Name: Vlad Pronin - W'd U Pls Giv Me Dat Maharastra Sound [Oldschool Classics Mix] [Part II] by garmonbozzzia
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Description: Including: Green Velvet, Laurent Garnier, 808 State, Dissidenten, Aphex Twin, Slacker, Trus'me, Phantasia, Earth Nation, Christopher Just, Luke Slater, Basic Channel, Robert Armani, Robert Hood, Wildchild, Double 99, Felix, Virgo, Age Of Love, Sven Vath, Atlantic Ocean,

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Heading back to my beloved Crete. Hence the theme. This time made a point to drive to Knossos. To see the remnants of hypothetic Daedalus labyrinth. Some historians think these were dancing grounds where the chosen Athenian youths - King Minos's sacrificial tributes for the Minotaur - were offered their final chance to shine through plastic arts. How morbid! A few scholars suggest that the labyrinth itself was built as a system of dancefloors. Supposedly implied by the outline of the palace's ruins. Proto-Ibiza? Bull dances and geranos (crane dance) would be the types performed.

In this double-decked issue I'm suggesting the imaginary repertoire of such recitals. Actual Greek/Cretan dance tunes (Kritikos, Hellispontos) as well as recreations based on surviving Ancient Greek musical notation (Atrium Musicae's transcription of Æschylus' Ajax) are included. Plus, detours into Mediterranean avant jazz (Sakis Papadimitriou); rebetika and Hellenic electronics (Lena Platonos, Dimitris Petsetakis & Vangelis Katsoulis). The rest is music inspired by the Greek mythology. Including Haruomi Hosono's drift on the Aegean Sea; Photek taming the Minotaur; The Black Dog's visions of Sparta; Neil Ardley jazzing Greek Variations and Donato Dozzy exiting the Acropolis. There's even Gail Laughton's harp fantasias conjuring Crete circa 1400 B.C. It will suffice for a 2hr-drive from Chania to Heraklion. 

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-into-the-labyrinth-sacrificial-dances-of-knossos

Hermetic Journals: Into The Labyrinth (Sacrificial Dances Of Knossos)(May-June 2023)

In the mood for dance music as of late. Goes well with the relentless heat, which is seemingly everywhere I go. So, here's something apropos - the Heatwave mix. I'll call it Radiation Ruling The Nation (the Mad Professor reference).So yes, I was a bit nostalgic for old-school beatmatching I guess, so it's a fully mixed thingy. Like in the olden days. As well as silly samples and homemade mashups. No other rules, but to keep it as unserious and silly as possible. The first part is in sexy Balearic booty-swaying tempo - works well with the rosé and bubbles, second is a bouncy house hour, so you'll need something stronger. Without further ado hereby I present the approximation of the tracklist cause the thing has many bits and pieces. More episodes at https://snowsovgethen.com/

Kerri Chandler "The Bar (Intro)"
Resonating Vogue Pads
Eurythmics "This City Never Sleeps"
Astralasia "Strange Celestial Dream"
Ingleton Falls "Mind Yer Head"
The Black Dog "Utopian Dream"
Mad Professor vs. Massive Attack "Protection" (Dub)
Yukihiro Fukutomi "Open Your Eyes"
Roxy Music "Avalon" (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Mix)
Reagenz "Ä"
Enigma "Principles Of Lust" (Everlasting Lust Mix)
Wally Badarou "Mambo"
"Sometimes My Arms Bend Back" (Laura Palmer edit)
Sinead O'Connor "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" (Night Until Morning Dub - Earthapella)
Cocteau Twins "Feet Like Fins" (Mark Clifford Mix)
Big Hard Excellent Fish "Imperfect List" (Weatherall Ambient 2)
Art Of Noise "Paranoimia"
Cabaret Voltaire "Yashar" (Loop)
Cabaret Voltaire "What Is Real (Virtual Reality Mix)
Ron Trent "Morning Factory" (12" edit)
Fingers Inc. "Never No More Lonely"
Mr. Fingers "Closer" (Deep Down Basement Mix)
Kerry Chandler "The Bar"
Grace Jones "Private Life" (Post Dub)
Radioslave "Ego Trippin'"
Anne Waldeman bits
Masters At Work + India "I Can't Get No Sleep" (Dreamin' Acapella)
Underground Resistance "Transition"
Chameleon Project "Feel" (Spooky mix Part 1)
The Martian "Sex In Zero Gravity"
Robert Hood "Minus"
Gus Gus "Anthem"
Ability II "Pressure Dub"
June "Lost Area" (Sprinkles' Lost Dancefloor Mix)
Jam & Spoon "Stella" (Barracuda Mix)
3MB feat. Magic Juan Atkins "Die Kosmischen Kuriere" (Moritz Von Oswald + Thomas Fehlmann Mix)

