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favourite things | 4.23

That's it for March. Over the past month, we have been blessed with a variety of musical delights that left us awestruck. Jump in and enjoy!

Twistedsoul Stereo: March

Beatport Best New Hype Electronica

Single (Digital all platforms)
Label: Faith And Industry / Cat# FAI030S1 
Release date: Tue 21st March
Genre: Rock / Alternative / Singer songwriter

Ursa Major Moving Group, the solo alias of singer and composer Ursula Russell, announces her self-titled debut album, due out June 9th via Faith & Industry Records. Today she shares its lead single “Welcome To The Noosphere”. Known for her mesmeric drumming for Snapped Ankles, Alabaster DePlume, Drop Out Venus and Blue House, the album showcases the London-based artist’s stylistic and instrumental virtuosity - she played all instruments herself - on an intense, dynamic and intimate musical journal that shifts between delicate folk, stirring indie rock, flamboyant chamber pop and angular post-punk styles.

“Welcome To The Noosphere”, today’s lead single is a modern-day protest song about a ravaged planet, induced by countless hours of listening to Bob Dylan and watching Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Directly inspired by a book called Time and the Technosphere, the song explores José Argüelles’ distinction between natural cosmic time and artificial mechanistic time. It took form in February 2020, on the precipice of a rupture, with this theme of dueling temporalities already brewing. Its psyche is split between pre and post-pandemic, finding our narrator inside a portal that merges linear and cyclical time, assessing histories, grieving losses and yearning for a deeper experience with emergent sparks of a new consciousness. 

The song offers a potent demonstration of Russell's stylistic versatility, together with a talent for combining the intimate and grand. Her fragile, close-mic’d vocals to the fore and softly jangling guitars build towards a fateful climax.

Ursa Major Moving Group — Welcome To The Noosphere

From the album EVICTED IN THE MORNING [DISC19] disciples.ffm.to/evictedinthemorning

A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper).

Cover painting by Parham Ghalamdar

Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary - Stub Of A Cucumber

Voice Notes

Sea Glass

Taken from 'RAMZi - hyphea' (MFM061)
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A2. foggi (ft. Priori) (3:26)

Immersion is an exploration into the foldless beyond. Based in water, this track is a cleansing for the soul.
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Immersion

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Release date: 13th February 2023

Mark Barrott is an artist that creatively speaking, never stops moving. His musical career has taken many forms. Some know him as Future Loop Foundation, the alias he used to create and perform ambient drum and bass from the mid-90s. Some know him for his Sketches from an Island albums, which he released under his own name, and others know him as the founder of the highly influential International Feel label, a label that spearheaded the bespoke vinyl movement of the 2010’s and brought DJ Harvey out of studio retirement. Barrott has spent close to four decades exploring new sonic territory and pushing the boundaries of various genres and is considered a pivotal figure in the revival of the Balearic music scene of the last decade.

Barrott’s new album, ’Jōhatsu (蒸発)’, is predictably unpredictable. Due for release this April on Above & Beyond’s new downtempo imprint Reflections, the album is a full departure from anything Mark has written before, partly because he was writing to moving picture. In 2019, Mark was commissioned by a director to write the score for their new documentary, ‘Jōhatsu (蒸発) ... the art of Evaporation’.

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is an 8-track journey through the sounds, sights, smells and sensations of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.

Every year, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 people in Japan vanish, without a trace. These are the so-called johatsu. The “evaporated people”. People become jōhatsu for many different reasons including addiction, divorce and job loss. While some people may consider taking their own lives, others simply… evaporate. Jōhatsu refers to these people who purposefully leave the lives they knew behind.

‘Jōhatsu... the art of Evaporation’, shadowed a Japanese man as he went through this exact process, paying a contractor to help him vanish, moving from central Kyoto to Scandinavia. Scene notes from the director and shots of Kyoto at night-time, rural Japan, and Scandinavian forest-scapes informed Barrott’s musical direction for the project.

The tracks on this album are the ‘full’ pieces - those written for the longer sequences of film. The first single and opening track from the album, 'Kyoto (京都)', utilises the art of simplicity. It’s stripped back and minimal, allowing Barrott’s ambient, spontaneous production style to shine through. 

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is a fairly air-tight representation of Mark Barrott as an artist. It’s spontaneous, it’s unexpected, it’s unrestricted and it’s a gorgeous listening experience. It’s the sound of an artist set free, without creative restraints. If music could fly, 'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' has wings.

