GodKing MajorLucre - Ft Joon Da Great ( I Hussle )

Hiding away again, Vera starts to feel her psychological stability falling apart.  She continues to pray to anything that will hear her pleas to save her from losing herself while trapped alone so far away from home, and no sign of hearing from Vincent and his team.

Project Umbriel

HIMOS (Hiding Inside My Own Space)

HIMOS - Hiding Inside My Own Space

Drive Without Arrive

3 hour flip.
Original tracks - https://youtu.be/jOyUBpEfC0w (3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17)
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming

Loop Diggers Sunday Roulette Challenge 114 Trk 2 - N U N Y A

'Lincoln’s Tinned Peaches have a new track out called Surrender. It brings together an intriguing mix of flavours. Fast and funky in a frantic Post-Punk influenced manner, the striking melody and tasty Bass Guitar figures grab me immediately. The band’s playing and chemistry is impressive across the board. In the chorus we get tempo shifts, multi-tracked voal harmonies. In the final section, the lead guitarist goes for it and the band’s playing is fluid and almost freeform'.

Neil March, Trust the doc., Ed. 81

Surrender

I'm writing on piano (well, a Bosendorfer Grand Piano present on Logic) as I've got a piano piece commission so I'm triallling ideas for that. Plus, tentatively getting used to the whole new world of possibilities of this DAW.

This is this week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge:

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st May 2023

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

webbed (naviarhaiku490)

captain graphite: a long poem dedicated to don van vliet.
the text exceeds the character limits of this description box in soundcloud. the writing is a work in progress. guitars added today.
painting of captain beefheart by tom russell

Captain Graphite

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen" (release date: June 17)

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd is a musical collaboration that has been going on since 2019. The first single "Slow-wave Sleep/Dröm i färg" was released in 2020 and now their debut album "A place in the sun" will be released on June 17, 2023. The music moves between post-rock, ambient, kraut and dream pop. It is instrumental music, using vocals without words. With vivid song titles and musical visualization, they take listeners through different imagined scenes. The album is released on streaming services and CD through Stålverk Records.


Alpha Mound

Alpha Mound is Joakim Westlund's solo project. Since his first release in 2012 he has produced many albums and EP:s under this moniker, sometimes through collaborations with other artists. The music is usually ambient with sound design as a central element.


Tidsrymd

Tidsrymd is Johan Ohlsson's project, producing electronic music since 2018. The music moves between kraut, minimalism and ambient. 


Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen"

The album "En plats i solen" was mostly made by the duo in Joakim's studio in Sandviken. Later on guest musicians have been brought in to build the large soundscape that makes up the record. The album features Sofia Costa Nordvall (vocals), Karolina Dahl (vocals), Peter Fredriksson (trombone), Martin Hällgren (drums) and Ida Norrman (vocals).


About some of the tracks:

Godmorgon framtid was the first single from the album, which came with a remix by Slim Vic. It is inspired by an old coffee table book from 1984, with the same name, in which Bengt-Arne Vedin and Bengt Preston painted titillating visions of the future and predicted such things as "electronic express letters" and robotic lawnmowers. It is an energetic, hopeful and uplifting song.

Dagsverk is a work song with a swagger, post rock guitars and humming sing-along chorus, kind of a spiritual for the 2020s. 

Vid tystnadens rand takes us to atmospheric ambient with quietly humming vocals (a bit like Enya). Alpha Mound plays a bowed guitar, which adds a kind of quiet drama to the song.

Östersjön paints a dystopian dark ambience to soft, jazzily stroked drums. We see the song as a bittersweet musical depiction of a rather ruined place, where beauty and tragedy sings side by side.

En plats på solen is a brutal song that contrasts the uplifting title track. But instead of beaches and leisure, we imagine solar storms and extreme heat. The composition is inspired by the title track of the 1984 Dune film and Edvard Grieg's "The Death of Asa" from the Peer Gynt suite, but filtered through the usual punk/indie racket.

06 - En plats på solen

2023-06-21

The Story Of Salvör

I watched Glastonbury with old legends like Elton, Cat Stevens, Blondie and The Pretenders etc. who all showed they can still rock the place in their 70s!! Amazing! Hats off to all!!

