Запись программы "Течение Выходных" на Радиостанции Город 107.6 FM. Екатеринбург 2009

2009-12-04 Shine Grooves @ 107.6 FM (Gorod FM)

Available via Imprec.com 

Tekanan is the full-length debut of Melbourne-based Indonesian-Australian drummer and sound artist, Rama Parwata. A thorough exploration of rhythmic capabilities and percussive improvisation under ever-shifting timbral and stylistic environments, Tekanan is Parwata’s examination and documentation of his vast musical influences in electro-acoustic improvisation, Indonesian gamelan music, free jazz, electronic music, R&B, and noise music, whilst still maintaining an entirely unique non-idiomatic musical voice. Tekanan sees Parwata experimenting with not only the drum kit, but additionally implementing no-input mixing boards, musique-concréte sampling techniques, junk percussion, electric guitar, and computer music production to create a relentlessly metamorphosing soundscape that abruptly, yet seamlessly oscillates between ethereal ambiances to turbulent barrages of rhythm and noise through five unique movements.

Aptly named after the Indonesian word for pressure and stress, Tekanan was composed by Parwata with the intent of it being a listening experience which would pressure the listener to have no clear indication of the direction of the music and where it will ultimately settle, leading the listener on a sinuous, yet intriguing aural journey. This title additionally applies to the pressure of the challenging nature of the music, in a performative sense, which pushed Parwata to his physical and mental limits to perform and compose.

“As cliche or banal this might sound, I tried to make a record that was purposely made to be hard to put into a box. I didn’t want to make a “drumming” record or a noise record or anything of the type, but a record that just contained "good” music (or what I constitute as being good). Many aspects of my musical life were injected into this release: gamelan music (the first music I was exposed to), noise, hip-hop, free-improvisation, Xenakis, jazz, electronic music. Ultimately this record is a homage to those musical influences.” - Rama Parwata

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An active figure in Australia’s experimental music and art scenes, Parwata has worked with the likes of Marco Fusinato, Robin Fox, and Robbie Avenaim, and choreographers Stephanie Lake, Juliet Burnett, and Melanie Lane. He is also a member of seminal long-running Melbourne Doom Metal band, Whitehorse.

As of 2019, Parwata has been a co-curator and committee member of Melbourne’s legendary concert series, Make It Up Club, which has been presenting weekly avant-garde improvised performances since 1998.

ramaparwata.com

Tekanan

Rama Parwata - I - from Tekanan Cassette - Pre-Order Available Now

VINYL → https://bit.ly/3wH26Il
Artist: Karsten Pflum
Title: Jupiter Oil
Remixes: Squaric & Serge Geyzel
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Catalogue: DRC4
Artwork: Jantus
Tracklist:
A1.More Fun [Lyn Collins Mix]
A2.Together Reap 
A3.Bellman 
B1.Obercast 
B2.Luv Letter 12 
B3.Utah Is Gone 
B4.Obercast (Squaric Esa Mañana Celestial Remix)
B5.Together Reap (Serge Geyzel Remix)


Limited 12'' Lathe Cut handmade.

All vinyl orders include two Diffuse Reality stickers and digital downloads of the full release.
www.diffusereality.net

Karsten Pflum with remixes from Squaric & Serge Geyzel [Vinyl, 12'']

Another session of our Romania focus, starting with a sum of ambient phenomena compiled by Dokia.

more infos and tracklist at www.lyl.live.

Misiunea Spațială Delta (11/11/21) w/Dokia

ignition

Bizarro Blends 010 // Freda & Jackson

https://secretthirteen.org/stm-256-nina/?cn-reloaded=1

Nina is a Hamburg based dj, label owner and promoter behind the famous Hamburg Golden Pudel Club event series Nina trifft… Nina is one of the main people behind the V I S label, which she co-runs with Good News. Within the large number of mixtapes for labels such as Blackest Ever Black offshoot Krokodilo Tapes or JSMЁ Records, Nina explores the thin boundaries between industrial, drone, acoustic experimentation and proto-techno, with frequent excursions to the fields of synthwave and ambient sounds. Her live sets also burst with similar dynamics and turn venues into immersive listening chambers filled with floating sounds. Her excellent set during the 2015 edition of Unsound Krakow was described by Philip Sherburne as “steel-wool ambient”, where the punkish noise of Wolf Eyes was overlaid with Helm’s cutting-edge drone voyages. Similarly adventurous is her cassette label V I S, which has released music varying from rare Greek ethno (Greek Ethno Music Location Recordings compilation) to Basic House’s atmospheric post-industrial.

Secret Thirteen Mix 256 is an ambientish trip focusing on the darker areas of the genre. It is a continuous string of monolithic hypnosis with layers delicately shifting, replacing each other with microdynamic twists and turns. The mix sounds very coherent despite the diversity of artists included, illustrating Nina’s capability to identify similar sensibilities across divergent styles, melding them together to form surprising, beautiful chimeras. The sonic surfaces have a strong sense of physicality, with each track a microworld coalescing with its surroundings. Starting from the airy pulsations of dark d’n’b masters Flxk1 & DB1, it then shifts towards a more claustrophobic mode with Deep FridgePita (where they place mics in a fridge to capture its sounds). Jonny Nash and Lindsay Todd’s collab brings some organic freshness, while Francois Bayle’s transparent transmissions remind us of the timeless Recollection GRM explorations. Due to its microscopic patterns, subtly changing surface tones and immersive/hypnotic nature, Infinite Waves by Kazuo Nakamura could serve as a good visual companion for Nina’s mix.

"I’d like to thank all those wonderful musicians that made it possible for me to play this kind of music." (Nina)

Secret Thirteen  256 - Nina

This record is an extension of a foray into trance ritual music.
It's structured as a companion for film, meditation, vision seeking & sound rest.

It's by nature a nature worship record, combing acoustic percussive improvisation, sensory foley, vocalized staccatos, and a specific brew of physical/metaphysical sound relations....mind hush/thought flush/spirit rush/sun rise.

Inspired by an initiation ceremony of the Bwiti/Fang people of Gabon. This collection relays a fragmented branch of timings of this ceremony. Plus proposes alter paths for the sacred (Mougongo) instrument.

Recoded + Restructured + Reflected as a time capsule.

With fullest respect/blessings to breeze the Bwiti understandings through current climate.

Proceeds of this record will be donated to Tata-Yo (Nganga), Ebando.

http://ebando.org/fr/presentation.htm

Words & Music - Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi 
("All the Healing Green Leaves of the Forest")

A1 - Awating (11:02)
B2 - Bwicoming (19:28)

Our inaugural 12" coming soon with distribution via Honest Jons Records.

Big shout out to Will @the-trilogy-tapes for the support.

John Wright - pattern transparency dither

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