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Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix
For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
02. Fadi Tabbal - The New And Improved Guide To Birdwatching Vol. 2
03. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols)
04. Michael Pisaro - A mist is a collection of points Part I
05. ZA! - Sancha
06. Ramsey Lewis - Dear Prudence
07. Oddjob - Kali Ma
08. Urban Tribe - Transaction
09. Adrian Copeland - Sons of Our Fathers

Photo taken by Stefan on a trip to Oaxaca by bus.

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

~ LAAPS 023 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP23]

artist : Seabuckthorn
 album : Of No Such Place
duration : 39.34 mn
 date : November 04th, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / solid silver LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Guitars, field recordings, clarinet, tongue drum, cymbals, effects and mixing by Andy Cartwright.
Double bass on 1,2,3,5,6 by Phil Cassel.
Recorded at home between March and April 2022 in Veynes, France.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photo taken by Andy Cartwright in Le Dévoluy in Oct 2021.
 Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/
https://seabuckthorn-music.com/

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Seabuckthorn - Hand In The Upward Sky

Ian Hawgood and James Murray began Slow Reels in 2018 from studios in London and Warsaw. The early work involved exchanging heavily modulated long-form textures, recorded on a variety of instruments, notably vintage synths. Reiterative digital manipulations and successive destructive passes through an end-of-life reel-to-reel tape setup resulted in a collection of entirely unrepeatable drone suites.

Their debut Farewell Islands for Morr Music was met with widespread critical acclaim. Sustain, presented now by Fluid Audio, extends the force of this uncompromising aesthetic further, as the artists’ shared medium further degenerates into overwhelming, full-frequency emotion.

Music: Slow Reels (Ian Hawgood & James Murray) 
Mastering: Ian Hawgood 
Design Daniel Crossley

...

Made by hand,

Book Editions' series. Vintage books dissected, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers...

1 x Vintage (circa:1890-1958) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled into CD covers) 
1 x CD (full size) 
15 Pages of writing / image inserts 
12 x edited polaroid prints on luxury uncoated paper (250grm) 
1 x Stamped / numbered library card 
1 x Vintage photograph (circa; 1902-1946) 
1 x Vintage book-mark 
1 x Vintage celluloid negative 
1 x Vintage 35mm slide 
1 x 35mm reel to reel audio strip 
1 x vintage music score insert 
Housed inside glassine bags

Stamped / hand numbered / scented 
Download code (includes 20 PDF prints)

Strictly limited edition: 100 copies (no two copies are the same)

Made with love...

Sustain

Slow Reels - Sustain

LOVE FOR PALESTINE
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
2pm-2am, Palestine time
#LoveForPalestine

A broadcast marking Palestinian Independence Day

Live in Bethlehem on :
https://www.radioalhara.net

The accompanying graphic is by Susanna Gonzo.

View the full playlist for this broadcast here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7jDVEzLWUeexD_2YfNBiMMqfzicH9lp26C9qIp7CmU/edit?usp=sharing

A global radio broadcast to express solidarity and love for the Palestinian people. 

A creative transmission on Radio AlHara and streamed on stations around the world. 

This day-long broadcast will feature sounds from the massive protests around the world, music, poetry and the voices of many globally who are mobilizing with all their hearts and with love for Palestine. 

For this broadcast we encourage people in cities around the world to organize local listenings at cafés, in bookshops, in homes, community centres and beyond. 

FREE PALESTINE, FREE GAZA

LOVE FOR PALESTINE broadcast on Radio AlHara

VOICES FOR PALESTINE

Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023
1-7pm, Palestine time
Live on @radioalhara 
https://www.radioalhara.net

Outline of broadcast contributions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16alctO9dikFeeqp-ZPCzHcUYJcJ9BX_cSr9HujWceYY/edit?usp=sharing

A global broadcast of solidarity aiming to highlight voices from around the world expressing their support, solidarity and love for the Palestinian people. This broadcast takes place as a sonic protest against the Israeli state military bombardment of the people of Gaza that is still ongoing right now.

This broadcast involving contributors from around the world includes music, soundscapes, voices + sounds from street protests globally, interviews and also the voice of many activists around the world expressing solidarity and love for Palestine and calling for an end to the Israeli state policies of apartheid and occupation. 

