@menabelli76: Extense, interesting collection you have there!! Colombian warm waves!!! :D

Kamana is a multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines. 

One of the oldest inhabitants of the region the Aetas are also some of the most fascinating and ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. The release goes from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract. 

An (un)real Sonic Exorcism filled with Ancestral Frequencies, Haunted Ghosts and other animistic spirits roaming the Pinatubo forests.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Carlos Casas - Kamana (LP Preview)

Taken from the forthcoming album, 'The Side I Never See'.
Release date: July 30th 2021

https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/the-side-i-never-see

Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon - Kazimierz [MAT19]

04 SUR LA PISTE DE DANSE

Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage embody a tactile audio visual display, radiating the colour green into sounds and painting meditative music. By transforming collected objects into invented instruments and scenography, each motif becomes a dedication to a specific situation, an anecdote or a symbol, sometimes real and other times absurd, that the artists have encountered through their travels and conversations: the Chinese myth about a man wearing a green hat, the naming convention of Japanese traffic lights, or even the imaginary chants of frolicking twin dolphins. This inspired the duo’s personal research on experimenting with raw and synthesized idiophones, stage landscape design, spontaneous field recording and organized improvisation.

For their installation and performance, Cavaliere and Sauvage assemble a green cabinet of curiosities - an instrumentarium combining water, glass, clay, bamboo xylophones, metallophones and synthesizers. Tomoko describes in an interview: “When you are actually surrounded by green musical instruments, it has a calming effect as if you were looking at a forest or mountain.” Surrounding themselves with amulets and fluorescent fluids, the duo transcend into a musical imagination that connects scores, choreography and sculpture. Motions like crisscrossing the stage, feeling the presence of a perfectly plump leaf as it strikes a glass bowl, minerals slipping through fingers, all resonate to the soothing sounds of splashing water. There’s an intuitive yet methodical nature to this conceptual approach to composition reminiscent of the fluxus art movement. The pair’s initial motif was to play Henning Christiansen’s Green Music, whose score turned out to be nonexistent. By then, their green dream was already flourishing in their mind, retracing the path of so-called environmental music from Walter Tilgner and Knud Viktor to the likes of Kankyo-Ongaku and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Since there is a strong visual element to their work, witnessing this captivating site specific performance may be imperative in understanding the range and influence of the colour green and the impact on the sounds they create together. On ‘Viridescens’, the first release by Cavaliere and Sauvage, we are invited to experience these recordings in a more musical context. Acting like an intermediary, the duo transport us to their special planet, enlivened by animal voices, wind, and aquatic creatures dancing across a luminous aurora.

Tracks A1, B1 and B2 were recorded by
Pratik Dasgupta at the Empty Gallery, Hong Kong in 2017.
Track A3 was initially composed for the installation work
≒ AO presented as part of the festival Infra, Tokyo in 2017.
Special thanks to the Empty Gallery, Hong Kong;
Q-O2, Brussels; Yuri Landman (electric xylophones)

Composed and arranged by
Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Benjamin Kilchhofer

Viridescens

Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage - Viridescens (Preview)

🌚 New Release: LEVIOT - Sharav (LP/DL)
=> https://bit.ly/3XmCmQl

Akuphone is proud to present the Jerusalem-based improvisational trio Leviot and its hypnotizing debut album. Leviot (Hebrew for “Lionesses”) is a brainchild of multi-faceted musician and composer Yael Lavie, who’s joined by classically trained percussionist and music teacher Cnaan Canetti, and synth enthusiast Yishay Seroussi. The project is a result of Lavie’s ongoing explorations beyond the restraints of classical kanun playing and fascination with electronic sound and modern composition. Initially started following her experience performing and recording with Spiritczualic Enhancement Center, in Leviot, Yael gives up rehearsed pieces in favour of improvised sets, based on virtuous interpretation by Cnaan and Yishay. The three have been active since 2019, playing their immersive shows in a wide variety of settings, venues and festivals.

