From the FGHR album Stationary, recorded October 2005.

Luke Howard – piano
Leonard Grigoryan – guitar

In memory of Lyle Mays 1953-2020.

Barcelone

Victims Of Nostalgia

Bright Lights

In late September, Connor Herson and Fan Yang free climbed Hairline on the east face of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the Lower 48. Hairline is a very steep, 13-pitch route originally climbed in 1987. The 55-meter crux pitch went at 5.13+ or 8b, at over 13,000 feet in elevation. The two other hard pitches go at 5.12 and 5.13-. 

Connor climbed 5.14c/8c+ at age 14 and became famous at 15 for free climbing the Nose of El Cap. He’s now 20 and a student at Stanford University. At age 36, Fan is also a 5.14 climber, and he’s an M.D., an engineer, and a researcher in the field of artificial intelligence applied to medicine. He first tried Hairline in 2019 (and freed the crux pitch), but COVID and then difficulty finding partners kept him off the route for several years. 

Connor and Fan had never really climbed together when they teamed up for Hairline, but their partnership clicked. After a couple of days of preparation on the route, they sent all the key pitches in one day with no falls. From their high point, they downclimbed the East Face Route to camp, then scrambled back up the next morning to finish the easy final pitches to the summit of Mt. Whitney. 

AAJ assistant editor Michael Levy interviewed the two about their climb.

Connor Herson and Fan Yang: 5.13+ on Mt. Whitney

Friend / bandmate / composer / Tehrantologist @mahmoodschricker (@linkmusiclab, Toronto) presents an hour of deep jazz cuts, postmodern classical, his recent soundtrack work for "Fremont", and other musics of the Persian diaspora.

VHM Projekt - The Second One (In Four Movements) [Self-released, 2016]
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Der Heimatlose Wanderer [Unknown, 1963]
Alice Coltrane / Pharoah Sanders / Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El-Daoud [Impulse, 1970]
nour - Never Saw Me Smile [Self-released, 2022]
Shaho Andalibi / Aria Rostami / Naghmeh Farahmand - Beshno Az Nay [Link Music Lab, 2020]
Mahmood Schricker - Globe Scene [Fremont, 2023]
Alireza Mortazavi & Carson Teal - Underground Flights [Link Music Lab, 2023]
Soft Verdict - Gorf [Les Disques Du Crépuscule, 1982]
Lera Lynn - My Least Favourite Life [Harvest, 2015]
Negar Bouban - The Last Turn [Self-released, 2011]
Elsa Maurus - Auf Dem Wasser Zu Singen [Sony Classical, 1996]
Laurie Anderson - Washington Street [Nonesuch, 2001]

Days Of Steam 010: Mahmood Schricker

original music: luca longobardi
keyboard, eletronics, drum machine: luca longobardi

The glide

So excited to tell you that my album Prism is released today on Preserved Sound as a handmade limited edition CD.
The whole album is streaming on Bandcamp.
https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/prism
Thank you all!


Flickering (Limited edition CD out on Preserved Sound)

The Badila Ensemble -Shahr e Zemzeme

Alessandro Marcello: Adagio from Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Strings and Continuo, transcribed by JS Bach BWV974

Alessandro Marcello: Adagio from Concerto in D minor, transcribed by JS Bach BWV974

Composition : Kiya Tabassian
Interpretation :
Kinan Azmeh - clarinet
Kiya Tabassian - setar
Didem Basar - kanun
Pierre-Yves Martel - viola da gamba
Patrick Graham - percussion

Chavosh

I originally wrote Peninsula on an acoustic guitar whilst camping near the sea on the west coast of Scotland. I have always found playing music a very comfortable way of expressing how i feel, often i write something and during the process find myself engaging with particular topics or emotions in my life that i didn’t realise were there. It is as if the sub-conscious connection between my brain and an instrument is a more honest expression of how i feel than my conscious thoughts. Peninsula was one of those songs.

Yes, Sleep Well Death

Peninsula

Tom Adams - Peninsula

Included on combined reissue of I Will Not Be Sad In This World + The Moon Shines At Night, two of Djivan's finest albums, released 14 July 2014.

Armenia’s greatest living musician and the acknowledged master of the duduk, Djivan Gasparyan has toured throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States for over fifty years. His work can be heard on numerous film soundtracks, including The Crow, Russia House and Gladiator. The duduk is a traditional woodwind instrument from the greater Armenia region. A double-reed instrument of ancient origin and noted for its unique, mournful sound. Djivan’s debut solo album I Will Not Be Sad In This World was originally released in the Soviet Union in 1983. Moon Shines At Night was recorded in 1993 with infinite guitarist Michael Brook.

Now in his 85th year, Djivan is performing a series of farewell concerts over the next 12 months, including an appearance at the Global Beat festival in New York City in June 2014

“Without doubt one of the most beautiful and soulful recordings I have ever heard” – Brian Eno


Djivan Gasparyan - Tonight (from MOON SHINES AT NIGHT album 1992)

The Cutting Edge presents in-depth interviews with the world's best climbers, just back from great new climbs. Presented by Hilleberg the Tentmaker (http://hilleberg.com), with additional support from Bivouac Coffee and Blue Ice. This podcast is produced by the editors of the American Alpine Journal.

Connor Herson and Fan Yang: 5.13+ on Mt. Whitney

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