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Artist : Quentin Sirjacq
Album : La Chambre Claire
Brocoli 006
http://www.brocoli.org/release/quentin-sirjacq-la-chambre-claire

Quentin Sirjacq - Obsession

[ Also listen in our popular Spotify playlist MUSIC FOR HOME: https://urlgeni.us/spotify/musicforhome ]

“As I sit here
Waiting and wanting
Surrounded by the ambient blur of the city lights
Waiting at a stop sign
Wanting to go beyond.”


It is exactly this longing to go beyond, beyond the solitary musical journey, that brought these two very gifted artists from Kyoto to cross each other’s’ paths. Marihiko Hara and Masumi Muranaka (Polar M), the 2 seasoned musicians from Kyoto, after 10 years of admiring each other works, decided to take on a voyage together, and sailed beyond the charted territories of their music. And thus, the beautiful result from this wonderful voyage - a special collaboration album entitled “Beyond”, was born.

In this album, both artists went beyond their own borders, over their perceived views, across existing ideas and ways of thinking, to allow their emotions to flow freely in the music making process. As a result, Marihiko, with his gorgeous piano touches, and Masumi, with his heart-felt guitars, jointly crafted the 10 delicate, and breath-takingly beautiful music pieces.

Traces of elegant post-classical, sweet-sounding folktronica, dreamy ambient, and even blue-ish jazz, can be found in this sound-rich album, with all elements masterfully blended together to create an exquisite music listening experience. Piano melodies that drifted in like fireflies at night, layers of guitars that painted the backdrop soundscapes, drips of tiny electronics, spaces between the notes…. The exquisiteness in music that created by Marihiko and Masumi’s wonderful talents are simply beyond words.

Mia Cabalfin, the renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who befriended the artists when they composed the music for her residency performance in Kyoto in 2012, lent her beautiful voice in spoken words for 3 amazing tracks. The album is mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photos by prominent Japanese photographer Marisa Shimamoto, and designs by Itsuka Sato of sonihouse.

http://www.mu-nest.com/release-info.php?f=mnc014

Dream Bird / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

“As I sit here
Waiting and wanting
Surrounded by the ambient blur of the city lights
Waiting at a stop sign
Wanting to go beyond.”


It is exactly this longing to go beyond, beyond the solitary musical journey, that brought these two very gifted artists from Kyoto to cross each other’s’ paths. Marihiko Hara and Masumi Muranaka (Polar M), the 2 seasoned musicians from Kyoto, after 10 years of admiring each other works, decided to take on a voyage together, and sailed beyond the charted territories of their music. And thus, the beautiful result from this wonderful voyage - a special collaboration album entitled “Beyond”, was born.

In this album, both artists went beyond their own borders, over their perceived views, across existing ideas and ways of thinking, to allow their emotions to flow freely in the music making process. As a result, Marihiko, with his gorgeous piano touches, and Masumi, with his heart-felt guitars, jointly crafted the 10 delicate, and breath-takingly beautiful music pieces.

Traces of elegant post-classical, sweet-sounding folktronica, dreamy ambient, and even blue-ish jazz, can be found in this sound-rich album, with all elements masterfully blended together to create an exquisite music listening experience. Piano melodies that drifted in like fireflies at night, layers of guitars that painted the backdrop soundscapes, drips of tiny electronics, spaces between the notes…. The exquisiteness in music that created by Marihiko and Masumi’s wonderful talents are simply beyond words.

Mia Cabalfin, the renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who befriended the artists when they composed the music for her residency performance in Kyoto in 2012, lent her beautiful voice in spoken words for 3 amazing tracks. The album is mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photos by prominent Japanese photographer Marisa Shimamoto, and designs by Itsuka Sato of sonihouse.

http://www.mu-nest.com/release-info.php?f=mnc014





City Variations / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

Modern Tales / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

Leaves / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

From my tape deck there's a recklessness
Inflections of the world we want
All my friends, my rusty truck
We’re just specs of love, directionless
We’ll call this band just what we want
We can change the name from month to month
Four guitars and zero drums
We sounded folk but we wanted to be punk
In a world post punk

My friend had an old guitar
He took some lessons, didn't get very far
An Ibanez with one knob stuck
Said you can have that thing for fifty bucks
Loren got a bass but he got no amp
We borrowed Skill's, we never gave it back
Luke was just learning how to strum
But since he was the worst
We made him play the drums


You may find in the palm
Of your hand there’s a flame
As it burns, as it climbs
As it turns to a blaze
Well this flame, it won’t last
Here it comes, hold it close
Because this blaze can be fast
Set it free now there it goes

Luke's mom said that after school
We could rehearse in the living room
But that sure didn't last too long
Guess she didn't know we played Fugazi songs
Play these songs in the talent show
And all of the girls will be in the front row
But in the end we just chickened out
Because we can't sing, we can only shout
Only shhhhhhh….

