The ever-present sound of cicadas singing in the hills on the Greek island, Paros. Evening traffic and activity in Naoussa is heard in the distance.

Recorded with an ORTF setup Neumann KM184 pair and a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II

Recorded in 48khz 24bit WAVE

Cicadas in the hills

Included in "Betweenness" CD album, released by SEM Label (Paris), SEM 003, 2008

Manrico Montero: Farfisa Organ, Rhodes, Synthesis, deconstruction and looping of Viola &amp; Cello sources

Alexander Bruck: Viola
Maria Lipkau: Violoncello

Produced by Manrico Montero, Mexico City 2008

http://semlabel.com/betweenness/
www.manricomontero.com

Manrico Montero - Sweet Dusk Spiral

A saxophone player on the Pont d'Arcole close to the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. First he tunes the saxophone and then he begins to play.

Saxophone on the Pont D'Arcole

The quintessential Parisian sound of traffic rolling over the pavé in place Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Traffic over the Parisian pavé

Following the violent murder of George Floyd, protests against racism and police brutality started to take place in many other countries outside the USA and Portugal was no exception.
Bothered by this, in a populist movement, the ultra-right party leader, André Ventura (scum), organized a march in which he intended to prove that Portugal is not a racist country. ...

Weeks after in Lisbon, Bruno Candé, a black man, was shot dead in a racist crime by a man who had been threatening him for a while with racial slurs.

Political authorities failed to express their concerns about the structural racism in this country.

Recently about a dozen of people, anti-racist, politicians and activists, mostly women, received death threats against them and against their family. The threats' origin are attributed to the ultra-right nazi movement and are now under investigation.

As a response and in solidarity, Antifa protests were organised in Lisbon and Porto on this afternoon.

To honour Bruno Candé a minute of silence was done by everyone attending.

Antifa Protest in Porto, Portugal - 16th August 2020

Piano recording engineered by Charles Myers at Mason Jar Studio Brooklyn, NY
Mixed by Mason Bonner at RCM Studios Chicago, IL
Mastered by Zach Lipkins
Photo by Blythe Thomas

stay with it
you don’t need to water it down
no one else has the same story

stay with it please
stay with it please
you can take all the time that you need

I know that you worry
what if nobody cares?
and you're sorry
you had a big enough head to

stay with it
stay with it please
stay with it
stay with it

something is broken
so fucked it’s not hard to feel hopeless
I see you sleeping while the sun’s out
anything to distract you from your doubts

bro

I’m not here to tell you to get up
I know you have had it rough
I don’t know anybody more tough

I’m here to remind you
of the image you drew of yourself when you believed nobody could stop you
he’s still there
But you choose to look away
I think you’re scared of your own greatness
can’t you see it?
can’t you see it?

I know that you worry
what if nobody cares?
and you're sorry
you had a big enough head to

stay with it
stay with it please
stay with it
stay with it

I know the pain of running a race in the wrong direction
I know the pain of a long and slow bitter break
I know how it feels to have nobody when you can’t stand up for yourself
I know how it feels to push your problems into a box 
and place it on a shelf
it’s time to realize that you have exactly what you need
its deep down inside behind the lies you tell yourself to get by
I’m only here to remind you
of who you actually are

Stay With It

Field Recordist | Musician | Photographer

Cicadas in the hills

Caleb Lopez

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