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Ensemble SEV 

Maayan James - Saxophone 
Dennis Sobolev - Electric guitar
Dan Weinstein - Cello

Ori Kadishay - Recording & Mix

Anat Nazarathy - Photo

Recorded on 2nd October 2023 in the Mazkeka Studios, Jerusalem

Things I Deleted for Baritone sax, Electric guitar and Cello

RIYL: Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Eleh, Duane Pitre, La Monte Young, Eno, Larajji, Iasos

Available directly from Imprec.com & Imprec.Bandcamp.com

Agartha, Personal Meditation Music is a 7 CD boxed set, originally released on cassette in 1986, at the height of New Age, as an aid for meditation and alignment. Bringing to mind 20th century composers like Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young or even Brian Eno's Shutov Assembly, the time-stopping, enveloping, electronic music contained in this series sounds eerily modern, mysterious and moving. Characterized by deep analog drones, rising overtones, floating frequencies surfing on sine-waves and intervals with mystic modulation, this is truly moving, vibrational music.

In Agartha, the individual notes of each Harmonic Triad proceed in a fashion that is neither improvisational nor chance-based, nor is it generative. Instead the music flows outward as if being transmitted— or channeled — from a place outside human consciousness. There is a profound sense of cosmic depth expanding ever outward as the music fills the listener with waves of emotion, and a palpable somatic response is felt, although there are subtle differences with each unique Triad. 

Each disc is individually packaged in original replica sleeves and housed in a
heavy duty cardboard clamshell box. Digitized and remastered by Jessica Thompson. Liner notes include extensive instructions for use from the original text and an essay by library music scholar David Hollander.

The original edition of Agartha, Personal Meditation Music, featured one track
30 minute track per tape repeated on both sides. Subsequent editions had unique Side B tracks on all but two of the 7 volumes. We have included all tracks in this boxed set.

Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (1985) - 7 CD Set - Music For Meditation

2nd single from our forthcoming new album
סינגל שני מתוך האלבום החדש שיצא בקרוב

במנהרות של הרכבת הקלה
בצינור ניקוז בחוף גבעת עלייה
עם מיקרופונים ומכשירי הקלטה
רעש זר פועם בעלטה

כל מצב מידע הוא
מרווח, מרחק, תנודה
הד

מחיפה, מירושלים, מברזיל
בתל אביב מחתרת הצליל
עם מגברים ואקורדים פתוחים
תדר דק חודר ברווחים

כשיתחילו לירות גוף
ירעד, יקלוט, יחצה 
גבול

Michal Sapir: Vocals, guitar
Oded Shechter: Bass
Matan Fox: Drums, keyboards, vocals

Words: Michal Sapir
Music: Michal Sapir and Matan Fox

Written, arranged and produced by Afor Gashum
Recorded by Ronen Hajaj at Pluto Studios, January 2023
Additional recording: Afor Gashum
Mixed by Ronen Hajaj at Hatula Studios, November 2023 – June 2024
Mastered by Ryan Morey

Sleeve design: Bezalel Ben-Chaim
Band photo: Carmi Dror

Kufsat Shimurim

Errollyn Wallen, our new Master of the King’s Music, challenged composers to write a song in the extra hour as the clocks went back this morning. So it took me just over the hour - but here it is
"Hour Song" for Errollyn - for acapella voices, mouth clicks and body percussion!
Thanks for the inspiration x

I often say
I wish there were more hours in a day
And now 
Here it is
One
More 
Hour
What should I do with it?
Plant bulbs in the garden?
No - too dark out there
Hoovering, cleaning?
No - too noisy for neighbours
Reading or writing?
No - too tired for thinking
Look at the moon, count the stars?
No - too cloudy up there
Wait!
I know just the thing...
OH!
Too Late
It's gone
That
One
More
Hour
In the day