You may find in the palm
Of your hand there’s a flame
As it burns, as it climbs
As it turns to a blaze
Well this flame, it won’t last
Here it comes, hold it close
Well this blaze can be fast
Set it free now there it goes

From Here To Now To You

Tape Deck

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RADIATE (SWITCH REMIX)

向井秀徳アコースティック&エレクトリック-ざーざー雨 DEMO
Recorded at Matsuri Studio 3/9 2014

Mukai shutoku Acoustic&Electric - ざーざー雨 DEMO

MAPS - REALIGNED - Released August 18th on Mute Records.

The album features M83’s remix of ‘To The Sky’ from their split 7”, along with Andy Stott’s remix of ‘I Heard Them Say’ from 2013’s Vicissitude (previously only available on a sold out limited edition vinyl) as well as producer and DJ Steve Lawler’s remix of ‘I Dream Of Crystal’ and Paul Woolford’s Anti-Gravity club mix of ‘Love Will Come’, both original versions feature on Turning The Mind (2009).

MAPS REALIGNED TRACKLISTING

To The Sky (M83 Remix)

I Heard Them Say (Maps Remix)

It Will Find You (Mock & Toof Remix)

Built To Last (Free School Remix) **

Let Go Of The Fear (Oliver Huntemann Dub)

I Dream Of Crystal (Steve Lawler Remix)

Love Will Come (Paul Woolford Anti-Gravity Club Mix)

Die Happy, Die Smiling (Maxime Dangles Club Mix)

You Don't Know Her Name (The Field Remix)

A.M.A. (Eule Remix) **

Don't Fear (Fantastic Mr. Fox Remix)

I Heard Them Say (Andy Stott Remix)

** exclusive to Maps Realigned

I Heard Them Say (Maps Remix)

To The Sky - (M83 Remix)

YJYのデビューミニアルバム『Animation』が、4/27日（月）に iTunes にて『 Mastered for iTunes 』フォーマットでマスタリングされた高音質音源でリリースされます。
 iTunes Store でミニ・アルバムを予約されますと「More For Me, More For You」が先行ダウンロード可能。

デビュー・ミニアルバム『Animation』の予約はコチラ！
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/animation-ep/id973377914?l=ja&ls=1

More For Me, More For You

A Record Store Day exclusive, Dark Jovian incorporates 2 single-sided heavyweight 180g white vinyl 12”s with etched markings, encased in a white, branded, rubber wheel and housed in a transparent plastic box. Designed by Alexander Brown http://brownboy.co.uk/. 

More info at http://found.ee/am-darkjovian

Dark Jovian

Solid Steel (3rd April) There's a definite Mercury Prize feel to this week, with both guests up for the title last year. 

In Hour 1 it's Young Fathers bombing the airwaves to celebrate the release of their new album 'White Men Are Black Men Too' which is out on 6th April on Big Dada. What can we expect in their mix? We'll leave it to them to explain;

"Barefoot on the concrete. That’s the world experience now.

That’s what this mix sounds like.
Highlights are…  Ghost Writerz - one of them tunes that pop up and you hope that there will be more with the same kind of inventiveness, that the next one won’t just go to straight up Grime or whatever.
Pink Floyd - cos our manager thinks we sound like them, sometimes.
Timbaland - still unbeaten when it comes to beats.
Soko - French singer, really honest on this, great lyrics.
Techniques, singing on the corner in Kingston Town, melting teenage hearts in the houses around, while dogs bark and Remingtons crack.  Love conquers.
Our brother, Callum Easter, climbing the hill against the wind - this is not available anywhere else.  be thankful."

Check out the Solid Steel website http://solidsteel.net/ for track lists and archive shows
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Bombing…
Chief Steven
Johnny Clarke
Ghost Writerz - Back It Up
Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
Lil wayne etc - My Nigga
Hot 8 - Ghost Town
Timbaland etc - Luv2LuvYa 
Stereolab - Whisperpitch
Yelowman - Nobody Move
Funkadelic - Back In Our Minds
Soko - Monster PT2
Melodians - Come On Little Girl
Devendra Bernhart - Golden Girls
Techniques - Queen Majesty
Callum Easter - Tell ‘Em Boy
...more Bombing…

Solid Steel Radio Show 3/4/2015 Part 1 + 2 - Young Fathers

Vance Joy - Mess is Mine

From the album Momentform Accumulations by Automatisme

Automatisme
Momentform Accumulations
180gLP/CD/DL
CST118

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automatisme.bandcamp.com/

Momentform Accumulations

Automatisme • "Simultanéité 1"

Dead Light was created after Anna Rose Carter and Ed Hamilton moved from London to a quiet, remote space in the countryside. The migration out of the sprawling metropolis to their new rural refuge was a transition that significantly impacted them both, and one that continues to turn and shift under the ambivalence of change, loss, and new beginnings.

