from forthcoming YONYE LP (2015) on Sun Ark Records.

PRE-ORDER YONYE HERE: http://www.dragcity.com/products/yonye

SK Kakraba Lobi is a Master Xylophonist from Ghana, the son of Master Xlophonist Kakraba Lobi. SK is a Master of the Gyil, which means that he is both an instrument maker and a virtuoso performer.  The Gyil is the Ghanaian Xylophone, and the primary instrument of the Lobi, Sisala, and Dagara people of Northern Ghana.  It is constructed of 14 wooden slats suspended over calabash gourds that have been fitted with resonators. 

SK GIVES LESSONS AND BUILDS INSTRUMENTS!  contact him: http://skakraba.tumblr.com/contact

"Pirifu" from YONYE (2015) by SK KAKRABA

Maude Hope (feat. Laetitia Sadier)

Flying to Frisco

Kema (aka Giulia Alessandroni) 
Alle Sorgenti Delle Civilta
19CACK (10"/MP3)

The first-ever dedicated album release by pioneering female Italian film music composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Giulia De Muittis (aka Mrs. Alessandro Alessandroni). Rare undercover pseudo-ethnological studio sessions made under her experimental alter ego Kema (The Pawnshop/Abnormal Sensations) combining the ethos of Can’s Ethnological Forgery Series (EFS) with the studio trickery of Delia Derbyshire and unshakable credentials as one of the founding figures of Giallo film music and Italian psych soundtracks.

Perhaps best known amongst fans of Italian production music and Giallo movie soundtracks as the wife of the legendary Alessandro Alessandroni, composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Giulia De Muittis was an equally formidable force who emerged from the formative years of the aforementioned anti-genres and rose to a monarchic status within the country’s vibrant, and seldom rivalled musical secret society. The cliché “behind every successful man, there is a strong woman” might not do Alessandro and Giulia’s long-running creative unison justice but one thing that rings true that in the shadows of Senor Alessandroni’s limelight (illuminated by his work with Ennio Morricone for the films of Sergio Leone and Dario Argento) remained a darker musical feminine force which in time has come to represent the duo’s finest and most sought after sonic artifacts. In a career that spanned four decades until her untimely death in 1984 Giulia’s collaborative work as a reliable creative all-rounder and pop polymath has stood the unshakable test of time like few other musicians resulting in projects like The Pawnshop, Femina Ridens, Revolver, Questo Sporco Mondo Meraviglioso, The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Tomb, Angoscia, Inchiesta Giudiziaria and Witchcraft ‘70 (Angeli bianchi Angeli neri) earning increasing “Most Wanted” status on the collectors’ market. It is of no coincidence that Giulia’s nom de plumes, Kema and De Muittis, have in recent, more educated years, become trusted seals of approval which connect top choice composers such as Raskovich (aka Sorgini), Stelvio Cipriani, Morricone, Braen (aka Alessandroni) Amedeo Tomassi, Piero Umiliani and Bruno Nicolai amongst select others. It is, however, De Muittis’ seldom heard self-initiated solo work for small independent Italian library music imprints that reveal a unique multi-instrumentalist female composer working at her most intimate and uncompromised best.

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Alle Sorgenti Delle Civilta

Soledad

Kema (aka Giulia Alessandroni) - Soledad

Quicksails - Mortal
to be released digitally on 12/9/16 and physically on LP on 1/13/17

for more info:
http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=2856

to purchase:
http://hausumountain.com/?page_id=2873

Mortal

Quicksails - Valley Voice

From "Music for Commercials", re-mastered vinyl re-issue out on Sept. 15
Pre-order : https://yasuakishimizu.bandcamp.com

Music For Commercials

Yasuaki Shimizu - "Tachikawa" (re-mastered)

Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN (1986)

let me dream

Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN (1986)

SETLIST:

[Wes Montgomery- "Days of Wine and Roses," Boss Guitar (1963) Riverside Records]

[Akiko Yano- "Prayer," Piano Nightly (1996) Nonesuch]

[Little Feat- "Dixie Chicken," Dixie Chicken (1973) Warner Bros. Records]

[Akiko Yano- "クマ," Japanese Girl (1976) Philips]

[Toridamari Tadao- "Kagoshima Hanya Bushi," A Collection Of Unique Musical Instruments (1991) King Records]

[Akiko Yano- "丘を越えて," Japanese Girl (1976) Philips]

