Dioníso

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Traditional Vivarais song collected from Marie Rouier, transmitted by Pèire Boissièra, rewritten and interpreted by Caroline Dufau and Lila Fraysse.
Arrangements by Cocanha and Raül Refree.
Produced by Raül Refree.

Que Son Aüros

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Road To Camelot

Warsaw Village Band - The Rain is Falling

Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence 

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(CD inludes download of a 38 minute bonus track)

Ten years after his debut-album “Herbstlaub“ on CCO, german ambient composer Marsen Jules takes us to his “Empire of Silence“. An impressing soundtrack to the epic power and  beauty of nordic snow and ice-landscapes. Thereby he sounds even more elegiac, warm and romantic as ever before. This might be a result of a strict reduction to bittersweet symphonic string-sounds. Sounds which Jules elapses like a prism on the timeline and lets them meander on the slightly on the listeners eardrum. While others are still talking about “modern classic“, Jules is already moving on the particle-layer through the sound-continuum. Diving deeper into the sounds then ever before, he lets the frequencies mirror on the sound spectrum with an impressing precision. Actually there is not much space for “real“ silence on the album. Instead the epic sounds of “The Empire of Silence“ seem to unfold their archaic euphoria best at high volumes. An euphoria that carries everything away and occupies the whole space. For the track titles of the eight gems on this album Jules refers to different Words for snow in Inuit language, of which the legend says there are dozens. While the melancholic openers “penstla“ (the idea of snow) and “tlaslo“ (snow that falls slowly) still travel on soft ways, the album raises to its full euphoria with “kayi“ (drifting snow) and “skriniya“ (snow that never reaches the ground). With its epic magic the nine minute long “katiyana“ (night snow) thrills the listeners attention while “naklin“ (forgotten snow) brings a short inhale. The album finds its peak with the ecstatic glisandi of „chathalin“ (snow that makes a sizzling sound as it falls on water) and finds its finish in the beautiful and lofty “ylaipi“ (tomorrow´s snow). For everyone who is still not satisfied fully after this 55 minute journey through nearly endless stringlisandi, we recommend the 45-minute bonus track which comes as digital download with the cd version on bandcamp.

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The first flamenco chord I ever learned was the typical opening of a Tarantas. A flamenco palo, or style, that originated in the Andalusian province of Almería. Tarantas is a cante libre (or tocque libre, if played as a solo), meaning that it lacks both a regular rhythmic pattern (compás, in flamenco terminology) and a regular rhythmic unit (or beat). It can be sung or played, but not danced. Hence it can be extremely lyrical, free and great to improvise on, which large parts of this one are. 

Since I am just back from a trip where I was literally staying in the vineyards of a fine wine maker, I call this one "An Evening In The Garden Of Dionysus". The cover picture I took right there.

Also, upon sentiment, since my parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary (Gold!) yesterday, I play this one on a different guitar: a Marín, Modelo Estudio /9 Calidad, built in 1997 from Malaga, Spain, which my parents brought me from Spain as a gift since I was just learning flamenco then.

This one is for my parents...

And I hope you'll enjoy this one too...

Recorded using an Apogee microphone
Guitar: Marín, Modelo Estudio /9 Calidad, 1997, Malaga, Spain
Mixed and mastered using Auria and Final Touch for iPad, August 8, 2015

Tarantas - An Evening In The Garden Of Dionysus

Michael Tanner - Psaltery, Table Dulcimer.
Alison Cotton - Viola.

2 excerpts from Side A of 'Suite for Psaltery and Dulcimer', due out as a limited LP/Download on Kit Records (www.kitrecords.com)

2 excerpts from Psaltery Music

http://bit.ly/KzWW_WG2015 - vote for Sun Celebration ["Święto Słońca"] in Wirtu@lne Gęśle! 

Warsaw Village Band [Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa] feat. Ustad Liaquat Khan, Sanjay Khan & Amrat Hussain (Dhoad Gypsies From Rajasthan) - She celebrated Kupala [Na sobótce była] 

www.karrot.pl/swietoslonca
“Sun Celebration” is the seventh album of Warsaw Village Band and the first double album in the band's discography. WVB sets off on a musical journey towards the sun, beyond horizon, from East to West, and meets on its way incredible artists from India, Persia, and Spanish Galicia. The common element that connects such geographically distant traditions with the Polish folk culture was the solar cult, and it is this spiritual community that became the inspiration for this new production. Sun Celebration presents universal stories about relationships, important transition moments and everyday worries, based on the oldest Polish folk songs. All this happens in sync with the unique and characteristic for WVB “transminimalroots” style, but on a completely new scale.

'We have been walking on the musical path for 18 years, and with each journey we notice more and more how strongly people are connected all over the world. “Sun Celebration” is an attempt to tell about the spiritual brotherhood crossing over the religious or ethnic boundaries, which are elevating in these restless times. It is also a story about the two natures of the world, Yin and Yang, male and female elements, day and night, the sun and the moon. Hence, the two CDs and their diversity, the sound experiments of the band and using new instruments, and heterogeneity and charisma of the invited Guests. We are grateful and happy that they have added the splendour to our album, and accepted the invitation and the challenge to face Polish music and that they have given it their talents and hearts.' - Maciej Szajkowski, musician the founder of WVB, said about the album.

