Norihito Suda
Grass flowers
https://norihitosuda.bandcamp.com/album/grass-flowers

Grass flowers

the fossils of intention

Recorded at home.
Mixed and Mastered by Andre Veloso.

Chelsea Hotel No2 | a Leonard Cohen song

IIKKI 003 : Lowlands. 
upcoming new album by Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer, which will go with the Ester Vonplon's fine art book photos, who traveled to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean in summer 2016. 
the book and the vinyl will be released this summer,  each limited to 500 copies, between end of June / beginning of July 2017.

Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Migrations (Lowlands)

Tape loops flowing through Roland Spaece Echo RE-201 + Small modular synth + pedals + Four Track Fostex X-18.

Romero

C60

Well, this is an exceptional release. 

If the more recent swing of the label back towards bands - a format that some were predicting the death of amidst the glut of bedroom solo projects - is reflective of anything it’s that the format is still locating new sounds and feelings in 2017. Bands like Trupa Trupa, Quasiviri and Constantina are proof that messy human heads and their fallible hands can still conjure structures that dazzle, intimidate, mesmerise and alleviate. 

The gentle, warm, instinctive flow of Constantina’s instrumental rock makes me wonder if Godspeed had grown up in Brazil - like Constantina did - and not the broken, frozen Quebec they eulogise, whether their apocalyptic sound would have thawed into rhythms as restorative and humanistic as this. 

This is rock played with a feeling that almost resembles jazz and which lights up synapses in my brain that haven't been tickled since hearing great, lost bands of the early 00s like Oslo’s post-krautrock heroes Salvatore. 

Blue twenty-six has been conceived as a testament to the quail (Codorno) and completes a trilogy of mostly-improvised avian-themed albums from the band that include 2014’s Pelicano and 2006’s Jaburu. 

Praise for Constantina:

“Constantina conceived of their wonderful Pelicano album – recorded in 2007, but released in 2014 – as a tribute to the pelican. The music is gentle, persuasive and determined. Those long lovely guitar narratives translate as an elegy for the pelicans, albatrosses and other non-human species who now resemble sigils of bones and plastic, and who will eventually be just plastic. Maybe that’s a grim juxtaposition for music so warm and otherwise comforting! We’re sorry. It’s a reminder for ourselves, as much as anyone.” - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Codorna

blue twenty-six

blue twenty-six: Constantina - Baleia

A musical piece made with music boxes, tape loops and a small modular sampler. It will be released during November 2018 on vinyl LP by wonderful IIKKI label (France) along with a photo book by Spanish duo Albarrán Cabrera. Mastered by Taylor Deupree.

More information here: https://www.iikki-books.com/iikki-002-alveare

Las estrellas giran en el pinar

~ IIKKI 007 ~

music : Federico Durand
photography : Albarrán Cabrera (Angel Albarrán & Anna Cabrera)
album/book : Pequeñas Melodías
duration : 38.24 mn
date : November 2018

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies, DDM Cut, 180 gm, hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : October 11th, 2018 / official release : November 08th, 2018

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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Recorded in La Cumbre, Argentina, on tape loops and cassettes with a Sony TCM200-DV, Fostex X-18 & Macbook, using acoustic guitar, music boxes, synthesizer, electric piano, Rhodes piano sampling, Roland Space Echo RE-201, CT5, EHX 2880 and a small modular sampler (Morphagene, Clouds, 2hp LFO, 2hp RND, Bastl Ciao).

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Links :
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/
http://albarrancabrera.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 1 8 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 0 7

Federico Durand – Pequeñas Melodías (album preview)

Soundcloud

Living air

"Rionnach Maoim" - shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day (Gaelic)

Music by Benoit Pioulard
Artwork by Gregory Euclide 

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Benoit Pioulard - Rionnach Maoim

"Toska" is the single from Amparo's upcoming ep, Dark Sky City. This five track ep was heavily influenced from past memories, adventures and all the people who left an impression on Amparo during her years in Arizona.

Produced: Amparo
Mixed: Amparo & Richard Alfaro
Masted: Richard Alfaro

Dark Sky City

Toska

Oh, sweetheart, I do belong here where the repetition is beautiful.

Chelsea Hotel No2 | a Leonard Cohen song

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