so beautiful!! where is this song from does anybody know? have been searching everywhere. beautifully put together 

Tea Drips

For this month's instalment of Vertical Reality, Glenn Astro pays tribute to the late Jon Hassell. Astro provides a selection of his picks from the catalogue of the American trumpet player and composer.

Vertical Reality #4: One For Jon w/ Glenn Astro - July 2021

https://www.nts.live/shows/temi-kogbe/episodes/the-great-african-disco-w-temi-kogbe-soukous-special-30th-july-2021

The Great African Disco w/ Temi Kogbe - Soukous Special 300721

K15 returned with his signature blend of all things soulful. In the bag - tracks from Dam-Funk, Common, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Jazz fusion, neo-soul, contemporary jazz and broken beat all inside.

K15 - August 2021

https://www.nts.live/shows/funkineven/episodes/the-apron-show-6th-october-2021

Steven Julien Presents: The Apron Show 061021

https://www.nts.live/shows/rhythmsection/episodes/rhythm-section-3rd-november-2021

Rhythm Section - 031121

Graphic designer and illustrator Saša Ostoja is known for his cheerful illustrations, but he has an other side. As Sultan Botanico he makes the crowd swing. Let him take you on a journey to his Botanico Garden where he explores all corners of the world.

Read the article in Dutch here: https://i-d.vice.com/nl/article/i-dj-sultan-botanico

i-DJ: Sultan Botanico

→ http://shelter-press.org/tomoko-sauvage-musique-hydromantique-sp087/

TOMOKO SAUVAGE 'Musique Hydromantique' (SP087)
SAMPLE MIX

Musique Hydromantique is the second solo album by Tomoko Sauvage archiving many years of her performance-based practice on the waterbowls - the natural synthesizer of her invention, composed with porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones (underwater microphones). While her first album Ombrophilia (released on and/OAR in 2009) was studio-recorded /composed work, «Musique Hydromantique» is about experimentation and improvisation with the environment - acoustics affected by the architecture, temperature, humidity and the human presence. 

For more than ten years, Sauvage has been investigating the sound and visual properties of water in different states, as well as those of ceramics, combined with electronics. Water drops, waves and bubbles are some of the elements she has been playing with to generate the fluid timbre. Since around 2010, hydrophonic feedback has been an obsession for the musician - an acoustic phenomenon that requires fine tuning depending on the amount of water, a subtle volume control and interaction with the acoustic space. 

Calligraphy was recorded in a genuine echo chamber, with about 10 second reverbs, situated in a former textile factory. Like an endless exercise to draw perfect curves and forms floating in the air, the subaquatic feedback frequencies are pitch-bended with the mass of water sculpted by a hand changing its quantity. Fortune Biscuit is about the singing bubbles emitted from the pieces of ‘biscuit’ (porous terra-cotta). Depending on the texture of the surface, each biscuit makes different sound : insect and animal voices in a forest, motors, crying babies changing pitches and rhythms while absorbing the water… Clepsydra (meaning water clock) features Sauvage’s classical technique, a random percussion with dripping water. She tunes the waterbowls by adding and removing water, making flowing glissando, to find the balance point in ever-changing tonalities. 

Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and relative. However, slowness dominates throughout the album as a result of favoring the full resonance of the instrument, leading to a path to experiencing timelessness. 

Hydromancy is a method of divination by means of water. Unpredictable bubbles and water ripples become oracles. Evaporation and acoustic space constantly play a chance operation. Through primordial materials and ritualistic yet playful gestures, Musique Hydromantique questions contemporary divination.

All the tracks are live-recorded without electronic effects or editing. They were recorded during the night or very early in the morning and the whole album is to be listened to during that period of a day. 

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LP edition of 500 copies with reverse board-printed inner and outer sleeve. Digipack CD edition of 1000 copies. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering.

TOMOKO SAUVAGE 'Musique Hydromantique' Sample Mix (SP087)

The amazing new "the vagina series podcast" asked me to do a mix for them themed around self-care. It took me a while to put this mix together as i wanted it to reflect what to me is one of the strongest ways you can actively practice self-care: meditation. 

I hope you will just lie and close your eyes to this.. calm your roots.

<3



artwork by: cody rocko ©

calm roots

2018 repress of the debut full length LP from Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile's Visible Cloaks project. Initially recorded in 2013 and issued on cassette by Sun Ark in 2014 (as Cloaks), this first offering uses conceptual processes to weave many of the same threads as their later work; synthetic FM tones, tuned mallet percussion, and electronically modulated voice, all arranged in a gossamer web, spun with neon electronics. On this release the duo set off on the sonic journey they are still on today, refracting their influences through East<>West feedback loops, augmenting traditions with technology. Remastered 45rpm DMM version with additional surprises!

BUY HERE: www.seance-centre.com/shop/visible-cloaks-st-lp

For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl
For NA distribution contact: info@seance-centre.com

Repress by Musique Plastique.
Produced & Distributed by Séance Centre

Visible Cloaks - Escape Music From City To Paradise (excerpt)(MP001)

Dreaming Out Of Season

https://green-house.bandcamp.com/album/peperomia-seedling
Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.

Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.

Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out Jan 15, 2020) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them.

Green-House - Peperomia Seedling

The latest mix in our series comes from Berlin based DJ/Graphic Designer IngWa. A mix reflecting the artists feelings regarding Isolation and the various effects this has had on the general population. As anxiety, loneliness and uncertainty creep into our souls this mix hopes to create a soundtrack to help us through the emotional rollercoaster that is 2020.

https://soundcloud.com/ingwaingwa

Is◯-Station [Mix by IngWa]

New to Balamii - Ego Ella May was live with Daniel Oduntan for the Honey For Wounds Show. The best new contemporary jazz, RNB, neo-soul and high life all inside.

Honey For Wounds w/ Ego Ella May and Daniel Oduntan - September 2020

Shy One was live with a bag of smooth selections ranging from laid back rnb and soul from the likes of Mansur Brown and Yasmin Lacey, all the way up to house and broken beat selections from Tassilo Hagström and Tenderlonious.

Shy One - October 2020

warm light is green

just friends floom mode + mangrove as voices....same patch as this video here !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkZ7DaWYB8

breakfast at night

Touchingbass / Calm Roots
I sometimes  make things.
Grew up in in a forrest by the sea. Atm residing in south east London 

bookings : alasdair@fmly.agency

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