ThingsHereToHear

c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

questo mese dedica speciale per Franco Battiato

"musica assoluta" (settembre 2020)

Il beneficio del dubbio

41 Ceremony Journey

EARLY TO THINK OF LEVITATING SWORDS

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NADA  / NOTHING

He pensado en la muerte  /  I've thought about death
y en lo que habrá detrás.  /  and what will be behind.
Puede que no haya nada,  /  It may be nothing,
¿te has parado a pensar?  /  have you stopped to think?

Nada, nada... nada.  /  Nothing, nothing... nothing.

Nada, nada, nada ni siquiera aire,  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing not even air,
nada, nada, nada que pueda tocarse,  /  nothing, nothing, nothing you can touch.
Nada, nada, nada que tocar ni respirar.  /  Nothing, nothing, nothing to touch nor breathe.

Nada, nada, ni una idea ni un deseo,  /  Nothing, nothing, neither an idea nor a desire,
nada, nada, ningún miedo ni silencio,  /  nothing, nothing, no fear or silence,
nada, nada, nada nada se puede escuchar.  /  nothing, nothing, nothing nothing can be heard.
...
Nada, nada, no esperes encontrarte  /  Nothing, nothing, don't expect finding
nada, nada, no puedes imaginarte  /  nothing, nothing, you cannot imagine
nada, nada, nada, no te entra en la razón.  /  nothing, nothing, it doesn't fit your mind.

ER18PB06 - ©1995 E-RUIZZO – ®2014 FRANCÉS RECORDS ;)

Nada (He pensado en la muerte)

Levitation

Burning Sword

Cast of characters:
Mysterious Decibel--@themysteriousdecibel --MD—lyrics and vocals

TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman–Stephen–foundational guitar in first half, solo in the coda, mix, and production

J.J. Terrell–@j-j-terrell– piano and composition

K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara–Ken–drums and percussion

Llanpsych–@llanpsych–Tez–guitar solo and fills in the main section

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1–mandolin, four string fretless bass guitar

This latest Eclectic Collective song was probably the most collaborative in a true sense as we've yet released. The song began with Josh trying to piece together a couple of ideas that he'd come up with on the piano. He sent his ideas to JJ, who took out a connecter section that Josh had no intention of making anything of, and turned it into the body of the song. He returned the song to Josh complete with a signature JJ Terrell climactic coda. Then Josh added the bass to JJ's piano, with some help from the always solid drums from Ken. The way it usually goes is that Josh comes up with a scratch bass line to accompany the song, then Ken adds drums, then Josh goes back and adds the bass to fit the beat. Sometimes they go back and forth, but not this time so much. 

  Then, Stephen added the foundational guitar in the first section, and came up with the idea for the coda. Josh added some mandolin to the coda, too, after which Stephen redid the guitar in the coda to make it very dynamic and part the clouds. Tez finally came along and added the fiery solo and the charming fills in the main section. Most of this time, MD had been working on the narrative lyrics and refining his melodic vocals. Finally, Stephen put it all together for us and mixed it in his expert fashion. 

  We hope you enjoy the thrill of the climax, and also get a chuckle out of the lyrics, which are included below. 

  Let me tell you 'bout a dancer yeah!
A mysterious one
She dances to the decibel
She's a A shape shifter from the stars
She doesn't cast no shadow
The light makes things bizarre
She'll mold a new soul in you
And get your grandmother too
She'll bleed you from afar


It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
Yeah!
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white!

Yeah, you know what I'm talkin' about 

Oh baby you caught me off guard I think it's gonna be a early time and a Late night

Hubba bubba max
Hubble space snacks
I'm playing galaga 
Waiting for climax
It didn't take long
A few setbacks

One and done in the black hole
With the Shape shifting of my gun
The time was short but the blast quaked
It was all over before it begun
The frown Came over her like a storm cloud dropping down torrential rain
The frown came over me some time later when the little fetus from Mars slopped onto the terrain

It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white

{Get that thing away from me
Stay on your home planet}

Just One minute altered my universe
My reputation outside of the earth
Flys away in a hearse
Now I'm just the minute man of the cosmos
With an infant out there somewhere they call him... space Frankenstein that's what she knows

It's an Early time and a late night
On a mothership deep in flight
It's an Early time and a late night
When the grays are seeing white

Early Time, Late Night (Eclectic Collective)

It's mostly wonderful, getting older. 

2023 Janine Levinson
Mixed and mastered by Russ @russell-sinfield, who brings songs to life
#ChaosCookhouse

I Thought I Knew        

The world is upside down                   
The secrets that I never knew
On my bedroom ceiling
 
The world is inside out 
Seams are on the outside
It’s a real confusing feeling
        
A mushroom is a mushroom    
That is something everybody knows
But what if when you woke up very early in the morning 
Your mushroom was a toadstool     
Your bluebird was a pointed rock?
A dog bite was a diamond 
And your cancer was a smile?
 
