New & hot: Classical

Selected and mixed on the 1st of January, 2014. 
Inspired by Conor Oberst and Hirokazu Koreeda. 
Influenced by people, experiences and signs surrounding me on the NY eve.

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” - Rainer Maria Rilke.

So, a new beginning is what you need. Alternatively, just sit back, relax, take a sip of your milk thistle tincture and space out.

FEATURED on Headphone Commute http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2014/06/17/gosh-snobo-music-for-a-new-beginning (with download).

ARTIST ▪ Title ▪ Album ▪ Label
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00:00:00	CLOUD BOAT ▪ You Find Me ▪ After Hours ▪ R&S
00:01:36	THOMAS TALLIS performed by MAGNIFICAT ▪ Te Lucis Ante Terminum ▪ Spem In Alium ▪ Linn
00:03:18	CALEB BURHANS & THE TRINITY WALL STREET CHOIR ▪ Magnificat ▪ Evensong ▪ Cantaloupe
00:07:10	NICOLAS BERNIER ▪ Aurore III ▪ Music For A Book ▪ Home Normal
00:10:34	HEDIA ▪ Waking Blind ▪ Wool ▪ Unknown Tone
00:13:04	GARETH DICKSON ▪ Harmonics ▪ Collected Recordings ▪ 12K
00:15:48	SARAH NEUFELD ▪ Forcelessness ▪ Hero Brother ▪ Constellation
00:19:11	PIANO INTERRUPTED ▪ Emoticon ▪ The Unified Field ▪ Denovali
00:22:13	ARVE HENRIKSEN ▪ Le Cimetiere Marin ▪ Places Of Worship ▪ Rune Grammofon
00:23:50	JAMES MCVINNIE ▪ Slow Twitchy Organs ▪ Cycles ▪ Bedroom Community
00:28:40	HAPPY TRENDY ▪ 08 ▪ For Trial Listening  ▪ Carpi
00:29:46	BIRCH AND MEADOW ▪ There Is A Lightness ▪ Butterflies And Graves ▪ Time Released Sound
00:31:22	BRANDON HURTADO ▪ Cedar ▪ Disappear ▪ Carpi
00:34:00	ORLA WREN ▪ Four Feathers Few ▪ Book Of Folded Forest ▪ Home Normal
00:39:09	WIXEL ▪ Five Chord Waltz ▪ Revox Tapes ▪ Jordskred
00:42:44	LEE CHAPMAN ▪ Despite The Cold ▪ From November To March ▪ Unknown Tone
00:47:08	ALEX KOZOBOLIS ▪ Despite The Cold ▪ From November To March ▪ Unknown Tone
00:48:57	F.S. BLUMM & NILS FRAHM ▪ Old Friends Inst. ▪ Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity ▪ Sonic Pieces
00:51:36	CHANTAL ACDA ▪ We Will, We Must ▪ Let Your Hands Be My Guide ▪ Gizeh
00:54:35	CONOR OBERST ▪ Milk Thistle ▪ Conor Oberst ▪ Wichita
01:00:03	WIXEL ▪ Melancholische Waltz ▪ Revox Tapes ▪ Jordskred

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Music for a New Beginning

Om - John Coltrane; The Sun - Alice Coltrane; Twilight Zone - Dr. John; Watermelon Man - Gun Club; O How She Dances - Jim Dickinson; Volunteered Slavery - Rahsaan Roland Kirk; Noo Toong Toong - Choong-Koong-le-Militaire; Abba Zabba - Cpt. Beefheart; Foxhunt - Ben Douglas; Iko Iko - Dixie Cups; See Line Woman - Nina Simone; You The Night & The Music - Gallon Drunk; Water Drum - Baka Pygmies; Blues A Bebe - BeauSoleil; Piere - Centrafrique (Musique Gbaya); Our Prayer - Albert Ayler; Love, The Mystery Of - Art Blakey; Awon-Ojise-Oluwa - Gasper Lawal; New Orleans - Idris Muhammed; Peace Go With You Brother - Gil Scott Heron; The Sun - Alice Coltrane

Don't Spook The Horse (Mix)

Ultra-exclusive cool mixtape version of the Fink dubs EP tracks... See It All, Sort of Revolution, QandA and another... ?

