I first heard the song “Pretty Saro” on the amazing album “Folk Roots, New Routes” with Davy Graham and Shirley Collins. I started singing this song about 15 years ago and only now have I made a proper recording. Phil once lived in Berlin and we made music together, hosted a radio show and became close friends. His spacious and warm style on the piano was something I always loved. I often sang in his kitchen, where had a piano and we would drink cups of tea and philosophise over things. Now living in Brighton, I sent him a recording of the song, with a simple drone backing. He sent back the version that is on the EP. It was that simple. Piano and drones from his accordion. Phil takes the credit here for the track. 



“As I Roved Out” is heavily associated with Planxty and the lovely tenor voice of Andy Irvine. It has been a favourite of mine for many years. I think my love for all things drone and voice, especially traditional polyphonic singing from places like Georgia, Corsica and Sardinia, influenced the purely vocal backing. 



I was introduced to the singing of Jasper Smith by the great Dublin band Lankum, when they sang his “Father Had Knife”. The song “Died For Love” is a terrible tale of a father finding his daughter has killed herself. I like the contrast in the almost lullaby melody and the tragedy in the story. The breathy sea of Saxophone drones and the solo is performed by my friend Dan Fairhurst, who has been a friend on mine since we were at school. 







CREDITS:





Pretty Saro:



Traditional arranged by Phil Smith and Marlais

Recorded and produced by Phil Smith and Marlais

Piano and accordion by Phil Smith



As I Roved Out:



Traditional arranged by Marlais

Recorded and produced by Marlais



Died For Love:



Traditional arranged by Marlais

Recorded and produced by Marlais

Saxophone by Dan Fairhurst



All tracks mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound

Artwork by Lisa Götze "Baby Please Don't Die"

2016, watercolour and crayon on paper

Died For Love

As I Roved Out

Tycho sunrise DJ set on the Disco Space Shuttle at Burning Man on Friday, August 29th, 2014. Thanks to everyone who made this morning special and of course all my love to everyone at Apogee Camp, best burn yet!

Special thanks to: Nitemoves (Rory O'Connor), Heathered Pearls (Jakub Alexander), Rob Garza, Christopher Willits, Kiyoka, Katie B. , DJ Dane, Clark, the Dusty Rhino crew, Seth, Tobias, and the whole Disco Space Shuttle crew.

Track Listing:

>> SET BEGINS - APPROX 5:40AM 
Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Remix)
Boards of Canada - Olson
Clark - Tooth Moves
Manitoba - Dundas, Ontario
Atoms For Peace - Dropped
Tycho - Dye
Photek - Pharoah
>> SUNRISE - APPROX 6:20AM
Ulrich Schnauss - In All The Wrong Places
Tycho - Awake
Bibio - À tout à l'heure
Airbird and Napoleon - In The Zone
Tycho - Awake (Com Truise Remix)
Psychemagik - Cosmic Forest
Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
Leon Vynehall - Time
Leon Vynehall - Be Brave, Clench Fists
Fort Romeau - Jetée
Dauwd - Lydia
Mirror People - Kaleidoscope (Psychemagik Remix)
Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)
16 Bit Lolitas - Deep Space Girls (DAVI Remix)
Dauwd - Heat Division
Tycho - L
Lancaster – Beachy Thing
Panama - Destroyer
>> EMBRACE SCULPTURE BURN BEGINS
White Denim - A Place to Start
Washed Out - Amor Fati
Little Dragon - Little Man (Tycho Remix) 
Moths - Heart
White Denim - Street Joy

Black Sunrise - Burning Man Sunrise 2014

Set List:

- Sueña (Rabellion / Live Vocals)
- Alrededor del Fuego
- La Medicina (Rabellion / Live Vocals)
- Epirotika
- Kapok 
- Coalesce
- The Offering
- Surges
- Sin Miedo
- Be the Vibe
- La Misma Fuente
- Sin Darle Motivo
- Chilltepenango
- Bebe mas agua
- Dirty Bump
- Law of attraction
- Oulele
- Queimar
- Zanmi Kanmarad
- Olokun
- San Juan
- Stanga
- Shaman
- Africa Folika
- That Fire
- Como el Buho (Rabellion / Live Vocals)	
- Kyle
- Perreo Cosmico
- Orimonika
- Soy Yo
- Night Owls
- Papi 
- Scandalosa
- Waves and Wavs
- Hide U
- Legacy 
- Heart
- El Llamado
- Madre Tierra (Rabellion / Live Vocals)
- I release Control / Rindo el Control (Rabellion / Live Vocals - cover)

Rabellion @ Ecstatic Dance Los Angeles ~ DJ Set & Live Vocals ~ 7/7/24

"Jarvis" is a literary place that Dylan Thomas created in his early prose in which some of his stories are set. The characters and the landscapes that are placed in these mystical tales often possess otherworldly and mythological qualities. I see parallels within the narrative and imagery of folk music (particularly British folk music) and have used this music as a main source for my sampling. Having both power in its rawness and beauty in its eloquence, I use my own personal response to folk music whilst relocating it into a modern setting, creating ‘Dreams of Jarvis’. 

Purchase the EP:
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Dawning

12" available in all good record shops soon.

