London-based keyboardist/producer Dan Nicholls (of Y-OTIS) introduces a new album project ‘Mattering And Meaning’ to be released by We Jazz Records on August 13th. Nicholls' music uses acoustic piano as its key element, transporting the instrument into new territories that sound remarkably natural and organic, whilst displaying a strong kinship with the world of abstract electronic music. The music utilises piano loops and field recordings as its key elements, forming what might be described on the surface as a fascinating ambient jazz record – but at the same time there's so much more at play here on deeper levels. Dan's music sounds at once otherworldly and immensely inviting.

With its uncanny landscape of fine sand drifts, juniper fields and pine, the ancient Beerze forest in the North-East of the Netherlands is a site of many unusual convergences of human and other than human stories. 'Papa' continues to unravel the threads of a deep artistic collaboration and kinship between pianist and producer Dan Nicholls and the Dutch filmmaker and anthropologist Louise Boer. These fuzzily collaged images and sounds represent a common love for finding the in-between places in which ideas can find deeper roots, channeled here through a dreamlike world which holds within it the location in which Louise’s father, Henk Boer, found his final resting place.

Mattering and Meaning

Exclusive Premiere: Dan Nicholls "Papa" (We Jazz Records)

A PAUSE FOR ANNIE G

First single from Songs for the Nervous System (out May 12 2023).

Intercellular Communication

🌴wish you were here...

beyond the realm of form, in this distant place, where the soft rustling of sand meets the hum of static from crystal blue waves.

where we sip cool drinks born from milk of that which falls beneath palm fronds in smooth beachside shadows.

where the sun doesn't reach yet still warms the air like an embrace.

in this place, we feel no pain, experience no loss, no hardship, for all these things are fleeting, intangible in their design.

there is only this moment, where our minds resonate with background noise, devoid of thoughts, empty and free.

we have met with many friends here, but never see you among the dunes or the rocky shoals. do you know how to get here? do you want to know? would you even care that this place exists?

we begin to consider these questions, but instead slip away into short bursts of sleep under the humid skies. we would not dare to do otherwise...

we simply wish you were here.


HYPERRATIONAL BEACH LIFE LP is an extended mix of the hyperrational beach life ep by Finnish IDM and mid-fi midiwave creator FREE TOILET PAPER (idk I didn't come up with the name), featuring seven new tracks by yours truly. The 14 tracks were then uniquely produced, mixed and mastered by SLOWGRAMMING.

This album is a fusion of vaporwave, barber beats, lo-fi, trip-hop, synthwave, wonky, downtempo, experimental electronica/IDM, VGM, psychedelia and more-- a curated experience of the nostalgia for an idyllic beach you've never been to.

https://slowgramming.bandcamp.com/album/hyperrational-beach-life
https://freetoiletpaper.bandcamp.com/album/hyperrational-beach-life-ep

return flight

The second of two rambly conversations with artist, musician, producer and polymath, Brian Eno. 

Visit adam-buxton.co.uk for links to some of what we spoke about.

Music and jingles by Adam Buxton.

Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support, Matt Lamont for convo editing and to Acast for hosting this podcast. Download their app and check out their many other excellent shows.

EP.38 - BRIAN ENO PART TWO

From Idle Worship Cassette and Digital out April 28 2017 on Sounds of the Dawn

Idle Worship

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Jon Hassell  -  Amsterdam Blue Virtual Jam Session David Sylvian & Freek Banning remix

Jon Hassell - Amsterdam Blue Virtual Jam Session David Sylvian & Freek Banning remix

Jon Hassell  -  Amsterdam Blue Virtual Jam Session David Sylvian & Freek Banning

Taken from 'Yu Su - 泉出通川为谷 / Roll With The Punches'(SC012)
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© 2019 Second Circle

B2 - Yu Su - The Ultimate Which Manages The World (4:40)

harp, production, mix & master - Marysia Osu 

vocals & lyrics - Plumm

cello - Tom Oldfield 

This song was created during the lockdown (spring and summer of 2020). Myself & Plumm worked on it from afar and later on our friend Tom Oldfield added the cello part, all the way from Oslo, Norway. 

We hope you enjoy listening to it. 

If you want to support it, check my bandcamp :) https://marysiaosu.bandcamp.com/track/melting-timbers-ft-plumm

thank you for listening x

Melting Timbers (ft. Plumm)

Taken from 'Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)' (MFM053)
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Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)

B1. Ichiko Hashimoto - L'ete (4:42)

A4. Tadahiko Yokogawa- Stop Me (5:17)

Future Classics & Forgotten Treasures — Selections for the Adventurous Music Listener (Founded in 2007 by Lexis)

Exclusive Premiere: Dan Nicholls "Papa" (We Jazz Records)

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