slow down and touch the air

Live performance of "Concréte 2" written and performed for Ted X Martha's Vineyard  for "Insanity, Genius & the creative process".
I discussed my compositional technique and finding your own creative way outside of the academic process.

Devonté Hynes - "Concrète 2" performed at TED X Martha's Vineyard August 2014

For the past eight years the duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have nurtured and refined their creative partnership as the core members of the band Balmorhea.  Though their first album on Western Vinyl Rivers Arms (2008) garnered some remarkable press, their self-titled debut, recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 best captures the duo's unique magic as it first blossomed.  With no label, distributor, manager, publicist, or booking agent the duo quietly self-released their first recordings and started playing live shows. 

For these two Texans the release of their self-titled album was the beginning of a new trajectory in their lives.  They were young enough that their prefrontal cortexes were still developing, but old enough to tap into the ancient stories that coursed through their veins.  Though crudely recorded at home, those early songs display all of the key characteristics and emotional scope that continue to define the duo's sound.  Now, seven years later Western Vinyl is honored to have the opportunity reissue the band's self-titled album, and make it available on vinyl for the first time ever.

In honor of this special reissue, the audio has been lovingly remastered, drawing out even more of the nuances…magnifying the sounds of Muller and Lowe's fingers on the instruments, and teasing out the textures that set these recordings apart from the rest of their catalog.  Simple and sincere, these songs and ambient sounds the duo captured in these recordings are strangely inviting.  Throughout the album the distant sounds of Texas grackles, the warm summer rain, the steady rhythm of crickets chirping, and creaking wooden stools, all seeping in to cradle the notes in a restrained din of primordial wonder. 

Attesa (Nils Frahm Rework)

Caia - Le Telecabine

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Saycet is a name that’s been on an increasing number of lips over the last few years, like a secret too precious to keep to oneself. With just a few releases to his name, the project by Parisian producer Pierre Lefeuvre has elegantly evolved in a resolutely modern fashion, attracting attention more or less everywhere around the world from people who like their music electronic and heavy with organic emotion. Using electronic music as his original inspiration, and influenced by the hypnotising, minimal sounds of both Germany and Iceland, Saycet has matured his sound thanks to intensive touring of Europe, Russia and Asia, gaining international fans at every stop. His new (third) album, due for release in early 2015, was nourished by this experience of travelling and playing live over the past few years. More directly, the new Saycet has taken inspiration from images and forms (a certain interest for design, architecture, and visits to Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’), widening his style to include pop and radiant sonic mirages in which one can get deeply, deeply lost. The aim is no longer to choose between black and white and spirals of colours, but to stimulate emotion and take you on a journey, without or without a return ticket.
He has worked in close collaboration with vocalist & lyricist Phoene Somsavath on several songs from his upcoming album, adding a complementary dimension to his craft.

On stage, Pierre is accompanied by Louise Roam (vocals, violin, keyboards) and Zita Cochet (stage design, video projection)

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https://youtube.com/saycet

SMILES FROM THESSALONIKI

Pinkshinyultrablast - Holy Forest (Keep Shelly In Athens Remix)

PYRIT's Debut LP available here : www.bookmakerrecords.com
Out ltd Vinyl + Digital June 2015

Fade Away

"The Ruined Map" is the first single from the new CFCF LP, "Radiance and Submission", out this summer on Driftless Recordings.

vinyl pre-order: http://shop.thehyv.net/collections/driftless-recordings/products/pre-order-cfcf-radiance-and-submission-lp-limited-to-500

Itunes purchase:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-ruined-map-single/id999844596

Itunes LP preorder: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/radiance-submission/id1001516172

Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/61472-cfcf-radiance-submission
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CFCF - Radiance and Submission - The Ruined Map

https://FLAU.lnk.to/Noah-Sivutie

premiered by Noisey by VICE
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/premiere-noah-unspoken

Noah - Unspoken

This is not from my forthcoming album, just some things on my mind.
Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Lyrics.
frustration and depression breaks me down
descending like they wanted underground
the further our journey the less you care
that's why you laugh at Kanye when he's talking in a chair
but the same conversation but replaced,
is good enough for laughs or a smile on your face,
happy to be singing all our songs to survive,
but when we need help, you don't get off til 5. 
it's powerful to feel so alone in a group

let me break this down for you and tell you how we feel again,
your fear is all you hold on to, so when you see me it's not fair
i have nothing left to give when you don't notice what is wrong,
Charleston left me broken down but it's just another day to you

i ain't got nothing left to give you
and i'm too tired, to even talk about it
while watching the fire,

tasting pain coming from a place of truth 

to be another in a messy world
to feel like giving in another turn?
you wouldn't listen if i told you

so how can i become anyone?

