Ignacio La Conga - Bajo Tierra

Artist: @KAIFO  
Release: Rural
Label: @Eck Echo
Release Date: 15 September 2023 (digital)
Release Date: 31 October 2023 (vinyl)
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Carlos Asimbaya brings the tradition of Ecuadorian organ and synth to the future with "Rural". A unique fusion of hypnotic keyboard scales and afroandean percusions. Bomba from another dimension, hailing from the parallel zero of our planet.

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Premiere | Kaifo | Monte Espeso [Eck Echo]

Two visionary maestros, Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila, unite in their first collaborative album, Baba Soirée. The veterans of electronic music bring their unique expertise to the table, resulting in a captivating fusion of experimental styles. Bastien’s mechanical loops and experimental instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila's sound design and impeccable skills of sampling collages. It's not a dance party, nor is it an avant-garde intervention. It's a soirée: a cultivated evening of sonic alchemy hosted by these two charismatic gentlemen.

Pierre Bastien is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a background in French literature. He has spent decades crafting an idiosyncratic world of experimental sound with his self-built mechanical orchestra Mecanium. It was most notably showcased in audiovisual releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. Bastien's creations are a mesmerizing combination of traditional instruments (he has a vast collection) and mechanical automatons. The violin in the track Rotomotor, for example, is physically played by one of his machines. In Baba Soirée, Bastien also plays a prepared cornet (Slow Dance, Banbas Aura), infusing the recordings with a breathy, dreamy dimension.

Michel Banabila, a sound artist, composer and producer, possesses an eclectic musical repertoire that defies genres. His seamless blend of minimal electronica, tribal ambient, and neo-classical influences has earned him a prominent place in the world of experimental music, and an impressive discography (Knekelhuis, Bureau B, Séance Center, a.o.). Banabila serves as the creative sampling editor for Baba Soirée, expertly weaving together the recordings to craft an evocative sonic tapestry.

The two share a curiosity for traditional instruments from various cultures. The instruments used in the recordings are shown in the cover artwork. A mutual admiration for each other's work paved the way for this fruitful artistic partnership of the Rotterdam-based artists: Collaborating on a single as a fundraiser for Yemen in 2022 set the stage for the creation of Baba Soirée.

For Pierre Bastien, Dada, Fluxus and International Situationism have played a significant role in shaping his artistic vision. The title Baba Soirée is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg's "Kleine Dada Soirée" collaboration which took place exactly a century ago. There's an unmistakable stoicism and an anarchic not-giving-a-f*** attitude in these recordings by Bastien & Banabila, which resonates in the light of this Dada reference.

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Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: At The Party (Pingipung 083 / LP, digital)

Townes Van Zandt – No Place To Fall 
Santa Fe – I’m Leaving 
Blaze Foley – For Anything Less 
Harpers Bizarre - Witchi Tai To 
Chubby Checker – If The Sun Stopped Shining 
Jack Kerouac – On The Road 
Chis Darrow – Keep On Trying 
Kinky Friedman – Sold American 
Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham – The Dark End Of The Street

Recent Songs #65 :: Keep On Trying

Rain was pouring outside.
But inside, we celebrated life.
This one is for the Ecstatic Dance Haifa tribe!

Warms The Heart - Live@Ecstatic Dance Haifa 30.1.24

“All the peoples in the world who talk of a cosmic serpent have been saying as much for millennia. He had not seen it because the rational gaze is forever focalized and can examine only one thing at a time. It separates things to understand them, including the truly complementary. It is the gaze of the specialist, who sees the fine grain of a necessarily restricted field of vision"

Widen the scope of your multidimensional field of vision. Zoom out, cross your eyes, with magic eyes therein lies a surprise.