Designer + Four Tet - Mothers (TEXT038A)

THE ARTIST: MICHNA
https://soundcloud.com/michnaofficial
https://www.facebook.com/MichnaOfficial

Growing up in both NY and Miami, Michna (real name: Adrian Michna) is that unique breed of artist that draws from both the urban and the tropical. As a youngster, Adrian started DJing parties with cassettes and playing trombone in a band on the NYC bar circuit including the infamous Lion’s Den and CBGB’s.
After moving to Miami in the mid-90’s, he co-founded the pioneering Secret Frequency Crew, who deftly mixed instrumental hip-hop and electronic into a coherent whole. Their appropriately titled 12” “Miami Eyes,” became an underground hit. SFC’s debut LP “Forest of the Echo Downs” also put Adrian on Ghostly’s radar as it was one of label founder Sam Valenti IV’s top LPs in 2004. Currently based in Brooklyn NY, Adrian Michna has become a staple in the NYC club scene, known for his chameleon like abilities. Outside of the club, he has been able to pursue interests such as building furniture, bicycles, skeeball and painting.

Adrian found his stride as a solo artist by bringing together his myriad influences into a succinct sonic persona with 2008’s debut LP MAGIC MONDAY and well-received single “Triple Chrome Dipped”. It was the producers tightly woven musical amalgam of hip-hop, booty , electro and detailed process that made Michna’s debut album move. He followed up his debut with the EGGSTRA EP which leaned more towards a heady mix of hip hop beats and breakbeat. Four years later, we see a great leap forward in terms of both songwriting and production with a more futuristic house meets hip hop nod on the Moving Mountains EP. The wait was well worth it.

THE MIX:
Before Michna solo stuff I was in a group called Secret Frequency Crew. We started messing with 4 turntable DJ mixes around 1998. It was mad fun, usually 2 decks were a beat blend, the 3rd was an acapella and the 4th was whale noises/efx.

In 2001 we honed in and rigorously rehearsed a set that would span from 90bpm and push up to 130bpm. Inspired heavily by Coldcut's 70 Minutes of Madness Mix and the legendary Blech mix by Strictly Kev and PC. In 2002 we finally recorded it live, after many many takes. I think we pressed 50 CD-Rs and gave them out to friends. Our Max Headroom obsession was growing so we called the mix "Max Headroom for President." It has never been uploaded to the internet.... until now! Enjoy!

SUNDAY MORNING - 15 - Michna

Featuring the voice of Mooji: www.mooji.org

A track to completely space out to...let yourself absorb the timeless wisdom of Mooji's satsang.

This is the first track I have used glissando guitar (used by Daevid Allen, Syd Barrett, Steve Hillage, Gong and Here & Now, among others.

The photo is courtesy of 'Love Garden' on flickr.


Guy James (feat Mooji) - You Are The Seer of Everything

Obey the Mandrill: https://www.facebook.com/mandrillifesto

MANDRILLIFESTO
In times of national demise, speaking historically,
the mulch of crumpled dream and culture is a laboratory,
that breeds outrageous saviours and monsters without warning; 
Cromwell, Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Jeremy Corbyn – 
emerging from a broken world to find a hole they can fill,
cometh the moment; cometh the Mandrill.

This greed and gore emporium is not how life was meant to be,
with franchises and fads reheated from a previous century,
and nothing new, a neutered future on the retro record deck,
that’s stuck and endlessly repeating in a firebombed discotheque. 
Your TV’s in a coma and you can’t get it to wake up.
What you need is a dictatorial baboon in makeup.

Overstated, aggravated and horrifically mutated,
here to see that you’re berated. What’s the last thing you created?
All those logos on your raiment, brand-name badges of enslavement,
drip-fed passive entertainment. Was this your intended statement?
When you have nowhere left to stand you'll have to take one.
If there’s no culture in the land then you must make one. 
Psychopathic, charismatic, I could go on but don’t need to:
as the higher primate it’s my long-awaited fate to lead you.
You have no choice but me, so please do not suggest so.
Hear now the poetry of my Mandrillifesto!

The light of burning corporations will repaint the sky in grenadine. 
There’ll be billions of banners and Art Nouveau butterfly bombers like this world has never seen before. 
We’ll march on ugliness and stupidity. 
We’ll make loveliness compulsory. 

And the roar of our orchestra engines will soar evermore in a glorious annihilating symphony, for the tyranny of beauty is our God-given duty. 
Every child at birth is to be issued with a ukulele, 
given their own flag and granted absolute and utter sovereignty, 
and so long as it’s coloured in nicely and has an old woman on, make their own currency. And we’ll turn every urban address into a dripping Rousseau wilderness, and we’ll keep advancing until there’s nobody not dancing.

We’ll put politics in the pillory,
put the art back in artillery.
We can weaponise wonder
and our voice shall be as thunder.

From times of national demise arise new apes like me, 
with, in our leopard-scaring eyes, manifest destiny. 
I’ll lead you to a fluorescent utopia if you’ll let me: 
love me, worship me, obey me – but never pet me. 
If we can’t build a future then we’ll be its human landfill. So…
Cometh the moment, cometh the Mandrill. 
(Repeat until indoctrinated)

Lyrics: Alan Moore /  Music: Joe Brown
Mandrill Make Up: Tamsyn Payne
Artwork by Dominic Mandrell
Arts Lab Northampton

Alan Moore & Joe Brown 'Mandrillifesto'

Debut solo album by Christiaan Webb of the Webb Brothers and son of legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb.

Guy James (feat Mooji) - You Are The Seer of Everything

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