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ML481: Exael

Jordan Christoff is one half of the inspiring and prolific duo PJS (with musical partner Patrick Dique). Here Jordan stretches out with another breathtaking new age document of time and place: a deep listening long-form piece in 2 parts. A true sound explorer, committed to his idiosyncratic vision, he is also engaged in supporting struggles for indigenous emancipation from colonialism, as a resident of Lekwungen territory where this album was made.

Over the last few years Jordan has released on labels worldwide including Leaving Records, No Problema Tapes, Muzan Editions, Plus100 and his recent solo outing on Constellation Tatsu. London's Salmon Universe is excited to be the home for his latest expansive work 'Water'. Water is an apt metaphor for his sound, an ever-flowing evolving amorphous yet still landscape, equally and sensitively represented by the cover artwork of Texas resident Nicholas Law.

Jordan is on a mission to dissolve the barrier between reality and the metaphysical plane. He intends to open the doors of his creative self and let his life force do the talking. His music is like air, but also like water - the connecting viscera of everything.

composer/producer: Jordan Christoff
art: Nicholas Law
mastering: Rick Pike

Angel Flow - Jordan Christoff

Robert rental - paralysis
Jandek - down in a mirror 
The index - israeli blues 
Kitchens floor - down
2x4s - bridgeport lathe
Cannanes - vivienne
Garbage and the flowers - henry where is lyon
Calico wall-im  a living sickness
Spies - egyptian bird song
Television personalities - silly girl (peel session)
Shadow ring - the world phone
Pink reason - dead end
The fall - new puritan
Swell maps - midget submarines
Jacobites - itll all end up in tears
Keggs - to find out

JJulius rock music mix 1 aug

STATEMENT #1 w/ Mona (09.08.2020)

ASHTON HOLLAND 22.9.20

giant windows of colour   - 23.10.2020

Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel: 4th Movement  
Olivier Messiaen - Livre Du Saint Sacrement  
Alice Coltrane - Wisdom Eye
Alvin Lucier - She Was A Visitor 
Arthur Russell - Soon-To-Be-Innocent Fun/ Let’s See
Heiner Goebbels - Landscape With Argonauts
Heiner Goebbels & Alfred 23 Harth - The ballade of the Durable Grey Goose
Hildegard von Bingen/Noël Akchoté - In dedication ecclesie
Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Kali Malone - Sacraficial Code I
Meredith Monk - Prologue
Avro Pärt  -  Summa for Strings

Giant Windows of Colour 01  @ operator radio 23.10.2020 (dj)

Premiering the stunning work of Ahza Ahza's new release on Emmanuel Vincent Presents. Read here what the artist himself has to say about the work:

Black Power Ambience was made during a time of great stress for us as Black people. This was around the time of Korey Gaines, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and countless others. The Eric Garner one hit especially hard for me, having gone to school in that area. Eric was someone I had always seen around the way and on the day he was killed I had just arrived back home. I walked past the scene and saw the lights and just figured it was the usual, I didn't know what happened until I got to my friends house up the block. All of this death broadcasted on the internet was a constant stream of trauma and it became heavy fast. It's nothing new to me, the idea that my life could end violently has always been in my mind. I wonder what it's like to not think like that?

So during all this my good friend Dave asked me to perform at one of his shows. At the time I was only rapping so I had to make something that would fit the bill.

This is how Black Power Ambience was born. My feelings are captured in it, and the vocal samples from my ancestors serve as a connection to the things that matter. I hope you enjoy it, I know I still do to this day. It gave me relief and I am thankful to the field for giving me the chance to channel this energy this way. Enjoy

-Ahza Ahza

Premiere :: AHZA AHZA BLACK POWER AMBIENCE SIDE A

Kassel Jaeger, once little more than a mysterious German moniker producing captivating music for our favorite boutique labels, has since been revealed to be François J. Bonnet, composer, philosopher, and now director Ina-GRM, France’s legendary center for electroacoustic research. No longer shrouded in mystery, his prolific output has lost none of its power. In the last year he’s released some of the best records of his career, including collaborations with Jim O’Rourke and Stephen O’Malley. Having grown accustomed to hearing Bonnet’s voice as host of France Musique’s L'Expérimentale, it was a trip to have the opportunity to sit down with him while he was in Montreal for 2019’s AKOUSMA festival. In this episode, Bonnet speaks with us about the development of his music, various acousmatic diffusion techniques, the privilege of composing for the acousmonium, and balancing the legacy of the GRM with the music to come. 

