Akuphone. AKU1031 (CD/Digital)
Official release date : 08/07/2022
Buy here : https://bit.ly/3wMReuR

Kadef Abgi came together in a serendipitous way. Devin Brahja Waldman was walking up St. Laurent borough in Montreal when he heard an otherworldly voice emanating from the venue Divan Orange. He walked in and listened to the singer on stage. When he was done, Devin walked over to him. After a short exchange about playing a house show in a couple of days, Ziad Qoulaii told Devin that he was available for all his projects. Shortly thereafter, Devin and Ziad met up at Mathieu Pelletier-Gagnon’s studio with Anas Jellouf and Hamza Lahmadi. Later on, Anas Hejam, Vicky Mettler and guitarist Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, Karkhana, Land Of Kush…) joined.

The music materialized in a natural, collectively improvised way, without any compositions or ideas discussed beforehand - and without second takes. From there, Waldman began editing and mixing. Ala Dehghan painted the album’s great artwork.

A single composer’s imagination would not have produced Diva Of Deva Loka as it is music created from a collective consciousness unfolding in real time. The album has its roots in each musician’s  sonic experience: this includes Arabic music —including most notably Moroccan Gnawa— as well as rock ‘n‘ roll, jazz and the avant-garde. 

Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer. He has performed with Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch along many other artists. He has also accompanied his aunt, the poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten. He leads a NYC/Montreal-based band, B R A H J A, performs in Heroes Are Gang Leaders and is a member of Artists For A Free World Marching Band. Along with Anne Waldman and his cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman co-directs Fast Speaking Music—a still-active music and poetry label which has released the works of Amiri Baraka, Meredith Monk, CA Conrad, and many others.

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Kadef Abgi - Rahma (AKU1031)

These are live recordings from the Endicott World Music Room at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA during our 2014-15 season. The selections include Puspanjali (composed by Nyoman Windha & Suasthi W. Bandem), Batu Kalian (composed by Dewa Alit), and Monkey House (composed by Robin Buyer).

02_Batu Kalian (composed by Dewa Alit)

LR084 - Cool Maritime - Some Sort of Wave Portal
WW release date 01.29.2016

Cool Maritime is the New Age synth wizardry of Sean Hellfritsch - named after the coastal region between San Francisco and Vancouver. "Coast Quest" was recorded in real-time to cassette using mini-modular synthesizer, re-201 space echo, and t.e. op-1. 

cover illustration by: Jesse Balmer 
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Cool Maritime - Coast Quest

All tracks written & produced by Infuso Giallo
Mastered by Steffen Baldo

Preorder EP: itzonlykamehouse.bandcamp.com

Ode To Sansevieria EP

A1 Ode To Sansevieria

Passive Aggressive

Hanging Glass Structure

エマーソン北村 (feat. mmm) 田舎はいいね2

Freedom

"Görünmez Hava" is the first track taken from Anadol's "Uzun Havalar".

We feel honoured to release this extraordinary beautiful music on vinyl. Release date is May 17, pre-order is up: https://anadol.bandcamp.com/

Now do yourself a favour and buy this record!

Anadol (@altinkasetcilik) is a psychedelic synth folk project by Gözen Atila, a Turkish sound artist and photographer based in Berlin. Her third album Uzun Havalar is based on collective improvisations of middle eastern folk songs called „uzun hava“. They turn out as rich, atmospheric synth ballads. A diverse roster of improvising musicians creates their fascinating complexity. Anadol recorded them during extensive sessions in Istanbul. You can hear drummers laughing and playing guitars, composers howling, announcements in French and screams in no language, record collectors playing oscillators, and trumpets through spacious echoes.
Anadol represents Gözen Atila’s liberation from a rather academic approach to electronic composition which she pursued during her music technology studies in Istanbul. She calls her education the „darkness of serious music“ where she first tried to belong, then to break free with the help of lo-fi synth pop. As a producer of radio plays and an expert field recording artist, she has developed a distinct sense of timing, editing and sound design. Her Anadol project walks in the footsteps of lone synth experimentalists like Bruce Haack and The Space Lady with their childlike curiosity for electronic sounds, pushing the boundaries of minimal equipment. On Uzun Havalar she translates her experimental background into these floating folk ballads.

Uzun Havalar

Görünmez Hava

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A1 Anadol - Görünmez Hava [Pingipung 065/KS04]

Tracklist

A1 Kläppen 
A2 Kläppen II
A3 Natt & dag
B1 Delta
B2 Baby Blues
B3 Kont

On his previous album for Malmö Inre - Monika - Ivar Lantz promised us the width of the Scandinavian forests within reach. With this new album, again under the guise of Golden Ivy; a new chapter of that same tale is laid forth. Truly siblings born from the same creative flow, they both stand alone from Lantz’s previous musical endeavors and together to support each other. 
 
Kläppen is an epic mellow experience for both the body and the mind. An almost family friendly record for the home stereo system, and yet quietly but daringly explorative of the avant-garde terrain. 

While the title is identical to an actual place on the map, don’t let that fool you. The word itself is an old Swedish way of describing a hilltop, and can still be heard in local talk to this day. But in the context of this album, it is essentially an imagined place. And it’s important that we all have a place like this to go to. A place where our theta waves oscillate in the right rhythms. With his violin and flute, Lantz have found the right tools to harness these rhythms and carve them into sound waves, guiding us there. Kläppen is, alas, both the trip and the destination. 

Ouroboros!

Golden Ivy - Kläppen

From "Kläppen" on Malmö Inre.
https://www.malmoinre.se/product/preorder-golden-ivy-klappen-lp

Kont

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Kadef Abgi - Rahma (AKU1031)

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