Name: Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة by Free City Radio
Duration: 1 h

Stream & pre-order the album: https://idol.lnk.to/aura

Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit announces her much anticipated Erased Tapes debut album Aura, out June 24, by sharing its wordless yet universally speaking title track as premiered by Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music. Astonishingly all songs on the record were created using her voice only.

The album title Aura was inspired by the German philosopher Walter Benjamin who used this term to describe the fundamental essence of art, which he believed is strongest in its original form, only happening once. Hatis agrees with this particular aspect as she realised, “during the pandemic, I really struggled. As a singer, I’m not very good at working on the computer. I much prefer doing live performances in physical spaces. Being with people, sharing the same space with them and feeling the atmosphere and energy of that moment, inspires me every time. To me, art is that — that shared moment.”

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root represents the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. Through this first offering, Hatis Noit revokes a haunting memory of getting lost in a forest in her birthplace Shiretoko, Hokkaido.

“One to watch: Hatis Noit — with her ethereal crossover of mystical and modern, this Japanese artist has been moving audiences to tears” — The Guardian

Aura

Hatis Noit - Aura

from 'Thawlines' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den372
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/johnlemke

Unfamiliar landscapes, dampened by snow and fog, frozen waterways, ghostly forests: in equal parts unsettling and rich with possibility - such is the world of ‘Thawlines’, the third solo album by John Lemke. Carved out at a glacial pace over six years, it distills the memories of a deeply impactful journey to Finland in 2011 into John’s most personal album to date.

During a time of inner turmoil, John’s first encounter with the harsh Finnish winter while visiting an old friend in Helsinki, served as the backdrop and catalyst for pivotal change. Inspired to write an album based on the experience some years later, a second trip with a residency near the Arctic Circle followed. Gathering field recordings and reflecting the original voyage, John experimented with first sketches in the solitude of the icy woodlands, before beginning to flesh out tracks in his Glasgow studio.

The practice of turning memories of places, situations and atmospheres into music, slowly evolved into a complex mosaic of textures and tones, sparking near endless permutations of each piece. About the process John says, ‘I always liked the idea of time as my main collaborator. Or put differently, collaborating with slightly different versions of myself over time. Most of the pieces on ‘Thawlines’ were crafted over a number of years, with long gaps in between recording, letting the ideas ferment somewhat in the meantime, or at least my notion of where they could go. The process let me look at each track from a multitude of angles and come at it with contrasting frames of mind, before understanding what the pieces truly needed to be. It was just a very natural way to work and let ideas grow. In many ways the album turned out as a celebration of the art of getting lost.’

The increasingly slow progression, partly due to John’s many soundtrack commitments, meant that more and more current experiences started seeping into the work as well. As John explains, ‘A lot of life has been digested in this record. From losses of loved ones to becoming a parent and everything in between.’ From a production point of view, John kept feeling drawn to sounds that evoked a certain childhood nostalgia in him such as the mellotron, unruly synths, reverb drenched vocals and era specific recordings of cello, drums and guitars.

Abandoning the rather electronic feel of People Do (2013) and Nomad Frequencies (2015) for a more band oriented sound, John enlisted the help of some of his favourite musicians in the form of Pete Harvey (Modern Studies) on cello, Clive Deamer (Portishead, Radiohead, Robert Plant) on drums and harpist Urška Preis (rouge-ah) to realise his vision. As John says, ‘The music somehow needed to run through the hands of others, which gave a sense of catharsis after such a drawn out, solitary process. It was exactly what was needed to bring the journey full circle’.

As a long odyssey comes to its conclusion, the yield can finally begin a life of its own.

Thawlines

Apparition

John Lemke - Apparition

CD/DL: https://alderandashmusic.bandcamp.com/album/if-this-were-my-body

Adrian Copeland's 'If This Were My Body' is the eighth and final release in the Lost Tribe Sound album series, Salt and Gravity. The series includes albums from Arrowounds, ’t Geruis, mastroKristo, Adrian Copeland (aka Alder & Ash), Tony Dupé (aka Saddleback), Federico Mosconi, sanr, and Alapastel. To receive 'If This Were My Body' on CD or Digital at a discount, subscribe to the series here: https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/salt-and-gravity-series

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‘If This Were My Body’ (releasing on Lost Tribe Sound) is the first album from Canadian experimental cellist and composer Adrian Copeland under his given name. Some may be familiar with Copeland’s body of work as Alder & Ash. While the project has garnered attention from a wide range of musical communities ranging from metal to classical, the decision to release the new record apart from the works of his alias make sense. Though Copeland remains committed to the cello as the primary and only sound source, its an internal shift that has played the biggest part in shaping this album.

