Hey folks, welcome to the 59th episode of the Stellar Series. 

Today, let's welcome Francesco Piunti, curator of the stunning @deepbreakfastseries podcast channel. The man is offering us a soothing, psychedelic ambient trip that lead us through a sea of tranquility.
He took the photo at the Gran Sasso d'Italia, a massif in the Apennine mountains of Italy.

Tracklist : 

Bålsam - Flora
Futuregrapher - TX-NES
Moss Covered Technology - Pressure Change
Daar - Sea Wind
Patricia Wolf - La Belle et la Bête
One Million Eyes - Aguirre
Glós - Serenade
Purl - Merope (Slow Dancing Society Remix)
Purl - Merope (SVLBRD Remix)
Owl - Hidden Forest
Mnemonic45 - Slow Change
36 & Awakened Souls - Take Me By The Hand
Jonny Nash & Teguh Permana - Api

Follow him : @francescopiunti

Stellar Series Episode 59 - Francesco Piunti (Awaiting The Light)

Recording of a live DJ set for the Liminal Dreams 1st-anniversary series in Tokyo, March 11th 2023 alongside https://soundcloud.com/lynne-tokyo, https://soundcloud.com/yolabmi (Live), https://soundcloud.com/yutotakei, and https://soundcloud.com/yutaroy at Spread, Shimokitazawa. Thank you to all who made this evening happen, those who came, listened attentively, shut their eyes and let the music fill the room on an amazing system that Saturday evening. It really was a special, memorable moment for me.  

The set includes lots of unreleased/forthcoming ASIP music, alongside releases from Quiet Places, Max Würden and Merrin Karras, plus some of my fave moments from Field Lines Cartographer, Echospace, qebrµs, Sindh, Jo Johnson, Acronym, Endurance and Wndfrm.

Cover photo on the night by Toby Barnes.

ASIP @ Liminal Dreams, Tokyo

Kiosk Radio, Radio Raheem and Radio 80000 will host 25AV platform's selected artists for a series of exclusive mixes and selections inspired by their musical world airing simultaneously across the three stations. 

Today we host Italian visual artist and educator Sara Bonaventura alongisde Greek music producer, singer and songwriter Anna Papaioannou aka AnnaVsJune

25AV Radio w/ Anna vs June & Sara Bonaventura 04-09-2023

Nocturnal soundscapes.

Read more: https://www.orbmag.com/music/orb-podcast-069-andrew-pekler/

@pekler

Orb Podcast

Tracklist

Orb Podcast 069: Andrew Pekler

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

Silence Echoes Loudly in the Void_Live Hybrid Mix

I Invite you to listen to this preview of my live set at Plex Athens on June 19th, presenting the "We Carry Eden" album. 

It starts with a loop from my Sakamoto Tribute live set at Mostra Barcelona (2023). You will hear samples from “Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep” (Mary Elizabeth Frye), read by Tom O'Bedlam. I added  vocal samples by Dunya Yunis. You might know her from the “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts” album by Brian Eno and David Byrne. The fieldrecordings are from the Kallikatsou (Patmos) by Ioannis Nikolaou.

As always when i prepare a live set i make loops and collect samples. This time i sampled from some artists i connected to on instagram. The basic scape for the 2nd movement (3.00 min) comes from Eirini Zacharaki from Athens who sent me her 1st ever electronic noise experiment. I also added a rhythm loop from a track by an artist called Zebra (Alexis Georgopoulos). 

The direction and theme for this live set came (as usual) unexpected when i saw a post on instagram where Richard Gere reads the poem “Think Of Others” by the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (scroll down for the complete text). These dark days we live in you wonder what you could actually do. The answer comes with this poem (taken from a live poetry reading of Darwish:

“As you think of others far away, think of yourself and say: If only I were a candle in the dark”.

At 5.30 min Omar Ka joins this preview. He does the Fulani storytelling (and chanting) on the We Carry Eden album. He also introduces the next piece (6.30 min). The music comes from a bonus track of the “Seven Years At The Chi Factory” CD i recently released. The vocal is by the American poet Robert Lax, who lived the 2nd part of his life on Patmos, Greece. He also opens the We Carry Eden album saying:

“You have to have the habit of working on the project all the time and then the good moments come along  by themselves, as happy surprises and as graces, but eh, so you put yourself in a eh, in a place where grace can flow to you”.

At 08.20 min we move into a preview of a new album i’m working on with Radboud Mens (to be released by Music From Memory in 2026 TBA). First Mahmoud Darwish returns with: “Say: If only I were a candle in the dark”.

Then ( at 9.20 min) you hear the voice of Richard Gere (who also used to live on Patmos) reciting an English translation of “Think Of Others”. 

