Dawn of Midi

This piece was created using audio recordings of Eve Skibinska (main polish theatre actresse). The material She sent me is a result of improvised acting while taking a bath. I've cut some fragments, combine them and made this track out of it.

5:04 am. Dictaphone

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Dawn of Midi - Surround

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Dawn of Midi - Gravity

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Dawn of Midi - Leads

Valeriu Borcos and Eduard Gabia are Karpov not Kasparov, a musical game of
chess between synthesizers and drums. Beginning in Bucharest in 2009, the duo
soon incorporated an analogue visual artist and contemporary dancers into their
live performances, resulting in a theatrical show and a kind of real-time soundtrack to
the action around them. The duo’s unique dynamic creates a psychedelic synthdriven
sound, combining oriental melodies with the drive of a full live drum kit.
“Soundtrack for a game of Chess” is their debut LP, comprising a selection of the
best tracks from their previous two EPs, which never appeared on vinyl.
“Mechanical Turk”, named after a faux chess-playing machine constructed in the
late 18th century, displays the darker side to the band’s undulating sound, as the
vintage synth creates a spacey Eastern overlay to the driving bass and drums.
There are moments of downbeat jazz-infused introspection, such as the track
“Kaissa”, named after the goddess of chess, as well as the ever-onward kraut
drums of “Choose you colour gipsy dark” overlaid with the rise and fall of a pulsating
synth. Yet the record is not simply a dark synth composition, at times K not K sway
towards a more playful, experimental pop sound reminiscent of early electronic
pioneers such as Harmonia or Vangelis, while still managing to retain a modern,
otherworldly feel.
Having garnered great acclaim within their native Romania, their debut EPs also
received high praise internationally from sources such as WFMU. While last year,
Mehmet Aslan’s re-work of “Mechanical Turk” released on Huntleys + Palmers
made waves across the dance floors of the world. They’re now set to release their
debut LP on Polychrome Sounds this Summer and will be touring Europe from 
Spring onwards.


artwork by Axel Brechensbauer
layout by Paramon
mastering Marten Rux, Alin Zabrauteanu 
synths Valeriu Borcos
drums Eduard Gabia
all tracks by Valeriu Borcos 

Karpov not Kasparov - Choose Your Colour / Gipsy Dark

We are happy to announce that we are in the planning stages of an album with this wonderful Dub Techno and ambient artist, Takuya Morita. We are really looking forward to releasing the album: “Place of Solitude”.
While we are waiting for the album , Takuya has been so nice and provided us with this track, "Moment", to showcase on the compilation.  (not from the forthcoming album)
Will be releasing a full length album (CD/Digital) on UAE Records in 2016. Stay tuned!

Takuya Morita - Moment

Here's a recent mixtape we did for Fellows of Neringa on the Lithuanian Neringa FM. Ennnnjoy this eclectic blend of music with a good cup of coffee!

Tracklist:

Valentin Stip - Nwia vs. Biniyam - 1NE
Darkside - Metatron
Floating Points - Sais (Dub)
Om Unit feat Jinadu - The Silence
Siriusmo - Itchy
Floating Points - Sais
Minor Science - Naturally Spineless
Toasty - Angel
Kangding Ray - Bleu Oscillant
Variete - Ring Out
Clark - Superscope
iTAL tEK - Redeemer
Om Unit - Healing Rain
Recue - Akrasia
Shigeto - Detroit Part 1
Robot Koch - Dreams

Mixtape for Neringa FM

Pines

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Jazzbox - Ode To Satie

03 Delta Sleep (Cherif Hashizume Rework)

Chemi Sakartvelo

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

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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


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Dysnomia Album trailer: https://vimeo.com/dawnofmidi/dysnomia

Dawn of Midi - Nix (Dysnomia)

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.

Dawn of Midi - Surround

Dawn of Midi

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