Dead Light is released on vinyl, CD and digital download on October 14th, 2016.

Preorder here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dead-light/id1138056150

www.villagegreenrecording.co.uk

Dead Light - Blooms

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Doublethink

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Douglas Dare - Doublethink

Title : Dance
Artist : Marihiko Hara & Polar M
Cat # : mnc017
Release Date : September 2016
Format : CD / Digital
Genre : Post-Classical / Instrumental Pop 

01. Duo
02. The Season Changes
03. Ray of Light
04. Monologue
05. Dance
06. Ocean of Night
07. Beryl
08. Asia
09. Gone Gone Gone
10. On The Silent Way 

“Laughing, singing, dancing
Laughing, singing, and dancing
Howling, sobbing, shouting
Howling, shouting, sobbing
Laughing, singing, and dancing

Dancing.”

After releasing their critically acclaimed debut album “Beyond”, Kyoto-based Marihiko Hara and Polar M (Masumi Muranaka) have embarked on a series of live performance around Asia region, including Korea, Malaysia and many places in Japan. Each time they performed together, the sense of how their individual sounds complement each other grew stronger. And with these live performances, their interweaving sounds have underwent subtle refinement – they become even more profound and exquisite, and far more interconnected.

While touring, the duo was also actively collaborating with dance choreographers. In early 2016, the duo was again commissioned to compose new pieces for a dance performance. It was during that time, their brand new 2nd album “Dance”, was conceived.

Through their interactions with the talented dancers across Asia, these two very gifted musicians started to explore the meanings of “dance”. Gradually, they have come to realised that, everything in our daily life can be regarded as “dance” – the rhythm of the changing seasons, the subtle movement of time, the weight of words, the shifting of emotion, the cycle of life, all parts that form our lives, are indeed in themselves – a “dance”. And in this gorgeous new album, using their ever delicate sounds, the duo graciously illustrated this aesthetic interpretation of “dance”.

Musically, the duo picked up where they left off in their very successful debut album - traces of refined post-classical, melodic folktronica, floating ambient, and glimpses of jazz, continued to be found in this 2nd album. What is more apparent in this new album is that the guitars had taken a more prominent role. As such, the sound textures and melody movements have become much richer and more diverse, which impeccably reflect the refinement that underwent for the musical style of Marihiko and Masumi.

The duo’s good friend, Mia Cabalfin - a renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who lent her wonderful voice in the debut album, continued to feature in this album by performing the hauntingly beautiful spoken words in the album title track. This album is tastefully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photo by Ken Furudate, and design by Seitaro Nishioka. In addition, the artist management for the duo is supported by the excellent people from Kyoto’s label and event organiser NightCruising. 

Credits:
composition, arrangement & mixed by Marihiko Hara & Polar M
track 5 : spoken words by Mia Cabalfin

mastering: Chihei Hatakeyama
photo: Ken Furudate
design: Seitaro Nishioka

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DANCE / Marihiko Hara & Polar M (album preview sample)

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4. UUDDFF
5. PNA
6. 25mg
7. KKVMNBE
8. dio
9. Cola
10. Enamel

produce : Acryl (dagshenma & Madegg)
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Shun Ishizuka

Acrylic / Acryl

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01.恋愛サーキュレーション / 小桃音まい
02.Baby cruising Love / Perfume
03.PONPONPON / きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ
04.Rollin' Rollin' (SKYFISH Remix) / 七尾旅人 x やけのはら
05.Come Baby / 岡村と卓球
06.今夜はブギー・バック / TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET + HALCALI
07.SUPER MUSIC MAKER (radio edit) / 鈴木亜美 joins 中田ヤスタカ (capsule)
08.Shopping ☆ Kirari ~掟ポルシェ+Dr.USUI Waterfront Mix~ (Remastering Ver.) / バニラビーンズ
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11.ミカサスカサ / アルファ & DJ TASAKA
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14.こどなの階段 / 南波志帆
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J-POP MOTEKI  inspire mix

First track from upcoming first solo album by Quentin Sirjacq, La chambre claire, to be released on Brocoli records on September 7th 2010.
http://www.brocoli.org/release/quentin-sirjacq-la-chambre-claire

Quentin Sirjacq - car je cherche le vide

Knotty Pine Feat. David Byrne

Track taken from our debut release 'In Passing EP', available now via Bandcamp and iTunes.

