Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/05/mushrooms-sylvia-plath-zoe-keating/

Music: "Optimist" by Zoë Keating from her record "Into the Trees" (https://zoekeating.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-trees)

"Optimist"

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Zoë Keating reads "Mushrooms" by Sylvia Plath (The Universe in Verse)

Desire Path

Some things could be attributed to chance, while others result from human [in]action. Reality has a way of unfolding, but we also can shape it, if we only try. We can create distortion fields in this world, both negative and positive. I prefer to do it with music [and also with these words], feeling the pressure levels of air displaced through this space, seeing my actions evolve our community. The key is to channel it into the right things. The key is to mould this reality by lowering suffering and not creating more insanity spun out by imaginary thoughts. Turkish electronic musician Siné Buyuka expresses her frustration, aggrievement and grief for the loss and devastation of the 2022 Turkiye-Syria earthquake on her latest album, Farewell. Producing under her Sinemis moniker, the music captures the visceral emotional maelstrom through sound shaped by organic pads, pulsating bass, and prickly stabs from semi-modular synths. Buyuka's music is "at once a love letter to the beautiful land that she once called home and a scathing indictment of the governing powers that have so harmed its own people, culture, and freedom." The tension of this cinematic expression is held together by beatless rhythm and sweeping noise that would appeal to fans of Caterina Barbieri, Alessandro Cortini and Helene Vogelsinger. Siné, of course, is more than an artist - she is also the founder and curator of an Istanbul and London-based boutique label, Injazero Records, which put out a benefit compilation two years ago (March 2023) titled re-LEAF with all profits donated to the Ahbap NGO in Turkiye for their wide-range relief operation in an ethnically diverse area home to millions of immigrants and Syrian refugees.

TRACK PREMIERE : Sinemis - It's Not Fate, It's You

Taken from the upcoming album 'Remnants'... 

A collection of memories, field recordings, and sound inspired by the remote corners of Iceland.

Available soon as a limited edition package exclusively through Fluid Audio.

http://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Recorded, mixed, and produced by Hotel Neon
www.hotelneon.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
www.12kmastering.com

Additional textures on 'Cascading' recorded by Andy Othling www.lowercasenoises.com


Hotel Neon - Deluge

Kismet

Keep Me Awake

Fanu remix of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble's "XTabay".
A part of a 5-track EP that was released on Oct 10 to celebrate TKDE's new tour.
Grab the whole EP at http://shop.tkde.net/album/xtabay

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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: "XTabay" (Fanu remix)

Edited Version of You'll Be Fiiinnne, taken from The Withdrawing Room LP (Pathway006)

Seek solace. Be still and drift. Withdraw and be there. There. Inside. A chair awaits. A beginning built from an ending, from leaving, from afar. In times such as these, The Withdrawing Room is a safe haven to leave behind all that weighs heavily and surrounds us. We remark how comfortable the chair is, how exquisite the view is outside the window, the aroma, the breaths to be taken as you become aware of the minutia all around you and the sounds emanating from Mary Lattimore’s harp, warming your feet, your hands, your heart. Breathe. Previous collaborations have seen Mary matching wits with such esteemed luminaries as Thurston Moore, Meg Baird, Kurt Vile, Ed Askew, Fursaxa, and Jarvis Cocker. But for this debut work, Mary sequestered herself in a room, much like this one, to kindle three distinct works for keeping the listener company as he or she enjoys the view. The nuanced notes of the harp strings sing and reverberate amid subtle electronics courtesy of Jeff Zeigler on the 24-minute long piece “You’ll Be Fiiinnne;” “Pluto the Planet” meanders at a slow and steady pace as the sun makes its way across the sky and the gentle plucks of the silk and steel resonate within, beyond; the closing chaos of “Poor Daniel” charts a recklessness that embraces the listener as he or she quietly makes their way out of the room to tackle the world anew.

CREDITS + INFO

Recorded and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Becky Suss – 76 Meadow Woods Road, oil on linen, 72 x 120 in
Design by Chris Koelle
Mary plays a Lyon & Healy Style 30 harp and Line 6 looper
Jeff plays the Korg Mono/Poly on Track 1

Mary Lattimore - You'll Be Fiiinnne(Edit)

Taken from the album 'Healing is a Miracle', released 10 July on Ninja Tune: https://julianna.lnk.to/healingSo

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In Light

In Light (feat. Jónsi)

'O Vis Aeternitatis', a composition by Hildegard von Bingen, arranged by Seán Mac Erlaine.

This track is taken from 'Long After the Music is Gone', a solo album by Dublin-based woodwind instrumentalist and composer Seán Mac Erlaine.

'Long After the Music is Gone' is released on Ergodos Records.

For more info, and to purchase the album, click here: http://www.ergodos.ie/shop/long-after-the-music-is-gone/

Zoë Keating reads "Mushrooms" by Sylvia Plath (The Universe in Verse)

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