For the ninth year, I’ve been putting together this mix which is a personal selection / exploration of healing and transformative music: songs that have a deep sense of spirituality without being religious in nature. A feeling that can be found in music of all genres, eras and cultures.

On a usual year anywhere on the planet, a beautiful spring morning feels like a precious gift. However these past years have been anything but usual. I would like to dedicate this mix to all that have lost loved ones, faced difficulties and personal challenges.

Dedicated to my mom.
Dedicated to all of us who have survived the storms.

** Tracklist: Coming very soon. In the meantime feel free to ask for any track ID you want!

Tracklist

SPRINGTIME SPIRITUAL Mix Vol. 9 (2022) — Hand-picked by Lexis

Episode 120 of the Reggae Rodeo on Friday 5th August 2022 featuring guest selections by the roots man Lion Rockers. 
Broadcast live from the Kaukapakapa studio of the Reggae Rodeo via Whaingaroa's Raglan Community Radio 98.1fm.

The Reggae Rodeo EP 120

Ririko Nishikawa - 26.03.24

If 2022’s The Children Of Scorpio was the debut album that turned people onto the world of Project Gemini aka Paul Osborne, Colours & Light is the body of work that will be buried deep into their hearts. It is a majestic album, bringing together the worlds of folk rock, psych soundtracks and hazy cinematic funk.
 
A growing confidence and ease emanate from the writing and production of this sophomore LP, bolstered by the reception to his standout debut. “It’s a more layered and diverse record” Paul mentions, “with a more outward-looking, global sound, born out of the records I was listening to and the musicians I was lucky enough to collaborate with”. It feels relaxed yet self-assured, with a kaleidoscope of sounds that twist together in a mesmerising fashion.
 
The theme of the album developed naturally through the lyrics Paul began writing. A creative process both plagued and fed by insomnia, nourished by relationships, entwined in emotions, nights out, nights in and the after-effects on the human condition. Relatable themes yet seen through the prism of a soundscape that takes in many a different culture and scene. From acid folk to psych-funk, Francophile elements to Anatolian and Eastern inspirations, all interlocking and rotating as one.
 
Drawing inspiration from those he admires, Colours & Light radiates with collaborations. The title track, which tips its hat to a live 1973 TV version of Pentangle’s ‘Wedding Dress’, features the folk rock, guitar brilliance of Jack Sharp from Wolf People/Large Plants.
 
Elsewhere, two tracks are blessed by the sultry, smokey French vocals of Gloria’s Wendy Martinez, ‘Extra Nuit’ and ‘Entre chien et loup’. The former echoes Paul's love of classic French psych-pop from the late ’60s and early ’70s and artists such as Laurance Vanay, Calcium, Leonie, and Serge Gainsbourg. Martinez's sublime vocal work nestles perfectly within Paul's psych-folk-funk productions, as her Gloria partner, Alexis Morel (aka Kid Victrola) sprinkles a dose of entrancing guitar line magic on proceedings.
 
The list of collaborations extends further with Raz and Markey Funk, drummer Tony Coote and percussionist Paul Elliott all featuring. Regular collaborator and underground icon Barrie Cadogan (Little Barrie) returns along with Bert Page from The Cromagnon Band, who between them provide a hit of whacked-out, fuzzed-up country guitar and Moog madness respectively on ‘Lost In The Woods (Bacchanal)’.
 
Rounding off the record Paul’s daughter, Olivia Osborne, supplies the keyboard intro on the penultimate track ‘Twilight’. Dorian Conway from The Soundcarriers (whose bandmate Paul Isherwood returns on mixing duties) then layers echoing heavy flute parts to magically capture the psychedelic sunrise images brought to mind. 
 
Balancing light and shade on this record, there is beauty and tension all wrapped up in Paul’s vivid and visceral, storytelling gift.

Project Gemini - The Sun Devil

Project Gemini - Lost In The Woods (Paranoia)

Project Gemini - The Last Midnight

Michael Nesmith – Texas Morning 
Townes Van Zandt – Loretta (demo) 
Billy Joe Shaver – Willy 
Mickey Newbury – Sunshine 
Kinky Freedman – Sold American (live) 
Jerry Jeff Walker – Night Rider’s Lament 
Willie Nelson – Texas In My Soul 
Doug Sahm - Wallflower 
Townes Van Zandt – To Live Is To Fly (demo) 
Guy Clark – Like A Coat From The Cold

Recent Songs #75 :: Texas Morning

The me you're currently seeing, does not exist.

