Beautiful track, with wonderfull space and sounds.

Andrew Pekler

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 8th of June, 2021.

Primitive Motion - Common Miracles (Kindling, 2021)
Tapes Meets The Drums Of Wareika Hill Sounds - Datura Mystic (Honest Jon’s, 2015)
Bilders - World Of The Winds (Self released, 2021)
Malvern Brume - Broken Bow-Tine (Left Alone, 2021)
Great Area - Over Again (Left Alone, 2021)
JJulius - Andra Takter (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, 2021)
Usurabi - Brunnera (An’archives, 2021)
Bar Italia - How Did You Get Into The Building Did Someone Open The Door For You (World Music, 2021)
AllahLas - Marionberry Jam (Mexican Summer, 2018)
The Cannanes - Brain (Feel Good All Over, 1993)
THE GABYS - Emotional Range (All Gone, 2021)
Hole Dweller - With Dreams of Adventure I Smoke from My Longpipe Beneath the Stars (Dungeons Deep, 2019)
Sholto Dobie - Nevery (Thanet Tape Centre, 2020)
Kitchen Cynics - Vodka, Sweat and Aniseed (Get Happy! 1994)
The Cannanes - Cardboard (Self Released, 1988)
The United States of America - Osamu’s Birthday (Sundazed, 2004)
The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else (Flying Nun, 1981)

NTS Radio - June 2021

@mongtong

Artwork: Evils Ister
https://www.instagram.com/evilsisterart

Zhou Huang Zhou peered into the structural weaving of the materials of the small temple, studying the symbols inscribed on the walls and the neat patterns of the roof...Between the rows of statues of deities, Taoist priests dressed in gray clothes walked back and forth and talked to the parishioners...
A 30-year-old programmer from Neihu came to the Temple of Joyful Grace to undergo a Guanlingshu ritual - during which he intended to enter the spirit world - a place where gods, ghosts, and deceased ancestors are believed to live...
The totality of the beliefs and traditions of his native land fueled the idea that every person - past, present, and future has a home in the spiritual world, and the state of each room is symbolically linked to a tangible aspect of life...

This was his third appearance on the doorstep of the world beyond perception - two other attempts were unsuccessful...For some reason, the spirits did not answer his call...But this time Zhou felt inexplicable confidence that today the door of the inner alchemy will be revealed to them...Taking a deep breath, he entered the temple...

The great hall was lit with many candles, the floors were covered with carpets with mantras and mandalas...In the сenter, in front of the inner sanctuary, there were rows of chairs, on each back of which a red piece of cloth hung...The monk urged the faithful to take courage when entering the spirit world...A small shiver ran down Zhou's spine, but there is no other way and he takes one of the chairs...

The monk's voice was loud, but soft at the same time:

- You will return from the spirit world, - he said, - but many of you will not return the same...Take these red scraps of cloth and blindfold ... Focus on the rhythm of my instrument and free your mind from worldly worries and do not rationalize what you see, do not involve the mind in this process...

Having said this, he began to recite a mantra and play on a small wooden drum...Three other monks slowly emerging from different corners, echoed him and their voices merged in that flow...

A house appeared before Zhou's inner gaze, without hesitation he opened the door and found himself in the living room, where he saw an old man sitting on the sofa...

- Greetings, Zhou, my name is Ug... Finally, you've reached this state...Look what a mess in this room, we need to streamline your life, help me remove everything that interferes with the circulation of energy...Pay attention to how much you brought a lot of junk here, every object takes attention and energy, prevents you from focusing on important aspects...

Zhou nodded silently and they began to swap objects, creating corridors along which, as if through veins, a golden snake of energy began to move...At some point, Ug raised his hand up, symbolizing that they needed to go up to the second floor...The staircase arose by itself...There was one door on the upper floor, closed with a large padlock...Zhou looked inquiringly at the South...

- This is the door of your heart...What big lock did you hang on it, ask yourself who are you hiding from? Here, take this key and open it, let love live inside...

The silver key turned softly in the lock, the door opened and a radiant stream of the sound of this mix filled the space...

Removing the blindfold from his eyes, Zhou was no longer the same...

MONG TONG 夢東 - AMATEUR EXOTIC'S JOYFUL BENEFICENCE

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/pokora-006-minua
https://minua.bandcamp.com
http://minua.net

POKORA

POKORA 006 – Minua

The fifth Camel Ride delivery is brought by Justas Jelisejevas (@justas_j), a Vilnius-based producer, music digger and journalist. His passion for music and genre-bending varieties is reflected in the immaculately crafted selections, encompassing imaginative soundscapes, atmospheric emotions and subtly hypnotic dancefloor vibrations.

Safe to say, over the last years the beguiling selections of Justas in various venues and festivals have left no one indifferent. Moreover, he co-curated Calypso Magazine, an online journal with a number of interviews with prominent artists in his books. Becoming deeply ingrained in the Lithuanian scene, recently he started to produce his own sounds. This year saw the release of his debut EP titled Animaux, a six-track release that explores and interprets wild animals through the means of electronic music. Justas also co-runs a monthly radio show “Puppystyle” (@puppystylelove) at the newly emerged hub Radio Vilnius. Aside from music activities, Justas draws animal illustrations with oil pastels or ink.

