Name: Debbie Millman reads her love letter to the garden by brainpicker
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Description: Artist Debbie Millman's narration of her wondrous illustrated love letter to the garden: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/07/24/debbie-millman-love-letter-to-my-garden

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/16/wait-galway-kinnell/

POEM TEXT

Galway Kinnell reads "Wait"

Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track. 

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters. 

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost. 

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Little Things

Strangers In The City

Dalot & Sound Awakener - Strangers In The City

Jessica Moss shares an excerpt of a work in progress, recently recorded live in her rehearsal space, that offers a lovely preview of new material to which concertgoers may find themselves treated in 2018 (alongside her debut opus Pools Of Light).

"Untitled 3" displays various techniques and influences that lie at the heart Moss's solo music: building stacked slow-burn string themes through live looping, sampling and pitch-shifting that beautifully balance drone and melody, gradually introduce further electronic, oscillation and synthesis textures, and channel folkways tropes from Eastern Europe and the Middle East – in this case, gesturing towards the Klezmer tradition perhaps most explicitly since her work in the mid-2000s with Black Ox Orkestar.

Jessica Moss
Pools Of Light
http://cstrecords.com/cst124

Jessica Moss • "Untitled #3 (excerpt)"

Released 6th December 2018; 
Available from https://evivine.bandcamp.com/track/sabbath-single-edit
Spotify, ITunes etc...

Features guest appearances by Simon Gallup on bass & Peter Yates on Guitar.
Written by Evi Vine, Steven Hill, Matt Tye, David Gb Smith
Produced & Mixed by Dave Izumi @ Echozoo Studios, Eastbourne
Engineered by Phill Brown
Additional Production and Engineering by Christoph Skirl
Mastered by Aneek Thapar


Taken from the new album "Black//Light//White//Dark" released through Solemn Wave Records February 22nd 2019.

LYRICS

LOOSEN YOURSELF
I DON’T MIND
A LITTLE LIE
GOES DEEPER STILL 
WE BUILD A WALL 
CLOSE IN THE PAIN 
I SHED MY SKIN 
IT GOES DEEPER

HOLD IT INSIDE
THAT LITTLE LIE
IT IS ENOUGH 
BEFORE I COME UNDONE 
WHEAT IVE BECOME 
SO INNOCENT 
I’M ALL MESSED UP 
AND IT GOES DEEPER

COME FIND A WAY FRAGILE BUILD A WALL AROUND IT
WE FIND A PERFECT PLACE & I’M WATCHING SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE

ARE YOU LOSE ENOUGH
WE BUILD IT UP
WALK IN THE FIRE
CLOSE ENOUGH
IT GOES DEEPER
WALK IN THE FIRE

HOLD IT INSIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE
BEAUTIFUL LIE…

Black//Light//White//Dark

Sabbath

Sabbath (single edit)- Featuring Simon Gallup

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Replicas' by Gideon Wolf...

...

Constructed over 2 years this album has been slowly pieced together, reshaped, scraped, re-written and made again before becoming the album you are listening to now.

Replicas’ is a dark journey into a past, present and future that is personal, and reflective of wider concerns shaping this island(s) we live on.

At points angry and born out of frustration and angst for the times we are living in, this album goes back to my roots; a council flat in South East London, freedom, degradation, concrete, community, rich, poor, the melting pot of cultures, music, and people.

As cultural lines have been drawn in a different way through gentrification, a poverty divide similar to those of the 80’s and the b word, I have found myself struggling to accept my own place as a working class composer, father and human.

This album I suppose you could say is a meditation on the urban sprawl I grew up in, getting older, and my place in a community that feels like it has lost its way. - GW

...

Music - Gideon Wolf
Mastering - James Plotkin
Design - Daniel crossley
Alex Taylor - Violin, Electronics
Gabi ‘Moog’ Matzeu – Moog, Juno, SH101
Steph Patten – Cello
Yoon-Ji Kim – Violin
My family (also in no particular order) Rachel, Reuben, Neath and our latest addition Nova.

...

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Replicas

Gideon Wolf - Profit

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Solos' on Fluid Audio...

Audio: Christopher Whitley
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Solos

The Same Temperature We've Always Been

Christopher Whitley - The Same Temperature We've Always Been

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/16/zadie-smith-reads-frank-ohara/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Zadie Smith reads "Animals" by Frank O'Hara

I recently gave a talk about my new book, The Power of Showing Up (written with Tina Payne Bryson), to an amazing audience in Portland, Oregon and wanted to share it with you. I talk about our 4S framework and how it helps promote secure attachment and the development of resilience and an internal compass in our children. You'll even hear a complexity choir as we explore the nature of chaos and rigidity, and the harmony that arises with integration! -- Enjoy, Dan

Get your copy of "The Power of Showing Up" here: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/campaign/thepowerofshowingup/

Visit my website at: https://www.drdansiegel.com/

Dr. Dan Siegel and "The Power of Showing Up" - January 2020

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/03/15/today-another-universe-jane-hirshfield-ledger-jasmine

Kindly recorded by the poet for Brain Pickings.

Jane Hirshfield reads "Today, Another Universe"

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/31/spell-to-be-said-against-hatred-jane-hirshfield

Amanda Palmer reads “Spell to Be Said against Hatred” by Jane Hirshfield

Artist Debbie Millman's narration of her wondrous illustrated love letter to the garden: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/07/24/debbie-millman-love-letter-to-my-garden

Debbie Millman reads her love letter to the garden

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