Name: Melody As Truth @ Red Light Radio 10-8-16 w Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft by Melody As Truth
Duration: 1 h 59 min 31 s
Description: Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft 2 hour Melody As Truth special on Red Light Radio. Recorded live on October 8th 2016.

It's a welcome return to the mix series for Love Ape. Fresh from his recent outstanding debut LP on his own Rugged Society imprint Amsterdam's Manel Embrechts continues to impress with his accomplished and wide ranging musical style. Touching on downtempo, left-field, new age and classic house music energy, his album 'ZEN' is one of the stand out long players of the year and we cannot wait to hear more. Get lost in his super extended mix for us to get a flavour of the fantastical musical world of Love Ape

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Clandestino 176 - LOVE APE

I just found this one in a folder called Mixes By Yours Truly. Recording date 05.07.2010. Intrigued as I don't remember anything about it. Have I recorded this for anyone out there? Is it on Mixcloud? Is it named after the opening track by Liliental? Finally an answer!

Nachsaison 2

A breezy excursion for the boys over at Libra Mix in Vancouver, Canada



Suzanne Kraft And Parker - Dark Drinks (Libra Mix 48)

Gordon Lightfoot - Oh, Linda
Booker T - Tennessee Voodoo
The Doors - Indian Summer
Crosby, Stills & Nash - The Lee Shore
Pousette-Dart Band - Woman In My Dreams
Mark & Almond - The City
Bo Hansson - The Sun (Parallel Or 90 Degrees)
Ned Doheny - I've Got Your Number
Al Di Meola - Love Theme From "Pictures Of The Sea"
Jonathan Jeremiah - Happiness (Quiet Village Remix)
Lucio Battisti - To Feel In Love
Matthew Larkin Cassell - In My Life
George Duke - Feel (Slight Edit)
Dennis Wilson - You & I
Boz Scaggs Band - Here To Stay
Kenny Rankin - Peaceful
Ned Doheny - A Love Of Your Own

First published via testpressing.org October 2009

Lovers Lane [Mix/Oct.2009]

Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft 2 hour Melody As Truth special on Red Light Radio. Recorded live on October 8th 2016.

Melody As Truth @ Red Light Radio 10-8-16 w Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft

Beautiful, complex ambient, performed live at our fundraiser for Salon Des Amateurs. Recorded on May 20th, just before the release of Passive Aggressive, his collaborative album with Suzanne Kraft. Check out the RA Review here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20642

RA Live: 20.05.17 - Jonny Nash, Salon Des Amateurs, Dusseldorf

MIXES

ALEX ALBRECHT - SANPO 073 - For Sean (NTS 16/7/17)

Suzanne Kraft & Jonny Nash playing records at the Dublab.de studio in Cologne, July 2017.

Melody As Truth w/ Suzanne Kraft x Jonny Nash  @ Dublab.de

Chee Shimizu has a kind of Zen approach to things, including records. In an interview with Aaron Coultate, Chee remarked: “I don't feel the need to own stuff. I don't get joy from owning records. I'm just happy to listen to them, not to own them.”. And we are happy to share this mix with you: The highly-esteemed Tokyo selector joined Phantom Island’s very own Kejeblos at Kraftfeld in Winterthur. Feel-good summer vibes for everyone.

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Nr. 86: Chee Shimizu & Kejeblos

here and now

mix recorded in may 2020
photo by janine kühn

Here and Now

It's with great pleasure to welcome long time dear friend Jonny Nash (@jonnynash) who in 2019 released 'Make A Wilderness' with us (MFM037). Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Jonny, welcome to the series. So, it's already been over a year ago since Make A Wilderness came out. How do you look back on that now? 

JN: In many ways Make A Wilderness marked the start of a new chapter for me, the first steps into new territory - a wilderness you could say! That record was really about exploring a simple question - what kind of sounds resonate with me, and why. I think the record was primarily an exercise in sound, and not necessarily in arrangements or songwriting. I felt it was necessary to open the doors to new sounds in this record, and I feel like I got pretty close to creating the album that I wanted to make. 

MFM: You went to different places to record specific instruments and in certain environments. Why? 

JN: It took me a long time to make the record, not in terms of actually writing the music, but determining what the instrumentation should be. I wanted a finely balanced mix of alien, unfamiliar sounds and organic human sounds, to somehow express a feeling of “ancient future”, the sense of floating in some timeless space that could be millions of years in the past or in the future. I found that the Cristal Baschet, was perfect for expressing this feeling of “deep time”. Capable of beautiful harmonics and also wonderful atonal textures, it was a central part of the album. I contrasted these sounds with familiar instruments such as piano, vibraphone and voice. It was very important to have some sparse elements of voice in the record to somehow keep it grounded on earth. 

MFM: Have you always been that interested in sound and sound sculpturing?

JN: Well, I’m a naturally curious person and I think my brain and also my ears are always developing and learning new things. I think that I am able to hear sound in a different way than I did a few years ago. A big switch from focussing on melody as the dominant element that catches my attention. Of course, melody is still a central element for me but I now spend alot of time thinking about timbre, the colour of the sound and how the distinctive character of a sound sits in context with other sounds in a given composition. New ways of hearing influenced the record and took me to a place where “sound sculpting” was of equal importance as deciding what chords and melodies to choose. 

MFM: You mentioned earlier that the past couple of months your label Melody As Truth got a lot support through digital sales. Does that have effect on your label vision and strategy?

JN: The switch towards digital and especially streaming does undoubtedly have an effect on how I think as a label owner. It is pretty clear that this is an important area of growth and although there are lots of issues with certain platforms and revenue models, I find it important to keep on top of what is going on and try to adapt. In the future I can see the label experimenting more with digital only releases, I think there are interesting areas to explore here. Quiet dynamic music cut on vinyl in 2020 often sounds worse than a WAV file to my ears. I also buy hardly any vinyl myself these days, it is expensive, taxing on the environment and often a form of object fetishism. The other side is that a physical object looks amazing, can sound great, gives full importance to the artwork and design, can be treasured and won’t be lost. So a physical object is almost like an insurance policy for not losing the music too. I guess I’m sitting somewhere in the middle.

MFM: Thanks for contributing your mix. Can you tell us a bit about it?
 
JN: The mix is pretty much a selection of music I have been enjoying or discovered this year. A few older favourites too. I had no idea except to make something that I would enjoy listening to whilst having a walk or reading in the morning.

Melody As Truth @ Red Light Radio 10-8-16 w Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft

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