Andrew Pekler

Lithuania is undoubtedly one of the countries leading the direction of contemporary dance electronics for some time. We are happy that we can give space to their young promising DJs in our podcast.

Born and raised by the Vilnius atmosphere, Roudtraxx has been part of the local underground club scene for several years. He is part of the well-known record store and label Discotag, where he has plenty of opportunities to devote himself, as he says, to his musical obsession.

For us, he has prepared a selection of his favourite club tracks. It is up to you to decide what a fresh breeze sounds like from a distant land.

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ÉTER Podcast #28 Roudtraxx

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

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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

Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere

Good Morning is very blessed to celebrate its 10th release with an incredible 100 minute mixtape courtesy of Scandinavian legend Mika Snickars.... DJ, Producer, former DMC Champion and founder of the infamous Stockholm record store "Snickars Records".

Continuing on in the same vein as his recent "Milky Way Mystery Mixes", presented here is another well crafted collage of sun baked tunes.... Think of a hazy, psychedelic day-time dance on the beaches of golden era Goa...A journey of heady chill, this one's for the trippers.

Available for pre-order now via the Good Morning Bandcamp store....Shipping late April.

Huge thanks to Mika & Jess....
and bless up to Ron Morelli for connecting the cosmic dots.

GMT10 Mika Snickars - Mystery of Reality

A long time Moscow favorite, OL, lands on the Motion Cast for Vol. 22.  Here, he’s paired a few of his own tracks from his forthcoming release (MW005) with a range of slowed down, complimentary sounds. Stay tuned for more soon ~~~~~

https://soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov
https://soundcloud.com/nvrec

Motion Cast Vol. 22: OL

EDIT record on Duca Bianco. Buy it here and don't get your knickers in a twist;

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/dane-close-db7-004/714326-01/

A - Percy

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)

The very talented Belia Winnewisser was kind enough to gift us with a great selection of sundaymusic.
It's an eclectic mix which will help you to find a palce to ease you mind.
more about Belia Winnewisser: https://soundcloud.com/beliawinnewisser

XXX
LOOD

LOODcast 42 ~ Belia Winnewisser

Frank is our good friend, excellent selector and founder of great vinyl/tape/art label Kashual Plastik. Check the catalogue for unexpected sonic experiences with Lamusa II, Andy Rantzen, Group A, Milan W, Georgia and more.

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🔊 friday 24 july 2020

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Luft Session ~ Frans Æmbient  (Kashual Plastik / Berlin)

Jordan Reyes from American Dreams Records brings a mix of noise, punk, hip hop & more for the Wharf Cat Records radio show

TRACKLIST:
Boldy James & The Alchemist ft. Benny the Butcher - Scrape The Bowl
Amani x King Vision Ultra (ft. ELUCID) - Scrape
猫 シ Corp. - FORUMヘルシンキ 
Aztec Mystic - Mi Raza
Ganser - Told You So
Cloud Nothings - The Sound Of Everyone
Leak Bros - Got Wet
Noname ft. Phoelix - Window
KeiyaA - Nu World Burdens
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - X. Adjuah [I Own The Night]
Liturgy - HAJJ
Shirley Collins - Tell Me True
Matthew J. Rolin - Red Brick
Cannibal Ox - Scream Phoenix
Janelle Monae - Wondaland
Andrée Burelli - De Sidera
Ossemaan - Reverie
Jaimie Branch - Prayer For Amerikkka pt 1 & 2
Gil Scott-Heron x Makaya McCraven - I’ll Take Care Of You
Killarmy - Dressed To Kill
Che Noir & Apollo Brown ft. Black Thought - Hustle Don’t Give
Sarah Davachi - Play The Ghost
Coil - Going Up
Philadelphia Orchestra - Claire De Lune

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Wharf Cat Records with Jordan Reyes (American Dreams) @ The Lot Radio 09 - 03 - 2020

Sumire ~ 30.09.2020

Our dear contributor, London-based artist @jaye_ward_ is back with her bi-monthly show!

Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere

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