In 2015, Cico Beck ( Joasihno, Aloa Input, the Notwist ) and Markus Acher ( the Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio, Rayon ) started the project "You + Your D.Metal Friend" as a collective for improvisations and ideas apart from their other bands. 
They will experiment with different settings and instrumentations and will collaborate with other artists for the music and the cover-artwork.
For "Sonnier", their first recordings, Cico and Markus started with percussion instruments from around the globe, analogue synthesizers and all kinds of acoustic and electronic devices to layer music that sounds like the memory of Gamelan, Italian library-records and minimal electronic experimentation... music, they listened to a lot before recording.
"Sonnier" will be available on vinyl (incl. download-code), limited to 300 for the world, and will not be repressed and digital only. Packaged in heavy-cardboard-LP-covers from second-hand records, they collected from their local record-stores with a screen-printed and numbered artwork glued on it. Designed by Richard Greenan from kit-records, London, and printed by Senor Burns (Red Can). Each cover is unique and hand numbered.

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You+Your D. Metal Friend:  Sonnier 6



Out on Morr Music 2016-11-11
With his latest record, Notwist singer & guitar player, film soundtracker and label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating LP of instrumentals.
As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.
An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmuration, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole.
Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl.
This melancholy but weirdly uplifting arrangement surfaces throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon’s work, “A Beat of Silence” beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen.

Closing tracks “To the Quiet”, a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and “Kona”, a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close.

Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch)


A Beat of Silence

A beat of silence

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Rayon: A Beat Of Silence

Rayon live at Radialsystem on 20 November, 2016.

Back in November 2016, we've had the great pleasure to celebrate 5 years of UM:LAUT with Markus Acher's project Rayon. With his numerous bands and collaborations (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, 13 & God...) Markus Acher has contributed various relevant and exciting chapters to the recent history of music, thereby constantly re-exploring his sound universe and repeatedly widening the horizon of pop music. Within the series of UM:LAUT, Rayon presented the album "A Beat of Silence" (Morr Music) for the first time live and in one of the rare concerts with a full band and an extensive instrumentation.

Special thanks to Markus and the band for the great performance. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound, the recordings and the mastering.

Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

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Populous is Andrea Mangia, a producer hailing from Lecce, a small city on the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, he made his first jaunt into the music world with the album Quipo (via Morr Music). In 2005 he released Queue For Love, influenced by his reggae/hip-hop-infused surroundings (Lecce is known as Italy's Jamaica, as reggae and dancehall are extremely popular there) and in 2008 he released Drawn in Basic. Both albums were widely received by international critics, earning him a spot on the global music map. He became known for the way he seamlessly blends digital sounds with the analog warmth of soul/hip-hop/whatever else he's influenced by at the time.

In 2014, he released Night Safari via Bad Panda Records. The album, for Populous, was the embodiment of a dream. "This record is an imaginary nighttime safari to discover uncontaminated landscapes, strange creatures, wild animals, and mysterious lights," he told Thump Magazine. The record received praise from international media outlets, and was revered for its ability to sonically transcend borders.

Azulejos, his forthcoming release, has a South American tinge to it (and is even partly in Spanish). He moved to Lisbon, Portugal to start work on the album bringing with him only a laptop, a small MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. "Lisbon became both my studio and my muse," he says. He wandered the city collecting field recordings— from trams to people singing on street corners. He sifted through flea markets for records to use for sampling (exclusively Portuguese and South American). Populous describes Lisbon as a city 'halfway between South American soul and European modernity, African in some aspects, and dramatically melancholic." He channeled these poignant fusions into Azulejos, named for the typical tiled facades in Portugal— simultaneously bright and decaying. The album features collaborations with Nina Miranda of Smoke City and Ela Minus, among others. It's a love letter to Lisbon, and a dreamy quilt of sounds he both grew up with and heard for the first time during his influential stay in Portugal.

Azulejos

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Populous - Azulejos

Marhaba habibi!
Welcome to the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (@LoRecordings) Oddtronica show, broadcasting from Dubai.

The regular feature 'Feast From The East' - which showcases Oddtronica artists from all over the Near and Middle East - today comes from around the corner in Dubai, and my special guest selector on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Bristol neo-Krautists Beak>(@InvadaUK)

So, if you want 2 hours of the very latest electronic-inspired music, sit down and stop making the place look untidy...

