This exquisite, totally brilliant album from the incomparable Carnatic violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman on this little known 1987 album on the Russian Melodiya label, where he plays his own compositions as well as those by the highly-influential Carnatic composer Tyagaraja, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/india-lalgudi-jayaraman-compositions-by.html

Compositions by Thyagaragi and L. Jayaraman – Melodiya C80-27225-004

Lalgudi Jayaraman (Carnatic violin)

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.

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

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)

Root Radio

velvet tides w/ güns | Root Radio 05/05/2021

Dj résidente du collectif nantais @zone-rouge-zone-rouge, @matilda_gx4 nous offre un mix qui te fera bouger ton boom boom cha : une ode à la fête et à la danse où les bangers s’enchainent.

Tracklist 
Alejandro Molinari - Noche de Berlin (Ali X Remix)
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (Recreation (Jonah Sharp Version) 
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
Unknown Artist ‎– Never Leave You
Sho Madjozi - Huku
Ramadanman - Work Them
Data Assault - Black Earth (Martinelli Acid Tool Mix)
El Plvybxy – Kuruyuki (Sacrilejio Records)
The Presets - I Go Hard, I Go Home
Generali Minerali feat Rydeen - Rhythm of the night
Naone – Falling Sun
Tomaz vs Filterheadz ‎– Sunshine
Moon Project ‎– Moments Are Forever
Pavel K. Novalis - Purple Reflexe
Bronski Beat ‎– Smalltown Boy (Arnaud Rebotini Remix)

Le béguin pour Matilda (10.06.21)

Music Daniel Guillen
Mastered Sean Conrad
Photo Ana Cabaleiro

All Is Dream

Purchase

Lunaria - Playing In The Clouds (From All Is Dream)

Solsnu

Stille Natt

Guest mix for faitiche's radio show on LYL - Temple of Faitiche, Nº20, 27 March 2020 

https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-20/

Hanno Leichtmann – Selbstbespiegelung
Else Marie Pade – Syv Cirkler
Andrés Lewin-Richter – Study No. 1
Fracture Mechanics – Pendentive
Katrine Ring – Den Politiske Håndvask 1
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Marja Ahti – Chora
Hideki Umezawa – Still | Steel
Marcus Schmickler – Wabi Sabi (Part 4)
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Nicola Ratti – Bn2
Daniel Majer – Tu Lip
Jan Jelinek – Framework 10 (Remix)
Mads Emil Nielsen – Buchla Sketch
Riviera Tape Stash – Strong Arm Baby
Ahnnu – Dovetail
Boris Hegenbart with Stephan Mathieu – S Anode M
David Moss – Terrain 3
James Sey / James Webb – Book Of Imaginary Wavelengths: Book 5
Mads Emil Nielsen – Framework 3 – 3
Andrew Pekler – Tuanahe

https://faitiche.de/blog/2020/03/25/temple-of-faitiche-march-2020

Temple of Faitiche 20 - guest mix

My brass arrangement of Beret Girl by Bibio:
Trumpet
Piccolo Trumpet
Flugelhorn
Valve Trombone

Beret Girl (Bibio) - Brass Cover

Excerpt from upcoming LP on Trás-os-Montes Records out in late 2020.

Yann Gourdon - vielle à roue, mixing
Filipe Felizardo - electric guitar
André Cepeda - cover photo

This recording was produced during a residency propitiated by Trás-os-Montes Records in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal.

YANN GOURDON & FILIPE FELIZARDO - La Langue de l'Ophiolite (excerpt)

Made for A tape, to celebrate 2 years of Industrial Coast (2020)

//SOLD OUT//

https://industrialcoast.bigcartel.com/

INDUSTRIAL COAST

HALFNELSON - Ears [Released on Industrial Coast]

Satomimagae - Houkou

From Hanazono.
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Houkou

Satomimagae - Houkou

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