This mix is admittedly a bit outside of the kind of music we usually feature in our mixes, but we have always prided ourselves on our range. The influence of Brazilian music is far reaching, and can be heard in musicians as different as the Sea and Cake, Jon Hassell, Madlib, and Chick Corea's Return To Forever. As a flutist in my youth, I had encountered some of the standard Bossa Nova and Samba tunes through the jazz world, most notably via Stan Getz's classic collaboration with João Gilberto. But in 2007 Matthew Hayes Jacobs passed me two CDRs he'd burned of an excellent playlist he'd compiled of Brazilian music, introducing me to Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Quarteto Em Cy, Djavan, and many others. I found Veloso's "Lost in Paradise" to be so disorienting—with its psychedelic lead guitar,  surreal lyrics in broken English, and smooth string accents punctured by discordant brass arrangements—that I quickly found myself down the rabbit hole of Tropicalia, Oswald de Andrade's "Cannibalist Manifesto," the fiction of Clarice Lispector, and the history of Brazil's military dictatorship. I owe a lot to those two CDRs. So when my old friend Matthew recently released a couple songs under the moniker Sage of New England, I thought I would invite him to produce a new mix to share his love of Brazilian music with our readers. 

I'd always heard rumors from mutual friends of Matthew's skills as a musician and songwriter, but he had never released any recordings. Luckily that's finally changed, and in 2021 he's begun to release singles on Bandcamp and other platforms. Sage of New England is Matthew's new project with producer Justin Tracy, taking its name from a one of Matthew's songs about a woman who becomes disillusioned by her search for inner peace, but who learns from a farmer that wisdom can be found anywhere. There is an undercurrent of Buddhist imagery and narrative in Matthew's work, which reminds me that I am also indebted to him for introducing me to the writings of Shunryu Suzuki. I think you'll find some of that spirit in his songs "Fire Tales" and "Encounter with a Guide," which their rhythmic propulsion, beautiful chord voicings, and plaintive singing style. The influence of his beloved Brazilian music should be apparent, but he also brings this mindful attention to the careful pacing of this mix. Enjoy.

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Find Matthew's music at https://sageofnewengland.bandcamp.com/




TRACKLIST

0:00 Milton Nascimento - Ponta De Areia

5:10 Joyce - Aldeia de Ogum

9:34 Vinicius de Moraes - Voce Abusou

12:07 Milton Nascimento - Os Escravos de Jo

15:05 Herbie Mann - Consolocao

19:25 Baden Powell feat Quarteto Em Cy - Canto de Xango

24:01 Sergio Ricardo - Conversacao de paz

27:09 Milton Nascimento - Dancing

29:32 Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges - Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo (1997)

31:01 Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges - Clube Da Esquina N°2 (1997)

33:45 Gal Costa - Lagrimas Negras

37:17 Joyce and Elza Soares - Samba De Silva

40:38 Antonio Carlos Jobim and Paulinho Jobim - Eu E O Meu Amor

42:12 Milton Nascimento - Os Povos

MHJ's Brazilian Classics Mix (with plenty of Nascimento)

Listen to the 46th edition of Free City Radio, we hear a talk given by the late activist, academic and author Aziz Choudry, which was hosted by Free City Radio at the Concordia Co-op Bookshop in Montréal.

Aziz was a friend and also a profound presence within networks of the anti-colonial left globally. This is a talk that was focused on the invaluable process of grassroots learning and knowledge production that takes place organically within social movements and the importance for spaces of formal learning in the academia to acknowledge, respect & take into consideration the grassroots knowledge developed within the context of grassroots struggle.

https://utorontopress.com/ca/learning-activism-3

Thank you to Anne-Audrey Remarais for recording this talk by Aziz, originally for broadcast on @radiockut at the time. 

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff

Music on this edition by Kiasmos.

46. Aziz Choudry on the intellectual life of contemporary social movements

Artist Sevi Iko Dømochevsky visualises the kind of catastrophe that KMRU and Aho Ssan make audible in their Fact Mix, one that is painful to comprehend, yet serves as a prescient diagnosis of our present. 

https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/30/fact-mix-893-kmru-aho-ssan-sevi-iko-domochevsky/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 893: KMRU & Aho Ssan & Sevi Iko Dømochevsky (Jan '23)

Tongue Original

This is one of my favorite tracks I produced for this ep. Saga Asad is an emcee that you should tap in immediately with if you haven't yet. He's coming straight from Brooklyn and has been on the underground bubbling for about a decade or so. Navy Blue is an incredible emcee that you might of heard of from L.A. who is a good friends with Earl Sweatshirt and the OF crew. Tap in on bandcamp if you want to hear the whole album or purchase: https://music.sagaasad.com/album/hello

¡HELLO!

Saga Asad (feat. Navy Blue) prod. August Fanon - Most Precious Blood

A January 2024 mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine

Photo taken by Stefan Christoff of a tree in downtown Mexico City.

