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1. andrew pekler - feedback tt
2. unnamned burundian musician - chant avec citahare / toru takemitsu - water music
3. mike cooper - electricity
4. joel chadabe - yum yum
5. ryuichi sakamoto - ulu watu 
6. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / cool symmetries
7. michael prime - the mouth of hermes / barbera benary - sleeping braid
8. chappel mood music vol. 15 - électronique / zazou, bikaye, cy 1 - m’pasi ya
9. andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong / madalyn merkey - archipelago
10. barbara kolb - solitaire / waisoni msusa (malawi)- kung'anda kwa anyamata
11. dennis smalley - the pulses of time
12. peuls musicians of niger - pakapak / mike cooper - tahiti green island
13. gordon monahan - large piano magnified / andrew pekler - untitled 
14. andrew pekler - mirror structures
15. mbuti singers (malawi) - iyo-o-o / david keane - in memorium hugh le caine
16. jon hassell - empire iv
17. unnamed burundian musician - take me back to mabayi / pierre henry - danse / additional sounds
18. andrew pekler - theme from tt
19. nuno canavarro - bruma / unnamed burundian singers - akazéhé / andrew pekler - synthetic birdsong

mix originally made for the skyapnea radio show on nts radio http://www.skyapnea.com/pagez/about/

photo by tina born 
http://www.tinaborn.com/


Fourth World Problems

Underwater Nocturne

'Front Load' video by Jesse Kanda @ https://vimeo.com/146106501
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Front Load

F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Day Two One

From the album Sounds From Phantom Islands:
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands

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Taprobana

020416

From the 2009 album "Entanglements In The Orthopedic Sensorium" – now available on Bandcamp: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/entanglements-in-the-orthopedic-sensorium

Video:
https://youtu.be/vI_TWdVTP3g

Entanglements In The Orthopedic Sensorium

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Waltz For Minor Planets

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger
Andrew Pekler - Untitled / Insect March
Alessandro Brivio - Untitled
Jake Meginsky - Vandals + Waldkautz Balz recorded by Walter Tilgner 
Mike Kitcher - Processed Snippet of "Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957" # 8
Yannick Dauby - 蛙界蒙 + Francis Bebey- Sanza tristesse
Unnamed Aka Pygmy Singer - Dikoboda sombe (Hut song solo) + Morton Feldman - Samoa
Hanno Leichtmann - Primitiva 4
Three Legged Race - Tyrant (loop) + Lieven Martens Moana - A Subtle Landscape + Knud Viktor - Images
Luluwa people of Congo - Wa Kabwala Wa Beena Luluwa + Andrew Pekler - additional sounds 
Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Gamelan & Frogs
Yas-Kaz - Psychopomp + Tor Dietrichson - The Conjurer + Asmus Tietchens - Vektor 2 R
Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon - Study VII for Samplers and Percussion + Louise Lawler - Birdcalls
Günter Sommer - Hörmusik + Jake Meginsky - Four Zopas
Native Instrument - Live at Atonal 2016 + Cluster - Rote Riki (loop)
Pierre Henry - Continuum + Adam Asnan - Rev Sets 11
Hamza El Din - Song With Tar + Yannick Dauby - A Pattern Which Connects B
Gamelan Son of Lion - Gamelan II
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Agba'a
Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (chopped and screwed)
Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger

Fourth World Problems II

From the album Strings + Feedback, originally released in 2005 on Staubgold. https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/strings-feedback

Strings + Feedback

Doublemoon

Andrew Pekler Mix N°22

Sentimental Circuits & Exotic Connectors
assembled by Andrew Pekler

1. Charles Dodge - The Story Of Our Lives
2. Bellows - Untitled
3. Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - I'm Glad There Is You
4. Larry Polansky - Four Voice Cannon
5. Eyeless In Gaza - Fixation
6. Haroumi Hosono - Birthday Party
7. Hans Edler - Vi Hör Ett Skrik
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Format & Journey North
9. Giuseppe Ielasi & Andrew Pekler - unreleased track
10. Dolphins Into The Future - Ko'okika Moku'aina
11. Jon Appleton - Ofa Atu
12. Jon Hassel - Datu Bintung At Jelong
13. Haroumi Hosono - Malabar Hotel 
14. Andrew Pekler - unreleased track
15. Jon Appleton - Newark Airport Rock
16. Andrew Pekler - unreleased track
17. KWJAZ - Once In Babylon
18. Ursula Bogner - unreleased track
19. Charles Dodge - The Story Of Our Lives
20.  Franco Battiato - Cariocinesi
21. Traxman - The Comeback
22. Joseph Hammer - I Love You, Please Love Me Too
23. Intersystems - Untitled
24. Charles Dodge - The Story Of Our Lives
25. David Behrman - Interspecies Smalltalk, Part 2
26. Charles Dodge - The Story Of Our Lives

Sentimental Circuits & Exotic Connectors

1.  Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere
2. Sugai Ken - Wakihi
3. Tomoko Sauvage - Clepsydra
4. Roger Tellier Craig - Soleile Et Chaleur Dans Le Parc (excerpt)
5. Walter Zimmerman - Stille Tänze Riuti
6. Mark Templeton - One Last Encore
7. Giuseppe Ielasi  - Forthcoming Untitled
8. Alessandro Bosetti - Advertencia (El Silbo Gomero)
9. Paul De Marinis - Fonetica Francesa
10. Mike Kitcher - Amabele O-O
11. Carl Stone - Dong Il Jang
12. Jason Grier - Demonstration Disc 5
13. Jake Meginsky - Fourth Gate
14. Phil Struck - CCLT
15. Andrew Pekler - Cricket Steps
16. Nicola Ratti - L2
17. Seekersinternational - Run Come Test
18. Steve Shehan - Sticks And Stones
19. Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming
20. Maggie Payne - Gamelan
21. Ahnnu - Daydream Blink Edit
22. Andrew Pekler - Water Particles

Resonant Night

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Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Sound From Phantom Islands
Label#: Faitiche20
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas. With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contemporary Exotica.

Phantom islands are islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. The status of these artefacts of European colonial expansion from the 15th to the 19th century oscillates between cartographic fact and maritime fiction. Sounds From Phantom Islands interprets and presents these imaginations as a quasi-ethnographic catalog of music and synthetic field recordings. The pieces on this album are based on recordings made for Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas, an online interactive map developed with cultural anthropologist Stefanie Kiwi Menrath.