resist the tendency to blot things out

Alessandro Cortini - Dell'influenza

This mix/performance was part of the MEG-AIMP / Réveil des Archives Sonores series: 
N.18 w/ @Cobeia (music curator of @ecoutesauvert) 11-05-23 / 18:30 - 20 in the Museum foyer

I was invited to do a vinyl DJ set at the Museum of Ethnology of Geneva (MEG) directly from their extensive archive material. 💫  

On that day, I was given access to dig in a Collection that belonged to Marco Botta, a foreign affairs Swiss diplomat who accumulated records (and newspapers) from all his trips around the World. 🌎 After his death, his family donated the vast Collection to the MEG. It contains folklore & modern music from all over the world up to the 80s. Several big shelves of vinyl from South America, Europe, Oceania, Africa... subdivided by countries. Around 5000 records, most in pristine condition! 

With the little time at my disposal, I decided to focus on Africa, because of my link to it, extensive travels around North and East Africa, my readings about the forging of the Portuguese 1st Global Empire circumventing Africa on their way to India, the many documentaries I saw about the continent, and my interest in its many cultures & music. 

For 4 hours, I looked through the collection, could hear the music on a record player, and made my selection. Right after, I played a 1 hour and a half set with the records in public. The set was recorded, filmed & broadcast on WAV33.

I had 2 turntables and a Pioneer mixer at my disposal. I did spontaneously a mixed set, at times overlapping tunes and using the effects, especially in the first half hour, which features mostly tribal music and otherworldly sounds before moving towards former Portuguese colonies and Islands music.   

I started with an imaginary Ancient Egypt track from a record of a Tutankhamun exhibition in Seattle from 1976, followed by an oud song from the Ottoman Period era by a well-known Egyptian Musician. Then went into Tuareg incursions, tribalistic music, Portuguese colonies (Cabo Verde, Angola...), circumvolution of Africa passing the Cape of Good Hope, all the way to the other side through the various lands (South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia...) and Islands off the coast of Africa (Maurice, Comoros, Seychelles...) in the Indian Ocean as far as La Reunion and Zanzibar.

Thanks to all at MEG and everyone who was there to listen. 💙

This is the recorded result of which I am pretty proud! Enjoy!!! 😘

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Text from the MEG website: www.meg.ch/fr/programme-dactivites

Réveil Archives Sonores #18: @Cobeia

For a 1h30 set, the guest artists take us on a musical journey through their personal selection of sound archives.

Cobeia is a DJ and record collector from Geneva. He is also the curator/organizer of Ecoutes au vert (EAV), a series of musical events that has been running since 2006. Over the years, he has organised many concerts and evenings of electro-acoustic, African, No Wave, Electronic, Disco and Experimental music, with talented local and international artists.

Curious to explore a wide range of styles, he unearths gems through long digging sessions. Traditional and modern African music, Outernational, Jazz, Afro-Funk, Post Punk, Disco, Cosmic, Italo, Wave, Electronic, Ambient, Experimental... are just some of the genres he loves. Music that often features a mix of instruments, synths and drum machines, with an analog sound in a computerized world. ;)

Cobeia has mixed at venues & festivals in Geneva, Switzerland, Berlin, Thailand and Vietnam.

A few years ago with Ecoutes au vert, he organized a concert by the traditional Kenyan group Ogoya Nengo & the Dodo Women's Choir Group in collaboration with the MEG.

The records played during this DJ set come from the Marco Botta collection, acquired by MEG in 2011. The collection comprises almost 5,000 LPs (33rpm), released on a multitude of labels from around the world.

Cobeia - African Mix @ MEG 🌍 (Museum Ethnography Geneva)

Taken from the album 'Quixotism' released as CD and Download.

Oren Ambarchi 'Quixotism Part 5' (eMEGO 202)

Order here:
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Emotional Response starts 2015 with a 4 part split (Schleißen) series aimed at highlighting artists pushing the sonic boundaries of electronic experimentalism.   Starting with Erß001, featuring Abul Mogard and Harmonious Thelonious.

Emotional Response is pleased to announce a special 4 part, split series of LPs that explores the further reaches of ambient, drone and rhythmic percussion, known here as Schleißen.

