçuk – “Ayrılanlar İçin” (On Dit / Ayrılanlar İçin 7’, Barclay, 1967)
Grup Ses –  preview from (Program #02, Discrepant, 2019)
Ekin Fil – “Patterns/Visitors” (Koma, Possible Motive, 2019)
Ethnique Punch – Tiran (Davulun Sesi Vol.2, Tektosag, 2013)
Ekin Fil  - “Point Blank” (Koma, Possible Motive, 2019)
Grup Ses Beats / Ethnique Punch - “Külüstür” (Delidivan, Souk, 2019)
FIELD_RECORDING tam tutulma.



cover image: Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

SP* Episode 14: İSTANBUL EKSPRES [mix]

Jeremy Young recently released Filaments on Eliane Tapes, Moving Furniture's sporadic series of work inspired by the remarkable French composer Éliane Radigue. The series was inaugurated with a release by Kassel Jaeger back in early 2018, and after a long silence two new tapes have just been released. To mark this occasion, we invited Young to produce a mix. Like me, Young is an American living in Montréal, Canada, so it was also nice to discover some connections between us. Young works primarily with reel-to-reel tape and contact miked objects and has worked on a wide variety of projects including sound-poetry and audio-visual scoring. We at ACL have long been fans of Jeremy's solo work as szilárd, and especially his trio Sontag Shogun and their predecessor (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World). And so it is our great pleasure to present Je Suis Mon Absence.

More at: https://acloserlisten.com/2020/12/01/jeremy-young-presents-je-suis-mon-absence-mix/


TRACKLIST

00:00    ~          Pan Sonic - “Ahdin”

02:14    ~          Maggi Payne - “Apparent Horizon”

12:57    ~          John Butcher - “Willow Shiver”

15:53    ~          Lucy Railton - “Third Lament”

20:09    ~          Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Sachiko M - “III.”

24:15    ~          Theresa Wong & Ellen Fullman - “Harbors Part 3” [excerpt]

30:59    ~          Vincent Gallo - “Sixteen Seconds Happy”

32:10    ~          Toru Takemitsu - “Twill By Twilight” [excerpt]

37:05    ~          Else Marie Pade - “Lyd & Lys 1960”

41:42    ~          Anestis Logothetis - “Fantasmata 1960” [excerpt]

43:43    ~          Cécile Cloutier (lu par Catherine Métayer) - “Solitude (1960)”

44:45    ~          Skin Tone - “An Absence / An Abundance Of”

53:16    ~          Mecha Fixes Clocks - “Give My Regards to Time”

56:43    ~          Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable”

62:35    ~          Christof Migone - “( )”

64:10    ~          Sarah Davachi - “A Garden, An Orchard”

70:30    ~          Jean Schwarz - “Suite N” [excerpt]

78:43    ~          Pierre-Yves Macé - “Qui-Vive” [excerpt]

83:52    ~          Eyvind Kang - “Visible Breath”

Jeremy Young presents 'Je Suis Mon Absence.' [mix]

kicking off the new year with a special guest mix from @spirodon

"A conversation with my brother Jordan Christoff created this mix. First we were talking about Vaporwave and also stretching sound, then as often we were talking about Bulgaria, the Balkans and music, then Chalga came up. I also remembered some Yugoslavian pop tracks that were super beautiful and tragic which featured in the excellent film The Load, by Ognjen Glavonić, a very important piece of cinema about the complexities around the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, this film is a must watch for anyone living in a member state of the NATO alliance. I watched that film with my father also, that was a very moving experience. For this mix I reworked some tracks from the Balkans, below are the names of the original songs, in no particular order, you won't be able to hear them directly in the mix, this is drone reimagination. Thanks for listening, Stefan Christoff."

Viki Miljkovic - Hajde vodi me odavde
Камелия - Луда по тебе
Преслава и Борис Дали - Бързо ли говоря
Aziz - Habibi

Spirodon presents Chalga Drone Mix

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