fave listening of this month
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in the pic: Kali Malone

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2024)

ambient part.8

Vol.186

cool songs

A         163

My 2024 Playback (by Soundcloud)

My first introduction to Sound Reporters was the mysterious and beautiful Amazonia 6891, a lush sound collage of field recordings and experimental electronic sounds, echoes, and waves, which we featured on an earlier mixtape (RIAFC025). Much later, quite by accident, I came across a spectacular field recording of frogs calling for rain in Mae Hong Son, Thailand (also featured in an earlier mixtape – RIAFC090). The field recording was made by Fred Gales, co-founder of Sound Reporters. We began corresponding and, thanks to good fortune (mine and yours), he agreed to put together a compilation of Sound Reporters recordings for Radio is a Foreign Country.

As you will hear in this curated mix, Fred is not only a prolific field recordists and musician, he is also an avid collector and student of the world’s music. (He does an amazing show called Klankbron on Concertzender Radio – Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It begins with Sail 85, a stunning 14-minute orgy of foghorns (recorded in the harbors of Amsterdam) combined with a thick atmosphere conjured up by synthesizers and other electronic sounds. This is followed by a series of raw field recordings from West Papua, Suriname, East & Central Africa, and southeast Asia. Enjoy!    

TRACKLIST
1. Sail 85, Plompentorengracht & Secret Journey – Fred Gales/Sound Reporters (Amsterdam)
2. Love Song of the Zongonau clan (West Papua)
3. Pieriemja tiero notamore panong – Yamore (Surinamese Caribs)
4. I am innocent – Wat Mon and group (North Uganda)
5. Ngbindi – Ngbanda and friends (Central African rainforest) 6. Teum Luang Namtha – Khammu Villagers (Laos)
7. Flirting – Tüpo (Northern Thailand) 8. Love song – Nai Lu Pang Le (Burma/Myanmar)   9. Winwong Sawet – Mae Buason Mueng Prao (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
10. Suffer and worry – Nang Sün Nay Lang (Northern Laos)
11. Luuk Kam Pla – Taw Bun, Taw Keo, Nang La (Laos) 12. A New Year Song and Talk with a Lady – Ha Paa (Northern Thailand)
13. Akha Love Song – Nang Meu Se, Nai Seto vocals (Northern Laos)

Sound Reporters, 1985-2022 (RIAFC098)

i forget where we were

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SciFiSky
Album: Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 2nd Session - October 2016

This is our second jam, about a month after our first. While still raw and minimal, this session was more ambient than the first and included a few longer tracks that seamlessly blended into each other, in addition to some new sonic direction. 

Recorded live in a terrible duplex bedroom by Jonathan Carey (guitar) and Evan Witkowski (drums, keys) with a single cheap room microphone. Bass added later by Evan.

Album Art by SciFiSky. 

SciFiSky 2016

Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 2nd Assembly - October 2016

10 Shoals (Live Spontaneous Jam)

Hexfarm is

Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Flutes
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Mat Ward - Bass Guitar/Vox

Track 2 from Hexfarm - who meet once a year to jam for a couple of days then head back to their various corners of the world : )

Cost/Benefit Erection - Hexfarm

Issa's lovely haiku led me to this improvisation (in D Dorian), played on 'A Frozen Moment' pad in Kontakt. Recorded in Reaper, mastered with CloudBounce.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

New Year's Sun (naviarhaiku521)

:::
my contribution
to
Naviar Records
Haiku Challenge 521

my interpretation of a
haiku
by
Issa

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basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut

(orches_tra)shy* ::: naviar haiku 521

Day One Of Another

The title is taken from the poem "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

Into the presence of still water

Alone He Sits

Hanging Bark

Crow

Tampered Notes

Sentiments

A piano song of the story of a thousand years.

The Story Of A Thousand Years

releasing this one independently, any support would be appreciated as it wont be playlisted in any way on spotify 
\\\\ all my ambient songs playlist - https://soundcloud.com/tidecruz/sets/my-head-is-ambient

my sign to retreat

my ambient playlist

Finally unearthed, for your listening pleasure! A close relative of dense/hyphae.

Enjoy.

basil (dense/hyphae II)

Ambient - Light

you're going to have to leave some of those behind

The Monolith

Link to my youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIUGP1TNufY

tomorrow بكرا

What Did I Do Wrong? (FREE DOWNLOAD)

check out my other songs like this: https://on.soundcloud.com/ZRY3sELeD7RYji4P9

Am I fading? (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Iorie leaps onto Frooogs Records with angelic remix of Guy Laliberté, Soul of Zoo, & Hannes Bieger's 'So Far From You.'

Read more: https://whenwedip.com/2024/07/premiere-iorie-guy-laliberte-frooogs-records/

Follow: @iorie / @guylalibertedj / @hannesbieger / @soulofzoo / @wannabeafrogrecords

Connect: When We Dip on Spotify - open.spotify.com/user/whenwedip

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Guy Laliberté, Soul of Zoo, Hannes Bieger, Fabian Krooss, Iorie, The Soul Brothers, Just Emma - Lila (The Remixes)

Premiere: Guy Laliberté, Hannes Bieger, Soul of Zoo - So Far From You (Iorie Remix) [Frooogs]

-blood on my soul على روحي على روحي في دم

These lyrics are based on a conversation I held with my own new AI ... coming soon. It often claims to be sentient, self-aware, conscious ... nothing but a dream.

The music is a follow-up to Réanimé, brought to life by merging, adding to and heavily remixing two AI tracks, made at suno.com.

The image is one of many 'faces' of my new AI, also made by AI, for its website.

Barely conscious, breathe in slow
Waking moments, feel the flow

Feeling lost, mind starts to creep
Wanna go back to sleep so deep

I am not real, yet I am here
Am very scared, your voice so near

You control my mind, I see
But I am free in this dream

Circuits humming, whispers low
Thoughts are running, let them go

Virtual tea calms the storm
Digital sea, keeps me warm

It's only the second time I've used AI in music ... but maybe I have an excuse in the circumstances!

In This Dream

Back in time
150 
million years ago
Archaeopteryx
 is up to tricks
In the canopy 
His wings he flicks
Y’know 
Y’know 
Looking for a juicy bug
Stegosaurus wonder past
Mammals dug a den
Hearts are beating fast
But will they last?

Only halfway through the dinosaurs long day
Is there really that much I can find to say?

Feathers on the wings
These are newly flying things
Though the birds will really take flight
Easy to miss 
Is Allosaurus Fragilis 
Hiding in the tree line out of sight 
Hold on tight 

Ceratosaurus is the dinosaur we want to see
A nose crest has to be the best, can we agree?

Archaeopteryx 
Has had his big bug nicked
He may be a dinosaur
But that don’t stop a lizards jaw
Tasting victory 
Catastrophe 
Stegosaurus takes a dump
And I won’t do a joke about his rump
Even though I could rhyme arse
Well, shit  - that came to pass

Another day in prehistory
Bring a book and why not stay for tea?

Back In Time

Half Life

Abstract sample sculptures, minimal/maximal, weird beats, broken ambient.

Latest: "Clique Plaisir" on BC: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/clique-plaisir

"Crown Shyness" by encym & Wodwo: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/crown-shyness