fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Johann Johannsson

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2025)

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge::

- 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 (naviarhaiku382)”

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 X, 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. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

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all submissions

haiku #586: fog dissolves to rain - / cool breezes clear the vista, / showing cloud-topped hills

LIve recording from premiere at the Festiwal Muzyczny Trzy-Czte-Ry. Konteksty. Kontrasty. Konfrontacje – 19.11.2024 / Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. Witolda Lutosławskiego  w Warszawie

Andrzej Karalow – Some whispers of mists and water above, hidden in the rocks (2024) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano

The work is inspired by japanese poetry dedicated to landscapes, nature and its atmosphere and it reflects the sound and mood of constantly flowing water. In the steadiness of the subtle wall of sound, I try to integrate and mix timbres of all of the instruments. This composition can be connected to ambiental sounds, to static structures, which are slowly fluctuating or evolving over time. It can be also connected to water flowing through the waterfall.

Andrzej Ciepliński – clarinet
Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera – violin
Marcel Markowski – cello
Andrzej Karałow – piano

Andrzej Karalow – Some whispers of mists and water above, hidden in the rocks (2024)

here and there
upon scorched fields
wild violets

by: Arii Shokyu-Ni
Picture by A C

here upon wild - naviarhaiku582

Live performance from Hashtag Lab 27.10.2024 in Warsaw

Andrzej Karalow - Luminous Gardens (2024) for vocal-instrumental ensemble and fixed electronics

Luminous Gardens is an ambient space in which the listener freely chooses the path, voices and layers to listen to. The structure of the composition consists of consonances, harmonic structures that shape the narration and segments of individual parts-sound gardens. The musical material consists of vocal-instrumental motifs separated by sections of silence and processed field recordings interspersed with pads recorded with the original Roland Juno-6 synthesizer.
Light, sound "organisms", space, reverberation - these are the main features that make up the sound environment of Luminous Gardens.
The composition was written for Hashtag Ensemble.

Match Match Ensemble (SSAATTBB) 
Hashtag Ensemble
Łucja Chyrzyńska – flute
Bartłomiej Sutt – vibraphone
Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska – viola
Dominik Płociński – cello

Lilianna Krych – conductor

Wojciech Błażejczyk – sound engineer

Andrzej Karałow – Luminous Gardens (2024) for vocal-instrumental ensemble and fixed electronics

« Prière pour notre terre » pour piano, bande magnétique et récitant
Ma nouvelle composition réalisée ce Dimanche 2 Mars 2025
Franck Douvin © 2025 Contemporary Chamber Music
Thanks for listening & sharing
I hope you'll enjoy !

« Prière pour notre terre » pour piano, bande magnétique et récitant (Ma nouvelle composition)

A solo bass piece that I've been working on for a couple of weeks. The bass is tuned C F Bb Eb G C.

Ghosts

Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.

Inspired by this haiku

Fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner

@naviar-records
@ray_cobley

Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/

Thank you Marco.

Fog dissolves to rain (naviarhaiku586)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data and Audacity.

Fog Dissolves (naviarhaiku586)

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 586

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills
 

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

 

haiku by Raymond Cobley

picture by Inggrid Koe
 

Submission deadline: 2nd April 2025

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Grey &amp; Cold

Grey & Cold (naviarhaiku586)

29Mar25
My naviarhaiku586 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/779084554596139009/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain
:D

fog dissolves to rain [naviarhaiku586]

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
Genre fluid music for images / instrumental / contemporary post-fusion / experimental jazz / electro acoustic ambient / melodic noise / neoclassical / naive hard core / cosmopolitan world music.

bio here:
http://dedeland.com/daniel-diaz-bio/


In some words:
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Born in Argentina,
I studied music in Buenos Aires, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris.

For 20 years, I developed an important career as a session and backing musician in Argentina and Europe, playing, among other instruments, the bass, touring and recording with many jazz, rock, fusion, world, Latin and tango bands.

At the same time, I worked as an arranger, producer and musical director with many projects and artists in the USA, Argentina and Europe.

From 1992 to 1997, I performed my compositions live with my own band in Buenos Aires and began a solo recording career with the worldwide release of my first album "The Years Alone" on the North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile. On this album I arranged and performed 11 of my songs written between 1986 and 1993. I played most of the instruments, but included guest appearances by some great South American players.

My recording career continued with "Segundo Ciclo" (1997), released worldwide by Timeless Records, and 12 more albums released between 2000 and 2016.

Currently, I work as an on-demand film/TV composer while continuing to play live and produce.

Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

Daniel Diaz