TV Songs

Shela - Viagem a Granada (from TV Songs LP, CREP101)

from 'Spark And Earth' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den371
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon

Denovali presents Spark and Earth, the ninth full length album from acclaimed NYC-based composer and performer Mario Diaz de Leon.  Long celebrated for his electroacoustic chamber music, Spark and Earth is the first of Diaz de Leon’s solo albums to foreground his performance as a metal guitarist, alongside a vividly textured electronic ensemble of terse synth stabs, woodwind and vocal timbres, floor rattling synth bass, and propulsive kick drums.  Songs such as Cruces, Templo, Kepha, and Elemental evoke rave-metal anthems, foregrounding a vibrant alchemy of thrash guitars with percussive synths.  Aqua, Breath of God, and Carnelian seamlessly weave lead and chiming guitar lines with meticulously charted electronics and hammered dulcimer timbres. Carnelian charts the alluring flow of a single melodic line through the instruments of the ensemble, while the haunting analog synth interplay of Mirror Spirit recalls the vivid electroacoustic works of previous releases.  Over nine songs and 30 minutes, Spark and Earth is an alchemical journey through Diaz de Leon’s electronic chamber metal.

Since 2009, Diaz de Leon has released four recordings of his collaborations with chamber ensembles (International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, TAK), while from 2012-2016 he produced three solo electronic albums under the project name Oneirogen.  With the two-song album Heart Thread (2022), he began releasing electronic works under his own name.  His music has been celebrated over the last decade for its “hallucinatory intensity” (New York Times), “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork), and “remarkable textures and vivid atmosphere” (New Yorker Magazine).  As collaborator, he is guitarist and vocalist in the extreme metal duo Luminous Vault (Profound Lore Records), and performs synth and drum machine in Bloodmist, an electroacoustic improvisation trio with Jeremiah Cymerman and Toby Driver.  In 2023, he collaborated with Eartheater and members of Krallice in a performance of songs from her album Trinity.  Since 2019, he has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor of Music and Technology.

Spark and Earth

Cruces

Mario Diaz de Leon - Cruces

Max Pilori, a singer in the synth wave duo “Rio”, released on Teenage Menopause but also writer (erotic short story mostly) and she’s resident at La Station Station (radio in Paris). Multitasking, her sets wave from punk to bass downtempo, from post punk dubish to weird italo disco. For this curation on Mutant radio she cooked a special post punkish and wavish set.

Max Pilori [Pilori Prod.] [19.07.2023]

New track from the forthcoming album "Stills", to be released beginning of September

Kraut Sounds - Focus (Reshape)

This is my memory of this Summer.

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Photo by Hidekazu Imashige

Memories of Summer

Shimokamagarijima 1

SUUMHOW - OUTRUNS

A special edition of the @radioalhara show intended to promote education, learning and understanding around the current situation in Palestine. 

Damsel Elysium - Empathy is a Muscle
Julian Assange - War and the media
Noise Diva - Amal (Hope)
Avi Shlaim meets Ghada Karmi - The hidden history of Israel
Nueen - Structure of Desire
Ilan Pappe - Understanding The true origins of Israel
Christina Vantzou & Ezra Fieremans - Bewilderment I
Onsy - Ajjax
Fatima Al Qadiri - Zandaq
Inti-Illimani - La Partida
Kareem Lotfy - Chromosome
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss - Zionism is not the same as Judaism
Vitamin String Quartet - Idioteque
Anthony Bourdain - MPAC Media Award acceptance speech
Dakn - Difa3an 3an nafs
Onsy - Artefacts
Mehdi Hasan - How Israel helped create Hamas
Maryam Saleh - Nouh Al Hamam
Qow - Betehky F Eh
Ghassan Kanafani - Richard Carleton interview
DJ Plead - RT4
Daniel Levy - The Western world is in denial about the reality of Israel
Kareem Lotfy - Fr3sh
Kofia - Leve Palestina krossa sionismen

LOW PALESTINE ORBIT 24.11.23

Ambient Particles

Sitting In A Room

lyrics 

take your time
and waste away
these days go by
but I remain the same 

take your time 
and waste away 
these days go by
but I remain the same 

I've been smoking my weed 
Been Staring at the stars 
I know about you
But I think gone far
I try and reach for happiness 
But it's really hard 
I try and reach for contentment 
But it's so long 
The days grow dark 
And the nights grow cold
I wonder where I'll be 
When I'm really old 
Maybe I'll be chilling 
With my bros 
I long for the moment 
The glory and the gold 
I got high hopes 
But I feel the lows
I feel it in my bones
The more I grow 
Uncertainty of the grounds 
That I walk on 
I wanna be the man 
You can lean on 
I wanna be the man
Who can dream on
Crystal clear visions 
Of the birds song
Sparrows fly around me 
the rays of the sun 
Call upon thee 
Of memories gone 

take your time 
and waste away
these days go by
but I remain the same 

take your time 
and waste away 
these days go by 
but I remain the same 

Mario Diaz de Leon - Cruces

Denovali

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