Just discovered your music and am quite moved...

So beautiful this music by Cassandra Miller!!

So unique and beautiful. New music doesn't have to be jarring and confrontational. It's fine if it is but there are other options. Thank you.

My remix for Raimondo Gaviano's (aka Svart1) new release "Circondati dai Petali da soli moriamo" (Surrounded by petals we perish in solitude)

Mask Of The Slave ‎– MS-070
Digipack CD, limited to 250 copies
Distributed worldwide by Sun & Moon Records
Realized June 2021 

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Track 8

On February 24, 2022, at 5 am, Russian bombs began to fall on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The perfidious invasion of Russian troops forever changed the history and face of this country. Every day, civilians and soldiers who defend their homeland are getting killed. This war is senseless and merciless. No decent person can remain indifferent. The Chitra Records label also took on a small mission of helping to rebuild Ukraine. We teamed up with ambient and neoclassical musicians from all over the world and released a two-hour compilation of calming, peaceful, and experimental ambient music. Our goal is to raise funds for the civilians of Ukraine. All proceeds from the digital sales of the compilation on Bandcamp for the first two weeks from the release date (until March 21, 2022) will be sent to the Red Cross Society of Ukraine.

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification

Music is a powerful calming force. We want this war to end as soon as possible. On March 21, we will publish the receipt of the donation transfer.

We ask for your help and support: tell your friends about this compilation and repost it on your social media.

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification

Peace and good music to you, friends!
credits
released March 7, 2022

Henrik Meierkord (Sweden) www.soundbread.se

Yellow6 (UK) yellow6.bandcamp.com

Kshatriy (Russia) kshatriy.bandcamp.com

Adrian Lane (UK) adrianlane.bandcamp.com

NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] (Ukraine) nkxmusic.bandcamp.com

Demetrio Cecchitelli (Italy) demetrio-cecchitelli.bandcamp.com

FlownBlue (UK) soundcloud.com/flownblue

Michele Andreotti (Italy) soundcloud.com/michele-andreotti

Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand (UK) mabh.bandcamp.com

Sergio Mariani (USA) sergiomariani.bandcamp.com

Alejandro Fiori (Argentina) alejandrofiori.bandcamp.com

Dionisaf (USA) dionisaf.bandcamp.com

Macrogramma (Italy) soundcloud.com/macrogramma

Sebby Kowal (USA) soundcloud.com/sebbykowalmusic

Toni Dimitrov (Macedonia) The owner of the labels: www.post-global.com and elanvital.bandcamp.com

Alessandro Barbanera (Italy) alessandrobarbanera.bandcamp.com

Lelya (Russia)

KapTep (UK) kaptep.bandcamp.com

Federico Balducci (USA) federicobalducci7.bandcamp.com

fourthousandblackbirds (Canada) soundcloud.com/fourthousandblackbirds

A Distant Shore (Italy) adistantshore.bandcamp.com

Mastering by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

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Pacification

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GRFTPS019
City of Dawn - Anemoia
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/anemoia

Anemoia

B4. City of Dawn - Anemoia [GRFTPS019]

This track was inspired by the Xian, the eight immortals of Taoism.

From Wikipedia:
Xian (Chinese: 仙/仚/僊; pinyin: xiān; Wade–Giles: hsien) refers to a person or similar entity having a long life or being immortal. The concept of xian has different implications dependent upon the specific context: philosophical, religious, mythological, or other symbolic or cultural occurrence. The Chinese word xian is translatable into English as:

(in Daoist philosophy and cosmology) spiritually immortal; transcendent human; celestial being
(in Daoist religion and pantheon) physically immortal; immortal person; an immortal; saint
(in Chinese alchemy) alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices longevity techniques
(or by extension) alchemical, dietary, or qigong methods for attaining immortality
(in Chinese mythology) wizard; magician; shaman; sorcerer
(in popular Chinese literature) genie; elf, fairy; nymph; 仙境 (xian jing is fairyland, faery)
(based on the folk etymology for the character 仙, a compound of the characters for person and mountain) sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse
(as a metaphorical modifier) immortal [talent]; accomplished person; celestial [beauty]; marvelous; extraordinary
(In new-age conception) seeker who takes refuge in immortality (longevity for the realization of divinity); transcended person [self] recoded by the "higher self"; divine soul; fully established being

Xian

SANMI / Snow in Early Spring

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/bel-canto/

Bel Canto

Commissioned by Ensemble Kore with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Recipient of the 2011 Jules-Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada’s highest honour for composition)

Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano
Geneviève Déraspe, alto flute
Xavier Brossard-Ménard, clarinet
Jonathan Barriault, guitar
John Corban, violin
Pemi Paull, viola
Yegor Dyachkov, cello

The piece is above all a portrait Maria Callas. It’s based on the opening statement (the opening sighs) of Puccini’s Vissi d’arte – Maria Callas’ live version of it, with all the full generosity of her vibrato, swoops and portamenti (all the things outside of notation). At the beginning, it’s as if we hear her young voice, and towards the end, the voice of her later years.

The path of the piece through time is not only about the ageing of an extraordinary woman, but also about the listener. Time slows down to allow for an engagement with detail, for a closeness or submersion in the sound, and possibly for clarity or meditative stillness.

Two simultaneous ensembles perform here without coordinating with each other. This makes for layers of melody, creating a sonic depth of field – echoing perhaps the depth of the Greek landscape in which I felt the warm revelation that originally inspired this piece. Moreover, to separate the ensemble into two smaller groups, without conductor, enables an intense chamber-listening between the players. This intimacy allows them to carry out with great musicality all of the non-notatable things I mentioned earlier – the swoops and vibrato, and all the unnamable subtleties of vocality.

Bel Canto

Bel Canto, Ensemble Kore with Marie-Annick Béliveau (2010)

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After ‘Cobraxine’, ‘Boogie Throb’, and the Ana Ott – released ‘Molochville’, Brecht Ameel (Razen/Ameel Brecht) gives us his new album under the Br’lâaB moniker ‘Other People’s Crimes’; a high-on-paranoia, pre-crime-surveillance narrative, constructed after hours in the studio from a combination of Ameel’s own recordings on a widely varied set of instruments, library music, flea-market broken vinyls and old cassettes. Part blind-overdub palimpsest-collage, part straightforward composition, the 10” contains both Br’lâaB’s loop constructions and tracks performed by the found audio phantom band called the Acid Boogie Quartet. Bearing more gritty layers of both sound and subtext than ever, the “Other People’s Crimes” EP stands as an artefact of wild paranoia and spy-thriller sonics, weaving vignettes of surveillance gone wrong, doublethink and confessional echolalia.

Police and thieves are in the streets, running wild with nosebleeds and ill will ids. Dial v for victim as the night horizon broods a neon luminol glow. Howling at the vortex, buried under blindfolds, vigilantes take to crime with fear and ketamines.

Other People's Crimes

Br'lâaB - Dial V for Victim

For years I have been exploring ways of composing for Buchla Music Easel and the Japanese Shakuhachi bamboo flute.  None have satisfied me until this morning.  This is a sketch and hopefully a catalyst for more composition.

Bel Canto, Ensemble Kore with Marie-Annick Béliveau (2010)

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