Community Wellness Roundtable 1

"A playlist of some artists i discovered during the previous month, it's often new songs but sometimes not 'cause i discovered them a bit after they published their song, or it was artists i already knew."

Hip Hop R&B Jazzy Soul Peregrinations June 2023 #73

One song from every genre we currently track. <a href="http://everynoise.com/thesoundofeverything.html">Annotated here.</a>

The Sound of Everything

Daily beats...

https://oolongbois.bandcamp.com/
ohhyeah im deadha

roxies and cigarettes - oolong

You Can't Steal My Joy

What Am I to Do? (feat. Loyle Carner)

»Tides« marked a radical change in direction for Arovane. After Uwe Zahn had made a name for himself with cutting-edge IDM rhythms and slick ambient textures on a slew of releases, his sophomore album saw the prolific producer opt for a sample-based approach that resulted in a more organic sound and laid-back downbeat grooves. Having reissued Arovane’s seminal »Atol-Scrap« as a double LP in 2021, the Berlin-based Keplar label now makes »Tides« available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 2000 through the legendary City Centre Offices. The new version has been remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering and comes with a brand new cover artwork. It shines a new light on a release for which Zahn quite literally ventured into previously unknown territory — »Tides« is an album that emits a timeless, quiet calm and nonetheless stays constantly in motion.

»The idea for the album came to me after a vacation in France«, says Zahn. Inspired by the landscape, especially the coastline and the sea, he made field recordings throughout his trip that were also used on the record, giving it its sensual feel. The foundation of the album however, the loose yet gripping grooves at the heart of every track, result from Zahn working extensively with samples. »I wanted to make use of drum sounds and small excerpts from old jazz vinyl records«, he explains. He maintained the unique sound signatures and rhythmic flutter of the source material while building intricate beats with them. Most of the material was culled from the record collection of Christian Kleine, whose spontaneous guitar improvisations over the first musical sketches were recorded and edited by Zahn and can be heard on four tracks. Also employing the occasional cembalo or spinet sound, he worked with a hardware sequencer and a delay to integrate the different, discrete elements into nine tracks that feel both dense and light at once. 

What’s astonishing still 22 years later is how spacious »Tides« sounds. This is due to the fact that Zahn not only paid close attention to the sonic idiosyncrasies of his source material, but also to what happened in between those sounds. »Mark Hollis’s solo album was a huge inspiration at that time«, says Zahn. »What I find fascinating about it until this day is how silence and the subtle hiss of the mixing boards were being used on that record.« Silence was also an important stylistic element on »Tides« and adds greatly to the overall atmosphere of an album that with the appropriately named »Theme« immediately sets the mood with intricate spinet melodies: Zahn opens a door for his listeners and invites them to follow him to see a specific part of the world through his very own lens.

As a whole, the album mirrors Zahn’s trip that took him along the steep cliffs on a foggy day (»Seaside«), to an abandoned house in which he found old maps (»A Secret«), along the coastline during a long car ride (»Deauville«), to a sleepy village and the slowly moving sea (»Tides«) and finally back home to his native Germany where he started reflecting upon his experiences, ultimately deciding to translate them into music (»Epilogue«). »Whenever I listen to this album now, the images and memories it evokes are incredibly vivid and vibrant«, he says. It’s not hard to see — or rather hear — why. »Tides« may have been a deeply personal project, but it effortlessly evokes universal feelings by (re-)building an entire world in the course of only a few pieces of music.

All tracks composed and recorded by Uwe Zahn.  
Originally released on CCO in 2000.  
Remaster and cut by Kassian Troyer @ D&M.  
Cover art by Jim Kühnel based on a photograph by Uwe Zahn.   
Text by Kristoffer Cornils.

Tides (2022 Remaster)

Arovane - Tides (2022 Remaster)

Tidal Wave

Where I'm Meant To Be

Togetherness

Ego Killah

No Confusion (feat. Kojey Radical)

Lady

Lady (Edit)

Here's a throw back track that I've never released before. I wrote and recorded this song when I was 18 years old, and its produced by none other than the Legendary J Dilla and James Posyer. It was one of the first songs I recorded by myself, outside of my rap group dynamic. Hope ya'll dig it!.   

"We Could Be" Produced By J Dilla and James Poyser #ThrowBackTrack

Rust (feat. Tom Misch)

Live at Radio City Music Hall

Source (Live at Radio City Music Hall)

All Night Long

All Night Long (feat. Topaz Jones)

Prod by Guala
@artdealerguala

Mix & Master to 1/4'' tape by Ian Bennett
@ian.makes.music

Appreciata ya, @franklettierijr

Last Chance U
Ash can’t you
make a new tune?
give us something to dance to
an anthem, damn son
that anthropological 
dialogue is tired dog
we need that fire bro
we need that ride along
the side an Ireland body of water 
cigar in order
like you just had daughter
my alma mater called 
told me I’ve become a martyr
I’m only getting older
it’s only getting harder

I’m only getting smarter
tried to diversify 
turns out writing raps
is good for getting by
killing time and getting high
at least the moments
get memorialized
wait there’s more to life?
man, I’m mortified 
how am I suppose to access
the outer axis of our actions?
what through practice?
man that's wack shit
i need racks
for rib racks 
from north cacalacky
on acid
kicking hacky sack
with Bill and Cousin Jackie

i think my name means Happy
i’d say that’s accurate 
there’s some tact to it
if nothing is immaculate 
at least there’s ass for smacking
that’s what it’s there for
rare form with Nore
woke up drunk at the airfort
clairvoyant
paranormal
til I cut my hair short
like Iroquois 
trusting white men was a error boy
territory 
terrible story
parables they bore me
red herring 
for sure
you should get a corgi

ASHER ROTH - DIMMA (LAST CHANCE U) prod. Guala

Red Corolla

Honestly, Just Wanna Have a Good Time (feat. King Chip)

DELETED SCENES 2 7/28

Written by Ransom
Produced by Nicholas Craven
Mixed & Mastered by Roberto Viglione

Nicholas Craven & Ransom - Body Of Lies

Déjà Vu

Bring Me Joy

Hifalutin

baglaens

Adès, Nørgård, Abrahamsen: Music for String Quartet

VI. O Albion

Good As Hell

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Be Free (DJ Jazzy Jeff and James Poyser Remix)

Saxophonist/Composer based in London. 

Photo :: Adama Jalloh
Cover photo :: Mahaneela Choudhury - Reid

Source (Live at Radio City Music Hall)

Nubya Garcia