This exquisite, totally brilliant album from the incomparable Carnatic violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman on this little known 1987 album on the Russian Melodiya label, where he plays his own compositions as well as those by the highly-influential Carnatic composer Tyagaraja, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/india-lalgudi-jayaraman-compositions-by.html

Compositions by Thyagaragi and L. Jayaraman – Melodiya C80-27225-004

Lalgudi Jayaraman (Carnatic violin)

Burgplein

Each installment of this ongoing portfolio series features an original audio recording by a musician, composer, or sound artist along with their commentary. Projects range from raw documentation of live performances to sound collage and experiments with aleatory music. Click here for more details: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/field-recording-3/

Lea Bertucci: Field Recording #8

bruised ∪ beaming ∪ both live

Face [Glimpse] (with Oren Ambarchi & James Rushford)

Unreleased work included on the "A Turn of Breath: Deluxe Edition" 2xLP
Available to pre-order now, available on June 29th, 2018
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R8 - Ian William Craig - "Heaviness Sketch in Winter" from A Turn of Breath 2xLP

From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

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MARJA AHTI - Symbiogenesis (HG1901)

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R62 - Anne Tardos - "Seven-Layer Song" from Gatherings CD

"I first played with Derek Bailey in a quartet with Christine Jeffries (voice) & Jonny Dyani on bass. Thereafter we played mainly as a duo. I had frequented the Little Theatre Club since the late 1960s & was a member of FREE SPACE along with Trevor & the second generation of improvisers, but have no recollection of this gig…...!

The AMAZING BAND was Mal Dean’s creation, & I was privileged to be amongst the last personnel & play on the last recordings prior to & after Mal’s demise. Sadly Mick Brannen is also not around to enjoy the release of The Last Amazing Band recordings."

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The AMAZING band were:

Mal Dean / trumpet 
Mick Brannen / alto sax
Radu Malfatti / trombone
John Russell / guita
Marcio Mattos / bass
Terry Day / drums

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Recorded circa Early 1970s . Mixed & mastered by Yadley Day

TDA019 - Derek Bailey, Trevor Watts & Terry Day at Little Theatre Club

This rare LP of the eminent Aïta singer Cheikha Donna on the obscure Khaldiphone label, featuring her deep, powerful and intense voice accompanied by gasba flute and bendir drum, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/01/morocco-cheikha-donna-khaldiphone-kh.html

Khaldiphone 2066 (Vinyl 7 inch, 45 RPM)

Morocco/Maroc Aita music - Cheikha Donna - Khaldiphone 45 RPM

Hiver / winter

Seasonal show by @syndrome_premenstruel_spm & @fatmawonthealyou about music and plant on Lyl Radio.

Fatma Pneumonia et Syndrome Premenstruel sont de retour pour un hiver sous les signes du cresson, des hellébores et d'une salade très spécial! Les branches du gui nous protègent. Cold talk, recette et tracks chaudes.

tracklist and more info >>> https://lyl.live/episode/hevea-syntax-5

HEVEA SYNTAX ep06 w/ Fatma Pneumonia & SPMDJ _ LYL RADIO

Artists in conversation since 1981. Every quarter in print, every day online.

Lea Bertucci: Field Recording #8

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