Continuum

This dream is happy and beautiful when you are not afraid
This track is from the album Bamboo Music and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jacobusderwort

Dream

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Format: 2x12” 180g vinyl//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

Out March 2016.

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CHI is:

Hanyo van Oosterom (bass, guitar, piano, percussion, synth)
Willem Cramer (loops, sequences, percussion, guitar)
Koos Derwort (bamboo flutes, clarinet and mouthsounds)
Michel Banabila (philicorda organ, percussion, bass, flute and fx)
Sound treatments by Jurgen Brouwer
Video by Fyko van Leeuwen

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A1. Kuhl

InconformecuadradoemrofnocnI (preview)(en proceso)

Release date: 22/08/16

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Format: 180g vinyl only//leaflet inside//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Jacobus Derwort started exploring sonic soundscapes listening to his short-wave world receiver at the age of 12. There he would hear music from Africa, China, Japan, Indonesia, South America and beyond. He started playing guitar, piano, percussion and saxophone.

He met Hanyo van Oosterom in 1978 and they started the legendary cult rock band, 'The Jones'. Derwort was playing the sax, van Oosterom the drums. They started conducting sound experiments in Hanyo’s small cellar in the Dutch village of Krimpen aan den IJssel.

In the early eighties they made their first cassette, 'The Kallikatsou'. Hanyo started the ambient collective CHI in 1983. Jacobus was the first musician to join CHI. Together, they went to the magic rock “The 

Kallikatsou” on the island of Patmos, Greece. Here, Hanyo had stayed for months in a cave for some deep soul-searching. He heard the sound of CHI in the silence of the night like a message from out of space. Being together at the Kallikatsou they shaped the foundation of CHI, making handmade flutes from local bamboo and conducting field recordings of 
water, crickets, owls, goats, wind, etc...

Back home they asked Willem Cramer to join CHI, and later Michel Banabila. They released a legendary ambient cassette, 'The Original Recordings', in 1983 which soon became a collectors item. CHI stopped in 1987 (and still now nobody knows exactly why). Willem Cramer and Michel Banabila started the world music collective 'East Meets West' in 1989. Hanyo and Jacobus kept recording ambient soundscapes.

Jacobus was working on his 'Bamboo' recordings. Hanyo recorded the first tracks for 'The Kallikatsou Experience'.  Neither album was ever released. They returned a few times together to The Kallikatsou, but there the history seems to end...

…until decades later when Astral Industries located them after a long search, inspired by Rod Modell (Deepchord). The result was the vinyl release of CHI – The Original Recordings in February 2016. The album received great reviews and sold out in a few weeks. 

This inspired Hanyo and Jacobus to work on an old plan: remixing the old bamboo recordings. Most tracks were made in the eighties before and after CHI. Original tape recordings using mainly analogue sounds, percussion, samples and (of course)bamboo flutes and manipulated clarinets. Hanyo added some new recordings and remixed the old tapes in his Numoonlab Studio in Rotterdam. The result was 'The Bamboo Recordings', a timeless collection of ambient soundscapes. 

THE CHI FACTORY is the next step of CHI into the future. It will involve many future ambient collaborations. The next release will be 'The Kallikatsou Recordings'(Astral Industries 2016 TBA). Also bringing back the original line-up of CHI for new recordings is part of the plan. Who knows what may happen next.

The Bamboo Recordings have been produced and remixed by Hanyo van 
Oosterom. Original recordings by Jacobus Derwort. 

Jacobus Derwort: bamboo flutes, clarinet, guitar, samples, loops, saxophone, 
percussion, field recordings.
            
Hanyo van Oosterom: piano, bass, guitar, percussion, flute, samples and drones.

The Bamboo Recordings contain voice samples from around the world, 
including Tibetan monks, Sufi chanting, a Hopi elder, a Hopi woman, Fulani storytellers, a Japanese girl singing, Spanish and Greek children, excerpts from Gratitude For The Gaze by Nikos Eliou and much more...

Thanks to: Nikos Eliou, Ario Farahani, Noel Summerville, Theo Ellsworth, Michel Banabila, Thomas Bouvy, CHI.

In memory of Michael Ladraque Jacobus, who plays his legendary Fender Stratocaster on 'Life Is Like' and 'Birds'.


Part One

Lola Villa - Into the Woods 2016 
September 10th - Stekplek
Amersfoort, Holland
www.intothewoodsfestival.nl

Lola Villa page: https://soundcloud.com/lola-villa-musica

Lola Villa - Into the Woods 2016

A collective of ambient composers founded by Hanyo van Oosterom in 1984.

Hanyo van Oosterom (bass, guitar, piano, percussion, synth)
Willem Cramer (loops, sequences, percussion, guitar)
Koos Derwort (bamboo flutes, clarinet and mouth sounds)
Michel Banabila (philicorda organ, percussion, bass, flute, fx)
Sound treatments by Jurgen Brouwer
Video by Fyko van Leeuwen

CHI was one of the first European groups that performed ambient music on stage. They released the cassette "The Original Recordings" in 1986, that soon became a collectors item. The premiere of their audio-visual show was in 1986 at The Lantaren/Venster in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

This mix contains samples from: 'The Original Recordings' , 'The Bamboo Recordings', 'The Kallikatsou Recordings' and unreleased material.

Podcast Series 02 • Chi Factory

Art of Dark 
Light Arch, London
February 04th, 2017

Art Of Dark 2017

TSS had the pleasure of welcoming @astralindustries founder Ario for an hour of mind expanding tunes. A special by @wanderwelle, who brought their liveset in the second part of the show -> www.soundcloud.com/willoirson/wanderwelle-live-red-light-radio
Livestream: www.facebook.com/thesomethingsomething/videos/577785455985155

Ario (Astral Industries) _ The Something Something on Red Light Radio #35 pt. 1

Release date: 11/02/19

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Format: 2x12” 180g gatefold vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth//includes leaflet inside

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Dedicated to the life and work of Robert Lax (1915-2000), the American poet who lived on Patmos, Greece, as a self-exiled hermit since the sixties. Jack Kerouac called Lax “one of the great original voices of our times, a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence”. The Chi Factory would like to give special thanks to his good Patmian friends Ulf Knaus and Nikos Eliou, who showed us his house on Patmos (everything is still the same since he left) and also his favourite old wooden door (see leaflet). His great minimalistic poetry became a source of inspiration for the Mantra Recordings. His life on Patmos was far away from public attention - quiet and always surrounded by the skies, seas, cats and birds. Lax was a real dreamcatcher.

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Part Three

Bamboo music takes you on a worldwide journey
With the sound of my homemade bamboo flutes