It's as if I'm caught in a paradox, doing so much, yet feeling invisible.. An odd, feeling. How does one know if they exist, if they're invisible to the rest of the world?

In moments of solitude, when the noise fades.. Perhaps existence isn't, I’m but a ghost, living on hopes and dreams, and miserably failing at it. I create more than i ever have, i compose music, make models, produce videos, and create art. And yet, here i am failing miserably. Not existing.

Only truth is that i at least feel slightly better creating art now.

Thank you.

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Music composed, mixed and mastered by Invesvpo.
Artwork created by Invesvpo.

Fundamentally Broken

Ampwall

Fourth installment in my instrumental explorations. Coming to #Spotify #YouTube #TikTok #Apple #Music soon. If they hit your ear, share them onward.

Extraplanar Infusion

Track A1 from the new EP by Uffe from Amsterdam. 
https://bleep.com/release/75219-uffe-whose-life-ep
Vinyl out next week! 

BBR011 A1 As Long As It Lasts

Vinyl/CD/Digital - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-blue-compiled-by-phil-mison

Over the years, Phil Mison has become the go-to selector for those looking for Ibiza-themed compilations. None of his previous collections, though, have been quite as personal as Out Of The Blue, a compilation inspired by his first spell behind the decks at the Café Del Mar in 1993 – and the remarkable chain of events leading up to it.

Mison made his first trip to Ibiza in the summer of 1991 and quickly fell in love with the magical music being played by Café Del Mar resident DJ, Jose Padilla. On his return to the UK, Mison began to cultivate his own take on the laidback, open-minded style, recording mix-tapes of “Ibiza style chill out” tunes to give to friends.

In November 1992, Mison was hanging out in Tag Records, Soho, when Padilla walked in. He plucked up the courage to speak to the Spaniard because earlier that summer Mison had given one of his friends some tapes to take out to Jose in Ibiza so he wanted to see if he had got them. During the conversation Mison invited him down to his next DJ set at Nicky Holloway’s club, the Milk Bar and less than three months later, and clearly impressed by what he’d heard on the tapes, Padilla invited Mison to fill in for him at the Café Del Mar, beginning in April ’93.

It’s that first trip to DJ in Ibiza – a crazy six-weeks spent dividing his time between spinning records at Café Del Mar, hanging out in Jose Padilla’s house in the hills, and meeting some particularly eccentric White Isle residents – that proved the inspiration for Out Of The Blue.

The compilation contains a mixture of records that Mison played in his earliest Ibiza sets, those that remind him of that period, and recent discoveries that boast a similarly warm, loved-up vibe. Mison is at pains to point out that it’s not a track-for-track representation of his first sets, but rather a collection inspired by this most momentous of experiences.

As you’d expect from a selector of Phil Mison’s standing, Out Of The Blue is an outstanding collection. Some will no doubt hear the influence of his mentor – the man he credits with effectively turning his DJing career around – in the undulating rhythms and new age melodies of Kamasutra’s “Sugar Step”, the meandering synthesizer solos and Spanish language vocals of Congarilla’s sublime “Sacred Tree”, and the lilting flamenco guitars of “Gambarra”, an unreleased mix from Mison’s popular Cantoma project.

Elsewhere, listeners can marvel at the starry ambient bliss of Belgian legend Frank De Wulf’s “The End”, recline to the saucer-eyed fusion jazz of the Christoph Spendel Group, shuffle along to tactile, hard-to-find period deep house from Language, Moodswings and Don Carlos, and marvel at The Cactus Rose Project’s ridiculously rare “Jelly”, a sparkling, disco-era jazz-rock outing partly inspired by the Doobie Brothers’ “Long Train Running”.

Out Of The Blue may well be a very personal selection of tracks celebrating a moment in time, but it’s happily one that we can all enjoy.

Out of The Blue

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The Cactus Rose Project - Jelly

Record label. Record shop. Film label. Since 1989.

Project Gemini - The Last Midnight

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