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I Am A Part Of The Wonder (feat. Moor Mother)

Pedro Ricardo, an exciting new signing to Soundway Records, shares "Ode ao gato" - a killer jazz number dedicated to legendary Argentinian saxophonist, Gato Barbieri.

According to Pedro, “for me, this song is anticipation, eagerness for things to come. It features my dear friend Luis on the drums and was inspired by one of my favourites, Gato Barbieri”

Portuguese multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer Pedro Ricardo will soon release his debut album, ‘Soprem Bons Ventos’, on London, UK based Soundway Records.

Currently based in Berlin, Pedro Ricardo has been releasing music for the past eight years under different aliases via labels such as Extended Records, 1980Lyfers, Wolf Music and his own imprints Hear, Sense and Feel and Pedro’s House. An eclectic DJ and selector, he hosts a radio show on South London's radio Balamii, has guested on Mafalda's NTS show and can be found playing in clubs across all Europe.

“The album translates to ‘Good Winds Blow’”, shares Ricardo. “This idea of good winds blowing is intertwined with the feeling of missing something, and sadness. On a positive note, there is still an overarching sense that happiness also lies ahead. ‘Soprem Bons Ventos’ represents an ode to the past, to those who came before me, connecting with my present and imagining the future.”

Stylistically, Ricardo became entranced with jazz from an early age, while also becoming enamored with folk music – rooted in his childhood in Portugal, now encompassing sounds from Cape Verde, Brazil, and Spain along the way. These crucial influences can be heard on the album, alongside field recordings, and electronics, on ‘Soprem Bons Ventos’. 

The beginnings of ‘Soprem Bons Ventos’ were born in his native city of Porto, but the album’s creative process spanned four countries and five years, finally finding completion after a move to Wood Green, North London. “This album has been following me around for the past five years,” shares Ricardo. “Wherever I went, it came along… but the majority of the recording process came alive in London.”

“The city had a particular effect on me. There are so many people doing so many exciting things, you have to ask yourself, ‘what makes the thing you are creating your own?’ This record has a lot of personal sonic moments like that. That is not to say that I found ‘my sound’, but rather that I found something that I think is special, and truly represents me now. The years when I was making the record also coincide with me moving away from Portugal, away from home  – this feeling is very much present during the record. You can hear it.”

‘Soprem Bons Ventos’ was written, produced, and performed by Ricardo, with cameos from Luís Neto on drums and vocals. The album was also mixed by Neto, and mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery Studios, featuring original artwork by Gosia Machon.

Soprem Bons Ventos

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Exclusive Premiere: Pedro Ricardo "Ode ao gato" (Forthcoming on Soundway)

'Majjie'
Lyli J
See Blue Audio SBA 050

1. Particles of You
2. Tide
3. See
4. Within
5. Lily's Groove
6. Chaconne
7. Vision
8. Ouh
9. Fountain of You
10. Tide (Arovane Remix)
11. Tide (Rhombus Index Remix)
12. Within (cole's Fear of Drowning Mix)

Release date: 15 March 2024

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

See Blue Audio reaches its landmark fiftieth release with the welcome return of Lyli J and her album 'Majjie'. This will be the fourth full-length album of her career and the second for See Blue Audio following 'Micro Wanders' released in May 2022. Nearly two years on, 'Majjie' builds and expands on the ideas of its predecessor and creates a musical tapestry that evokes the power of mountains, mystery and magic, and heralds the arrival of spring, while also remaining deeply personal and heartfelt in the way Lyli J brings to all her music. The album is a complete entity in its own right, of course, but the addition of three remixes from kindred artists bring further dimensions of audio expression and emotional energy and to the project.

Lily Jordy is a French American instrumentalist, singer, sound designer and electronic producer who releases under the name Lyli J. With a classically trained background to accompany her love for electronic music, she has crafted a very particular musical sensibility that draws on organic, esoteric and ambient textures as well as influences from IDM, trip hop, folk and indie. All this allows Lily to give full reign to her creativity, and this can be heard throughout 'Majjie' where a multitude of sounds complement, contrast and cascade around us.

