Jo Johnson has been releasing music and organising events since the early 90s. She is a regular performer at Freerotation festival in the UK, and organises electronic music events with Bleep43 in London. Her debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been described as a modern classic.  Her latest solo release, The Wave Ahead, came out earlier this year on Brooklyn-based label, Mysteries of the Deep. Jo also collaborates with pianist and composer, Hilary Robinson, and they have a live album, Session One, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place).

“It's been a pleasure to spend time listening to someone else’s music rather than my own! I've been writing and playing out much more this year, which has been amazing, but it's not left as much time for listening, so it's been refreshing and inspiring to delve into some of the great music that's been coming out recently. I've created a Buy Music list – please support the artists and labels included by paying for their work, if you can, and helping them to keep making great music." - Jo

Tracklist:

Luke Sanger - Ghosts of the Uranium Forest (Frequency Domain, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Untitled (unreleased, 2023)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - King of Cats (Pomeranian Snout/TakuRoku, 2023/2020)
Bana Haffar -  Save This Manual For The Future (Touch, 2023)
Ryan J Raffa - All At Once (Group Tightener, 2023)
Cate Brooks – Tapeworks I (Café Kaput, 2023)
Imaginary Softwoods – Chalked Outlines Of A Polybius Square (Field Records, 2023)
D1G - Drawing 1 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Bea Brennan – Everlasting (Old Technology, 2022)
Simon McCorry – Full Circle (Polar Seas, 2021)
Florian Fricke – Spirit of Peace I-III (Celestial Harmonies, 1983)
KMRU – MR4 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Field Lines Cartographer – Sunrise Through Wires (Castles in Space, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Orbit (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)
Patricia Wolf – People Moving Freely (i u we records, 2021)

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Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/werkhouse-the-observatory-mix-jo-johnson

Also, Jo recently launched a Bandcamp subscription service. If you love her music as much as we do, please consider supporting her and subscribing. The first offerings to subscribers are two stunning improvisations recorded just recently.

Subscribe: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/subscribe

And catch Jo playing at IKLECTIK on 16th June, supporting Luigi Tozzi, Laura BCR, and Luke Carter.

IKLECTIK: https://iklectikartlab.com/luigi-tozzi-live-jo-johnson-live-laura-bcr-dj-luke-carter-dj/

The Observatory - Jo Johnson

Our second podcast of the year brings a special edition.   

Today we’re honouring the work of Chitra Records by publishing a podcast composed exclusively of their releases.   

Chitra is an American record label based in Oxford Mississippi and run by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf). Their sound focuses on "surreal music for deep listening". 

Dionis is a lovely and passionate person who works hard to put forward the sound of contemporary ambient music. We highly recommend you check out their work!   

Their otherworldly drones, soundscapes and deep listening practice, fit perfectly with our Reflexions aesthetics. 

Over the years we have released podcasts and music by artists from Chitra Records:  
- Dionisaf (REF 17 & Winter Nights VA),  
- Demetrio Cecchitelli (REF 18 & Chiaro Oscuro) 
- Sebby Kowal (REF 22 & Winter Nights VA)  

Here Dionisaf put together this special podcast for us to enjoy and we hope you’ll connect to it as much as we did.   

As usual, for best listening experience; make yourself comfy, close your eyes and let the music do the rest.


Tracklist: 

1. Henrik Meierkord - Quiescis (.cut Mare Tranquillitatis Remix) (Chitra Ambient Remixes)
2. KapTep - Collateral Benefit (Dionisaf Remix) (The Perfect Error) releases February 23
3. DRGBL5 & Okta - As a Moon Ice (The Wasteland)
4. NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] & Evgeniy Bolily - Täonashta (Divya Music)
5. Demetrio Cecchitelli - Trust Me (Deriva II) (Towards the Unknown)
6. Soloi Sounds - Warmth (Currents)
7. Pagination - A Psychology Game (Status)
8. Tsarewitch - Womb of Sattva (Psalmantra)
9. Toni Dimitrov - Toni Dimitrov - The Myth of the Machine (Tiny Drones for Lovers Edit) (The Myth of the Machine)
10. zYklen - 7.45 pm - Warp & Weft (Palace of Chords)
11. Kenji Katayose - Aika (Sonoris) 
12. Adrian Lane - Floating Paper Lantern (Water Wash Away the Waves)
13. Orchestra Eclettica Sincretista - La Musica è Sacra Part 5

