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Akuphone. AKU1031 (CD/Digital)
Official release date : 08/07/2022
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Kadef Abgi came together in a serendipitous way. Devin Brahja Waldman was walking up St. Laurent borough in Montreal when he heard an otherworldly voice emanating from the venue Divan Orange. He walked in and listened to the singer on stage. When he was done, Devin walked over to him. After a short exchange about playing a house show in a couple of days, Ziad Qoulaii told Devin that he was available for all his projects. Shortly thereafter, Devin and Ziad met up at Mathieu Pelletier-Gagnon’s studio with Anas Jellouf and Hamza Lahmadi. Later on, Anas Hejam, Vicky Mettler and guitarist Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, Karkhana, Land Of Kush…) joined.

The music materialized in a natural, collectively improvised way, without any compositions or ideas discussed beforehand - and without second takes. From there, Waldman began editing and mixing. Ala Dehghan painted the album’s great artwork.

A single composer’s imagination would not have produced Diva Of Deva Loka as it is music created from a collective consciousness unfolding in real time. The album has its roots in each musician’s  sonic experience: this includes Arabic music —including most notably Moroccan Gnawa— as well as rock ‘n‘ roll, jazz and the avant-garde. 

Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer. He has performed with Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch along many other artists. He has also accompanied his aunt, the poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten. He leads a NYC/Montreal-based band, B R A H J A, performs in Heroes Are Gang Leaders and is a member of Artists For A Free World Marching Band. Along with Anne Waldman and his cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman co-directs Fast Speaking Music—a still-active music and poetry label which has released the works of Amiri Baraka, Meredith Monk, CA Conrad, and many others.

Kadef Abgi

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Kadef Abgi - Sarab (AKU1031)

Positive or negative, only time would tell. Life and death depended on the outcome but at present he remained calm, cool and collected. He had little choice. That plus or minus would determine the very course of his future, his existence, his soul. The hour would come, and soon he would know all. However, for now, he was happy to sit and wait, watching the wall, before an outcome was revealed. 
Flau is a record label of which you might be unfamiliar with. Based in Tokyo, Japan they have been operating since 2006 and have remained low key and under the radar of many. Mid June saw the release of 'Open Close Open' : a four track EP from Robert Lippok. And whilst we aren't in the habit of premiering music which is already out in the open, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to showcase something from the unknown.

PREMIERE: Robert Lippok - + [Flau]

Our new single (7inch/digital) will be released in 29th July 2016 from Höga Nord Rekords (Sweden).
Side A - Tunnel
Side B - New Pastoral Life

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New Pastoral Life

"Liquid Talk" is taken from "Entering and Emerging" the second full-length album by Melbourne based composer and musician Zoltan Fecso. Following up his debut ‘Shimmer Raga’ on Hush Hush Records, Zoltan expands on his distinctive pointillist compositions, continuing to explore simplicity and limitation.

Releases January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Zoltan Fecso 
Field recordings from Aulus-les-Bains, Saman and Toulouse, France 
Mastering by Lawrence English 
Artwork by Sotiris Gonis

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/entering-and-emerging

Zoltan Fecso - Liquid Talk

I Like To Sleep - Circles

Gilroy Mere – Adlestrop

Clay Pipe is very happy to bring you Gilroy Mere’s third record on the label, after 2017’s ever popular ’Green Line’ came the flexi-disc EP ‘Over the Tracks’ earlier this year, which hinted at things to come.  Adlestrop is a full length LP inspired by the remains of the rural railway stations, that were closed in the wake of the 1963 Beeching Report.

“This record started with Edward Thomas’s poem Adlestrop and a chance visit to the village that it takes its title from. I wanted to see the station, but found it was no longer there, all that remains is the old platform sign Adlestrop, now part of a local bus shelter. However as I walked around the village I was struck that; “all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire” were still singing away  -   like ghosts from Thomas’ verse.

Visiting Adlestrop spurred me to get hold of a copy of the Beeching Report which, in Appendix 2, lists all the services and stations recommended for closure in the 1960s. The names read like an epic British poem, from halts to branch-line stops and stations and singular terminals for public schools, mines, ferries and even an asylum. There’s Ravenscar where a resort was planned but got no further in its construction than the station, and a hotel  - the grid marked out for the roads never laid.   Bethesda, a short branch line from Bangor up towards Snowdonia, was used for slate and passengers and is now just a quiet green valley, Christ’s Hospital on the old Cranleigh Line, opened with seven platforms to cope with the daily flood of pupils attending the famous school nearby which never came as it was a boarding school.  Many of the stations have vanished, with just fields and car parks left in their place, some are repurposed as houses, or shops, or abandoned as artefacts of a lone-gone industrial past.  

