Name: Orbits - for John Patrick Mckenzie by Danny Paul Grody in relaxing
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Description: From the album 'In Search Of Light' released on the Students Of Decay label on LP/download (2011).

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From the album 'In Search Of Light' released on the Students Of Decay label on LP/download (2011).

Orbits - for John Patrick Mckenzie

Borneo cicadas

 	                  Don Bikoff - Celestial Explosion

Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968. You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, "That's unusual to say the least." A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears. Bikoff has his own approach. 

Celestial Explosion

ORDER LP : http://www.tompkinssquare.com/deitrick1.html

Tompkins Square is proud to release two solo acoustic guitar albums by Rick Deitrick, out August 25th. Gentle Wilderness was released as a private press LP in 1978. River Sun River Moon consists of previously unreleased recordings from the same time period. Deitrick came to our attention via Brooks Rice and Michael Klausman, who compiled Imaginational Anthem Vol 8 : The Private Press, which features Rick's "Missy Christa" from Gentle Wilderness.

Ohio-born Rick Deitrick took up the guitar at 16 and decided to approach his playing as if he was the only guy on an island and the instrument had just washed ashore one day.  According to Rick, “I completely divorced my playing from any formal music knowledge, but it was very important to me to use original tuning. During those years, the sixties/seventies, there was a lot of acoustic guitar playing, often using open tuning as a base. I wanted to create whole tones without de-tuning and keep access to the complex sounds stock tuning provided.”

Rick pressed 500 copies of his tranquil solo guitar record, Gentle Wilderness, in 1978 on Niodrara Records, and sold many at performances and directly to music shops who would pay for them.  He gave copies to various libraries and left a few albums in the middle of the wilderness, next to trails, “so people would find them.” Rick sought inspiration in nature and in particular the various rivers scattered around the Western United States, often composing songs seated beside them —and even occasionally perched on boulders in them. He never played the songs the same way twice and did two passes on each composition in studio. Rick would sometimes literally come straight out of the mountains and rush to the studio to record the ideas he’d gathered. "Missy Christa" was recorded at Mount Olympus studio in Hollywood and was named after Rick’s daughter; it was originally composed right next to the Big Sur River where he had been camping.

Rick currently resides in Los Angeles, “still strumming, waiting for the other shoe to drop.” 

TSQ 5456 River Sun River Moon
TSQ 5432 Gentle Wilderness

Gentle Widerness

Gentle Wilderness

At Morning by Rick Deitrick

8-8-17

Roger Eno - "This Floating World" LP/ with CD - out November 10th, 2017
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This Floating World

Purchase

Roger Eno - "Silk" from This Floating World (R38)

Aquila

TRACKLISTING / INTERVIEW:
self-titledmag.com/2018/09/21/geographic-north-label-of-the-month-feature/

FURTHER READING:
getcentered.io/2018/09/21/alva-noto-ryuichi-sakamoto-vrioon-review/

Label of the Month: Geographic North

This is an excerpt from a 36 minute piece for the Longform Editions label, a collective for deep listening. Came out a few weeks ago. 
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Artist notes: 

This piece is the result of nearly a month spent in the Canadian city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during Autumn. I was in Saskatoon to develop a new work and much of my time was spent wandering around this city, which I discovered was also referred to as the 'city of bridges' recording various bridges, as well as streetscapes, the South Saskatchewan River, and people vibrating various structures in Saskatoon, raised pavements, the bridges themselves, and this very cool and narrow pedestrian and train bridge. I have been interested for quite a while now in the ways people contribute sonically to the making of particular spaces, and so this was my focus here. In this recording you will also hear various recordings from cafes I visited in Saskatoon, and the soundtracks I encountered there, I should hat tip The Underground Cafe where I went almost every day. There is also the bass throb from one guy's car who stopped to pump out some thrash metal-ish sounding music, but from the outside all I could hear was this muffled thump, which I found quite hilarious and excellent and also there is a sample from the Saskatoon-based band Waitress, who are a very excellent band I met while there and who allowed me to use a snippet of one of their tracks for this piece. Apart from some very minor edits this piece was performed as it is live in my studio in Brixton, London using field recordings from Saskatoon alongside vibrating wires, strings, squeaking magnetic tape, a zither, shakers, a gong and an owl horn. It is based loosely on the performance I gave in Saskatoon for the Sounds Like Festival in October, 2018.