Here's a track in the "Brit" style and tradition and it gave me an excuse to give my guitars and voice a bit of an airing :)

Writer's Block

UNDEDITED 2

bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Artwork by Jackie McMaster

spring meadow concert [naviarhaiku495]

Crucifixion

Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023

The composition was released in June 2025 on the CD BRASS TACKS 3 by Parma Recordings
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6714

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5F4F8BD
 
SHORT INTERVIEW

1.) What unique qualities of brass instruments do you aim to highlight in your composition?

My composition consists of two different parts: composed music, which is rhythmic and harmonic in the broadest sense, and improvised music, which consists exclusively of noises and contains aleatoric elements. I had given the musicians a list of playing techniques with details such as hissing sounds, frullato, clicking sounds, whistling, drumming with the fingers on the sound tube and the like. I wanted to show the fantastic things you can do with brass instruments, apart from playing them conventionally

2.) Did you draw on any traditional brass idioms — such as fanfares or chorales — and how did you choose to either embrace or subvert them?

When composing, I actually proceeded quite intuitively, without giving it much thought. The result was optimistic, joyful music. The harmony constantly modulates along the circle of fifths. Every few seconds, another accidental is added, resulting in a continuous circling.
I wanted to counter this with a modern, avant-garde contrast. The noisy, improvised passages are quite exciting and at times ironic or witty. The brief was to create a random music like in nature. However, the composed parts are actually also avant-garde, and often both – the composed and the improvised – permeate each other.

3.) What composers, traditions, or personal experiences informed your work on BRASS TACKS VOL. 3?

I believe that Tagundnachtgleiche is a bit influenced by Bach, although I cannot explain it further. And I also have a lot of experience with improvised music

4.) If you achieve instant mastery over any instrument in the brass family, what would you pick?

Tuba, probably. Or, tenor horn. In any case, one of the lower brass instruments with a soft, voluminous, deep sound.



Tagundnachtgleiche - brass quintet

20Jul23

My naviarhaiku498 submission
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/07/19/naviarhaiku498-long-days-and-warm-nights/
:D

Long days and warm nights [naviarhaiku498]

next evening, another double guitar-moment

Acoustic Evening Session Pt. 2

afternoon heat
the heavenly dance of
cumulus clouds

Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri is a Norwegian-Canadian translator, walker, coffee addict, haikuist, and short-story writer. She currently divides her time between Norway, Italy and Canada. She started writing haiku to get past writer’s block but got hooked on the daily practice.

Her haiku, senryu, and haibun have since been featured in Frogpond Journal, Under the Basho, Best Haiku Anthology, Poetry Pea, Haiku Blossoms, Quatrain.Fish, Autumn Moon, Prune Juice, Songs of the Pandemic, Haiku Journal, Dadakuku, Heron’s Nest, Hedgerow, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters. Her prose is widely published, most recently in Best Small Fictions 2023.

The heavenly dance of cumulus clouds (naviarhaiku499)

Made for Naviar Records' 500th (!!) Haiku Challenge, using Maxx Black's track https://soundcloud.com/maxx-black/blue-paper-slippers with his kind permission (didn't quite go where I wanted it to, but...)

Details of this challenge at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/02/naviarhaiku500-morning-solace/

Apple blossom morning [naviarhaiku500] with Maxx Black

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by 
Hege A. J. Lepri's poem “afternoon heat / the heavenly dance of / cumulus clouds”

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/07/26/naviarhaiku499-afternoon-heat/


Tracklist:

mikey_a - Dance of Cumulus
Nadìr - Afternoon Heat
Night Note - Afternoon Heat
Stan Magendanz & Marco Lucchi - The heavenly dance
LazenbeeIndustries - afternoon heat
33per - The heavenly dance of cumulus clouds

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #280 – afternoon heat  – Wednesday 9th August 2023

Shane Beck : voice
Marco Lucchi : piano and tape

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"Awareness Of The Poet"

Beneath the facade of the light in which he adored so much
We were imprisoned by the sheer loss & the lack of touch 
No compromise or a hand to guide my soul to where I wish to be
Awareness Of The Poet & the sorrow of the inner child lost in me

There was such beauty in the arms of the only true love I knew 
Regardless of my careful steps, I was told I could never have you 
Repeating the words of a love song I once wrote in a book....
Awareness Of The Poet & the secret you will find if only you will look 

Shane Beck

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picture by Gottfried Bonn

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agosto 2023

GodKing MajorLucre - Ft Joon Da Great ( I Hussle )

Joshcold