Our next mixtape instalment comes from Sara Berts, an Italian composer and sound artist. Sara’s work is saturated with elements from the natural world blending with electronics. She defines her music as a meeting ground, a place of active exchange between two bandwidths of reality, the visible world and its allusive aliveness of another order of being. And following this premises she has prepared this mixtape, a flow and exchange without an intention. I just start playing and listening, inside and outside; and, as for this mix, things start shaping up bit by bit. 
 
Sara is publishing soon her debut EP in Gang of Ducks Ayni self-described the record as a gift from the plants and for the plants. Field recordings flowing through the whole record come from the Peruvian Amazon forest, where she spent 3 months in 2019 while seeking personal healing. All the other sounds come from the Buchla Easel and were recorded in Italy during the suspended time of the 2020 strict lockdown. As she puts it, two different times and spaces linked together through isolation and uncertain feelings for the future. However, Ayni doesn’t contain any element of darkness but is inspired by a sense of redemption and healing arising from these events.  
 
A thoroughly immersive record that deserves a deep listening to explore and appreciate all the different shades of sound and emotion it contains, which sounds and feels specially crafted to ease the listener into a new season of hopeful renewal.

Gang of ducks presents SARA BERTS

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https://www.retreatradio.net/deeprelief

Deep Relief by De Kat Memwa #5 w/ Amdience (04/07/21)

Delphine Dora, a prolific recording artist, improviser, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from France. She performed in various places in France and many places in Europe. Her music is regularly broadcast in international programs in independant radios.
She works mainly with piano, voice, organ, modular synth and field recordings. Her music displays a pure fascination with sound and straddles the lines between improvisation, modern classical, avant folk, song forms, and electro-acoustic music.

Delphine Dora [Reste à la fin, les cendres  Curated by Mari] [31.01.2022]

CD available from: IMPREC.com

“an intoxicating sauce of stark and tripped out ritual music... which conspires to keep listeners in a semi-permanent trance state” Julian Cope / Head Heritage

“a heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique” Edwin Pouncey / Wire Magazine

“Razen push the drone potential of medieval instruments like hurdy gurdy as well as shawm and recorders... into realms of total sensory overload” David Keenan / Volcanic Tongue



Razen's Postcards From Hereafter was recorded using a 17th century organ tuned at 398 Hz (meantone) in a Belgian cathedral erected in 1305. The ensemble explored, with rich results, the organ's strict and limiting tuning with an arrangement that included hurdy gurdy, recorders, chalumeau, violone and nyckelharpa.

Razen - Poscards From Hereafter - CD - Release: 3.24.23

A mix featuring tracks from Graphical's catalogue.

1. B1 (excerpt - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
2. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
3. Eastern Township (excerpt) - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
4. B1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
5. Physics At Half Past Nine - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
6. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
7. Tyre - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
8. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
9. Matter Meets Antimatter  - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
10. Gentle Story - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
11. Gira - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
12. Voices (excerpt) - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
13. Curious Cases - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
14. Alland - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
15. Burning Brush (excerpt) - Mark Templeton - Gentle Heart
16. Half Wave (excerpt) - Mark Templeton - Ocean Front Property
17. B1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
18. Reporter Missing - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
19. Solo For A - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
20. Valley - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
21. VARIATIONS - Ian William Craig - VARIATIONS: Various Artists on Michael Snow  
22. VARIATIONS - Mark Templeton - VARIATIONS: Various Artists on Michael Snow   
23. Purview of Water - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
24. One Last Encore - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart

Geographically Yours

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/plage-arri-re

French photographer, musician and lifeguard Roméo Poirier (formerly known as Swim Platførm) appears for his debut album, Plage Arrière, a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these seductive scapes, which recall the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller or Sebastian Palomar. 

'Atsipades' is a keepsake from the song's namesake beach, on western Crete. Roméo writes, 'on the back of a boat, leaving an island. We can see a pool, but that is empty and covered by a net. People looking into distance. A man walks across the platform, hand moving towards his mouth. Maybe he is drinking a café frappé. During his time on the island he was drinking it every day. Now, on the journey back home, that café frappé represents a souvenir of the beach. In it there is water (sea), coffee (sand) and ice cubes (rocks).' 

Plage Arrière will be out soon on Kit, in the form of a limited tape, with risograph printed artwork by Roméo.
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releases December 9, 2016

Roméo Poirier - Atsipades [KR22]

Mary Anne Hobbs asked me to create a mix for her program on BBC6 while she was sitting in for Gilles Peterson.
I'm so grateful to her for supporting my music so far with enthusiasm and generosity, giving the fact she's an amazing DJ, music fan and attentive listener.

The track list includes tracks from my last solo album 'ORE'
1- Tribute to Raymond Scott
2- Vano
3- Hi-Jacked Drone (by Machinefabriek and Soccercommittee - Andrea Belfi's remix)
4- Ton (from my last solo record 'ORE')
5- 'East Timor' by Robert Wyatt, played by Hobocombo
6- Nautikon

Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

Heart

Composed and recorded by Lisa Stenberg on the EMS Synthi 100 in studio KSYME Contemporary Music Research Center, Athens, Greece in 2017.
Produced at EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm 2017.

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Heart

Vienna's young youngster Paul and Leonard are starting the Westbahn series with a 7 inches - Open your mind wild between "!" and "?" - two punctuation marks that are focusing on underlining the senses of the language. 

Check Check Check.

The 7’’ record containing two tracks (? + !) comes with an extra 300g silk print of a drawing by Leonard. Both tracks were mixed by Sam Irl in Vienna and Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg in Amsterdam.

https://soundcloud.com/mariemariemariemarie
https://soundcloud.com/paulebhart

NTOAB Jeez is Paul Ebhart & Leonard Prochazka - ! - on Westbahn Label (Vienna)

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In a world seemingly hellbent on tearing itself apart, it makes perfect sense for two musicians from such disparate backgrounds and disciplines to come together to create a new musical vernacular. Sam Shackleton, returning on Cosmo Rhythmatic after his previous outing on the label as Tunes of Negation, and Polish clarinetist/multi-instrumentalist Wacław Zimpel have joined forces. Their offering is a new album for the label: three long tracks of spiritual introspection and ascensional energy. A work of unison and  solidarity.

Primal Forms 

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Premiere: Shackleton & Zimpel 'Primal Drones'

A1  Sankt Thomas

BOOKING: arthur@playbookartists.com
LICENSING: hellolondon@pitchandsync.com

Andrea Belfi has built a sound-world that artfully combines a modest drum set-up with an equally concise electronics component. He has searched long to produce and refine the acoustic timbres of his music, but has now reached a certain point of fulfilment, courtesy of his Saari drum-kit from Finland. Melded seamlessly with the acoustic elements is a Nord modular and sampler. On Ore, Belfi attains a masterful synthesis of these two sonic realms.

Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

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