August 2020

My third Musicorum playlist featuring some of the insanely talented artists found on Soundcloud.

Musicorum III

electronic voyage

Terry Riley - démo

Ecker & Meulyzer “Carbon” (SUB033)

Digital & CD: https://eckermeulyzer.bandcamp.com/album/carbon

Koenraad Ecker and Frederik Meulyzer make their Subtext debut with Carbon. 

Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, Carbon grapples with the many contradictions that lie at the heart of our shift into the capitalocene. The project began in 2017, when Ecker and Meulyzer scored the performance “Frozen Songs,” a commission by Zero Visibility Dance Company led by Ina Christel Johannesen.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was conceived of as an effort to preserve copies of seeds from key crop varieties, ensuring their persistence in the event of large-scale crises. Yet the area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the permafrost to melt and putting the seed vault at risk. 

Across from the Seed Vault lie the decrepit remnants of Svalbard’s mining activities of the early 20th century; Carbon wrestles with the incongruities nestled in the town’s landscape. Reflecting on dissonances of stasis and change, closeness and distance, enclosure and expanse, as well as cynicism and hope, Ecker and Meulyzer consider the urgency of our situation while trying to sidestep all-too popular depictions of dystopia. In Ecker’s own words, “we don’t have the luxury to afford that kind of pessimism.” 

From close, supple sounds to cold, brutal sonics, Carbon meditates on the many challenging questions and contradictions raised by the Seed Vault and its surroundings—a landscape that embodies and makes visible the many intertwined phenomena that shape our current predicament.

Ecker and Meulyzer, formerly known as Stray Dogs, have released works such as Wasteland, recorded in deconsecrated church in Antwerp, and Kalkar, recorded in the cooling tower of a former power station in Germany. 

Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, radio plays, stage performance and text. Together with Andrea Taeggi, he is part of the Opal Tapes-affiliated duo Lumisokea. His output encompasses studio albums, audiovisual installations, texts, performances, and sound design for film. 

Frederik Meulyzer is a percussionist active in projects including Belgian jazz band Hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther, contemporary music and theatre company Post uit Hessdalen, and experimental psych-krautrock band Slumberland.

The ecological impact of the production of this record will be compensated through a carbon offsetting program .

Bandcamp

Ecker & Meulyzer - Growth

'Vollemaankater' by Neugeborene Nachtmusik
Berlin 2019

Vollemaankater

from KR077 : die ANGEL - Utopien I . LP / DL out on april 24th 2020

Ilpo Väisänen : electronics & effects
Dirk Dresselhaus : electric guitar & effects
Oren Ambarchi : electric guitar & effects

die ANGEL -  Cargo Cult (feat. Oren Ambarchi)

The title is "May the Force be with you" translated into Klingon, badly. This probably makes me a bad person.

Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI

Chaq RaD

made for compilation by Cain Orbe Netlabel

Jamais Vu

The oldest Polish song sung by the singer who doesn't know Polish.
Myhr - voice, voice mix - https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/
Dariusz Jackowski - music, mix, mastering - https://soundcloud.com/dariusz-jackowski-1

Klechdy

Free download

Myhr | Dariusz Jackowski - Oj Chmielu (ambient version)

Clusterbùrach

Pasichosis  Prei

A New Beggining (Demo)

Our cover of Einstürzende Neubauten's song. Please listen to the wonderful and sublime original: https://soundcloud.com/einsturzende-neubauten/heaven-is-of-honey

Heaven is of Honey

On the album Things That Go Bump: wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/thing…hat-go-bump.

On March 11, 2020 I laid down two new ideas. One became Carpe Diem Amicis, posted here on April 18.  https://soundcloud.com/gary-rees-since-87/carpe-diem-amicis The other idea sat idle for a couple of months before I fleshed it out. I finished it in August and decided to call it Carpe Noctem.  Not a companion piece by theme or style by any means.  It's definitely a darker piece featuring some unmelodic riffs you might say were siezed of the night.  It's my only SC posting so far that I've tagged Experimental.   I'd say "Enjoy" but I suspect a lot of you won't. ;-)

Carpe Noctem

Title track from my new album, available on Bandcamp- https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/them-hybrid-folk

Mood Exhibit - Them Hybrid Folk

Eklektikos - Compassio
September 2020
Duration: 3:00
Artwork: John-Marc Ventimiglia
Part of the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/ekleltikos-triptych

Compassio, from Latin, Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

Eclecticism was first reported to have been practiced by a group of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers who attached themselves to no real system, but selected from existing philosophical beliefs those doctrines that seemed most reasonable to them. Out of this collected material they constructed their new system of philosophy.  The term eclecticism comes from the Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikos), literally "choosing the best".  

The music of "Eklektikos" brings together the instruments and rhythms of many diverse cultures to create a unique world music.

For Morin Khuur Violin, Duduk, Shakuhachi, Gambang Gamelan, Bhutan Bells, Bandura, Ih Khuur Bass, strings, and percusssion

Clusterbùrach

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