First aired: 01/7/17

ZvS links:
www.zoonvansnook.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
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Track list:

1. Kutmah 'Bury Me By The River' feat. Gonjasufi
2. Boy King Islands 'Blue In Black'
3. Lycoriscoris 'Her'
4. Odesza 'Meridian'
5. Bocawoody 'Art Breaker' feat. BluRum13
6. 1115 'Ras The Destroyer'
7. Bibio 'This Ain't 'bout The Feelings'
8. Bonobo 'Bambro Koyo Ganda' feat. Innov Gnawa

'Feast From The East'
9. Essarai 'Lei'

10. Cero39 'Macura'
11. Lali Puna 'Deep Dream'
12. Mi 'Space Heater'
13. Moon Boots 'The Life Aquatic' (Throwing Snow Remix)
14. Ada Kaleh 'Palatul De Clestar' (Laurine Frost Remix)

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Beak>
(x 3 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

18. Beak> 'Sex Music'
19. Dany Rodriguez 'Deep Morning'
20. Mathew Jonson 'Ambient Pressure Mix'
21. Nathan Fake 'Degreelessness' feat. Prurient (Overmono Remix)

'Left of Field'        
22. Kayla Painter 'We MIss You On Earth'

23. Volruptus 'Tesseract'
24. Bogus Order 'Stooge'
25. Tyoma 'Haze' (Pixelord Remix)

Bloop. London

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #23 w/special guest: Beak>

Taken from " Music Exists DISC 3" out Sept 29th 2017 
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Music Exists 3

Tenniscoats: Yoru Wa Nagame

Sonido Amazónico, originally a cumbia from Peru made famous by Los Mirlos, is the first single from Hochzeitskapelles latest Album "If I Think of Love". The Album will be Released on September 13 on gutfeeling records. 
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If I think of love

Hochzeitskapelle - Sonido Amazonico

"Cord Burn PT.3" out on Alien Transistor 2019-11-29 
Download/ Stream: https://linktr.ee/alientransistor

Vinyl

Saroos: Cord Burn Pt. 3

Zayaendo is a Tokyo-based brassband, colorful, unique and adventurous...you won’t find any of the typical brass-bands-cliches here, nor are they a free-unit of improvisors…they nothing less then invited their own genre...Zayaendo Music !
Zayaendo was formed in 2016 by Saya (Tenniscoats, Spirit Fest) and Satomi Endo (Biobiopatata) after Saya was inspired by a performance of the acoustic instrumental band Hochzeitskapelle, who she saw in Munich. 
The band also includes Tomoaki Saito, Masaharu Seki (sekifu), Takashi Ueno (Tenniscoats), Kiyokazu Onozaki (Andersens, 2B) and other musicians who play with other bands or as solo artists. Zayaendo consists of somewhere between ten and twenty musicians (depending on who is available to play at that time) and forms an orchestra that plays each other’s compositions as well as covers of experimental timeless masterpieces. Since the band play acoustic instruments, their performance venues vary from the street to the forest. 

In 2018, the band played at the Alien Disko Festival #3 with their beloved Hochzeitskapelle, where together they took part in a parade through the streets of Munich to celebrate and ring in the festival. In 2019, their first album Zayaendo music was released on the majikick label, and now, as vinyl, by Alien Transistor, Munich.

Zayaendo are:
Satomi Endo (s-sax), Ryoko Kajiwara (fl), Ken Manabe (t-sax), Masaharu Seki (eupho), Kiriko Kasamatsu (trb), Yutaka Hirose (tuba), Takashi Ueno (banjo), Tomoaki Saito (mandolin), Mitsuru Tanaka (perc), Shintaro Kiyonari (perc), Haruhiko Seki(perc),Saya (perc)

Zayaendo Music

Hiyodori

Zayaendo: Hiyodori

Recorded Live at @Timedance 5th Birthday Party, Bristol Trinity Centre on @sinaisound

Noods Radio - Anina Live at Timedance - 5 Years (Bristol, 8th Feb 2020)

Morr Music merges electronic and indie musical disciplines that many consider the label to have invented its own genre. It's roster is certainly a testament to this fact - the likes of Lali Puna, Múm, Isan, Seabear, Sin Fang, Sóley, It´s A Musical, Masha Qrella, Tarwater, Fm Belfast, Pascal Pinon, Butcher The Bar, Telekinesis, Opiate, Ms. John Soda, Tied & Tickled Trio, Electric President, Radical Face, The Go Find, and B.Fleischmann making for an impeccable roster. With more than 100 Albums in its catalogue, Morr Music is a label that truly has something for everyone. 


Rayon: A Beat Of Silence

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