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World Music

Grow these Few

portico

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Portico Quartet

The Full Catastrophe

Cap Gun

Subo's Mental Meltdown

Line (Alternate Take 5)

Grammy Nominee | Best Album Notes: Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded) | Neil Tesser, album notes writer (John Coltrane) | Pablo/Concord Music Group

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Chasin' The Trane | John Coltrane

5 Steps (Hidden Orchestra Remix) - Clarinet Factory

This final studio recording before his untimely death in 1999 saw Ananda pushing boundaries yet again, teaming up with eclectic London producer Sam "State of Bengal" Zaman to mesh elements of Indian classical music with breakbeat, hip-hop, and tabla-driven beats in an exhilarating, at times zany, fusion of 60s pop and 90s grooves. 

The Ananda Shankar Experience - Jungle Symphony

The fifth in Joe Acheson's annual series of studio mixtapes for Tru Thoughts Records comes in two parts, and is timed to celebrate the upcoming release of 'Archipelago Remixes EP (Part 2)', the follow-up to 2013's first remix EP of the second Hidden Orchestra album.

The main theme of the mixtape is remixes, both of and by Hidden Orchestra, and the mix also contains the customary eclectic wealth of music from around the world, multi-layered mashups and reworkings, field recordings, and plenty of spoken word including interviews and poetry recitals.

Part 2 of the mix will be released in the next few weeks.

The only full tour the Hidden Orchestra live band are making in 2014 is around Europe from March 26th to the end of April - there will also be a few one-off gigs and festival appearances - www.hiddenorchestra.com/dates

Find the previous 4 Hidden Orchestra mixtapes in this series here-
Footsteps Mixtape (2010) http://www.mixcloud.com/truthoughts/hidden-orchestra-footsteps-mix/
Night Walks on Vinyl Mixtape (2011) http://www.mixcloud.com/truthoughts/hidden-orchestra-night-walks-on-vinyl/
Flight Mixtape (2012) http://www.mixcloud.com/truthoughts/hidden-orchestra-flight-mixtape/
Archipelago Mixtape (2013) https://soundcloud.com/tru-thoughts/joe-acheson-hidden-orchestra

Tour dates
26.03 FR-Toulouse • Salle Nougaro (AV show)
28.03 FR-Lyon • Vaulx Jazz Festival @ Le Périscope (AV)
30.03 IT-Marostica • Panic Jazz Club (AV)
01.04 CZ-Olomouc •Jazz Tibet Club (AV)
02.04 CZ-Brno • Level B (AV)
03.04 CZ-Prague • Palac Acropolis (AV)
05.04 HU-Budapest • A38 (AV)
08.04 TR-Istanbul • Salon IKSV
09.04 BG-Sofia • NDK
11.04 GR-Thessaloniki • Block 33
12.04 GR-Athens • Gagarin 205 
18.04 UK-London • Village Underground (AV)
23.04 LT-Vilnius • Loftas
25.04 DE-Wiesbaden • Schlachthof (AV)
26.04 DE-Berlin • RadialSystem (AV)
27.04 DE-Dortmund • FZW (AV)
28.04 BE-Opwijk • Nijdrop (AV)

Tracklist
00:00 The Revival (originally a remix of 'Electronica' by Kinetic Fallacy) - Hidden Orchestra
00:01 Noise: A Human History (written/presented by David Hendy) - produced by Matt Thompson for BBC R4
01:35 Precipice Drive - Ametsub  
01:39 What Am I (acapella) - Anti Pop Consortium
03:52 Boatman singing in Geibikei Gorge, Japan - recorded by "Ronin Dave" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCurhhacvPw)
04:09 Wicker Beats - Hidden Orchestra
04:59 The Revival (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
05:15 Glass Story (Live) - Clarinet Factory
08:43 Dispatches - Pohlitz
09:09 Astrolomy - Kelpe
10:02 The Who (acapella) - Hieroglyphics 
10:56 Reminder (Long Arm Remix) - Hidden Orchestra
12:04 Andras Schiff (in interview with Mark Coles) - BBC World Service
13:25 Fourth Wall (Kelpe Remix) - Hidden Orchestra 
15:32 Dheannain Súgradh - Alyth McCormack
16:09 Seven Hunters (Dam Mantle Mix) - Hidden Orchestra
19:19 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan
22:15 Lucid - Kratos Himself
24:27 Quiet Lights - submerse
25:52 Strong The Root (acapella) - Lamb
27:06 IntroOoOoO - Kidkanevil and Daisuke Tanube
27:16 Zoltan Kodaly (in interview with Erno Daniel) - University of Santa Barbara 1966
27:48 Going Nowhere - DJ Shadow
28:40 Time To Go - Floex
28:50 Ancient Sorceries (read by Philip Madoc) - Algernon Henry Blackwood
30:32 Seven Hunters (Jamie Graham Drums) - Hidden Orchestra
31:36 Truant - Burial
32:54 Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed (read by Richard Burton) - Dylan Thomas
33:03 Lyre/Grounds (Hidden Orchestra Double Remix) - Poppy Ackroyd
37:03 Andras Schiff (in interview with Mark Coles) - BBC World Service
37:49 Are You In The Bath - Four Tet
39:49 2 Cats - Ametsub
40:00 Reckoner (acapella) - Radiohead


Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago Remixes Mixtape Part 1

Pianist Rachel Grimes, who says "independence and freedom" are critical to artists, though about Mary PIckersgill and "how deeply personal making the flag would have been."

Anthem By Rachel Grimes

Thundercat
The Golden Age of Apocalypse
BF023

Release Date: 08/30/11

Download Here, via Pitchfork: http://p4k.in/kglJWs

Thundercat - Daylight

Fall In Love- Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & Carlos Nino

from The Point Of No Return, released 09 June 2014 - Bellring

hugokant.com : hugokant.com/thepointofnoreturn/
bandcamp : hugokant.bandcamp.com/album/the-point-of-no-return

The Point Of No Return

Bandcamp

There's No Need To Be Frightened

Stormy Lady (From Lady Day - 100 Years of Billie Holiday)

The Album's Concept: Everyone has a story, One story; The Monomyth. You are the main character. To understand the nature of story and what it means to us is to understand your own life path. Monomyth Separation is Part One of the Hero’s Journey. Will you accept the call to adventure? 

This album was born during my first big tour of Greece. I played 10 cities and travelled around the whole country playing my music. I received such great energy and feedback from fans that I decided I must make a project inspired by the trip, so I started digging! I collected records from around Greece; some traditional greek music plus other nice bits that I found. Whilst I was traveling, I was trying to come up with a concept that would tell the tale of a great journey. And of course, as I was in Greece ideas of myth and legend came to mind. So, when I returned home I researched a few things and stumbled across a theory by a philosopher and writer called Joseph Campbell. Basically, he wrote a book called “The hero with a thousand faces” in which he describes a theory that all great stories share; common elements - that they are all one story, a Monomyth. Is there a deeper meaning to why we tell stories? Are they a road map for our very existence, and a way to describe the cycle of life, death and rebirth? Due to this the album is very cinematic. I try to tell a story, but I want the listener to decide what that story is. The album will be best enjoyed as a whole so please find a quiet time to settle in and enjoy the ride.
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Luiz Ville Groove (feat,Hugo Kant)

Remix from Kill Emil latest album "Lights & Shadows Remixes".

Download @ Bandcamp : 
https://killemil.bandcamp.com/album/lights-shadows-remixes


Kill Emil - Emptyness (Hugo Kant Remix)

Track taken from <a href="http://realworldrecords.com/offers/portico_quartet_album_preorder/">Portico Quartet's third, self-titled album</a>, out 30th January 2012.

<b>Steepless Remix Competition</b>
Competition ends on the 6th Feb 2012 at 12.00 (GMT). Please submit your entry to our Steepless Remix Competition Group Dropbox before the deadline.
YOUR SUBMISSION MUST HAVE DOWNLOADING DISABLED

<a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/portico-quartet-steepless-remix-competition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enter the remix competition here</a>

Uniquely for Portico Quartet, the track Steepless features a vocal collaboration with the East London based Swedish singer, <a href="http://iamcornelia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cornelia</a>. The band met Cornelia through their friend <a href="http://www.jamiewoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jamie Woon</a>, and were drawn to her unique voice and songs. Steepless, which started as a more conventional song, was created live in the studio by the band, and Cornelia and the band together created a powerful new dialogue that provides one of the album’s many stand out moments.

Portico Quartet Ft. Cornelia - Steepless

For the remix contest, slept at 8 am to finish this.

