Just had to point my finger in the air. What a track.

A job well done, finally people giving recognition to Ex-Yugoslavian music

Release Date: September 2, 2022

A suite of raga-inspired compositions and improvisations that grew from a fertile collaboration between Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett centered around a devotion to just intonation tuning, deep listening, and resonant spaces.

Michael Harrison is a composer and pianist who is a dedicated practitioner of just intonation and North Indian classical music. He was La Monte Young's protégé and piano tuner during The Well-Tuned Piano years and a disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, and has since developed his own customized tuning systems. Guided by conversations with Christina Vantzou, who provided structural frameworks for each piece and directed the sessions, the compositions drew from Harrison's daily raga practice, using its ancient forms as starting points from which the compositions could blossom and morph. A resonant backdrop of modular synthesizers played by John Also Bennett, who also contributed piano improvisations played on Harrison’s custom tuned Steinway concert grand, expanded the sessions into true collective praxis.

As noted by Parul Gupta, a conceptual artist based in New Delhi who contributed the stunning artwork for the album, “the songs feel like an extension of silence.” The notes from the piano emerge, resonate, and dissolve in measured and meditative sonic fields, allowing for a concentrated listening experience where every sound lives, breathes, and ultimately returns to silence. Contained within these aural ecologies are potentialities that emerge from a collective listening and improvising experience, and a resonant rebuttal of the standard equal tempered tuning system that has dominated Western music for centuries.

This release collects the verdant recordings from the trio’s 2019 Berlin sessions on two 45rpm records, accompanied by a risograph printed insert featuring track credits and Harrison’s handwritten tuning charts used on the album.

BUY VINYL HERE: www.seance-centre.com/shop/christina…n-also-bennett

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Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett  - Tilang (33SC)

Chris Menist, a.k.a Awkward Corners is an incredible musician and selector, specialising in corners of the globe where it’s hardest to find records. Alongside DJ Maft Sai, Chris hosted the ‘Paradise Bangkok’ nights in Thailand which soon developed into it’s own label, releasing hidden gems from across Asia and music from their own band ‘The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band’, who’s debut ‘21st Century Molam’ in 2014 was named Gilles Peterson’s Album of the Week on his BBC 6Music show. 

Since then, Chris has worked on his own project ‘Awkward Corners’ under which name he has had various releases and two beautifully deep full length LP’s, featuring the likes of Sarathy Korwar, Tamar Osborn (Collocutor) and Kitty Whitelaw. Somehow amongst all this, Chris has also managed to hold down a monthly show on NTS Radio ’Paradise Bangkok’, and also curate various compilations unearthing secret treasures from around the world, most notably ‘Sound of Siam’ 1 & 2 on Soundway Records, and the ‘Disco Dildar’ and ‘Thai? Dai!’ Compilations on Finders Keepers Records. 

Chris’ most recent venture is releasing the first compilation of the legendary Afghan Ghazal singer Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat a.k.a. Nashenas on Strut Records, dedicated to the memory of the late, great Mads Jensen who co-compiled the release. The compilation will be coming out this year on the 24th February. For this weeks mix, Chris has got his fingers dusty and dug deep into his Thai vinyl crates for a deep mix of South-East Asian sounds. No tracklist for this one I’m afraid!

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2022/02/macondo-mix-004-chris-menist/

Macondo Mix 004: Chris Menist

Our latest Macondo Mix comes from London's Joey Manzi, head honcho of the community, club night and radio show Elevation.

Broadcasting every month on Voices Radio with a main focus on UK based artists, Elevation 'celebrates all music with a soulful pulse'. There is no better way to demonstrate what that means than with this 63 minute offering, showcasing severely broken beats, heavily swung grooves and rhythms to stir your soul. This is one hour that will certainly raise your heart-rate (and your soulful pulse). You can find the full track-list at the link below.

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2022/09/macondo-mix-018-joey-manzi/

Macondo Mix 018: Joey Manzi

by @magicmuelli & @madlubi

This edition is dedicated to the island of Jamaica and the music played there from 1965 to 1975. When the island was hit by an enormous heat wave at the end of the 60s, legend has it that the fast ska beat developed into a more slow-going sound - rocksteady. What we all associate with the style reggae was to follow a little later. In this issue we play almost exclusively tunes from the defining sound systems and labels of this period - Prince Buster, Studio One / Coxsone & Treasure Isle.

First aired on Cashmere Radio on July 23, 2022
cashmereradio.com/shows/the-endless-tape-machine/

The Endless Tape Machine #4 - Jamaica

A mixtape with emphasis on rare soul from the 60s, 70s and 80s recorded from original vinyl. 


Leftovers - A soul mixtape by Leolyxxx

NEW: Identity - Demo - William B. Tanner

http://www.nts.live/shows/bell-towers/episodes/dance-music-show-20th-june-2017
POWDER - HEART
JAZXING - THE POSE
MODEL CITIZEN - MINORITY VIEWS
EIGHTH WONDER - I’M NOT SCARED 
STEVE DAVILL - SHAKE ME UP (INSTRUMENTAL)
INTERFRONT - BEATS
MIDNIGHT MAGIC - CALLING OUT (BELL TOWERS DUB) 
INTERFRONT - BEATS
VALÈNE - SAUVE-MOI 
? ? ? - ? ? ?
I FEEL LOVE (BELL TOWERS EDIT)
KOIZUMI KYOKO - STAND UP (JUNGLE) 
VENUS - EXPERILOVE 
HUGO GERANI - M-U-S-I-C

DANCE MUSIC SHOW 20/06/17

Ari Go for the 1st hour
Syd Wo for the 2nd

Bene D supervising the vibez 24/7 365

Benedek w/ Ari Goldman and Syd Woz on NTS - 17th August 2018

Afro Cosmic Club – Mixed by DJ Gioumanne

Beskrajne Dimenzije mix

Doug Shipton - Beskrajne Dimenzije Mixtape

Find out more about Serendipity Music Radio Show by Waxist at > www.lemellotron.com/serendipity-music-radio-show

Serendipity Music Radio Show #86

Behold Finders Keepers, a British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch	Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Doug Shipton - Beskrajne Dimenzije Mixtape

Finders Keepers Records

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