Name: Useful Music #044 by Cargo
Duration: 1 h 59 min 22 s
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Flora Urbana
A Soundscape Created by Green-House
For An Environmental Music series from Leaving Records and Metro Art

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"Flora Urbana" is an exploration of the anthropogenic environments in which we live. With the intention to dissolve the illusory barriers between humans and nature, Green-House utilized field recordings of small pockets of "natural" sounds as they walked through densely populated city parks. The field recordings are blended with software synthesizers, samplers, and virtual instruments to symbolize the potential harmony that can be achieved between us and the rest of the ecosystem.

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Written, performed and produced by Green-House
Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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July-August
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records

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Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.
Approaching their music with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener. Green-House's latest full-length album "Music For Living Spaces" was released in May of this year. The record is an extension of their desire to encourage people to connect with their existing surroundings.

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About An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records:

Metro Art teamed up with Leaving Records to ask four LA based musicians who draw inspiration from the landscape to create original music soundscapes evoking experiences of nature and transportation in Los Angeles with historic Union Station at its center.

Flora Urbana

Free

Flora Urbana A Soundscape by Green-House  // Metro Art x Leaving Records

A trippy ode to Autumn and excursions in nature! Colourful, depp, kaleidoscopic and emotional ambient, balearic and electronic sounds to accompany you through a melancholic, yet beautiful and transformative season. Tune in for a fieldtrip!

PS: MUSIC ONLY! Due to a technical issue, the show got broadcasted only in mono. Now updated the mix in full desih immersive stereo, but missing the voice. So just imagine me babbling, and as I usually announce all tracks I play on the show, here is the full tracklist:

Hajime Mizoguchi - Panorama (CBS/Sony)
Yoshimura Hiroshi - Hayama Special Version 1 (Crescent)
Akira Ito - Essence Of Beauty (Glossy Mistakes)
Human Mesh Dance - Dhalia (Re:discovery Records)
FIT Siegel - Carmine (FIT Sound)
The Black Dog - Cost II (General Production Recordings)
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath (TVT Records)
Ajukaja & Andrevski - Looking For Something That's Not There (Levels)
Double FM - Amnesia (Playa Mix) (Rhymes Records Rhythms)
Paradise 3001 - Gates Of Eden (Sound Metaphors Records)
Sasha - A Key To Heavenly Trance (Night Dubbing Mix) (Limited Underground Records)
Ecstasy Boys - Tsukino Oshie (Club Temple Mix) (King Street Sounds)

Telephones' New Massage 021 [Refuge Worldwide]

Taken from 'Elevations' (MFM068)
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Elevations

Bike Shed

A1. Bike Shed (ft. Yadava)

Mr Bongo proudly presents the debut album from Tasmania-born, Melbourne-based, Finn Rees. Gliding across a swirling palette of saturated hues, Dawn Is A Melody feels vintage yet vibrant, new but familiar at the same time. A spiritual, deep and textured jazz record, tipping its hat to greats from the past, capturing memories and reformulating them into new ideas with the help of some of Melbourne’s finest talent.

Expert keys player for the likes of 30/70 and Elle Shimada, alongside one-half of Close Counters, this debut LP was Finn’s conscious departure from the realm of groove-based jazz. Instead, Dawn Is A Melody places the piano and arrangements centre stage, giving Finn and his fellow Melbourne crew freedom to explore the spaces in between, new emotions and alternate soundscapes.

In Finn’s own words: “My intention with Dawn Is A Melody was to create a world; a microcosm of colour. Something rich and beautiful that allowed the melodies and compositions to reach their full potential. It was driven by hope, curiosity and the search for beauty and reassurance in this ever-changing world. The emotion behind the music is really about the journey of life, growing up and changing, as well as my relationship with Tasmania’s natural landscapes where I grew up, a part of the world that is incredibly unique and beautiful.”

The album arcs between opening, middle and end. Beginning with the optimism of ‘Looking Up’ and ‘Lagoon’, the former a celestial, string and harp marbled slice of positivity, the latter a spiritual journey of exuberance and hope, Finn’s fingers dancing across the ‘70s Yamaha grand piano. From there the songs blossom outwards with the cinematic soulful journey of ‘It’s Behind Me Now’ and Brazilian-inspired ‘Expansion’, as the divine ‘Crossing’ signals a transition to a new realm. The energy is transformed from the rich cosmic textures to a more intimate and personal feeling with ‘Ablaze’, ‘Between Spaces’ and ‘As It Passes’ which blissfully fades down to simply piano and strings to close out the record.

Recorded at Rolling Stock in Collingwood, Melbourne, Henry Jenkins was drafted in as recording and mix engineer, his minimal vintage mic setups giving a live aesthetic and warmth to the arrangements. Lucky Pereira and Blakely McLean Davies form the rock-solid rhythm section, with a hand-picked line-up of other Melbourne talent on display, including Cheryl Durongpitikul on tenor sax, Siwei Wong on harp, Audrey Powne on trumpet and Allysha Joy on vocals to name only a few.