'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' is out 17th April on Reflections. The first single ‘Kyoto (京都)’ is out now.

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Mark Barrott - Kyoto (京都)

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SOMEWHERE #3 - TECHNO SET

B1 Monodimesional

B2  How U Do It

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Lithuanian drum shaman @marijusaleksa creates experimental sonic collages on his new LP 'As They Are'. Listen to our favourite track, 'See', featuring trumpeter Yelfris Valdés.


Read more: https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2023/03/08/marijus-aleksa-see-ft-yelfris-valdes-ts-premiere

As They Are

Marijus Aleksa - See ft. Yelfris Valdés (TS Premiere)

What a perfect start to the week… Cantrips make a welcome return with their bombastic new joint, 'The Prayer'. 



Read more: https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2023/03/13/cantrips-the-prayer-ts-premiere

For Private Consumption

Cantrips - The Prayer (TS Premiere)

Island no.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes

Pupa

Senzatempo

Math of You

Machine

Annihilated (Force of Gravity)

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Release date: 3rd April 2023

Berlin-based producer Ryan Davis presents two new beatless versions of his single ‘Altitudes’ from his latest full-length album ‘Through The Mirror Glass’, out now on Reflections.

Berlin-based producer Ryan Davis presents two new beatless mixes of ‘Altitudes’, the lead single from his 2022 orchestral ‘Through The Mirror Glass’, out now on Reflections.

Ryan’s latest album ‘Through The Mirror Glass’ has existed in idea-form for a very long time – most of his life, in fact. The album is inspired by the movies he grew up watching with soundtracks by James Horner, Thomas Newman and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and the tropes and rhythms of electronic music. Davis has wanted to connect the two ever since he started producing, so this 12-track album is his first full-length foray into cinematic electronic music.

Ryan Davis 'Altitudes (Ambient Mix)' is out now.

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Ryan Davis - Altitudes (Ambient Mix)

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An album of music inspired by the song of endangered birds with 100% of the profits going towards organisations working to protect them.

"A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean” is the second Volume in the series following on from "A Guide to the Birdsong of South America", originally released on Robin's label Rhythm and Roots. Volume I raised nearly 15,000 USD for two birding organisations and featured artists like Nicola Cruz, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Chancha Via Circuito.

For this second edition we have shifted focus north of the equator and to the vulnerability of bird species like the Momoto Carenado (Nicaragua), Ferminia (Cuba) and the Jamaican Blackbird (Jamaica), birds who have dwindled in numbers as a result of the environmental repercussions of climate change, deforestation and trapping for the pet trade.

For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged 10 of our favourite producers or musicians from the region. Working with the Xeno Canto birdsong community and the Macaulay Library, we sourced a recording of each bird’s song. Each artist was then asked to create an original piece of music inspired by the bird and its song.

In line with out vision at Shika Shika the curation of artists is specifically geared towards those bridging connections between traditional music and modernity, or between organic and electronic sounds. There are contributions from artists in eight different countries, ranging from Jamaica’s organic dancehall trio Equiknoxx, to Dj Jigüe, one of the leaders of Cuba’s burgeoning electronic scene. Belize’s critically renowned Garifuna Collective have been bringing the unique Garifuna culture and language to a global audience for many years, while Tamara Montenegro has quickly become one of Nicaragua’s leading female electronic producers.

The project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, helping us raise £12,599 in August 2019.

Once the costs of production have been covered, all of the proceeds from this album will be donated to Birds Caribbean, La Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica and Fundacion TXORI in Mexico. All profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be shared between these organisations who focus on engaging local communities to help improve and grow the bird tourism sector, create awareness of vulnerable birds with young people and crucially, provide rescue, rehabilitation and breeding programmes.

To find out more visit: linktr.ee/shikashika  
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released June 26, 2020

Mastering by Yosi Horikawa
Artwork & cover design by Scott Partridge
Bird song recordings provided by the Macaulay Library & the Xeno Canto community.

A2 Composed by Al Ovando, arranged and Performed by The Garifuna Collective, Produced and Recorded at Stonetree Studios in Belize by Al Ovando, Published by Stonetree Music (BMI)
A3 Composition & vocals: Ximena Obregón
A5 Instrumental parts: Teresa Gabriel
B3 lyrics & vocals Majo (María José Marín), Quijongo y Ocarinas: Luis Porras (Proyecto Jirondai), Mixdown: Nathan Hall

Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary - Stub Of A Cucumber

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