Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace. 

More info at www.discrepant.net

Welcome Abroad LP

People Like Us - Sing (from Welcome Abroad LP)

Abby Martin talks to John B. Wells on the widely syndicated radio show Coast to Coast AM about the rise of alternative media, her citizen journalism with Media Roots, her activism with Occupy Oakland and how her TV show "Breaking the Set" has managed to piss off Rand Paul, Nestle and the Israeli lobby.

For more information go to www.AbbyMartin.org, www.MediaRoots.org, & www.youtube.com/BreakingTheSet

Abby Martin on Coast to Coast AM

Neil Gaiman reads from the only surviving "prompt copy" – Dickens's own performance script – of "A Christmas Carol." Background, context, and some curious factoids here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/23/neil-gaiman-reads-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol

Neil Gaiman reads Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

Pauline Oliveros puts together a mixtape featuring some of her own work ahead of Deep Minimalism this month at the Southbank Centre

Pauline Oliveros - Deep Minimalism Mixtape

"The Challenge" by Yuri Ancarani

Original Soundtrack - Lorenzo Senni & Francesco Fantini

Orchestration consultant - Maestro Michele Fedrigotti 

Orchestra - Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Director - Slav Slavtchev

Recording Studio - Studio 1 BNR (Sofia)
Mix Studio - Stone Recording Studio / Marco Streccioni(Roma)

Soundtrack Executive Producer - Antonella Rodriguez Boccanelli

Original track "Happic" (Superimpositions, Boomkat Editions 2014)

Official Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hts5A_fWc




Lorenzo Senni & Francesco Fantini "The Challenge" Movie by Yuri Ancarani - Soundtrack Excerpt

Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years.  Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records.  More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched.  We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances.

Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces.  Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before. 

This is Rural Colours 081
Written and produced by Leigh Toro
Artwork by Katie English
www.ruralcolours.co.uk / innit

Leigh Toro / Layers of Ash (Snippets)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/23/ursula-k-le-guin-hymn-to-time-janna-levin/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Hymn to Time" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Emilía
Spring through a window [RTE 008]

Preview & Pre-order on bandcamp
https://rottenmaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/spring-through-a-window

Emilía / Spring Through A Window

Juma - Selected Works (Excerpt 2)

SEMBLANCE

SEVERANCE

PALACE OF LIGHTS

Laurent Fairon is a French musician, DJ and record collector. Active as a sound art blogger and archivist from 2007 to 2016 via Continuo’s Weblog and Continuo’s Documents. As a composer he has published several cassettes in the early 1990s on various DIY labels.

‘Eclipse Profonde – Experimental Church Organ Music 1970–2020’ is a two hour long mix, focusing on organ+electronics or electroacoustic treatment, as well as organ+live instruments.

Tracklist:
Codespira1 – Triangular Progression (2020)
Alfredo Costa Monteiro & Bruno Duplant – Un cercle autour du soleil (2020)
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – BWV1080-1 (2015)
Alex Bonney – Liebster Jesu remix (2015)
Michel Estellet-Brun & Gerard Berlioz – Jungle (1972)
René Baptist Huysmans – Accretion (2014)
Thomas Demenga & Horst Reber – Cellorganics I (1981)
Mudboy – Live at the Providence Performing Arts Center (2008)
Bronius Kutavicius – Jubiliejinis Koncertas (1982)
Juan Allende-Blin – Mon Piano Bleu (1970)
Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros – Musica Nova Contemplativa (1970)
Michael Bonaventure – Interlude (2017)
Davorin Kempf – Interferencije (1981)
Michael Bonaventure – Coronach (2019)
Xavier Darasse – Organum I (1970)
Franz Richter Herf – Alapa (1980)
Franz Richter Herf – Wie schwache Fontänen (1974)
Gilius van Bergeijk – Over de Dood en de Tijd pt 3 (1980)

Neil Gaiman reads Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"

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