Release Date: September 2, 2022

A suite of raga-inspired compositions and improvisations that grew from a fertile collaboration between Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett centered around a devotion to just intonation tuning, deep listening, and resonant spaces.

Michael Harrison is a composer and pianist who is a dedicated practitioner of just intonation and North Indian classical music. He was La Monte Young's protégé and piano tuner during The Well-Tuned Piano years and a disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, and has since developed his own customized tuning systems. Guided by conversations with Christina Vantzou, who provided structural frameworks for each piece and directed the sessions, the compositions drew from Harrison's daily raga practice, using its ancient forms as starting points from which the compositions could blossom and morph. A resonant backdrop of modular synthesizers played by John Also Bennett, who also contributed piano improvisations played on Harrison’s custom tuned Steinway concert grand, expanded the sessions into true collective praxis.

As noted by Parul Gupta, a conceptual artist based in New Delhi who contributed the stunning artwork for the album, “the songs feel like an extension of silence.” The notes from the piano emerge, resonate, and dissolve in measured and meditative sonic fields, allowing for a concentrated listening experience where every sound lives, breathes, and ultimately returns to silence. Contained within these aural ecologies are potentialities that emerge from a collective listening and improvising experience, and a resonant rebuttal of the standard equal tempered tuning system that has dominated Western music for centuries.

This release collects the verdant recordings from the trio’s 2019 Berlin sessions on two 45rpm records, accompanied by a risograph printed insert featuring track credits and Harrison’s handwritten tuning charts used on the album.

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Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett - Harp of Yaman (33SC)

https://www.nts.live/shows/from-the-depths/episodes/from-the-depths-29th-november-2021

The FTD label’s monthly audio vomit. Often hosted by Charles Drakeford, with occasional guests if they’re in town. Expect music for all occasions, though perhaps most commonly club-centric selections.

From The Depths Drakeford 291121

jarmaz - night city life (remix)
rio rhythm band- cuba jakkin
airstream - follow through (9 o’clock drop mix)
a certain ratio - bttw90
pinky - I wanna be the one (groove instrumental)
soft sugar - feelin outasight
lupo - keep it up (after hours mix)
anthony ‘shake’ shakir - at the bonnie brook (osborne remix)
night danger - cosmic quarry (streets mix)
alfie silas - put the freeze on
cabaret voltaire - afterglow
viking tundah - ringbang rebel dancing rhythm
paradise organisation - wise blood (dub)
telex - baby when
new composers - love of nature

also waiting - fall '22 mix

Hour long explorations with Melbourne experimental pop producer & artist Sui Zhen.

https://www.nts.live/shows/sui-zhen/episodes/sui-zhen-5th-december-2022

Sui Zhen 051222

First single from Golden Ivy's third album, Kammarn.

If Ivar Lantz gave us the expanse of Scandinavia's forests on Monika, the debut album from 2018, and the darkness from all the villages of the sparsely populated area on the sequel Kläppen, in 2019, then Golden Ivy's third album Kammarn takes us even closer to the Nordic epicenter of the universe. Kammarn picks up where Kläppen ends and continues softly down into the darkness with strings and slow pulsing rhythms. Still with one eye on Jon Hassell and with the same roots in the soil as Joakim Skogsberg, but with a decade as a Malmö resident, the roots go down just as much in the soil of the streets of Malmö's outer edges, from Norra Gränges to Inre Hamnen. Folk music for people who have never been outside the city limits. You want it darker?

Released by: Malmö Inre
Album release date: 19 May 2023

Kammarn

B2 Kammarn II

Touch the Sky

Justin Love "Touch the Sky" - Lovin' Records 7" - US, 1982 - SOLD

Lesser heard punk sounds from NYC collector & DJ Sara A.

https://www.nts.live/shows/sara-a/episodes/sara-a-7th-april-2023

Sara A 070423

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (23.09.2023)

Artist: @jo-ko-12

Jouko @ Radio TNP 23.09.2023

Starting off the year with some darker and lighter moments. Emissioned from the H: R Container with a lot of cosy "Hüttenzauber" fired up by the mighty gas radiator and a snowy PARKS. What a treat this was!

@relikto_phuturo

Die Neue Zeit - Relikto Phuturo - 05/01/24

Brian Weitz has been making music as Geologist with Animal Collective for going on two decades.  The egg first cracked in the mid 90's at Baltimore record fairs and long overnight radio shows in New York on WKCR.  Whether making sounds in the practice space or playing records, his bandmates call it the O'Brien System. One Tuesday each month you can go there with him on NTS 2. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/geologist/episodes/geologist-28th-march-2024

Geologist Presents: The O'Brien System 280324

Side A taken from GMT31 XVARR - 'Bhairavi', originally released via cassette during June 2020.

A transcendental mix that transmutes the musical traditions of South Asia with the love, respect & dedication that are due.

On behalf of @XVARR & GMT, we're hoping that this will bring some peace to you & your loved ones.

B2 Kammarn II

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