bravoooo 👏👏👋👏👏👋👏👏👋👏👏👋👏👏

without a doubt, this will remain one of my favorite albums my entire life. inspires me every day.

Hey Jels, thanks for another great introduction. I like your ears, Baz! 

watch video to this rework here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s484qRcd40s

Moderat - Bad Kingdom (Lambert Rework)

Erik Truffaz & Murcof - Human Being

Run Outs

Excited to share my newest collaboration featuring Shigeto (electronics), Jonathan Maron (bass) and Mark Guiliana (drums). They brought so much of themselves to this project. Available 6/23 on Greenleaf Music.

TOUR DATES
April 20 - WROCLAW/Poland
Impart Art Center/Centrum Sztuki Impart

April 21 - PARIS/France
New Morning

April 23 - PRAGUE/Czech Republic
Jazz Dock

April 24 - KRAKOW/Poland
Radio Krakow

April 25 - GETXO/Spain
Escuela de Música Andrés Isasi de Las Arenas

April 26 - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA/Spain
Teatro Principal de Santiago de Compostela

April 27 - MADRID/Spain
Teatro Lara

April 28 - MIDDELBURG/Netherlands
Schuttershofcafe

April 29 - KÖLN/Germany
Stadtgarten

April 30 - MONTPELLIER/France
Maison pour tous Voltaire

June 25 – Rochester, NY
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

June 26 – Ottawa, Canada
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival

June 30 – Montreal, Canada
Montreal Jazz Festival

July 1 – 2 – Chicago, IL
Constellation

July 3 – Iowa City, IA
Iowa City Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas & HIGH RISK Ft. Shigeto "Cardinals"

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - Vessel

2. track of my upcoming debut "Window Gazer" to be released 18th of september via Hellbig Music



Afloat

12" Edition of Screws Rework album from Nils Frahm. I did a remix from the song "Mi", more infos here : reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Mi (Soul Channel Rework)___Out on Erased Tapes Records

Reworks One - EP exploring music from Slugabed, Luke Abbott, Dauwd, and Kidsuke.

Violin- Connie Chatwin
Viola - Sally Wragg
Cello - Tom Oldfield
Trumpet - Tom Dennis
Clarinet - Henry Melbourne
Trombone - Ross Lumbard
Saxophone - Greg Sinclair
Piano - Laura Prescott
Harp - Glenda Alloway
Bass - Ben Hayes
Drums / Percussion - Pete Hill
Drums / Percussion / Vibraphone - Rob Hervais-Adelman

Arrangements:
Sex - Greg Sinclair
Unfurling / Free Migration - Rob Hervais-Adelman
Could It Be - Pete Hill
Harmonics - Ben Corrigan

Recorded by Alex Beitzke at Dean Street Studios, London
Mixed by Alex Beitzke
Additional mixing by Hannes Plattmeier (Could It Be)
Produced by Alex Beitzke and Ben Corrigan
Mastered by Pete Maher

Photography © www.alexfreemanphotography.co.uk

UNFURLING + FREE MIGRATION - LUKE ABBOTT

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Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer live at Radialsystem on 08 August, 2017.

Two extraordinary live musicians with a shared passion for experimentation and club music: Back on 08 August 2017, we had the honour to welcome Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, a pioneer of electronic jazz, and the renowned drummer and producer Christian Prommer for an exclusive live session on the stage of UM:LAUT. We are happy to share one track of this amazing concert at the mighty hall of Radialsystem.

Special thanks to Bugge and Christian for the great performance, shout-outs to Sven Fobbe for making it happen, and cheers to Jan Gieseke for the amazing sound and the recordings.

"Lac"
Written by Bugge Wesseltoft
Performed by Bugge Wesseltoft and Christian Prommer
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artists!
www.ohsotrue.de/wesseltoft-prommer

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Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer @ UM:LAUT - Lac (Live)

As announced by XLR8R, Rival Consoles crafts a delicate interpretation of German duo SpringerParker's 'Libretto'.

'West preserves the warbling Norwegian vocals of opera singer Lilly Jørstad and the piano melody from the original, but he also puts his own touch onto the track, layering it with fuzzy synth bass, drums, guitar, and rustling noise' – XLR8R

The remix can be found on SpringerParker's new EP 'Polar Circle & Remixes', alongside a remix of 'Arctic Flowers' by Benoît Pioulard.


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Order Remix EP from Butterfly Collectors: http://bit.ly/NMISZ0

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Since the year 2008, Springer Parker have been traveling through the Polar regions of Europe in a motor home, aiming for the northern Norwegian territory of Finnmark with its eight seasons. During the course of their artistic voyages of discovery, they observed and studied the region collecting photos, sound recordings and stories for their archive – memories which the artists have now embedded in contemporary music, compositions on landscape, the environment and the people.

All of the field recordings woven by SpringerParker into their music have been lifted from the aural archives they have compiled on their travels and are intimately connected to the theme of each piece. Hence "Arctic Flowers" features recordings of thawing permafrost in Knivskjellodden on the Magerøya peninsula, as well as the Gulf Stream climate catalyst where it ends in the Porsanger Fjord. On "Mørketid", or "Polar Night", the dark season which lasts for several months as the sun stays beneath the horizon, SpringerParker deploy recordings of a snowstorm which engulfed them all of a sudden. They affixed contact microphones to wooden Lavvus structures, the traditional tents of the indigenous Sami people, to record this force of nature.

For the centerpiece of their composition, the so-called "Libretto", they enlisted the services of opera singer Lilly Jørstad from Russia, but now living in Tromsø. To create the typical unison of word and song as found in opera, for example, the artists asked the vocalist, 24 years old at the time, to put the noteworthy temperature readings of the region into song, using names of places and data provided by meteorological institutes for the year 2010.

The Remix of SpringerParker's LIBRETTO is done by Erased Tapes artist Rival Consoles. His interpretation of this song is so very delicate and again demonstrates the range of the electronic wizard from London.

Polar Circle & Remixes

SpringerParker – Libretto (Rival Consoles Remix)

Four years after his last release as Hauschka, composer Volker Bertelmann returns to City Slang for his new effort “PHILANTHROPY”. While touching on the work of musical innovators, such as Erik Satie and John Cage, Hauschka reimagines the potential of the prepared piano for the 21st century, a technique that involves inserting objects between the instrument’s strings or onto its hammers to expand its sonic and operative possibilities.

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