*Berlin-based Joda Foerster and Niklas Kramer introduce the acousmatic environmental ambiance of "Four Glass Steps" from forthcoming album Habitat due Q2 2021.

*Written and produced during summer 2020

*Instrumentation - African log drum, Bolivian chajchas, vibraphone, kalimba and various other percussion instruments, Various Synthesizers

*Production techniques - live recording, script based sample cutting and processing (norns), analog tape bouncing

*Composition - no-grid, asynchronous loops, driven by textures

Four Glass Steps

J Foerster / N Kramer - Four Glass Steps

Springtime in Croatia

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (Full Album) 528hz

Put all of the albums Hiroshi Yoshimura made on YouTube, the link is at the end of this long description for Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Rip Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2004 due to skin cancer, this is from what I've read was his final album ever created and its my personally favorite right behind wet land. Thank you Hiroshi Yoshimura without you I'm not sure if I could've made it through life and I applaud you for being the best and my favorite artist in the world. Your music shall live on forever goodbye.
Another final note I might post all of his songs or find them all on SoundCloud then make it into one giant playlist and put them in order of release I already did it on YouTube so if you wanna take a listen then just click the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLul1oB_lFROiU38lp49SuarPKVvki8Ux1

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Four Post Cards

Reincarnations

Melody From The Drums

https://leavingrecords.com/statues-live
Spencer Zahn is the LA-residing bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer who has released several albums both as a solo artist and as a collaborator. His music is marked by openness - spacious sonic spaces rich with contributions from his creative community.

In November 2023, Zahn released Statues - the album compositions were written during a six month period of solitary focus - however after moving to Los Angeles in early 2023, Zahn started to work with a group of new musicians that make up some of the most exciting players in LA. His new west coast quartet consists of Nicole McCabe, Vancil Cooper, and Zach Tenorio.

On Zahn’s latest offering Statues Live the west coast quartet performed two live concerts both recorded to make up the tracklisting for his new album. Though the compositions are the same as the studio album Statues, the sound and performance is unique to this new live album leaning heavily on the perspective of the quartet and their collective improvisations. Side A was recorded live, outdoors at the Leaving Records concert series. Side B was recorded live, indoors at Altamira Sound in front of a studio audience.

Side A Recorded by Adrian Garcia Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Leaving Records on October 14, 2023

Side B Recorded by Rob Shelton and James Riotto Mixed by Spencer Zahn Recorded live at Altamira Sound on November 19, 2023

Mastered by Matthewdavid McQueen

Artwork & Layout by Radha Vishnubhotla

Personnel: *Vancil Cooper, drums Nicole McCabe, alto saxophone Zach Tenorio, electric piano Spencer Zahn, fretless bass & piano

01 Changes in Three Parts [Live at Leaving Records]

04 Curious Frame [Live at Leaving Records]

“Slept Unwell” is a deconstruction of an obscure Newfoundland folksong collected by Sir Ernest Macmillan. As a Newfoundlander, it intrigued me that I had never heard this “familiar” tune – how might it be made even more unfamiliar? How does a 21st-centruy eye interpret the text? To me, the image of dying surrounded by birds as death bells is evocative, but far less pleasant than the melodic material of the original song would suggest. 

In a way, because the song is more less "dead" in the region where it was collected, the material of "Slept Unwell" is most like the dissection of a musical "corpse" - some original elements remain, but the grotesque is also present. 

"Come all you fair maids like me a-dying
It's now I'm taking my last farewell,
And all you small birds round me flying
Let your sweet notes be my passing bell.

I’ve gone – and slept unwell"

Sara Schabas, soprano
Shauna Yarnell, mezzosoprano
Sean Clarke, tenor
David Roth, baritone

Slept Unwell for SATB and electronics

Four Organs: Phase Patterns

Four Organs (feat. Jon Gibson & Philip Glass)

"1986"

Takashi Kokubo (小久保隆) - Oasis Of The Wind II ～ A Story Of Forest And Water ～ (1993) [Full Album]

I do not own this music. This Entire Album is made by Takashi Kokubo.

Takashi Kokubo (小久保隆) - Oasis Of The Wind II ～ A Story Of Forest And Water ～ (1993) [Full Album]

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This page is predominantly live recordings - please check out studio recordings here:
https://bekahsimms.bandcamp.com/
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Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow after nine years living and working in Toronto. Her varied musical output has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments.

Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe. She has worked with some of the top interpreters of contemporary music internationally, including Crash Ensemble - with whom she is currently an artist-in-residence - Riot Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Bekah has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competitive selections, nominations, and prizes, including the 2019 Barlow Prize and the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. The resulting work from the Barlow Prize, "metamold," was nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award. Works from her debut album “impurity chains” were nominated in both 2019 and 2020 for the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Her music has thrice been included in the Canadian Section's official submission to World Music Days (2016, 2019, & 2021), and in 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30.

Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.  Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.

Slept Unwell for SATB and electronics

Bekah Simms

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