ambient

This alt folk/chill pop combo is a collaboration with Lee Rosevere.

Shift

from the album Music for MOBA (Museum of Bad Art) 

Also download song for free here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_for_MOBA/LeeRosevere_MOBA_03-Aurora_Borealis

Full album available:
http://members.shaw.ca/happypuppyrecords/hpr038_MOBA.html

Lee Rosevere - Aurora Borealis

1990 ford sierra

Preview track from Akumu's CD/DVD "Between Worlds" out August 11th, 2011

Not of the Body (from "Between Worlds")

"Nothing means anything."
- Kurt Vonnegut

LYRICS
There’s no right and wrong or light and dark
There are only in-betweens
When this world gives you no end
And you know nothing but your means

Nothing means anything

I crossed state lines and changed my name
Twenty years down that way
Still lost in song; still don’t belong
Nothing’s changed nothing’s changed

Nothing means anything

It’s how you end, 
not where you start
Life is easy – 
it’s living that’s hard

Dispossession, constant rejection
A world designed to keep you low
So the smartest thing you can ever do
Is let go

Nothing means anything

Nothing / Anything

Before there was Angry Meal, there was u.n.i. Here is the Angry Meal version of u.n.i's "Little Shiny Diamond", our uptempo piano pop homage to all the women that can. I had to use the u.n.i. cover, because it's just so damn good. All credit to Warren Hicks for the art. Fun fact, the u.n.i version of this song featured the talented David Talbert on lead vocals. This one has Kevin Moore on vocals. Enjoy.

Little Shiny Diamond

This week's Disquiet Junto project, to create music for an imagined second volume of electronic music composed by R. Buckminster Fuller. I am already familiar with his work, but read around to reacquaint myself with the man and his ideas. One of the key concepts he introduced was Synergetics - the interactions of multiple simple systems that produce complex outputs that were not expected given the simple inputs.  Another word for Synergetic is Negentropic (i.e. the opposite of entropy) - which made me think of "Entropical Paradise" by Douglas Leedy, hence the title even though the music is not similar.   

I created two systems on my modular synth - one comprised of three LFOs that are interacting (A controls the speed of B, B controls C, and C controls A) to create a complex output, and a second comprising of two sequencers clocked by prime number divisions of the clock, with one sequencer feeding into the other, and vice versa (only with an inverted signal).  I had them set up so that they are 'self limiting' - as the output rises, more and more negative feedback is added. Each system is also linked to the other, so that the output of the sequencers controls the speed of the LFOs, and the output of the LFOs is mixed in with the sequencers.  

These two interacting systems were used to generate pitch information in various ways for three oscillators which are used as three different voices.  I used quantisers to impose limits on the system that represent the elements of human control. A third sequencer is then used to transpose the quantisers, to give a more pleasing melodic shape to the piece.  

R. Buckminster Fuller died in 1983, so I felt that any music would have to be appropriate for his time - As this is 'Volume 2',  I wanted the music to be something 'late' in his career, maybe a 'lost tape' - so I deliberately gave it the feel of a late 1970s interlude for Schools programming - the type of music that was played between programmes on the BBC while a clock counted down the next show (those from the UK and of a suitable age will know exactly what I mean!). To further add to that feel, I recorded to Tascam 4 track to give some warmth and saturation. 

More on this 226th weekly Disquiet Junto project (“Compose music for a fictional greatest-hits collection of the electronic music of R. Buckminster Fuller”) at:

http://disquiet.com/0226/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/junto/

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Disquiet Junto general discussion takes place at:

http://disquiet.com/forums/

Project inspired by a dream that C. Reider of Vuzh Music had:

http://vuzhmusic.com/

Image of album cover created for this project is by Brian Scott of Boon Design:

http://boondesign.com/

Negentropical Paradise (Disquiet0226)

The lost Angry Meal/Kevin Moore/u.n.i record. It haunts me still.

Flower Shirt (Feat. Dave Talbert)

Now That The Light Is Fading

Alaska

New single "Work of Art" out on June 17th 2016  
ISRC: FISR61600021

Music by Burning Hearts
Mastering by Greg Calbi
Artwork by Emil Bertell

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wovOCGG-qdw&feature=youtu.be

http://burningheartsmusic.com/

http://www.facebook.com/burningheartsmusic

Burning Hearts brand new single ‘Work of Art’ pays homage to human creativity, or then it's just an ordinary love song. It's the first song from the upcoming release which will be out later this year. The single is accompanied by a video where well known and less known artists and art visioneers appear.

