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https://soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast/satish-kumar-interview

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Upstream

Abstractions

Into Fruition Volume 8 - Perspective

Related tracks: ELEH

Taken from Eliane Radigue 's Biogenesis © Metamkine 1996

http://www.discogs.com/Eliane-Radigue-Biogenesis/release/253649

This 1973 piece by Eliane Radigue stands out on surface level as being very unlike her work before or after this period. The sources are essentially acoustic and a far cry from the technology she most often sought: with a stethoscope and a microphone, she recorded the heartbeats of her son, her pregnant daughter, and the rhythms of her yet to be born grandchild.It was during this time that Radigue was truly immersing herself in the ARP synth, and shortly prior to her brief sabbatical from music to further hone her interest in and devotion to Tibetan Buddhism. Though seemingly in contrast with her penchant for waveforms, the resulting pulses stir at a pace all too familiar from her electronic work. As with her ARP creations, her role here is to never interfere, merely to seek out the waves and allow them to do as they wish.



Eliane Radigue – Biogenesis

Centres

Drifting to Void on All Sides

First single from upcoming full-length release out December 2016.
Bary Center - "Just Dust"
NB-024

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHRmmC9cvlY

Bary Center - "Dead Savant"

SIDE A

Post Six / An End of Rooms

An End of Rooms

Track 7 from LEYA 'The Fool' [NNA113]
Available May 11th, 2018 on Cassette & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

The Fool

LEYA "666 (feat. Eartheater)"

(Please wear headphones)
Binaural recording of David Rothenberg playing clarinet in a woodland, Somerset, UK. 
David Rothenberg, philosopher, composer, naturalist, musician, playing in response to the natural ambience and birdsong. 
DPA 4060 capsules

David Rothenberg Binaural

Second (double) single out through @FoFMusic
Album "Bloom" out on August 17th
Produced by Somni
Mixed and Mastered by Somni and @therealbigsoda
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, etc: https://fofmusic.lnk.to/somni-girl

Girl

From 'Our Latest Number' by toe - out August 22nd, 2018 via Topshelf Records
Purchase: http://smarturl.it/tsr_196
Info: http://topshelfrecords.com/roster/toe

toe - "Etude Of Solitude"

Taken from 'The Snake Decides' LP

One of the final Incus releases and one that was written up in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as ‘an essential document of modern music’. Otoroku is proud to release the first ever vinyl re-issue of Evan Parker’s legendary recording The Snake Decides. Featuring 4  solos recorded in 1986 in St. Paul's Church, Oxford by the late Michael Gerzon. The Snake Decides is a groundbreaking example how far the language of a particular instrument can be taken.

From Brian Morton’s liner new notes: 

“The Snake Decides attracts a certain array of adjectives - intense, radical, fearsome, hypnotic, virtuosic – and occasionally allows a more ambitious reviewer to avoid platitude by talking more specifically about 32nd harmonics, circular breathing, multiphonics and Gerson's exact choice and placement of microphones. But this misses a point, too. Listening to this record, either for the first or the fortieth time, is an arousing experience.”

Remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and housed in a reverse board sleeve with new liner notes by Brian Morton this is the ultimate document of one of the most important recordings in all of Parker’s extensive and exploratory catalogue. Edition of 500 copies.

Evan Parker - Leipzig Folly

Moon Wheel — རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་

Available on digital & 12" on Bandcamp

"...atmospheric grooves and towering beats fused with hand-me-down tales of conquistadors, traditions and fables."
Sounds & Colours

"a cultural and ancestral journey through sounds and rhythms..."
DJ Mag Latin America

Lagartijeando has produced a very special EP with a choir from an indigenous tribe called Coro Qom Chelaalapi.  The choir formed as a means of passing down their culture to future generations in the absence of any formal records. They have been declared a living cultural heritage by UNESCO. Blending traditional songs with brooding beats and big grooves, The Revisión EP is a unique and special collaboration exploring the tribe’s rich musical heritage with contemporary production.

The original songs have a mythology and their bespoke instruments have deep significances. The nivike is a single string violin (representing the sounds made by a jaguar sharpening its claws on a tree trunk) and was used as a form of communication to contact loved ones or to find love amongst the mountain dwellers.

Antiguos Dueños De Las Flechas (Ancient Owner Of Arrows); the dark brooding bass and haunting vocals tell the sad story of the Spanish conquistadores destroying local tribes’ agriculture & way of life.