Hermetic Journals: Radiation Ruling The Nation (The Heatwave Edition)(July-August 2023)

This month attempting to "capture glamour without falling into it". This is my loving tribute to the great Canadian conceptual art pranksters General Idea. Recently I dreamt I was attending their Miss General Idea Pageant of 1971. As far as I know there are no full video renderings of the event apart from a few grainy clips and staged photographs. Neither there is footage of the one they planned for 1984 in the imaginary ziggurat-shaped Miss General Idea Pavilion. Basically, I'm trying to resound the event by grafting the music (narratively, if you will) onto General Idea's various TV cues, forgeries, and mystifications. Or "framing devices" in the trio's own wording. 

Includes sounds, words and music by:
General Idea, Terre Thaemlitz, William Basinski, Graham Lambkin, The Caretaker, Svitlana Nianio, Su Tissue, Kraftwerk, Hype Williams, Anne Waldman, Einsturzende Neubauten, Laurence Crane, John Celona, Tom Recchion, Brigitte Fontaine, Jacqueline Humbert, Ellen Zweig and others.

Full tracklist at: https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-the-miss-general-idea-pageant-a-surrogate-soundtrack

Hermetic Journals: The Miss General Idea Pageant (A Surrogate Soundtrack)

Feeling like 3 hours of American gamelan? I got you covered.

In the last few months, I had an immersion into the 'genre'. A story of how deeply personal obsession of Canadian composer Colin McPhee (and later his American counterpart Lou Harrison) resulted in the unlikely transplant of traditional Indonesian music culture into the ivied towers of American academia. A story somewhat related, but very different from musicological cliché about Exposition Universelle 1889, French musical impressionists and tiresome litanies about cultural colonialism.

While I was going through the written history, I also started to amass the recordings. In stark contrast to the abundance of bibliography - McPhee alone wrote three books - I was surprised to find that audio renderings are few and far between. Most of it out-of-print or released by tiny avant classical or uni-adjacent imprints. It took a while to source and process it. Most of what I encountered is gorgeous. Depressingly, obscure to anyone but people purposely researching the subject. Midway through this process I realized I should systematize the findings into a sort of digestible genre survey. I find it's a good way to remember things. And since not many people in their right mind would undertake similar deep-dive I decided to share it. The 'programme' is a lengthy one due to the nature of the material. So, I split it in 2 parts.

The timespan is from the 1930s (McPhee's brilliant proto-Reichian orchestral stylisation Tabuh-tabuhan) via postwar music by Harrison and minimalist gamelan by the 1970s downtown cohort (Barbara Benary, Philip Corner) + their West Coast counterparts (Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Lentz). With healthy dose of recent'ish pieces by Brian Baumbusch, Bill Alves and Michael Tenzer. I also included some sonorically sympathetic works by Partch and Cage which influenced all the above. There're also odder bits by Robert Turman, John L.Adams, Maggi Payne and R. Murray Schafer to keep things quirky. Now I don't know who would be interested in 3 hours of gamelan, but it's up there for the taking.

