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". . . and on the way I dropped it."

train

thin air

personae in the head, dramatic, deep inside voice, visions and metaphysical enquiry, thematic scenarios and story in songs, pacey and rhythm rich explorations. Maiden performance in 1993
Finally completed with a mammoth recording session on the Poestlingberg, Austria in 1993, the master was almost lost in historic flooding at millenial turn in Southern Africa, only to be retrieved from beneath the mud and debris and finally rendered to post production by ecomusicfactory with reminder of the tribulations heard in some parts of the tape. You can't make this stuff up, and it was all worth it.

red stones

on the edge

lessons from pharaohs?

another room somewhere

before blue : of distant, mythical horizons, an 'o'riginal retrospective
noelle n numin with d.p.w.t. from the performance era : heroes - 2003/5

1. RTRF – Running to Running from : poetic-alembic  (04:50)
noelle n numin
music-Africa, 2003, guitars, digital takes, arrangement, production-EU, 2009 : numin
lyrics, melody-Africa, 2003, ad lyric 18/08/09, vox, mix consultant : noelle
beat master, production contributor : d.p.w.t.

I sniffed opportunity in the air that day.  After nightfall, suddenly, the three people around me found themselves walking miles along the beach in the light of a faint moon heading for the sandstone Promontories defying the relentless Indian Ocean carrying a little blue case of recording equipment with microphones and cables because ‘Moya’, had calmed.  This dramatic theatre of Nature was something I just had to have 'in the can'.  My little threesome huddled in a small, protected hollow atop the lofty Bluff.  Suffice to say that hanging from rocks with mic in hand near this unrelenting crash of Waves was not deemed crazy in order to wrap the take.
People familiar with this Eastern Cape stretch of the African Coastline will know it as ‘Three Sisters’.  In isiXhosa, ‘Moya’ = Wind

RTRF includes sounds out of the eco music factory library of LIVE nature takes :
Indian Ocean at night, Southern African Coastalline
Where The Mulísa Tribe grew into
Faír-Headed Afrícans

naw'O'emf

before blue

RTRF-Running to Running from [20200125]

Spanish Flu 2010 : latin-jazz (06:27)
numin music 12.12.09 - EU
vox : noelle;  produced-EU, 2009-10 : numin

a satirical, Acerbic Anthem Audio  
In 2010, comments upon composing this theatre-music piece :
" . . . taking seriously the level of people manipulation in the Theatre of Pandemia, 
the Anthem is a dance of sadness for those who succumb and, 
a dance of joy for those able to choose for themselves with discernment.
We heard it might come.  We saw it coming.  We couldn’t believe it was starting.
We watched it unfold, despite the many voices screaming “Scam!”.
The sense of foreboding that such a thing be done is not gone.  It is frightening.
That particular Play played its part to be followed by the next.
The tools at the disposal of these Playwrights are many, story over story over half truth 
over narrative by-product, over misdirection, over preliminary goal, over ultimate goal 
so
let us watch some more TV.
Or, . . . "

naw'O'emf

do you remember the taste of pineapple?

05 Spanish Flu 2010

before blue : of distant, mythical horizons, an 'o'riginal retrospective
noelle n numin with d.p.w.t. from the performance era : heroes - 2003/5

3. Log on the Frontier (LOTF (d.p.w.t. edit) [2Dec_o8]) : electronic (04:48)
noelle n numin with d.p.w.t.
a song by angela noelle, composition instrumentation by thomas numin -Africa, 2004 
numin : Tonmeister, guitars, digital takes, production-EU, 2008 
noelle : Creative Director, vox 
d.p.w.t. : Beat-Master, loops, midi arrangement, digital processing, mastering

includes
Fillet d’esCargot by The CláinWellian & The SoundSmith
How dare they call it ‘snail’?
It’s heavier on the scale.
It flies up high in a bird of steel 
or on the sea sets sail.
It’s slower, has leaves, leaves a paper trail,
it’s deaf - nit- ly  not!, snail-mail!

Where The Mulísa Tribe grew into
Faír-Headed Afrícans

naw'O'emf

prehear excerpts compilation

Log on the Frontier (d.p.w.t. edit)

before blue : of distant, mythical horizons, an 'o'riginal retrospective
noelle n numin with d.p.w.t. from the performance era : heroes - 2003/5

4. Green Hills Far Away : afro-ballad (04:50)
noelle n numin
music-Africa, 04/2004, guitars, digital takes, arrangement, production-EU, 2009 : numin
lyrics, melody-Africa, 04/2004, vox, mix & arrangement consultant  : noelle
beat master, production contributor : d.p.w.t.

