Truly a piece of artistic storytelling embedded in sound art. Please produce more of this. Can you recommend me other audio stories in this genre? pls send me. thanks.

Thank you for this. Your art is powerful, hard hitting and raw!

London-based keyboardist/producer Dan Nicholls (of Y-OTIS) introduces a new album project ‘Mattering And Meaning’ to be released by We Jazz Records on August 13th. Nicholls' music uses acoustic piano as its key element, transporting the instrument into new territories that sound remarkably natural and organic, whilst displaying a strong kinship with the world of abstract electronic music. The music utilises piano loops and field recordings as its key elements, forming what might be described on the surface as a fascinating ambient jazz record – but at the same time there's so much more at play here on deeper levels. Dan's music sounds at once otherworldly and immensely inviting.

With its uncanny landscape of fine sand drifts, juniper fields and pine, the ancient Beerze forest in the North-East of the Netherlands is a site of many unusual convergences of human and other than human stories. 'Papa' continues to unravel the threads of a deep artistic collaboration and kinship between pianist and producer Dan Nicholls and the Dutch filmmaker and anthropologist Louise Boer. These fuzzily collaged images and sounds represent a common love for finding the in-between places in which ideas can find deeper roots, channeled here through a dreamlike world which holds within it the location in which Louise’s father, Henk Boer, found his final resting place.

Mattering and Meaning

Exclusive Premiere: Dan Nicholls "Papa" (We Jazz Records)

In May of 2021, over 600 musicians signed a letter demanding justice, dignity and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people, and calling on artists to refuse to perform at cultural institutions complicit with Israeli apartheid. 

This interview series aims to build connections between struggles for freedom and liberation around the world in dialogue with some of the artists who signed the Musicians for Palestine letter. The inaugural episode features Msaki, a composer and singer-songwriter from East London, South Africa. In it she asks the crucial question: "How do we hold on to compassion?" which rings true both in her homeland and in Palestine today.

http://musiciansforpalestine.com

#MUSICIANSFORPALESTINE PODCAST 1 - Msaki

A PAUSE FOR ANNIE G

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Victory Lap Radio returns with Stonie Blue, Catching Cairo, Ibn Taka, Malik Polo & Jetsuo for 2 hours of alt rap & rap selections. Recommended listening.

Victory Lap w/ Stonie Blue, Catching Cairo, Ibn Itaka, Malik Polo & Jetsuo - March 2022

Linkwood returns to AOTN in 2022 with Stereo, the follow up and part two, to his killer and hyper focussed LP Mono, which turned heads in 2021.


All recorded live at the AOTN studio, he's kept the essence of the first LP which worked so well, but moved it on in a much deeper direction.


Fusing many of his influences, Boogie, Detroit and early 80's synth joints to name a few, stereo has its own identity and showcases Linkwoods ability to write and produce on the fly but maintain that warm, fuzzy and intricate sound we all love him for.

Stereo

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Out Now! http://bit.ly/1PYEm7M; iTunes http://apple.co/1JceTlK

From the album "Songs of Paapieye"—Out Now on Awesome Tapes From Africa.

Guun—This is the last song played at a funeral, after all the others have been done. It is meant to get all the dancers on their feet and into a dancing mood. The focus is on women and how they run around the gyil players and off into the surrounding area. It is the hottest, most intense part for the performance, where the player is expressing himself as a xylophonist. Guun is rapid-fire music, and it signals the end of the performance for that particular player. Other players will come and perform as well, from the beginning. And the more people dance, the more the deceased will rest happily.


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From the album 'débruit & istanbul' Out May 27th

Pre-order here: http://music.debruit.com/album/d-bruit-istanbul

Recorded in Istanbul in July 2015 with a number of local visionary musicians, Débruit presents a synthetic and  rhythmic journey inside  the  city's  history  and future.  'Débruit  &  Istanbul',  his fourth  album,  is  set for release through his own multidisciplinary label ICI on 27th May 2016. 

During his 15 days in Istanbul, Débruit worked on an imaginative interpretation of the city carried by the megalopolis through its meanders. He collaborated with established artists, including leading fusion-jazz percussionist  Okay  Temiz,  70s  Turkish-funk  star  Mustapha  Özkent,  gypsy  master  clarinettist  Cüneyt Sepetçi, and rising and grass roots local musicians such as art-rock singer Gaye Su Akyol, Melike Şahin and Murat Ertel of BaBa ZuLa. 
The inspiration of sounds, rhythms, lights and tempo of the city at different moments  in  time  have  resulted  in  a  melting  pot  of  traditional, visionary,  electric,  psychedelic,  futuristic, melodic and experimental music. Now set for release to the public, 'Débruit & Istanbul' is a new vision of the exciting and captivating city.   

"I  wanted  this  album  to  be  driven  by  the  feelings  I  got from  Istanbul  and  my  encounters.  The  city’s enthusiasm and majestic urban and topographic flows inspired light but deep moods: there is a darkness in there but a proud one. A roughness in control. Istanbul has such an inspiring mix of tradition and forward thinking vision. It has a pulse of its very own. Its impossible to put into words the excitement, surprises and magic of making this album. Of the experiences of trying to find these people, walking up unknown streets or taking the boat to the Asian side. Discovering the city at the same time as being on the album journey, going to neighbourhoods I wouldn't have been to if it wasn't for recording. All that influence, infusing my imagination and creativity at the same time." - Débruit   

"One of the most exciting underground producers of the moment" i-D 
"Débruit truly defies description" Clash 
"Capturing and acknowledging the past, while reinventing and proposing for the future" The Quietus 

http://www.debruit.com https://www.facebook.com/debruit https://twitter.com/debruit http://instagram.com/debruit https://www.facebook.com/ICIyouare https://twitter.com/ICIyouare  

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Full stream of Benjamin Muñoz's emotive cut "Cerulean Mood," from his forthcoming EP on Push & Pull.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/05/premiere-hear-an-emotive-cut-from-benjamin-munozs-debut-ep/

@benjamin_munoz
@pushandrun

Fear and It's Variants [via XLR8R]

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Premiere: Benjamin Muñoz - Cerulean Mood

It's the first time I've gone into this much depth exploring who I am in front of a mic and I hope you find a bit of yourself in my little (re)discoveries.

FULL EPISODE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007wvz?fbclid=IwAR2HuSUbv7eEI3GPFo6vHG687gRFW7NBggFcKRHzLAYrulDRF4Bp_B28i44

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