Produced, written and arranged by: Murri

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Wonderland

A sonic descent into the aftermath of becoming — where ambient shadows meet hip-hop pulses, and electronic vespers echo through the vault. Sounds of E channels raw emotion and introspection into each track, forging the signature E-Hop language of Eryndel. Step into the remnants, then rise.

endure

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More info & release show details: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/astral-in…esents-chi-ario/

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 2x12” 180g vinyl//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

Out March 2016.

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CHI is:

Hanyo van Oosterom (bass, guitar, piano, percussion, synth)
Willem Cramer (loops, sequences, percussion, guitar)
Koos Derwort (bamboo flutes, clarinet and mouthsounds)
Michel Banabila (philicorda organ, percussion, bass, flute and fx)
Sound treatments by Jurgen Brouwer
Video by Fyko van Leeuwen

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B2. Twisted Camel

Release date: 22/08/16

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Format: 180g vinyl only//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Jacobus Derwort started exploring sonic soundscapes listening to his short-wave world receiver at the age of 12. There he would hear music from Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, South America and beyond. He started playing guitar, piano, percussion and saxophone.

He met Hanyo van Oosterom in 1978 and they started the legendary cult rock band, 'The Jones'. Derwort was playing the sax, van Oosterom the drums. They started conducting sound experiments in Hanyo’s small cellar in the Dutch village of Krimpen aan den IJssel.

In the early eighties they made their first cassette, 'The Kallikatsou'. Hanyo started the ambient collective CHI in 1983. Jacobus was the first musician to join CHI. Together, they went to the magic rock “The 

Kallikatsou” on the island of Patmos, Greece. Here, Hanyo had stayed for months in a cave for some deep soul-searching. He heard the sound of CHI in the silence of the night like a message from out of space. Being together at the Kallikatsou they shaped the foundation of CHI, making handmade flutes from local bamboo and conducting field recordings of 
water, crickets, owls, goats, wind, etc...

Back home they asked Willem Cramer to join CHI, and later Michel Banabila. They released a legendary ambient cassette, 'The Original Recordings', in 1983 which soon became a collectors item. CHI stopped in 1987 (and still now nobody knows exactly why). Willem Cramer and Michel Banabila started the world music collective 'East Meets West' in 1989. Hanyo and Jacobus kept recording ambient soundscapes.

Jacobus was working on his 'Bamboo' recordings. Hanyo recorded the first tracks for 'The Kallikatsou Experience'.  Neither album was ever released. They returned a few times together to The Kallikatsou, but there the history seems to end...

…until decades later when Astral Industries located them after a long search, inspired by Rod Modell (Deepchord). The result was the vinyl release of CHI – The Original Recordings in February 2016. The album received great reviews and sold out in a few weeks. 

This inspired Hanyo and Jacobus to work on an old plan: remixing the old bamboo recordings. Most tracks were made in the eighties before and after CHI. Original tape recordings using mainly analogue sounds, percussion, samples and (of course)bamboo flutes and manipulated clarinets. Hanyo added some new recordings and remixed the old tapes in his Numoonlab Studio in Rotterdam. The result was 'The Bamboo Recordings', a timeless collection of ambient soundscapes. 

THE CHI FACTORY is the next step of CHI into the future. It will involve many future ambient collaborations. The next release will be 'The Kallikatsou Recordings'(Astral Industries 2016 TBA). Also bringing back the original line-up of CHI for new recordings is part of the plan. Who knows what may happen next.

The Bamboo Recordings have been produced and remixed by Hanyo van 
Oosterom. Original recordings by Jacobus Derwort. 

Jacobus Derwort: bamboo flutes, clarinet, guitar, samples, loops, saxophone, 
percussion, field recordings.
            
Hanyo van Oosterom: piano, bass, guitar, percussion, flute, samples and drones.

The Bamboo Recordings contain voice samples from around the world, 
including Tibetan monks, Sufi chanting, a Hopi elder, a Hopi woman, Fulani storytellers, a Japanese girl singing, Spanish and Greek children, excerpts from Gratitude For The Gaze by Nikos Eliou and much more...

