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The Goodlife Soundtrack

Old improvized track. b side to the single aiden.

Chaos on with the stream of Consciousness

Experiments with Foley recording, live performance vs pre-recorded sound, and non-human body horror. Graham Dunning used turntable, dubplates, broken cymbals.  Tom White used reel-to-reel tape, feedback. Both used leeks, rubber gloves, lasagne sheets, rice, beef tomatoes and human flesh.
From the album "You Are A New Creature" out now on cassette and download via Fractal Meat Cuts. 
https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-a-new-creature

Graham Dunning & Tom White - Battle Overall Perspective (edit)

Doily

MUXI er en serie musikkverksteder som foregår i Biermannsgården i Oslo. http://muxi.no Hvert verksted har litt forskjellig utvalg av interessante musikkinstrumenter og lydkilder og også forskjellige musikere som er med fra gang til gang, Her er noen lydopptak fra søndag 23. oktober der tilsammen 3 barn og 4 voksne var i aksjon. Vi konsentrerte oss om modul-instrumentetn "Modulrix". Takk til Michal (10) som også konstruerte et viktig bidrag til fellesinstrumentet "Modulrix".  Se mer på http://www.muxi.no/4.html
Takk for samarbeidet hilsen Ulrik og Jon Halvor fra Drivhuset http://drivhuset.org

Muxi#4_jam2

Awa Poulo "Djulau" from the album Poulo Warali, out now on Awesome Tapes From Africa (LP/CD/Digital). 
https://awapoulo.bandcamp.com/album/poulo-warali
Pre-order: http://amzn.to/2hhXxCn * http://apple.co/2hhVSfX * NL/BE http://bit.ly/2gdEynf * FR http://bit.ly/2h8IFpp * DE http://bit.ly/2gm2W9G 

Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. Largely pastoral and often nomadic, Peulh- (or Fula-)speaking peoples are found from Senegal to Ethiopia but predominate in the Sahel region of West Africa. Awesome Tapes From Africa is proud to release Poulo’s newest recording of highly virtuosic folk-pop, fresh from the studio, broadcasting her vision of Peulh music beyond the grazing grounds and central markets of her remote home region in southwestern Mali. 

It’s not very common to find a female singer performing publicly among the Peulh. But Poulo’s mother’s co-wife is Inna Baba Coulibaly, who is a celebrated singer most Malian music fans know. Coulibaly herself was brought into music by forces outside her control when a regional music contest required an entry from her village and she was chosen to be a singer. So, set in motion by a surprising series of events, young Poulo’s entree into the music world was auspicious as she gained popularity across the region. After several locally released tapes and CDs, this record is Poulo’s first internationally-distributed record.

On Poulo Warali, she and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant calabash gourd hand percussion—with broader Malian sounds like lightly-distorted guitar and a heavier, rollicking inertia. Shape-shifting layers of rhythm and woody overtones match Poulo’s commanding voice in a jocular yet deliberate dance.  

This is a relatively rare example of Malian Peulh music played in a modern, cosmopolitan context, reflecting the mixed society of Dilly, where Bambara, Soninke and Peulh-speaking people live among each other. 

Poulo’s conscious lyrics about community concerns speak to the distinctive identity of her broadly-flung people. While Peulh represents less than 10% of Mali’s melting pot of languages, the dynamic music here powerfully resonates well beyond the linguistic borders.

Poulo Warali

Awa Poulo — Djulau

Failure Dub

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way
2/24/17(LP / Digital)

Nico Niquo returns to Orange Milk with the synthetic ambient masterpiece In A Silent Way. The work contains slowly evolving compositions and sound meditations based around the palette of modern grime music minus the percussion. In the songs “Arbo Arco” and “He Loved Him Madly” the grime theme is most present, with droplets of synth and bass rising and melting to suggest invisible kick drums underneath. “Rendered” and “In A Silent Way” begin with simple arpeggios that build to intense climaxes, while closing track “Aa-m” is an almost ASMR-inducing meditation.

Music by Nico Callaghan. Tenor Saxophone by Joseph Buchan. Mastered by Simon Lam. Visual art by Keith Rankin.

In A Silent Way

Nico Niquo - Rendered

summer 2011 Michael & Marshall - sorry for the pretentious minute of silence at the end. what were we thinking..

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