This is so far the biggest production of the Warsaw Village Band. Incredible Guests from various musical worlds include: avangarde singer from Galicia – Mercedes Peón, kemanche genius from Iran – Kayhan Kalhor, sarangi virtuoso from India – Ustad Liaquat Ali Khan, legendary wizard of gramophone – DJ Feel-X, distinguished viola player Michał Zaborski, and others. The new quality of sound production, thanks to Studio AS One. Almost 3 years of intense work, 5 recording sessions in the best Polish studios, 13 pieces, 2 CDs, 1 album. “Sun Celebration” has come!

Warsaw Village Band feat. Dhoad Gypsies From Rajasthan - She celebrated Kupala

Trova di Danu - Tuatha De Danann

from 'Reflections' [CD|LP|Digital]
Denovali Records · den291
available on all formats at
[http://denovali.com/philipprumsch]

Philipp Rumsch, born in 1994, is a composer, pianist, and sound designer from Leipzig, Germany. He was a student at the secondary school „Clara Wieck“, with a special focus on music, and the „Robert Schumann Conservatory“ between 2011 and 2013 and was trained in piano both in classical and popular music as well as in composition. A year later he was  accepted in the junior development program at the Academy of Music and Theatre „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig. Since October 2013, Philipp has been studying jazz piano in Leipzig and spent two semesters studying Music Performance at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen from 2016 to 2017. During his studies he specialized on the fields of composition and sound design/music production.

In his conceptual work he transfers the sound aesthetic and compositional principles of Minimal, Pop and Electronic Music into an acoustic and orchestral format. The debut album of his twelve-person ensemble, „reflections“, will be released in February 2018 on Denovali Records.

Reflections

Philipp Rumsch Ensemble - Reflections - Part IV

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The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

"This poem made me want to go upward and to a brighter side of the world :)" ~ Tomoko Sauvage

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

In Death's Dream Kingdom

To The Brightest

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Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere (Clip)

from the LP Sharing Waves out World Wide June 1st

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Sean Hellfritsch returns to Leaving Records with his second outing for the label as Cool Maritime. Sean is an active mixed-media visual artist, and modern modular electronic composer living and working in North East Los Angeles with his wife Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. 

Sharing Waves is all-expansive environments, and fully-realized worlds to explore and get lost in. A persistent sense of adventure and excitement is practically baked into the songs, many of them having been recorded in inspiring and remote outdoor locations using a nomadic studio including a "lunchbox" modular system. The narrative flair of this instrumental music comes naturally to Hellfritsch, who is also an accomplished filmmaker. What you hear is musical ideas captured in moments of awe, happiness and inspiration. Although the sounds are largely electronic, the feeling is organic, with lush arrangements that breathe and breaststroke their way gracefully through the open air. Illustrative song titles like "Forest Bathing" and "Secret Caves" evoke inviting landscapes of reflection and resonance. Pristine and glassy droplets of sound pitter over damp and mossy beds of emotional chords and feelings, as escape turns inwards. 

In an interesting contrast to the nature-heavy motif, a number of the tracks on Sharing Waves were the result of a commission to create pieces for a large outdoor plaza in downtown Los Angeles. This dichotomy of nature versus development makes for an interesting fold in these fully realized compositions. As for the album's title, Hellfritsch, who is an inveterate surfer, explains: "Sometimes surfing can be a competitive environment with crowded breaks and not enough waves to go around. The 'right of way' rule is that the first person to catch the wave closest to where it’s breaking gets it. It’s a known rule and everyone expects you to respect it – but the exception to that rule is that friends love to share waves. It’s a joyful experience to be riding this big undulating ripple of water with a pal alongside you. Such a unique moment of fun and connection and excitement that always sticks with me."

Be it in a beautiful natural environment like those of the albums' creation or shut away indoors, Hellfritsch says he'd love for people to experiment with different ways of listening. "My favorite way to listen is laying on the floor in a dark space with some nice speakers. The tape deck in my 1987 Toyota van while driving very slowly along windy, foggy coastal road would be runner up." This idyllic image of a reliable old ride propelling through an endlessly unfolding seaboard perfectly captures the magic and mystery waiting to be found on Sharing Waves. Hellfritsch says, "the biggest thing i learned on this album was to trust my intuition when making music and not spend too much time second guessing myself. Just go for it and have fun!" Tune in with an open mind, and dare to share a wave.

VINYL

Cool Maritime - Climbing Up

Joanna Brouk - The Nymph Rising, Calling the Sailor

Eschewing teeth, skin and expensive electrical equipment since 1977 - Plinth, The A.Lords, The Cloisters, Thalassing, Bible Student and other silly names.

2 excerpts from Psaltery Music

Michael Tanner

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