fave listenings of this month

gennaio 2022

in the picture Peter Michael Hamel

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2022)

Deadline: 19th January 2022

All submissions to Haiku 419:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/12/naviarhaiku419-this-feeling-of-loneliness/

To participate:
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku110)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz
Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.
Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
Naviar Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com
Subscribe/support the project: www.naviarrecords.com/support-us

haiku #419: this feeling of loneliness – / he plays with his building blocks / as the snow heaps up

am.1.010122

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/my-lost-city

About the city I loved. Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

My Lost City - Sample

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/snow-silence

My father's hometown is an area with a lot of snow, and I spent some time there in the winter when I was a child.
It was then that I first experienced the feeling of silence when it snowed.

That sense of silence as I walked through the falling snow may have been the catalyst for my current work in ambient music.

This music is dedicated to those snowy, beloved winter nights.

Snow / Silence - Sample

Murmet [part 1]

“Leaving together, Leaving apart” is one of 6 pieces I recorded using my 8th mosesa
In November 2018. I have since made several other models,, but recently rediscovered this album in my files.

It anticipates many things that I am doing currently, namely playing and responding to overtones and instrument body resonances. Tuning is by ear as well as all playing. I tuned the instrument to resonate with my wishes when playing.

The mosesa 8 is composed to 2 guitar strings, a cello bridge resting on a thin, patched and pressed wooden bowl. I used a DPA microphone, external guitar pedals and internal Logic Pro filters to create the sound that you hear.

The emotional background for these pieces, “Leaving together, Leaving apart” was the coming and goings between myself and one of my children of college age. I felt so much joy at being together, then sorrow with leaving.
The music is not illustrative, and I think focuses mostly on the joy of relating each moment with another.

Happy New Year and enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies
January 1, 2022

Listen to or purchase the album here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-together-leaving-apart-2

Leaving Together, Leaving Apart, 4, 11 - 17 - 18

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
419 week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/01/12/naviarhaiku419-this-feeling-of-loneliness/

2022-01-13

This Feeling Of Loneliness  (Naviarhaiku 419 )

A three year old lost in  play.

A three year old lost in their world of play.(NaviarHaiku419)

Previously unreleased music recorded circa 2006 in Paris, mixed and shared January 2022  for this haiku:

this feeling of loneliness –
he plays with his building blocks
as the snow heaps up

Performed by Daniel Diaz (electric nylon string bass, electric guitar soundscape, harmonica)
and Pajaro Canzani (acoustic steel string guitar)

Poem by Kubota Mantarō (1889 – 1963)
Photo by Landon Parenteau

@naviar-records

Snow and this feeling of loneliness (naviarhaiku419)

this feeling of loneliness –
he plays with his building blocks
as the snow heaps up

haiku by Kubota Mantaro https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2009/08/kubota-mantaro.html

picture by Brandi Redd https://unsplash.com/@brandi1

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

fellahin lesson

halF lonelinesS [naviarhaiku419]

This week's haiku, by Kubota Mantarō (1889-1963), inspired this improvisation (in G Mixolydian), played on Quantum VST synth.
Recorded in one take in Reaper. No added effects or editing.
Naviar haiku challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

Loneliness (naviarhaiku 419)

My music is freely improvised, usually on VST synthesizers, sometimes fretless bass, guitar, occasionally electric viola or cello, with a variety of effects pedals. Solo music is performed live and recorded as 'FlownBlue'.  I am also in four improvising duos: 'Windfall Light' (with Jim Tetlow), 'Abstract Blue' (with Kevin Buckland), 'Light Fragments' (with Steve Escott), and Szukanie (with Michał Wojciechowski). I'm a member of the Quadelectronic improv group based in Leicester, UK. Duo music is all on Bandcamp - links below.