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Konsistent - producer hailing from Vilnius, based in Copenhagen. On this podcast he serves some nice textured and warming up tracks. 

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Fernando Falcão - Memória das Águas (OMSD06) 12" album

A1. Memória das Águas
A2. Amanhecer Tabajara (À Alceu Valença)
A3. Ladeira dos Inocentes 
A4. Revoada 

B1. Mercado (Gravado no Mercado Tanger)
B2. Curimão (Sons Onomatopaicos e Folk da Guiné)
B3. Solito (Solo de Balauê)
B4. Danado Cantador (Balauê, Orquestra e Declamação) (À Fagner)

Selva Discos returns to the LP reissue game with a bang – by giving a new life to the stunning and very sought-after Memória das Águas album by Fernando Falcão. Originally recorded in 1979 in Paris but only released independently in Brazil in 1981, the album comes complete with genre-hopping explorations that swirl around ambient soundscapes, lively jazz, experimental-leanings, Afro-rhythms and a unique blend of Latin grooves and French pop with a Brazilian accent, but it also comes with a story as deeply unique as the music.

To make a long story short, after participating in the political movements against the military regime in 1968 in Brazil, Fernando Falcão left the country and moved to France, where he lived in exile for 15 years. There, after working in music, acting, and sculpting, he involved himself in Jérôme Savary's legendary Grand Magic Circus, where he met his first wife, Valérie Kling. It was from this relationship that a partnership began between the musician and his father-in-law, the artist François-Xavier Lalanne, who guided Falcão in the process of inventing sound sculptures such as the balauê – a horizontal version of the berimbau string instrument whose sound was influenced by a water stream (since there was a hose soaking parts of the balauê wet during the performances). Much of this exploration and experimentation resulted in the album Memória das Águas.

The album still sounds like little else from the time. As audacious and experimental as it is seamlessly listenable, it takes in immersive textures one moment before breaking out into Fela Kuti-esque brass-soaked grooves the next. It’s ultimately a record that captures the spirit and rhythm of Falcão’s homeland combined with the lush production and art-pop approach associated with his exiled home; It’s a polished, well executed and glistening record. Its fusion of African, Brazilian, jazz, pop, classical and avant-garde collides to create a record that spans as many continents as it does genres.

Remastered from the original master tapes, not only the sound but the artwork of Memória das Águas was completely and faithfully restored. Also, the reissue comes with unprecedented liner notes featuring rare photos of the musician and his sound sculptures plus articles that help to explain who Fernando Falcão was and where Memória das Águas sits among other staples of Brazilian music, including one from DJ and selector John Gómez – who helped to connect Selva Discos' Augusto Olivani with Diana Lion, Fernando Falcão's daughter (since the musician died in 2002), for this project.
 
After Memória das Águas, Selva Discos will also reissue another long lost Fernando Falcão LP album – Barracas Barrocas.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on 16/08/2019. Distributed by Kompakt.

Optimo Music/Selva Discos 006, 2019.

Optimo Music / Selva Discos - OMSD 006 - Fernando Falcão - Memória das Águas (album sampler)

Vinyl / Digi 06/09/2019 shorturl.at/mGMT0
Inversions returns with an assemblage of miscellanea from the magnetic tape archives of Dunkelziffer and Phantom Band guitarist Dominik Von Senger. Capturing impromptu moments of between the scenes coaction amongst the likes of Reebop Kwaku Baah, Jaki Liebezeit and Dominik himself, to create an animated picture of his communal musical activities at Brüsseler Platz, during a fertile period for underground music and art in Cologne, and exhibit a mosaic of moods, from mirthful to meditative.

INV005 - Dominik von Senger (extract)

Fragments 5

Written and Produced by Velmondo
Artwork by Dr. Me

Digital release date: February 27, 2020
Order here: bit.ly/2HmIG4h
© 2019 Hivern Discs

Fragments 5

Transubstantiation

Velmondo - Transubstantiation

Released on vinyl and digital 24/01/2020 via Above Board Distribution.