Plotting a course from Alice Coltrane, through Herbie Hancock, to Arthur Verocai, this is a debut nourished by the past but firmly made in the present. A record unable to be age-stamped, casting ambiguity as to when, what era and by whom it has been crafted. Like a vintage lens capturing a current scene, Dawn Is A Melody is warm and familiar yet focused on the here now.

Finn Rees - Between Spaces

A Sleeping Planet

The Berlin-based band Lawns were formed in the fall of 2020 by three ex-Londoners, Ben Lubin, Joe Green, and Tobias Humble. While influenced by UK post-punk, the bulk of the listening material that they cite consists of US “post-hardcore”. Listing artists like as Blonde Redhead, Death Grips, Deerhoof, Unwound, and Yo La Tengo as key sources of inspiration. Ben confirms, “We like good noisy stuff… I think that’s in our blood.” They all grew up watching videos of Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, Shellac and The Minutemen, and these forces of nature certainly inform Lawns’ incendiary live shows.

The Worrier is a pummelling, pounding paean to paranoia, and the absolute shit, which unchecked, fills our heads. From unpaid bills to imagined physical ills. Fuelled by mainstream and social media. Something like a sonic taser shock it’s the soundtrack to a potential nervous breakdown. Like the rest of the album it expresses, externalises an internal darkness, in a ritual of frenzied release. Its arrangement is like a series of seizures.

LAWNS - The Worrier

RVNG Intl. presents Friends & Fiends, a monthly guest hosted show spotlighting resident artists and heads orbiting the label’s universe of forward-reaching, free, and (generally) fried music. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rvngintl/episodes/rvngintl-10th-october-2024

RVNG Intl. Presents Friends & Fiends w/ Oliver Coates 101024

“Cuando nadie me ve es mi propio tiempo  mi propio silencio
Cuando nadie me ve canta mi alma y percute mi corazón
Cuando nadie me ve es mi propio espacio frío y desolado
Cuando nadie me ve alcanzo a ver el sol detrás de la luna
Cuando nadie me ve siento los besos en el viento que quedaron en libertad
Cuando nadie me ve brillan las estrellas entre mis ojos
Cuando nadie me ve el reflejo del agua es mi única compañía
Cuando nadie me ve los árboles se mecen y lloran en el silencio junto a mi
Cuando nadie me ve arde el fuego invisible y ahogador
Cuando nadie me ve soy yo y mi desnudes
Cuando nadie me ve me encuentro nuevamente al inicio del camino, un nuevo camino
Cuando nadie me ve es cuando nadie puede saber que existo
Cuando nadie me ve puede ser el preciso tiempo en que nadie piensa en mí, quizá
Cuando nadie me ve encuentro mi niñez y la madures de las heridas
Cuando nadie me ve se aleja el mundo de mi
Cuando nadie me ve despierta el ciclón tímido y silencioso
Cuando nadie me ve y solo cuando nadie me ve... quizá no me dejo ver o talvez soy el más llamativo color del arcoíris, pero nadie me ve
Cuando nadie me ve” (Augusto Su)
"When no one sees me, it is my own time, my own silence.
When no one sees me, my soul sings and my heart beats.
When no one sees me, it is my own cold and desolate space.
When no one sees me, I can see the sun behind the moon.
When no one sees me, I feel the kisses in the wind that were set free.
When no one sees me, the stars shine between my eyes.
When no one sees me, the reflection of the water is my only company.
When no one sees me, the trees sway and weep in the silence beside me.
When no one sees me, the invisible and suffocating fire burns.
When no one sees me, it is me and my nakedness.
When no one sees me, I find myself again at the beginning of the path, a new path.
When no one sees me is when no one can know that I exist.
When no one sees me, it may be the precise time when no one thinks of me, perhaps.
When no one sees me, I find my childhood and the maturity of wounds.
When no one sees me, the world moves away from me.
When no one sees me, the timid and silent cyclone awakens.
When no one sees me, and only when no one sees me Look... maybe I don't let myself be seen, or maybe I'm the most striking color of the rainbow, but nobody sees me.
When nobody sees me" (Augusto Su)

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Cuando nadie me ve

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Australia’s Analogue Attic returns mid-March with the debut album from Alex Albrecht. The ten-track project is entitled ‘Campfire Stories’ and features collaborations with label/production partner Sean La’Brooy, Allysha Joy (30/70), Thomas Gray and more.Here Albrecht delivers his debut solo album which we’re told ‘’explores dreams, the unconscious and the intertwining of feelings and memory. Interspersed field recordings lend to the fragmented way people recall experiences. It is a narrative in which the listener is encouraged to attach their own thoughts and impressions to the soundscapes.

’’Since 2014, Alex Albrecht and Sean La’Brooy, better known to most as Albrecht La’Brooy, have released an array of material on Apollo Records, Scissor & Thread, their own Analogue Attic Recordings and more, always leaning towards the deep, hypnotic and emotive side of House, Techno and Ambient. The project was designed as a gapless album, intended to be listened from start to finish and welcomes a number of collaborations throughout with the likes of 30/70's Allysha Joy and Ziggy Zeitgeist (ZFEX), Thomas Gray, Carla Oliver (Badskin) as well as long-time musical partner and co-label head, Sean La'Brooy.

Useful Music #044

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