For more music by Chitra Records: https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/

For more music by Initiate: https://initiaterecords.bandcamp.com/

Reflexions Podcast 36 - Chitra Records Special by Dionisaf

Mixed by AudioCompress
@soundcloud.com/plugandlay

Thanks to Plug & Lay Records & Tilos Radio

AudioCompress @ Plug & Lay Radio Show ● Tilos FM 90.3 (2024-02-10)

This week a great encounter thanks to TREVE network, we have the chance to have Sulk Rooms, pseudonym of Yorkshire based composer Thomas Ragsdale, the music of Sulk Rooms draws the link between euphoric electronica and smoke engulfed drones. 
Slow-morphing textures sequence and cascade, encapsulating intimate moments of colliding sound amongst fluttering arpeggios and transcending synth builds.

A predominant soundtrack artist included in many of Adam Curtis’ groundbreaking BBC documentaries as well as scoring BBC true crime series, Netflix features and Prada commercials, Sulk Rooms is part of Domino Publishing’s prestigious composer roster.

Atmospheric music for the head alongside the heart, Sulk Rooms' music captures spontaneous audio mirages and saturated imperfections within a crushing backdrop of low end and harmonic ferocity.
Electric soundscapes and rising techno map Sulk Rooms' universe where panoramic pulses fuel adrenaline charged synths to feelings of both wonder and unease.

“Sulk Rooms summons slow moving and portentous drones that feel both elemental and diffuse” - Wire Magazine
“Ephemeral, elusive and gloriously unsettling” - Electronic Sound Magazine

Follow him here:
Twitter / Instagram / YouTube - @sulkrooms
Bandcamp - thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com
Linktree - linktr.ee/sulkrooms

TREVE Series 84 - Sulk Rooms (Frosti)

CD/Digital: https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com/album/distant-vistas

“Distant vistas” aims to be a soundtrack to your daydreams. A companion for pleasant reveries calling you from near and far.

Releases March 22, 2024 

Written and produced by Derya Susman 

STC 045 
Slow Tone Collages 2024

Deli Kuvveti - Distant Vistas (Slow Tone Collages)

Tracklist

01. Rosales - Matter
02. Rime Trails - Far From the Sun Plateau
03.  David Cordero & Kenji Kihara - El Bosque de la Niebla
04.  Samuel Edmund - Sand
05.  Anthéne - Last In line
06. Benoît Pioulard - Stanza I-III - VIII
07.  Silent Vigils - Munhitsu
08. James Osland and Andrew Heath - The things you see
09.  Far away Nebraska - Uno sguardo all'orizzonte prima di tornare a casa

365. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01.  Glacis - I Watched The Sun Go Down
02.  Prism Capture - Your hair got waves
03.  Andrew Heath - Catching Clouds
04.  Simon McCorry & Wodwo - By Snail on its Slick of Light
05.  David Cordero - Wet Paper
06.  The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Space
07.  Federico Durand, Pablo Picco - Olas
08.  Dudal - Première Partie
09.  Daily Rituals -  I cant help but romanticize the briefness in which you existed in my life
10.  Danny Clay -  12.21.2022
11. Francisco Sonur - The house is noisy
12.  Adrian Lane - For That Brief Moment

366. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

“Soundscapes of Yoga” is a collection of no-mind-music, a companion on the journey towards pure presence. It is created from, by, during and for the path of unity. It is a service and gift towards seekers on the path to self-discovery, a reminder that we are never alone.

