https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/klangturm-sounds-for-the-bell-tower-of-the-immanuelkirche-hamburg-veddel

"Klangturm" was commissioned by the Immanuelkirche church in Hamburg-Veddel. The church had recently replaced its bells with a loudspeaker and automated playback system and had asked a number of artists to compose music to be played hourly as well as shorter sounds to be played 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour. 

Thinking about what sounds have bell-like properties (but aren't bells) and taking into consideration the technical limitations of the bell tower's loudspeaker (mono, limited bass and high frequency), I decided to work with a limited pallet of just electric guitar and a few effects pedals (reverb, tremolo, pitch shifter, envelope). 

Each piece at the full hour is "previewed" by short fragments of its component parts at the preceding 15, 30 and 45 minute mark. Some, but not all, of the pieces include a time-telling element; a melody with the same number of notes as the hour. 

These pieces were played back from the bell tower of the church from 8 AM to 8 PM every day (except Mondays) during July 2021.

8:00 PM (excerpt from "Klangturm")

Music from the Seiko film, The Gift of Time directed by Paula Chowles.

Sharing Tea

Hawaiian Healing Meditation 21

🐘👩‍✈️💛meets 🐺🌱🐺💜🩵🐺💚my soulsisters

This mix was made by Joseph Sannicandro (A CLOSER LISTEN) for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014. 

Read more about the mix, including tracklisting: 

http://secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannicandro-a-closer-listen-mix/

https://acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-mix-for-secret-thirteen/#comment-127414

Secret Thirteen Mix

Secret Thirteen Mix 139 - A Closer Listen

Fonseca Winds (Lament)

excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

A PVC 7" made for our Good Morning Family Jam at Acud Macht Neu in Berlin on 27/07/19.

Features the tracks "Magnolia Shade" by Innsyter & an edit by 2Morph taken off their recent release titled "Panaceum".

Only 30 copies made!

Purchase here:
https://www.goodmorningtapes.com/collections/vinyl

Innsyter / 2Morph - 7" Sampler (Snippets)

https://disk.bandcamp.com/album/k-r-balc-ak
https://soundcloud.com/k6r
https://soundcloud.com/d1sk

Kӣr - Zabran (Black Seed Remix)

Palanga Street Radio
presents:

Welcome to alternative soundtrack to ''Taste of Tea'' movie! ✨ Moving Stories (Ieva Černiauskaitė & Mávros Skýlos) will take you through 
soundscapes of river, wind, cherry blossoms and rain of this weird and beautiful movie. 

This mixtape was recorded for Corpi Sonori: Sugihara House event. ✨

The event: www.facebook.com/events/230427004832120/
Extra ありがとう @hilezoda (Hìldå) for an invitation.

@movingstoriesarchive
@skylosmavros

Tracklist - soon!

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palanga.live

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http://palanga.live

CORPI SONORI SUGIHARA HOUSE 仝 MOVING STORIES

forthcoming in Feb 2021, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk

Double CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London’s brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener. Across two sets the quintet are infectiously energetic and inspired, striding from synchronised heavy groove to star bright solos, whilst incorporating dub effects, guimbri and sumptuous blues piano playing. 
 
Formed by Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas but always realised with an ever changing number of invited musicians, Black Top's blend of lo-fi samples, dub effects and experimental electronics has been daring free improvisation since 2011. Their virtuoso performances draw on their Afro-Caribbean roots with delicious spontienty and humour; the histories of Ridley Road Market, the LIO and Islamic West Africa are sounded out side by side on iPad, marimba and vibraphone. Having met in 2006, Black Top played with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake as part of their residency at Cafe OTO in 2016; forming a quartet grounded in transatlantic kinship but which looked outward to the Carribean, calypso music and Saharan gnawa rhythms. When Parker and Drake returned to OTO in 2019 Black Top reformed again, but this time with the brilliant addition of vocalist Elaine Mitchener. 
Over the last few years the clarity with which Mitchener has explored vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde has been stunning, but here the range in her influences is manifest, moving effortlessly between phonetic and poetic experimentation and spoken word, all the while at ease with soul soaked jazz and dissonant free fall. A hand drum duet with Hamid Drake astonishes before being laced perfectly with cosmic theremin and Parker’s fantastic acid shehnai. 

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Sunday 28th July 2019 by Paul Skinner and mixed and mastered by James Dunn. Photos by Dawid Laskowski and artwork by Oliver Pitt. 

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Hamid Drake / percussion

Elaine Mitchener / vocals

William Parker / double bass, guimbri

Orphy Robinson / marimba, electronics

Pat Thomas / piano, electronics

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OTOROKU
18-22 Ashwin Street
E8 3DL

ROKU025

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CD1
Put the Brakes On - 50:08

CD2
Some Good News - 56:43

Mare Insularum

Andrew Pekler