Remixes come from Intiche, Klik & Frik and Oxhala

Revisión

Coro Qom Chelaalapi Meets Lagartijeando - Anitguos Dueños De Las Flechas

Mixtape éditée entre Marseille, Castex & Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire, durant l’été 2018 
Morceaux finis, remixés, avortés, oubliés, enregistrements audios, sessions acoustiques, micros trottoirs, jam, improvisations, loopers enregistrés à Bruxelles, Marseille, Genève, Accons, Paris & Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire / Avec Reason, Live, Garageband & Figure / Entre 2015 et 2018 

Avec la participation de Robin Arthur Girod, Tony Marie, Maxim Hittinger, Louis Donnot, Pablo Cavero et Théophile Flécheux 

Dessin : Sarah-Louise Barbett - Graphisme : Bobb VV 

This is Lost Dogs Entertainment 015.

Acheter la K7

DOGTAPE VOL.5 - A 15. Grenouille

From the 2011 album "Sentimental Favourites" – originally released on Dekorder. Available digitally on Bandcamp at the nice price of pay what you want.
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sentimental-favourites

Sentimental Favourites

Name your price

The Twilight Of Your Smile

４k

Pre-order available now via ImportantRecords.com 

ELEH’s Home Age 2 is packaged in a thick, letterpress printed Arigato Pak by Stumptown Printers in Portland, Oregon.  Each package contains an individual piece of art (linocut/screenprint/watercolor) from the artist.  This is a one time CD edition of 480 copies.

ELEH’s Home Age series was composed and recorded over a period of 5 years and it reflects a search for color, form, connection and growth. The handmade artwork contained in each package was created during the same period of time the music was composed and is an integral part of the meaning of Home Age.

For this release Eleh plays modular & analog synthesizers, piano, organ, bass and symphonic chimes. 

Although Home Age is a 2 part set, Eleh’s upcoming Living Space CD/LP for Touch is very much the conclusion of this era of Eleh.

ELEH - Home Age 2 - Album Mix - Pre-Orders Available Now

From Oiro Pena 10'' (Ultra-023, 2019) limited edition of 200, silkscreened sleeves. Released on 7th of June, 2019. 
Buy vinyl ---> ultraaanirecords@gmail.com
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On Working Alone

The first person to create something one may classify as instrumental music was probably alone. The mind tingles when imagining the prehistoric moment when, for the very first time, a member of what then was the human race grabbed something and used it to make a purposeless series of sounds. Even if some of his fellow beings had been present at the time, would they have understood anything of it? Would they have taken interest in it and stopped to listen, or would they have demanded something easier to dance to?

The leap from vocalizing or clapping to a form of expression produced with instruments may have taken a long time, perhaps even a thousand years. The same goes for the fabrication of such instruments. Human communities were small, and influences spread slowly. We do know, however, that the first discovered instruments date back to 43,000 years ago and took the form of flutes made from the bones of mammoths and birds. Researchers believe they played a role in religion and in entertainment – in this sense, very little has changed. The wildest theories claim that music was one of the factors that gave us, the Homo sapiens, a competitive edge over the Neanderthal: music helped foster deeper cooperation between individuals. 

In any case, however, the ones who decided to hollow out that bone and find out what kind of sound you could get out of it were individuals, and this brings us back to our theme of working alone. The modern solo musician enjoys a much greater sense of liberty than our distant forefathers. Multi-track and recording technology freed us from our physical constraints and allowed us to imagine ourselves as a multiplicity. Everyone could, in the comfort of his home, be his own one-man band without having to strap an array of instruments onto his body like carnival musicians or Rahsaan Roland Kirk used to.

This is the frame from which A. E. Vauhkonen and Oiro Pena spring from. Vauhkonen´s hands simultaneously summon up brass, flutes, keyboards, drums, stringed instruments and all sorts of percussion. The sound is firm and slightly cosmic, like early Sun Ra Arkestra at its heartiest. But that’s enough about the music, listen for yourself. 

-Markus Karlqvist

Nimeton

Oiro Pena - Nimeton

Taken from 'Adam Oko - Diet Of Germs'(SC016)
Buy Vinyl: www.musicfrommemory.com/
Buy Digital: https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/
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The Twilight Of Your Smile

Andrew Pekler