My new favorite songs

A selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works for Autumn 2019.  Closed on November 18, 2019

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Field Journal Comapnion | Autumn 2019

It was hard curating an order for this week's list, mostly because of City Park, which started near the beginning and ended up near the end. From jangly pop (Dead Famous People), through Congolese Rumba (Lumingu Puati), and EDM (Giant Swan, and Working Men's Club) to Ambient (A Winged Victory for the Sullen), it's all in there, as usual. Pick of the week is a very close run thing between Lumingu Puati's "Davidi Pitie" (which reminds me a bit of Congolses legend, Franco) and lovely electronic pop with harmony vocals of The Leaf Library's "Hissing Waves", with the latter just (and only just) getting the nod.

Oct 18 - Oct 24 2019

Taken from the album 'The Undivided Five', released 01 November on Ninja Tune: https://awvfts.lnk.to/fiveSo

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The Slow Descent Has Begun

'The Undivided Five', out now on Ninja Tune: https://awvfts.lnk.to/fiveSo

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A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 'The Slow Descent Has Begun'

Wonderworld// Underworld

Beats Produced, Mixed and Arranged by Omid Walizadeh

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Audio Engineered by Kamal Humphrey (RadioInactive) at Flying Carpet Studios, Los Angeles.
Mastered by Bob Lanzner at Technovoice Mastering, Studio City.
Omid would like to thank:
Sheila Walizadeh, Kamal Humphrey and Arien Valizadeh for their guidance. Leticia Castaneda, DJ ESP, Amos Natkin, Spoon (of Iodine), Clifton Cameron and Tommy Mofid for their audio contributions. Ata and Nahid Walizadeh, Kikhosrow Behrozi, Hadi Salehi, Reza Abadi, Nadereh Salarpour, Homa Sarshar, Ruby Emam and Jennifer Matiran for helping find the source material. Arash Davari and Golnar Nikpour of B|ta'arof Magazine for their support. 
This one's for you Remy Siamak.
Coming soon: limited edition vinyl on B|ta'arof Records

Modern Persian Speech Sounds-Omid Walizadeh, presented by B|ta'arof Magazine

RA goes beatless: The Orb provide a chillout podcast to start off 2009.

RA.136 The Orb

this could be folk music from Turkmenistan. 

unknown folk - tar player/singer (Turkmenistan?)[1890]

Solid Steel (18th November) 20 years ago this weekend in November 1996, Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow released his landmark album 'Endtroducing'. It was made almost entirely of samples and with the help of his Akai MPC60, he produced an iconic album that sits firmly in many top album lists. To celebrate this anniversary, Mighty Atom has put together an amazing tribute mix deconstructing the album and rebuilding it track by track, sample by sample, along with some remixes, covers and interview clips. 
As with previous tribute mixes for The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Nas, De La Soul and Beck, it's done with the same attention to detail. We also have an archive DJ Shadow Solid Steel mix from 2000 at SolidSteel.net plus an interview he did with Coldcut as part of the Quannum Projects release on Ninja Tune that year. 
The Endtroducing - 20th Anniversary Endtrospective Edition is available now with remixes by Clams Casino, Hudson Mohawke, Salva, Prince Paul, Bondax, Karma Kid and more.


The Solid Steel website http://solidsteel.net/ for track lists and archive shows.
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Hour 1 - Mighty Atom - Endtroducing 20th Anniversary Tribute Mix

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1.	Stanley Clarke – Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra (Part II and Part III) / DJ Shadow – Best Foot Forward / Jeru the Damaja – You Can’t Stop the Prophet / Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Poison / Masters of Ceremony – Dynamite / Stezo – It’s My Turn / Lifer’s Group – Real Deal (Acapella) / Lifer’s Group – Real Deal (Shadow Mix) / Beastie Boys – Party’s Gettin’ Rough 

2.	Jeremy Storch – I Feel a New Shadow / DJ Shadow – Building Steam With a Grain of Salt / Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders – Soul Food / H.P. Riot – I Need You / Lexia – I Worship You

3.	Metallica – Orion / Third Guitar – Baby Don’t Cry / DJ Shadow – Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix) / The Troubleneck Brothers – Back to the Hip Hop (Acapella) / Kuris Blow – AJ Scratch / T La Rock – Breakdown / Pearly Queen – Quit Jivin’ / Don Covay – Bad Luck

4.	Motherlode – Soft Shell / Kay Gardner – Inner Mood 1 / Tangerine Dream – Invisible Limits / Embryo – Klondyke Netti 


5.	Flying Island – The Vision and the Voice

6.	Nirvana – Love Suite / Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company – Oleo Strut / DJ Shadow – Stem/Long Stem / Just Ice feat. KRS One – Moshitup 


