UK heavyweights Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar share the second single 'Ma' from their debut collaborative album Shruti Dances (Guardians "Global Album of the Month") via the newly relaunched, Make Music imprint available on vinyl and digitally on June 17. On Ma, harmonic speed tabla and roaming drones provide a sense of the ethereal and fourth-worldly. 

Auntie Flo says on the track "This was when I think we really found our groove! I had got to grips with the subtleties of the Shruti box and everything flowed really nicely allowing Sarathy's tabla to really come into its own.” Sarathy Korwar goes on to explain "I played the tabla mainly just responding to the rhythms the Shruti box and Brian was throwing at me! We found this really cool filter/flanger effect with mix engineer Scott which gives the tabla an interesting electronic edge."

Across six exchanges of dynamic electronic production and richly layered Indian classical percussion, Shruti Dances discovers two architects of rhythm and movement on an explorative journey through South Asian tonality and diasporic identity.  

One an elemental force on drums, the other on the decks, London-based, Indian-raised drummer/composer, Sarathy Korwar and Scottish-Goan producer/DJ, Auntie Flo first connected back in 2019, unaware both were navigating opposite ends of the beat equilibrium. Where Auntie Flo (aka Brian D’Souza) was new to Korwar’s reimagining of jazz, Indian classical music, electronics and spoken word, Korwar was already a big admirer of Auntie Flo’s intl-facing club output, having first discovered D’Souza’s Rainfall On Red Earth off his Soniferous Garden 12” and 2019 SAY award-winning (Scottish Album of The Year), Radio Highlife. Once properly acquainted, Korwar invited Auntie Flo to remix a track off his landmark 2019 album, More Arriving, described by The Guardian as “a stylistic leap from jazz to hip-hop to spoken word…a protest record encompassing the breadth of immigrant experiences”. 

The seeds of an unlikely yet powerful musical bond had been sown and when mutual friend, co-founder of Mixcloud, and Make Music label organiser, Nikhil Shah, asked the duo to inaugurate the label’s new live/electronic direction (previously home to Leon Vynehall, U and George Fitzgerald), Korwar and D’Souza hit the studio. Expanding on early conversations around traditional Indian instrumentation, practising meditation and improvisation, Shruti Dances (a riff on free dance movement, Ecstatic Dance) was born. Meaning 'that which is heard' in Sanskrit, shruti refers to a note in musical terms, but in this case also references the album’s most prominent influence and instrument, the shruti box.

Korwar’s start on the bandstand and D’Souza’s on the sticky club floor might hint at an unlikely union on paper, the duo’s understanding of tempo, lineage and rhythm, results in a pulsing reinvention of traditional forms, unique to much that has come before.

Shruti Dances

Ma (from Shruti Dances LP with Sarathy Korwar)

Ta vui Xoè nhé(Trần Tiến)-Thanh Phuong Tran S Gang

Binh - Troi Di Live Session

Artist : smoug
Tittle : DO NOT DISTURB
Format：LP+CD

smoug is an instrumental post rock band from both Toyama and Tokyo, Japan. They released their debut album "Cloud Sprout" on Tokyo's Preco Records in 2013. The recording lays bare the influence of post rock bands from the early 2000s, such as Hood, epic45, Mercury Program, Howard Hello,and The Album Leaf with slow building melodies setting up a dreamy, sentimental atmosphere.

"Do Not Disturb" is the follow on remix album featuring artists from right across the spectrum of Japan's electronic music scene, featuring remixes from aus (flau), Ametsub (nothings66), mergrim (moph) and Cuushe (flau). They reinterpreted the tracks with a dancier vibe, adding their own unique twists to give something fresh to smoug's sound.

The album also features one previously unreleased track "Hail To You" an dtwo alternate takes on album tracks "The Long Morning Counterclockwise" and "Chip". This remix album is for fans of post rock, electronica & dance music.

"Do Not Disturb" will be released on LP (with free CD version of the album) on Tokei Records, December 2014.