Portico Quartet - Steepless (Kaytranada Remix)

love this tune!

funny - I think I have listened to this at the wrong speed for years!
this is the same song/remix at 'correct' speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAferFR3Qc

Tortoise - Bundy Brown mix

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Portico Quartet - Steepless (Area Grey Rework)

Taken from 'Thinking in Textures'

IM INTO YOU
I gotta feeling we are gonna win
our bodies make it perfect 
and your eyes can make me swim

then again everything seems knew
I can barely hold my tongue
to say the least I'm into you

and your eyes
are saying more than we can talk and warmer than the bedroom sport
and your thighs are kisses from the outside, girl thats all i need

i'll take it down the other road
to breathe in something more

I find it harder to ignore
the things I want you for


*
I know you don't want
I love you can sing
the music was at the start
dododo   

the rhythm was all
I needed to hear
a woman can treat my heart
dododo


when i press an ear up to your breast
I can hear the rhythm start
its hard to tell our beats apart

so I hope your listening right now
cause I can barely hold my tongue
the shit we do could warm the sun

at night
twisted in a melting fall and sleeping with the scratching claws
your words
let me know your feeling me and seeing all the things I see

i'll take it down the other road
to breathe in something more

I find it harder to ignore
the things I want you for

I know you don't want
I love you can sing
the music was at the start
dododo   

the rhythm was all
I needed to hear
a woman can treat my heart
dododo

I'm Into You

Track taken from their 2012 album 'Knee-Deep in the North Sea' - http://www.realworldrecords.com/catalogue/knee-deep-in-the-north-sea

In 2007 Portico Quartet moved from busking on the South Bank in London to a recording studio and, with the remains of the money from their student grants, created their first album, 'Knee Deep In The North Sea' (released on Babel/Vortex). This was a turning point for the band, the album attracted attention from DJs, bloggers and critics of every stripe, and was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.

Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North Sea

Rachel Grimes - Every Morning

XXYYXX - About You

"Night Song" is part of series 2 of the Real World Gold re-issued albums - released 30th July.

The great – and ridiculously prolific – Pakistani qawwali singer had already recorded half a dozen albums for Real World when he delivered this peach in 1996. Effectively the sequel to 1990’s classic Mustt Mustt, Nusrat is here reunited with the Canadian musician/producer Michael Brook and once again the partnership tests the emotional boundaries of the human voice. Timeless, state-less and, nearly two decades on, ageless. It wasn’t made in Detroit or Memphis, but this truly is soul music.
“An album for the ages, defying genre and solidifying Khan’s stature as one of the world’s pre-eminent singers” – Billboard


Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Micheal Brook - My Heart, My Life

"Come To Where I'm From" is part of series 2 of the Real World Gold re-issued albums - released 30th July.

In its pursuit of unearthing previously unheard music from the planet’s four corners, Real World has never ignored Western rock and pop. No-one’s disqualified. And in Akron, Ohio, the label (or, rather Peter Gabriel himself) found Joseph Arthur, a singer-songwriter with high-proof creative juices oozing out of every pore. 2000’s Come To Where I’m From was his second album for the label. Produced by the mighty T-Bone Burnett, it’s a dense, attractively claustrophobic record, full of delightful contradictions: unnerving and reassuring, raw and yet meticulously compiled.

Joseph Arthur - In The Sun (Real World Gold)

"Rise Up" is part of series 2 of the Real World Gold re-issued albums - released 30th July.

Thomas Mapfumo was the voice of a revolution, the icon whose music soundtracked the death of Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe. But, by the time he recorded Rise Up in 2006, the tables were turned, the optimism extinguished. The Zimbabwean authorities now hounded Mapfumo, who quietly slipped out of the country to live in the US. The folk hero was now the exile, giving him new reasons to continue singing his chiming songs of freedom. And they’ve never sounded as vital as on Rise Up. 
“Classic laidback Afro-groove, with hints of reggae and Mapfumo’s baritone remains richly defiant” – Observer Music Monthly


Thomas Mapfumo - Marudzi Nemarudzi (Real World Gold)

Portico Quartet - Prickly Pear ♥

Sevara Nazarkhan - Yor-Yor (Song to the Bride)

by Carlos and Azul Niño and Jesse Peterson from Carlos Niño & Friends, High With A Little Help From, Kindred Spirits, 2009

With Azul by Carlos Niño & Friends

This latest mix from Joe Acheson (aka Hidden Orchestra) is to celebrate the release of the second Hidden album, 'Archipelago', which came out on Tru Thoughts Records in October 2012, and the second single to be lifted from the album, 'Fourth Wall / The Revival', which came out on February 25th 2013.

