A synthesizer was used to make this recording. If you want to see what a cricket orchestra sounds like slowed way down and without a synthesizer, check out my soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/tv-steph

Stream & pre-order the album: https://idol.lnk.to/aura

Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit announces her much anticipated Erased Tapes debut album Aura, out June 24, by sharing its wordless yet universally speaking title track as premiered by Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music. Astonishingly all songs on the record were created using her voice only.

The album title Aura was inspired by the German philosopher Walter Benjamin who used this term to describe the fundamental essence of art, which he believed is strongest in its original form, only happening once. Hatis agrees with this particular aspect as she realised, “during the pandemic, I really struggled. As a singer, I’m not very good at working on the computer. I much prefer doing live performances in physical spaces. Being with people, sharing the same space with them and feeling the atmosphere and energy of that moment, inspires me every time. To me, art is that — that shared moment.”

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root represents the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. Through this first offering, Hatis Noit revokes a haunting memory of getting lost in a forest in her birthplace Shiretoko, Hokkaido.

“One to watch: Hatis Noit — with her ethereal crossover of mystical and modern, this Japanese artist has been moving audiences to tears” — The Guardian

Aura

Hatis Noit - Aura

Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith
Featuring Patti Smith

'Killer Road'
from the album 'Killer Road' - A Tribute To Nico
Bella Union, Sacred Bones Records, 2xLP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital

Killer Road is a sound exploration of the tragic death of Nico, Velvet Underground vocalist and 60s icon, while riding her bike on the island of Ibiza in the summer of 1988. A hypnotic meditation on the idea of perpetual motion and the cycle of life and death, the composition features Patti Smith lending her unique voice to the last poems written by the artist. Soundwalk Collective uses a travel log of field recordings and samples of Nico's signature instrument, the harmonium, to create a magnetic soundscape.

www.soundwalkcollective.com
www.bellaunion.com
www.sacredbonesrecords.com

iTunes pre-order: http://geni.us/SCKillerRoadDL
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zgbThP2pz2tMJ7mkrqqcv

Videos:
'Killer Road' by Tina Frank: vimeo.com/175356749
'Fearfully In danger [Live at Volksbühne Berlin]' by Barbara Klein: vimeo.com/178216980
'I Will Be Seven' by Tina Frank: vimeo.com/180648057

Killer Road

Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith, feat. Patti Smith: Killer Road

Robert Rich & Steve Roach - La Luna (Strata 1990)

WRWTFWW 019 / PF 006 
First track from 'Through The Looking Glass' reissue coming March via WRWTFWW & Palto Flats (EU/US).  LP & CD editions.
http://wrwtfww.com/album/through-the-looking-glass
http://paltoflats.com/release/midori-takada-through-the-looking-glass

Through The Looking Glass

Midori Takada - A1. Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream

"Steve Reich in The Hague"  
 14.12.2003
 Bootleg

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

TOMAGA "Memory In Vivo Exposure" (12"/DL).
HITD 037
Release date: 8th December 2017

All tracks composed, perfomed & recorded by TOMAGA
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Original cover photograph by David Child

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

TOMAGA - Memory In Vivo Exposure (Parts 1 & 2)

0:00-2:40 — Arve Henriksen - Opening Image
2:20-3:10 — Nesta Kerin Crain - Gongs in the Rain
2:40-5:30 — John Cage - In A Landscape (Harp by Amy Schulman)
4:25-8:00 — Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Winding and Unwinding
7:50-10:40 — Bersarin Quartett - Verflossen ist das Gold der tage
10:20-11:20 — Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
11:11-15:05 — Susumu Yokota - Tobiume
15:05-18:03 — Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R and Me
17:58-21:17 — Kuniyuki Takahashi - Asia
20:10-21:35 — Helios - Samsara
21:35-24:00 — Helios - Light House
23:36-24:03 — Broadcast - Innocence In Orbit
24:03-26:40 — Michael Price - Ink On Paper (Dmitry Evgrafov Rework)
26:40-30:10 — Keaton Henson - Elevator Song
30:10-31:47 — Disasterpeace - Vignette: The Lamb
31:47-33:32 — Nils Frahm - The Dane
33:32-38:43 — Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato (Edited)
38:43-43:48 — Wouter Dewit - Winter Sleeps
40:54-44:54 — Chuck Johnson- Calamus
44:54-48:10 — Dmitry Evgrafov - Znanie (Alternative Version)
48:10-54:48 — Huerco S. - A Sea Of Love
54:48-59:55 — Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Life Story
59:00-61:19 — Resina - Lethe

Dmitry Evgrafov - Mixtape 4

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

Joanna brouk the space between

We are thrilled to announce our latest release, a reissue of the 1987 hidden gem Resonance, by Japanese pianist Yumiko Morioka. Originally released on Akira Ito’s ‘Green & Water’ label Resonance remains her only solo record - a truly stunning, timeless collection of compositions that deserves to find a new audience in 2020. 

Just a little over two years ago, Yumiko was fortunate to escape with her life when a neighbour woke her in the middle of the night to tell her that wildfires were closing in. Thirty minutes later her California home, along with all her musical recordings and equipment, was destroyed.

Now back living in Tokyo, where Resonance was created, she is doing well and is excited that her music is being given a new lease of life. It’s our great fortune that Yumiko, and the music she recorded back in 1987, survived and we’re honoured to be able to share the remastered recordings with the world.

Resonance draws influence from the popular environmental music culture prevalent in Japan during the late 80s, but it’s also heavily inspired by Western musicians like Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Listening today, it still feels fresh and pertinent; like the great pioneers of classical and ambient music, there's a timelessness to Resonance - a comforting, familiar feeling, as if these melodies have always existed.

Resonance will be released on limited edition vinyl & digital on April 15th. You can pre-order the album here: https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resonance

Yumiko Morioka - Komorebi

Edited Version of You'll Be Fiiinnne, taken from The Withdrawing Room LP (Pathway006)

Seek solace. Be still and drift. Withdraw and be there. There. Inside. A chair awaits. A beginning built from an ending, from leaving, from afar. In times such as these, The Withdrawing Room is a safe haven to leave behind all that weighs heavily and surrounds us. We remark how comfortable the chair is, how exquisite the view is outside the window, the aroma, the breaths to be taken as you become aware of the minutia all around you and the sounds emanating from Mary Lattimore’s harp, warming your feet, your hands, your heart. Breathe. Previous collaborations have seen Mary matching wits with such esteemed luminaries as Thurston Moore, Meg Baird, Kurt Vile, Ed Askew, Fursaxa, and Jarvis Cocker. But for this debut work, Mary sequestered herself in a room, much like this one, to kindle three distinct works for keeping the listener company as he or she enjoys the view. The nuanced notes of the harp strings sing and reverberate amid subtle electronics courtesy of Jeff Zeigler on the 24-minute long piece “You’ll Be Fiiinnne;” “Pluto the Planet” meanders at a slow and steady pace as the sun makes its way across the sky and the gentle plucks of the silk and steel resonate within, beyond; the closing chaos of “Poor Daniel” charts a recklessness that embraces the listener as he or she quietly makes their way out of the room to tackle the world anew.

CREDITS + INFO

Recorded and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Becky Suss – 76 Meadow Woods Road, oil on linen, 72 x 120 in
Design by Chris Koelle
Mary plays a Lyon & Healy Style 30 harp and Line 6 looper
Jeff plays the Korg Mono/Poly on Track 1

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

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