"If the music I wrote was my body, how would I use it to tell stories? Would I fight with others, would I hurt myself, would I yell or would I cry? On this album, I wanted to reclaim my body as an instrument of gentleness and love. Too often, the male body is objectified as a tool of violence and hate, and we don't often have the chance to learn what it means to love as men. My own relationship with my body is marked with bitterness, self hatred, and shame. This album "If This Were My Body" is an unlearning of all the violence I've inflicted and all the violence that's been inflicted on me. It's a celebration of another way of being, one of vulnerability and tenderness.

There is a triumph here that doesn't exist on my previous albums. There are moments of sadness and intensity, but it's overwhelmingly an album about love, specifically self love. During this period I was undergoing a period of transformation and relearning my relationship to myself, my work, and most importantly, my body. I wanted to release this album under my own name, as it felt more vulnerable to do so. There is no artifice to hide my emotions”

- Words of Adrian Copeland

If This Were My Body

If This Were My Body (Album Preview)

Adrian Copeland (aka Alder & Ash) - If This Were My Body (Album Preview)

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix
For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
02. Fadi Tabbal - The New And Improved Guide To Birdwatching Vol. 2
03. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols)
04. Michael Pisaro - A mist is a collection of points Part I
05. ZA! - Sancha
06. Ramsey Lewis - Dear Prudence
07. Oddjob - Kali Ma
08. Urban Tribe - Transaction
09. Adrian Copeland - Sons of Our Fathers

Photo taken by Stefan on a trip to Oaxaca by bus.

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

Purchase album: https://thephonometrician.bandcamp.com/album/c-iste-bodhar

Death arrives in many forms, and it is often at the root of many mythologies and lore. The new album titled, ‘Cóiste Bodhar,’ from multi-instrumentalist The Phonometrician is a work inspired by two such narratives. This is the second full-length album from Mexico City based musician Carlos Morales under the alias.

The Phonometrician holds true to his core instrumentation throughout ‘Cóiste Bodhar,’ using an acoustic guitar, a Venezuelan cuatro, and synths to give the album a push towards the realm of dark folk. Returning are Morales’ signature low end stomps, which seem well-suited for the topic of death. These heavy marching rhythms share commonalities with those one might expect to hear from the martial industrial or ritual scene. Yet in combination with the cyclical guitar melodies, the dooming percussion never seems to weigh down the compositions. Also for the first time Morales invites a collaborator, with Adrian Copeland (aka Alder & Ash) delivering a scorching cello performance on the song "Death Rides a Horse: Part II.“

Cóiste Bodhar

Death Rides a Horse: Part I

The Phonometrician - Death Rides A Horse: Part I (from Cóiste Bodhar)

From the album "In-between Spaces" by Porya Hatami & Darren McClure.  To be released on txt recordings in October.  Pre-orders are available now.

http://www.txtrecordings.co.uk/
https://darrenmcclure.bandcamp.com/album/in-between-spaces

Meridian

www.lisa-morgenstern.com
remixed by Ben Lukas Boysen
mastered by Martyn Heyne
photo by Miguel Murrieta Vásquez

published for Crowdfunding on Startnext 2016
for the upcoming album 'Chameleon'

Levitation [Ben Lukas Boysen Remix]

From the album A Boat Upon Its Blood by Jason Sharp

Jason Sharp
A Boat Upon Its Blood
180gLP/CD/DL
CST119

cstrecords.com/cst119
jasonsharp.ca

A Boat Upon Its Blood

Jason Sharp • "A Boat Upon Its Blood (Pt 1)"

Available here:

https://www.fluidaudio.co.uk/product/the-seaman-and-the-tattered-sail-standing-on-the-precipice-of-tears

Taken from the upcoming album 'Standing On The Precipice Of Tears'...

Tattersall played Guitar, piano, dusted loops, analogue loops, digital loops, drum machine, analogue synth, synth bass, field recordings, abstractions, fragment constructions and reconstructions, abstractions of Seaman (etc.), analogue spatial recordings, artificial wind, crackles (record surface noise), tape noise.
 