Full tracklist here:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-american-gamelan-part-i-ii

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part II

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part I

What would Medieval Solstice Discothèque sound like? Saltarello, estampie, pavane, galliards... A few motets, tientos, virelais, conductuses, canons? This one is holidays decoration aid, a mini-survey of early music substrata of Gerd Berg's gorgeous Reflexe Series and a celebration of Winter Solstice (hence the title). All for the price of one! Mind you, it's ninety minutes of Medieval, Renaissance and a pinch of Baroque musics. All of it pre-equal temperament, pre-standardized notation and pre-tonal music setup. There's no neat set of major/minor scales, standard chord progressions or artificial symmetry. Many of these tunes and compositions are in rather fanciful renditions. Most of it done in the second half of the twentieth century by musicians and researchers raised on hardcore musical modernism. No wonder many arcane techniques (hocket, canon, Ars Nova's isorhythms) were so thoroughly appropriated in post-WWII musical avantgarde.

Deciphering rhythmic notation with is fairly problematic for a large swathe of this repertoire. So don't think about these interpretations in terms of precision. One of the charms of early music is that each time one and the same composition is performed it will likely sound very different. But some early music ensembles managed to piece together their own recognizable style, despite foggy research and disparate sources. In this set we have Studio Der Frühen Music; The Hilliard Ensemble; Ricercare-Ensemble Für Alte Musik, Zürich; Jordi Savall and his Hespèrion XX; Das Linde Consort. Those were all brilliant and lucky enough to be active when the recording industry was awash with money and could throw big budgets at niche projects. Reflexe Series being one of the finest. These 1.5 hours is a quick parkours of my personal favourites, but there're many others. Perhaps for another time. I hope it could be the gateway for someone who only start their exploration or just a temporary festive companion. Happy start to the holidays run-up!
Tracklist here:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-reflexiones-solstitii-medieval-renaissance-baroque-early-music-solstice-special

Hermetic Journals: Reflexiones Solstitii

In the mists, on an overgrown path. Paraphrasing Leoš Janáček - the musical poet of Bohemia. I included one murky impressionistic fragment from his "V mlháh", but otherwise this Czech-centric issue is aimed at the country's late 20th century experimentalism. Roughly 1970-99. Basically, the last 20 years of weakening Soviet grip in liberalizing Czechoslovakia and subsequent decade of newly democratic Czech Republic post-Velvet Revolution. The story that's painfully familiar to me being a fellow Slav and looking (remotely) at similar events unfolding in tragic slow-motion in my native Ukraine.

But politics aside, this is about the music. I got interested in this repertoire about 10 years ago. Following a deep dive into the avant folk of Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi and then contemporary Finders Keepers' excavation of the '70s film scores by Luboš Fišer and Zdeněk Liška. Following the thread with Havlovi I then discovered guitarist Oldřich Janota. Who's a sort of binding agent of Prague's experimental circuit circa late 1980s and on. Including bands Jiná Rychlost Času and Richter Band, jazz vocalists Iva Bittová and Mirka Křivánková, experimental-leaning instrumentalists Jaroslav Kořán and Zdeněk Konopásek. And then there's jazz reedist Jiří Stivín who was another key facilitator. Navigating from prog to avant jazz and collaborating with Pierre Favre, John Surman and Barre Phillips among others. As well as producing aforementioned Křivánková and Hungarian folk siren Márta Sebestyén.

