A potentially surprising release on Editions Mego. Another planned prior to the untimely passing of Peter Rehberg in 2021. 

Melvin Gibbs is the renowned bass player and producer from Brooklyn who’s vast resume includes playing with Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, The Rollins Band, Dead Prez, Caetano Veloso and Femi Kuti amongst others. A solid resume, no doubt, but what is Gibbs doing on Editions Mego? 

Behind the scenes, those who know Gibbs knew that amongst all this he was also tinkering away at another form of music, one which skirts around the border between music and sound design. The Wave is the first release that reveals this side of Gibbs’ creative output to those outside his inner circle.

The driving force for this output is Gibbs’ multi-decade friendship with acclaimed  American video artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Over the course of time Gibbs and Jafa have had many conversations about music and the connection between film and music. Jafa’s desire to make film that worked the way Black (as in Black/African-American/ Afro-diasporic peoples) music worked inspired Gibbs to study the filmmakers Serge Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov and incorporate their philosophies and tactics when recording his own music. The two discussed sound design which directly informed Gibbs’ choice of music making tools and led to him acquiring Symbolic Systems Kyma software and hardware, incorporating this as a composition tool and sound design and component in his work. These conversations bore concrete fruit through Gibbs’ work for TNEG, the film studio Jafa ran with filmmakers Malik Sayeed and Elissa Blount Moorhead. Gibbs created the soundtrack for their very first project, the short film “Deshotten 1.0” (2009 - directed by Jafa and Sayeed) as well as their Martin Luther King-inspired meditation on Black life “Dreams Are Colder Than Death” (2013, directed by Jafa)  

The bass-forward music, or ‘sonics’ as Gibbs calls it, emerged from an alternative mode of contemplation, a mode that he sees as closer to the mindset of a rootworker, an African-American herbal doctor who cures psychic ailments using means derived from African spiritual practice, entering a forest to find the right plants for a suffering client than a mediator attempting to invoke mindfulness. Gibbs says this practice yields results that suggest an aural form of creation akin to coagulation, a formal movement that gives the sense that a flow of sounds can emit something bearing resemblance to solidifying objects. 

In 2020 Jafa asked Gibbs to work on the soundtrack for a work in progress called “The Wave''. When they got together to work on the soundtrack, Jafa played Gibbs a selection of sounds that included random moments of (probably unwanted) feedback on 70's Miles Davis records, Pop Smoke's Brooklyn drill, the music of Bernard Gunter and Darmstadt-style compositions made with test equipment. Those sounds, filtered through years of conversation with Jafa about Black creativity and the possible evolution of Black music, formed the sonic vocabulary of “The Wave”. 

Over time the sonics evolved and “The Wave” became the piece Jafa calls "AGHDRA". This soundtrack incorporates and expands upon the sonics composed for “The Wave”. Gibbs mentions although the work with Jafa has always skirted these lines of evolution, this side of his vocabulary has been generally neglected, until now, due to his current jazz musician/jazz festival-centric focus and radar. 

The result of this parallel exploration is a deep excursion into a nuanced sound world. The rich tapestry of textures allows one's mind to explore and project within this bed of curious investigation of sound. The bristling, itching, restless, clicking, diving nature of the electronic sound world presented by Gibbs, is abstract and unearthly on the surface but closer listening (which it demands) reveals a very human quality to these austere shapes.

Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave

Ibo Code

Melvin Gibbs 'Ibo Code' (EMEGO291)

Hakuna Kulala is excited to share with you this compilation of works and collaborations, result of a 2 year residency program titled "Afropollination" between artists from Mali, RDC, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania and artists based in Germany, many of whom from African descent. The aim of this project was to create cross pollination effect between different artists, cultures and disciplines, fostering community, friendships, collaboration and inspiration and of course new music and art. As works continue to develop, here is a first compilation of works produced by the artists in residency.

AFROPOLLINATION is an initiative by Piranha Arts and Boutique Foundation / NYEGE NYEGE in collaboration with MS Stubnitz , Singeli Movement , Modaperf , Yoke Collective , COSMO Radio, Pussy Party, Morphine Studios, Festsaal Kreuzberg , CTM Festival and funded by the Fonds TURN2 of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany (Kulturstiftung des Bundes).

OUI OUI - Chrisman X Debmaster

Asante - Jay Mitta X Zai X Nana - (live @ Stubnitz)

The Duo Ludwig Wittbrodt, that‘s Emily Wittbrodt on cello and Edis Ludwig on laptop and drums. The two develop a thicket of sounds and melodies that absorbs us in a completely unpretentious way and fills us with associations and warmth. We are reminded of the achievements of both Krautrock and Neue Musik, of early electronic music as well as Drone and Ambient.

