@menqui cooked us a laidback hour for the hotter days. Prepare yourself a Ti'punch, layout under a tree and enjoy the coming summer while listening to this groovy selection.

Karagi ಏ Menqui

by @magicmuelli & @madlubi

As the musician Mathew Halsall was unable to find a suitable label for his releases, he founded his own music label 'Gondwana Records' in Manchester in 2008. The label is now regarded as the nucleus of the young jazz scene in Manchester and is home to musicians from the UK, Belgium, Poland, USA, Australia and Scandinavia, among others. This results in an exciting contemporary spectrum of spiritual meditative jazz, neo-classical and ambient-electronic crossover. We introduce you to some of the label's artists and projects: Chip Wickam, GoGo Penguin, Mammal Hands, Paradise Cinema, Sunda Arc, Hania Rani, ...

https://www.gondwanarecords.com/

This version is without the spoken parts, just the music.

First aired on Cashmere Radio on November 11, 2023
https://cashmereradio.com/episode/the-endless-tape-machine-20-label-showcase-gondwana-records/

The Endless Tape Machine #20 - Label Showcase: Gondwana Records

This album is compiled by by ‘A friend of mine’ aka A.F.O.M. International & supported by @Sameheads Berlin to raise funds for the survivors of the February 2023 earthquakes in South East Turkey/Syria and to provide some sonic experiences to the mere listeners.

Thanks to the generosity of all participating artists and the contributors, 100% of the income, generated from the sales of this album and the tracks within will be donated to Angel's Farm Sanctuary which operate at the affected area to restore life and hope.   Turkey and Syria were struck by two massive earthquakes of Mw 7,8 and Mw 7,6 on 6th of February 2023. Being one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the earthquakes affected 11 cities in the region, with a death toll reaching more than 57.000, more than 110.000 injured and over 500.000 buildings being collapsed or heavily damaged. Urgent support for the rescue and relief efforts brought to the area, included 60,000-strong search-and- rescue forces, 5,000 health workers, 30,000 volunteers, and more than 141,000 people from 94 countries. This followed by numerous wide-ranging fund-raising campaigns with donations from companies, institutions, organizations, and individuals.  However, with an estimated damage over US$110 billion, it is obvious that the recovery process for the region and the victims will be lengthy.  

As the dust settles and the buzz slowly dissolves 8 months after this disastrous incident, we believe that it is the right time for releasing this compilation, not only to raise funds for the ones in need, but also to raise the fading awareness about the situation in trhe region of Sout-east Turkey and Syria.

♥ Thanks to all the artists and volunteers who added some spice to this project!

Order limited edition 'Hope Stick' / Download : afominternational.bandcamp.com/album/hop…mpilation

✴ All tracks mastered by Salih Topuz at Cambazli HQ. except;
✴ Boy Harsher 'Morphine' from Yr Body is Nothing, released June 20, 2016
✴ Noise Diva 'Teknooo' mastered by Krampfhaft
✴ Michel Banabila ‘Uprising’ mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise studio.
✴ Mehmet Aslan 'Ghost Station' mastered by Mehmet Aslan
✍ Cover Art by Mehmet Aslan
✎ Text by Emin Sadikoglu
♫ Curation by Zozo

Released October 3, 2023

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Released by:
https://www.instagram.com/afominternational/
Album release date:
3 October 2023

Koyil / Rarefied Air Got Me Trippin

Freshly uploaded from an early Jan '25 gathering of music souls pushing the limits....

Saeko & André really nailed this one. In anticipation of Thomash and a debut airing of his homage to the Tokyo Metro system YAMANOTE...

Enjoy!
xxx

Saeko Killy b2b André Pahl (warm up set) - Yamanote @ Sameheads 04.01.24

yang to yin | luke morgan | april 16

Concerto dei Sogni

This is part 2 of a work that is a little over ten minutes long, so I'm splitting into two pieces so the SoundCloud algorithm works. Part 1 (heard here) is the explosion, Part 2 is the aftermath. To hear the complete work without interruption: https://soundcloud.com/steve-owens-989781522/dysphoria

Dysphoria concerns an experience common to many people who are neurodivergent and or have experienced trauma. It is both an outgrowth of my personal experience, and my experience as an educator working with students (and adults). When I was an administrator, I worked multiple times with the psychologist Dave Melnick of the Northeast Families Institute on matters of workforce development. In one consultation, Dave introduced me to the concept of "working upstream" with behaviors, understanding the trajectory of the individuals "interiority" so as to be able to identify where that person is in the cascade of inner events and tailor interventions.

