c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

I wish to dedicate this collection to Paul Minns (Third Ear Band)

"musica assoluta" (ottobre 2020)

All submissions to Haiku 351:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

To participate:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

haiku #352: the surface of the water / like ornate silk / spring rain

http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

download all songs

Music for Haiku

made for the Naviar haiku challenge n. 609 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark/

revealing in the dark (naviarhaiku609)

hi res download

not broken (naviarhaiku610)

made for the haiku challenge #611 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku611-half-asleep-eyes/

predawn dream (naviarhaiku611)

made for the haiku challenge #612 https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku612-faring-over-the-lake/

a final flight (naviarhaiku612)

made for the naviar haiku challenge #614: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn/

the coming of autumn (naviarhaiku614)

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

Louise Bock - "Flummox"

Félicia Atkinson - "Sequoia"

Nick Malkin - "An Hour Pulled Lengthwise"

From the forthcoming live album 'Figures In Open Air' out 6th November on Late Music.

Pre-order the double CD edition now → https://latemusic.ffm.to/figuresinopenair

Sarah Davachi - Diaphonia Basilica (Version)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
352 week haiku
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2020-10-01

the Surface Of The Water ( Naviarhaiku 352 )

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Haiku by Ryōkan Taigu
Naviar Haiku 352
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Surface Tension (naviarhaiku352)

Electric guitar
Bamboo flutes
Bowed upright bass
Composed and performed by DD

For this haiku:

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

Poem by Ryōkan Taigu
Photo by Trevor Cole


@naviar-records

like silk (naviarhaiku352)

violin / metronom, trumpet: matthias boss

metroduett

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

haiku by Ryōkan Taigu https://artofwonder.org/2014/11/14/forgetting-the-moon-the-poetry-of-ryokan/

picture by Tim Mossholder https://unsplash.com/@timmossholder

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

forel thana

halF ornatE [naviarhaiku352]

2Oct20

My naviarhaiku352 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

the surface of the water
like ornate silk
spring rain

:D

Boson Spin - Spring Rain [naviarhaiku352]

track made for the Naviar Haiku music challenge #352 https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/30/naviarhaiku352-the-surface-of-the-water/

Spring Rain (naviarhaiku352)

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