Boson Spin / P a b l o - Aphica (arrhythmia mix)

moodswings

This is soundtrack from video.  Cover of Ray Bonneville song

Funny 'Bout Love

Verse 1
Through Christ Alone, having faith
We can face the impossible
Loss, broken hearts, made secure
He can make it possible
Tag
He Mediates, He intercedes, all He creates declare Majesty, His Majesty
He’s Holy, Go Boldly
Chorus
Into His throne of Grace
He searches hearts, He knows your ways,
Go Boldly before the King of Kings
Obtain the mercy, Proclaim His Grace
Verse 2
Death defeated, pardons granted
We’ve been given, the impossible
Repeat tag and chorus
Bridge
Praise the High Priest, for setting us free
To go boldly

Boldly

An ambient, shoegaze track with multi-layered synths and deep bassline. Short accompanying video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfmvlStDmMJ/

Quiet Us

Production Note
https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/etching.html

Etching

Pigments and Patterns - Quarantine 22

Unannounced Quarantine

.... based on my own vocal drone + crazy delay, real clarinette and wind controller strings - all played and programmend by me, just to mention ;-) Have fun with my "oriental" phantasies :-D .... photo: "Tassili du Hoggar, Guezzam, Algeria" by Azzedine Rouichi

psychedelic desert dream

Jump Lead

An extract from the live recording of the world premiere performance on 20/11/20 at hcmf// 2020 and BBC Radio 3's New Music Show.

Flute, Taylor MacLennan
Clarinet, Alex Roberts
Piano, Sarah Park
Violin, David Lopez
Viola, Oscar Holch
Cello, Deni Teo

Joanna Bailie: Dissolve [clip]

A recent astronomical event was, quite obviously, at the root of this odd musical piece. I accidentally came across a few posts on the social networks conveying a certain degree of confidence in this astrological occurrence, but I honestly couldn't afford to share their flaunted optimism. I couldn't recall any idyllic connection between Jupiter and Saturn, so I thought that a recording of an acapella singing performed by my wife about 10 years ago might have best fit my initial sonic atmosphere. It was an improvised sung rendition of an Arabic poem composed by Said Bin Ahmad al-Busaidi (d. 1803, feel free to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_bin_Ahmad for a short bio) that seems to have been used as lyrics by several modern Middle Eastern artists. I thought of it as a suitable fictional outlet for a broken hearted Saturn.
On the other hand, my everyday life subsequently offered me a chance to observe this "great" conjunction from a socio-political perspective in the country where I'm living in. I had the opportunity to take a field audio recording of a riot that took place not so far from my home in mid-January (feel free to check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dI90RFsEF4 for a short account of the current situation), and I thought that it would perfectly give expression both to the disappointment of local people against those who have been managing political power since the so-called Arab Spring in 2011 and to the sympathetic, balanced reaction shown by law enforcement and the government itself. In order to sound politically correct, I thought it was appropriate to give voice to the establishment as well, to "Jupiter" if you like, so I googled around and found an awesome video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJVq78A4Y0) starring the guy who's been behind the scenes of this brilliant democratic experience in Northern Africa during the last 10 years. I extrapolated a few audio samples from his declarations and used them in the first sequence of this piece.
I finally added a few instrumental and vocal parts, then I processed all of the audio recordings through a heavy, meticulous sound design work. Hope you'll appreciate the result.
EDIT: One year after its original release, I created a video for this track… You might like to check it out at https://youtu.be/0c9fyvCDqiU

Aroussia Riahi : vocals
Teth Sin : bağlama, bass guitar, samplers, background vocals, field recordings, sound design, vocal arrangement/mix

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

LYRICS (a partial rework of Said Bin Ahmad al-Busaidi's "Ya Man Hawah" ; sadly this text field doesn't seem to properly support RTL scripts, but I guess most of the listeners will only read the English translation I provided below):

JUPITER:

We try to avoid any sort of exclusion.
We opt for the dialogue... Consensus.
We faced many problems.
All our policies are based on the notion of consensus.
I don't deal with "if", I deal with reality.
We try to go to the consensus.
There isn't any paradox.
To avoid any sort of extremism, democracy is the solution.
We need international cooperation, regime cooperation, development, democracy, dialogue, consensus... Consensus.

SATURN:

يا من هواه
أعزه وأذلنـــي
كيف السبيل إلى وصالـــــك دلني
أنت الذي حلفتني
حلفتني وحلفت لي
وحلفت أنك لا تخون وخنتني
فلأدعين عليك في غسق الدجى
يـبـلـيـك ربي كـمــا أبلـيـتـنــي

Oh you who love
Oh you who passionately love
May you be cherished and may I be humbled
Show me how shall I ever find the way to get back to you
It was you who made me swear, and you swore to me
You swore you weren't going to betray me, but you cheated on me
So I'll pray against you in the dark of the night
May the Lord afflict you just like you afflicted me

The Great Conjunction

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