Written, arranged & produced by Devonté Hynes.

Devonté Hynes - Piano, Voice, Wurlitzer, Synths, Bass, Percussion, Drums.
Voicemail from Talwst (http://talwst.com)
Chris Egan - Drums from 6:13 onwards
Ava Raiin - Vocals
Samantha Urbani - Vocals

Do You See My Skin Through The Flames?

Buy @ iTunes: apple.co/1dYkLH0
Stream @ Spotify: bit.ly/1M8cGym
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In Fall 2013, Katy Morley stepped into a machine with a box of old instruments and a pair of borrowed headphones. In Spring 2015, Morly came out. The four tracks on Morly’s debut EP, In Defense of My Muse, are lo- fi explorations into the transient space  between joy and melancholy, major and minor, rhythm and flow. Informed by her choral background, a penchant for minimalism and a love of dance, they offer a poignant glimpse into her strange and beautiful world.
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Cascine on FB: http://bit.ly/1QTpyHQ

Morly - And Sooner Than We Know It...

Rayons with Predawn 'World Left Behind' Release Tour

10月04日(日) 東京・北とぴあドームホール w. Radicalfashion
11月10日(火) 神戸・旧グッゲンハイム邸
11月11日(水) 愛媛・和光会館(旧和光幼稚園)
11月13日(金) 北九州・BRICK HALL
11月14日(土) 島根・清光院下のギャラリー
11月15日(日) 広島・LOG

flau.jp/releases/49.html
http://www.flau.jp/events/rayons_predawn2015.html

Rayons - From Paradise Past

Louise Roam - Raptus (S A Y C E T Remix)

Listen to an exclusive “Solo Piano Edit” of 'Them' by Nils Frahm, taken from his approaching Late Night Tales album. The original version appears on his score of the film 'Victoria'. 

"This is the main theme from my first feature film score and it soundtracks the part where they finally kiss in the club… I soloed this piano part in the track and listening to it on its own, I almost preferred it to the original version, so I was pleased that I had the chance to use this alternative version on my mix." - Nils Frahm

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Nils Frahm - Them [Solo Piano Edit] (Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm)

Classic from 2012

From the compilation 'Sunrise Blend 2'

 

Eternal

‘Rivers and Streams’ will be released by Erased Tapes in LP/CD/DL format on November 27th, 2015.

Pre-order LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP077
or digitally on iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/riversandstreams

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.”

With his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form. Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar.

Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.

Following on from 2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful. 

"In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.

The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!“ – Lubomyr Melnyk

The cover artwork shows the surface of vines captured with macro photography by French artist Marion Benoit, which Lubomyr discovered in early 2015 as the perfect visual counterpart.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Parasol
2. The Pool of Memories
3. Sunshimmers
4. Ripples in a Water Scene	
5. The Amazon: The Highlands
6. The Amazon: The Lowlands

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: lubomyr.com · erasedtapes.com · marion-benoit.com

Rivers And Stream

Parasol

Lubomyr Melnyk – Parasol (excerpt)

New Light

http://flau.jp/releases/50.html

0 Japan Tour 2015

10-24 Goethe Institue Villa Kamogawa (Kyoto) 
10-25 Hidokei No Oka (Fukuoka)
10-26 Inryoji Temple (Okayama) 
10-27 Oyoyo Shorin (Kanazawa)
10-28 Nowhere (Toyama)
10-29 l'Espace Images de l'Institut Français (Tokyo) 
10-30 Vacant (Tokyo) 

slow down and touch the air

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