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昨年2013年にデビュー・アルバム『Cloud Sprout』をリリースした、富山と東京の5人組 smougのリミックス作品をLP+CDでリリース。メロディックなアコースティック・サウンドと、アナログ感のあるウォーミーなエレクトロニック・サウンドがブレンドされた、smougのエレクトロニカ＋ポスト・ロック・サウンドを、Ametsub、mergrim、aus、Cuusheなど日本のエレクトロニカ～エレクトロニック・ミュージック・シーンを代表する豪華アーティスト達がリミックス。

躍動するリズミカルなビートと、きらびやかで色彩豊かなエレクトロニック・サウンドが鮮やかに行き交う、Ametsub、mergrim、ausの三者三様の類稀なる才能が発揮されたリミックス・トラックは、それぞれのオリジナリティのある世界観が絶妙に溶け込んだ、イマジネーション溢れるダンサブルなトラックに。また、日本が世界に誇るインディー・ミュージック界の歌姫Cuusheは、smougのインストのオリジナル・トラックにその美しい歌声とメロディで魔法をかけたヴォーカル・バージョンを披露。なだらかなループ・サウンドが心地良いサウンドに新風を吹き込み、キャッチーで艶やかなCMソングのような希代のポップ・チューンへと進化させています。

【side A】
The Long Morning Counterclockwise (Ametsub Remix)
Two Months Ago (mergrim Remix)
Chip (aus Remix)

 【side B】
The Long Morning Counterclockwise (feat.Cuushe)
Hail To You
Chip (Alternative Version)
The Long Morning Counterclockwise (Alternative Version)※
※LPのみ収録

smoug / The Long Morning Counterclockwise (feat.Cuushe)

In this mix I'm exploring the polyrhythmic, arpeggio, complexity quality of the sound with delicate blends (like a dragon) but most of all, danceable 😂
Hope you enjoy this weekend soundtrack like I do!
Much love for @nghi.nghi.nghi (IG) letting me use her artwork please check her out on instagram.

Tracklist because I'm nice as a person:

1 Mima - Dorisburg	
2 Molly - Bender	
3 653 Miles - No Moon	
4 Members of Warning 2020 - Bufiman	
5 Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way - No Moon	
6 Futuristica - Aldebaran	
7 Lahla Boy - Supreems	
8 Space Cake - Metropolitan Soul Museum	
9 Velocity - Ludwig A.F.	
10 Momentum - Sam Goku	
11 Cassandra - Donato Dozzy	
12 Paradise Drum - Sam Goku	
13 Somewhere Beach - Tibi Dabo	
14 Oshea - Niilas

Way of the Dragon

Cha No Aji

Yuuhi no Scene

Cánh thư cuối cùng - Em trao tôi lời cay đắng
Em xa tôi, xa tôi từ đây
Nhữn con đường quen giờ ta riêng bước
Xót xa dấu thời gian
Và những ban mai đến - không hân hoan đón nắng
Giọt sương bỗn thấy mình cô đơn
Những yêu thương khắc ghi bằng năm tháng dại khờ
Tan mau như cơn mơ

ĐK: Người yêu hơĩ
Sao cánh thư không mang lời hẹn hò 
Và nước mắt sao nỡ rơi khi nắng vẫn lung linh kỷ niệm
Người yêu hỡi sao cánh thư không mang lời giận hờn tình đầu.
Để tàn đêm giọt nắng ướt bờ môi ai.

ĐK: Người ĐK: Người yêu hơĩ
Sao cánh thư không mang lời hẹn hò 
Và nước mắt sao nỡ rơi khi nắng vẫn lung linh kỷ niệm
Người yêu hỡi sao cánh thư không mang lời giận hờn tình đầu.
Vụn tan những - những điều nâng niu.

Cánh thư cuối cùng quên bao điều chưa nói
Nơi cô đơn lung linh gịọt sương
Những xa vời xa tìm trong ký ức
Tìm giấc mơ thần tiên
Tìm chút hơi ấm
Đôi tay giờ đông giá
Tìm con phố những ngày mưa dâng
Những yêu thương khắc ghi vào năm tháng
Còn day dứt trên cánh thư
Một chiều buồn.


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