Efficient Space's Swiss connection Ivan Liechti expands on his Ghost Riders compilation with an hour of North American coming of age garage ballads, salad day hymns and small town criers.

Image Credit: Elise Gagnebin-de Bons

https://www.nts.live/shows/efficient-space/episodes/efficient-space-20th-october-2022

Efficient Space w/ Ivan Liechti 201022

Strangled Theremin

Laraaji Boiler Room London - Deep Listening Session

Like the EP? Want to show some support? You can feel free to pick up the EP from any of these links or you could just choose to share it around as it would help enormously.

>Bandcamp ($2.00): https://saphiresurf.bandcamp.com/album/us-upon-the-world-2 

>Google Play ($3.96 added up*): https://play.google.com/music/listen#/album/Byeyru2yfcpl5drdttogskkfllm/Saphiresurf/Us+Upon+the+World

>iTunes ($3.96): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/us-upon-the-world-ep/id1097083035

Out On Our Own

SKY GIRL 2LP/CD/DIG OUT NOW

Sky Girl is a mysteriously unshakeable companion, a deeply melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991. A seemingly disparate suite of selections of forgotten fables by more or less neverknowns, Sky Girl forms a beautifully coherent and utterly sublime whole deftly compiled by French collectors DJ Sundae and Julien Dechery.

From Scott Seskind's adolescent musical road movie to Karen Marks' icy Oz-wave, the charming DIY storytelling of Italian-American go-getter Joe Tossini and the ethereal slow dance themes of Parisian artists Nini Raviolette and Hugo Weris, Sky Girl resonates on a wide spectrum historically, geographically and stylistically. It unites in a singular, longing, almost intangible ambience.

If the names sound wholly unfamiliar that doesn't matter, the nature of the compositions swiftly nurtures an intimacy with these lonely, poignant, openhearted wanderers. Most were available in a very limited capacity at the time of their release, some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release Sarra after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one. Beyond their scarcity, these tracks are bound together by a certain raw beauty that's achievable when music is made and no one is listening.

Sky Girl comprises of fifteen officially licensed songs, a two year international scavenger hunt through long-folded home label operations, the depths of internet forums and traceless acetates. Both compilers are well trained record sleuths - DJ Sundae's labels Hollie and Idle Press have reissued Arthur Russell affiliate Nirosta Steel and DIY relic Pitch, while Julien Dechery previously compiled 'Fire Star', a retrospective on Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, for Bombay Connection.

Released by Noise In My Head offshoot Efficient Space, Sky Girl is enriched with artwork from Perks and Mini mutant Misha Hollenbach and appropriately elegant sleeve notes courtesy of Ivan Smagghe.

08 Warfield Spillers - Daddy's Little Girl 4:53 (ES002)

Release info:

Palto Flats & WRWTFWW Records are excited to announce the forthcoming highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient / minimal album "Through The Looking Glass", originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. 

The fully licensed reissue will be available in March as a single 33rpm LP and a limited 45rpm DLP, both cut directly from the original studio reels (AAA). 
It will be also availalble for the first time in CD format.

Midori will be touring Europe in April to support the album reissue, with plans for additional touring in other territories.

Dates:

4/4 Copenhagen DK Jazzhouse
http://www.jazzhouse.dk/jazzklub/midori-takada-jp

6/4 Glasgow UK Counterflows Festival
https://counterflows.com/midori-takada/

7/4 Amsterdam NL World Minimal Music Festival
https://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/5309/The_Master_Musicians_of_Jajouka_led_by_Bachir_Attar_Midori_Takada/World_Roots/

9/4 Gent BE Full Moon Healing Festival
http://www.vooruit.be

11/4 London UK Cafe Oto
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/midori-takada/

Bio:

Midori Takada is a composer, multi percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. She will tour Europe this spring.

Midori released two solo albums: "Through The Looking Glass" and "Tree Of Life," and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments.

She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduation from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad.

In the 1980s Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh.

In the past 20 years, Midori Takada spent more time in theaters than in concert halls – composing and performing for live music for theater. She has worked with Tadashi Suzuki and his Suzuki Company of Toga on their adaptations of "Electra" and "King Lear."

Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality.

Every live performance Midori Takada gives is unique and prepared especially for that occasion.

Through The Looking Glass

Own a copy

3 Midori Takada - Trompe - L'oeil (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

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Schon wieder tak. RLH thirty two kommt von Ken Kuusk!

Hey, ring de alarm. And not a sound is dying, whoa.

Ken: @mrkuusk

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Zaumne - Élévation

最悪の日々 (The Queen Is Dead)

ハイポジ "の日々 Pt.1 (Dub)" - Kitty Records, Japan, 1997 - SOLD

Luīze details an enveloping, introspective, and emotive soundscape that documents field recording trips to Florence, alongside birdsong imitations, and the undulating harmonic complexities of sacred chorus and ancient folklore. 

At points, this mix feels totally beyond music, while at the same time retaining all the intricacies of feeling that only music can articulate. Deep trïp nrg. 

''...in that new life we shall rest, we shall rest to the songs of the angels in a firmament arrayed in jewels and we'll look down and we'll see evil, all the evil in the world and all our sufferings bathed in a perfect mercy and our lives grown sweet as a caress.''

firmament

Twin brother duo from Ohio (°_°) (°_°)

We are very grateful for the opportunity to make and share music with you all. Thnx for listening <3 



  
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