To Nowhere

Eurasian blackbird singing amid city sounds in Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris. June, 2022. Recorded by David G Haskell. 
Blackbirds has colonized the city and adapted their songs to the urban soundscape. For more on the birds and their relationship to the city (and to human culture and memory), please see my book, Sounds Wild and Broken.

Image: by Tomáš Marek, 2018. Creative Commons 3.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Blackbird_Turdus_Merula_%28262822201%29.jpeg

Blackbird Singing In Parc Des Buttes Chaumont

Futurhythmachine – Ilpo Jauhiainen
Ginette – Petteri Mäkiniemi

Attractor I

The backing track for my solo Sähkö Club live-set at Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä FI, 9 September 2023

Composed, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

'Ginette' parts composed and performed by Petteri Mäkiniemi

Field recordings – Ilpo Jauhiainen
Recorded in Jyväskylä, June-September 2023

Cover art: a detail of a Sähkö Club poster design by Olli-Pekka Tennilä

Ships (Live at Vakiopaine 9.9.2023)

Fragment 38 in a series of high-quality recorded sounds of various bells & cymbals.
Fragment 38 in einer Serie hochwertig aufgenommener Klänge verschiedenartiger Glocken und Becken. Enjoy!

Bells & Cymbals - Fragment-38

Mikael Seifu - Brass

Oumou Sangaré's single "Yere Faga ft. Tony Allen" is out on all platforms
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Oumou Sangaré - Yere Faga feat. Tony Allen

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Elena Bennett - Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

Composer, music producer, sound artist (b. 1977 Finland). Albums: Shimmer & Bloom (2011), Arrival City (2013), Sahara (2016), LOS-HEL: Possible Cities (with Emeka Ogboh, 2016), Pulses/Radiance (2017), Flash of the Spirit (2018), Outlands (as Aihio, 2019), Flux (2020), Sharawadji (2022), Interspaces (2022).

I work collaboratively and globally across the arts. My musical interests revolve around the possibilities and combinations of music and sound art, new global musical styles, contemporary classical and generative music.

Ships (Live at Vakiopaine 9.9.2023)

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