Thanks to: Nikos Eliou, Ario Farahani, Noel Summerville, Theo Ellsworth, Michel Banabila, Thomas Bouvy, CHI.

In memory of Michael Ladraque Jacobus, who plays his legendary Fender Stratocaster on 'Life Is Like' and 'Birds'.


Part Two

as a central point of reference of grischa lichtenberger‘s »la demeure/il y a péril en la demeure« complex, raster-noton releases a limited edition of three 12“ vinyl EPs that are accompanied by a handmade, signed and individualized screen print.

the three EPs were set up as an experiment. each of the records is guided by a word that could be described as a phantasmagoria, a delusion of the 20th century – like a metaphor that is concerned not only with its immediate meaning, but with an implication more emotional, more irrational, telling something about the mindset of the not so distant past.

these keywords already existed before the production on the tracks began and thus played the role of an indirect orientation or playground for association. nevertheless, the EPs are not conceptualized, but rather a collection of habits and strategies in relation to the titles.

common to all EPs of the triptych is the question of a connection between intimacy and the public sphere. aesthetically, the music presented on the EPs ranges from distressing and unaligned dancefloor-oriented tracks to tribal and politically charged drones to unsettling noise ballads. on »spielraum«, for example, hypnotizing music box melodies are combined with claustrophobic breakbeats. »allgegenwart«, on the other hand, presents mechanical rhythms and sawing pads, topped with high-pitched warning sounds. last but not least, the final EP »strahlung« features self-forgetful, gloomy and melancholy tracks backed by melodies that remind of a barrel organ turned upside down.

please note: this special edition is limited to 500 copies and was printed, stamped and signed by the artist himself. print and paint application variations are intended.

for more on the ideas behind the series in grischa lichtenberger‘s own words, see: http://www.grischa-lichtenberger.com/spielraum_allgegenwart_strahlung/

Spielraum | Allgegenwart | Strahlung

grischa lichtenberger »003_1115_fn_2« taken from »spielraum | allgegenwart | strahlung«

Release date: 03/02/17

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Format: 180g vinyl only//re-mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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The material collated on this third release from Heavenly Music Corporation was composed specifically for St. Giga in Japan, a satellite broadcast radio station transmitting ethereal audio harmony 24 hours a day. What made this station otherworldly was its programming; motivated by tidal movements, the aquatic ebbs and flows of each day synchronised to the activity and intensity of the music broadcast.

Lunar Phase

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B1. Lunar Phase

Release date: 12/12/2017

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 180g vinyl//matte finish//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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"I’ve never met Rod Modell (Deepchord) in person, but we have met through music. He found an obscure cassette of Chi music (from ’86), sent it to Astral Industries and paved the way for the release (30 years later) of ‘The Original Recordings’ in 2016. Since then, we’ve exchanged ideas and good music. I sent Rod a preview of ‘The Kallikatsou Recordings’ - he really liked it - and here came the idea for a remix of ‘Lanterns’. I started working on some random, lo-fi samples from Youtube, using Audacity, perhaps the simplest way of producing loops and samples. It’s the only computer based system that feels like the tape recorders I used to work with. I sent the first sketches to Rod on Facebook, but they ended up in the wrong inbox. I forgot about them, but months later he came back saying he loved them. I decided to go back to working on them, maintaining the lo-fi approach. I began manipulating the samples: time-stretching, tempo and pitch-shifting, mixing different layers and adding old-school monophonic “old speaker” effects, delays and loops. I used a few field recordings, voices and samples from my early ambient cassettes, and they matched. Ario from Astral Industries got involved and the experiment turned into a plan - a vinyl release - ‘Red Lantern at the Kallkatsou’”. 
Hanyo van Oosterom.