[Akiko Yano- "春咲小紅 (Harusaki Kobani)," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Akiko Yano- "Rose Garden," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Akiko Yano- "ただいま (Tadaima)," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Akiko Yano- "Vet," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Akiko Yano- "いつか王子様が (Itsuka Ojisamaga)," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Akiko Yano- "Ashkenazy Who?," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

[Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau- "Tabhair Dom Do Lámh," Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2017) Nonesuch]

[Akiko Yano- "Highland," Akiko Yano (1990) Elektra Nonesuch]

[Yanokami- "終りの季節 (Owari no Kisetsu)," Yanokami (2007) Yamaha Music Communications]

[Yanokami- "終りの季節 (Owari no Kisetsu)," Yanokami (2007) Yamaha Music Communications]

[Yanokami- "Sayonara," Yanokami (2007) Yamaha Music Communications]

[Akiko Yano- "たいようのおなら (Taiyo No Onara)," Tadaima. (2018) Wewantsounds]

This interview was recorded November 9th, 2018 at the Japan Society in New York City.

Akiko Yano Interview (November 29th, 2018)

The title track off the debut Three Legged Race LP, due out late November 2012.

"Persuasive Barrier" by Three Legged Race

We are proud to announce a new FLAU artist, Patrick Ellis @patrick, an artist from New York who participated in Machinone's Tokyo Remixes. The first of his releases is a best hit collection from his several mixtapes. It's a collection of glowing, shivering fragments sampled from a variety of records and put together with an outstanding pop sensibility. A dreamy sampling collage that swallows and sublimates various elements of disco, folk, ambient, electro and hip-hop. 
The Selected Works 2010-2015 will be out on digital tomorrow via Bandcamp, soon on all digital platforms.
His first album 'Deserter' is due to be released later this year.

Selected Works 2010-2015

Patrick Ellis - You'll See Things

“Je Vois / Non-Dit” consists of live recordings from two different Montréal concerts in 2019, reflecting several years of non-linear work and serving as a testament to collaboration. The music combines Joni Void + N NAO performing “Je Vois” at the Mise En Abyme album launch at Casa del Popolo on October 5th 2019 and “La Plus Belle Chose + Non-Dit” performed at Église St-Édouard on June 16th 2019 during the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival (with special guest Eddie Wagner on flute).

Sonya Stefan’s visuals consist of rehearsal recordings shot at the microcinéma La Lumière Collective for our 2019 MUTEK multi-media performance. The video combines our respective visual techniques and practices, consisting mostly of a 16mm projector light shining through water, glass, and color gels that is captured and replayed on a video-line. This creates a literal 'mise-en-abyme' through feedback.


-- 
Our story begins in 2016, when I witnessed N NAO (Naomie de Lorimier) recite a poem through effect pedals during an erotica-themed art event at Montréal loft venue La Plante. Despite it technically not being a "musical" set, it resonated with me deeply on that level and got me instantly curious about her own music and performances. I would shortly discover these had the same lasting effect – whether the sets were solo, duo or with a band, in a church, a packed house show or a barely attended venue. Longing for that same mesmerizing experience, I began booking her regularly for my own events and suggesting her for friends’ lineups.

At the end of 2017, conceptualizing what would become Mise En Abyme, I figured it was the right time to muster the courage to ask Naomie if she would be interested in contributing a vocal-based piece for the album. We completed an extensive vocal recording session during my last night in an empty apartment, with a section that evolved into the collaborative track “Non-Dit” that appears on Mise En Abyme.
During an Everyday Ago event in September 2018, I ended up with an a cappella soundboard recording of Naomie's set from one of my Everyday Ago events – which I used as a starting point, cutting four distinct loops of her “Je Vois” lyrics and running them through a series of effects. The resulting 'micro-remix' would serve as the opening music for almost all my solo performances over the next two years. We came full circle during the two live performances featured in this single, when we had the chance to perform “Je Vois” and “Non-Dit” together.
In March 2020, we performed another collaborative set at Rocket Science Room at the final Everyday Ago show, only a week before lockdown was implemented. My only other performance since then was another collaborative show with N NAO at an outdoor event in September.

Throughout the summer of 2020 we held sessions at La Lumière and in my home studio that resulted in four albums’ worth of collaborative material, as well as the development of N NAO’s 12” La Plus Belle Chose. This 12” will be released on Everyday Ago. Our first duo album Nature Morte, inspired by the style and sound of “Non-Dit”, came out earlier this fall on the French label Laaps Records.

Flying to Frisco

just shay