Golden Apples of the Sun

Rainbow Sequence

TAIWANESE SURF, PSYCH, AND OTHER ODDITIES

Music selected as synaesthetic response to this image & concept of ‘Midsummer Mourama’ - project by cellacollective

Very grateful to be part of beautiful project building these pontoons. Designed by cellacollective for wakinglife.pt

In Celtic Portuguese folklore, the ‘Enchanted Moura’ are described as magical genies who guard watery thresholds and awaken from their slumber in midsummer to guide humans through moments of transition. Physically, this transition might involve passing through a doorway, window or natural edge (the boundary between earth and water). Spiritually, this transition might be from the unconscious to the conscious state, or from the familiar to the unknown.

Ice Exposure w/ Luis Martin Gonzalez

@sarjsarjsarj plays ambient pop dreamscapes, emotive jazzy wanderings and sentimental vocal explorations for us.

migas live recordings

Sarj at migas 18.01.25

El Taalab

New vinyl LP from prolific musician, composer and artist, Manja Ristić. To be released in June 2025 on Rekem records - more details forthcoming.

Wounded Sky

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

From the album "69" Released by Growing Bin Records, 2016. 
Melbourne launch this Sunday at the Fairfield Amphitheatre
https://web.facebook.com/events/131749897224821/

Buy the DIGI here: https://wilsontanner.bandcamp.com/releases
And the LP here: http://www.growingbinrecords.com/growing-bin-releases/


Wilson Tanner - Long Water ('69', Growing Bin Records, 2016)

Release info:

Palto Flats & WRWTFWW Records are excited to announce the forthcoming highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient / minimal album "Through The Looking Glass", originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. 

The fully licensed reissue will be available in March as a single 33rpm LP and a limited 45rpm DLP, both cut directly from the original studio reels (AAA). 
It will be also availalble for the first time in CD format.

Midori will be touring Europe in April to support the album reissue, with plans for additional touring in other territories.

Dates:

4/4 Copenhagen DK Jazzhouse
http://www.jazzhouse.dk/jazzklub/midori-takada-jp

6/4 Glasgow UK Counterflows Festival
https://counterflows.com/midori-takada/

7/4 Amsterdam NL World Minimal Music Festival
https://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/5309/The_Master_Musicians_of_Jajouka_led_by_Bachir_Attar_Midori_Takada/World_Roots/

9/4 Gent BE Full Moon Healing Festival
http://www.vooruit.be

11/4 London UK Cafe Oto
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/midori-takada/

Bio:

Midori Takada is a composer, multi percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. She will tour Europe this spring.

Midori released two solo albums: "Through The Looking Glass" and "Tree Of Life," and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments.

She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduation from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad.

In the 1980s Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh.

In the past 20 years, Midori Takada spent more time in theaters than in concert halls – composing and performing for live music for theater. She has worked with Tadashi Suzuki and his Suzuki Company of Toga on their adaptations of "Electra" and "King Lear."

Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality.

Every live performance Midori Takada gives is unique and prepared especially for that occasion.

Through The Looking Glass

Own a copy

3 Midori Takada - Trompe - L'oeil (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

http://www.nts.live/shows/space-afrika/episodes/space-afrika-will-boyd-11th-march-2017

Tracklist: 

THE GHOSTWRITERS-REMOTE DREAMING
BOTANY-BIRTHJAYS
EVAN CAMINITI-NYC EGO
HIELE-ELEPHANT SEALS
LU KATAVIST-SLAFT INBURST
BVDUB-TRIED SO HARD
HYPE WILLIAMS-GUCCI STREAMS TMP
UNTITLED-UNTITLED
MONADH-CALANQUE
KAILIN-FRACTURE
RBCHMBRS-ESTRELLA
DEDEKIND CUT-$UCCESSOR 04
SSALVIA-SEX TAPE HISS
CARAVAN-ACACIA
8M² STEREO-AUTOEROTIK (RMX, MOVE D SINGLE EDIT)
CARAVAN-ENCHYLAENA (TRAIL MIX)
SERPENTWITHFEET-BLISTERS
ARAGON-HORIDULA
THE GHOSTWRITERS-ROCOCO RONDO
HIELE-APEX PERNOD
VLADISLAV DELAY-SANTA TERESA
MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO-SOUNDING LINES
UNTITLED-UNTITLED
WANDA GROUP-SLAB ABOUT BEING HELD CAPTIVE
SSALVIA-PROTECTION 4
SECOND WOMAN-EL
CALIBRE-GETTER GO
OVERLOOK-MOTIF
UNTITLED-UNTITLED
ROD MODELL-FORESTER PARK
OMINARA-THE SIEGE OF TROY
PEDER MANNERFELT-RULES, ROPES & STRINGS
ROBERT RENTAL-SACRED HEART

NTS Radio // Space Afrika W/ Will Boyd // 11th March 2017

Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond (10.12.2018 Red Light Radio)