FREE PALESTINE, END THE OCCUPATION NOW

Original graphic by Josh MacPhee. Content outlined below, the program was edited and mixed by Stefan Christoff for Radio AlHara, if you have any questions about the groups involved or would like to contribute to future such initiatives stefan dot christoff at gmail

Artists Against Apartheid (Montréal Session)

VOICES FOR PALESTINE broadcast on Radio AlHara

Infinite Greyscale is delighted to present a new long-form composition by Stara Rzeka. The Polish village of Stara Rzeka and its surrounding countryside were devastated by a huge tornado on the 14th of July 2012. Stara Rzeka is where musician Kuba Ziołek, who adopted the name as one of several artistic projects, spends his summers, and the morning following the storm Ziołek was present to witness the aftermath. 
 
This self-titled piece opens to the crackle of electricity in the air and a distinct impression of menace. The distortion softens, but never truly fades, as it gives way to song; a graceful and melancholy ode to what nature has been divested of in the storm. Eventually this human presence, like the tornado, departs to leave the composition sounding like the land itself; wounded but brimming with life, buzzing and psychedelic. 

The fact that the artist, music, and location all exist under one heading suggests that these elements are interdependent and inseparable. This is music as elegiac at it is sanguine, at perpetual as it is fixed in time, and here Stara Rzeka is all of those things.



Single sided 10”, pressed on dark green vinyl with screen-printed b-side. Numbered edition of 300.  
Handmade artwork by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck. Screenprint by Ulrich Schmidt-Novak. 
Includes numbered insert, photograph, and download code.
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.


Stara Rzeka – Stara Rzeka IGR05

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/m-sage/
Catalog #: GN21
Rosso Corsa cassette, limited to 100

Born and raised in Ft. Collins, Co, Matthew Sage established himself as a formidable player in the greater experimental scene as a producer of utterly monumental works of processed ambient music using anything and everything at his disposal as M. Sage, along a bevy of other pseudonyms. From guitar, pedals, cello, field recordings, and severe but tasteful post-production, sound takes shape in a carefully focused but altogether organic way. Sage's acts of grandeur don't simply fall back on piling on just any noise or sound. Tones are sifted out of the ether naturally, separating themselves with the ease of an inherent belonging, best heard earlier this year on the sprawling A Singular Continent LP, wherein Sage created sonic worlds, fabricating entire geographies, geologies, latitudes, and histories. 

With Data in the Details, Sage turns the focus inward, pulling from a series of deeply personal scenes in his final two months in Ft. Collins doing data entry and moving high-end furniture into high-end mountain homes. The resulting two tracks process the experiences in disparate but inextricably linked ways. A-side’s “Data in the Details (heads up extended edit)” routes an amorphous and elusive trail of textured ambient modes. Glitched and muted melodies fold on top of one another in ways only Vladislav Delay previously mastered, while frigid patterns of sound ice over similar to Fennesz’s alluringly processed tones.

B-side’s “Data in the Details (mover isuzu dub edit)” repurposes the ample washes of the original track into more rhythmic and minimal acid-dub. Calling to mind Porter Ricks’ sub-aquatic dubbiness, traversing Jan Jelinek’s mutant, kraut techno, Sage revels in a sort of muted throb that flows through the entire side with both nothing and everything to lose.


02 Data In The Details (Mover Isuzu Dub Edit)

Voices for Palestine - Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

Live on Radio AlHara 
https://www.radioalhara.net
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
4-10pm, Bethlehem, Palestine time

Link to outline of all the broadcast content is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4AkJYooXbtnZ68AlV2kSVgQSyUeFlE9SWT_KyHf_CA/edit?usp=sharing

An international mix of soundscapes, poetry, music, spoken reflections and sounds of solidarity demonstrations from around the world. The sounds on this transmission express support for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. 

As Gaza continues to face deadly bombardment at the hands of the Israeli state, it is more crucial than ever to raise our voices together around the world to not only demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but to call for justice in Palestine more generally. In the cultural and music world this means cutting links to Israeli state backed cultural institutions. Now it is as critical as ever to learn about the intergenerational struggle for freedom in Palestine, an anti-colonial struggle that finds a sister struggle in the South African struggle against apartheid. 

A note to say that all the music, protest sounds, poems, mixtapes and sounds in this broadcast are included with permission. It has been great to work with people all over the Earth to bring together this material.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast. – Stefan Christoff.

Accompanying image is by Allison Figueroa Rojas from a solidarity protest in Barcelona, Spain.

Radio AlHara

Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

Track from NE15 Född Död - Studie I Närhet, Längtan Och Besvikelse LP

Order here: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com
https://clone.nl/item34101.html

Född Död -  I smärtan, fri

04 Psyche

Here's to another premiere! In collaboration with Lost Tribe Sound and Civic Hall we give you "III (Edit)" a shorter version of the original track "III" from the forthcoming release "The Trembling Line", a mix of bedroom pop music, ambient, experimental electronica and modern classical music.