http://www.clubbingspain.com/podcast/2015/cs-podcast-173-peter-power.html

Tracklist:
Gustavo Santaolalla - De Usuahia A La Quiaca (Peter’s Inverse Edit) 
Daniel Lucas - Sebequisai 
Baba Zula - Sevsem Öldürürler Sevmezsem Öldüm 
Jozef Van Wissem & SQÜRL - Streets of Tangier 
The Heliocentrics - Noises and Conversations 
 The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - Cavern 
 Slop Shop - Blue Angel 
 Horace Andy - Do You Love My Music (Black Star Liner Remix) 
 Prau Layar (P’edit) 
 Adeptus - Bury U in Kerman 
 Kulu Hatha Mamnua - Kulu Hatha Mamnua 
 Ø - S-Bahn 
 Muslimgauze - A Small Intricate Box, Which Contains Old Blue Opium Marzipan 
 Sasha - Who Killed Sparky (Radio Slaves’s Brooklyn Dub Mix) 
 Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm 
 Prunes - Cantona Style 
 Kassem Mosse - Demo Drums ripping Demos 
 African Head Charge - Mr Whippy Does Djibouti 
 Chancha Via Circuito - Vaina 
 Mop Mop - Black Ivory 
 Pickup - African Goodbye 
 Dreems - Mirages (Valentin Stip Remix) 
 Toulouse Low Trax - Local Version 
 Thomas Brinkmann - Xenia 1 
 LFO - Them 
 Koss, Henriksson, Mullaert - Thursday; Connection 
 Matthew Dear - Will Gravity Win Tonight 
 Recondite - Pertichor 
 Daniel Lucas - Ambu 
 Dj Ground - OUOUOU 
 Peter Power - Jungle Level 
Thomash - Field Recordings in Minas Gerais 
 Mudd & Pollard - Dub Stavros 
 Wolf Muller - Dickicht 
 Oscillator Madness (Idjut Boys Dub) 
 Femi Kuti - Eh Oh (Liza Richardson Remix) 
 Thomas Brinkmann - The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get 
 Scott Free and Cybil Ant - Mango Maracatu 
 Andras Fox - Cartoon Jungle 
 Tipper - Big Question Small Head 
 Elliot Fouchy - A Lairt 
 Tipper - Cuckoo Red Man - Yes Y’all 
 Cabbage Boy - Hey Hey We’re The Monks 
 Roj - The Gamelan Threshold 
 Zaza - Zauberstab (instrumental) 
 Mark Barrott Sketches from an Island 
 Phillip Glass - Paru River 
 Detty Kurnia - Dar Der Dor


Defocalized Vision Mix (CS Podcast 173)

131 sunbirds - 79bpm SOLD

THE SECRET RIDDLE

Looking For The Nexus

music by Olexa
photography by Frank Sebastian

enjoy it. there are a lot of great releases following.

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sub.rec.18 - Olexa - Deep Root

An interest in ancestral Latin American cosmology has always run right through the music of Ecuadorian music producer Nicola Cruz. His creative process involves an attentive, careful search for the living roots and rituals that are part of South American identity—its Andean and African origins in particular—valuing its rhythms, its oral traditions, its instruments and the energy they transmit. His first record, Prender el Alma (2015) explored the development of the consciousness and spirituality, and how they connect with music. In Siku, his most recent production, Cruz continues this exploration, expanding his vision towards new stories and other cultures as sources of inspiration. A crucial aspect on this journey is his collaboration with other artists from around the world.

The siku is a wind instrument of Andean origin, highly symbolic in ancestral rituals, made up of two separate, complementary parts, the arca and the ira. It is a representation of duality, an essential element of the indigenous world view, associated with involvement and complementarity, far from the binary thinking typical of western societies. That duality is reflected on this record in the coming together of sounds, whether electronic or organic, past or present, local or global. On Siku, Nicola Cruz combines instruments with symbolic, spiritual connotations, such as the sitar, the siku, and the balafon with hints of electronica. Studies of the samba, cumbia and rhythms of African, Andean and Hindu origin are combined with Cruz’s characteristically unpredictable, mystical style.

Composición, Mezcla y Producción por Nicolá Cruz. 
Mastering: Mathieu Savenay

Balafón y Percusión: Marcio Pinto

Dirección de Arte: Orly Anan 
Fotografia: Jesus Zabala 
Diseño: Ventral is Golden

Nicola Cruz - Esu Enia (con Marcio Pinto)

Listen up, it's Pingipung. A nice record label from Hamburg, since 2002.