Covering Chris Isaak's 1989 hit. I've always loved this song.

Arranged, produced and performed by Kat Bryan.

Wicked Game

Re-imagined version of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero", released in 1986. Track one of "Reverie".

Performed, produced and arranged by Kat Bryan. Mastering provided by Thomas Ragsdale.

Reverie

Holding Out For A Hero

Cover of I Put a Spell On You, written by Screaming' Jay Hawkins in 1956.

Produced, arranged and performed by Kat Bryan 2021.

I Put A Spell On You

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Keysound - 27 January 2022

'Art Of Beatz Radio's 18th birthday celebration on @CoopRadio with the first of several special episodes. In the guest slot on Friday March 4th, is Grant Aaron of the esteemed @mysteriesofthedeep label with an exclusive ambient session.'

https://coopradio.org/shows/art-of-beatz/

Art Of Beatz Vancouver 100.5 – Grant Aaron

Keysound - 28 April 2022

I composed this song while on the road in Oregon this past August. The Ghost Forest is an actual location in Neskowin Oregon which is where I took the album photo. It's my first attempt at writing a 2-Step track, which is a genre I've always appreciated and have recently started exploring again. Enjoy!

GHOSt Trax

Ghost Forest

'You Cannot Cheat the Muse'
Kuma
See Blue Audio SBA 040

1. The Antidote Was Always in the Poison
2. Scribes of the Rabbit God
3. Ecclesiastic Geology
4. Written Are the Stars
5. The Body Is a Good Indicator
6. Of Great Acuity
7. Haunted Blue Ant
8. Headless Cargo
9. The Likeness of Prophetic Being
10. River House
11. Your Eyes as Lodestars

Release date: 18 November 2022

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See Blue Audio: ambient / electronic / beatless / cinematic / downtempo / eclectic / introspective… Shade rather than light...

Travellers through the alternative electronic music scene with surely be acquainted with the name Kuma. For the fortieth release on See Blue Audio, the label's exploration of the outer reaches of ambience continues with 'You Cannot Cheat the Muse', an album from Kuma that draws on his myriad musical influences as he celebrates the mystical, the ceremonial and, at times, the transcendental power of the world that surrounds us all. This is a space where the zen and the cosmic collide and harmonise, and where new tools for living are created.

Bristol-born and Vancouver-based, Kuma has been destroying old worlds and building new ones for over two decades, stamping his curatorial fingerprint on the Canadian dance scene as a DJ, promoter, label owner and radio presenter. The long-running and respected weekly Art of Beatz show co-hosted with Motomasa on Vancouver's Co-op Radio is the city's home for electronic music of all shapes, sizes and speeds, everything from gentle ambience to tearin' drum & bass and all points in-between.

Kuma has also established his credentials as a producer and remixer, and his most recent releases include albums on labels like Waxing Crescent Records, Fallen Moon Recordings, and Thomas Ragsdale's Frosti and Soundtracking the Void imprints. Now it's the turn of See Blue Audio, and his first release for the label is arguably his fullest statement of intent to date; this is Kuma sounding the only way he knows how.

"Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." It was this quote from William S. Burroughs that led to the creation of 'You Cannot Cheat the Muse'. As a student of the Japanese tea ceremony, Kuma took up the act whilst living in Japan because it made art out of something everyday like the making and serving of tea. Now with this 11-track album, he's created a series of sonic overtures that rise and fall with everything we do. 

Recorded at the Little Black Rain Cloud studio in Vancouver, the sound palette on 'You Cannot Cheat the Muse' is forever shifting. A series of improvised recordings based around his own vocal looping system were then chopped up and turned inside out. Tapes, synths, field recordings and the human voice are all intertwined into a series of rolling waves buffeted by orchestral overtones. Beatless soundscapes are underpinned by dub-infused pulses, and the influences of early alternative electronica can be heard trickling through. The curious and the eerie merge with the physical, the spiritual and the sometimes supernatural with the end result an ever-morphing array of musical structures designed for all things and all times.