The trio’s debut release is a live session, recorded in late 2020 at Mazkeka Studios (Jerusalem) for the lockdown edition of the annual Zikuk Festival. It’s a meditative improv piece in five parts that combines and melts boundaries between the traditional and the experimental, the primal and the futuristic. With setup as the foundation of the piece and Lavie’s graphic score as the road map, Leviot takes off on a cosmic journey between deep drones, whispering chimes, mesmerizing Arab melodies, pulsating rhythms and iridescent ambient patterns.

* Musicians:
- Yael Lavie: kanun and bells
- Yishay Seroussi: synthesizer
- Cnaan canetti: darbuka, congas ,bongos and bells

* Musical arrangement: Yael Lavie
* Recorded at Mazkeka Studios, Jerusalem on December 2020
* Sound engineer: Bar Zaken
* Mix: Aviad Sinemanes
* Mastering: Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound (Canada)
* Graphic design: Michael Cohen
* Biography: Markey Funk

Sharav

LEVIOT: Sharav - Garger (a Tribute To Mahammad Abdo Saleh)

You Can Can is an echoed affirmation, an album which traces song forms around silence, field recordings, and degraded analog memories. This is folk music transmogrified and mutated, as if recorded and reconstructed in Pierre Schaffer’s GRM studio.

Not your typical Mariposa folk duo, the group is comprised of Toronto avant-music scene stalwarts, vocalist Felicity Williams (Bernice, Bahamas) and bricolage artist and synthesist Andrew Zukerman (Fleshtone Aura, Badge Epoch). The album feels like a somnambulant conversation, fragmented and half-remembered with Williams’ vocals traveling through a landscape of field recordings and Zukerman’s saturated concrète topographies. It is an electro-acoustic assemblage, both analog and digital, comprised of air, electricity, minerals, wood, and water. Although the album nods towards traditional forms of folk and musique concrète (if at this point it can be called a traditional form), it is outwardly and inwardly contemporary; non-linear, citational, opaque, and sui generis. In a way it feels like a sonic index of the narrative experiments found on the infamous Language school-related publisher The Figures, in the work of Lyn Hejinian, Clark Coolidge, and Lydia Davis. In the musical continuum, the album picks up where Linda Perhacs left off in the early 70’s—explored by Gastr Del Sol in the ‘90s—a convergence of rural acoustic idioms and urban avant-electronics. This is country music for the discerning cosmopolitan citizen of the 21st Century.

You Can Can is Felicity Williams & Andrew Zukerman.
Mixing, Photography & Insert Artwork by Andrew Zukerman Stem Mix and Mastering by Sandro Perri Vinyl Master by Brandon Hocura Design by Alan Briand

Instruments: Human Voice, Guitar, Tape Machines, Modular Synthesizers, Field Recordings, Handbells & Piano. Failure Figures features Dan Fortin on Bass and Thom Gill on Guitar & Synthesizers.

BUY VINYL: www.seance-centre.com/shop/you-can-can
BUY DIGITAL: https://youcancan.bandcamp.com/album/you-can-can

You Can Can - Everything In Time (Excerpt)(36SC)

Preview from Marc Codsi's upcoming album, Songs from the Aftermath.

more info at www.discrepant.net

Songs from the Aftermath

Marc Codsi - The Entrance (Invocation III) (from Songs from the Aftermath, 2023)

Bagdad Cafe-(Remix)

permvac163-1 Carl Gari "Shipster" EP out now @carl-gari

Carl Gari - Treasure Island Sunset

Duckett - Millions And Millions Of Palastinions

Order: https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/morphology

Gerry returns with more bedroom engineered excursions through rock, blues and interplanetary percussion music. Mind morphing sale tactics by one of the last true guitar heroes among us.

¡Intenta comprender la naturaleza pero nunca interpreta una obra de arte!

Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon - Kazimierz [MAT19]

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