Can you remember what delay settings you used? That's brilliant.

From the album “Fatima’s Hand” (2015)

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The Icon

Wind Whisperer

um-tempo-de-amar.mp3

The latest Métron Musik Mixtape is something of an unusual treat. Not much is known or written of UK based artist Ishq, and fittingly his music is as hard to pin down as the artist himself. It’s therefore an honour that he was willing to provide us with this mixtape, a 90 minute exploration of unexplored aural pastures - showcasing old and new music from the mysterious producers wonderfully rich and beautiful discography. Within it Matt Hillier spans the depths of planetary oceans, searches the far reaching vacuums of the cosmos and prods at rarely accessed parts of our own reality.

‘Ishq’ roughly translates as ‘love’ but the word is used in Persian and Arabic literature with a broader definition, a relationship between man and its creator. There’s a sense of the divine and spiritual in the 90 minutes of music here. The Cornwall based producer taps into something seemingly larger and more cinematic than our every day existence. Somewhere out there that we kind of know but rarely visit. 

Turn it up, close your eyes, and explore his world. 

If you want to hear more from Ishq check out:
ishq.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/ishq

There will be an interview in the coming days.


Métron

Métron Mixtape - 008 - Ishq

Kema (aka Giulia Alessandroni) 
Alle Sorgenti Delle Civilta
19CACK (10"/MP3)

The first-ever dedicated album release by pioneering female Italian film music composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Giulia De Muittis (aka Mrs. Alessandro Alessandroni). Rare undercover pseudo-ethnological studio sessions made under her experimental alter ego Kema (The Pawnshop/Abnormal Sensations) combining the ethos of Can’s Ethnological Forgery Series (EFS) with the studio trickery of Delia Derbyshire and unshakable credentials as one of the founding figures of Giallo film music and Italian psych soundtracks.

Perhaps best known amongst fans of Italian production music and Giallo movie soundtracks as the wife of the legendary Alessandro Alessandroni, composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Giulia De Muittis was an equally formidable force who emerged from the formative years of the aforementioned anti-genres and rose to a monarchic status within the country’s vibrant, and seldom rivalled musical secret society. The cliché “behind every successful man, there is a strong woman” might not do Alessandro and Giulia’s long-running creative unison justice but one thing that rings true that in the shadows of Senor Alessandroni’s limelight (illuminated by his work with Ennio Morricone for the films of Sergio Leone and Dario Argento) remained a darker musical feminine force which in time has come to represent the duo’s finest and most sought after sonic artifacts. In a career that spanned four decades until her untimely death in 1984 Giulia’s collaborative work as a reliable creative all-rounder and pop polymath has stood the unshakable test of time like few other musicians resulting in projects like The Pawnshop, Femina Ridens, Revolver, Questo Sporco Mondo Meraviglioso, The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Tomb, Angoscia, Inchiesta Giudiziaria and Witchcraft ‘70 (Angeli bianchi Angeli neri) earning increasing “Most Wanted” status on the collectors’ market. It is of no coincidence that Giulia’s nom de plumes, Kema and De Muittis, have in recent, more educated years, become trusted seals of approval which connect top choice composers such as Raskovich (aka Sorgini), Stelvio Cipriani, Morricone, Braen (aka Alessandroni) Amedeo Tomassi, Piero Umiliani and Bruno Nicolai amongst select others. It is, however, De Muittis’ seldom heard self-initiated solo work for small independent Italian library music imprints that reveal a unique multi-instrumentalist female composer working at her most intimate and uncompromised best.

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Alle Sorgenti Delle Civilta

Soledad

Kema (aka Giulia Alessandroni) - Soledad

Recorded in India on August 2016 and produced by Go Dugong. 
Mixed and mastered by Edoardo Fracassi. 
Artwork by Giulio Fonseca. 

© 42Records & Fresh Yo! Label (FY!044) - 2017 
Management: Bizarre Love Triangles 
Booking: Pentagon

Varuna

Antenes - Shifting Zones [SSX09]

A1. Dream Uncreates The Land (>)
B1. Take Me To The Birds (For A)
B2. Metra Train, Chicago, 1000x

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The Silent Season 10 Year Anniversary compilation celebrates a decade of deeper electronic music. The vinyl series features artists whose music continues to inspire the Silent Season journey (2007-2017)

http://silentseason.com/ssx10/

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Shifting Zones [SSV08]

Juno Records

Antenes - Shifting Zones [SSX09]

4th track of the album 'Ihunke' [Pingipung 60]. 
Order vinyl (2LP) or digital files: umekoando.bandcamp.com/album/ihunke
'Ihunke' has been released on CD only in 2001 in Japan and is now available on vinyl for the first time, finally!

Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She was a representative of the Ainu culture on the Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan.

After over a hundred years of forced assimilation and discriminatory policies, in 2008, the Japanese government finally recognized Ainu as an indigenous people of Japan. These policies eroded the identity and sense of worth of Ainu people, confiscated their homelands, and caused considerable suffering over several generations. Unfortunately, oppression and assimilation in Japan's
recent history was catastrophic to the ethnic preservation of the Ainu, and their culture suffered extremely as a result. Finding artefacts of Ainu music is rare in the first place, but Ando did quite a lot throughout her life to preserve it. This record is an example of how their music has been passed on through generations in the oppressed, underground Ainu communities. It deserves a huge audience.
Upcoming remixes by Nicola Cruz, Gama, Dreems, DJ Ground, M.RUX, El Búho, Mark Peters, Andi Otto, KayTV, Patric Catani, Peter Presto, Urubu Marinka, RLHBSLCN.

© 2018 Pingipung / Chikar Studio

Ihunke

Rewrew

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Umeko Ando – Rewrew

Back with another special mix for all who are in support of the BELLY BELLY dancefloor sessions INDO ARABIC BALKAN and GYPSY Sounds(Toronto) a sub edition to the renowned TURNING POINT sessions, unfortunately both events are on hold for now, until further notice.
So heres a beautiful mix from our #1 selector: A man called Warwick. offering up a potential cure for the quarantine and isolation blues, that most of the world is in at this present time, so lets hope its a short stay, and this music can transcend, inspire and reach the hearts of all who are suffering, so please make some noise in solidarity if you enjoy the selections, and we will share more soon. stay strong !

TPS 034 - THE CURE FOR YOUR BELLY BELLY

Nunca estuvo tan extraño el mundo
Necesito más ojos o menos lágrimas
Me duelen todos los jardines de la vida
Me duele que la vida no me duela
Las piedras que fueron un incendio y
casi una mirada
Nunca estuvo tan extraño el mundo
En esta hora cuya sinceridad traiciona,
pues nadie tiene certeza de lo cierto
cuando el cuerpo es un mero ataúd del corazón
y se defiende contra el fuego que lo inventa.

Music, mix, master and artwork by fabio

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