'Majjie' is her own creative phonetic spelling of 'magie' – the word for magic in French – and it is dedicated to the breathtaking landscapes of the Alps and how hyperreal they can appear to the naked eye (she lives in the French countryside outside Grenoble). This nine-track collection takes the form of a stream of consciousness and was born in summer of 2022 while preparing for a live show at the Hadra Trance Festival. Some tracks, such as 'Tide' and 'Ouh', Lily imagined as being performed in a hot desert-like setting with just a guitar; then as autumn and the colder months arrived, she added a serene, calming glue to these more extroverted tracks with deep soundscapes like 'Chaconne' and 'Fountain of You'.

"Everything naturally came together as a reflection," Lily explains "as a closing of that year." This sense of long exploration leading to some kind of peace is a strand running throughout the music and gives the album its wonderful sense of identity. Whether with guitar and voice, dub-infused beats or beatless landscapes, every track has its special role in creating the aura of wonder that permeating throughout 'Majjie'.

Turning to the remixes that come with the album, German composer and sound designer Arovane strips 'Tide' down to its core elements to construct a vignette of ghostly ambience. Rhombus Index from the See Blue Audio roster also recreates 'Tide', but in his distinctive pastoral electronic style so evocative of the Yorkshire countryside. To complete 'Majjie', emptyvessel, the acclaimed electronic composer and musician from New Zealand, assumes his cole name for the shapeshifting and orchestral 'Fear of Drowning' reimagining of 'Within'. The result is a fervent invocation that hints at some kind of divine power.

As with 'Micro Wanders', this is an album to immerse yourself in; it's a space where nature, magic and inner reflection exist side by side in the awe-inspiring presence of mountains. 'Majjie' is a celebration of their embrace.

Mastered by Thomas Ragsdale.

Photography: Lily Jordy.

Majjie

'Majjie' (preview) – Lyli J (See Blue Audio SBA #050)

Dreams Of Youth (Feat. Trixy Gabriela)

‘Make It Real’ from Suuns new album ‘Felt’ out March 2nd, 2018 on Secretly Canadian

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Suuns - Make It Real

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Cannot Be Saved

Pre Order here https://deepheads.bandcamp.com/album/circuits
or https://kud.li/deepdep004

Deep Heads are very proud to present an incredible EP entitled 'Circuits' by Harry Griffiths.

Born and raised in Swansea, the rising talent of Harry Griffiths has been bubbling on the underground for a little while now. He's had releases music with Flow Theory and was featured on the last Deep Heads compilation, Cosmic Vibrations. His track 'You Don't Need to Be Exact' was one of the stand out tracks and is a brilliant little production. Definitely worth a listen if you haven't checked it out already.

Harry finds inspiration from the likes Geode, Henry Wu, Fat Freddy's Drop, nowun, Max Graef, Kaidi tatham & Glue70.

All parts are composed by Mr. Griffiths and performed with some serious swagger.

An interpretation of Jazz music in 2019 that holds an array of many different influences, translated and written with unique character.

'Fort U Were Sound' hears Harry step up the BPM to 140.

Wait for the 2nd drop on this one, when you'll hear him bring in electric guitar with some mystical effects.

Float away on a bed of delays and clouds of wonder.

It's low key and dreamy as you would expect from a Deep Heads release, but certainly has Harry's individuality pullity pulsing through its core.

It's improvisational music at heart, with warmth, freedom and that little touch of magic that surrounds its aura.

Circuits EP

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Harry Griffiths 'Fort U Were Sound' [Free Mastered Download]

'Pandora',  released on March 22nd available here: https://awal.lnk.to/equalechopandora

Mixed & Mastered by Dave Koor
Photograph by Pia Riverola

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Pandora

Africa

Khala My Friend (Reverb Mix)

First single from the upcoming album ''Melodic Snaps Vol 2''. 

Check also here for more S!X Music tunes:
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New Album 'Tonky' out March 21st on Jagjaguwar.

I Am A Part Of The Wonder (feat. Moor Mother)

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