Recordat recorded on Radio Alhara in Bethlehem for Captain of None @captain-of-none

This is the second story by Captain of None for recordat.
Captain of None is an active friend of recordat and is curating some of our takeovers on Radio AlHara every other Sunday of the month.

Captain of None is the hard-to-pin-down persona of Sophie Funke, founder of leftfield label Ploychrome Sounds @polychromesounds and one half of downtempo DJ duo @spatzhabibi. She explores ambient an ethereal sounds of the heartfelt kind, creating a sonic shroud behind which the notions of time and place shift and realign.”

This is the 25th session of a series of sessions Recordat is hosting on Radio Alhara every other Sunday from Berlin.

recordat:invites: Captain Of None - #0025 - 02

Recordat #0035 invited Kinship to curate 13 hours for the Sonic Liberation Front in solidarity with Palestine on @radioalhara. Aired first on August 1st, 2021 as part of the Sonic Liberation Front, an initiative for Palestine by a group of audio platforms and sound artists who came together to unify their sound for Palestine and protest against the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

@kin-ship is a label based in Berlin, exploring the mysterious series of relation and encounter.

This is the 35th session of a series of sessions Recordat is hosting on Radio Alhara every other Sunday of the month.

recordat0035: SLF: kinship: 01 - IZABEL

2022 kicks off with a mix by long time dear friend and Lullabies For Insomniacs mastermind Izabel (@lullabiesforinsomniacs) who recorded the mix live in Melbourne outdoors during a Wax'O Paradiso event. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Izabel, nice to have you kicking off the mix series in this new year. You're in sunny Australia now but before that you'd been living in Europe for quite some years. What made you decide to move back?

IZ: Europe was home for almost 7 years, I left Australia in my early 20’s thinking I would be away for some months but fell in love in Amsterdam and spent years living in the city. In 2018, I moved to Berlin where I lived for a year, I found inspiration through all walks and was surrounded by great crew but grew tired of life in the big smoke. I wanted new challenges and yearned to be amongst nature, so left the city and travelled south to the Atlantic where I spent time in France, Spain and Portugal before heading to Corsica. I slept in a tent or stayed with friends and got on by doing seasonal work. I had not been back to Australia to see family and friends for many moons and was homesick, so decided to make my way across the Indian Ocean. Australia had heavy border restrictions, so plans to return were slow.

MFM: Your label Lullabies For Insomniacs had some busy times from 2016 to around 2019, after that it got more quiet and also the format shifted from vinyl to digital and cassette. What can you tell about this transition?

IZ: The transition happened naturally, I was traveling a lot which effected the label and my creative output. The tapes from Unearth Noise and Baldruin are recordings that we had been sitting on for some time but for various reasons kept delaying release. We decided to bring them out on tape as the music was better suited to this format. My sound world has been heavily inspired by the DIY music and tape scenes of Amsterdam and Berlin in the 80’s and there are great tape labels around today that were also motivating, my friend Etkin’s label ‘Kinship’ is one of these.

MFM: And now that you're settled in Australia again, what are your thoughts and plans with the label and music? Did the past 2/3 years change your perspective/vision?

IZ: Visions and inspirations come and go, some solidify and take root while others are fleeting in dream form. My focus has certainly changed as I devote more time to learning new skills and pursuing other crafts like furniture design, ceramics and writing. The music scene here in Melbourne is thriving, there are a lot of great artists and as I was
away for so long there is much to discover.

MFM: What can you say about the set/mix? Perhaps you can describe the setting it was recorded in?

IZ: The records I packed were chosen while isolating at home, this setting could not be more different to the glorious Sunday afternoon on the lawns at the Wax’o event. I played before OK EG who did a live set to celebrate their new record released as the debut on the Wax’o imprint. It was the second time I had the pleasure hearing them perform, their set made way for a great night. I thought a lot about European winter whilst making selections, I do miss spending the end of the year wrapped warm in Winters caress. These reflections and the recent passing of someone close to the family has brought me into a state of deep
introspect these last weeks, the session is both celebratory of life and a lament to lost life. This mix is a recording from the first hour, the second hour I played some psych, dub and percussive jams. 

MFM: Any plans, wishes or anything else for the near future that you'd like to share maybe?

IZ: At the moment I am taking each day as it arrives and am happy to continue on a journey learning and growing and enjoying time with family and friends. In February I will start a little party series in Melbourne with my friend Martha called Dub Cake. All the while my dream to move sea or country side lingers.

MFM Mix 036: Izabel

EOS radio show aired on June 3th, 2022. Guest mix by @izabel_caligiore

1st hour: Agonis

2nd hour: Izabel

EOS Radio June 2022 – Izabel invited by Agonis

Lullabies for Insomniacs - FOUR

Sunrise moods from Kolkata with Ixelonkoordinaten, Victor & esclé

also see www.soundcloud.com/ixelonkoordinate or www.soundcloud.com/escle

Kutter vor die Fische zum Sonnenaufgang bei Kolkata

A selection of records from recent travels to Brazil.

LFI 26 'Brazilian selections' with Izabel @ Red Light Radio 17/03

Izabel approaches her dj sets with an inquisitive nature, taking raw excursions that explore abstract electronics, synthesized sounds and acoustics. Her studies in sound art and electroacoustic music in Melbourne, London and The Hague became the foundation for Lullabies for Insomniacs. The label and guest mix series is a beacon of curiosities which explores a wild sonic terrain that continues to unfold over the labels evolving catalogue.

Surveying vast sonic territories, her selections evolve throughout her sets, drawing for the unknown and the weird and wonderful. This mix for our series is a perfect example of her exploratory character, featuring roaming, lo-fi percussive workouts, cosmic vocal elements and far more that create a unique journey across the hour, guiding listeners into new sound worlds.

https://soundcloud.com/izabel_caligiore

DIM188 - Izabel

Memories, reveal the shape of the clouds.


Closed eyes travel with Mark Vernon listen here to his contribution to the LFI series, the sound artist based in Glasgow superimposes temporalites and spatial realms to dissolve reality.

https://soundcloud.com/markvernon

Mark Vernon - Separated By Glass - Lullabies For Insomniacs Guest Mix

Recorded at The Do-Over Brooklyn (July 28, 2019)
more info: www.thedoover.net

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Biz Markie at The Do-Over Brooklyn (July 28, 2019)

"Economists' forecasts for GDP growth in 2020 vary widely," says The Economist. "Algeria's GDP growth falls to 0.8% in 2019," one Reuters headline reads. "GDP — the broadest measure of economic activity — grew at an annual rate of just 1.9% during the third quarter," NPR warns. Everywhere we turn for economic news, the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is held up as the key proxy for prosperity and sound fiscal policy. 

Since its codification as the new gold standard for measuring prosperity at the Bretton Wood conference in 1944, the GDP has been the most popular metric used by American and British media when measure a nation’s prosperity. The GDP, and its close cousin, the Gross National Product, have not been without its critics for decades, but prying it from its top position as The Most Important Policy Goal has been an impossible task. Despite many labor activists, environmentalists and economists leveling critiques at its myopic, capitalist ideology, the metric has remained central to how the media and lawmakers determine fiscal policy. 

But what is the GDP exactly? How did it become the go-to proxy for prosperity in Western media? What are its ideological inputs, and how did post-war notions of colonialism and extractivism helps cement its place in our collective mindset? And what, more importantly, do activists argue we should replace it with? On this episode of Citations Needed we will explore these questions and examine how centralizing Gross Domestic Product––by its very design––obscures climate crisis, labor abuses, racism, drudgery, and a whole host of society's ills. 

We welcome economic anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel back to the show.

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