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“The world is getting smaller.”

“For the past 2 years, a lot of things have happened to me. I travelled to Kuala Lumpur in 2011. I travelled to Beijing in 2012. I take a peek at the world through the internet. The world sometimes spots me back. This planet is getting smaller and smaller. Still, I'm only a tiny being. I sometimes feel sad. Since 2011, a lot seems to have changed in my island country. At least I now think of death more often than before. And I now feel that an ordinary life is a happy one. Day by day my emotions sway back and forth like this. I feel like I know what the world is like, but at the same time, I know nothing about the world. I live inside this huge universe, and I'm only a tiny little being. This album is a record of me from 2011 to 2012.” – okamotonoriaki.

2 years after his critically acclaimed debut album, “Telescope”, musician cum visual artist okamotonoriaki picked up where he left off, and back with his 2nd solo album - “A Little Planet”, a wonderfully melodic album that is almost diary-like, capturing the emotions about uncertainties, about happiness, and about exploring the new sides of life.

Beautiful piano notes, exquisite melody lines, layer after layer of masterfully crafted beat programming, those details that made up okamotonoriaki’s gorgeous debut album, continue to excel in this new album. Mellow field recordings, those tiny noises and delicate glitches that hover around, added further depth into his works, and the extensive use of the elements of beats further illustrates the movement of the emotions in the interaction with the daily life.

One of the highlights in this album, is the wonderful collaboration with Tokyo’s famed indie musician, Cokiyu. Her feathery whispering vocals gracefully instilled a new dimension into okamotonoriaki’s pop-ish electronica work. To add more diversity into the album, he also roped in his live performance acoustic guitarist, Takumi Nishinoya, to breeze some gentle fresh air into the electronic pieces, making his music even more accessible, and irresistible.

As an award-winning visual artist, okamotonoriaki produced 3 amazing music videos for the album, which are included in the DVD-R accompanying the album. The DVD-R also features another beautiful music video produced by Berlin visual artist, T.S. Wendelstein.

“A Little Planet” is skilfully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features the wonderful design by Tokyo/Berlin-based design studio The Simple Society, with illustrations from Izumi Matsuhashi.

Welcome, to the little planet, of okamotonoriaki. 

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12” - Out Feb, 4th 2013 → PRE-ORDER
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VLEK12, By Laurent Fintoni.

Following the adage that good things come to those who wait, Brussels’ Squeaky Lobster returns to Vlek after nearly two years of silence with a new EP: Killing Eleven.

Having wooed crowds across Europe with his twisted hip hop grooves over the past couple of years, he kicks off 2013 with a half hour of rich and intricate music, a heady blend of saturated samples, rhythms and melodies designed to draw you in for an immersive listen. This immersion takes full sense on the vinyl release which, like 2011’s Will-O-The-Wisp EP, is designed to be listened as if it were a mixtape of old, the EP’s eight tracks spread across two sides of uninterrupted music that once started must be felt through all the way. You strap yourself in and you ride, or else…

Side A sets the tone with a 17-minute ride into the musical mind of Squeaky Lobster from epic strings on the opener to slow, chugging grooves that should come with a neck brace warning, intricate break chops, flying edits, screaming horns, ethereal voices and perfectly chosen samples that guide you on this journey and add the perfect touch to the music’s cinematic feel. 

Over on side B things take a turn for the psychedelic as the grooves stay firmly off the beaten track yet continue to have an irresistible pulling effect on your head and body. Screeching guitars, ethereal melodies and an invitation to rock n’ roll co-exist happily in the mind of Squeaky Lobster and translate here into yet more forward thinking grooves, rhythms and melodies that join the dots between hip hop’s past, present and future. 

The tracklist is merely there as an indicator, a signpost that can be safely ignored in favour of a wild sonic experience. Unlike other artists in the same realm, Squeaky Lobster may not talk much but he sure knows how to let the music speak for itself. After a few listens you may find yourself thinking that Killing Eleven is a direct descendant of the work that people like Prefuse 73 and Shadow started close to 20 years ago. And you wouldn’t be half wrong.           

As for those of you wondering what Killing Eleven is – a mysterious killer, a rite of passage or perhaps a reference to Spinal Tap’s ‘turn it to eleven’ – you’ll have find the answer in your own listening experience. Inhale deep and loose yourself. 

Killing Eleven is released by Vlek Data in January 2013 on 12” vinyl featuring screen-printed sleeves with artwork by Vlek’s Dim Run alongside digital. 

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