In the community of autistic people, when this cascade flows into dysregulated behavior, we call it a "meltdown". The meltdown can be minor, or it can be life changing, resulting in loss of job, home, relationships, or even injury or incarceration. The interior experience proceeds in five steps, ending in visible behavioral dysregulation:

1) physiological deregulation (a feeling in the body that demands relief)
2) an impulse (to do something about it)
3) emotional dysregulation
4) cognitive dysregualtion
5) a behavior

Dysphoria does not follow this trajectory in a linear fashion. Each of these stages are entangled, and it's more a question of emphasis at any given moment.

"Shame and regret" is the universal aftermath....

Performed by the Truberry Duo, Trudy Chan and Rob Frankenberry, pianists.
steve.owens@vcfa.edu


Dysphoria part 2: shame and regret

A mix assembled for the bi-monthly Temple of Faitiche show on LYL Radio: https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-17/

Hi - Tech World 1984-1990

This mix, originally made for @mysteriesofthedeep, features a few favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist:
1.  Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

Pianos In The Wild

It's with great pleasure to welcome long time dear friend Jonny Nash (@jonnynash) who in 2019 released 'Make A Wilderness' with us (MFM037). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hey Jonny, welcome to the series. So, it's already been over a year ago since Make A Wilderness came out. How do you look back on that now? 

JN: In many ways Make A Wilderness marked the start of a new chapter for me, the first steps into new territory - a wilderness you could say! That record was really about exploring a simple question - what kind of sounds resonate with me, and why. I think the record was primarily an exercise in sound, and not necessarily in arrangements or songwriting. I felt it was necessary to open the doors to new sounds in this record, and I feel like I got pretty close to creating the album that I wanted to make. 

MFM: You went to different places to record specific instruments and in certain environments. Why? 

JN: It took me a long time to make the record, not in terms of actually writing the music, but determining what the instrumentation should be. I wanted a finely balanced mix of alien, unfamiliar sounds and organic human sounds, to somehow express a feeling of “ancient future”, the sense of floating in some timeless space that could be millions of years in the past or in the future. I found that the Cristal Baschet, was perfect for expressing this feeling of “deep time”. Capable of beautiful harmonics and also wonderful atonal textures, it was a central part of the album. I contrasted these sounds with familiar instruments such as piano, vibraphone and voice. It was very important to have some sparse elements of voice in the record to somehow keep it grounded on earth. 

MFM: Have you always been that interested in sound and sound sculpturing?

JN: Well, I’m a naturally curious person and I think my brain and also my ears are always developing and learning new things. I think that I am able to hear sound in a different way than I did a few years ago. A big switch from focussing on melody as the dominant element that catches my attention. Of course, melody is still a central element for me but I now spend alot of time thinking about timbre, the colour of the sound and how the distinctive character of a sound sits in context with other sounds in a given composition. New ways of hearing influenced the record and took me to a place where “sound sculpting” was of equal importance as deciding what chords and melodies to choose. 

MFM: You mentioned earlier that the past couple of months your label Melody As Truth got a lot support through digital sales. Does that have effect on your label vision and strategy?

JN: The switch towards digital and especially streaming does undoubtedly have an effect on how I think as a label owner. It is pretty clear that this is an important area of growth and although there are lots of issues with certain platforms and revenue models, I find it important to keep on top of what is going on and try to adapt. In the future I can see the label experimenting more with digital only releases, I think there are interesting areas to explore here. Quiet dynamic music cut on vinyl in 2020 often sounds worse than a WAV file to my ears. I also buy hardly any vinyl myself these days, it is expensive, taxing on the environment and often a form of object fetishism. The other side is that a physical object looks amazing, can sound great, gives full importance to the artwork and design, can be treasured and won’t be lost. So a physical object is almost like an insurance policy for not losing the music too. I guess I’m sitting somewhere in the middle.

MFM: Thanks for contributing your mix. Can you tell us a bit about it?
 
JN: The mix is pretty much a selection of music I have been enjoying or discovered this year. A few older favourites too. I had no idea except to make something that I would enjoy listening to whilst having a walk or reading in the morning.

Pianos In The Wild

Andrew Pekler