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Finnish indie pop stalwarts Burning Hearts (Jessika Neuman and Henry Neuman) are back!  A dreamy electro folk pop band specialised in writing timeless songs with beautiful female harmonies, poetrylike lyrics and a sound closely attached to nature. Their first album ‘Aboa Sleeping’ and second album ‘Extinctions’ have received tremendous amounts of love and listening and has taken the band to New York, Paris, Hamburg and the major venues in Finland. Extinctions was even VICE´s Best album of the month at that time and now with two critically acclaimed albums, a host of packed-out festival appearances and a formidable dose of musical experience already under their belts, these Finns are a real force to be reckoned with. Let´s hope Burning Hearts gets the attention it deserves with their new releases. Jessica and Henry have done the hard yards and gifted us with expertly crafted pop gems, now its the turn of purveyors of independent pop music to repay the favour. See you at the gigs!

Label contact: Tom Riski tom@solinarecords.com
www: solinarecords.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SolinaRecords/

Booking; Antti Hietala Alt Agency & Management antti@altagency.fi
+358 44 560 8969


Distribution – Scandinavia Playground Music www.playgroundmusic.com
tomppa@playgroundmusic.com
Distribution – UK Shellshock Distribution jane@shellshock.co.uk
www.shellshock.co.uk

Distribution G/S/A and the rest of Europe: Cargo Records Germany info@cargo-records.de
http://www.cargo-records.de/

 


BURNING HEARTS: Work Of Art

Frame By Frame A-Cappella. Song by King Crimson 

Frame By Frame A-Cappella

PROCESS
Thank you so much, Marc (@disquiet) for thinking of Sterling in this project. As I told Marc in an email exchange where he told me of the dedication in this week's prompt, my thinking about how the sound waves we produce may somehow go on forever began with the Junto's week dedicated to the death of Jefferey Melton (@Nofi).

Nick Drake's 'Northern Sky' open tuning resolves to a Dsus4 chord (with the suspended G as the center note and F# up high)
D-A-D-G-D-F#

I was gifted knowledge of Drake while working at Rolling Stone as an intern in 1992, and ever since, 'Northern Sky' is the song I turn to when skies darken. Felt right to invoke it here by striking its open chord for a few minutes. (Note: Soundcloud's auto-compression revealed my perceived silences to be not so silent. Hi ho.)

Sterling passed in our home on 22 December 2016 ~6:20 EST. I trust he's suspended somewhere now between space & time in painless parallel peace. Fwiw, we had David Bowie on random shuffle and 'Absolute Beginners' came on as the process began. Perfect is a strange word in this context, but life works in curious ways sometimes to deliver solace.

All the love.

:^D

RELEVANT EXTERNAL LINKS:
My reflections on Sterling:
https://medium.com/westyreflector/sterling-at-the-gates-dcff944b76df

Alan Watts on how the universe is made of vibrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhHfKqLR6NI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmkwqn0mSQs

My prior piece "Riding Waves" to honor the passing of Nofi:
https://soundcloud.com/thereflectors/riding-waves

RIG
Guitar:
Jolie (2000 Gibson ES-335 DOT reissue, modded 100% with custom http://peekamoose.com electronics)

Pedal Board:
EQ Devices The Warden optical compressor -> Lotus Pedals SnowJob Underdrive -> tc electronic Flashback delay -> Diamond Tremolo -> EQ Devices Grand Orbiter -> EQ Devices Afterneath -> Strymon blueSky Reverb

Recording:
Line6 POD-XT (Blackface Lux emulator) -> MOTU 828mk2 firewire interface -> AcidPro 7.0 -> Harrison Consoles Mixbus (Mastering)

META
More on this 260th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Tone Fade: An exercise in when a sound ends — at:
http://disquiet.com/0260/

(This project is for Sterling.)

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
http://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
http://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0260-tone-fade/5809

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Photo associated with this project is by Michel Banabila, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/5GB7bn

sterling fades [disquiet0260-tonefade]

Lifeblood - creaking beats, haunting weaving piano and submerged vocals.

Lifeblood is the second track on Halls' Fragile EP a landmark achievement which will hopefully see him heralded as the future of British Electronic Music.

Lifeblood is available on Download and 12" Vinyl from: http://thesoundsofsweetnothing.bandcamp.com/album/fragile-ep

Halls - Lifeblood

"Moiety" is a new Helios album free for download at http://www.unseen-music.com/free .

Helios - Nothing It Can

This is one of my 2 accounts!
https://soundcloud.com/happypuppy2

and everything else is here:
https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/

Canadian label Happy Puppy has been in operation since about 2003. The label is home for Lee Rosevere's musical projects, but also features releases from artists around the world like Plumtree, Peter DiPhillips, Marc Stapleford, Allister Thompson, Cagey House. Reggie Regan, Logan Whitehurst, The Cosmopolitans, and many more. 

Nearly all of the releases from Happy Puppy Records are free and shared with a Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial 4.0 license.

Lee Rosevere - Aurora Borealis

Lee Rosevere - Happy Puppy Records

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