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For our 18th Reflexions podcast we are taken on a wonderful auditory journey by Demetrio Cecchitelli. 

Demetrio is a composer and multi-instrumentalist sound researcher from Italy. In this podcast he explores a delicate sonic world and assembled a  variety of pieces which come together to create an enticing story. 

As usual for best listening experience; get comfy, take a deep breath, close your eyes and let music transport you. 

Check out his work --> https://demetrio-cecchitelli.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/cecchitellidemetrio
https://www.instagram.com/demetriocecchitelli/?hl=en

Tracklist:

1. Blanket Swimming - 05 Untitled (Attenuation Circuit)
2. DR - Minor (Singing Birds)
3. Taylor Deupree - August (vintage National resonator guitar) (12k) 
4. ASERET - Consciousness Of Undefined (Edit) (Midira Records) 
5. Yann Novak - Shortwaves to Longwaves (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) 
6. Nebel Lang - Nobody Else (Self-released)

Atrwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 18 - Demetrio Cecchitelli

Experimental sound artist KMRU(@kamarujoseph)is a master of quietness. His music is as much about empty space as it is the delicate field recordings that fill it in. The Kenyan artist has been perfecting this balancing act from his base in Berlin, most notably on 2020 full-length Peel. It's a record of slowly unfolding synth beauty and drawn-out drone mindfulness. Soft focus chords bleed and blend into one another like different shades of watercolour paint and the environmental nature of the sound sources lends it a gorgeously natural atmosphere.
For this week's most meditative mix, KMRU puts together an hour of soothing sound in a painterly fashion. It is unhurried but always going somewhere thanks to a gentle underlapping rhythm, expansive synth arc or little hiss of static. What sounds like distant vocal calls drift in and out of the mix which at times is like a recording from the furthest recess of the cosmos, at others the pleasant ambiance you might hear out of a Berlin window on a sunny afternoon.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 378 - KMRU

Hailing from Wales but a resident of Japan for the past 25 years, Steve Good has, in various forms, been involved with music for his entire life. From classical violin through just about every genre imaginable, he finally found himself sucked into the vortex of London’s rave scene in the 90s. After moving to Tokyo in ’95, he started work at a recording studio, producing, mixing, mastering, remixing and programming music for artists, bands, games, and TV commercials, while simultaneously DJing for clubs and parties and producing via his own downtempo project, Puff Dragon. Involved in Labyrinth since its beginnings, Steve takes responsibility for that festival’s legendary sound quality.

After moving to the wild northern-Japanese island of Hokkaido in 2012 with his family, he found natural inspiration for what is now recognised as the Labyrinth sound. The epic beauty and remoteness of this icy, rock-covered isle on the north-west corner of the Pacific Ocean became the inspiration for Steve’s musical explorations of the interplay between the human and the natural, creating a huge and lasting effect on both his own musical output and the indelible artistic mark of Labyrinth Festival.

This present live set grew out of a phase of sadness and listlessness Steve experienced as the upheavals of 2020 ricocheted across the globe. In the absence of those usually unnoticed markers of the passage of time, anchor points drift and the moorings that ground opportunities for perspective and insight flit and vanish. Yet in this sea of disorientation, the plants continue to grow, rivers flow, waves crash, and the seasons keep on turning. In place of what appeared to be missing arises the possibility of experiencing each moment in its sublime evanescence. Steve Good’s Patterns of Perception 67 is forest music, mountain music, lake music. It holds chaos and beauty within it, transporting the listener to places both on the edge, and at the core, of the fleeting beauty of existence.

After witnessing his ethereal, truly moving opening set on day two of last year’s Labyrinth festival, this mix is a uniquely personal one for our collective. We’re delighted to welcome Steve onto our platform to share his inimitable musical vision.

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/stevegoodambient/
https://stevegood.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/mindgameslaby

Patterns of Perception 67 - Steve Good

A dream sequence of ambient and drone from the Nairobi DJ and producer.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=740

@kamarujoseph

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.740 KMRU

"I love functional (electronic) dance music, but given our current shipwrecked state, my attention is naturally drifting towards more abstract, meditational, experimental shores. This is a mix of some of my favourite records from outside of the box. It’s the music I think of when I try to describe our arch events to newcomers - expressive, sensitive, harmonic, swaying gently between ecstatic and melancholic. Complex synth arpeggios, sub bass and crystalline atmospheres. I’m so excited to embrace this side of electronic music more, and see where it takes us. " Inland

For more arch music visit:
http://archbln.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFrEtjKyoLbn86Cz1M43MQRGz32lOtIZ

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www.sweatlodgeagency.com

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Alan Christopher Chapman