DJ, selector, archivist, and curator specialized in older music from Iran and the wider region. Signature projects 'Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond' (2018-ongoing) and 'Sonic Imaginaries'. Weaving genres and geographies through musical dreaming, storytelling, and deep listening. Currently resident at Kiosk Radio, Brussels. 
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01.03.25 OT301, Palestine Fundraiser
15.03.25 Bar Bario, Amsterdam 9-11 pm
18.03.25 Garage Noord, 7-11 pm
05.04.25 Rewire Festival







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22.02.25 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
17.01.25 My Analog Journal x Worldwide FM
29.12.24 Mulatu Listening Bar, The Hague
21.12.24 Kauri, Geneva
20.12.24 Adaptor Records
20.12.24 Bongo Joe, Geneva
30.11.24 Sinematranstopia (HKW), Berlin
01.12.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
03.11.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
06.10.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
27.09.24 Rijksmuseum of Antiquities, Leiden
13.09.24 Skatecafe, Amsterdam
08.09.24 My Analog Journal (YouTube)
01.09.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
16.08.24 Lowlands Festival
04.08.24 Kiosk Radio
03.08.24 RAUM, Utrecht
07.07.24 Outsiders, Kiosk, Brussels
22.06.24 Framer Framed, Amsterdam
14.06.24 Stroom, The Hague
02.06.24 Outsiders, Kiosk, Brussels
25.05.24 Parotia at EKKO, Utrecht 
04.05.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
24.04,24 Monk, Amsterdam
07.04.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
03.03.24 Kiosk Radio, Sonic Imaginaries
27.02.24 Tah Dig, Noods Radio
17.02.2024 Kiosk Radio 1-2 pm
28.02.2024 Noods Radio
06.01.2024  Radio TNP
11.11.2023   Zaal 100, Amsterdam
15.09.2023  Grote Kerk, Breda
25.09.2023  Refuge Worldwide
07.10.2023 De School, Amsterdam 
19.08.2023  RAUM, Utrecht
30.07.2023 Kiosk Radio, Bruxelles 
22.07.2023 Murmur, Amsterdam 
20.07.2023 Garage Noord, Amsterdam 
20.07.2023 Recovery Channel, Echobox Radio 
15.07.2023  Radio TNP
01.07.2023 Kunstlerhof Frohnau, Berlin
20.05.2023 Stranded FM offline party
20.05.2023 Radio TNP
18.03.2023   Radio TNP
17.03.2023   Garage Noord, Amsterdam
08.03.2023 Melkweg, Amsterdam
21.12.2022 Garage Noord, Amsterdam
15.10.2022 Radio TNP, Amsterdam
06.10.2022 Garage Noord, Amsterdam
28.07.2022 Garage Noord, Amsterdam
12.05.2022 Support act Sevdaliza, De Melkweg, Amsterdam
30.09.2021 Future Intel, The Hague
17.06.2021 RRFM, Amsterdam
26.03.2021 Khonia.fm,  Tehran
19.03.2021 Khonia.fm, Tehran
03.01.2021 Mutant Radio, Tbilisi
02.12.2020 Operator Radio, Rotterdam
23.07.2020 Black Pride Fundraiser, Klauw Collective, Mono, Rotterdam
17.07.2020 Muziekgebouw aan het Ij, terrace
22.03.2020 De School, Amsterdam
15.02.2020  MATADERO, Madrid
03.02.2020 Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond, Red Light Radio 
20.12.2019 Pantropical at Worm, Rotterdam 
20.12.2019 Walter Books, Arnhem 
9.10.2019 ADE Soundlab, Compagnietheater, Amsterdam
04.10.2019 EKKO, Utrecht
02.10.2019 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture
21.09.2019 UNSEEN, Transformator Huis, Amsterdam, 8.30 pm - 10 pm
14.09.2019 STROOM, The Hague, a DJ-lecture performance during 'Uncertainty Seminars 04'
03.09.2019 Compagnietheater, Amsterdam
28.06. 2019 Perdu, Amsterdam
22.06.2019 Stranded FM, Utrecht
22.06.2019 BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
15.06.2019 Vrankrijk, Amsterdam
25.05.2019 MONO Rotterdam
18.05.2019 Listening session Red Light Radio Shop
11.05.2019 Subbacultcha Amsterdam (s105, De School)
29.04.2019 Red Light Radio
12.04.2019 Closing party conference 'Realities and Fantasies' School of Cultural Analysis
04.04.2019 Red Light Radio 
30.03.2019 Arab Film Festival afterparty w/ Pantropical @ Worm, Rotterdam
08.03.2019 MAMA Cash Feminist Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
 31.01.2019  Muziek Gebouw aan het Ij - De School (Amsterdam)
Support act of 'Jerusalem in My Heart'
31.01.2019 Red Light Radio: The Rest is Noise and Subbacultcha 
28.01.2019 Red Light Radio

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