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M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

Craig Leon - Nommo

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Taken from Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting.


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Craig Leon - Nommo

Bing & Ruth - Reflector

Video: https://youtu.be/2xgcnaqKxoI

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Bing & Ruth - Reflector

Selection from LRF013 - midden
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Equipment
Apple MacBook Pro, Apple PowerBook G4, Audacity 2.0.2 Free Digital Audio Editor, BIAS Deck 3.5 DAW, BIAS Peak 3.0 Stereo Editor, Bontempi B9 Chord Organ, Drum Workshop 5000 Series Pedals and Hardware, Farfisa Mini-Compact Organ, Grado SR-125 Headphones, Griffin iMic USB Audio Interface, Ludwig 16 x 18" Floor Tom, Ludwig 18 x 24" Bass Drum, Pearl 4 x 10" Snare Drum, Pearl 7 x 12" Snare Drum, Rhodes Mark II Stage Piano, Rode NT3 Condensor Microphone, Roland BOSS Dr. Sample SP-303, Roland MC-303 Groovebox, Sony ECM-MS907 One-Point Stereo Microphone, Sony TCM-200DV Standard Cassette Voice Recorder, Unknown 10" HiHat Cymbals, Zildjian 13" Azuka Latin Crash Cymbal, Zildjian 13" K/Z HiHat Cymbals, Zildjian 20" Ride Cymbal, Zildjian 20" Pang Cymbal with Rivets, Various Pitched and Un-pitched Percussion Instruments, Vic-Firth Drumsticks, …

Acknowledgements
Matthewdavid, Jesselisa, and LEAVING RECORDS, dakim and audopilots, DELOFI and DIRTY TAPES, DIBIA$E and Green Llama, Ahnnu, Jonwayne, Ras G, Samiyam, Teebs and Brainfeeder, CULP, DTCPU, Lord Beatjitzu, SENSEI HIMSELF, Shogun Warriors, TWIN GALAXIES, etc., Bryant Canelo, LAMPGOD, and bootleg tapes, Perry Trollope, brrd, and Psalmus Diuersae, J. Gordon Faylor and Gauss PDF, Apsirs Group and Skylark Quartet, HOSE and hibari music, Masahiko Okura and gnu, Jneiro Jarel and Shape of Broad Minds, 0PN and Hudson Mohawke, Q-Tip and ATCQ, ?uestlove and THE ROOTS, J Dilla and Slum Village, Madlib, Quasimoto, YNQ, DJ Rels, Jeff Jank, Stones Throw, and Rappcats, Odd Nosdam, cLOUDDEAD, and BoC, Karriem Riggins, Chris Dave, … 

RIP
DF, DL, DM, FU, GF, JF, JY, MU, OM, SP, TG, TW, …

SP-MOLD - 2012

2pac - Thugz Style ( B.rOCk Rmx )

Witness Tha Realest

Get It In

Soundscapes for the Emotional-Type Listener

November, 1st in Detroit

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/coyotes/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/coyotes
Catalog #: GN49
Cassette, limited to 100

Félicia Atkinson is a composer, sculptor, painter, poet, and publisher from Rennes, France. Atkinson has led a fruitfully fantastic run of eerily blissful, serenely euphoric sounds. Whether under her own name or via her defunct recording pseudonym Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Atkinson has released work on Umor Rex, Digitalis Limited, Aguirre, and Shelter Press, an imprint co-run with Bartolomé Sanson.

‘Coyotes’ is an EP inspired by Atkinson’s last voyage to New Mexico in February 2017, when she visited and took in the geographic landscapes from Taos to Ghost Ranch. The same vistas also inspired much of Agnes Martin’s and Georgia O’Keefe’s painting, as well as Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry and translation’s works.

Atkinson describes a ‘Coyotes’ as a “Carnet de Voyage,” a tape you could directly play in your car while traveling somewhere, a kind of imaginary map to a sentimental journey. A spontaneous gesture, close to the notion of gift or offering. Or, simply, a postcard to a friend.” But it’s also a praise to the conservation of national and state parks and its human and non-human souls, menaced as we know now by drilling and violent economic speculations.

Here, coyotes act as a kind of metaphor of ambiguity and doubt, a state of mind that Atkinson find interesting to transcribe musically; the ambiguity furthered by Atkinson as a literal “foreigner” in New Mexico. She conveys a sense of visiting these native sacred lands and wondering what you are doing there.

Musically, ‘Coyotes’ is composed of two long tracks, “Abiqiu” and “Lighter Than Aluminium.” Each track features an effervescent froth of piano, midi sounds evokes marimbas, Fender Rhodes, bells, sub-basses, and spoken word poetry written by the musician to display a melancholic landscape made of transparent but deep layers of pale colors and blurry lines.

Félicia Atkinson - "Lighter Than Aluminium"

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

Lucrecia Dalt - Tar (Jan Jelinek Remix)

Sakura

Tobiume

Vinyl Edition available now via Second Thoughts Records:
https://secondthoughtsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-turntable-guitars-sampled-instruments

Recorded and produced by Chuck Blazevic, Summer 2017 - Fall 2019.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Graphic Design by Simone at Studio-Noi.
Co-released by Second Thoughts Records and Reliable Effects

SP-MOLD - 2012

Leaving Records

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