A1. Tsormemanya
A2. Let's Go
A3. Diloeshutubui

B1. Gidi
B2. United We Stand
B3. Nobody Knows

In 2015, JD Twitch's Autonomous Africa label released Youth Stand Up!, a triangular recording project hatched at Glasgow’s Green Door Studio that brought together young musicians from Belize, Ghana and Glasgow for ten tracks of cross-cultural collaboration. The result was an infectious cocktail of traditional Caribbean and West African rhythms, hip hop, highlife and Glaswegian post-punk, featuring contributions from Optimo Music regulars Golden Teacher and Whilst, among others.

The proceeds from that project went directly back to the youth groups in Ghana and Belize, helping the musicians from Ghana’s Tafi Cultural Institute build a recording studio and performance space in their village.

Two years later, a grant from Creative Scotland’s Open Fund spawned the sequel to Youth Stand Up!: Youth Stand United, recorded both at Green Door and at TCI’s new studio in Ghana (with Golden Teacher’s Laurie Pitt at the controls), and mixed by Green Door’s Stuart and Emily Evans.

Youth Stand United features backing tracks contributed by members of Golden Teacher, Pu$$y Mothers, Whilst, Kaputt, and Sordid Sound System, with vocals provided by the musicians from TCI. Over 6 songs, it oscillates from the left-field disco of Diloeshutubui to the Juju-electro odyssey of Gidi to the Joe-Meek-meets-William Onyeabor space age gospel pop of Nobody Knows.

Proceeds from Youth Stand United will go towards a scholarship fund for musicians from Tafi Atome, Ghana.

Autonomous Africa LP 003 - Youth Stand Up - Youth Stand United mini album

Release date: 20 January 2020

Very pleased to showcase yet another Glasgow-based act for our third Invisible Inc digital-only release.

This time it's French duo Double Discone who upped sticks from Clermont-Ferrand in late 2016 and landed in Glasgow on their feet running. They've got no less than 23 shows under their belt since their debut at an Invisible Inc night in May 2018, with of these performed 100% analogue and live!

For this release the duo have produced four extra-terrestrial synthesizer jams that head into slightly more experimental territory than the electro disco sound they are known for.

All tracks are recorded live with no editing using an incredibly limited set-up that the two can control using just 7 channels on their recording desk: 2 x drums, 3 x synths, 1 x reverb, 1 x delay.

The resultant sound is a vintage drum machine + retro-synth audio odyssey reminiscent of John Carpenter, Vangelis and other such pioneers of the '80s. Perhaps not entirely surprising, it reminds us most of their French compatriot: the singular Jean-Michel Jarre.

On the other hand the music is undeniably contemporary. Perhaps that's unavoidable when its two creators are both still in their early 20s? Similarities can be heard to Nico Motte, Etienne Jaumet and their peers over the Channel as well as Invisible Inc label mates Spacerocks and Tim Love Lee.

The EP opens with 'Espionage Industriel' which sounds like an imaginary theme tune for a 70s TV crime thriller gone wrong in which the detectives have been spiked with acid. 'Temps Modernes' is a look at the future from the past, a cult sci-fi film spinning out on the inside of the eyelids. The EP's titular 'Géant de Fer' sounds like a lost Patrick Cowley track created for one of the many gay porn soundtracks he recorded in the 80s. 'Retour de Chasse' winds things up very nicely; elements of Cluster, Harmonia, Tangerine Dream come to the surface.....the echoes of these ripple outward and dissipate. A perfect ending.

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Géant De Fer EP

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INVINC DD03 Double Discone - Géant de Fer EP [samples] OUT 20 Jan 2020

Tune in to Charlotte Bendiks mix, recorded for the day organized, planned and curated by Hugo Capablanca of Discos Capablanca for Mutant Radio.

Charlotte Bendiks [Discos Capablanca Takeover Vol:1]

Harmonious Thelonious is the solo project of the Düsseldorf musician Stefan Schwander. His works combine American-influenced minimal music with African rhythms and European melodies. The new album 'Plong' comes off with an exceptional work in the genre of electronic music, successfully embracing the physical power of a club night soundtrack whilst exploring the dramatic depths of sonic worlds to create an intensive listening experience in total solitude.

Plong

Harmonious Thelonious - Plong (Album Preview)

Ostrich

SALLAD EGG alias of Sally Evans. Don't ask her where the name came from, she can't really remember. Ms EGG is based in London where she hosts regular club nights under the name ŒUF. She is a long term vocalist and collaborator with the musician Zeta Zeta and a member of the Valley Sound Records family.