Name: Circle of Sleep Extract by Isnaj Dui
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Description: Extract from Circle of Sleep, full piece available at http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1035 and on limited edition from www.fboxrecords.co.uk soon...

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'Satellites Cry' is the music imagined for a segment of
the 1967 'Our World' broadcast, the first live international
TV programme bounced around the world by satellite.
Using only sounds from the Oramics Machine samples
we've tried to give voices to those satellites, calling to
each other across the vast void of space, and to us back
on Earth, on Our World.
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And the final comments from the Science Museum:

"...The results are in and after adding up the scores it turned out we had a ‘photo finish’ on our hands. Unfortunately you didn’t win, but we would like to give Satellites Cry a special mention, because it still had an impressive overall score and everybody really liked the idea of two “satellites crying to each other across the void of space,” to put it in the words of our judge at the Wire. 

Brian Eno said:”Has a strong mood, and the sort of mysteriousness that Daphne liked.” 

DJ Spooky thought it was a “beautiful ambient piece.”

We also think you submitted a pretty amazing track."

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[ More music along with track, gear and studio info available 
at the Audible Smile website - http://www.AudibleSmile.com 
-  along with higher quality downloads, graphics files, etc. ]
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A HUGE ALL-ENCOMPASSING HUG TO EVERYONE THAT 
HAS VOTED, FAVOURITED, KINDLY COMMENTED, EMAILED 
OR LISTENED, AND THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
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Afterwards

Satellites Cry (Afterwards Oramics Mix)

Simba Simbi Live set

Extract from Circle of Sleep, full piece available at http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1035 and on limited edition from www.fboxrecords.co.uk soon...

Circle of Sleep Extract

New album 'Bright Star' out now at https://textura.bandcamp.com/album/bright-star-2

BIO:
Since 2005, Isnaj Dui (Katie English) has stood awkwardly between neo-impressionism and electronica, conveying a minimal yet capturing sound using the pure tones of concert and bass flutes alongside home-made dulcimers and electronics.   Having done her grades on flute and cello, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan.  She has graced labels such as Home Normal, Rural Colours, Smallfish, Front & Follow and her own FBox imprint. 

Having gained critical acclaim for releases such as 2007’s Amacrine (Smallfish) and 2014’s Dead Albatross Prize nominated Euplexia (Rural Colours), English has been cited as a distinct voice, taking the flute away from its pastoral image whilst maintaining its unique mellow sound.  She has also composed several site-specific sound installations including UNThread as part of a series throughout unconventional spaces around Essex, and After the Flood as part of Hebden Bridge Arts Festival 2013.  A prolific live performer, English has performed in numerous high profile venues and has received extensive attention in Wire Magazine and air play on Radio 3's Late Junction and BBC 6 Music.

As well as her solo work, Katie plays in littlebow, The Doomed Bird of Providence, The Sly & Unseen and has collaborated live and on record with numerous bands including Piano Magic, Memory Drawings and Hybernation.


Reviews... 

Textura, July 2014 ‘There's a maturity of conception and execution on display that identifies English as an artist and producer of considerable merit, someone hardly content to merely string myriad sounds together in the hope that they'll coalesce into something meaningful.’

Norman Records, April 2014 ‘…delicately attuned balance between almost spiritual stillness and constantly shifting textures and melodies with a sometimes confrontational playfulness about them…  Quite remarkable, possibly the best of her many releases that I've heard.’

Boomkat (album of the week) 'Absolutely gorgeous music and a big recommendation for followers of [Home Normal] and good music everywhere.'

Smallfish (recommended) 'Truly a delight to listen to and something that is both familiar and strangely exotic sounding. You’re unlikely to hear another album quite like this in the near future and for that we must be thankful that Isnaj Dui is out there doing her own thing.'

DISCOGRAPHY

Bright Star (textura), January 2021

Sight Seeing (FBox), November 2019

Poiesis (Rural Colours), November 2017

Sunspot Loops (Courier), July 2017

Answers at Dawn split album with These Feathers Have Plumes (Was Ist Das), April 2016

Stone’s Throw split EP with The Declining Winter (Rural Colours), September 2015

Dioptrics (FBox Records), August 2015

Euplexia (Rural Colours), April 2014

Secondary Projections (Hibernate), February 2014

After the Flood (Hibernate) June 2013

Duodecim (FBox Records) subscription series running September 2011-August 2012, CD released Feb 2013

Abstracts on Solitude (Hibernate) June 2012

Circle of Sleep (FBox Records) February 2011

Protective Displacement (Rural Colours) December 2010

Unstable Equilibrium (Home Normal) August 2009

Patterns In Rocks (FBox Records) July 2007

Amacrine (Smallfish) June 2007

Sequence EP (FBox Records) May 2006

Isnaj Dui (FBox Records) March 2005

Circle of Sleep Extract

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