Seaman was working primarily with Ableton Live and contributed vocal, Piano, time abstractions, violin and viola samples, trumpet samples, clarinet samples, drum machine abstractions, drum machine constructions (samples), digital distortions, bit reductions, synth abstractions, abstractions of Tattersall (etc.), digital loops, radical pitch shifts, noise enhancements, historical samples, crackles – record surface noise (from Tattersall), artificial crackles.
 
Solo Viola – Emmanuel Witzthum
Solo Violin – Wei Ping Lin (on Uncovered CDs)
Additional Voice - Emmanuel Wizthum
Trumpet (sample recordings) – Robert Ellis-Geiger
Vocal recorded in The Emergence Lab by Seaman using a Roland Edirol R-09HR Ver.3.0

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Standing On The Precipice Of Tears

The Seaman And The Tattered Sail - Standing On The Precipice Of Tears

@Vargkvint Contemplative Classical Guest Mix:

This playlist features songs that inspire me in my music and that I’ve in many cases have had the pleasure to enjoy live. I think all of them has a roughness and honesty about them, that’s really suitable to the weather and mindset of Stockholm right now, where winter is long gone but spring never seems to arrive.  I see this mix as a journey that starts in a dreamlike state with the nostalgically haunting ”Come wander with me”, that then moves through delicate piano songs, some melancholic acoustic guitar pieces and evolving into more electronic soundscapes. The mix also features a premiere of Aisling Brouwer’s rework of Jakob Lindagen’s ”In the Machinery”. 
I’m imagining this mix working wonderfully while sitting in a remote cabin in the woods listening to this as the night slowly falls. 

Vargkvint is the musical project of Swedish multi-artist Sofia Nystrand. Her first full-length album ”Hav” is scheduled for release on April 5th through Piano And Coffee Records. She has on several occasions toured internationally, and will perform at Q3Ambientfest in Potsdam, Germany on April 14th. 

You can purchase Vargkvint new album 'Hav' via Piano and Coffee Records here: https://pianoandcoffeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hav

00.00 - 02.53 - Jeff Alexander, Bonnie Beecher - Come Wander With Me
02.53 - 03.19 - Tim Linghaus - Looking For Dad In Radio Noice (Reprise, Pt. III)
03.19 - 06.12 - Muriël Bostdorp - Waltz For Sky
06.12 - 10.12 - Erik Enocksson - The Joy Of D.H Lawrence
10.12 - 16.28 - Vargkvint - Drivved
16.28 - 22.16 - Garreth Broke - Coping Mechanism
22.16 - 25.05 - Sergio Díaz De Rojas - The Day I Lost Her (CEEYS Rework)
25.05 - 29.47 - Tired Tape Machine - Sisyphus
29.47 -34.01 -  Lucy Claire & Marie Schreer - Voices Of The Sea
34.01 - 38.03 - Klangriket - Björk (Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint Rework)
38.03 - 43.35 - Kinbrae - The River Awakens
43.35 - 49.11 - Jakob Lindhagen - In The Machinery (Aisling Brouwer Rework)
49.11 - 54.00 - Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnels

Contemplative Classical Mix

Vargkvint - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

In mythology, fiction and fantasy, sea creatures have always been associated with an emotional realm too deep to convey in a real world. An emotional depth musicians, artists, aim to convey through their work, in creating their own versions of the worlds they live in.

In their first collaboration, lifelong friends Michael Sarian and Olec Mün created MAKARA, channelling the legendary sea creature from Hindu mythology. Whether a dragon, a crocodile, or a gigantic fish, MAKARA is an ever-changing being, adjusting its form to fit its surroundings or necessities. Trumpet, flugelhorn and FXs from the Americas, copious synthesizers and mood-setting from the old continent, Michael Sarian and Olec Mün bridge the gap between Brooklyn and Barcelona with a 20 minute EP reminiscent of the depths of the ocean and its magical creatures - all while bound by a global pandemic, adapting to their current realities in the spirit of MAKARA.

Olec Mün and Michael Sarian - Ravda

Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts.

The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change. 

This Free City Radio page also features contemporary music mixes contributed to stations around the world. 

The 30 minute weekly Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff and airs weekly on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays.

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

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