Track listing 
Artist name / track name

Jordan Christoff - Sun Through the Clouds
A Fish On Land - Lhasa de Sela + Esmerine (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal)
Weshida  - 11/8 Balkan (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal), an excerpt
Secret Pyramid - Whim (A Vanishing Touch)
Secret Pyramid - Slow Softly 
Midland - Drift In The Algorithm
Secret Pyramid - Broken Wing
the new objective - Over There (Friperietronics Vol. 2 - Archive Fever
Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
Grim Beverage - Our Time Together is Liquid
Cette lumi​è​re qui surgit des d​é​combres (Jo​ë​l Lavoie remix) (excerpt)

Spirodon 01/2024 mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

Here’s our next episode - a personal collection of truly exuberant soundscapes, unexpectedly rich with acoustic music, pieces of modern classic and sound collages exploring various sound solutions. 

Two introspective hours from a Kaliningrad based Anna Gunkina, also known as gunswall, who is engaged in selecting music and crafting electronic ambient pieces using sampling via the internet archives.

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В нашем свежем выпуске — личная коллекция завораживающих звуковых пейзажей, неожиданно богатых акустическим звучанием, фрагментами современной классики и саунд коллажами.

Полуторачасовое интроспективное путешествие создано Анной Гунькиной в Калининграде, известной как gunswall, работающей с сэмплированием, используя открытые интернет-архивы для своих эмбиент работ и музыкальной селекцией.

@gunswall

right.cast — Anna Gunkina

awareness & solidarity with #Rojava powered by female:pressure 
http://www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

voices of activists sampled from...

Rojava: A democratic system in progress (November 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_dchu1i8cs

New World Summit: Stateless State. Dilar Dirik 
https://vimeo.com/107639261




DONATE TO ROJAVA WOMEN

Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi

TRACKLIST

Beyond the Black Rainbow
1) Champagne Coast - Charli XCX / Blood Orange
2) How Can I – Charli XCX
3) Grins - Charli XCX / Blood Diamonds

The Craft
4) So Far Away - Charli XCX / Paul White

Kill Bill
5) Dreams Money Can Buy - Charli XCX / Drake / Jai Paul

Cruel Intentions
6) Lock You Up – Charli XCX
7) Spoons – Charli XCX / Rudimental 

American Beauty
8) You're The One (Odd Future's The Internet remix feat. Mike G) - Charli XCX

HEARTBREAKS AND EARTHQUAKES - THE MIXTAPE

Via Touch:
http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_57_phill_niblock.html

1. Zound Delta (21:52)
2. Bells & Timps (5:30)
3. BuchBel (11:54)

Zound Delta was made at a residency with the European Sound Delta Project in 2009. The sounds were recorded from the mouth of the Danube River at the Black Sea, - to about 200km upstream, at Russe Bulgaria. In Russe, there was a festival, and the finished piece was played. There were boats (Belgian barges outfitted as living boats) starting at the mouth of the Danube and the Rhine Rivers, with changing residents, for several months.

Bells & Timps was made using church bells in Gent Belgium, recorded by Godfried Willem Raes of Logos Foundation, in 1986. I modified the time by stretching vastly, and some changes in pitch as well.

BuchBel was recorded during an overnight train ride from Bucharest to Belgrade. All sounds are from the train, with many layerings. The train trip was immediately after the festival in Russe, Bulgaria, in 2009.

All of the pieces were made in ProTools.

TouchRadio 57 is in Pantha du Prince's top 10 albums of 2010

www.sound-delta.eu


Phil Niblock - Touch Radio 57

⟿ . ⇋ REC:on . ↭ recon {clıcª} @reconsonic www.rec-on.org twitter: @reconsound ⇢ a new space {inflection} for political sound work & political listening ↣ derived from a compositional technology of ⥉ growing sound ⤹ growing connections ‡ ⁜ ⁂ ⁁ ※ growing networks ✸ how the networks ➽➽➽ sound as a form of organizing, accretion ⋰ ⋰ ⋰ ⋰ ⋰ collective audio conciousness ⤽ undertone series ⥂ low frequency vibration ⋻ because we know listening and sound is a way of knowing the world ⥁ a way of orienting ourselves ⥈ ⅲ sound art as knowledge production ⥈ sound can show us where to go ☆ before we can imagine ⚘ with a tone of voice ↺ the intonation ☊ cadence ❤ lilt ❰ inflexion ↂ ↹ the sonic is everything you can’t see ↭ it requires openess ☱ acoustic imagination has not boundaries ♾ listening is a practice, a political act ⟴ subharmonic bass waves ↯ soundlike ⤧ ☛ ☛ ☛ #soundasgrowing — > listen forward to it!

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Since 2012, A Closer Listen has claimed a specialized niche in the music industry: instrumental album reviews!  By concentrating on this above all else (singles, videos, concerts, interviews, lyric albums, announcements), we’ve built a healthy fanbase and a strong reputation.

If music is recorded and nobody listens, does it still make a sound?

MHJ's Brazilian Classics Mix (with plenty of Nascimento)

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