Interview recorded at Usine-C, Montreal, October 2019
Produced and mixed in Montreal, November 2020

More soon at:
www.acloserlisten.com


From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, 
       Out of SPACE—Out of TIME. 
-Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” (1844)

All space, all time, [:]
Fill'd with eidolons only.
-Walt Whitman, “Eidelons” (1876)


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

Kassel Jaeger – “NYC Bobcats” (Swamps / Things, Shelter-Press, 2020)
Éliane Radigue – Arthesis (1973) [Francois Bonnet diffusion] (Live at Akousma, Montreal, 2019)
Kassel Jaeger – “III” (Aerae, Senufo, 2010)
Francisco López – “AI-2012 - With/In [excerpt]” (a bunch of stuff (1980-2020) - 40 years of sonogenic composition, 2020)
Pierre Henry – Spirale [1955] (Voile D'Orphée I Et II / Entité / Spirale, Philips, 1969)
Éliane Radigue -  “CHRY-PTUS” (Giuseppe Ielasi Version 2006] (CHRY-PTUS, Schoolmap, 2007)
Luc Ferrari – “Cellule 75” (Cellule 75, Tzadik, 1998)  
François Bayle – “Espaces Inhabitables, V. – Amertumes”
 (1967) (L'Oiseau Chanteur, Phillips, 1968)
Kassel Jaeger – “Deltas” (Deltas, Editions Mego, 2012)
Bernard Parmegiani – “De Natura Sonorum, X.” (1978) (De Natura Sonorum, Recollection GRM, 2013)
Beatriz Ferreyra – “Echos” [1978] (Echos+, Room40, 2020)
James Tenney - “Fabric for Che” (1967) (Selected Works 1961-1969, Frog Peak, 1993)
Lucy Railton – “Forma” (Forma, Portraits GRM, 2020)
John Cage – “Imaginary Landscape N°5” (Early Electronic And Tape Music, Sub Rosa, 2014)
Kassel Jaegar – “Toxic Cosmopolitanism” (Toxic Cosmopolitanism, Editions Mego, 2014)
Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke “Wakes On Cerulean A” (Wakes On Cerulean, Editions Mego, 2017)
Kassel Jaeger – “Meith” (Meith, Black Truffle, 2020)
FIELD-RECORDING - à l'extérieur de l'usine (2019)

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Sound Propositions is  produced by Joseph Sannicandro

episode cover image: Marisa Merz, "Untitled" (1985)

SP* Episode 15: EIDOLONS  - with Kassel Jaeger [podcast]

yuki

RELEASED ON HAPPY TAPES JUNE 2020

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Phases make up a life,

How lucky then am I,

To have had so many.

Ingrain me so with richness,

That real variance of feeling,

Indelible blessing,

Of the highs and lows.

Touched warm like of the sun,

By sweet fear of the yet undone,

A new leaf,

Anxiety’s gift,

To be able to feel and to feel like this.

__

Oh and I know it's made with

Intelligent design,

Paradise perfected,

All elements aligned,

But who's Eden, by design,

Will it resemble your childhood or mine?

In love we trust,

A leap of faith,

Into the next phase,

Our digital escape,

Gaze into eachother's mind's eye,

Released from flesh, to never die,

But can they capture the way,

You look to me,

Glittering in the glow,

Of my fallibility,

Simulate every freckle on your face,

Never dare to approximate,

And with this new leaf,

Save humanity's gift,

To be able to feel,

And to feel like this.

__

Shock my senses with the injustice of morning,

I fear I feel I must be falling,

Back to the earth,

To the seperateness of bodies,

And now you'll never see what I see,

All the beauty,

All the longing,

To share what can only be fleeting,

I wanted that connectedness,

Now I'm out here,

With the rest,

Live our lives,

I guess it's time we tried, OK,

And if I feel there's nothing more to know,

It's only because I haven't known very much of life,

Begging for something more to feel,

Running from anything real,

Coz all that we share,

And all we create,

Can only be laid to waste,

I wanted that connectedness,

Now I'm out here,

With the rest,

Live my life,

I guess it's time I tried, OK.

___

I don't mind that you have to go,

Because I'm still basking in your glow,

Isn't it fine to never find,

Out what you didn't need to know,

Oh you’re not good for me,

And I could never be good for you,

I’m not so arrogant as to believe that I could ever,

Change a thing you do.

Zoom Me Higher Tape Side B

Luke Fowler - Everything Is Permitted(5/3/21)

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?

SP* Episode 15: EIDOLONS - with Kassel Jaeger [podcast]

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