At first glance, Emily and Edis seem to be an unequal couple. She has an academic background as a cellist, he is self-taught with his main instrument being computer and programming. She is active in Free Jazz, he drums with the rock band Düsseldorf Düsterboys. On the other hand, both have been active in the Free Improv scene in the german Rhine-Ruhr region for years - for example in ensembles such as The Dorf or Hilde (Emily) and Nasssau or Transport (Edis).

This is from the duo‘s second album, Schleifen.

Schleifen

Ludwig Wittbrodt - Tulpen

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UniverSouLove creates an ode to the Open Mic Night scene. Having started his performance art career in the city of Memphis, TN, he uses his knowledge and experiences - and his talents - to bring a spotlight to the movement we know as Open Mic Night. Open Mikers will enjoy this one! UniverSouLove hosts open mics when he's invited to do so.

Open Mic Night

Arbor - Holdfast LP out on @frenchtabloid [FT026]
Lenght : 32 minutes
Tracks : 8
Style : Ambient, Experimental, Future Garage
Country : US
Platform : Bandcamp
Artist : https://soundcloud.com/yojimbo123

Listen / buy

Arbor - 4u

Penultimate Press is proud to unveil a global collaboration that embraces the planet we inhabit. One with a combined member and atmosphere of Santiago, Chile, Salsipuedes, Argentina and Berlin, Germany.

El Jardín de las Matemáticas (The Garden of Mathematics) was written and recorded by Alvaro Daguer (Glorias Navales/A Full Cosmic Sound/ETCS Records), Pablo Picco (Bardo Todol/Bolinga Everest Records), Tomás Salvatierra (Glorias Navales) and Mark Harwood (Penultimate Press).

Utilising Chinese drum, ocarina, shakers, flutes, whistles, violin, bells, acoustic guitar, gongs, clarinet, n’vike, harmonium, Korg ms-20, moceño, tapes. owl flute and more, The Garden of Mathematics is an alluring, alien, bizarre, colourful, curious, fascinating, peculiar, romantic and astonishing recording where beauty and unsettled beasts coexist in an exotic exploration of sound and song.

Navigating waters possibly traversed by Angus Maclise, Pygmy Unit and Charlie Nothing, the nine tracks this garden brings forth take the listener on a journey through sound and song via nature and the expansive mind.

The results are a a unique record steeped in a wild mix of folk, ethnomusicology, musique concrete and psychedelia.

El Jardín De Las Matemáticas - The Garden Of Mathematics

Tracklist:
Harry Gorski-Brown - Dùthaich MhicAoidh
Heelhooks - Let’s Rest Here, Just for a Bit
Mattia Onori - Spazio profundo 
Daniel[i] - Dom Amb
Arigto - Amor Fati
Petteril - Glōm
C.Diab - Surge Savard
Hafez Modirzadeh / Prasant Radhakrishnan - A1. Duo One (Modirzadeh)
Rosso Polare - albanella
Demetrio Cecchitelli - Impermanence
Jake Muir - Silent Sailing
Martin Zvěřina - Vitr Vlhko Nic
Arigto - Lukuss
Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi - Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko

Gloom Variations w/ Petteril 10/04/24 HKCR

3rd Planet

EXPLORING THE MUSIC OF MUSLIMGAUZE
AKA BRYN JONES (June 17 1961 – January 14 1999)

Searching the vast landscape of visceral recordings from Bryn Jones 'Muslimgauze' over the course of an 8 year productive period leading up to his untimely death (circa 1990-1998)

*to preserve the true identity of Bryn's music, the entirety of this show is un-edited audio, all of the sound manipulation and volume dynamics are exactly as they were produced digitally

full tracklisting:
Muslimgauze - Rafsanjani
Muslimgauze - Meesur
Muslimgauze - Murmur You Support The Arabs
Muslimgauze - Free From A Veil
Muslimgauze - Najibi
Muslimgauze - Lost Zwana
Muslimgauze - Rani Rupmati Diamond Swallower
Muslimgauze - Zakat Zakat
Muslimgauze - Untitled 11 [Re-mixs vol.1-2]
Muslimgauze - Under The Influence Of Kolera
Muslimgauze - Untitled 8 [Re-mixs vol.3]
Muslimgauze - B2 [Arab American Radio]
Muslimgauze - Ascend Babel In Oanj
Muslimgauze - Minaret Above All Others
Muslimgauze - Noose Of Gold Silk
Muslimgauze - Head To Toe In Morroco Leather
Muslimgauze - Untitled 7 [Re-mixs vol.1-2]
Muslimgauze - Abyssinia Selasie
Muslimgauze - Pt 3
Muslimgauze - Muslim Of America
Muslimgauze - Murzuk
Muslimgauze - Subultan
Muslimgauze - Algeciras
Muslimgauze - A1 [Arab American Radio]
Muslimgauze - Extra

End Of The Line w/ Earthsurfaceopen (Exploring The Music Of Muslimgauze) - 01142021

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