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Following Javier Bergia’s compilation album Eclipse, Emotional Rescue returns to Spain for the follow up in Ishinohana. New Age, Jazz Fusion and Eastern influences are prominent, mixing electric and classic Spanish guitar with Indian and Japanese influenced percussion to a spiritual perfection.

A project bringing together Javier Bergia and friends Luis Delgado and Manuel Illán, Ishinohana sees these masters mesh the influences of rock, new age and Eastern percussion in to a cohesive whole.

With a nod to the influence of Pat Metheny throughout, Le Flor De Piedra is removed from their works in Finas Africae or as solo artists, allowing each to flourish in their craft with the framework of a group setting.   Delgado is prominent. His guitar playing ties the album together and his production looks as much to the albums of 70s and early 80s America than to Japan, where the background for the album is set.

While New Age and Jazz Fusion are oft considered areas to avoid, it’s actually the more discerning ear that realises these genres are some of the deepest and most free forms of musical expression.

The passion within Le Flor De Piedra displays as such. To not stop, listen and understand songs like Delta and Lucia and their ethereal reproach would be a travesty. The reissue of such a cult album is something worth more than that.

A2. Ishihonana

As a lover of everything percussion, here's something that scratched that itch.

Scin

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All Good Funk Alliance, Alexandrah, Swamburger - Make Me

Mix by Amino Belyamani of @dawn-of-midi. Collection of groovy music beyond genre and classification.

1 - I - Alla Al 'Hbab (Blessed Be My Friends), II - Hajti Fi Gurini (Longing for my Lover) by Cheb I Sabbah feat. Ouled Ben Auguda
2 - XMD 5a by Aphex Twin
3 - Triq Akchor by SSAHHA
4 - Telephasic Workshop by Boards of Canada
5 - Cheikh Anta Diop by Doudou N'Diaye Rose
6 - Paridiso by Konono Nº1
7 - Fenix Funk 5 by Aphex Twin

Sounds of Sónar by Dawn of Midi

Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band feat. Christine Sandtorv - Never Come Closer

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

a remix done by Erobique for our first release about 6 years ago

Multiboy - Black Leather (Erobique Remix)

Pines

Turkey based producer Mustafa Yuksel aka Stars Like Dust releasing his debut album under Kanto Records!

The album features a sound that combines the guitar of 80’s new wave and electric instruments of synthwave with influences from science fiction and horror movie soundtracks. Recorded in Seattle and Istanbul, the album has 10 tracks, all composed by Yuksel himself. Although most of the tracks are instrumental, Yuksel’s dreamy vocals accompany to several songs in the album.

The album has some unmissable references to space and sci-fi with influences pouring in from Akira and movies such as Blade Runner, as the name Stars Like Dust is a clear nod to legendary Isaac Asimov’s famous novel.

Stars Like Dust - "Fly High"

Music production, how does it work? 
Between figuring out all the bits that go into making music: theory, tools, processes, inspiration, settling on a genre, I've got my first published track. Check it out! 
Shout out to Nelli Varavva Art for the artwork, her story and the lovely voice on the vocals! 

Nelli Varavva Art: http://nelli-art.com/

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Her Secret

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.