one of the best scenes from one of the best films of all time. brilliant take!

For this album, photographs by Thomas Lutz illustrate a narrative that is recounted with my music. A person - let’s call them „She“ - who leaves her parent’s house to lead an independent life. But then for whatever circumstances, she faces the danger of homelessness.

„She’s Leaving“, the title track, is inspired by an experience at age 17, when I left my parent’s house and carried a box of my things on foot to my new home. On my 38th birthday - the day my grandmother died - I wrote this piano piece.

„Variation I“ features a modified piano with sound built in the granular synthesizer. In „Variation II“ and „III“ this process is continued with addition of instruments and spatial effects.

„Night Tube“ is both a further variation and a reminiscence of „Waking the Witch“ by Kate Bush. Taken from the second side of her „Hounds Of Love“ LP, the concept piece „The Ninth Wave“ tells the story of a girl floating alone on the sea in a life raft. Voices of her family in her fantasy awaken her again and again, saving her from falling asleep, freezing to death and drowning.
In „Night Tube“ I think of a homeless person who nods off in the London subway at night and is startled, again and again, by inner and outer voices. In the metaphorical sense, it’s also about being scared awake in one’s own circumstances. There are currently an estimated 59,000 homeless women in Germany.

„Without A Sound“ closes the album. With this remix of the piano piece „She’s Leaving“ I tried to capture some of the emptiness and quiet vastness of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s music („async“). The trumpet samples come from a nocturnal jam session in the recording studio of the Stuttgart Musikhochschule in which I was involved.

With the additional „Threads of Reflections“ remix*, Belial Pelegrim contributes a unique cinematic soundscape with a generous and gentle atmosphere.

Credits:
1-6  Written, played, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Marie Wilhelmine Anders
https://soundcloud.com/marie-w-anders
https://soundcloud.com/moment_musik
7 Written by Marie Wilhelmine Anders. Produced, mixed and mastered by Belial Pelegrim
https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim
Thanks to the colleagues from recording.de for their voices in „Night Tube“
Cover Pictures: Polaroids by Thomas Lutz
http://www.polanoid.net/people/profile?uid=74
Design by Clayton Jones
https://www.behance.net/claytonjones

Released December 31, 2021 by https://soundcloud.com/noisymeditation

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Annapolis Lighthouse, a homeless prevention support center https://annapolislighthouse.org

She's Leaving

Without A Sound (She's Leaving) (Belial Pelegrim 'Threads Of Reflection' Remix)

https://archive.org/details/IP-010
https://innerspaceprod.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/innerspaceprod

1:28 (Segue)

axis

These clips were taken from our "Three Guitars" improvisation recorded on the 24th of September 2021. The title comes from the fact that many of the sounds featured in the jam come from sounds kindly provided by two experimental guitarist/sound designers: Roland Reinke, aka @encym, and Turu Ibe, aka @drunkenforest, from Germany and Japan respectively. Si completed the trio of guitarists with some of his own heavily treated guitars! 

The full jam was aired in the second half of Sonic Soup For the Mind 4, aired on CampFR Radio on 22/10/21. 

Hear the full jam and show at: 

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/silo-portem-sonic-soup-for-the-mind-22nd-October-2021

Three Guitars Jam (Encym & Drunken Forest Collab)- 24/09/21 - Edited Highlights

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tape

found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/154961/

Equinozio d'Autunno

An uplifting house track innit. Short accompanying video: https://www.instagram.com/p/ClehW1yjIzI/

Music in your eyes

Music In Your Eyes

Rehearsal recorded in preparation for my gig at Cafe Oto, London, on 7 December. Swing by if you're in London: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/naviar-haiku-fest/

Or join the Bandcamp stream: naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/navia…om-cafe-oto

Zooming into some contemplative, expansive guitar explorations inspired by the following haiku:

from the mist
a boat for cutting reeds in the morning
has begun to emerge

In response to Naviar Haiku's 464th weekly assignment.

haiku by Mizuhara Shūōshi https://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/05/mizuhara-hana-no-ame.html

Mizuhara Shuoshi was a 20th century Japanese poet. Shuoshi rebelled against the principles of emotional detachment in haiku, which he thought limited his ability to emotionally express himself through poetry: he started a magazine called Staggerbush which focused on a more romantic, lyrical type of haiku.

mist/reeds/morning (naviarhaiku464)

“All tears within me now are dormant or dead. My veins are bursting with a thirst that cannot be ignored.”

A Virtual Memory is S. Taillifer

Accompanying album artwork:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/avirtualmemory/albums/72177720305730536

Music video for "Shadows on the Cave Wall [Natalie Nagpal Rmx]":

youtu.be/9ctl0cNymXw

All artwork and photography by S. Taillifer
All original source material used in collages for the accompanying album booklet (and some featured in the related “Shadows on the Cave Wall” music video) taken from the Smithsonian’s Open Access Archive which can be found here: si.edu/openaccess

Additional Personnel:
Mx.: lead vocals on track 04 / backing vocals on track 05 / additional drones on tracks 02 and 05 / flute on tracks 01 and 03.
Natalie Nagpal: remixing and additional instrumentation on track 03.
Monks and Nuns of the Drukpa Order: vocal source material on tracks 01, 02, 04, and 05.
Doudou N'Diaye Rose: additional rhythmic source material on tracks 01 and 05.
Rizman Putra: additional rhythmic source material on track 03.
Helena Senda: all animation and video editing on “Shadows on the Cave Wall [Natalie Nagpal Rmx]” music video.

All creations made in Audacity from 2020 to 2023. Except where noted, all compositions are comprised of manipulated field recordings.

Natalie Nagpal’s music:
@slipnat
instagram.com/__slipnat/

Helena Senda’s artwork:
instagram.com/senda_hell/

DOWNLOAD THIS RELEASE ON BANDCAMP:
https://avirtualmemory.bandcamp.com/album/item-10-the-necropolis-of-animals

Item 10: The Necropolis of Animals

Hyena-Swine

Piano Explorations [23]

The Caretaker

Garbled tapes, space echos, portastudios and Sanyo Voice Activated Recording system feedbacking through MS10 and KM-60. 

Main samples from my recording of Morten Michelsen at the Kværner Iron Foundry - https://soundcloud.com/locomofon/sets/crane-room-recordings

As flesh is harnessed onto tape (Take 3)

Henrik Meierkord is a musician who experiments with different genres. His main instrument is the cello, but he also plays other instruments. Through his ambient music he tries to let the listener find his/her own emotion and contemplate.
For Henrik Meierkord, music is therapy and balsam for the soul and he will keep making music in his unique way.

And please! Mail me at :
henkemeierkord@gmail.com
 Not via sc. 

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The Caretaker

Henrik Meierkord

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