While the overall aesthetics are roughly in line with the trends of the era - including, but not limited to avant jazz, Medieval-tinged folk revivalism, free improv, minimalism, drone, neopsychedelia, ambient, even post-rock - all the above comes out sounding utterly unique. Familiar stylistic signatures rendered oddly out of focus. As if following surreal, dreamlike logic of Czech New Wave films or some haunted, woodsy fairytale. Echoing in the empty halls of Sleeping Beauty's kingdom where the awakening kiss never arrives. For those who are interested and perhaps willing to venture further the tracklist is here:
https://snowsovgethen.com

Hermetic Journals: In The Mists (On The Overgrown Paths Of Czech Musical Avantgarde 1970 - 1999)

Here's to celebrate incoming total solar eclipse. They say once in a lifetime experience. Although apparently there are obsessives who travel around the globe to capture the celestial veiling like those two surfers chasing their big wave in "The Endless Summer". Here in Montréal we are in the path of "totality". Meaning there's going to be the nocturnal effect, temperature drop and stellar corona. How amazing is that? I thought it's worth commemorating with some topical musical accompaniment. I'll call it "Songs To The Black Sun".

There's the contemplative part and the fun part. The former is the first half which I decided is for celestial bodies alignments. Cosmogonic experimentalism, solar-winded overtone singing, stormy pagan folk (on cello), lopsided minimalisms (pleasingly non-American), celestial gamelan and spacey ambiances. I think I describe it correctly.

The second half is post-alignment entertaintments. With refrescados of your choice. Crowdpleasers include pre-startdom My Bloody Valentine with fabulously entitled "Kiss The Eclipse"; etherealized goth theatrics by Dead Can Dance, Einsturzende Neubauten and Coil; endearingly silly early 90s bleep house and jazzy vapours by Mr. Robert Wyatt. All painstakingly topical. And to prove it I hereby attach the tracklist. If anyone feels like joining in the watching and listening party the link's in bio. Happy celestial viewings! Just don't forget to put on your ISO Certified Eclipse Glasses.

Tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-songs-to-the-black-sun-total-solar-eclipse-special

Hermetic Journals: Songs To The Black Sun (Total Solar Eclipse Special)

The third in the Holy TrinTity of issues focusing on Hellenic mythologies. Really can’t promise it won’t become Tetralogy next year. But yeah, it became a tradition to do Grecian olive-hued melange before heading to Crete each June.

This season won’t be an exception. There’s always a moment during a rather long flight to Greece when you can no longer binge on unwatched TV, impersonate working on your laptop or solve puzzles. These selecciones are for that moment. As well as for subsequent imbibing of tsikoudia while taking in Aegean vistas and car rides to the ancient Aptera or one of the Lefka Ori’s gorges.

This time around I was triggered by the story that one Heraklion-dwelling historian once told me. A hypothesis that the myth of Atlantis might have been inspired by the catastrophic volcano eruption and subsequent tsunami around 1500 BC. The one that destroyed most of the cities and villages on Crete and Ancient Thera (modern Santorini). Effectively precipitating the decline of the Minoan civilization.

Long story short, that's a tiny fraction of diverse music that has to do with lost islands/continents, sea-bound mythology, civilization-destroying natural cataclysms and yes, the ever-terrifying story of Atlantis.

I said diverse, but what does it mean? Well, there’s some authentic traditional Greek music (actually Cretan one); some less authentic approximation of the ancient one (Paniagua’s reconstruction of the ‘Hymn to the Sun’); a few thematic extractions from Robert Ashley’s ouvres; some sun-lit jazz-adjacencies (Sun Ra, Hasell, Hosono, Vallon); a bit of olden synthy/proggy library music (Benoît Widemann, Joel Vandroogenbroek); a pinch of avantgarde (George Crumb); a drop of disco and vintage popular fare (John Forde); a dollop of aquatic new age (Toshifumi Hinata, J.D. Emmanuel)… Something like that. I think it worked out ok. Should pair nicely with watermelon and raki.

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-let-me-take-you-to-atlantis

Hermetic Journals: Let Me Take You To Atlantis

Including: Green Velvet, Laurent Garnier, 808 State, Dissidenten, Aphex Twin, Slacker, Trus'me, Phantasia, Earth Nation, Christopher Just, Luke Slater, Basic Channel, Robert Armani, Robert Hood, Wildchild, Double 99, Felix, Virgo, Age Of Love, Sven Vath, Atlantic Ocean, 

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