those far away bells, they make me think a train is coming.  warning bells and flashing red lights.  it creates a menacing atmosphere.

So emotive reflective and brilliant. So many thoughts and pictures created for the mind

@user-830390974: Nice that you enjoy this

Love listening to you ladies. Fine music. Beautiful art. Well done all.

where can I buy this mstrpc pretty please??

Here is a collection of tracks I came across over the year 2016: music by women artists that rocks my foundation.
From the pathfinder Arctic Windhorse in Alaska, via the streets of Argentina that Pulpa de Luz walks, the exquisite sounds from Mari Jürjens in Estonia and the mysterious poetry Miraela dreams in Romenia. The Austrian rap that Augenmerk makes lets you notice small things differently in your day to day life, and with the grooves of Band Ane, Yasynhta, Priss, Cio d' Or and Feathers you can just keep going on forever.
No matter the bullshit from the powermen this past year, these ladies make it all good...

Enjoy 2017!

Mike

2016 music was a strong feminine year!

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)

Cirkel

First Mind

Fever To The Form

Vermilion

Come Away

Haltestellenansagen BOB "standardsprachlich" und "REGIONAL"

"This is how the heart sounds, 
Do not change the melody, 
This is now, you and I, here together,
Let this being with each other, 
be heart sound". 

This is the second version of Soul Fury that we produce as our statement of universal love for music. 
Karin Tarabochia (Augenmerk on SC, Austria)translated the opening lines of the 13th century Rumi poem into her own German-Austrian words, and made her delicate delivery to go with Miraela's voice and our MATJAMI music.
The original Soul Fury can be found on the MATJAMI track list as well, with more details to the why and how we do this.
Hoping for more Soul Fury to come, thanks for your ears and mind!




Mike


Soul Fury #2

Soul Fury #2 (feat. Miraela & Augenmerk)

Provinces of CHAMPASAK, ATTAPEU, SEKONG & SARAVAN.
Recorded by Laurent Jeanneau, 2006-2013.

AKUPHONE. AKU1009. CD/LP/Digital
Release date : September 2018

Akuphone presents a collection of recordings of various musical practices from the Laotian provinces of Champasak, Attapeu, Sekong and Saravan. These documents are a perfect introduction to the traditional music of South Laos minority groups. Popular modern music is widely spread but visitors are barely ever exposed to ancient acoustic practices from villages. The most famous and typical one is the molam Lao, an art of singing accompanied with the khene, a mouth organ which is the symbol of Laos. This collection compels one to discover the brao gongs, the triang bamboo flutes, the Lao, Ta Oy, Alak, OI, Pacoh or Nyaheun mouth organs as well as the powerful singing accompanying these instruments. 

Caught on the spot, these outstanding testimonies were collected between 2006 and 2013 by Laurent Jeanneau, aka King Gong. Through his researches, this self-taught ethnologist has gradually become one of the specialists of the field, building up a collection of complete and fascinating sound archives which contribute documenting parts of this immaterial heritage. MUSIC OF SOUTHERN LAOS brings some light on a region of South East Asia still largely unknown from the general audience as well as the recently reborn ethnographic musical industry.

This compilation will delight both molam lovers and beginners unused to South East Asian sounds. Enclosed: liner notes in English, French and Japanese as well as a downloading code.

Music of Southern Laos

AKU1009 - V/A Music of Southern Laos (LP Preview)

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

Open

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

Sõnad ja viis: Mari Pokinen / 
Laul, kitarr: Mari Pokinen; klaver: Aivar Surva; elektrikitarr, laul: Sten-Olle Moldau /
Laul 27. mail ilmuvalt albumilt "Maa saab taevani"

Avar

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

Soul Fury #2 (feat. Miraela & Augenmerk)

MATJAMI

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