By now counting more than four decades of constant activity, Pierre Bastien erected such a towering and influential body of work that any blurb attempt regarding his music could easily fall into redundancy. Not that his revolving soundworld, deeply personal and unique, has ever stalled into gimmick or self mimicry, being Bastien the tireless explorer whose vision can never be complete, only continuously redefined in a process of discovery equally playful and challenging. So, completely in touch with Discrepant’s ethos.

Returning to the label after 2017 The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien, the french musician, composer and instrument builder, brings an array of instruments from different cartographies and legacies with the appropriately titled Sonic Folkways. Resorting to different types of horns, prepared trumpet, an army of percussion, from gongs and tambourine to castanets and maracas, violin and too many others to mention here, Bastien weaves together a highly textured and hypnotic mosaic that projects an exotica beamed from scraps of the future. ‘Aha!’ in the same interstellar wavelength as Sun Ra’s cosmic tones, ‘Moor’s Room’s almost orchestral tapestry of small percussion and insects or the non-western strings and tunings salvaged from ancient alien ceremonies on ‘Pan’s Nap’.

In an era where so much ink has been shed about world building in experimental music, Bastien can actually claim that to himself. The otherworld is right here, indeed.

Artwork collage by Evan Crankshaw
Mastered by Anne Taegert @ D&M

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Sonic Folkways

Pierre Bastien - Aha! (from Sonic Folkways)

Taken from the album 'TO BEAT' released as CD / Download

COH 'Meguro 10-6' (EMEGO 197)

Intro - Hungarian Folk Music
Blod - Leendet Från Helvetet 
Omerta - Moments in Love
ssabae - L'Archipel Fractal
MinaeMinae - Deines Standortes
Parasite Jazz - (Untitled)
Japan Blues - Everything Passes
Selvhenter - Plex
Alvin Curran - Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico
Hallelujahs - 星

Egerkingen walk

DOCUMENTA – LADY WITH THE RING

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Touch Sensitive Records | TSR14 
Limited Vinyl EP / Digital
Friday 12th October 2018

Following on from their sold-out LP for Touch Sensitive and a digital reissue of it’s predecessor, Documenta take a break from their Drone Pop trilogy to introduce the Lady With The Ring - Margorie McCall - “lived once, buried twice”.

McCall lived in rural Ireland in the early 18th century. She succumbed to a fever and was hastily buried in Lurgan’s Shankill cemetery. Her grave was visited by “a tramp of disreputable character with a reckless and thieving disposition” who drew blood as he tried to prise the ring from her finger, awakening the dead woman who subsequently lived for many years after.

The Lady With The Ring EP sees Documenta’s regular seven-piece lineup temporarily swell with narration from author and musician Will Carruthers (Playing The Bass With Three Left-Hands, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized) providing counterpoint to Roisin Stewart’s hazed vocals as she tells the story from the dead woman’s lips.

Self-recorded in one weekend a stone's throw from McCall’s grave and subsequently re- worked and shaped by the group, Lady With The Ring introduces sparkling synthesized passages and an organic ‘cosmic-blues’ to Documenta’s already lush sonic expanse.

Tracklist:
1. Lady With The Ring (Narration) 
2. The Blue Sleep
3. It's Quiet Now
4. Jack Morbus
5. The Fullness Of Years

Lady With The Ring

Documenta - The Blue Sleep

Emily A. Sprague - "Your Pond"

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Emily A. Sprague - Your Pond

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The Jibaro philosophy and way-of-___ing, life from land, music from hand, tension and release, hard work and nothing to show.

"The music is calling the shots to me & I just listen." - John McLaughlin

Music for spiritual rituals: can I reach Pedro Albizu Campos?
Music for the bosque - music made by hand from trash and dust, ground relics and artefacts connect the past present and future.

The Rhythm may not include drums, but it should reference the ocean and the mountains - spoken in storms.

The pile may not add value to its individual layers, but there was never time to second guess this attempt at cobble-and-collage.  No Kopyright Infringement intended under fair use of a mortar and pestle.

Buy the farm and bury yourself in mud.

"Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción" - Julia de Borgos

**RIYL**
Eddie Palmieri, Herbie Hancock, Airto, Terje Rypdal, MF Doom, Bill Laswell, Ray Barretto, Eberhard Weber, RZA, Nana Vasconcelos, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Brian Eno, Mongo Santamaria, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Andreas Vollenweider, Varese, Wendy Carlos, Wally Badarou, Irakere, Sakamoto, Bill Vermette, Jack DeJohnette, & countless more.

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Rainer Veil are Liam Morley and Dan Valentine, two friends who met while studying contemporary music in the north of England. The pair began improvising and making drones in a dark basement before incorporating a broader palette and forming Rainer Veil as an ongoing concern last year. ‘Struck’ is their first EP and debut for Modern Love, following an appearance at the label Boiler Room takeover in August 2012.
The ‘Struck’ EP incorporates recordings made over the last year and extends from the rewired Jungle ruckus of the title track to the more emotive formation of ‘Wade In’ and ‘Bala’, through to the hazy closer ‘Yield’. There’s a melancholy pop pulsing at the heart of these tracks, coloured by a love of electronic mutations from UKG and Hardcore rave to House and Techno, most evident in the unusual recording process undertaken while constructing the EP. Each track was re-worked from radically different first drafts, often starting life as more recognisable and structured songs before being dismantled into more abstract shapes: percussion degraded and layered, vocals fed through analog delays, samples reworked at the wrong speed and re-sampled to tape for added warmth: the narrative all mixed up.

Struck

DJ Sundae played the 1 hour on this one.

1) Brannten Schnure - Honigvglein
2) IAO - The Way Out
3) Windy & Carl - Crossing Over
4) Empress - Homeward Sounds 
5) Soft Location - The Whistling Song
6) Chêne Noir - Orphée 2000 
7) CS + KREME - Saint 
8) Luc Mariani - Gemeni 
9) V2A - Vier 
10) God is God - Vnutrennego Kosmosa
11) Vítor Rua, D.W.Art & Ricardo Andrade - Fcsh 2
12) Kristen Nogues - Enez Rouz
13) Aphex Twin - # 19

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Maestro melodist Christophe Petchanatz (aka Klimperei) and all around music fanatic David Fenech engage remotely in a repetitive exchange of recordings and overdubs on their debut album titled ‘Rainbow de Nuit’, sporadically spanning over the last decade. Evocations of experimental and improvised jazz, chansonesque songs, bluesy folk, and outsider music undulate harmoniously across the record. From music boxes and walkie-talkies down to plastic straws, plucking various stringed instruments such as the charrango and banjo, kazoos and snake-charmer ocarina and flutes, all the way through the sweet accordion and melodica, found and traditional tuned percussion - there is far from a shortage of sound sources on this freakishly inviting record. What germinates as an imaginative and emotional chord progression played by Klimperei, evolves with Fenech layering additional recordings, which would then find their way back home to Klimperei yet again, and so on, and so forth. This recursive compositional and improvisational loop, combined with Fenech’s musique-concrete-like mixing and editing techniques, transforms the acoustic recordings by way of compression, saturation, and reverberation or simple pitch changes - resulting in the duo’s recordings seemingly sound like they may very well be an octet in real time. While the majority of the recordings have been ping-ponged remotely, David and Christophe unite under one roof to record the closing track of the album.

The pieces presented on ‘Rainbow de Nuit’ treat the ears to a carousel ride waltzing through a multiverse made up of surrealist puppet theaters, dramatic film noir act changes, and a mosaic of polyphonic instruments and toys alike. In other words, a score to a fable brought to life with haunting yet charming melodies and occasional hallucinatory voices reminiscent of laughter and infantile epiphanies which we hear on Tarzan en Tasmanie and Madrigal for Lola. This is taken a step further by Fenech, to a brief libretto of incomprehensible tongues on Pocarina. Amid the mysterious and dark (Septième Ciel and Rugit Le Coeur) also lies tender and simple compositions (Rainbow de Nuit and Chevalier Gambette), murky suspenseful melancholy (Levy Attend and Eno Ennio), and casually slipping into pensive psychedelic backdrops (Un Cercueil à Deux Places) - forming a colorful blend of sounds. A world of echoes. A tale of tales. One persistent earworm that you’ll likely be whistling and humming along to on a first listen.

Rainbow de Nuit

David Fenech & Klimperei - Rainbow De Nuit [Full Album]

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Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel. Forse, meaning "maybe" In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases Cortini recorded for Important to release in 2013.

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