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'Moodymoonleaf' Mix

Artwork + Selections by @LowLeaf
for Tight Songs - hosted by Fresh Selects:
http://xray.fm/shows/fresh-selects

1. Low Leaf - "Serpent's Prayer" (unreleased)
2. Carlo Mombelli - "Joburg Downpipe Gutter Bows"
3. Dwight Trible - "Hyku For Peace / Come Ye"
4. Pasta Groove - "Run It Down"
5. Geoff Love & His Orchestra - "Three Days of the Condor"
6. Carlo Mombelli - "The Hurricane of Silence"
7. Guzheng - "Spring River Flower Moon Night"
8. Colleen - "A Swimming Pool Down the Railway Track"
9. Pharoah Sanders - "Astral Traveling"
10. Dorothy Ashby - "Wax and Wane"
11. Georgia Anne Muldrow as Jyoti - "The Language of the Flame"
12. Hiatus Kaiyote - "Rainbow Rhodes"
13. David Axelrod - "The Warning Talk (Part II)"
14. DelCosmo Quintet (Cat500 + Low Leaf) - "A Day Out of Time"
15. Low Leaf - "Tala at Twilight"
16. Cosmic Debris - unknown
17. Alice Coltrane - "The Sun"

Low Leaf - AKASHAALAY out now: http://freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/akashaalay

AKASHAALAY - out now

Tight Songs - Guest Selects Mix #2: Low Leaf

Wilmer

Rough Sketches’ is a continuous journey through a typical session between Warren Xclnce and Reiss G. The London based duo have been collaborating for the best part of two years progressing their sound design from hard hitting beat-work to down-tempo and experimental electronica. 

This project sees both their influences and styles amalgamated into a 25 min uninterrupted continuous–play session which began as a drafted beat tape but has since developed into something more unique featuring world recordings, local inspiration, vocal features and elaborate sound design. 

Reiss and Warren are currently undergoing a creative transition as a collaborative entity so expect a few projects in the near future as they develop their sound and both continue to work on their own respective solo projects. 


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Premiere: Warren Xclnce & Reiss G - Luck Over (Karma)

@marya-stark 
This collaboration was seeded on a lake shore at sunrise in the Sierra foothills. Upon hearing Marya's acoustic version of this Sarah McLachlan song, my heart, which I had closed in order to maintain after a devastating heartbreak, cracked open. And I immediately knew that I wanted to work with this music. 

Marya generously offered to record her acoustic version to provide it as the foundation and raw the material for this remix. And I allowed the intense emotion and feelings of loss to flow through me, and to guide this one into its current form.

Catharsis is such an incredibly beautiful, healing, and at times, elusive thing... capturing it in sound and connecting with others through offering it to the world is a large part of what keeps me going as an artist.

And truly loss can be a devastating and isolating experience... and though it is a bit of a paradox, what I've found is that through sharing honestly and authentically about such an experience, it creates a bridge and a pathway to connection to the hearts of others who have been through their own loss. And this can lead to a sense of deep connection and solidarity.

Maybe this is "healing..." and maybe it's just the heart expanding and creating new pathways for connection alongside the grief and loss.

“Don’t hide your hurt, beautiful soul. Grab a hold of it. Run it through the purifying flame of your heart and mold it into something beautiful. 

Allow the depths of your pain to expand the breadth of your compassion. Gather up your stumbling stones and build a bridge for someone else. 

Remember what it’s like to be lost in darkness so you can be someone else’s much needed light.” ~Cristen Rodgers~

Mastering: Audible Oddities
Image: Tiana Hunter

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Possession (Marya Stark Cover) [Ra So Remix]

🌑 ALBUM PRESENTATION — “The Land of Incense”
🔥 A cross‑continental ritual told in French, Vietnamese, and bass frequencies
🌍 A Journey That Became a Language

“The Land of Incense” isn’t just an album — it’s a threshold.
Mario doesn’t travel through Southeast Asia as a tourist; he moves like a sensor, absorbing layers of scent, neon, humidity, and memory.
This record is born where geography dissolves and becomes perception.

