Part of a soundtrack for Daniel Peñaranda-Restrepo's Weather of Thresholds
Le Fresnoy, 2021

Maquettes

"Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969)” by Souma Records is the first part of a selection of Greek and Turkish tsiftetéli – or çiftetelli – songs and instrumentals, some in Greek Rebetiko and Laikó style, others in the oriental folk tradition of Greece and Asia Minor led by Roma musicians.

For Greeks dancing tsiftetéli is a social thing, sometimes performed by couples. During the 60s and 70s in Greece and the US, live Laikó bands and oriental ensembles were often accompanied by a belly dancer, although this was not the case when the style first crept into the Greek repertoire when the repatriated musicians from Asia Minor expressed their pain and loss through this music. Mainly during the 60s the gloomy lyrics disappeared from the tsiftetéli and it morphed into a beguiling dance. Modern belly dancers hardly ever dance to tsiftetéli anymore but prefer instead the typical dance routines (raks sharqi) from the Middle East. The magic of tsiftetéli lies within its hypnotic grooves, intoxicating melodic scales and the extreme musicianship of the performers.
 
The term tsiftetéli derives from the turkish word çifte-telli, which means ‘double-stringed’ (diplóchordo in Greek) and refers to an authentic violin technique (cfr tracks 4,11,16 & 17) of running two strings through the same nut slot of the instrument creating tautophony (two strings playing at the same pitch) or tuning them an octave apart. This spaced-out effect generates a more oriental and sensual feel.

All tracks are recorded from Fred Kramer's (Souma Records, BE) collection of shellac and vinyl records he excavated over the last 10 years in Greece, Egypt and the US.

Tracklist in the comments below. 

Check out more from Souma Records here:: https://soumarecords.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://soundcloud.com/soumarecords

Son Sistem Tsiftetelli Vol.1 (1933-1969) - Fred Kramer (Souma Records) (RIAFC100)

Preview of Rumba Lactea from Lagoss' album Imaginary Island Music Vol.2, featuring Spencer Clark on solo synth.

More info go to www.discrepant.net

Música Imaginária de las islas Vol.2: Ascensión

Lagoss - Rumba Lactea feat. Spencer Clark (from Imaginary Island Music Vol.2, CREP97)

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-231/

FFFoxy Podcast #231

FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #19
A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.
www.florilegio.org
www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-19/

TRACKLIST:
Azu Tiwaline “Night in Palmtree” The Fifth Dream (IOT Records) 00:06-04:20
Popon “Casajizochan” Bubu (Heat Crimes) 04:01-07:36
Carmen Villain “Silueta” Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound) 07:12-12:26
Meara O’Reilly “II” Hockets for Two Voices (Cantaloupe Music) 11:56-13:39
Bryozone “Ghost Tribe” Eye Of Delirious (Muscut) 13:37-16:59
Ann Eysermans “For Trainspotters Only” For Trainspotters Only (Cortizona) 16:57-21:30
Youmna Saba “Al khayal” Wishah ِوشاح (Touch) 20:57-26:27
Lara Sarkissian “Eternal Repose” …it wasn’t really me (Knekelhuis) 26:19-30:03
Heather Stebbins “You are almost” At the end of the sky (Superpang) 29:55-34:43
Thea Soti “Hesitate to enjoy” ØVER+ (Planisphère) 34:40-42:38
Marja Ahti “Shrine (Aether)” Tender Membranes (Black Truffle) 42:32-54:11
Maria Komarova “While they gathered my ears grew” Synthetic Bird Music (Mappa) 53:39-58:35

FLORILEGIO MIXTAPE #19

Sequence of extracts played in rehearsal in preparation for our first live performance. 
This piece was built for @radioalhara
We decided to incorporate only samples from Palestinian artists, as well as voice inserts from journalists and/or victims. 
As a Muslim, Sara chose to include a Quranic verse "Israel" to pray for all the innocents. 
We deliberately observed a minute of silence after the prayer for reflection and, of course, to avoid blasphemy.

FREE PALESTINE

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"Land Day", a GUPW Poster, 1977 Issued by the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW) on Land Day in 1977, this poster shows a cubist painting by the Palestinian artist Mona al-Saudi.

𝐸𝓁 𝒜𝓈𝓌𝒶𝓉 𝐸𝓁 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓉𝒶 (12/12/2023) RADIO ALHARA - راديو الحارة

An improvised field recording set on aquatic life and death in the age of the Anthropocene. It combines underwater recordings of singing glaciers, pulsating aquatic plants and water insects with spatial resonances from hydropower dams and reservoirs.

Live on the river Bille, Floating Transmission, Hamburg 2023
Festival curated by Julia Nordholz
Photo by Antje Sauer

Troubled Waters (Field Recording Live Set @ Floating Transmissions 2023)

Influenced by her hometown Cairo’s underground scene, London-based writer and researcher Nihal selects contemporary left-field hip hop, drill, drum & bass and experimental sounds from the Middle East and North Africa capturing the organic crossovers traversing the region.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/nihal/episodes/nihal-21st-march-2024

Nile to Bank w/ otteswed  210324

Onotesla (Ono-Tesla tapes) is a Rīga based program that was originally started by Michael Holland and Paddy Shine in the Manchester studios but has since developed a nomadic exploratory based structure highlighting experimental rhythmic based music made mostly by outsiders. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/onotesla/episodes/onotesla-6th-april-2024

OnoTesla - Music and the Wende, Now 060424

B2 - Génération Strapontin

>>>for @elektroniki's Coral Bay show>>>

Tracklist:

Aleksandra Słyż - MG I
Graham Dunning - Arc Portal
SN(50) - a v3rs3
Susumu Yokota - The Dying Black Swan
Old Mikefield	- Hope
DeKalb Works - actors
enchanted lands - Faded Plant Life
yerofeyev - a tones
Justin - Ebenn2 
TIBSLC - car people
Sol Ring	- Father's Song
Feu St-Antoine - Non Grata
Dane Law - hornbeam trail
I T O E  - Soft Opposizione (Justin Remix)
No Vacancy - 1
Erorrist & Shams - Aslani
Helenah - Reminiscence


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Noods Radio | Coral Bay w/ Justin - January '21

☞ elaswatelsamita@proton.me
 الأصوات الصامت to pronounce Ɛℓ αѕωαт Ɛℓ ѕαмιтα - meaning 'the silent voices' in Arabic - is a formation comprised of @sara-lhd-554471127 and Laurie Droulin, aka @lugallanbada. 
It was born out of the urgency to counter European media censorship in the face of the genocidal massacre in Palestine.
Input surprise versus alarmist turntablism, blending excerpts of traditional and contemporary Palestinian music, abstract sounds, feedback, ghostly specters, and poetically-political presences committed to amplifying and transmitting multiple voices reduced to silence.

الأصوات الصامت à prononcer - Ɛℓ αѕωαт Ɛℓ ѕαмιтα - signifiant "les voix silencieuses" en arabe est un formation constituée de @sara-lhd-554471127 et Laurie Droulin aka @lugallanbada, née de l'urgence de vouloir contrer la censure médiatique européenne face au massacre génocidaire palestinien.
Live input surprise vs platinisme alarmiste mêlant extraits de musiques traditionnelles et contemporaines palestiniennes, sonorités abstraites, feedbacks, spectres fantomatiques et présences poético-politiques engagées dans l’amplification et la transmission de voix multiples réduites au silence.

𝐸𝓁 𝒜𝓈𝓌𝒶𝓉 𝐸𝓁 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓉𝒶 (12/12/2023) RADIO ALHARA - راديو الحارة

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