City Of Bridges (excerpt) out now on Longform Editions

Waves arise naturally on the surface of the vast ocean without troubling its depth. This meditation is an invitation to make your mind like the vast ocean.

Mind Like Ocean - Jack Kornfield

ethernet 'correction'

from the album 'cloud room, glass room' available 4/29

pan•american 'project for an apartment building'

[p*dis] distribution sampler for May 2013

Rauelsson - Vora -  Fluvial (Sonic Pieces)

Bruno Fleutelot - [ozo viv] - Mare Fecunditatis (Eglantine Records)

ソフィア・コッポラ『マリー・アントワネット』以降、数々の映画のスコアを手がけてきた作曲家ダスティン・オハロランの最新サウンドトラックが待望のCD化！

絵画を描くように音楽を奏でる色彩豊かな作風で、ポスト・クラシカルというジャンルのなかでももっとも人気のあるピアニストのひとりであるダスティ ン・オハロラン。ソフィア・コッポラ監督の映画『マリー・アントワネット』のスコアで注目を集め、最近ではダコタ・ファニング主演の青春映画 『17歳のエンディングノート』(Now Is Good) など、数々の映画のスコアで引っ張りだこですが、本作は彼がスコアを手がけたハリウッド製作の新感覚インタラクティヴ・ソーシャル映画『The Beauty Inside』（2012年公開）のサウンドトラックです。

監督は新進気鋭のドレイク・ドレマスで、オハロランとは2011年のサンダンス映画祭グランプリ作品『今日、キミに会えたら』(Like Crazy) に続くコラボレーションです。さらにこのコンビは2013年のサンダンス映画祭出品作『Breathe In』の公開も控えています。

『The Beauty Inside』はFacebookでオーディションが行われ、オーディエンス自身が主人公を演じることができ、またFacebookのタイムライン上でス トーリーが展開されるという、ハリウッドで初となる新しい形のインタラクティヴ・ソーシャル映画。公開はYouTubeで行われ、先日、2013年のウェビー賞のドラマ部門を受賞しました。

このサウンドトラックでは、ピアノとストリングスに加え、シンセをうまく導入することで、メランコリアとぬくもりが同居するオハロラン本来の作風よりも明るく、すがすがしくも気品のあるサウンドが、毎朝目を覚ますたびに他人の容姿に変わってしまうという不思議な特徴を持った主人公の切ないラブストーリーに瑞々しさをもたらしています。

ミックスはエフタークラングなどの作品も手がける元ジャルディーニ・ディ・ミロのフランチェスコ・ドナデッロ。マスタリングはおなじみのニルス・フラームが担当。


＜プロフィール＞
1971年生まれ、ベルリン在住のアメリカ人ピアニスト／作曲家。インディー・ポップ・デュオDevicsの片割れでもあるマルチ・インス トゥルメンタリスト。ソフィア・コッポラ監督の映画『マリー・アントワネット』（2006年）に曲を提供したことで脚光を浴びた。さまざまなCM音楽や映 画のスコアをてがけたり、アーティストのプロデュース業も行う才人。2011年2月にはUKのFatCatのクラシック部門130701より、最新アルバム『Lumiere』をリリース。同年、Stars of the Lidのアダム・ウィルツィーとのユニットA Winged Victory for the Sullenのデビュー・アルバムをリリース。2012年9月に初の来日ツアーをおこなった。


＜収録曲全11曲＞
1. New Day                
2. Alex's Theme                      
3. Antiques
4. Lonely Hearts 
5. Not My Own
6. Museum Nights
7. Static Longing
8. Leah
9. Antiques And Heartbreak
10. Lost And Found
11. Home



Dustin O'Halloran - 3. Antiques

Danny Paul Grody is a solo musician and  founding member of San Francisco based bands Tarentel, The Drift, and Moholy-Nagy. He is a self taught guitarist, and the melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of West African kora, Tacoma style fingerpicking and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic.
His first solo album Fountain was released in 2010 on Root Strata followed up by In Search Of Light on the Students Of Decay label in 2011. He's contributed tracks to the Three Lobed 2012 record store day LP Eight Trails, One Path as well as to Vol. 5 of the excellent Tompkins Square guitar soli series, Imaginational Anthem. His most recent and third solo album "Between Two Worlds" was released on August 20th 2013 on the venerable Three Lobed Recordings.  

Orbits - for John Patrick Mckenzie

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