Name: Willits + Sakamoto - Reticent Reminiscence by ghostly in work III
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1. Indian Paintbrush

From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

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Swirling and seductive left-field pop act, Vogue Dots is self assured in its songwriting. The band's single for CSCN is comprised of 'Way Out' and 'Thunder', two songs with abstract edges, yet containing a healthy respect for melody. 

The 'Way Out' single was recorded in a cottage on Belle Isle just off the Labrador Peninsula, and is imbued with the surreal, natural wonder of its environment. Vogue Dots are Babette Hayward and Tynan Dunfield from Halifax, Canada. 

Credit to Aaron Mangle of Cousins.

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Vogue Dots - Thunder

Safe in the Quiet (Epic Meditation Music)

Artist: Hauschka
Title: Constant Growth Fails 
Album: What If 
Release Date: March 31, 2017

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Since 2004, Volker Bertelmann – aka Hauschka – has, steadily earned a remarkable reputation as a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. On What If – which finds him adding player pianos (also known as pianolas) to his arsenal – Bertelmann expands his range even further, defying expectations and delivering what is without a doubt his most ingenious album yet
While engaging with his trademark technique of utilizing unusual objects – art erasers, for example – to treat (or ‘prepare’) the piano, Hauschka also programmed parts for player pianos, exploiting the speed at which they could play, manipulating the resulting sounds, and building layers to emphasize a composition’s meter.
What If aims to provoke reflection beyond the musical sphere with the titles of the both the album and its individual tracks. Overflowing with haunting melodies, mysterious sounds, and complex patterns, What If crowns an extraordinary couple of years for Hauschka. Likely to prove one of 2017’s most original albums, What If redefines the very notion of piano music in dramatic and exceptional fashion. It stands as a rebuttal to those who lazily shoehorn Hauschka’s work into the so-called, uncomfortably broad ‘new classical’ category, and instead underlines his status as a unique and invaluable artist.

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What If

Hauschka - Constant Growth Fails

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“Masters, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair, they call themselves Snapped Ankles, and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols...” 
William Shakespeare on Snapped Ankles

'Hanging With The Moon' is taken from Snapped Ankles' debut album Come Play The Trees - out on 29 September.

Hanging With The Moon

Maarten van der Vleuten & Grey Lotus - I Break The Waves (Somfay Remix)

Featured in The Secret Sound, a short film by Gillian Garcia made for the exhibition Slip Cover at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago

https://shanecampbellgallery.com/alex-olson-and-kristin-dicksonokuda-2017

Legado

Written and Produced by Jai Paul. Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Synthesisers, Programming and FX by Jai Paul. Bass Guitar by Anup Paul. Sound Design by Anup Paul. Engineered and Mixed by Jai Paul. Mastered by Anup Paul. Recorded at home in London, England.

Sticker Design by Jai Paul. 'Alpha Kufi' Type by Agung Yuwanda.
 
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Jasmine (Demo)

The first single from the Liars new album WIXIW released June 2012.

Liars - No.1 Against The Rush

Second piece from the Ecclesia project.

Production: Eric Wahlforss
Mixing: Mark Bihler
Mastering: Bo Kondren

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Voca Nomen Tuum

Aka Aka & Thalstroem - Variete Remixed is available on CD & digital.

Afterglow (Marek Hemmann Remix)

'You Know You Like It' EP available now digitally.
12" release coming in June

Alunageorge - Just A Touch

taken from 'Balance' - available now on CD/LP/DL via Karaoke Kalk.

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Recorded / Mixed by Florian Frenzel & Will Samson
Mastered by Nils Frahm at Durton Studio

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Will Samson - Cathedrals (taken from 'Balance')

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Willits + Sakamoto - Reticent Reminiscence

The opening track from the Endurance / PJS split album, available now from Crash Symbols on cassette and digital.
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/endurance-pjs
or here:
https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com/album/endurance-pjs-split

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