7.	Pugh Rogefeldt – Love, Love, Love / Bjork – Possibly Maybe 

8.	Lefties Soul Connection – Organ Donor / Giorgio Moroder – Tears / Supersister – Judy Goes on Holiday /

9.	Samson and Delilah – There’s a DJ in Your Town / Cleo McNett – Snap 

10.	David Axelrod – The Human Abstract / David Axelrod – The Human Abstract (Om Unit Edit) / Pekka Pohjola – The Madness Subsides / Baraka – Sower of Seeds / Rotary Connection – Life Could / Meredith Monk – Dolmen Music (part 1) / Organized Konfusion – Releasing Hypnotical Gases 

11.	Top Priority feat. Percee P – Let the Homicides Begin / Charles Bernstein – Moment of Truth (Ghetto Shakedown) / Jo Ann Garrett – Walk on By / Shawn Phillips – All Our Love / DJ Shadow – What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) (Peshay Remix) / Heath Brothers – Voice of the Saxophone

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 18/11/2016 Hour 1 - Mighty Atom - Endtroducing Tribute Mix

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Goodbye & Good Riddance

Lucid Dreams

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Noah - 像自己

'Crush', out now on Ninja Tune: https://floatingpoints.lnk.to/crushSo

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Last Bloom

from 'Glam Tear Stain' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den322
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/davidnorland

David Norland is an Emmy-nominated English composer living and working in Los Angeles. Most recently he composed the score to the current HBO film “My Dinner With Herve” (HBO 2018) starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan.

His work with Emmy-winning director Sacha Gervasi includes the award-winning documentary "Anvil! The Story Of Anvil", (which won the IDA Best Feature award, an Emmy award, the Indie Spirit Best Doc award, and numerous other best doc awards around the world) as well as the score for “November Criminals” (Sony 2017) starring Chloe Moretz and Ansel Elgort. David Norland was also the music supervisor for the movie "Hitchcock" featuring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren & Scarlett Johansson.

Since 2010 he has composed much of the music for US broadcasting giant ABC’s primetime news documentaries. His work for ABC is broadcast in the US and around the world on a daily basis.

Having been a chorister from an early age, singing daily in Westminster Abbey, and a boy treble in The Elizabethan Consort of Voices, a touring choral group of the time, he also composes choral music. His electronic band Solar Twins was signed by Madonna to Maverick Records, and rode high on the US dance charts, and his record writing, production and mixing work with Jamaican legends Sly and Robbie has been nominated for a Grammy.

"Glam Tear Stain" is the first real solo full length of David Norland. It combines electronic influences, elements of his film scoring work and more intimate, minimalistic piano and string arrangements.

"The music I want to make has changed over time - from imitation baroque pieces as an 11 year old chorister, through guitar pop with my first teenage bands, experimental sonic works with my first rudimentary recording equipment in my early 20s, through electronics, drum and bass, and reggae, leading finally to piano, choral, and string music informed by my film scoring work.”

"Glam Tear Stain" is simple melodic and tonal music for for piano and strings, filtered through the electronic, spatial, and experimental lens of Norland's earlier musical endeavors - and on a personal level was made over a time of profound sadness, change, and acceptance. It’s more unapologetically emotional than other music in the broad neoclassical field, and often stranger, too, drawing from influences as diverse as Future Sound Of London and 16th century English choral music.

"Glam Tear Stain" is the first album of a series of further solo works that David Norland will be releasing via Denovali over the next years.

Glam Tear Stain

David Norland - Agate Or Barium

Taken from the upcoming album 'Chapters' on Fluid Audio...

Music: Und_Ne
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Chapters

und_ne - Chapter 5

Pools

Enfolding

Jim Perkins - Enfolding

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

It’s Raining, Pt. 1

Dead Famous People new single 'Looking At Girls' 
Released 24th October 2019

During their brief time together, New Zealand-to-UK transplants Dead Famous People released only nine songs spread over two 12” EPs. These sold next to nothing, the band split, disappeared from music.  Today, they’ve been largely forgotten.

It doesn’t seem like much of a story.

Yet front person Dons Savage is an unparalled talent, a savant of the perfect melody and lyrics which both touch and bite, a throwbook to the Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's of Brill Building pop, an instinctive penseuse besting the originators of the Riot Grrrl movement by responding to their conversations of rage and sexuality and finding a place in the world some years before the initial sparks of that particular revolution had even begun.