The soundscapes are made from Ishtadi’s collection of healing instruments and nature recordings, meant to echo - our nature within.

According to Guru Vashishta, teacher of Lord Rama, there are 7 states to Union:

Subheccha - Ultimate Desire शुभेच्छा
Vichara - Self Inquiry सुविचारणा
Tanumanasi - Mental Subtleness तनुमानसा
Sattvapatti - Pure Equanimity सत्वापत्ति
Asamsakti - Complete Detachment असंसक्ति
Pdartha Bhavani - Non Perception पदार्थभाविनी
Turiya - Final Liberation तुर्यगा

“Consciousness free from the limitations of the mind is known as the inner intelligence: it is the essential nature of no-mind. That is the reality, that is supreme consciousness, that is the state known as the supreme self, that is omniscience.”

Yog Vashishta V. 1:50

• • •

Since he was 14 Ishtadi embraced the yoga practice and later extensively travelled India, living with monks, nuns, siddhas, saddhus, yogis, musicians and a variety of therapists and healers. His mission is to transform these ancient experiences of knowledge into contemporary immersive culture.

Ishtadi interweaves sounds of nature to musical landscapes, combining field-recordings with electronic synthesis, organic rhythms and harmonies. Awakening the genetically imprinted being inside, inviting the body and mind to slow down, in order to dive deep - into the now.

Ishtadi is the founder of VibroAcoustics, Nature Tales, Ecstatic Dance Copenhagen, Nordic Ecstatic Dance Association, Cacao CPH and a variety of concert and party concepts.

In sanskrit, “Ishtadi” means purification of the senses - the prerequisite of being absorbed in presence.

“When the doors of perception are cleansed, thou shall see truth” - William Blake

• • •

Mastering by Molle Nifkin
Illustration by Jazno Francoeur
Graphic design by Markus Trige Frandsen

Ishtadi:
soundcloud.com/ishtadi
ishtadi.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/Ishtadi/
www.instagram.com/ishtadi/
open.spotify.com/artist/7taf9TmFjq6FbTKNUzAzO2?si=wH3aS8wPSAKd6MdbX3sN_A
www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFsQ9I12cwBU-6kMqmo9oQ

Nature Tales:
soundcloud.com/naturetales
www.instagram.com/naturetales.sound/
www.facebook.com/naturetalescommunity/

Ishtadi - Tanumanasi 01

Nearing zero, he 
Makes way for what wants most to 
Come through: invite in

::

Original music & haiku poetry by Bob Weathers

Invitation

this is a failed dynamic
ive let my emotions take control over reason and i cannot provide what you long for anymore
this is an ode to what i must conquer
my sincerest apologies
peace and love to all

indelibility and the forever forgotten

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXIX by LVT (@lolavutru)
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
1. Mist - Heaven Mist
2. Imaginary Softwoods - The Appendage Point
3. Holotropic - Backwash
4. Sangam & Kid Simpl - Basin Cradle
5. Chi - Soppin'
6. Imaginary Softwoods - Pale Halo Fountain
7. Carlos Niño & Iasos - Going Home
8. Slowdive - Miranda
9. Matthias Puech - Talausblick Vom Hohlichtpass
10. Mist - Dusk
11. L'estasi Dell'oro - Dialectics On Hold
12. Koolfang - Here Comes The Rain
13. Human Mesh Dance - In Pools
14. ASC - Pinural
15. Evigt Mörker - Erövring, Krona
16. Matthias Puech - Sculpté Au Fond de la Fontaine, Un Visage D'enfant
17. Scott Monteith - Ghazal 6
18. Donato Dozzy - K4
19. Imaginary Softwoods - Sapphire Point
20. Slowdive - Trellisaze
21. Matthias Puech - Tschäggättä
22. The Ambientist - 5
23. Seahawks & Laraaji - Space Bubbles

Mysteries of the Deep CXIX - LVT

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.

365. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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