Check out our interview with Justas: https://bit.ly/3iBjJW5

Listen to his debut EP Animaux: https://bit.ly/3A6GUgR

#005 Camel Ride with Jelisejev

Bamboo Shows 065 - Earthly Tones w/ Soda Lite
Infos, Links & Podcast Series: www.bambooshows.com/soda-lite-bs065

@soda-lite

Soda Lite (they/them) lives on the small island of lutruwita (also known as Tasmania) and is deeply influenced by its cool climate rainforests, alpine plateaus and eucalypt valleys. They use music to communicate the unique lifeways of these environments to listeners elsewhere on earth. Soda Lite has recorded three full-length albums since 2017, releasing with notable ambient labels such as Constellation Tatsu and Inner Islands and the next record, entitled ‘Aqua Solar Cura’ is to be released in January 2022 on Not Not Fun.

Soda Lite provided a sweet contribution for Bamboo Shows to close the year peacefully. New age and minimalist ambient music from around the earth, moving slow like a mountain changing shape, or a lake growing warm in spring.

BS065 - Soda Lite

RICK SHIVER - 5 YEAR CREVETTE INSTORE
DAY 2: 29/10/2021

www.crevetterecords.be

TASCAM DR-40

RICK SHIVER - 5 YEAR CREVETTE INSTORE

MUSIQUES FLUIDES cherche les brèches dans lesquelles s'immiscer, les interstices, les espaces vides. Quand les étiquettes ne définissent plus, quand les limites et les lois érigées sont désarçonnées, le vide appelle la création. Les humaines et les humains animeront leurs machines électroniques et feront vibrer leurs voix angéliques d'un univers autre, une utopie vécue, où les mots les plus simples dessinent les mirages d'un monde prochain, d'un monde sans frontière, d'un monde, fluide. Stazo et Andrae Cob pour la production musicale, Céline, Paola et Noémie pour les voix.

Musiques Fluides (16/06/2022) w/ Stazo & Andra Cob

IDA Hommik – Shukai 26.09.22

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

Bandcamp

Taprobana

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

Excerpts, fragments, edits and combinations of: 

Ströer Duo - Vietnam  
Jonathan William Scherk - Oh Softer
 Naná Vasconcelos - Dado 
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie II 
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Watering Place Under Kannogawa-Nokkoshi 
Savant - Heart of Stillness 
Matsuo Ohno - 映画｢惑星大戦争｣電子音響 
でいご娘 - クーダーカ
Knud Victor - Images 1 
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R. and Me 
Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 2 
Joel Chabade - Yum Yum 
Daniel Lentz - You Can't See the Forest 
Tomoko Sauvage - Jalatarangam Revisited
 Iannis Xenakis - Orient-Occident 
People of the Ituri Forest - Elephant Hunting Song 
Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown - Bamako Ou Ailleurs 
Michel Redolfi - Death Valley 
Martin Neukom - 18.5 
José Pivin ‎– Opéra Du Cameroun 
Andrew Pekler - Fonseca Winds (Lament)
Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Fawn 
François Bayle - Toupie Dans Le Ciel 
Duke Ellington, Max Roach & Charles Mingus - Le Fleurs Africaines

Originally broadcast on http://lyl.live/show/les-statues-meurent-aussi/

Juxtapositions

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.

Andrew Pekler: Description Of Rain (Over Frisland)

https://soundcloud.com/k6r
What a pleasure to start this year residency at LYL with Drugstore Belgrade affiliate Kӣr ; a beautiful ballad in the Serbian night
The gentleman will release a track (hidden on the recording) for our next OKVLT compilation
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LYL Radio ☽ Tales From The Far East ☾ Episode 7 w/ Kӣr [121020]

On March 5th, Ongehoord is releasing the concluding album of the Deadline Paranoia trilogy; Deadline Paranoia 3/3. The final set of rereleased psychedelic sounds that complete the oeuvre of the 1980s Amsterdam based band. Jeroen Vermandere, the person behind Ongehoord, discovered the band during his thorough search of Dutch cassettes and 1980s cassette culture and presents us this carefully selected triptych, taking the listener on quite a trip. 3/3 starts with a guttural exhalation, a celestial moan, setting the tone of the rest of the album - from there on the hot stickiness of dub oozes into the listener's ears, followed by ancestral percussion, rolling guitar riffs, and the nomadic sounds of the melodica. Deadline Paranoia 3/3 is light-hearted and suffocating all at once; the meditative rhythms cradle you back and forth while an array of peculiar sounds passes by, alluding to the band’s delusional name.The record comes with an inlay presenting the original artwork that Deadline Paranoia used for their cassettes, capturing a dichotomy that is recognizable in their music; a sensitivity towards the spiritual placed alongside anarchic violence. You will be taken on a surreal journey, timeless sounding beats are accompanied by wailing instruments, the atmosphere is thick and heavy with smoke.

Juxtapositions

Andrew Pekler

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