87th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Dylan Owen, LLWLL, Sleeve Of Skin, Blu & Exile, Fine China Superbone!, Original Flavor, Boyscott, Stereosity, Vic Spencer, and more

Joyful Union Select 087

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ANFANG

Stream on Spotify/Apple here: https://dylanowen.ffm.to/dobeforeyoudie

"ROMANTIC LANGUAGE" CREDITS
Inspired by the language of love, and a girl from the desert who taught me how to dry my eyes.
Lyrics and vocals by Dylan Owen
Produced by naebird
Electric guitar by naebird
Background vocals by Astraia
Mixed by Jeremie Inhaber
Mastered by Héctor Vega at Bespoke Sonics
Bespoke Sonics Assistant Engineer Isaiah Chamberlain
Bespoke Sonics Studio Personnel Dasha Sands
Mixtape Cover Photo by Thomas Ford Flynn
Mixtape Cover Artwork by Dylan Owen

DO BEFORE YOU DIE MIXTAPE

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ROMANTIC LANGUAGE

Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild

Birdseed

HLM38, There were wild drums and wild percussion. 
A spectacular fantasy in which people, objects and shapes collided in a marvellous brouhaha. Founder of the Notte Brigante label, HLM38 talks about his personal discotheque, label news and his various penchants for shipwreck!

Secteur Stérile w/ HLM38  [21.06.2024]

Stena

Biskopskulla Hogstena

*title track from coveted LA vocal phenom, bandleader, songwriter Sharada Shashidhar debut album Soft Echoes, out Sept27 2024 via Leaving Records All Genre preorder vinyl cassette digital at leavingrecords.com/soft-echoes
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Los Angeles-based vocalist, composer, and producer Sharada Shashidhar has a deep awareness of the cosmos. There’s a distinct tug-of-war in her music, an understanding that scanning the heavens to answer existential queries isn’t quite enough; there are internal depths to plumb as well. Shashidhar’s first album, 2020’s Rahu, found her voice billowing out of smoky, post-beat-scene soundscapes, meditating on the collective unconscious and the energy exchange between all living things. Her newest work, Soft Echoes, is a bold step forward, eschewing her previous work’s hip-hop tilt for expansive compositions that blend jazz and Indian classical influences into a swirling, spiritual whole.

Though she has an extensive resume as a collaborator in LA’s experimental jazz scene, notching work with the likes of Carlos Niño, Zeroh, and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Soft Echoes marks Shashidhar’s first outing as a bandleader. Gathering an ensemble that includes Anna Butters on bass, Julian Rodriguez on keys, Devin Daniels on saxophone, and Timothy Angulo on drums, Shashidhar sought to create a band that ostensibly functioned as an extension of herself. Her primary goals in writing these songs were to “let [her] body do what it wanted to do,” to trust her intuition, and “play without judgment.” Through that process, making Soft Echoes became a practice of presence and exploration, a chance to unlearn rigid structures and rediscover the joy of creating for oneself.

Recording took place over three brief, distinct sessions at Altamira Sound in Alhambra, California. Though the full band wasn’t ever present at the same time, Soft Echoes sounds like the work of a group in complete, mind-meld focus. Splashy drums nudge up against skronkingsaxophone on “Canyon Song,” while mushrooming synth tones stack up behind rippling Rhodes piano on “Luckiest.” Shashidhar’s elegant voice is the anchor for each of these tracks, sometimes gracefully stretching between instruments like a lithe dancer’s limbs, other times scattering through psychedelic delay.

She describes the album as having “two poles,” illustrated by the whimsical, buoyant opener “Soft Echoes” and the darker, more anxiety-ridden closer, “New Echoes.” The songs in between may come from different emotional spaces, but “it’s all really reflective,” she explains. The album can play like a loop, with Shashidhar entering a portal “into the endlessness” during “New Echoes,” only to be transported back to the beginning, full of gratitude and pondering “how strange it is to be alive.” On Soft Echoes, Shashidhar leads us on a journey through her mind, traversing its peaks and canyons in search of greater connection. “I want to take people places,” she says, pausing thoughtfully. “I can’t always guarantee that they’re good places, [but] hopefully you’ll feel something.”

Soft Echoes

Sharada Shashidhar - Soft Echoes

Meditative and minimalist explorations with Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kali-malone/episodes/kali-malone-30th-may-2019

Kali Malone 310519

D. Rose Angela Ellis - Mountain Song (1989) Side A

featured artists: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/unline-frequencies-earshot-xv

Unline Frequencies

Unline Frequencies – Earshot XV

‘…in still life we never see the human form at all. Still life negates the whole process of constructing and asserting human beings as the primary focus of depiction… Human presence is not only expelled physically: still life also expels the values which human presence imposes on the world.’ 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/timeisaway/episodes/timeisaway-28th-october-2024

TIME IS AWAY - The World Ignored 281024

Première édition dʼIco sur Rinse avec Aho Ssan continuant dʼexplorer les répertoires électroniques contemporains

Rinse France Podcast

Aho Ssan : Ico - 11 Novembre 2024

Girl couldn't share her love for a guy with anyone else

POP (1)

Don't Touch My Land

Electric Heart presents the 1930’s Golden Era — a Hopefire re-imagining of my original songs through the sound of vintage orchestras, ballroom swing, warm brass and old-Hollywood glow.
Ten stories, reborn in a cinematic world of strings, chandeliers and golden-age romance.
Step inside — this is the Hopefire way.


Sharada Shashidhar - Soft Echoes

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