Oh yeah, I knew it all            
But suddenly I’m learning 
After sixty years of knowing

I never knew that much          
It’s a real peculiar feeling
And I don’t know where it’s  going      
    
A matchbox is a matchbox
That is something everybody knows 
But what if then you stayed up very late into the evening and 
Your matchbox was a carpet flying you right through the ceiling?
A trail of fire behind you as you wish the world goodbye?

I thought I knew 
I thought I knew

What if they were untrue                   
The stories I’ve been telling that had sounded so appealing?
 And every word was false
A blanket made of fiction
It’s a real confusing feeling

A mushroom is a mushroom
That is something everybody knows
But what if when you woke up very early in the morning 
Your mushroom was tomorrow    
Your fingers were a pigeon
Your secrets were a fairy tale and everyone was gone?

What if a different song was playing all along?

I thought I knew 
I thought I knew

I Thought I Knew - Mixed and Mastered by Russ

It's been so long since i've been able to spend time in my little studio, but I was able to spend the day on Feb 1st, and this is what came about...a bit rough, but it felt nice to play.  

*UPDATE*
I remixed this piece in late 2019, and it now appears on the Meditations 6 compilation presented by Shimmering Moods Records, and has been beautifully mastered by Andrea Porcu
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-6

Meditations 6

A Way/Within (2019 redeux)

Marco Lucchi : tools

track 1 of the album "The Summer of Love"
LAV 074
http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav74.html

28 maggio 2017

"Per distruggere 
vecchie realtà 
ho galleggiato 
su mari di irrazionalità."
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/electric-eden

Electric Eden

Track from album ZU available 10/7/20 on Bandcamp for free download.

Dark Continent

Just a little dub track. Put your headphone, close your eyes and listen. 
Or not...
PhilouGanJa Prod.

FUGITIVE DUB

I've been a longtime admirer of Janine Levinson's work on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson. I thought immediately thought that this song would be a fine fit for us to do together. I had only heard it randomly played on Spotify about three weeks ago, but really dug the bittersweet cynicism of the lyrics and the fine melody to boot. Janine's vocal work on this is incredible. She was such an awesome person to work with and get to know.

Lyrics:
you think I'll run not walk to you
why would I want to talk to you?
I want you crawling back to me, 
down on your knees yeah
like an appendectomy
sans anesthesia 

you think you can leave the past behind
you must be out of your mind
you think you can simply press rewind
you must be out of your mind, son
you must be out of your mind. 

you want what you turned off, turned on
you called it sunset, now it's dawn
you can't go 'round just saying stuff
because it's pretty
and I no longer drink enough
to think you're witty

you think you can leave the past behind
you must be out of your mind
you think you can simply press rewind
you must be out of your mind, son
you must be out of your mind. 

you want to kindle that old flame
I don't remember your real name
it must be something scandalous, 
lurks in your shallows
if you needed santa claus 
to buy your gallows 

you think you can leave the past behind
you must be out of your mind
you think you can simply press rewind
you must be out of your mind, son
you must be out of your mind. 

you must be out of your mind, son
you must be out of your mind.

You Must Be Out of Your Mind (Magnetic Fields Cover)with Janine Levinson

why've been walk

Naître des étoiles - Sorcière Neness
Voici le 4ème morceau de l'album Perfusion Littéraire actuellement in progress ^^ Toujours en quête de saisir l'instant créatif… ;) 

L'instru est de Bob Youb et s'appelle Tears. Suivez le lien pour le découvrir ^-^
https://soundcloud.com/bob-youb

Merci de votre écoute et si vous aimez, laissez un com, ça fait toujours plaisir ;)
Bises de la Sorcière xxx

Perfusion Littéraire

Naître des étoiles - Sorcière Neness - Instru Bob YouB - Album in progress 2020 Perfusion Littéraire

Picture reference: https://www.goodeveca.net/nimrod/bowden.html.

Claudio Ferrari: electronics - percussions - vocal intrusion.
Alessandro Bona: flute - bass flute - sopranino recorder - reeds - electronics - percussions - bunch of keys - tuner.

It may appear that, in trying to make machines play games, we are wasting our time. This is not true as the theory of games is extremely complex and a machine that can play a complex game can also be programmed to carry out very complex practical problems.
(From the pamphlet accompanying the Nimrod, sold to Festival of Britain attendees).

Nimrod

Come with us.

Paramhansa Bob Smith: Voice, organ, electronic guitar
The Brothers of the Abbey of St. Lawdog: Voices
The Cosmic Bunnies: Percussion, strings, whistles
Fletcher Munson: Field recording, editing, mixing

The Mountain Awakens

Boson Spin - Ilizina

c'est l'eau qui fait la rivière ll

Sounds from Elsewhere - Malu Entu

Nowhere - Un breve salto nel passato

Somewhere, on another world...