Finally (at 10.40 min) we return to the Kallikatsou. The music comes from my album “The Kallikatsou Recordings”. The vocals are taken from a Youtube video by a young Palestinian girl Rahaf Nasser, using her passion for music to comfort the traumatized children on the streets of Gaza. 

It's all about being a "Candle In The Dark". The preview closes (again) with field recordings from The Kallikatsou, Patmos by Ioannis Nikolaou who run the Underflow Record Store in Athens the last years. Recently he sadly passed away, so this mix is also a tribute to him. The spoken word in the outro is by his good friend Spyro Papanastassiou.

All we can do is keep spreading love, peace, hope and comfort. To respect, protect and preserve truth and stand strong in unity. One love!

"Think of Others" by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Mohammed Shaheen

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
Do not forget the pigeon's food
As you conduct your wars, think of others
Do not forget those who seek peace
As you pay your water bill, think of others
Those who are nursed by clouds
As you return home, to your home, think of others
Do not forget the people of the camps
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
Those who have nowhere to sleep
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
those who have lost the right to speak
As you think of others far away, think of yourself and say: 
If only I were a candle in the dark

Join us in Athens:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1813791775862552/
Listen to 'We Carry Eden'
https://chifactory.bandcamp.com/album/we-carry-eden-feat-omar-ka

A Candle In The Dark (preview of a live set)

False Aralia gracing the Motion Cast with his first publicly available studio mix. Infectiously rhythmic, varied, primitive sounds from a person who’s been making some of my favorite music of the last decade. Those who spend the time connecting the dots between his various projects are in for a realll treat. This one feels like a subconscious (or maybe intentional?) selection of songs that highlight many of the lovable things about his productions, explored through the lens of music across a spectrum of time and moods. 

https://soundcloud.com/falsearalia

https://falsearalia.bandcamp.com/

the decayes - k-7
dirx - hediste
scanner - mbm reanimator
st. ride - eskimo
pieter kock - savage
saboten - appleton
lamusa ii - materiale
etienne schwarcz - vii
surfacing - amaurot
altz - sky
simon fisher turner - oh
die welttraumforscher - 21 januar 2021

Motion Cast vol. 98: False Aralia

from forthcoming MFTEOTW album/compilation 2025
Free download: https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-end-of-the-w-part-one
credits
released august 1, 2025
mastering by Sasha Foam
https://sashafoam.bandcamp.com/

smoke machine

The haiku prompt for this:

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

Naviar haiku challenge 617, details here:  https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I have my field recording of the sea so I had a starting point; everything else was made with VCV Rack. I started with the sequences then added the synthetic waves, mixed with the real ones towards the end of the track. Wanting to keep the rest quite sparce and minimal I then made a simple chord sequence and a simple self generating melody.   

With a rough plan for the overall form I was going to follow I set up physical controls and multi track recording, hit record and mixed/modulated all the elements in one live take.

While the sea recording is my own it has been uploaded to freesound, find it here: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Drawn Back By The Sea - (naviarhaiku - 617)

Since 2014, UK-based label, https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries have been responsible for some of the most enlightening and entertaining releases of recent years. Their output has helped otherwise forgotten or out of print music see the light of day, provided new takes on previous classics, whilst also pushing forward new music by some of the most well-respected artists within the ambient genre. 

Debuting with a release by dub-techno legend DeepChord in 2014, Astral Industries went on to release Wolfgang Voigt's live project, Rückverzauberung Live In London in 2015.  In 2016 they followed with a 1985 recording from disbanded dutch collective Chi - a timeless and undoubtedly classic record, whilst in the same year pitching Wolfgang and Deepchord together for the very first time, with reinterpretations of Peter Michael Hamel's classic, Colors of Time. By then, and combined with the continually brilliant artwork of Theo Ellsworth, we knew that Astral Industries was a label with staying-power, and a growing catalog of releases worth collecting - be it just for the framed artwork, or moreover, the complete music package. 

In 2017, we've seen an LP by Heavenly Music Corporation, aka Kim Cascone (likely encouraged by the recent re-release of his own label Silent Records), a third LP by The Chi Factory, and then just last month a beautiful album by Waveform Transmission (Rod Modell of DeepChord and Chris Troy), with a sublime follow-up album, a massive 20 years after their first. 

The man behind the Astral Industries machine, Ario is a proven expert at plucking obscure gems from the past, or ensuring that good music gets the platform and artistic presentation it deserves. In just a few years, Ario has curated a highly respected and anticipated label roster that demands attention, and has yet to disappoint. The music is always gentle, deep and often extremely vivid, be it deeply hypnotic ambient, or gentle murmurs of dub-techno. 

With curatorial talents like this, we're overjoyed to host an exclusive 2hr+ mix of Ario digging into his record collection, and interlocking a few select exclusive Astral Industries bits in-between. It's one hell-of-a hypnotic journey and just like the Astral Industries releases, deserved of your full undivided, escapist attention.