Our second live session on a thursday afternoon in October 2015.
a lot of melody came seeping in, especially by the piano and the acoustic bass... ohh well, enjoy

MATJAMI 2nd live session - October 2015

Extracts from "Gongs of Cambodia And Laos" double vinyl LP recorded by Kink Gong (Laurent jeanneau) on Tiger Gong Records 2013 , order from : tiger.gong@free.fr

B1 - Brao Lave In Laos (3 flat gongs-5 nipple gongs-cymbals-drum)

First Mind

Fever To The Form

We recorded the beat of our big Gong into the loopstation, and the rest sort of happend by itself one fine October afternoon.

See 'Space between the Notes' for the story on the static noise!

Gong Song - ghö ông

Also recorded in the same session as Gong Song in October 2015, this time it started with the drone of the UDU (a clay vase with a hole in the belly - East Africa, like a ghatham - south India). Acoustic bass brutally mixed to the front... like you can feel its breath!

Udu Clouds

Finally, number three in the october 2015 session... 
The qoute actually says it all what it is we are trying to do... and then we go ahead and fill it all up! 
ArrrGGGHHHH, keep on trying!!!

(btw: the crackling noise is a mismatch between recording soft- and harware. But we don't think we want to re-take the moment we captured, so just pretend it is an old vinyl record you borrowed from your parents, and which they have been playing too much in the old days)

It's The Space Between The Notes

Zebra

New Guinea is home to vast areas of undisturbed lowland rainforests and an abundance of unique flora and fauna. This sample was recorded in an area of primary forest in the Bird's Head Peninsula in West Papua.

New Guinea - Lowland Forest

New Guinea - Biodiversity Hotspot

This is a sample containing excerpts from the one hour album "New Guinea: Lowland Rainforest Dawn" available at www.wildambience.com/albums/new-guinea-lowland-dawn-chorus

New Guinea is home to the largest expanse of rainforest in the Asia-Pacific region (and the third largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon and Congo). Vast areas of undisturbed forest can be found throughout the island and its biodiversity is simply amazing.

In 2019, I spent five days in an area of pristine lowland rainforest on the Birds Head Peninsula in West Papua. This album, ‘New Guinea: Dawn in Lowland Rainforest’, was recorded on my final morning at this location. Rising early, well before dawn, I placed the recording gear in a stunning area of forest I had scouted the previous day. The album covers a period of one hour from predawn darkness, through the rich dawn chorus and ends as the soundscape settles and the diurnal insect activity increases.

New Guinea: Lowland Rainforest Dawn

New Guinea: Lowland Rainforest Dawn - Album Sample

Verhalen van Afstand

Mummified

02 Here Comes The Star

MATJAMI: Acoustic-electronic soundscapes, deep beats, slow trance, empty space: meditation by listening and playing. 
Tip: Use good speakers or headphones to enjoy the rich, deep sounds and binaural recordings.

We three at MATJAMI (Marcel Bode, Tjalling de Leeuw, Mike de Leeuw) develop our sounds and grooves as we interact live, using our bronze, wooden and stringed instruments, (Balinese gamelan & gongs, bowls, Tibetan horns, Chinese guxing & gongs, Javanese kendang drums, timpani, beer bottles) with Native electronics, samples and live loops. The quality and the texture of our sounds are at least as important as the composition. 
We play our sessions 'on the fly', where one of us starts and the rest comes in at leisure... All you hear here was recorded live, with only some simple stereo and eq mixing afterwards.
We love to perform in open areas, theaters, level stage, and spaces with a special feel to them; a small audience is just as nice.
Recently we started collaborating with other audio-artists like VictorYibril, Fintan O'Brien and Phlip Smith (G.A.), Miraela, and Augenmerk, combining their very different music styles, field recordings and soundscapes with our beats and sounds. 
Connect at mike@branchingtree.com

It's The Space Between The Notes

MATJAMI

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