"Hour Song" for Errollyn

THE SONORITY CABINET VIII: a collection of strange, rare and unusual pieces of music from ancient and contemporary times, brought together as a 'cabinet of curiosities', often mixing the glorious sound of Oosthuizen's historic organ with new, electronic textures. 
Our previous editions include the Mass (2013), Gothic (2014), Fun (2016), Love (2017), Dream (2018), Time (2019) and Magic (2023). 
Michael Bonaventure (1962, Edinburgh) is an organist and composer whose passion lies in unusual and experimental music and the blending of organ with electronic sounds. 
In this year's edition, The SECRET CABINET, Michael performs works by Erik Satie, Loo(p)cy (aka Lucia Caiazza), Adrian Foster, Frédéric Inigo, Geoffrey King, Luiz Henrique Yudo, as well as his own music and a selection of pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

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THE SONORITY CABINET VIII - The SECRET CABINET 
Live recording 
Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen, Netherlands
10 October 2024

Michael Bonaventure, organ & electronics

1. Modéré (1893) - Erik Satie
2. The Secret Cave (2024) - Loo(p)cy (aka Lucia Caiazza)
3. Worster Braules - Thomas Tomkins
4. Barafostus' Dreame - Anonymous
5. V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (2023)  - Adrian Foster
6. Dr. Bull's Myselfe - John Bull
7. Dr. Bull's Juell - John Bull
8. Nowell's Galliard - Anonymous
9. Centon, set (2001) - Frédéric Inigo
10. Organ Postlude-Recessional (2024, première) - Geoffrey King
11. Encounters (2016) - Michael Bonaventure
12. Air de l'ordre (1892) - Erik Satie
13. Path Of Secrets (2020) - Michael Bonaventure & Loo(p)cy
14. ON WORDS: Q (2001) - Luiz Henrique Yudo
15. Felix Namque - Anonymous c. 1450
16. ORACLE (2024, première) - Luiz Henrique Yudo/Michael Bonaventure
17. Estampie (2024) - Huw Morgan



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THE SONORITY CABINET VIII - The SECRET CABINET (Live, Oosthuizen, Netherlands, October 2024)

This album is the culmination of an ongoing exploration of musical and sonic concepts, including mutation, evolution over time, generative patterns, sampling and re-sampling. Several tracks from the album have been performed, presented, and utilized in various formats, such as concerts,
performances, or installations-either in their entirety or specific sections.

The six tracks represent the distilled essence of a creative process that commenced in 2020, characterized by continual iteration, variation, and the transformation of formless clusters of melodies, harmonies, or mere textures into somewhat finished compositions.

Each musical piece has been a companion to me for an unusually extended period (something it rarely happens in my process). Much like features in a landscape, these tracks have shaped a geography of memories, places, and fleeting moments over an exceptionally prolonged time in my life (with some, like Bancal, tracing back to 2014). Consequently, the personal and emotional weight they carry is significant and necessitates being acknowledged to make room for the new and unexpected.

In Valencian, "una geografia temporal" translates to “a temporary geography."

Edu Comelles - Mola

Gavotte Bach Violin Sonata

HG1803 - Hallowground.com
Buy the vinyl or digital album here: http://bit.ly/2xwBugg
Distributed by A-Musik and Cargo Rec.

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KALI MALONE - Cast Of Mind

from the social distancing, April 2020 [home recording]

'Two years ago I wrote some cello music to accompany a reading by the poet Ian Duhig. He was interested in the Satie's Sonneries de la Rose+Croix and so my music was based on that. But what I wrote in 2018 was never quite right; in March 2020 I revised the music and now Dan Weinstein has made this beautiful recording of it.' Christopher Fox

What is the Number of the Rose? | Ian Duhig

More than oceans’ grains of sand
but not of fingers on one hand;
more than stars that drill the sky
but not the pupils of one eye;
more than all of England’s dead
but not of tongues within one head;
a number more than words can tell
but not the clapper of one bell;
more airs than all composers wrote
but fewer than one single note
and more and fewer than all these
but not in Satie’s sonneries.

Christopher Fox - In The Shape of A Rose

Production Grand performed by Joris Holtackers using 87 and Ribbon microphones plus recording noise and additional processing (such as eq, reverb, compression). Here the recording noise is quite pronounced and the mechanical sounds of the piano are heard.

Christopher Fox - In The Shape of A Rose

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