production

Mini Bluffs

An excerpt from our recent engagement at Danspace (March 17, 2014, Halifax, NS). We played an improvised set for a group of improvising dancers. 

Cloud

Drifter

@lou_drago

~ Tracklist ~

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 20220304
Christina Vantzou - In A Forest, On Some Moss, Growing
Florian T M Zeisig - Apiary
Antenes - Take Me To The Birds (For A)
Christina Vantzou - Multiplying Into Fields Of Little Voices
Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto - Uoon I
Alexandra Spence - Communion
Shuttle 358 - Isonpgn
Al Fraser - Hesitant Exploration
Valentino Mora - III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII*
Taylor Dupree - Temper
Endurance - Expanding Repetition
Wanderwelle - Jonah
Ligovskoï - Thessalonians
Shuttle 358 - Cloud
Jacob Newman - Vactrol Light
Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit
Plants Army Revolver - Valle della Luna*
Kevin Verwijmeren - We Believe
Lou Drago - patience to see*
Organic Dial - Actiq
Amma Ateria - stillness : interference
Rrose - Hymn to Moisture
Valentino Mora - IIIIII1IIIIIII6IIIIIIIII*

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I am so grateful to share with you all today a very poignant and sacred entry in the Deep Mind Music series from Lou Drago. Lou has woven together a truly otherworldly psychedelic journey for the soul, a luminescent experience, a gently glowing hologram of emotion 💠

Lou Drago and I connected years ago when they asked me to make a mix for their TRANSIENCE series, which invites contributors to create a “temporary suspension of reality, where the listener can speculate on alternate futures free from all systems of oppression.” We found a synchronicity in the role ambient music has played in our lives, and how it opens portals to new imagined existences for us. Since then, I’ve had the joy of playing for Lou at infinity rug, the ambient-focussed event series they curate with Marum, where we have shared deep chats, silly giggles and shared philosophies (as well as ambient music ofc).

They have put a great deal of thought and care into this mix, which you can hear in the delicately programmed selections, the fluidity of the whole, and the full-being submersion into an emotional plane of existence. From the opening seconds of the mix, clarifying crystalline twinkles open the way, realigning our sense of being, and taking us into this subtle soundscape. This mix feels like a gently calming presence, like both a sigh, and a weight lifted from the shoulders.

As we sink into the mix, we evaporate into vaporous wisps of energy, as expansive washes of sound contrast with infinitesimal whirls and organic instrumentation. We are submerged into a panoramic dreamstate, morphing mystical landscapes expanding before us. Lou guides us through a misty forest teeming with life, droplets of water slipping off the end of intricate leaves around us.

In the final 30 minutes of the mix, I feel as if I am all the flickering stars in the night sky, as interplaying vibrational drones dissolve us into the depths. Lou then very gently lifts us from this state, the atoms of our being carefully reassembled, coming back to reality in a state of blissful harmony. I hope you find peace in this heart-opening trip 🤍🌌🤍

This release comes in the same week that I will be joining Lou as a guest of TRANSIENCE at WHOLE festival this weekend, where we will both be playing ambient sets in the early hours of Saturday. I am really looking forward to this occasion of continued sonic kinship between us, see you there if you are coming 💗

Photo taken by Lou on the way to Portugal, a country where they “always feel a strong grounding energy pulling me through the earth to home”

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@transience-archive
@infinity-rug
https://instagram.com/lou__drago/

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Downloads Enabled ~

Deep Mind Music

Lou Drago ~ Deep Mind Music Vol.28

Second installment of rapid pi movement with Club Moniker's llloyd. 
Read the sleep induced Q&A here --->

https://www.ninaprotocol.com/articles/this-is-how-llloyd-sleeps-at-night

https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/llloyd-warning

pi pi pi premiere: llloyd - Warning (rapid pi movement)

@llllllllloyd

The return of our MONIKER series is here, featuring an expanded roster of West Coast artists making waves in the shifting tectonics of bass-driven club music. Playful chops, syncopated narratives, and innovative low-end sound design tessellate throughout this collection of percussive workouts.

