Today, I’d like to introduce you to Gaspar Claus, a French cellist out of Paris, who has a number of collaborations, performing appearances, and soundtrack work under his belt (some names include Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, Jim O’Rourke, and Ryuichi Sakamoto), with the upcoming Tancade being his first solo album. I have covered plenty of music featuring the cello as the main instrument, and I can’t seem to get enough of its low, raspy textures, deep melancholy sighs, and soft fluttering sails. I do love the violin, but the cello still holds a very special place among the favourite timbres of my mind. And so the music from Tancade hits the spot, with the cello being the only instrument on the entire album, layered, processed, and orchestrated to sound as if numerous Claus clones are spinning a complex braid of sound all at once. On the first single of the record, which I am happily premiering for you today, the instrument is “rubbed with a bow, plucked, brushed, bumped, caressed, jostled, and transfigured,” for all its “rich harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic potential,” but even if you don’t zoom in on the technicalities, it is a piece of music that sounds grand. “Une Foule,” which means “a crowd,” refers to the “wild and marvellous parties that take place at ‘Tancade’, a small and difficult to access cove.” 

More here: https://hcdi.gs/UneFoule

Tancade

Une Foule

TRACK PREMIERE : Gaspar Claus - Une Foule

Music by Mohammad Darabifar and Robot Koch 

We are all the same song
Which has no voice but freedom.

For the people of Iran

‎ما همه یک سرودیم
‎و این سرود نغمه ای جز آزادی ندارد.

‎برای مردم ایران

#woman_Life_Freedom
‎#زن_زندگی_آزادی


watch the video:

https://youtu.be/vAznY0BwfzM

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Mohammad Darabifar And Robot Koch - Bright Dream

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

YOM - Le Silence De L'exode -Rouge

From Amazon Ensemble first album, "Mae Inini", soundtrack for a movie about the beautiful Huni Kuin people. With Chandra Lacombe on the frame drum.

06 Ni Naia Ne (The Forest Is Shaking)

Alberto Iglesias - María Santísima De Araceli

Hossein Alizâdeh - Mahtaab

Medicine Song recorded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the radio program Olam Katam with Ori Bankhalter. 

Bless this ancient bird that sings that we are all son's and daughter's of the Sun and the Moon! 



"Pajaro Viejo" in Olam Katan

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP086
or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/ellis

For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning I

Recorded live in OLAM KATAN with Ori Bankhalter
Sang by Claire Idan- Sun And Or Gershi
Itamar Ben Moshe- guitar
Gal Zvikelsky- percussion

Oso Blanco (Bóveda Celeste Cover) - Live In Olam Katan

wakantanka weah hayo

Tuim Nova Era - Pasha Dume Pae

Özgür Baba - Çay Taşı

VENADITO (Little Deer) is one of the Tracks of the Latest Anthar Kharana's Album "NAHUAL" launched in Spring 2017. Feel free to enjoy, and share the joy! 
All Music and vocals composed, recorded, performed and produced by Anthar Kharana / Cover designed by : Lola Barreto

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!
www.antharkharana.com

"NAHUAL is a powerful music journey composed, performed and produce by Anthar Kharana (from Colombia) after a period of 10 days of locking himself in his own mobile studio. During this intense introspection time, he fasted with different plant teachers that are part of his culture, and manage to deliver a message to these changing times, a message to heal, feel and envision the life that we all deserve.

His Music was inspired in the Animal Spirit World of the Americas, a very sacred wisdom used by his ancestors to experience the sacred art of conscious dreaming and to be able to envision abundance for their future generations.

Today the Nahuals or the Animal Teachers return to us with their knowledge, colours, skins and many stories to remind us of our place of origin, so our search of identity can finally rest..."

Nahual

Venadito

Águas Claras (original de Ana Pomar)

Águas claras
águas doces
aguas puras
Oxum minha mãe

sois vós quem me cuida
vós quem me sana,
vós que me ama
te agradeço mamãe

linda pureza
tua doçura
minha mamãe pura 
é toda limpeza

Mãe Natureza
tuas águas claras
sempre cristalinas
são pura beleza

C .... G
Dm G Dm G
... C 

(com Capo?)

:Águas Claras:

Track taken from the album "Exile".  This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series - http://realworldrecords.com/gold/

Another landmark Real World record from 1990, Exile informed the world of the struggles of Ugandan singer-songwriter Geoffrey Oryema. Exiled at a young age after the suspicious death of his government minister father, Geoffrey’s songs are a resilient riposte to a life forced upon him, as well as an unconfined celebration of the culture of his homeland. A statement of poise, gravity and elegance, Exile merges both the personal and the political, all narrated by that gently persuasive voice. Contributors include Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno.
“A quietly startling record, best heard way past midnight when a troubled world seems to offer no quarter” – Entertainment Weekly


Geoffrey Oryema - Makambo (Real World Gold)

Cristas Icaros - track 7

Download/Stream: https://fanlink.to/juntos

Agua de Flores, a co-creation with Mose, is the only song I have not created, it is a personal adaptation of a ceremony song called Agua de Flores that I sang while living in Mexico between the sea and the deep water of a cenote. The vocals were recorded together with Mose in Berlin and was produced by him with elements given to him by Steffen.

Voice, Sansula: Maywa
Native American Flute: Mose

ALUNA & Mose - Agua De Flores

Em meio a tanto caos, um pouco de música para clarear nossos pensamentos!

Amid so much chaos, some music to clear our thoughts!

Violão- Biraci Jr Yawanawa 
Charango - Nawashahu Yawanawa
Percussão - Ikashahu Yawanawa 

Salvem a Amazônia!
Save the Amazon!

🌳🌴🌲🍃🌎🌍🌏🙏🏻✌🏻🍀🐗🐗

https://youtu.be/OR54d7j_Fo8

Art by Sofia Barrell | https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HAUXHAUX

🏹⚡🐗 Dõ Dõ Dõ 🌈 Versão Acústica 🐗⚡🏹

Daniel Namkhay - momento presente, momento sagrado

OSM

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