https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/tightrope

Maarten Vos: cello.
Oene van Geel: viola, violin.
Michel Banabila: piano, drone, softw. instruments & fx.

Composed Michel Banabila.

Cat. Nr. TR170323A.
Bandcamp: March 21, 2023 / All other portals March 31, 2023.

Tightrope

Crépuscule

Crépuscule (featuring Oene van Geel & Maarten Vos)

A mixtape drawing together contributions from friends around the world, including folks running independent record labels, record producers, poets, community radio producers, musicians and others. 

All these tracks were recorded directly, drawn from community radio producers and collected directly from the artists, or through direct communication with some independent record labels. All the works were pulled together with the intention of sharing a mix that can point in a tiny way to the depth of different artistic and activist voices from around the world who have Palestine in their hearts. 

This mix was originally broadcast on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Feb. 16, 7am-11am eastern time, 2-6pm Palestine time, live on radioalhara.net

Thank you for listening. - Stefan Christoff

01. Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller @beat_keller - Yarkent
02. Shalabi Quintet - Artists Against Apartheid (Montréal Session) - 01 Artists Against Apartheid, Montr​é​al Session – Part I, excerpt (released by @aosmosis)
03. 2/5BZ - MENi TENKS (2002)
03. Ana Quiroga @ana_quiroga - We Exist, We Resist [fabric Originals]
04. Notnef Greco - Sirens Off the Clock
05. Pelada @pelada420 - Cerdo
06. Pelada - Pilas
07. Badawi - A Better Place (reprise)
08. Midland @midland  - Drift In The Algorithm
09. Adriaan de Roover - Nudge forward
10. Aidan Baker & Stefan Christoff - Januar Part I (released by @time-released-sound)
11. Amirali @amirali_ofc - Nemesis
12. Andy Aquarius @andyaquarius - Kyrie
13. anthéne @anthene - Lightbox
14. ate & NOWA ZIEMIA @nowa-ziemia - Substrate A
15. Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - Speaking at a National Demonstration For Palestine (English language, recorded in Ireland) - 13.01.24
16. Sana Moussa and Naseem Alatrash - duet clip
17. Sabr from Gaza (Arabic language, thank you to Ewa Jasiewicz for the audio)
18. Charbel Haber @charbel-haber - We Spend Our Days In The Fog Of Your Nightmares
19. Zoë Mc Pherson @zoemcpherson - Chaos
20. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Engines
21. DC BLOB - Untitled (practice recording excerpt)
22. Evitceles @evitceles - Ethereal Force
23. Dali de Saint Paul + Maxwell Sterling - 2
24. Demetrio Cecchitelli @cecchitellidemetrio - Oxygen
25. Budapest Blacklights - Forma Nera (via @moonvillain)
26. Fifths - Long gone
27. Grim Beverage - A Point in Space
28. Leon Louder @leonlouder - Mockingbird
29. Leo singing in Mexico City at ObreraCentro
30. Lighter - Acid Release
31. Lucille Cornelius & Michel Banabila @michel-banabila - The People United Will Never Be Defeated
32. M01E - So Many, So Little- - DOWNER - why we hide behind a screen 叹 (excerpt)
33. Matteo Uggeri - ...for Mother and Father
34. Melodies In My Head - I World
35. Mireya Bayancela Ordonez (poetry reading in Spanish and French)
36. Badawi - Al-Aziz (Dhikr Wave Mix)
37. Enrico Coniglio @enricoconiglio - Waterfront (excerpt)

The accompanying image is a film photo snap taken by Rickie Leach at a Palestine solidarity protest in London.

Palestine at the heart of it all

Alien DJs are Markus Acher from "The Notwist" and Haruka who co-organizes the amazing "Alien Disko" festival in Munich. Their Pingipung show carries the title "Come Spring". They compiled an all vinyl mix of Japanese music about this much needed season. 

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INVINC 40 Resonance: 10 Years Of Vibrational Sounds From The Heart Of Invisible Inc [clips] 20.05.25

From the forthcoming album "Nuits Sans Nuit", to be released on May 30th.

Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila return with Nuits Sans Nuit, their second collaboration following their Baba Soirée debut from 2023. Recorded as an intuitive exchange between Rotterdam and Valencia, the album emerged from a simple ping-pong process: Banabila sculpted sounds and atmospheres, to which Bastien responded with his distinctive instrumental palette: flute-augmented cornet, mechanised log drum, and more. Mixed by Banabila, the result is a raw yet immersive work that resonates with a somnambulant, wide-awake presence.

Pierre Bastien: "When Michel had finished mixing and editing, I listened to the whole record and sensed a dreamlike quality in it. It reminded me of a book I read years ago: ‘Nuits Sans Nuit Et Quelques Jours Sans Jour’ by Michel Leiris.  Around that same time, some fifty years ago, I was playing in Nu Creative Methods with Bernard Pruvost, a duo that appears on the Nurse With Wound list. Since then, Pruvost has turned to painting, and his work is as dreamlike as our music. We asked him to contribute one of his paintings for the album cover."

Nuits Sans Nuit unfolds through shifting shades of melancholy. "I don't know how to describe the feeling of these crazy times we live in," says Banabila. "Les plus désespérés sont les chants les plus beaux,”  Bastien quotes De Musset. Wordless yet deeply expressive, the album invites listeners into a space of contemplation, where meaning emerges through immersion — like ritual music carrying an unspoken message. Echoes of saudade, blues, fado, and soleá surface in the duo’s playful noise, reimagined through their singular vocabulary.

DL / LP

Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: Le Système Déraille (Pingipung 090, LP / digital)

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-11th-april-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Fergus Clark 110425

Bogdan Raczynski - Birds have no passport

Observable Hues - Slowly Lifting

Leaf Label A&R and Odda Recordings label owner Thea HD unearths the lesser known common sounds. from old soundtracks, library music to experimental electronic music… 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/thea-hd/episodes/thea-hd-20th-april-2025

Thea HD 200425

More of these temporal phase tracks can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/sets/temporal-phase ]

More on the 695th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0695: Clean After Each Use — The Assignment: Put a piece of music through the dryer — at https://disquiet.com/0695/

Disquiet Junto | Clean After Each Use - disquiet0695

Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila: Nature's Voice (Pingipung 090, LP / digital)

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a sound artist, composer, and producer. Banabila has released music since 1983 and has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theater plays and choreography. His music varies from minimal loop-based electronica, fourth world, and neoclassical pieces, to drones,  experimental ambient,  and punk-as-fuck tape music. His work has been published by labels like Bureau B (DE), Eilean Rec (FR), Knekelhuis (NL), Pingipung (DE) and Séance Centre (CA)

Crépuscule (featuring Oene van Geel & Maarten Vos)

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