Exploring Dissonance contains 20 Jazz piano loops, 19 Dissonant piano textures and 2 full length tutorials on Jazz Piano Theory and texture. This pack highlights dissonant chord progressions mixed with strong melodic leads lines, inspired from what you might hear from an Italian or French film from the early 1970s. All piano parts were recorded on a Yamaha C7 Grand Piano using a stereo pair of Coles 4038 mics, Sony C37a and a Neumann U47 fet thru a Trident A-Range Console. All Demos on this playlist are included and available exclusively at Polyphonicmusiclibrary.com

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Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121S
Release Date: 06 September 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/U-Me

Honour shares ‘U&Me (decemberseventeen)’, the first single from the upcoming full-length album ‘Àlàáfíà’ out via PAN on November 3rd.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen) (PAN121S)

Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - Pistol Poem (Lead Belly) (PAN 121)

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Ivy Lab, also known as Sabre and Stray, willfully break down genre boundaries with the ‘Demon Dust’ EP. It is born from a love of UK bass but plays with tempo, collides hip-hop with jungle, LA humidity with London grit, and so much more. Following releases on the likes of Dirtybird and their own TWTW London imprint, they now land on the Australian Future Classic label, with the first single ‘Backshifting’ dropping in November and the entire EP following suit in December.

“We’ve built a hunger to unleash a solid season of dance floor material and to do so in spaces we’ve either neglected in recent years or yet to have turned our hand to. We’re still always gonna carry our baggage as bass heads with a love of hip-hop with us, but the genre pool where we can explore those themes is deeper than ever, and we have so much to say in that conversation” - Ivy Lab

Successfully test-driven by dBridge and Ehua at Draaimolen, opener 'Backshifting' is a joyous blend of dusty breakbeats and pitched-up vocal hooks that make the heart flutter. The sound design is next level as the fractured loops and bursts of synth all soar and bring the good times. 'Fool' is a deeper excursion with gentle amen breaks worked into a sinewy house groove that bubbles and souls with mystic hooks and warm chords. The title track ‘Demon Dust’ highlights another angle, blending screwy acid with beautiful piano chords, bursts of breaks, gospel chorals and slamming hits. US scene mainstay Nikki Nair then remixes ‘Backshifting’ with his signature blend of percussive club music, closing out a hugely original EP that combines many different moods and genres, all to energising and emotional effect.

Demon Dust EP (incl. Nikki Nair remix)

PREMIERE: Ivy Lab - Demon Dust

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) monthly residency, episode #36, April '24. Including a goodfun 100% (?) Deutsche guest mix - second hour - by better than good bloke Valentin, a Berliner record collector/selector/dj who showcases his various discoveries through his Baile De Mainman YouTube channel. Music by Christophe, A.R. Kane and Meistersinger & Ihre Kinder, among others.

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Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Jouko & Valentin [25.04.2024]

New house flavours, head-spinning mashups and curveballs from a crossover club star.

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AFX - Analord 08 / B1 // W32.Deadcode.A

An old track Pete (Joy) and I did, that never made the cut for Sunklo.

Written, and produced by Boddika & Joy Orbison at 'The Zoo'.

Mixed by Al Green.

Boddika & Joy Orbison - For What....

An old track written by Pete (Joy) and I. It was written for Sunklo, but never made the cut.

Written, and produced by Boddika & Joy Orbison at 'The Zoo'.

Mixed by Al Green.

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