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Part One

Future Perfect - Echoes Knows

Martin Schulte is a techno producer from Russia who has been delivering new albums once a year. “Seasons” is his latest album which he describes as “Expressing the echos of each seasons - a mixture of cold winter, fresh spring, sunny summer and bright autumn packed with 60 minutes of harmonious chords”. The album sounds just pleasant throughout without any intentional complications which makes each bit of sounds so soothing and alive.

Seasons

lant021 - martin schulte - seasons (cd album preview)

"Become a tree, secure, alone."

The first installment of my mixtape/audio collage series, this one was for my friend Brooke.  For each recipient I drew a tarot card to use as a basis for their audio collage, and for her I drew the dreaded Tower: the 16th arcana, and one that typically strikes fear into the hearts of those that draw it.  
But really, there is nothing to fear here, except the true knowledge of the Self: the Tower is a symbol of the process of alchemical transformation.

So, with that in mind this 90 minute audio collage is a narrative journey through the crucible of spiritual reckoning the Tower represents.  We descend into a tornado of madness and chaos, until from the broken pieces, understanding begins to coalesce: and we come out the other side, new. 

The only way out... is through.  Listen if you dare.

Tracklist:
(Note: below I will list the music tracks I played but not the found audio and field recordings. There are simply too many)

El Medahey - Master Musicians of Joujuka
Where The Watchers Mourn (And Dance) - Equimanthorn
The Spirit Cannot Fail - Bill Nelson
Zaar - Peter Gabriel
The Cholinergic Vagal Effect: Prime Mover - Delta-Sleep Inducing Peptide
Dada Kabalah - Body Without Organs
Create and Melt - Dali's Car
Schloss Tegal - Black Static Transmission (excerpt)
Alchemy - Body Without Organs
Magick Without Tears - Burial Hex
Interzone vi: Realization - Chaos Echoes
Outside the Body - Spectre
Let it Happen - Vangelis
Movement - Squaring Circles

Cassette 1: The Tower

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Please, no demos.

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Artists: Deepchord, Wolfgang Voigt, The Chi Factory, Heavenly Music Corporation, Waveform Transmission, Sonmi451, Atom™, J.Derwort, Shorelights, Multicast Dynamics, LF58, The Abyss Within Us, Monolake, The Humble Bee, Son of Chi, Lucid Dreams, Mystic AM, Dialog, Sa Pa, Toki Fuko, Rod Modell, Ear to Ear, Pianeti Sintetici, Marco Shuttle.

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AI-01: Deepchord - Lanterns
AI-02: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung live in London
AI-03: Chi - The Original Recordings
AI-04: Wolfgang Voigt & Deepchord - Colours of Time, re-interpreted
AI-05: Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings
AI-06: Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
AI-07: Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings
AI-08: Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.9
AI-09: Chi Factory - Red Lantern at the Kallikatsou
AI-10: Deepchord - Immersions
AI-11: Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden
AI-12: Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings
AI-13: Sonmi451 - Nachtmuziek
AI-14: Dots - Dots
AI-15: J.Derwort - Bamboo Music
AI-16: Shorelights - Bioluminescence
AI-17: Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits
AI-18: Chi Factory - Travel in Peace
AI-19: LF58 - Alterazione
AI-20: Waveform Transmission - V 3.0-3.9
AI-21: The Abyss Within Us - Life in a Circle
AI-22: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung Exhibition
AI-23: Monolake - Gobi. The Vinyl Edit 2021
AI-24: The Humble Bee - A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours
AI-25: Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings
AI-26: Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille - Metamorphosis
AI-27: LF58 Live at Brancaleone
AI-28: Lucid Dreams
AI-29: Son of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes
AI-30: Mystic AM - Cardamom & Laudanum
AI-31: Dialog - Dialog
AI-32: Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings
AI-33: Sa Pa - Atmospheric Fragments
AI-34: Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine
AI-35: Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
AI-36: Ear to Ear - Live Recordings
AI-37: Pianeti Sintetici - Space Opera
AI-38: LF58 - Radials
AI-39: Marco Shuttle - Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva
AI-40: Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung im Tunnel
AI-41: ???

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