Here and there - Così, quasi per caso

Tutto e il contrario di tutto (Remembering a lost time)

GRFTPS004
@tetenoise - Sea of tranquility
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-tranquility

video for "Stratosphere [part II]" here - youtu.be/xwNqgU8lnpk

"This tape contains string and wind instruments which accompanies tape loops and field recordings.

Tracks on side A are named after moon craters, the seas of Serenity, Knowledge and Tranquility are the craters where Apollo 11 and 12 was landed and so would Apollo 13 if it wouldn’t fail at launch.

Field recording of stratosphere is done with Tascam DR40-x aprox. 45000 meters up under the framework of the project “Exhibition in space”.

Side A is recorded with Elfa 332, Dynacord and Pioneer CT-W
Side B is recorded with Tascam DR40-x and Panasonic RN102

Field recordings:

Side A
Stratosphere at approx. 45000m
Flies on shit (Tusheti, Georgia)
Port (Poti, Georgia)

Side B
Underground station (Rustaveli, Tbilisi)
Stratosphere approx. (8000m-45000m)

#giraffetapes #GRFTPS004 #tetenoise #piano #tapeisnotdead #stratosphere #fieldrecordings #preorder #album

Sea of Tranquility

Sea of tranqulity

B3. Tete Noise - Stratosphere [part II] (GRFTPS004)

Composed and performed by Matteo Mariano 

(2021) http://macrogramma.com

MAGNETIC SERIES – Album – Format: CD, Digital – Releases September 20, 2024

“I’ve always had a deep connection with magnetic tape. Since the end of the ’80s, when I was just a kid, musical experimentation was inextricably linked to that medium, to the tapes that filled my days. Every recording, every edit, every sound etched onto those tapes represented my first naive steps into the world of music. It was a way to explore, to get to know myself and the sounds I could create.

Then, in the late ’90s, the introduction to Minidiscs and, later, HD recording changed everything. Daily interaction with tape seemed like a thing of the past, forgotten in favor of newer, more immediate, and versatile technologies. But that magic, that physicality, was hard to replace.

Over the years, I’ve watched with curiosity as magnetic tape made its return to the tables of ambient and experimental music creators. I realized that many had already rediscovered and embraced this medium, while for others, it had never really gone away. I, on the other hand, was much slower to return. But it was precisely through the works of other artists that I found the drive to immerse myself once again in this dimension, more convinced than ever.

Since 2020, after some attempts to incorporate tape elements into my compositions, I began to explore this path more seriously. I started creating tracks where the use of magnetic tape wasn’t just an accessory, but an expressive end in itself. “Magnetic Series” is not a concept album in the traditional sense, but rather a collection of tracks created between 2020 and 2024, united by a common thread: the manipulation of tape in various forms, from cassette loops to reel-to-reel, from slowed-down/speed-up tracks to entire mix passed through tape.

Beyond the allure of nostalgia and the fun that this medium provides, magnetic tape offers something unique: an intransigence that digital lacks. While digital allows you infinite possibilities, tape forces you to make definitive choices, pushing you into a creative process that permits no compromises. And perhaps it’s this very unyielding nature that makes it so fascinating and valuable.“

Music by: Matteo Mariano (macrogramma.com)
Mastereing: Andrea Porcu
Photo & Desig: Moreno Pirovano
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

Cat.#: LONTANO-S-CD47
Release date: 20/9/2024
Format: CD, Digital

Copyright © 2024 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

Magnetic Series

Tape in A minor

Tape in A Minor

the complete story to read here: https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa/ethereal-reach-wodwo-svayam-joerxworkx
......... with heartfelt thanks to Wodwo and Svayam - please check out their music !!!
WODWO https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040 : guitar, mix
SVAYAM https://soundcloud.com/joaomsousa : Sitar, mix, master
JOERXWORX : Tenor Saxophone

Ethereal Reach // Wodwo / Svayam / joerxworx

https://progettosonoro.bandcamp.com/follow_me
progettosonoro è Marco Mascia, accumulatore seriale (e parallelo) di strumenti musicali e oggetti sonori e (non)musicista. Dal 2007 fa parte (con Manuel Lain) del duo Le Pecorecaramellate che ha all'attivo un Cd (Una botte e via! edito da Sesto Esercizio Records) e ha partecipato (Cagliari, 10 Ottobre 2015, Nuovo Panificio) al Multiversal EXP-OFF. 
Il 1 Maggio 2016, sempre al al Nuovo Panificio, ha partecipato, con la Roaring Pianolas Orchestra, alla perfomance live "pianoltre"