Andrew Pekler

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

Apakapa EP

TTT SHOP

Harmonious Thelonious – Whirling

Mexican guitarist and ambient artist Eblen Macari's Música Para Planetarios (Music for Planetariums) was originally composed for weekly performances in the Luis Enrique Erro Planetarium in Mexico City to accompany a voyage through the galaxy. The album, released in 1987 was based around Macari's solo performances using Ensoniq ESQ-1, a Korg Poly 800, two guitars and pre-hispanic Ocarinas. The expanded arrangements recorded for the album include a full stable of pre-hispanic percussion and beautiful baroque harpsichord played by Macari's wife. This expansive interplanetary soliloquy is undoubtedly Macari’s masterpiece. Remastered from the original master tapes.

Release date: January 25th 2018

(p) & (c) Seance Centre 2017
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Eblen Macari - La Constelacion Del Pejegardo (Bambuco) (excerpt) 03SC

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is I'm a Cliche's radio show on NTS 1.
You can check it live on www.nts.live and a few days after on I'm a Cliché's Soundcloud

DJ Sundae played the 1 hour on this one.

Playlist:

Wendy & Carl - The Silent Ocean
Deadline Paranoia - Shri 
Drew McDowall - Convulse
F.U.S.E. - A New Day
Jaures - TRI
New Buildings - Historias Para Largos Recorridos
Svitlana Nianio - Episode 6
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I Ran To You
Dino J.A. Deane - Liquid Time 
Pram - Water Toy
Pierre Jean Croset - Danse Des Couleurs
Research library - Insomnia

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NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE - DJ Sundae - 07-05-2018 - NTS 1

Suburban Cracked Collective is the solo project of Shaun Leacy (ex Castings), they have released music on UK based label Aetheric, the well known Altered States Tapes and Chemical Imbalance. Utilising heavy and repetitive music, Leacy brings to life dissociated sounds from found objects and the unexpected. 

Our soundtrack for this week is titled 'The Bird Ceased To Be Articulate' and Leacy has prepeared a short description below. Have a read then listen to Suburban Cracked Collective's latest release 'Pineal Dreams' on Chemical Imbalance in preperation for Thursday! 

"This piece was made with no intent or concept in mind. Automatically imbuing itself with both intention and concept. A little like the unconscious act of breathing. The action itself is the thing.

Even in stasis, the body is whirring away with a multitude of unimaginably complex processes."

EHE 26.04.18 Suburban Cracked Collective - The Bird Ceased To Be Articulate

Michael Beharie and Teddy Rankin-Parker - A Heart From Your Shadow (2018)
LP/CD/digital (MONDOJ05)
Order: http://mondoj.bandcamp.com

Recorded at 275 Nostrand and Transmitter Park Studios 
Mixed by Jim O’Rourke 
Mastered by James Plotkin 
Photos by Nicolas Bruno 
Art & layout by Paulina Oknińska & Janek Ufnal

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Michael Beharie and Teddy Rankin-Parker - So Much Trash (MONDOJ05)

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Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives.

Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesisers and early workstations began to enter the consumer marketplace.

'Midday Moon' out November 2 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK/EU). 

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Midday Moon 

Helen Ripley-Marshall - Under the Sun

Izabel "Moored in Mooloolaba" - Sameheads C60 Tape Collection # 19

Izabel (Lullabies for Insomniacs)
https://soundcloud.com/izabel_caligiore
https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/

Released during the following night:
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Izabel "Moored in Mooloolaba" tape release party with André Pahl.

Izabel (Lullabies for Insomniacs)
André Pahl (Camp Cosmic)

Celebrating the release of Izabel's sensational C60 mixtape for Sameheads, # 19 in the series.

Previous tapes:
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads/sets/sameheads-c60-tape-collection
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Izabel "Moored in Mooloolaba" SIDE A - IBACUS PERONI - Sameheads C60 Tape # 19

thanks rocket radio!! thanks francesco for having us
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2Morph Live At Rocket Radio Verona, May 26th 2019

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.

Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere

Andrew Pekler

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