Collectedness// September 17, 2021

From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

Holy Hive

Story Of My Life

‘Horse+ (Don’t Mind The Horse)’ paints the picture of being on the road to somewhere. Whether it be through the desert heat, the cold vastness of outer space, or through the journey of life, it’s good to sometimes take a moment to have a few deep breaths, absorb your surroundings and open your heart.

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Laika

Horse+ (Don't Mind the Horse)

Sunset

Select instrumentals from the WTF series so far. Enjoy. 

Art by Obscura.creative 

Mastered by pheel. 

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wylin (instrumental)

AgainstAllOdds

from the album YELLOW BELL, Sonic Pieces, 2016

Core Notions

This is the single and opening track from the various artists album BBC Late Junction Sessions: Unpopular Music, released by Gearbox Records on 8 July 2016.

Just a few days after appearing on Late Junction’s stage at the Latitude Festival in 2015, the genre-busting singer-songwriter Eska paid a visit to Studio 3 with Jesse and Louis Hackett, both members of the Anglo- Kenyan project Owiny Sigoma Band. This family outfit took the opportunity to explore the instruments available on the premises which include grand piano, vibraphone and the famous Maida Vale celeste, all of which provide the foundation for this playful arrangement of a Jesse Hackett composition. Listen out for some experimental backing vocals from Eska and Jesse’s baby girl Wonder, in her Maida Vale recording debut.

Eska, Jesse & Louis Hackett - Many People Of The Songbird

Serge & Mondriaan

Ode To Jazzman John Clarke

Artist - John Jeffrey
Title - Leaving Franklin
Album Title - Passage
Release Date - October 30, 2020
Label - Jean Sandwich Records
Cover Photograph - Ian Wallace
Cover Design - D.Norsen

Leaving Franklin

South

South (feat. Lex Amor)

Rêves sonores, a collaboration between Montreal-based sound artists Nick Schofield and Stefan Christoff, presents their newest single and accompanying visual piece, Mondial. Anthemic in presentation and radical in conception, Mondial is the second single from the duo’s forthcoming album Crépuscule. The piece typifies Rêves sonores’ bricolage approach to composition and commitment to fine-tuned sound design.

Mondial stems from a 2015 saxophone warm up recorded in New York City on a cold February morning - clipped, sampled, looped, and pitched into a warm resonant mantra. Over the following years, Schofield would take the saxophone sequence to a number of editing sessions, later applying violin accompaniment in Montreal and additional synthesizers at Alberta’s Banff Centre. He obsessed over Mondial’s sound design, continually stepping in and out of details, revisiting and revising his work with great patience. As the song took shape, Schofield visualized grand imagery of Earth: blues and greens spinning and cascading into an endless sea of space. Over its development, Mondial began to assume a grand, otherworldly significance to Schofield.

“The song feels ‘worldwide,’ like my own anthem for the Earth.”

Unfortunately, much of Schofield’s meticulous editing work would later come crashing back to Earth before Mondial could be realized. In a sick twist of cosmic fate, the song’s audio session was accidentally deleted the night before he had planned to complete the mix. Schofield was able to salvage his efforts by re-tooling the remaining audio materials from the original session; however, both the composition and its composer had to accept that every work of art has its own unique orbit to follow upon its path to completion.

Schofield adopted this go-with-the-flow ethos in filming the music video for Mondial. Filmed at the Banff Centre, he challenged himself with executing, and spotlighting, his own interpretive dance - his first time attempting anything in this realm.

“I had to keep my drumsticks in hand to make me feel comfortable enough to move freely in front of the camera. In the end, the chopped dance gestures match the loops of the song, aligning the body movements with the musical arch. A dear friend, Max Farrell, then processed the video with a rig of analogue effects like feedback, delay and saturators. The analogue effects help the footage transcend, adding an aura of surreal imagination.”

Mondial is the second single from the forthcoming Rêves sonores album, Crépuscule, and is available across all digital platforms. Crépuscule will be released in April 2021 on digital and physical formats.

Crépuscule

Mondial

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YBZ032S2 / Rêves sonores - Mondial

Sound and Vision

Sound and Vision (Instrumental)

South London-based 8-piece band Don't Problem is proud to present their new single 'CD's Lament', lifted from their forthcoming album planned for spring 2021.

With their new album, the combo challenges the common perception of a "covers" brass band, exclusively writing original material and adding electronics, synths & strings, a reflection of their wide encompassing interests. They introduce us to a very personal journey; the moment in time where a brass band affirms their love for club culture and delivers an album that travels from heavy funk to psychedelic jazz and UK dance music.

"‘CD’s Lament’ is an homage to Craig David. The single started with a chord and melody idea inspired by Garage music. Through our workshop-style rehearsals, this morphed into other heavy brass sections that are synonymous with our sound" says the band.

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/02/premiere-dont-problem-cds-lament/

Premiere: Don't Problem - CD's Lament

In anticipation of Kit Sebastian's forthcoming second album in 2021, the duo have delved into their archives to present a special digital single release. Think of this as not necessarily a taster of what's to come, but more as a starter that refreshes the appetite for the next course.

'Rain (باران)' was the second track recorded in their analogue studio, and because of this, it has a slightly more primitive rudimentary sound. It was written more or less to test the studio and to learn what sounded good and didn't. It was a hot French hazy July day which you can hear translated into the sound of the track. The version on this EP has been re-sung to include Merve’s vocals.

'Questions' was written and recorded for the duo's short film 'C'est Quoi Le Mantra Moderne'. It was intended for a scene that they would later abandon: a summer night, sitting in an old-fashioned café in Le Grand-Pressigny, where they ask each other one question after another without any clear answers. Given the limited amount of film they had, this idea felt risky which meant they couldn't release the track with the film. Yet, it can still be enjoyed on its own and hopefully, still, enrich the experience of their visual essay and bring a new layer to it.

We hope you enjoy this further excursion into the world of Kit Sebastian, and big thanks to the duo for rescuing 'Questions' from the cutting room floor for us all to savour.

Watch the film ‘Mantra Moderne’ - vimeo.com/426778278

Kit Sebastian - Rain (باران)

Los Angeles Based/Manila Roots Arts and Culture Curator/Programmer, Filmmaker, DJ, & Filipino music and film advocate.

Sound and Vision (Instrumental)

Helado Negro

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