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Dawn of Midi

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Mono No Aware

Drone Test 2

Buy 'Gravity'

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A new album of live recordings from recent concerts all over the world

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Dawn of Midi - Gravity

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A new album of live recordings from recent concerts all over the world

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Dawn of Midi - Leads

Haven

A man rots from the head first. Miasma remains trapped in ears and annihilates clear hearing. The sound is needed that will break through the barriers. Self-knowledge is needed to catch this sound.

Improvisation is the only way to move downwards, to descend lower where the tones gain a physical dimension. “Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is an expedition.

“Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is the second album of the kIRk band. A shattered structure, derived from improvisation, where the 20th century music heritage reverberates. The echo of the present manifests in the electronic tones, the vinyl hum and the sound of a trumpet

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Człowiek psuje się od głowy. Miazma zalega między uszami, niwecząc czyste słyszenie. Potrzebny jest dźwięk, który przebije się przez bariery. Potrzebne jest samopoznanie, żeby schwycić ten dźwięk. 

Przez improwizację schodzi się w dół, coraz niżej, tam gdzie tony zyskują fizyczny wymiar. „Zła krew” to ekspedycja.

„Zła krew” to drugi album zespołu kIRk. Wywiedziona z improwizacji, rozklekotana struktura w której pobrzmiewa dźwiękowa spuścizna XX wieku. Realizujący się w elektronicznych tonach, winylowych szumach i wyziewach trąbki oddźwięk teraźniejszości.

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Label: InnerGuN / Oficyna Biedota
Release Date: 01.02.13
Link: www.innergun.com / www.biedota.com

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Tracklist:

1. Do rozpuku
2. Zła krew
3. Dżuma
4. Dzieci Boga
5. Pies zdechł
6. Poza zasięgiem

kIRk - Pies zdechł

Media inquiries: alyssa at teamclermont dot com

http://teamclermont.com

http://www.familytreerecs.com

"Where the Wild Things" premieres at Pitchfork: 
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14654-where-the-wild-things/

Video premieres at Vice: 
http://www.vice.com/read/vice-premiere-cy-dunes-where-the-wild-things-are-video
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To celebrate Cy Dune's upcoming No Recognize EP, cans of spray paint were shot over canvases with handguns in the Arizona desert south of Tucson by a group of local musicians, artists, poets, and pedal makers. Plumes of color exploded into the desert air, and onto the canvases. 

The day resulted in about 22 paintings.  These paintings will be for sale on the Family Tree Records website shortly. As a creative alternative to a limited edition 7", each painting will come with a download code for the EP's lead single, Where the Wild Things, as well as a limited track not available anywhere else. The 12" canvases will be $30, and two sets of large diptychs will be $100 each. (Photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3151.png)

The No Recognize EP will be available digitally on February 4 and on vinyl March 5 on Family Tree Records. A full length is planned for later in the year. (EP Art: http://teamclermont.com/images/3150.png)

Cy Dune photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3155.jpg

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The Cy Dune story starts with a songbook.  This particular book had a 100 songs written in 20th century American visionary long hand over five years after leaving home and traveling the world in what some might call the contemporary music scene of the early 21st century, recording and performing with his band Akron/Family and collaborating with Rhys Chatham, Michael Gira, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Nakatani. The songs were demoed all that same time with new and old friends in big city and small town apartments, parents' garages, horse barns, Maine basements, New Jersey Synagogues, old Pennsylvania factories, molding mid-century moderns, Brooklyn basement studios and across the bridge at the midtown Manhattan Sear studio with the old Abbey Road tape machine and the bass player from the Henry Rollins band.  

In 2010 the 100 songs were finished, written and demoed. In 2011, he moved to the Sonoran desert to record a primitivist American blues story; an old/new weird American anthology of these songs with only an old acoustic guitar and the very same rebuilt 1/4" tube Ampex reel to reel that Alan Lomax used to record field hollers out of his trunk. Months were spent fine tuning the 100 songs, researching tube and tape saturation, Fahey's discovery of Skip James and his mystical open D tuning, early Dylan cryptology,  the notes between the notes of Leadbelly recordings, Michael Hurley's Folkways First Songs and re-tuning all guitars to that self same slightly flat key. 

