Music to dent the canister 
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MUSIC TO EASE YOUR DISEASE w/ TKB 160923

A potentially surprising release on Editions Mego. Another planned prior to the untimely passing of Peter Rehberg in 2021. 

Melvin Gibbs is the renowned bass player and producer from Brooklyn who’s vast resume includes playing with Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, The Rollins Band, Dead Prez, Caetano Veloso and Femi Kuti amongst others. A solid resume, no doubt, but what is Gibbs doing on Editions Mego? 

Behind the scenes, those who know Gibbs knew that amongst all this he was also tinkering away at another form of music, one which skirts around the border between music and sound design. The Wave is the first release that reveals this side of Gibbs’ creative output to those outside his inner circle.

The driving force for this output is Gibbs’ multi-decade friendship with acclaimed  American video artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Over the course of time Gibbs and Jafa have had many conversations about music and the connection between film and music. Jafa’s desire to make film that worked the way Black (as in Black/African-American/ Afro-diasporic peoples) music worked inspired Gibbs to study the filmmakers Serge Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov and incorporate their philosophies and tactics when recording his own music. The two discussed sound design which directly informed Gibbs’ choice of music making tools and led to him acquiring Symbolic Systems Kyma software and hardware, incorporating this as a composition tool and sound design and component in his work. These conversations bore concrete fruit through Gibbs’ work for TNEG, the film studio Jafa ran with filmmakers Malik Sayeed and Elissa Blount Moorhead. Gibbs created the soundtrack for their very first project, the short film “Deshotten 1.0” (2009 - directed by Jafa and Sayeed) as well as their Martin Luther King-inspired meditation on Black life “Dreams Are Colder Than Death” (2013, directed by Jafa)  

The bass-forward music, or ‘sonics’ as Gibbs calls it, emerged from an alternative mode of contemplation, a mode that he sees as closer to the mindset of a rootworker, an African-American herbal doctor who cures psychic ailments using means derived from African spiritual practice, entering a forest to find the right plants for a suffering client than a mediator attempting to invoke mindfulness. Gibbs says this practice yields results that suggest an aural form of creation akin to coagulation, a formal movement that gives the sense that a flow of sounds can emit something bearing resemblance to solidifying objects. 

In 2020 Jafa asked Gibbs to work on the soundtrack for a work in progress called “The Wave''. When they got together to work on the soundtrack, Jafa played Gibbs a selection of sounds that included random moments of (probably unwanted) feedback on 70's Miles Davis records, Pop Smoke's Brooklyn drill, the music of Bernard Gunter and Darmstadt-style compositions made with test equipment. Those sounds, filtered through years of conversation with Jafa about Black creativity and the possible evolution of Black music, formed the sonic vocabulary of “The Wave”. 

Over time the sonics evolved and “The Wave” became the piece Jafa calls "AGHDRA". This soundtrack incorporates and expands upon the sonics composed for “The Wave”. Gibbs mentions although the work with Jafa has always skirted these lines of evolution, this side of his vocabulary has been generally neglected, until now, due to his current jazz musician/jazz festival-centric focus and radar. 

The result of this parallel exploration is a deep excursion into a nuanced sound world. The rich tapestry of textures allows one's mind to explore and project within this bed of curious investigation of sound. The bristling, itching, restless, clicking, diving nature of the electronic sound world presented by Gibbs, is abstract and unearthly on the surface but closer listening (which it demands) reveals a very human quality to these austere shapes.

Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave

Ibo Code

Melvin Gibbs 'Ibo Code' (EMEGO291)

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Rattle #13 w/ Rumina (26/01/24)

The Blue Infinite Monkeys Theorem states that if you take a bunch of blue monkeys, mix them with blue bananas and any kind of blue bananas (including blue bananas or blue bananas), and then add some cuddling blue bananas, previously exposed to extreme blue banana light, soaked in lots of blue bananas, bathed in more blue bananas, and always fed after blue bananas you will end up with a blue banana version of “Selected Blues for Bananas 84-24”

This Theorem has been tried in real life every first Friday of the month at Netil Radio for almost two years. The 22 monkeys involved produced 14 minutes of blue bananas, slammed 44 kg of blue bananas with a blue banana, and ate all blues and bananas.

Infinite Monkeys will try it again performing live this Friday from 9 to 11 pm on Netil radio. Please, don’t expect any art or great performance on Netil radio, the Monkeys are not musicians, the Monkeys are not artistic agents, the Monkeys are just blue bananas.

The Monkeys performing on Netil radio will be available for adoption, please adopt a Monkey, and bring one to your home after the show. Feel free to feed the Monkeys during the show they will be very grateful to receive a banana or even a blue banana.

Infinite Monkeys - 1st March 2024

The road to recovery: a monthly radio show to soothe, connecting mental well-being and music. This month's contributor is Brussels based producer nykolaes. 

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Outsiders: Recovery Channel w/ nykolaes @ Kiosk Radio 19.03.2024

"J'étais si fatigué quand j'ai fini de mixer cette émission que j'avais une hallucination auditive, le petit radiateur soufflant qui est dans ma chambre me semblait émettre de la musique traditionnelle bretonne. Le bruit blanc du radiateur soufflant se prête bien aux hallucinations, le cerveau a une certaine marge de manœuvre pour l'interprétation puisque toutes les fréquences sont là en même temps. Imaginez moi essayer de mixer tous ces super morceaux en essayant de ne pas écouter mon radiateur qui chante en breton." 
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Illustration de Charlie Renel.

Musique Impossible w/ Sainte Rita (21/02/23)

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phonon~ swarming (@phononcrew) #16 w/ Katarina Kadijević

Tapestry of voices.
Seasons. Seasoning. Language. 
Traveling through 
We live in many places at the same moment
On the edges
.Ramuan.

Polyphonic structures. Extremities. Process within process, landscape undertones.
katarina kadijević, identity work in progress, is a temporary state, which likes to seek and look in-into-at different kinds of communication mechanisms, ways, possibilities, connections with the space, place, plants, animals, objects, human, …

Tracklist:
Ann McMillan - Verses 4, 5 and 6
Ann McMillan - Amber '75
Jaap Vink - Stroma (1982)
Senyawa ‎ - Sujud (prostration)
Sainkho Namtchylak - From Me To You
su dance110 - 111111101 Icky
Yannis Kyriakides - Paramyth
Ruhail Qaisar - Partition (From Astore to Leh)
Like a Villain - Tusk
Dimitris Savva - Erevos (2011)
Viv Corringham - Losing
Leonore Boulanger - Chant tomodachi
katarina kadijevic and Julie Bijou - field recordings and audio messages

phonon~ swarming 04/24 w/ Katarina Kadijević

Bedouin Records w/ Hiiro Issiki - 19/04/2024

Audio impressions of U-turns and coming round.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/metamorphosis-2024/episodes/metamorphosis-2024-actually-i-m-heading-this-way-22nd-april-2024

Actually I'm Heading This Way 220424

Selection of ambient, breaks & soundscapes by Ravy de la Crèche from French collective Carpaccio Cathedrale.

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