To start the series is 2 artists long admired by the label. The music of Abul Mogard stayed pretty much under the radar. His lyrical electronic timbres and pulsating drones have been released on 2 solo and 1 joint cassette-only albums on Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra’s (Zombi) VCO Recordings. A big favourite of the label, Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains is near 19 minutes of pure, modular beauty. Play loud for full o.o.b.e. effect.

On the flip, a more well known name in Stefan Schwander’s percussion based project, Harmonious Thelonious. First catching the label’s attention with a series of drum heavy EPs before moving more towards the dance floor on his most recent releases.

On a visit to play the infamous Salon Des Amatuers for the Musiccargo album launch in late 2013, Stefan kindly passed on a CDR of “more experimental pieces” and on hearing these, the idea of Schleißen was first born. 2 pieces of Steve Reich inspired minimalist explorations weld to become an incessant psychoacoustic cycle, melodically deconstructing and reconstructing to create a continuous harmonic movement.

A series then created for the more discerning ear, so empty your mind and (un)listen.


A1. Abul Mogard - Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains

Tracklist

01. Circles in circles - Sonogaze
02. Dag Rosenqvist -  Med vänlig hälsning
03. James Osland and Andrew Heath - I Could Smell Summer In The Sea Air
04. Jogging House - Haystacks
05. Michael Grigoni - Pan•American - Baritone Boderlands
06. David Cordero & Rhucle - Triangle Inequality
07.  Runaway Horses and Valotihkuu - Distant Nightlights
08. Glacis and Polaroid Notes - To Be Watched
09. r beny -  Echoing Pastoral
10.  Between - As Well

416. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

I don't think I will ever forget the first time I heard m.=addiction. I can also confirm that every time I played out that record, folks waltzed over to me to find out the name. Something mystical and enigmatic brought them over to music, making me feel like I was a snake charmer enchanting a cobra with the sounds of a pungi. The music of Dictaphone often evoked hazy spaces, full of jazzy smoke, lo-fi textures, and noir voices, occupying those distant corners of your memory where you felt glamorous comfort, charming enchantment, and warming delight. Since the 2002 debut, the Berlin-based duo of Oliver Doerell and Roger Döring released five more albums, all of which I think I have covered on Headphone Commute. And, in my humble opinion, their latest upcoming release is the closest to that special aura I felt nearly two decades ago. Unstable is Dictaphone's 6th full-length, where Doerel and Döring are also joined by Alexander Stoze (on violin) to mesmerise us with that special scent of future-retro nostalgia that seems to drift in the air like thick incense in a temple of soporific ghosts.

TRACK PREMIERE : Dictaphone - Desplendor

Tracklist

01. Richard Ginns - The Color Of Winter
02. Ghost and Tape - Paredes
03. Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - Nothing To Dread
04. Hadley Roe -  When I Look Back...
05. Nebel lang -  (situate)
06. Ian Hawgood - No Walls To Contain These Fervent Spirits
07. Oliviaway - Second Chance
08. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee -  Case Study 6
09. Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - a four part cure - iv
10. Crane - Windswept Heath

426. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Aiko Takahashi - Vers L’Étranger
02. 't Geruis -  Towards Home, Dark Blue
03.  Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
04. Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - A Four Part Cure  iii
05. Nobuto Suda - Magnetic Comfort
06. David Cordero & Rhucle - Air Pocket
07.  Moss Covered Technology & Snufmumriko - Skagerrak
08.  Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood and James Murray) - Handwritten
09. Naps - Maybe
10. The Humble Bee -  Concealed By Yellow
11. Andrew Lang -  False Departure-Silent Terminals

428. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Crane - Drifting Hours
02. Dalton Alexander -  Nico, Le Petit Chat Noir
03. Adrian Lane - Floating in the Memory Upon the River
04. Hadley Roe - Shadows Fill The Heart
05. Hiroshi Ebina - A Green House
06. Glåsbird - 2007
07. Federica Deiana - Tempest
08. Ishmael Cormack - Always Shifting 
09. Michael Santos -  360 Fade
10. r beny - fragile nowhere
11. Simon McCorry & Wodwo -  By Snail on its Slick of Light
12. Stijn Hüwels -  Décalage 5
13. Slow Heart Music - Solastalgia
14. The Lifted Index - Paresthesia

429. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Ruth Maine - Nesting

This track is quoted from EP "
the vanishing point".
Listening to all tracks of EP and purchasing are available on a link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/the-vanishing-point

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Tidal Shift

The fifth volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. A wide range of ambient lines, guitars, beautiful piano chords, hazy textures and field recordings.