But the 100 songs wouldn't record. 

2011 ended and the spark of change finally came as a Christmas gift given by his mother. Patti Smith's Just Kids. Re-awed by the transformative powers of Rock 'n' Roll, frustrated, and fed up, he plugged in his guitar and the songs alived and ripped themselves into being, bursting out as sheets of guitar shredding sound like explosions written on the wall. Patti Smith's book begins the year Coltrane died. Cy Dune's story begins again with the simple act of plugging in his guitar, mimicking the thrust of the 20th century.  

The No Recognize EP is a soundtrack to this transformation. His electric guitar story-tellings tap in, steeped with all the mystery of  pre-war weird America holler, African pentatonic shamanism, be-bop underground, and Kerouac's road verse electrified and amplified.  The songs blaze like roads north to Chicago and Detroit, like amps falling off cars, the rattling tubes all saturated, sound color and broken speaker blues,  sounds of a whole century, like Wayne Coyne says,  "touched by the religiousness of Rock 'n' Roll".  No Recognize was recorded loud on a few old microphones in Tucson, AZ and in Brooklyn with the help of drummer Andrew Barker (William Parker, Gold Sparkle) and bassist Shazad Ismaily (Sam Amidon, Bonnie "Prince" Billy),  then doubled back and blasted through a friends broken PA high on a desert mountain. A Rock 'n' Roll Hymnal 100 songs behind and 1000 songs to go.




Cy Dune - "Where The Wild Things"

From the album Impossible Truth, out March 19, 2013 in North America and April 29, 2013 in the UK and Europe on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=898

Impossible Truth

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William Tyler "Cadillac Desert"

"A Beluga whale named Noc learned to warble in a human voice that was so convincing it fooled a diver into thinking someone was shouting at him to get out of the water, US researchers have revealed.

Handlers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego heard mumbling in 1984 coming from a tank containing whales and dolphins that sounded like two people chatting far away.

It wasn't until one day, after a diver surfaced from the tank and asked: "Who told me to get out?" that researchers realised the garble came from a captive male Beluga whale. For several years they recorded its spontaneous sounds while it was underwater and when it surfaced.

An acoustic analysis revealed the human-like sounds were several octaves lower than typical whale calls. The research was published on Monday in the scientific journal Current Biology.

The authors wrote that Noc was even able to be trained to "speak" on cue and they were able to study how he adjusted the pressure and "phonic lips" in his nasal cavities to make sounds much lower than ordinary whale squeals and clicks.

"The whale was exposed to speech not only from humans at the surface – it was present at times when divers used surface-to-diver communication equipment. The whale was recognised as the sources of the speech-like sounds when a diver surfaced outside this whale's enclosure and asked: 'Who told me to get out?' Our observations led us to conclude the 'out' which was repeated several times came from Noc.

"We interpreted the whale's vocalisations as an attempt to mimic humans."

After four years of copying people, Noc reached maturity and apparently either lost the capacity to make human noise or lost interest in doing so. He went back to sounding like a whale, emitting high-pitched noises, and died five years ago."

Dolphins and parrots have been taught to mimic the patterns of human speech, but it is rare for an animal to do it spontaneously.

The study is not the first time a whale have been identified making human sounds. Scientists who have studied sounds of white whales in the wild sometimes heard what sounded like shouting children.

Caretakers at the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada once claimed they heard one of the white whales say its name, Lagosi. His other utterances were indistinct and described as a garbled human voice, or someone speaking in Russian or Chinese.

