December delicious.

Previews from the upcoming "Special Place" EP by The Icelandic beatmaker Muted. To be released on Raftonar Records on the 7th of November

Muted - Special Place (featuring Jófríður) EP

Dear song/poetry lovers

I have this great joy to upload  Cold Island's song Regele Iernii, SinTaMental's poem King of Winter, translated and read by me in Romanian.  

Thank you, gentleman, for having me in this beautiful and amazing  project,  from three points on earth,  a triangle of understanding,  collaboration and love .

Miraela

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@ColdIsland

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@SinTaMental

Regele iernii

Coroana, transparentă, diamant rece şi tare
Cum toamna trece, vraja lui apare

Părul, gri, ca nori de rău augur în depărtare 
Nici un supus nu mai oferă apărare

Ochii, albaştri, ca cerul gol deasupra
Epoca aceasta singura iubire a sa

Roba, de argint, împodobită cu ţurţuri, sclipitoare 
Diafană capa curgând cu vântul ce poartă creştinare

Domnia, sceptru de gheaţă în mână tinând
La voia sa fulgii cad pe pământ.
Din înalt dezlănțuind puterea în rafale cristaline
Cad pe pământ plânsele sale lacrime

Cele de fericire şi cele de durere 
Cristalizate în aer rece ploua ele

Privind în jos peste împărăţia sa 
Domeniul său e definit cu gheaţa

Zăpada, neculoare, aşa de pură şi curată 
Şi încă ştie timpul său va trebui să treacă

Natura efemeră îi e urgie
Acesta îi e blestemul de împărăţie

Dar deşi domeniul se va topi 
Tronul său vesnic rămâne a fi.




Cold Island - Regele Iernii

Didn t lose your mojo

Over the world
And through
That silken thread
Released by you
We each hold a beginning
in our hands
Beautiful beads glides on the stream
from the ends
Surprisingly mines, always amazing yours
Yet still fascinated
extemporaneous
let the end from my hand
hiatus
astonished adornment
in such a silence
on air
to stay and look what happens
clarity will follow
what if we hear a falling tinkle?
what if we see some glimmers sprinkle?
What if Beauty holds my end
Closed the circle
Your mojo to bind?


A dear friend @beat4poets, a poetical vibraphone and a little lyrical story wrote by me in English, translated and read in Romanian

I m very happy and thankful for the wonderful musical atmosphere he created around and between the lyrics.

Please, look on his cloud @beat4poets there are interesting sounds, ideas, moods and the  multilingual project #Silent Earth

Nu Ai Pierdut Amuleta

Alaska

A first collaboration between Diederik Idenburg  (Amsterdam) and MATJAMI. Diederik's minimal electronic track was used by Victor and Rolff 2014 Paris Fashion show; you can find the original track on Diederik's SC-page. 
MATJAMI added the deep Balinese gongs, melodic Vietnamese gongs, Bali en Mongolian bells and Thai-wood block clicks, and finally a sprinkle of voice in the background.
The Painting of the face was found on the streets of Montpellier by an unknown artist... go have a look!

Diederik Idenburg & MATJAMI - Hear If It Rains

I Live Now As A Singer

Pupils

'The sweet smell of Opoponax mirre carries me away to dreams of my Somalia... I drift amongst the stars, to hidden places of wonder and joy...'

VictorYibril launched 'The Long Silent Movement' in 2015 (see his SC-pages); brilliant and inspiring sounds and movements...
Ever since, MATJAMI has been working on a MATJAMI-style version. After several previous attempts, we now arrived at a stripped and re-mixed version of the LSM tracks, and the addition of the real timpani, singing bowl, small vietnamese gongs and a palm-leaf sweeper. Quite different from the original track, we are happy to publish it for our listeners to give some warmth in dark December (or bright December if your are down south!). 
We would love to hear what you think/feel/hear/experience... add it to the comments if you like.
Also check out our previous Osmanthus Dream, another 'sensory' ambient track. 
Enjoy!
Victor and Mike

VMM-collaborations

LSM MATJAMI-style

MATJAMI and VictorYibril - OPOPONAX

Original music and cover art design by Victor Candela

Slumber Medicine

Origins LP out now! http://smarturl.it/origins-lp

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Thanks so much to Victor for weaving one of his marvelous tapestries from a couple of my piano licks and then gracing it with one of his beautifully wrought images. I added some field recordings to his stunning work.
Victor's music is here on Soundcloud:
@victoryibril
and here on Bandcamp:
https://victoryibril.bandcamp.com
The piano files in this collaboration plus many more are available to all musicians as a free (name-your -price) download here on Bandcamp:
johngilmore.bandcamp.com/album/sliced…labs-remixes
The original piano improvisation is here:
https://soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/prelude-to-the-rain
My ambient remix of it is here:
https://soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/prelude-to-the-rain-ambient-mix
Other collaborations based on it are here:
https://soundcloud.com/johngilmorejazz/sets/collaboration

John Gilmore & Victor Yibril - Smooth Riders

John Gilmore & VictorYibril - Smooth Riders

Homage to our magnificent, often fierce, spring winds that sometimes seem determined to sweep all before them — hats, signs, birds, petals, leaves, fences, roofs, trees, and especially electricity.

Field recordings made 2016 and 2017 at three locations on the Pacific Coast of Fort Bragg, CA.

This track © 2017 John Gilmore, all rights reserved.

 Photograph  by Sara Evinger of trees in fog at north end of oceanfront trestle bridge over Pudding Creek just north of Fort Bragg. Used with permission.

John Gilmore - Only The Wind Remained

Pedicel is the first track off my latest album, Flower.

https://synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/flower

Flower is a collection of minimal ambient drones, sixty minutes in total, designed to take you into the dream world.

All tracks have been mastered to -18 LUFS and may therefore sound a bit quiet compared to other tracks you may listen to.

Flower

Pedicel

These songs were found while curiously navigating the spaces between fever dreams and reality.  


MATJAMI: Acoustic-electronic soundscapes, deep beats, slow trance, empty space: meditation by listening and playing. 
Tip: Use good speakers or headphones to enjoy the rich, deep sounds and binaural recordings.

We three at MATJAMI (Marcel Bode, Tjalling de Leeuw, Mike de Leeuw) develop our sounds and grooves as we interact live, using our bronze, wooden and stringed instruments, (Balinese gamelan & gongs, bowls, Tibetan horns, Chinese guxing & gongs, Javanese kendang drums, timpani, beer bottles) with Native electronics, samples and live loops. The quality and the texture of our sounds are at least as important as the composition. 
We play our sessions 'on the fly', where one of us starts and the rest comes in at leisure... All you hear here was recorded live, with only some simple stereo and eq mixing afterwards.
We love to perform in open areas, theaters, level stage, and spaces with a special feel to them; a small audience is just as nice.
Recently we started collaborating with other audio-artists like VictorYibril, Fintan O'Brien and Phlip Smith (G.A.), Miraela, and Augenmerk, combining their very different music styles, field recordings and soundscapes with our beats and sounds. 
Connect at mike@branchingtree.com

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