Name: Octatrack - Building Holotropia by S1LA
Duration: 26 s
Description: Breathing loops & slices recorded and sequenced with the Octatrack

improvising in a green room on my Les Paul Tribute

White Widows

This is an improvisation captured through a room mic via my iphone. I’m running my Les Paul through a Eventide TimeFactor, a Meris Mercury7 and a looper. The bottom layer was played through the Mercury7 Swell on it. Top layer is TimeFactor’a ddelay + M7’s cathedra algo.

Sketch Recording: Neon Bliss

This was an improvised meditation inspired by ancient plant. The instruments used are:

Dreadbox Erebus
Dreadbox Nyx
Toraiz AS-1
Vermona Mono Lancet
Vocal
Breath

The jam was captured through a room mic (iphone) only.

Meditation - Lemon Haze 1

Sound Test - Vermona Mono Lancet 1

This is the demo of a patch I made on the phenomenal Waldorf Iridium Keyboard.

Buddha's Chant Patch Demo

A live improv with a single track on the Octatrack, drums on the Digitakt and a single track on the Analog 4.

Sober Jam - Jedna Pesma

Bruderliebe

Bruderliebe 3 (whywhy mix)

Just messing about with the Push 2’s layout and Pianoteq

Loop - Pushphony

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.

Octatrack - Building Holotropia

S1LA

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