It’s an album that breathes like a DSLR camera at night —
grainy, intimate, close to the skin, capturing the world in fragments of light and shadow.
🎸 A Sonic Architecture Built on Minimalism

At the core of the album lies a musical philosophy inspired by that psychedelic Texas trio known for reinventing global minimalism —
not quoted, not imitated, but echoed.

The foundation is unmistakable:

    🎚️ Fretless saturated bass — serpentine, warm, hypnotic

    🎸 Minimal electric guitar — clean, liquid, shimmering

    🎧 Turntable textures — scratches like blades cutting through humid air

    🥁 Dusty drum machines — slow, ritualistic, breathing like a street at dawn

    🎼 Vietnamese instruments — đàn bầu, đàn tranh, bamboo percussion

Every sound is a doorway.
🇫🇷🇻🇳 Why French? Why Vietnamese?

Because this album isn’t about “world music.”
It’s about worlds layered on top of each other.
🇫🇷 French

The language of balconies, old radios, colonial ghosts, and neon rain.
It carries nostalgia, elegance, and a cinematic melancholy.
It represents the upper layer of the city — the rooftops, the reflections, the memories.
🇻🇳 Vietnamese

The language of markets, incense smoke, riverbanks, and motorbikes at midnight.
It vibrates like bamboo drums and street vendors calling through the heat.
It represents the ground layer — the earth, the sweat, the pulse.

Together, they form a dual‑layer narrative, like two friends walking the same night in two different tongues.
🛕 A Ritual in Motion

This album doesn’t sit still.
It walks.

It walks through:

    🏮 Narrow alleys glowing with red neon

    🛕 Old temples breathing incense

    🐦 Memories of Pompei and childhood birds

    🛵 Motorbikes slicing through humid air

    🎤 Street‑level rap whispered like a confession

    🪕 Banjo lines that feel like ancestral threads

    🔥 Mantras invented from pure instinct

It’s a diary, a rite, a night‑walk, a glitch in the matrix of the city.
⚡ The Heart of the Project

At its core lies a simple, luminous idea:

Life is a river, and we are feathers learning to follow its current.

The mantra — Mama baba, mama lehna, mamma nena —
is not tied to any culture, and precisely for that reason,
it resonates with all of them.

It’s a call to return, to wander, to rise, to breathe.
🌌 Conclusion

“The Land of Incense” is not an album you listen to.
It’s an album you enter.

A place where:

    languages become rivers

    bass becomes gravity

    neon becomes memory

    and every step becomes a sign

It proves that music can still be a location,
a ritual,
a map of the soul.


tio mio capo horn

Closer I get to you.mp3

Lyrics:

Impossible

Impossible
Impossible
Life is a trip I know
But nothing is impossible

I believe that
life Is a trip 
that we all have to ride
as long you don’t hide
everything
everything will be alright

But I can’t control myself
as long as I 
don’t stay true to myself
I would love to go wild on this is
trip
I wanna loose myself


mastered by Arcadehead

Khadija - Impossible prod. by Marian Tone

SOIA "Mood swings" (produced by mez&nadja dB) pic by Ina Aydogan

The A-side to the second single from LAPIS's debut album, 'Third Person You' – out now on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040-02 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

“Oh, you either wait or leave...
Sometimes you stay to please...”

Follow:
@lapisnoise
@freshselects

Third Person You

LAPIS "So"

NEW MUSIC NOW OUT. LOOOP WITH ME 🔂
https://spacemonkultra.bandcamp.com/track/loop

ATARI VISION QUEST!

Flute by Brielle
soundcloud.com/aprilfoolchild

Mixed & Mastered by AlecBe
soundcloud.com/alecbe

Art by Yehsiming Jue
www.yehsimingjue.com

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