Beluga

Free download available until Jan 2013

Written By Blanck Mass
Recorded and mixed by Blanck Mass
Mastered by The Haxan Cloak

blanckmass.bandcamp.com/
blanckmass@gmail.com

HELLION EARTH

Taken from the Morning Swim EP out February 5, 2013.
Buy:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/morning-swim-single/id596169442

More on Glenn Jackson:
soundcloud.com/glenn-jackson
twitter.com/glenntjackson

Contact: info@ceremonyrecordings.com

Glenn Jackson - Save

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dozeoff

Previously featured as the secret track on #AcidRap, "Paranoia" is Nosaj Thing and Chance The Rapper's contribution to Yours Truly and adidas originals "Songs from Scratch" series. 

Artwork by Mario Hugo

Watch/Listen to previous "Songs from Scratch" episodes from Shlohmo, Jeremih, Araabmuzik, Danny Brown, Joey Bada$$, Angel Haze, Lunice, Jacques Greene and Tinashe at http://yourstru.ly/songsfromscratch/

Nosaj Thing x Chance The Rapper - Paranoia

Taken from the album 'Dysnomia', released worldwide on June 1, 2015 through Erased Tapes.

Order it on 2x LP, CD and Download here:
www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP068
iTunes here: snip.ftpromo.net/dawnofmidi
Bandcamp: dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com 

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi made up of double bass player Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi abandon improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”

“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

TRACKLIST / CREDITS:

1. Io 2. Sinope 3. Atlas 4. Nix 5. Moon 6. Ymir 7. Ijiraq 8. Algol 9. Dysnomia
Written by Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni.

NORTH AMERICAN PRESS:

“Stellar… at a loss for words” – Spin
“Something totally unprecedented” – Pitchfork
“Perverse in a good way” – The New York Times
“Brain-bending, seemingly impossible” – Rolling Stone
“Moving and addictive...a feat of innovation” – Interview Magazine
“A mysterious, vital sound with a pull all its own” – L.A. Times

MORE INFO:
www.dawnofmidi.com · www.erasedtapes.com


Follow us: @dawnofmidi on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dawnofmidi) | Dawn of Midi on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DawnofMidi)
Dysnomia Album trailer: https://vimeo.com/dawnofmidi/dysnomia

Dawn of Midi - Nix (Dysnomia)

Taken from debut album "Engravings" out now through Tri Angle Records. 

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Thor's Stone

This is a score made for a short film by Ben Wolf. The film was made for an event called called Change of State that was organized and curated by Nuit Blanche. The film will be projected on the New Museum in September 2013.

There are droning vocals in the score that resemble throat singing. They were made by two people singing into each others mouths sustaining dissonant tones until the sound frequencies quiver against each other. Try it. it's really fun! 

HardRoad SpiritShip

This is a live recording of track I'm looking to develop. Get at me if you or some one you know wants to dig into it. 

Waking Dream (live)

Algol (Dysnomia)

Channelled madness – the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating into their most mesmerising work yet

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”
Having met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006, bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi found their original rapport through late night tennis matches on the campus court. The chemistry they founded there eventually led them back indoors to improvise together; something they did in total darkness to deprive themselves of all their senses except the crucial one – their hearing.
The manner, by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music, has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio’s critically acclaimed live shows, a test of endurance and trust that involves performing their hand-looped acoustic minimalism note for note, just as the compositions were recorded. Dawn of Midi’s sets are as energetic and rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ-set, mesmerising fans in the same way the group’s favourite experimental and electronic acts have for decades.
The album was recorded to 2-inch tape at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, New York - a former church that was purchased and transformed into an analogue recording playground by the great engineer Henry Hirsch. Once the band visited the studio and met Henry, an expert in analogue recording equipped with a vintage Helios console, 16 and 24-track tape machines and a superb collection of microphones, it was obvious they had to record there; it was miles ahead of anywhere else they had visited. Rusty Santos then mixed the album to make sure it would hit as hard as the group’s favourite electronic albums do in spite of it being entirely acoustic.
“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

Dysnomia will be released worldwide on June 1st, 2015 through Erased Tapes – available on 2x LP, CD and Download.