Ku Ku

https://soundcloud.com/gyusz69 sent me a while ago this backtrack and I thought it was really cool. I felt kind of inspired to write some lyrics for it and to think of a vocal melody but I didn't have a clear image for a story yet. I was binging Stargate at the time and well, that made me dream that I was travelling to other planets. 

This is a very lofi track though. The backtrack is an mp3 (the editable version was lost) so adding the vocals in was...interesting. We tried recreating the entire song but it didn't feel as good as the original. So this is more a demo of sorts, something that other people probably wouldn't post. It's not even mixed or mastered properly but I've tried to doctor it into what I hope is a decent enough track :))

Strange Planet

outline

excerpt from a long-form guitar + tape loop improvisation.
more information at: http://dustbreeding.com/466-fog

466 / driving over bridges through fog

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Fred and Lil"

Live at Nyabinghi

Check out video of the song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4quoG_cBUtM
more info:
https://www.facebook.com/Adomuzika/

https://soundcloud.com/adasgecevicius

https://www.mixcloud.com/adas-gecevičius/

https://www.facebook.com/shouraisessions/videos/1578433272260485/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6uuNDblvA

ADAS - Nightbird

Taken from 'Música Esporádica - Música Esporádica' (MFM044)
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Música Esporádica

A2. Música Esporádica - I Forgot The Shirts (6:10)

Jon Brook’s ‘How to Get to Spring’ is his fourth record on Clay Pipe. Stepping into new sonic territory with a gentle nod to his more recent Advisory Circle work, he has produced a beautiful new record that moves us gently from the winter into the spring.
“It’s when we realise that even the most seemingly inextricable connections are but, a flicker. Despite devices put in place, to the contrary, every connection is, ultimately, a temporary one.
She considered the landscape; how it looked, how it sounded, how it felt. The landscape cannot hide in Winter; everything is laid open to examination and interpretation, whether it wants to be, or not. It also adapts and evolves; very few situations and elements stay in stasis for long, through elemental or societal influence. Prevailing winds, for example, over time, shape the appearance and structure. Other forces have similar effects. “Some of them have been here, for over a thousand years”, she thought to herself. It became even more important to harness the connections with them, when it became apparent that sometimes, they would appear; at other times, not; despite the search.
The physical and temporal connection probably lasted a minute, at most. The relationship was formed, based on how it looked, how it sounded and most importantly, how it felt. The effects of that connection, however, lasted much longer.
We may consider ourselves mirrors, when we form connections. That reflected image may be delusive, but occasionally, it is quite the opposite.
She looked at the branch, as it reached towards her hand. “Well then” it seemed to say.
“Well then”, she said.”

01 Fonn - Jon Brooks

Vieną karantino dieną susitiko du geri draugeliai . Vienas iš jų neseniai įsigijo garso plokštę su mikrofonu. Pradėjus žaisti tikėtai/netikėtai prie jų prisijungė dar vienas bičas. Ir kartu šie 3 narsuoliai nusprendė per dieną padaryti gabalą, kuris pakeis pasaulį ir išgydys pasaulį nuo karantino...
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Once in the day of quarantine two good buddies have met. One of them have just bought the brand new sound card and microphone. When they started to play another one come into his house. And decided these 3 brave young people to create the track that will change the world and heal the quarantine...

IPEX - Kaip Tau Sekasi (ft. Bernardas & Ignas)

James Stewart feat Ayuune Sule - Where are we going ? (Mawimbi Records)
Onipa - Safari ya muziki (Strut)
Konono Molende-Makonda-Mbuta (Congo RDC)
Jimi Tenor-Quantum Connection
D'Angelo, Femi Kuti + Macy Gray-Water No Get Enemy (Part 2)
Yesterdays New Quintet-Sun goddess
Jeri Jeri-Bamba (with Mbene Diatta Seck, Ale & Khadim Mboup)
Afrika Jah-Onyame
Janka Nabay-To Ma Ya
Neba Solo
Kasai All Stars (80s formation)-Le Laboureur
Thomas Mapfumo_Nyarara Mukadzi Wangu
Eugène Mona-Guerie Gueriez
Kabongo  Wêtu-Bolingo Aimé
James Stewart feat Ayuune Sule - Where are we going ? (SIMBAD people dub) (Mawimbi Records)
Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy - Zota Yinne (Philophon)
Sibusile Xaba - Tribute to Bafo (Komos Jazz)
Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz (International Anthem)
Ahemaa Nwomkro - Ye Fre Yen ((Philophon)
Etoile 2000-El carretero
Silvestre Mendez-Africa
Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri-Picadillo

Sunday Jam 80-Where are we going ? (James Stewart for Nova Lyon)

ADAS (Adas Gecevičius) is the personification of the plural, a multi-handed drummer, producer and composer, exploring Leftfield, Beat, Jazz and IDM horizons.
Adas is the Lithuanian representative, official performer and the face of the manufacturers of Swiss drum cymbals ‘Paiste’ and Italian drums ‘Tamburo’.

ADAS - Nightbird

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