'Archipelago' is available at all good record stores including
iTunes http://bit.ly/buyarchipelago_itunes / Amazon http://bit.ly/buyarchipelago_amazon / Direct from us http://bit.ly/archipelago_etch

'Fourth Wall / The Revival' is also available at all good record stores including
iTunes http://bit.ly/fourthwall_itunes / Amazon http://bit.ly/fourthwall_amazon / Direct from us http://bit.ly/fourthwall_etch

Tracklist
00:00 Spoken - Hidden Orchestra
00:01 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
00:22 Reminder (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
04:08 Unconscious Motivation (film excerpt) - Prelinger Archives
05:06 Reminder - Hidden Orchestra 
05:25 Paivi's Favourite Sound - (Interview with Joe)
06:19 Fourth Wall - Hidden Orchestra 
06:55 Fourth Wall (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
07:04 Forgetmenot - Floex
07:13 Kimmo's Favourite Sound - (Interview with Joe)
12:25 Insomnia (film excerpt) - Prelinger Film Archives
12:52 Music For 18 Musicians (Section VI) (Joe Acheson Many Musicians Remix) - Steve Reich
13:25 A Day in the Life (acapella) - The Beatles
17:25 Feel the High pt. 2 (acapella) - Finsta Bundy
19:54 Shipwreck Glue - Kelpe
19:58 Staring Out of the Window (Short Story) - Alan Bennett
20:06 Black Swan - Thom Yorke
24:36 Stop Parching Yourself - Kelpe
24:56 The Blankout Agreement - Kelpe
25:10 Up Up and Away (spoken introduction) - Sammy Davis Jr.
25:15 Nightbreed (acapella) - Klashnekoff feat. Jehst
27:52 Storrington Birds Spooked (field recording) - Joe Acheson
27:53 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
27:55 Sounds of Harris: Lullaby of a Lapwing - Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
29:07 Tarbert Nightwalk (field recordings from Isle of Harris) - Joe Acheson
30:06 Sounds of Harris: Song of the Shiants - Kuljit Bhamra, Jacqueline Shave & John Parricelli
31:12 Ursa Major - Floex
31:24 Patrick Moore in interview - (prod. Journeyman Pictures)
31:51 Insomnia (acapella) - Maxi Jazz
35:13 Topkapi Park (Istanbul field recording) - Joe Acheson
35:15 Dave Brubeck in interview - BBC Radio 4
35:24 Ping (Joe Acheson refix) - Haushka
38:51 Tenere Taqqim Tossam (Joe Acheson refix) - Tinariwen
40:12 Conflict (acapella) - Guru
41:48 Keep - Nils Frahm
41:55 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
43:40 Crunky - Crunch
45:24 Half Broken Harp - Kelpe
45:31 I've Gotta Be Me (Spoken Introduction) - Sammy Davis Jr.
47:51 Visa Fran Utanmyra (Joe Acheson remix) - Jan Johansson
47:53 I Like Sitting - Ivor Cutler
48:38 Hurt (acapella) - Johnny Cash
49:52 Darkness - Ivor Cutler
52:32 If Everybody - Ivor Cutler
53:03 After The Goldrush - King's Singers
53:50 Atoms for Peace - Thom Yorke
54:33 Rooster Was a Witness - Neil Cowley Trio
54:54 Atoms for Peace (Four Tet Remix) - Thom Yorke
56:47 Disquiet (drums only version) - Hidden Orchestra
61:25 Disquiet - Hidden Orchestra
61:26 Unconscious Motivation (film excerpts) - Prelinger Archives
66:29 Dave Brubeck in interview - BBC Radio 4
66:38 Radar - Hauschka
67:10 Is This Love (acapella) - Bob Marley
70:07 Edit 2 - Crunch
70:17 And Dream of Sheep (acapella) - Kate Bush
72:00 The Great Animal Orchestra (Audiobook read by Nigel Lindsay) - Bernie Krause
72:18 Whistman's Wood (Joe Acheson remix) - John Surman

Joe Acheson (Hidden Orchestra) - Archipelago Mixtape

Chet Faker - Live Sessions, recorded in the old Buttery Factory, Newsted, rural Victoria, Australia. 

To download go to: http://www.facebook.com/Chetfaker

Watch the series here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChetFaker

Love and Feeling and No Diggity taken from the EP - Thinking in Textures - available on iTunes. 

03 No Diggity

Portico Quartet - Clipper

Portico Quartet - The Visitor

Portico Quartet - Too Many Cooks

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