http://bit.ly/gordonsleepdsc

Our remix for the amazing Gordon Koang!

Y Dah (Sleep D Remix) - Gordon Koang

Unreleased label material from artist-driven platform Music In Exile, a not-for-profit initiative that creates space for musicians working in culturally or linguistically diverse communities in Australia.

Interview & Tracklist: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/06/24/self-portrait-music-in-exile/

Self-Portrait: Music in Exile


Tracklist
1. Bird Traps - Vadhana
2. Soda Eaves - Like drapes either side
3. Badskin - Unreleased I 
4. Badskin - Unreleased II
5. Badskin - Unreleased III
6. Badskin - My Dvorak Choir - Unreleased IV
7. Badskin - My brother the Mbira - Unreleased V
8. Badskin - Unreleased VI
9. Dr. Nathaniel Huynh - Home sessions I
 10. Catman - Joo Koon
11. Blue Divers - Mud - Unreleased
12. Dr. Nathaniel Huynh - Home sessions II
13. Badskin - Unreleased VII
14. Badskin - Unreleased VIII
15. Badskin - Unreleased IX

It's Not Too Late - Netilradio Set w/ host Blake Creighton

Pre-order vinyl ~ https://orcd.co/mindyandbecky

This week, Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Sui Zhen return with a second offering from their debut collaborative album, Origin of You.

Exploring the first of three major themes that appear throughout the album, 空 Kōng, translated here as Emptiness, is the opening track from this startling debut. Ambitious for a single, the track clocks in at over ten minutes, but the slow, meditative nature of the piece leaves listeners wanting more long after the last note fades. 

The track sets the tone for the album to come, with Sui Zhen’s spoken word repeated in an eerie, echo-drenched Mandarin by Meng Wang. Gentle synths swell to lap at the edges of Wang’s painfully reflective guzheng improvisation, as layers of vocals build to create a swirling effect which drags listeners deeper into the composition. 

The track plateaus with Sui Zhen repeating ‘I know / I have arrived / This is my home’, as a slow, gentle gong resonates throughout. The layers of sound drop to reveal Sui Zhen’s final vocal run, and the piece slowly fades into a warm hiss of tape noise and organ drone. 

The track is significant in that it outlines one of the three major themes of the record, and the basis for Meng Wang & Sui Zhen’s first friendship and collaboration. Having each suffered the recent loss of a family member, the pair connected deeply within an hour of their first meeting, and the bulk of the material found on Origin of You was recorded that same afternoon.

It is an album about loss, pain, and rebirth; as well as spiritual connection and the healing power of friendships. Says Wang - “It’s about understanding life, family and ourselves. It’s about the transformation from being a woman into a mother. And it’s about human connection. We are not related, but we find a connection that comforts us as much as family does.” 

Sui Zhen affirms this, speaking of her first connection with Mindy: “The feeling of trust was very important. The collaboration took me by surprise. It was both a friendship and musical relationship I didn’t know I needed, but it has been so healing for me. We both felt emotional afterward, it was a feeling of relief. We knew we would be friends for a long time.” 

Partly adapted from great Chinese poet Li Bai’s work 静夜思 Quiet Night Thought, this piece is sure to soundtrack personal reflection and meditation for listeners around the world. Sit back, sink in, and let the gentle tones of 空 Kōng wash over you, as you prepare to be taken on a deeply personal, introspective and inspirational journey. 

Origin of You is out everywhere Friday, November 10, 2023 via Music in Exile. https://musicinexile.com.au

Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 & Sui Zhen - 空 | Kong | Emptiness

Music before bread is a weekly breakfast show, broadcasting live from Tyler’s home in Naarm (Melbourne) on Saturday mornings from 9-11 (aest) // 11-1 (nzt)

@tylerbarrow

Tyler would like to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which he broadcasts this show, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay respect to their Elders, past, present, and continuing and extend that respect to all first nations people.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

Music before bread w/ Tyler, Aysu & Nathaniel - December 2nd 2023

JONNY NASH - SANPO 014

A tale of a lost sailor  -  drifting further and further away  -  finding himself in most beautiful dehydration delirium  -  as the angels fly out of the aurora skies like seagulls.

Calming Waves w/ Eleventeen🔹Eston ☽

MIXES

MOLLY WATER - SANPO 085 - Unopposable Space

Bartosz Kruczynski (Earth Trax) - SANPO 138

Leo James - SANPO 151

Mix by Kgomotso Sekhu for Music In Exile.

@djmolk @musicinexileau

"Spiritual funk travels from South Africa 🇿🇦 Africa to Brazil 🇧🇷  with a layover in Australia 🇦🇺“

https://undertheapricottree.net/music-in-exile/

Photo: Sarah Pannell

Apricot 11: Music In Exile

Music in Exile is a not-for-profit record label & artist services company that champions Australian musicians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, particularly those with lived experience of displacement or diaspora. Our organisation is artist-led, working collaboratively with individual artists to build viable and sustainable career opportunities in the Australian music industry, and in doing so to highlight the invisible barriers that exist for these artists and to work toward a more accessible and equitable Australian music industry.

Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 & Sui Zhen - 空 | Kong | Emptiness

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