transcendental

Les colliers de mon père

YOU!

A Knee Day

Tightrope Walker by @sowwwl is featured along with 26 other songs on RISING TIDES vol. 3.
RISING TIDES is SVNSET WAVES' autumn collection of music featuring only music from artists with 500 followers on less on SoundCloud. RISING TIDES is the best way for avid music listeners to discover new artists to support and get behind early on. Each artist on the 27 track compilation was invited to participate by SVNSET WAVES founder and tastemaker, Corbin Cary. So sit back, relax, and discover new music. 
Art by Alec McKeand (alecmckeand.smugmug.com @amongthepine on Instagram)

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Salvador S.OWWL - Tightrope Walker

Dreams Of Dahab

Reborn

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Time Crystal

Once (Repost Version)

“Maisha” is the Swahili word for life.

This album to me expresses the feeling of embracing life in all its forms, with its different perspectives, moods, sounds, energies. In contrast to previous work, which was somewhat more reflective, this album was made with a lot of creative energy and drive. When starting each track I felt like I was overflowing with ideas that I had to try out and get down as soon as possible. Sometimes the inspiration would come from listening to various new albums on Bandcamp from around the world: jazz, African folk, hip-hop, Neo-soul, funk, afrobeat. Other times the inspiration would come simply from biking around Los Angeles and taking in sights and sounds from different parts of the city.

I think there can easily be pressure when making to album for it to feel as though each album has to embody a sophisticated concept or make some specific statement. Albums expressing abstract concepts or political or social statements are important for the musical culture, to be sure; but music is also an expression of where the artist is at spiritually, emotionally, and creatively at a certain point in time. This is what Maisha means for me. It represents the joys, excitements, and bursts of creative feeling, as well as the tranquility and nostalgia that I felt at times while making it. With this work, as with my previous work, I am ever seeking to defy genre. Of course, it’s clear that downtempo and trip-hop music form the backbone of what I am doing, but I am also trying to challenge those labels all the time by exploring different rhythms, scales, arrangements, and instruments.

I hope this album helps you find inspiration to express yourself or explore in whatever ways are possible or speak to you in your life, as it did for me.

Thanks for listening.

x

Tristan de Liège

Personnel:
Conor Malloy: Drums 
Parker Law: Drums
Yvette Holzwarth: Violin
Isaac Takeuchi: Cello
Moana Avvenenti: Vocals
Carly Barnette: Vocals
Selina Carrera: Vocals
Steven Robinson: Trombone
Henry Solomon: Flute, Saxophone
Tristan de Liège - Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion

All tracks written and produced by Tristan de Liège, except:
Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) written by Tristan de Liège and Carly Barnette, and
Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera) written by Tristan de Liège and Selina Carrera.

Maisha

Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette)

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CL25gz
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3fXtdaH
Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3jDK8kD
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2A5C4aI

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Time of Sine represents the positive and negative forces in life, as a producer Atropolis is stuck between acoustic and electronic worlds, the sine wave is what bridges them together for him. One hand, the record is in part a score to this fictional character, Sine, and the journey it goes on. On the other hand, it is related to the up and down motions of this fundamental waveform; each track represents different emotions of these motions. Each feature engages with this movement and reflect upon negative or positive energies that have influenced them. Time of Sine embraces the up's and down's and all the growth influenced by the movements of these forces. Atropolis has spent the past decade teaching music production, releasing music, studying and working with sounds ranging from his own Greek-Cypriot heritage to other diverse musical cultures in Colombia, India, Mexico, Ghana and South Africa. With a degree in music composition and ethnomusicology, Atropolis is Adam’s alter ego that explores international styles of music fused with a diverse range of contemporary electronic genres. Growing up, Adam’s after school jazz program at Queens College greatly influenced his improvisational, compositional, and rhythmic approach to music production. His instructors at Queens College introduced a focused study on Thelonious Monk’s repertoire, which still resonates throughout Adam’s approach to playing his primary instrument, the piano. Parallel to these teenage musical moments, Adam was introduced to composition using Sibelius, and Digital Performer, where Atropolis got his first chops in music production using digital audio workstations. 

His upcoming album, “Time of Sine,” is due on Wonderwheel Recordings in July, 2020.

Time of Sine

Atropolis - Fight of Flight

Once (Repost Version)

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