It's impossible to single out individual tracks on 'You Cannot Cheat the Muse'; instead, this album demands to be listened to as a whole. It's a collection of music for making magic out of the mundane and making ritual out of anything you please. Put it on in the background and let the detail seep in ever so gently, or turn up the volume and transcend time. Whatever works for you.

Artwork and photography: Kuma.

You Cannot Cheat the Muse

'You Cannot Cheat the Muse' (preview) – Kuma (See Blue Audio SBA #040)

you will be mist


when the sun swells red
a glowing inferno
boiling us

when the sea is slime 
and only the jellyfish remain
our cradle a wasteland

when we have cut down the last tree
leveled the last mountain
filled the last stream

when we are made of money and system
digits and hot air
and we consume each other

when we have dammed the rivers in our hearts
for power and control
fear and shame

when our heartlands have flooded over
and there is no high ground
and suffering is cheap

when we abandon our humanity
and each other
drowning

disgraced

just know 

what blessed 
little droplets
we were

dripping, streaming
reflecting pools
steaming in the spring sunshine

coursing through the veins
of the youngest green saplings
pushing sunward

uniting in strength
cutting a course through the rock
together for the big one

but now 
only one thing 
is for certain




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///big pisces moon energy///

i’d like to say “this too shall pass”, but we know of course that it might not. it will definitely be whatever it is. and that’s okay.

may you be seen.

you will be mist

All original house and techno

Setlist:
16 Frames A Second
One Day I Won't Come Back At All
Vapours
You Don't Punish A Man By Giving Him What He Wants
Tyranny Version
Sonar Version
Nakajima Koen Dori
Bus Centre Mae
Tanuki Koji
Yon Jo Ni Chome
Hope
Lando's Scape
Yew Moore

Live at the Fox Cabaret: May 22, 2024

~ Deep Breakfast 269 by https://soundcloud.com/kuma ~

Tracklist:
1. Pijn - Our Endless Hours (Kuma Edit)
2. zakè - Veta
3. Bjork - The Anchor Song (Black Dog Remix)
4. Adam Wiltzie - Buried At Westwood Memorial Park, In An Unmarked Grave, To The Left Of Walter Matthau
5. Brendan Eder Ensemble - #3 (Rhubarb)
6. Karen Vogt - Cloud Forty One
7. Kuma - Read The Air
8. Simon McCorry - The Earth's Sorrow for All Things That Pass
9. Yann Novak - Traversing The Substrata
10. Field Lines Cartographer - Thawing Ice Temples
11. dBridge - So Lonely (Acapella)
12. The Howard Hughes Suite - Desert Spirits
13. Kuma - Silverscrap Merchant
14. Donnacha Costello - Seiche
15. Wanderwelle - My Body Lay Afloat
16. Lamasz and Grandbruit - Elle
17. Loscil - Shadow Maple
18. Nick Cave  - The Flesh Made Word
19. Loula Yorke - Monolithic Undertow
20. From Overseas and zakè - Demain des l'aube
21. Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri - Place Of Forever
22. Underworld - Denver Luna (Acapella)
23. Tewksbury - Skywatchers
24. Kronos Quartet - String Quartet #3 (Mishima Closing)
25. Current 93 - I Have A Special Plan For This World
26. KMRU and Kevin Richard Martin - Difference
27. The Inward Circles - Our Light In Ashes
28. Eiko Ishibashii - Evil Does Not Exist Here
29. Dawn Chorus And The Infallible Sea - Reveries
30. Ian Boddy - Locrian
31. Refreshers - Moving Up Dub
32. Benoît Pioulard and Offthesky - Fed On Lilles
33. Kuma - I Will Follow You Further Into The Dark
34. Nils Frahm - Familiar

Kuma
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Deep Breakfast Series
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Deep Breakfast 269 ~ Kuma

Where to begin? A veteran bass slinger of over twenty years, Kuma has brought sounds across the dub-based spectrum to ear and asses from Sapporo to San Francisco. Recognized by the likes of BBC Radio 1's The Breezeblock and their infamous "Dubstep Warz" show and able to turn heads both on the dancefloor and in the sound-art field, his is not your average sound.

Live at the Fox Cabaret: May 22, 2024

Kuma

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