Written and Produced by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. 
Mastering by Zzzzra. 
Archives26 
Archives / 2016

Shuta Yasukochi - Tape Machine

from 'Sankt Otten + N - Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den263
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/sanktotten]

The German instrumental duo SANKT OTTEN (Stephan Otten, Oliver Klemm), founded in 1999, has been releasing music on Denovali Records since 2009. Their 10th full length album called MÄNNERFREUNDSCHAFTEN UND METAPHYSIK (eng: Male Friendships and Metaphysics) is once again a collaboration record - this time with fellow countryman and experimental guitarist N (Hellmut Neidhardt). The eight pieces on the album are based on freely improvised studio sessions and have all been recorded live, with a few overdubs added by SANKT OTTEN later.

SANKT OTTEN's Denovali labelmate N - for whom this album is release nr. 47 - is well-known for Noise, Ambient and Drone sounds standing apart from classical song writing. The aim of this collaboration was to combine the perspectives of the genres of both partners, with N adding a grave and menacing mood to SANKT OTTEN's Electronica and Kraut Rock and SANKT OTTEN providing the sound walls of N with an unusual dynamics.

The albums starts off with with the guitar drone track EIGENTLICH IST ALLES SCHÖN (eng: Actually Everything is Beautiful), in which the unusual style-clash already clearly manifests itself; the opener literally cuts through the ears of the listener. One of the highlights of the albums, the subsequent 13-minute monster MASSIERE DIE MASCHINE (eng: Massage the Machine), offers salvation. The powerful, but always minimal drumming and the sequencer bass of Stephan Otten constantly drive the track forward and lead to an intricated E-bow battle between Oliver Klemm and N, with their melodic lines closing in on each other.

A further highlight of the album is HEILE WELT (eng: Ideal World), a track reminiscent of the hymnal atmosphere of BRIAN ENO, if only this beauty was not burst open by the feedback-guitar of N. A piece immersed in its own orchestral slowness, with a harmonic twist into the unknown ...

The album closes with the noisy and at the same time meditative ambient song AM ENDE DER FAHNENSTANGE (eng: At the end of the road (fig.)). While recording this impro-drone numerous tracks have been piled up on top of Neidhardt's guitar amps and effects, including a harmonium, additional guitars, synthesizers and a prepared piano the oscillations of the strings of which have been induced by E-bows. A mellotron whispers a fragile melody from the distance and perfects the track ...

Vinyl version: 180g double vinyl, heavy matte gatefold covers, includes sticker & download code
CD: nice 6 panel digipak including a sticker

SANKT OTTEN:
Stephan Otten: Drums, Programming, Synthesizers
Oliver Klemm: Guitar, Synthesizers, Piano
N (47): Hellmut Neidhardt: Amps, Guitar

Mönnerfreundschaften und Metaphysik

Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik

Sankt Otten + N - Heile Welt

TOMAGA "Memory In Vivo Exposure" (12"/DL).
HITD 037
Release date: 8th December 2017

All tracks composed, perfomed & recorded by TOMAGA
Mastering by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Original cover photograph by David Child

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

TOMAGA - Memory In Vivo Exposure (Parts 1 & 2)

I’ve been a long time fan of Dmitry Taldykin‘s Moscow-based Dronarivm label which, thanks to the additional curation from Bartosz Dziadosz (aka Pleq) has always brought us treasures from the depths of ambient and modern classical waters. Many of imprint’s releases have been covered on these pages, so it’s no wonder that I’m excited in sharing the Headphone Commute Podcast platform with the founder to showcase Dronarivm’s upcoming releases in 2019 in this very special mix. Plenty of exciting tracks on here from all of your favourites in the many yet to be announced albums. It’s a like a season preview of all the fantastic finds we’ve got in store for you this year!

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Sankt Otten + N - Heile Welt

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