InDeep3FINK

Daddy G - BBC 6 Music Session

Khorasaniyat

Saz o Avaz Dashtestani

awakening

Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, Vol. 1
Cat. number: Shukai 03
Format: 2LP, Limited to 300
Pre-order: https://shukai.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1987-1991-vol-1

Tracklist:
A1 Symphony Of Wind
A2 Insight
A3 Zen Garden
B1 Passageway To Eternity
B2 Maitreya
B3 Higher Frequencies
C1 Metamorphoses
C2 Contemplation
D1 Vigor
D2 Dynamics

Liner notes:
Historically informed violin player, prize-winning street musician, new age experimentalist, chamber ensemble performer and conservatoire deviant. The career of Valentina Goncharova (b. Kyiv 1953) shares parallels with those associated with the broader new music movement of the 20th century and the dissemination of home recording technologies. Valentina’s was a youth spent immersed in the world of classical music study under soviet rule, first in Kyiv and later in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) from the age of 16. With the supervision of professors M. Vayman and B. Gutnikov she learned concert violin and developed alternate playing styles alongside skilled pianists. A student of the Leningrad conservatoire during the years 1969 through to 1983, her repertoire included music for violin and later expanded to contemporary music composition. The improvisatory nature of free jazz and then-budding experimental rock circles also intrigued Valentina during this period in Leningrad. Departing from the rules of the conservatoire, she briefly performed in underground rock clubs alongside future members of the industrial group Pop-Mechanika (Popular Mechanics). This perpetual state of flux is central to the variety found within ‘Recordings Vol. 1’, though as opposed to any degree of uncertainty Valentina’s practice is one in flux by way of earnest curiosity.
						
Pushing further into an exploration of solo electro-acoustic sounds, she took to home taping on a modified Olimp reel to reel recorder. Intrigued by the manipulability of dubbing and the fresh sounds of DIY effects chains, Goncharova developed pickups alongside her husband Igor Zubkov. Her infatuation with the music of Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ganelin Trio and Pierre Boulez channels through considerations of space and erratic sound design, the three movements of ‘Metamorphoses’ embodying this textural approach to musique concrete. The compositional skills developed in Leningrad unfold in the romantic gestures of ‘Higher Frequencies’, whilst manipulated cello combines with synthesise keys across ‘Passageway To Eternity’. The slow, pulsating drone soundscapes recall the likes of Robert Rutman’s US Steel Cello Ensemble or even deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros.
						
The juxtaposition of written notation and improvisatory flare is central to Goncharova’s sound world. This period of home recording documents a confluence of minimalism, free form and flirtations with new age tropes (inc. bell chimes and cavernous vocal mantras). Experimenting with unusual performance techniques, such as shouting into amplified cello strings, Valentina’s home studio functioned as a place to foster full artistic and creative freedom away from any academic strictures.

Credits:			
Composed and arranged by Valentina Goncharova Recorded in Tallinn and London during 1987—1991
						
Mastered by @producedbyflaty
Compiled by Sasha Tsapenko, Dmytro Prutkin and Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Liner notes by Fergus Clark (@fergus_clark)
						
Master tapes courtesy by Valentina Goncharova
Photos by Igor Glazistov
Special thanks to Ats Luik and Martin Jõela

Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, Vol. 1 (excerpts)

MALIBU - PALACES OF PITY
https://www.ofluxo.net/malibu-presents-palaces-of-pity/

Phoenix Chorale - Sunrise Mass: The Spheres, "Kyrie eleison"
Ecco 2k - Peroxide
Mix Factory - Take me away
Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
James Newton Howard - Swimming scene Waterworld
Soundlift - Maharaj
Tilt ft. Maria Nayler - Angry Skies (Quivver mix)

MIX & ART: https://soundcloud.com/mmmmalibu
O Fluxo, 2020

PALACES OF PITY

MALIBU - PALACES OF PITY

Endless Hope

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

New choral music for worship and concert use, in print late spring 2020. Recorded with Craig Courtney conducting and Dan Forrest accompanying. Use the download button (on individual tracks, under "More") to download tracks for free! To view/order sheet music (printed or PDF), visit www.beckenhorstpress.com.

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I Lift My Eyes (Psalm 121) (Dan Forrest)

Originally scheduled to be a public service at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, this office of Compline is sung here by a solo voice in an empty cathedral, following the suspension of in-person gatherings earlier this day, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Compline - 17 March 2020

Robert Lippok live act at LEV Festival 2012

www.levfestival.com

Pianos In The Wild

Andrew Pekler