Live concert recording
World premiere
12 June 2021, De Doelen, Rotterdam

Performed by Sebastiaan Kemner, Silbersee, and Lonelinoise

Commissioned by Fonds Podiumkunsten on the occassion of Sebastiaan Kemner's award concert for the 2020 Nederlandse Muziekprijs.

Sebastiaan Kemner — trombone solo
Jennifer van der Hart — soprano
Elisabeth Hetherington — soprano
Elsbeth Gerritsen — mezzosoprno
Fanny Alofs — alto
Astrid Haring — harp
Coraline Groen — violin 1
Floor Le Coultre — violin 2
Emlyn Stam — viola
Ketevan Roinishvili — cello

The Holy Fool

Free Improvisation Session in Vienna / 29-07-2024
Elisabeth Kelvin - soprano sax
Isolde Werner - vocals (except track 1/3)
Stefan Strasser - electronics

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Stefan Strasser
Cover photo: Detail of a painting by Elisabeth Kelvin

Vienna Session

Bezirk 17.1

Electroacoustic Practice Fragment "Entanglement"
Music: Shih-Lin Hung
Photo: Engin Akyurt (www.pexels.com/zh-tw/photo/5378419/)
Created on November 25, 2024

Electroacoustic Practice Fragment "Entanglement"

Skare

It is a huge honour to publish Peter Brotzmann’s final concerts on OTOROKU. When we invited Peter to do a residency at Cafe OTO back in February 2023 we had no idea these would be his last ever shows and he played with such power it would have been hard for anyone present to believe he would never play publicly again.

Recorded over two nights this grouping of Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, John Edwards on bass and Steve Noble on drums feels especially resonant and personal to Cafe OTO. The first time Peter performed at the venue back in 2010 it was in a trio with John and Steve, (released as The Worse The Better kick starting our in-house record label) so it feels fitting that the last shows he ever played here should also have that trio at its core.

The quartet last played together at OTO back in 2013, (released as Mental Shake on OTOROKU), and Brotzmann humbly opened the return of the group saying, "it's a pleasure to be back” before launching straight into a long blast on the alto sax, swiftly met by the relentless energy and engagement of Adasiewicz, Edwards and Noble.

There are moments of tenderness to Brotzmann’s playing that feels specific to this small group - one that cuts across three generations - and in a space that’s come to feel like home. Of course, there is dizzying, forceful, singleminded playing, but even amongst a relentless chorus of cymbal splashes and busy vibraphone clusters the lyrical, spacious moments are savoured and held onto. As he remarked after at the end of the group's first visit to OTO, “the Quartet is, for us, a great adventure.”

Peter clearly wanted to play to the end. Did he know these might be his last shows? We will never know. What is clear is he wanted to go out in style and on his terms. For anyone in the room at the time or listening to these recordings it’s clear he achieved that.

It was Peter’s wish that these recordings should be made public and he was due to finalise the cover design on the week he passed away. We would like to thank Peter’s family for working with us to fulfil Peter’s wishes to release this material but more than anything we would like to thank Peter for all the extraordinary memories, his generosity and all he has given the music. On a personal level for us, like so many, he meant a huge amount and we miss him deeply.

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Peter Brotzmann / reeds 
John Edwards / double bass 
Steve Noble / drums 
Jason Adasiewicz / vibraphone 

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ROKU033 - Peter Brotzmann / Jason Adasiewicz / Steve Noble / John Edwards - The Quartet [sample]

"In this live-recorded mix, my constant obsession for highly-digital yet bucolic sound merges with more recent explorations into groovy, soul-infused electronics, featuring some older gems and touches of broken beats.” @rae00000, January 2025

photo: Damiana Facen

TRACKLIST:

1. HEXALYNE - Scilloacc
2. Uochi Toki Collective - Pyramid Sub (feat. Giulia Rae, Anubi)
3. DELI KUVVETI - Between 2 breaths 
4. O$VMV$M - Need U
5. Pole - Traum
6. Memotone - Down Illusion 
7. emer - Love Can Be So Easy (feat. Ugnė Uma)
8. Basic Channel - Q1.2
9. Tutu Ta - Could be Monk 
10. Box5ive - 1 Rough Sleeper 
11. Speaker Music - Experience Saturation 
12. Beatrice Dillon - Square Fifths 
13. Moor Mother - ARMS SAVE (feat. Nicole Mitchell)
14. OISATSANA - Multitasking 
15. Pontiac Streator - turn to me
16. Teresa Winter - Like An Apple

Giulia Rae x Neanche Per Sogno

DELUSION  11

Radwaste

FAR BEHIND

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kagami Shikō’s poem “Even though afar / a feeling of coolness / comes from those mountain pines.”

Tracklist:

tetkik ve tedavi - Forest Magic https://soundcloud.com/tetkik_ve_tedavi/be7da0d1-de7b-4746-86b2-2ae893de2bd2
Addisonic - Moutain Pines https://soundcloud.com/addisonic/moutain-pines
Debroc - Feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/feeling-of
Terry Mullett - atmospheric perspective https://soundcloud.com/terry_mullett/atmospheric-perspective-naviarhaiku575
Ray Cobley - Coolness from Afar https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/coolness-from-afar
Anne Versailles - Coolness feeling https://soundcloud.com/user-576728462/coolness_feeling
Robert Knote - a feeling of coolness https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/a-feeling-of-coolness-naviarhaiku575


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #352 - Even though afar – Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Suffocation 

Music: Behrouz Pashaei
Mastering: Behnam Asadi
Cover Painting: Salma Hosseini

Special thanks to Ata Ebtekar(SOTE), Arash Bolouri, Hamed Afshar, and Kasra Eskandari

The Holy Fool

Nicholas Moroz