Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

Lea B + Ben Vida

Played & Recorded at Burnout Regula by Feldermelder (live)

Feldermelder (live) - Radio Bollwerk - 28.10.2021

This is a mixed down composite version of Browser Music 2. 

The individual parts and instructions for playing them are as follows:

Open each link below in its own web browser tab or window and press play on each. The four parts are meant to be played at the same time but don’t have to start together. You can stop / re-start individual parts and mute / change their respective volumes as you wish. Like the components of a mobile sculpture, each part can be considered on its own or in any combination. 

Part One: youtu.be/3bFnL-NScXg
Part Two: youtu.be/t0uBrmzbLmg
Part Three: youtu.be/JuL0QeuPD0E
Part Four: youtu.be/SpKiqpJViSw

This is music without development, where nothing much happens (or rather: the happening is evenly distributed throughout). This is also quiet music – perfect for playing in the background on your web browser while you are doing something else on your computer. You can even listen to other music / watch other videos / make Zoom calls, etc. while playing Browser Music in the background.

Support here: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/track/browser-music-2

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Browser Music 2

This classic LP of music from Cameroon from the legendary first Ocora series, featuring collective otherworldly musics connected to the invisible world, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/03/cameroon-cameroun-musiques-du-cameroun.html

Musiques du Cameroun – Ocora – OCR 25

Mix Cameroon / Cameroun Ocora 25 (1965)

from Koray Kantarcıoğlu's Loopworks 2. 

More info at www.discrepant.net

Loopworks 2 (masters 24b)

Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Lamba Pr 03 (from Loopworks 2)

dusk –––––– dawn

Pablo Diserens – dusk –––––– dawn (excerpt)

On Hyperdelia’s first release »Erster Teil - Zweiter Teil - Dritter Teil« the recording studio takes eight musicians on astral travelling. The Serenus Zeitblom Oktett’s album is the beautiful result of a complexly processed abstraction of a live acoustic jazz ensemble becoming a hyperdelic space tentacle, reaching into bass depths and pop dimensions: one moment zooming into microscopic miniature sounds only to branch out into free floating airy planes in the next.

»Erster Teil - Zweiter Teil - Dritter Teil« is the debut LP of the Berlin based ensemble Serenus Zeitblom Oktett. The Oktett from Berlin consists of musicians with a broad pop, free jazz and contemporary music background. All eight musicians have worked in various formations and with various musicians, ranging from Efterklang’s Martyn Heyne (who also did post-production on the record) and Matthew Herbert to Ingrid Laubrock, Stargaze, Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and many more. These diverse backgrounds inform the Oktett’s artificial but organic live sound-production aesthetic.

The ensemble is accompanied by a ninth member, the Klanggestalter. Both in the studio as well as live every instrument is being amplified and processed by filters and live algorithms, neutralising the difference of acoustic and electric instruments.

The LP comes with a special video documentary by Roman Hagenbrock (i am just a video girl). The video adds another poetic layer of abstraction: confusing sound, action and image.

HEX 001 "Erster Teil" - Serenus Zeitblom Oktett

今の分散されている世界の中でどのように進んでいく？これは我々が選べることである。~  How will we move forward in this fractured world? This is something we all must choose.

Umé Records presents the new album from Carlos Ferreira (@carlos-ferreira-sounds) & Ki Oni (@ki_oni) "A Hundred Ways of Escaping", out May 15th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-hundred-ways-of-escaping

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Carlos Ferreira & Ki Oni ~ A Hundred Ways of Escaping (snippets)

Pre-order: 14th October 2022
Release date: 21th October 2022
Format: Cassette, Digital

"Llacuna Infinita" is a journey to the Albufera Natural Park (Valencia). 
An attempt to put to music the sounds and sensations that have accompanied some of the walks through different parts of this wonderful landscape.

Mínim is the personal project of Juanvi Fortea, member of Mecánica Clásica and half of Materia and Güiro Meets Russia.

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Demord's guest of the month is Louise Lavi. DJ and documentary filmmaker from eastern Paris, she spreads hip hop and bass culture on Rinse FM Paris with SPMDJ. For the occasion, she’s fixing a night mix through deep blue dreams from ambient to future beats.

Resident Riposte is paving the way for a selecta mix from old dub to ambient folk and medieval stuffs contemplations.

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Browser Music 2

Andrew Pekler