Bold Explorations of Uncharted Space, Vol. 11

c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

I wish to dedicate this collection to Paul Minns (Third Ear Band)

"musica assoluta" (ottobre 2020)

All submissions to Haiku 351:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #352: the surface of the water / like ornate silk / spring rain

Naviar haiku

Naviarhaiku 403 On The Spring Equinox

This time, Mat Ward took Groove 1 (negra 150),  and put an awesome bass on top of it !! also Mat added extra sounds and "played" with drum structure. ENJOY !!!!

Mat link: https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

Greetings !
Gonzalo

Groove 1 (negra 150) / featuring Mat Ward in bass

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

Louise Bock - "Flummox"

Félicia Atkinson - "Sequoia"

Nick Malkin - "An Hour Pulled Lengthwise"

From the forthcoming live album 'Figures In Open Air' out 6th November on Late Music.

Pre-order the double CD edition now → https://latemusic.ffm.to/figuresinopenair

Sarah Davachi - Diaphonia Basilica (Version)

Another successful collab!

Met No Mates Ensembe on Soundcloud and we really liked eachother's music. After exchanging a couple of messages we decided it would be a good idea to try a collab.

And the rest is history !....

Hope you enjoy! - We certainly enjoyed making it :)

No Mates Ensemble + AlienXXX Collab #1

Up next, "scheau". Pronounce the title as if you were a teenager who knows everything and you'll have it.  


vidya:  https://youtu.be/zj9c47d4jZI

scheau

Ahhhh  Aha!
scheau!
Oh oh oh 
scheau 
Crazy 
Crazy
I like parties !
Alright
scheau 
Lol 
scheau 
Oh oh oh 
(incantations)
scheau
scheau 
scheau 
Oh goddamn!
Crazy

scheau

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
352 week haiku
naviarlab.tumblr.com/

2020-10-01

the Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu
Naviar Haiku 352
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Surface Tension (naviarhaiku352)

Electric guitar
Bamboo flutes
Bowed upright bass
Composed and performed by DD

For this haiku:

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Poem by Ryōkan Taigu
Photo by Trevor Cole


@naviar-records

like silk (naviarhaiku352)

violin / metronom, trumpet: matthias boss

metroduett

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://artofwonder.org/2014/11/14/forgetting-the-moon-the-poetry-of-ryokan/

picture by Tim Mossholder https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

forel thana

halF ornatE [naviarhaiku352]

2Oct20

My naviarhaiku352 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

:D

Boson Spin - Spring Rain [naviarhaiku352]

The Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

original composition & final mix/master:
Monkey Blood Lowdown @monkeybloodlowdown

lyrics, acapella & cover design:
Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

cover art is created using MBL's avatar & the photo is by Michael Louw

~ a song i've sung to myself for some years, i tossed the poem but still remember the words because it was already weaved into melody. now it has become a healing balm having been brought back to life by Monkey Blood Lowdown's musical accompaniment ~

LOVE WANTS ITS OWN WAY
——————————————

Love wants its own way
she’s got the attitude of a dame

everywhere but neither no where
oh she’s got a heart of a zen fool

Love wants its own way
she’s got the attitude of a dame
going everywhere but nowhere
oh where?
nowhere!
she’s got the heart of a zen fool! zen fool! zen fool….
a heart of a zen fool….
zen fool
zen fool
zen 
fool, fool…

… attitude
attitude, oh love wants its own way
own way
she’s got the attitude of a dame
going no where but everywhere
going no where
going no where
but everywhere
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere

she’s every place your mind can imagine
she’s been everywhere
to the darkest corner
corner, corner, she’s been everywhere
to the darkest corner
she’s been everywhere, to the darkest corner
she’s been everywhere, to the darkest corner

oh it all takes time
oh then you see
it all takes time
yeah you better believe
oh it all takes time
each day, all takes time, yeah, you’ll see 
it all takes time
want, want
yeah, you better believe
it all takes time
each day ok, ok, ok ::::::::

the set

Love Wants Its Own Way | The Consolers

For the 31st Solar Kama Sutra song I decided to challenge myself a bit and do something in 7/4 time.  I tried remembering a band I heard do that and thought, "Isn't Pink Floyd's "Money" in 7/4 time?"  I remembered hearing it and thinking it was...

...  Turns out it is!  So for that reason I thought of Pink Floyd, and tried to do a Pink Floydish sound.    It's also a nod to Radiohead's "Pyramid Song".  I tried to capture the same feeling that song gives me, but with Solar Kama Sutra this time. 
(by the way, Solar Kama Sutra has always been just one person.  It's just the name for what I call the music)

Since Radiohead already used "Pyramid" which is well-known since ancient Egypt to be the coolest shape, I had to go with something else.  "Sphere Song" and "Cube Song" ?...  Well...  Those song titles just aren't gonna work....   Maybe "Dodecahedron Song"?....  Hmm... That actually sounds pretty catchy...  Feel free to use it!  

 My vocals are used more heavily on this track than it seems.  Throughout the track I tried to make my vocals sound like guitars and other instruments

  And definitely hats off to Pink Floyd for making a hit song in a 7/4 time signature.   How many times has that been done before?!

And of course, hats off to Stonehenge.  The ultimate inspiration for this track

lastly, much respect & love for all of you who have dropped by once again

- John

The Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

Andrei G