Armed with a digital recorder, and with a copy of Beechings Report as my guidebook I made notes and recordings on my travels around the country, and used them as the starting point for a set of pieces that try to capture the fading layers of history, in the areas where the stations had once stood making sure each track retains something of the real place within them. Back in my studio I reacted, improvised, and crafted musical responses to each station, trying to capture the ghosts and former lives of the stations and their imprint on the present.”

Gilroy Mere is Oliver Cherer who trading as Dollboy, Rhododendron, and Australian Testing Labs as well as his own name has meandered his way through the backwaters of left of centre English folk, ambient and electronic music, issuing numerous albums of original music to much critical acclaim via highly regarded boutique labels such as Static Caravan, Second Language, Deep Distance, Polytechnic Youth, and Awkward Formats.

09 Christs Hospital

Jason Sharp
"Gates of Heaven"

Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series
https://jasonsharp.bandcamp.com/track/gates-of-heaven
100% of revenue goes directly to the artist

With an experimental film by Guillaume Vallée
https://vimeo.com/466479638

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Corona Borealis Singles Series

Jason Sharp • "Gates Of Heaven"

BE GUIDED / GUIDE

Marina Abramović reflects on all the moments that made her the performance genius that she is today—in which the artist is, indeed, utterly present.

Design Matters From the Archive: Marina Abramović

Le Discograph est un rendez vous qui a lieu 4 fois dans l'année à La Passerelle, scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc avec pour chaque soirée une thématique.

Parfois omniprésente, toujours essentielle, la musique de films est un art délicat : elle se doit d’accompagner avec finesse et caractère les images à l’écran. Mais au-delà de son apport esthétique, c’est un langage à part entière, au fort pouvoir émotionnel sur le spectateur.

S’appuyant sur des morceaux spécialement composés pour des bandes originales de films, Julien Tiné nous propose une sélection de ses thèmes musicaux préférés. C'est pour la musique elle-même ou par amour des films - et bien souvent les deux ! - que les choix se sont faits. Des compositeurs tels qu'Ennio Morricone, Philippe Sarde ou Vladimir Cosma auraient pu valoir à eux seuls un mix, les B.O. de films de genre tels que les films d'horreur ou la blaxploitation également.

On peut se perdre assez vite dans cet univers alors… laissez-vous aller à cette B.O. imaginaire !

Playlist : 

01 - Philippe Sarde - Beau Père (Beau Père)
02 - Miles Davis - L'assasinat de Carala (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
03 - David Shire - Amy's Theme (The conversation)
04 - Ennio Morricone - Immoralita (L'immoralita)
05 - Bill Conti - Philadelphia Morning (Rocky)
06 - Vladimir Cosma - Etienne et Charlotte (Un éléphant ca trompe énormément)
07 - Sebastien - J'adore Godard
08 - Karl Heinz Schafer - Les Preuves (Les gants blancs du diable)
09 - Alain Goraguer - Le Bracelet (La Planète sauvage)
10 - Nico Fidenco - The meal is over (Black Emmanuelle)
11 - Vladimir Cosma - Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire 
12 - Ennio Morricone - Le Casse (Le Casse)
13 - Roland Vincent - LSD Partie (Delphine)
14 - Michel Magne - Thème de Fantomas (Fantomas)
15 - Mica Levi - Children (Jackie)
16 - John Williams - Jaws (Les dents de la mer)
17 - John Carpenter - He Came Home (Halloween)
18 - Popol Vuh - Der Marktplatz (Cobra Verde)
19 - Goblin - Profondo Rosso (Profondo Rosso)
20 - Riz Ortolani - Adulteress Punishment (Cannibal Holocaust)
21 - Serge Gainsbourg - Jane dans la nuit (Cannabis)
22 - Pierre Bachelet - O et Sir Stephen (Hisoire d'O)
23 - Air - Afternoon sister (Virgin Suicides)
24 - Emmanuelle Arzan - Laure
25 - Alain Goraguer - La comtesse se dévergonde (Erotica)
26 - Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (Superfly)
27 - Marvin Gaye - T stands for trouble (Trouble Man)
28 - Roy Ayers - Escape (Coffy)
29 - Piero Umiliani - Hard Times (Il Corpo)
30 - François de Roubaix - Xavier à la maison d'arrêt (La Scoumoune)
31 - Philippe Sarde - La lettre de Rosalie (César & Rosalie)
32 - Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Neil's farewell (Mysterious Skin)
33 - Gabriel Yared - C'est le vent Betty (37,2 le matin)
34 - Charlélie Couture - Corde raide acoustique (Tchao Pantin)
35 - Angelo Badalamenti - Love theme from Twin Peaks (Twin Peaks)
36 - Michael Andrews - The artifact & living (Donnie Darko)
37 - Clint Mansell - First Sleep (Solaris)
38 - Vincent Gallo - Her smell theme (The way it is)
39 - George Delerue - Thème de Camille (Le mépris)

xx

Discograph "Musique de films"

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