It's a soothing and comforting sound but there's certain emotions you feel throughout listening to the album as a whole. A longing for something, finding out where you belong and trying your best to get there through sound. Low, distant drones and slowly moving piano melodies send you through a wide range of different situations and settings that you conjure in your head. 

A huge thank you to the artist Civic Hall and Lost Tribe Sound for letting me do this. Listen to this song in full down below.

Zine: https://invisibleguy.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/premiere-civic-hall-iii-edit/

Here's what the label has to say about the release:
"Here we find Craig Tattersall (the humble bee, the remote viewer, the boats) working with longstanding stalwart of the label, Euan Millar-McMeeken (aka glacis, Graveyard Tapes, Gallowglas). Euan's signature soft, creaking piano lines and fragile, whispered vocals are transformed by Craig's weathered tape machines into something well beyond what emotionally seems plausible.  'The Trembling Line' stutters and weaves through a multitude of somber vignettes steeped with heartache and comfort. Shifting between the two so easily, it feels natural to go from contented smiles to absolutely balling your eyes out."

Premiere: Civic Hall - III (Edit)

In collaboration with Lost Tribe Sound, it's time for another exclusive premiere from this label. This time it is mastroKristo with his song "Passage", taken from the forthcoming release with the same name, it is a venture through electro acoustic with neo-classical undertones. The whole song is a movement towards something, with sublime stabs from the instruments he uses and emotional melodies. Everything is repeated again and again but it doesn't feel like it gets stale.

Some melodies are changed towards something else, while another rhythm or melody fades it gets replaced slowly, over time with an even more interesting one but together as a whole they add much to the atmosphere of the song. There's a hint of nostalgica strewn across the soundscape but it also feels like you're traveling forward, in time slowly as everything fades into an eternity.

mastroKristo: https://www.facebook.com/mastrokristo/
Lost Tribe Sound: https://www.facebook.com/losttribesound
Zine: https://invisibleguy.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/exclusive-premiere-mastrokristo-passage/

Passage

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Exclusive Premiere: mastroKristo - Passage

Tracklist

01.  Civic Hall - The Trembling Line III
02.  Far away Nebraska - I nostri passi incerti in questa notte buia
03.  Zander Raymond - Repeat Until You Remember
04.  Lamasz & Thme - Chiffons d'azur - Les derniers signes
05.  Moss Covered Technology & Snufmumriko - Skagerrak
06.  Glacis & Field We Found - Two Mirrors Two Reflections
07.  Tomoyoshi Date and Bill Seaman - Duet 2
08.  Mich L.  Dream 3
09.  ioflow -  Costa's Canyon

400. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

A Voices for Palestine mix for Radio AlHara for June 15, 2025, thank you for listening, please pay attention to the track details below. The accompanying graphic is by Christeen Francis from the Justseeds artists' cooperative. Thank you for listening, below is the track listing.

01. Naseem Alatrash live cello excerpt, recorded at the People's Conference for Palestine
02. Atmosphere at Palestine solidarity action, recorded by Stefan Christoff
03. An interview with Palestinian activist Samar Alkhdour, recorded by Stefan Christoff in April 2025
04. William Ryan Fritch - Substrata
05. A Palestine solidarity protest at Concordia University winter 2025, recorded by Leon Louder
06. William Ryan Fritch - Cling to One Another
07. Interviews recorded at kite protest for Gaza by Sandra Hercegová 
08. William Ryan Fritch - Adhesion
09. Cyrus Bayandor - Part 2
10. Amir ElSaffar - The People of Gaza Will Be Free (No Silence)
11. daniela solís introducing Ruido por Palestina Libre mixtape
12. Puzz Amatizta - con la mano en la tierra
13. Lucía R. - higos y espuma
14. Albania Juárez - algarabía de las especies
15. daniela solís - paloma regresa
16. Astrid Runa - Saladgima
17. Fritanny - ORAR
18. Prisma - k-rma
19. (CiYi) - System Memory Failure
20. Ehab Lotayef - Burning Hills (poetry reading)
21. Philippe Battikha - Lascia ch'io pianga
22. Sloan Lucas - Le Feat avec Niyagi
23. Pangea De Futura - Little Black Eyes (excerpt)

Gaza is the moral compass

Order the Clean War (Out Now):
https://williamryanfritch.bandcamp.com/album/clean-war

“Empty bellied gods, Unsatisfied man. Though we devour one another, we can never stomach ourselves. Oh hollow beast, human discord rings out hanging in suspense. How can we resolve such a flawed progression?” - WR. Fritch

William Ryan Fritch’s new album ‘Clean War’ arrives during uncertain times - hollow leaders, blurred friends and foes, a heavy mix apathy and aggression divide much of our society, a need to label people, places, and ideas so quickly in order to usher them away to our like and dislike piles with no more than a crooked word from our sponsors.