MONIKER004

llloyd - Experience

Durien Flute Dream

// Side A //
|**
occupant
terrarium
prime meridians
walls doors and windows
gloved hand
reflex

recorded summer 2014 in austin, tx. llloyd is matt gilles.

cassette: waysinnerpass.com/physical/wip-003
digital: waysinnerpass.com/digital/wip-003

waysinnerpass

Purchase Cassette

Llloyd - Myth of Intents | side A

llloyd - 2112

Journeys (Lindsay Dobbin, Jesse Frank Matthews and Evan Cardwell) improvising a musical journey for the plants at Common Roots Urban Farm, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Part of Obey Convention VI.

Music for Plants - Journeys

@llllllllloyd
Visions: A Benefit Compilation for Artsakh is a compilation album with music from a wide range of electronic and dance music artists from the West Coast, East Coast, and beyond.

The album is produced by a community of artists with the intention to raise funds for the recent displacement and violence towards 100,000+ Armenians from the Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) - a de facto self-governed autonomous region with an Armenian population indigenous to Artsakh. The displaced families and those who have no other option but to return to their war-torn towns are in need of housing, medical, psychiatric support, food, and basic essentials.

*This is an indigenous struggle, and as ethnic-supremacist ideologies are on the rise across the world, we wanted to have a project that stands in solidarity with indigenous people’s right to self-determination and existence, and help from here in a small way.

On September 27, 2020, a large-scale military offensive was unprovokedly launched against the Republic of Artsakh and Armenia by the authoritarian regime of Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey. Armenian civilians, settlements, and civilian infrastructures including schools and churches were continuously bombarded for 45 days with drones, aerial attacks, internationally outlawed cluster bombs and white phosphorus munitions. Several thousands of lives were lost, hundreds still in captivity, and over a hundred thousand Armenians displaced after 70% of Artsakh’s territories were taken away. Currently, ancient Armenian historical, religious, and cultural sites in Artsakh are being destroyed, contributing to the years of cultural genocide by Azerbaijan’s petro-oligarchic regime. This is an indigenous struggle, and as ethnic-supremacist ideologies are on the rise across the world, we stand in solidarity with indigenous people’s right to self-determination and existence.

100% of sales will be donated to the following organizations who are currently giving on-the-ground support for displaced families or those who have lost family members and their homes:

All For Armenia:
allforarmenia.org
“Since the start of the 2020 Artsakh War, we provide food/nutrition, warm clothing, and hygiene products for the refugee families of Artsakh. As of November 10, 2020, most of these families are refugees indefinitely. Our mission has evolved into a long-term, sustainable form of aid for these families that goes beyond basic needs. We are currently developing a sponsorship program, and working on providing educational resources, art and music workshops, and more.”

Gurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation of Kashatagh:
www.gurgenmelikyan.com
“Gurgen Melikyan Multichildren Family Foundation of Kashatagh was founded in 1996. Our purpose is to assist multichildren families to re-populate Artsakh.”


*Easy-to-read, categorized list of information and resources regarding this issue:

Artsakh Resources:
sites.google.com/view/artsakhresources/home?authuser=2

Artsakh Research Drive:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l9a2z9Tacqo_pprzzCv_iX17aQvLNbsY

Statement by National Lawyers Guild:
nlginternational.org/2020/10/nlg-ic-statement-on-the-attacks-on-armenia-and-artsakh-nagorno-karabakh/

A Call for Lasting Peace - Statement by Cornel West, Noam Chomsky and more: lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/lasting-peace-nagorno-karabakh/

Dr. Cornel West: Words In Solidarity:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZY0ykYxm4

Zoravik Activist Collective: “Media Manipulation and the War in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh”:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ir_d0BA7g


Action Items and Petitions:

ANCA - March to Justice:
marchtojustice.org/action-alerts

Armenian Assembly of America - Action Center:
action.aaainc.org

Help the Armenian Community
helparmenians.carrd.co  
credits


Organized & Curated by:
Sebastian Ortega
Lara Sarkissian

Mastering:
rose cherami

Album Artwork (Hunot Canyon Zontikner, Shushi) by:
Maral Matig
IG: www.instagram.com/maral.gazellig/

Llloyd - Rising Sleet

mix series and label by @deep_creep

Q&A's on ----> pipipi.life <------

label ~ https://pi-pi-pi.bandcamp.com

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