I guess, if you've really been in Africa, as a part of the way She breathes, where there’s just Red Dust, or where there’re Trees, you can hear Her lilt nestling everywhere, you can feel Her wide space, big sky beating fearsome gentle.
Where The Mulísa Tribe grew into
Faír-Headed Afrícans

naw'O'emf

Green Hills Far Away [20200125]

before blue : of distant, mythical horizons, an 'o'riginal retrospective
noelle n numin with d.p.w.t. 
from the performance era : heroes - 2003/5

5. ditty : Celtic-jazz-dance (06:08)
soundsmith numin
music-Africa, 1999; guitars, digital takes, arrangement, production-EU, 2008-09 : numin
beat master : d.p.w.t.

this composition was around from the earliest time.  Under the big sky of Africa, the Celtic part of me reached for the Lute-ness of the archetypal Emerald Isles and, blow me down, but the piece took its while to be finished.  'ditty' embodies an uneasy alliance between a Trad lick and cool Groove, all riding atop an insistence to dance beat, perhaps referencing a commonality underlying the ages - Elizabethan to Punk!

naw'O'emf

Red Sky

ditty

do you remember the taste of pineapple?
from compilations : before blue, brown to green, over sea, zorn, sounds of the electronic . . .

dead Man’s blue : jazz-blues	(11:24)	
noelle n numin lyrics 15.04.09 music 25.03.07 - EU
vox : noelle, numin;  produced-EU, 2009-10 : numin

it's an "up yours" attitude to those who laugh at you and think you're crazy for speaking with music.  This opus came to me whilst wrestling with the conviction that one could actually die, because of what one does.  There is a deep pool I try not to visit that has books in it, entitled, 'death of a bass player'.  Thus . . .

naw'O'emf

02 dead Man's Blue

do you remember the taste of pineapple?
from compilations : before blue, brown to green, over sea, zorn, sounds of the electronic . . .

Kiss the Moon : jazz-ballad-waltz (03:25)	
noelle n numin lyrics mid 2007 music 28.01.07 - EU	 
vox : noelle;  produced-EU, 2007-10 : numin

something about this style just tells of elegantly sublime.  As each word is sung, I can taste the lips and I feel enveloped in the mood of the special experience of unbearable hope.  Having just arrived in the northern hemisphere, this composition came as a stark response: Oh the Yearn, to sit out, once more, under the big Night Sky of Africa.  Sensation recall . . .

naw'O'emf

03 Kiss the Moon

do you remember the taste of pineapple?
from compilations : before blue, brown to green, over sea, zorn, sounds of the electronic . . .

effects1 : rock-ballad (04:29)	
lyrics & music 19.07.09 - EU produced-EU, 2009-10 : numin ; 
vox : noelle n numin
  
in the early hours that morning I, who have never been stoned or, am always naturally ecstatic by my own poetic chemistry, was overcome by a saturating emotion that flowed through me, transforming a leaden unmoving into composing something like a bird soaring by the first rays of a rising sun.  Literally, at the sunrise in the vocals, I feel myself holding my breath in anticipation, every time I listen.

naw'O'emf

04 Effects 1

do you remember the taste of pineapple?
from compilations : before blue, brown to green, over sea, zorn, sounds of the electronic . . .

ZORN : Renaissance-SoundScape (05:19) 
numin :  music 04.02.10 produced-EU 2010; noelle : vox 
for Iceland 

a compulsion, perhaps from a deep feeling of empathy, having been cheated personally, to what happened in Iceland, when it happened, that the people got hit by Economic HitMen.  I know that there are not many folk there, on that island, so the voices reverberate through the ice, the glaciers, the volcanic rock.  ZORN is a kind of a gift to those Icelanders.

naw'O'emf

06 ZORN

do you remember the taste of pineapple?
from compilations : before blue, brown to green, over sea, zorn, sounds of the electronic . . .

Brandon’s Sea : celtic-jazz-waltz (03:56)	
numin music 12.01.07 - EU; produced-EU, 2007-10 : numin

this off : the ireland album. Of course!
looking out over the north Atlantic from Brandon’s Creek, at that point, the swell was calm and so Brandon’s adventures lured, as totally possible.  Yet this melody has a slight discord in it.  When he set out to cross that Ocean for America and, as he proceeded, Faith would have been Brandon’s most essential need.
 
naw'O'emf

07 Brandon's Sea

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