The current state of music shares a similar struggle, slap it with a genre label, file it away in under a week on whichever xyz music blog, and forget about it. William Ryan and Lost Tribe Sound have long attempted to combat this lethargic behavior by producing substantive music that you’d wholly regret never laying ears upon, music that holds a fire in its belly and challenges comparison. A perfect example of one such effort is Fritch’s new ten song album, ‘Clean War.’

Of course music becomes more intriguing and mystifying the less we talk about it, but a few words may help clear the path. ‘Clean War’ is an album of grave societal concerns, with poetic and deeply cutting lyrical verses that take direct aim at them. Take for instance this poignant moment from the title song, “There is no clean war. There is no absolute truth. There is no victimless deed, but we are deaf to the echoes of each.”

Musical themes established, what does the album actually sound like?  It’s an even further rejection of the soft, clean cinematic stock stamped out by today’s modern classical scene. Don’t let the title ‘Clean War’ fool you, it is anything but clean. It’s a woozy descent into some of the dirtiest psych music around. Pained orchestras of guitar, strings, horns, and synths rise from the swollen landscape; saturated, buzzing vocals cut the air, only to be devoured once again by the fog. The percussion lumbers through the album's more rock framed moments like a thirty ton, war-clad pachyderm laying waste to, and oddly propelling each worn and beaten reverie. In its passages of retreat, ‘Clean War’ delves into an entirely new world, one which comparatively speaking would rest comfortably alongside the dank tape delayed burial grounds of Ian William Craig and Leyland Kirby's Caretaker project.

‘Clean War’ is an undeniably human album, proudly displaying it wounds and disgust.  Fritch must purge these dark psalms in order to not be consumed by them. Yet in the mire, a gentler tone resides, one that knows there is still good in humanity. He leaves us with a solemn prayer - a call to be decent to one another, to be more than hollow beasts, to upset a future of poor repetitious behaviors.

‘Clean War’ arrives right on the heels of Fritch’s incredibly bombastic final album in his 11 album Subscription Series, ‘New Words For Old Wounds’ delivered on May 20th, 2016. It’s worth mentioning, ‘Clean War’ is a look beyond, to a towering, shadowy mountain of music that lurks in the not too distant horizon. More on that soon!

All songs written, recorded and mastered by William Ryan Fritch  
Image licensed under CC 4.0 - (Source coming soon) 
Published by Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP 2016) 
Copyright by Lost Tribe Sound, LLC


Clean War

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William Ryan Fritch - Protracted (From Clean War)

The tale of the mythic pentaki mountain has been engraved on a two-sided circular piece of wax.

the north face of the peak is steep, abrasive, and has been the subject of many legends in the region. it is said that whoever would manage to climb it would find a plateau, leading to a place called “the single source of truth”.

considered as the ultimate goal by both psychedelic gurus and database o
ptimization corporations, and as an ideal retirement destination for a couple of lost souls in search for coherence and objectivity, the source diffuses endless loops of haunted voices, apparently sampled from a discarded call center, running low on power, encouraging listeners to shorten cycles, deliver requests and improve user experience.

it is also said that anyone climbing from the south side would never reach the summit or find his way to the plateau, and would always end up on a lower altitude than where he started.

this topographical anomaly is probably the reason why the south face of the pentaki has always been favorited by locals, with its sunny weather and its luxurious vegetation flourishing along the soft downward slope, leading to a slow and peaceful end.

Kangding Ray . The Pentaki Slopes . 12" E.P
r-n 145 . raster-noton

A1 : North
A2 : Plateau ( a single source of truth )
B1 : South

Plateau ( a single source of truth )

Lost Tribe Sound is a record label that specializes in organic and exploratory sound. Lost Tribe Sound admires music that leaves its tattered edges proudly in place, acoustic instrumentation blended seamlessly with dirty mechanics, timeworn sound worlds rooted in the muck and the mire of the present. The sound generally falls along the lines of bizarrely rhythmic, beautifully decayed electro-acoustic music, often with a reverence for low-end. LTS focuses on full-length albums, with a strong commitment to well-made packaging. The aim is to unearth timeless music that pushes the envelope of modern composition while paying homage to the ancient.

William Ryan Fritch - Protracted (From Clean War)

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