Dead Famous People originated in Auckland, New Zealand after Dons (then Donna) left an earlier combo upon finding she had no room in which to introduce her own songs. Gathering a few compatriots, Dead Famous People began playing out and were soon invited to make an EP for Flying Nun, label then in the early stages of subtle world takeover. Despite sharing a similarly breezy approach to pop arrangement (the light touches of organ, the wistful lyrical sensibility, the composition of each song a discrete story), they never entirely fitted in with their label mates (another all-female NZ group described Dead Famous People as “scary as hell and always looking for a fight”), the band decided to make the move to London to seek fame and fortune.

There they garnered favourable reviews and found themselves signed to Billy Bragg’s Utility label, by Bragg’s partner Peter Jenner, at one time or another the manager for Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and The Clash.

John Peel called the band “An important, exciting contribution to the often pallid world of contemporary pop” and granted them a session, Sounds described a song wherein “Donna Savage’s lovely, husky tones relate the tale of the girl who beats up boys in alleys and steals their leather jackets, while the band ride a pop merry-go-round reminiscent of their chums The Chills.”  David Cavanaugh wrote that “Dead Famous People are alive and unjustly obscure”, while other reviews mentioned Morrissey (“Donna . . . matches Morrissey for wit and exceeds him for melodic charm”), Pete Shelley (“A pop peer of The Buzzcock’s lead songwriter”), Elvis Presley (“Donna’s tougher than The King, without the sneer, but with the benefit of actually writing her own songs”) and other musical icons.

Despite this, homesick and unable to find a proper deal, the band fell apart. They recorded a series of final demos, posthumously released with faulty mastering.  Dons sang backup vocals on The Chills’ “Heavenly Pop Hit”, and eventually caught the attention of a pair of guys from Croydon starting a new act, Saint Etienne. Dons’ silky vocal delivery and knack for the perfect disaffected melody - not to mention her incongruous appearance – worked well with the pair’s lovingly deviant approach to pop music. Soon they asked her to become their vocalist. 

But soon after singing on the original version of their cover of the Field Mice’s “Kiss And Make Up” and a version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter In America”, Dons received news that her mother was ill.  She returned to New Zealand and ended her musical activities for over twenty years . . . until Fire Records managed to locate her in Auckland, just a few months after Dons had begun writing again.

Looking At Girls is the first single release from Dead Famous People’s first real album, Harry.  Recorded at home and remixed by noted LA producer Dave Trumfio (Handsome Family, Billy Bragg & Wilco, American Music Club, Built To Spill, The Jesus and Mary Chain) in LA, Looking At Girls is a pure pop ode to life’s simple joys.

Dead Famous People - Looking At Girls

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OTHERLiiNE - Hates Me

constant inconsistencies

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In 1979 the late Congolese musician Lumingu Zorro, protégé of Kinshasa’s legendary 60s band leader Dr Nico, recorded Mosese, his only pre-2000 solo album, for the Tabansi label- and this is it.

CHAMPETA STORM WARNING! The first-ever reissue of one of West Africa’s best-kept rumba-soukous secrets- as well as being one of the most in-demand titles on Colombia’s booming Champeta sound system scene, where a rare record is protected as fiercely as on the Northern Soul or Jamaican sound system scenes, the label scratched off, the record hidden from view when not on the turntable.
Possibly one of the strongest and most consistent Congo dancefloor albums ever recorded perfectly balanced between voices, horns, guitars and percussion.
Which is why original copies of this all-time rumba rarity almost never reach the open market, being traded between Colombia’s champeta picoteros (sound system selectors) instead.

In Kinshasa they say ‘Miziki ezelaki eleng ndeko’- ‘Sweet music, brother!’. Roger that.

Lumingu Puati (Zorro) - Dadavi Pitie

Keep It Dark, Deutschland

Finding calm in an age of information overload can be hard. To close our eyes, take a deep breath, and be fully present is such a treasure. Jacob David's piece Dvale was born in just such a moment...

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Dvale

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Jacob David - Dvale

This version by Christina Perri is very sweet.

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You Are My Sunshine - Christina Perri

Sewing Machine Effects

Whodat

A Winged Victory For The Sullen is the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran

Through a strange twist of backstage conversations surrounding passport cache conundrums, and love of Italian gastronomy, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour.

The band are currently touring their highly acclaimed, self-titled debut album and will soon be premiering their dance score- produced for crtically acclaimed cheoreogrpaher Wayne McGregor's new dance piece 'Atomos'.

'Victorious' – Guardian, 'Celestial' 9/10 – Drowned In Sound, 'Otherworldly' – Pitchfork, 'Gem' ★★★★ Mojo,  'Triumph' ★★★★ Uncut