Long awaited third album from experimental Afghan-American outfit Naujawanan Baidar. Available 7/8/2022 digitally or on limited cassette from Radio Khiyaban (Eindhoven, Netrherlands)

Order: https://radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/album/khedmat-be-khalq

Naujawanan Baidar - Sang-e Khane

Aquapelago - Anthology (masters)

Vica Pacheco - Taciturno (from Aquapelago: an Oceans Anthology)

Samples:
Brexit Announcment BBC/Radio - sourced from Freesounds.org
Numerous YouTube Videos on poverty in UK. 

Equipment Used: 
Noise Engineering Ruina
Sinc Veror
Vert Veror

Petri dish Culture

Brexit Behaviour

recorded in Tehran in 1928

I came across a worn copy this 1928 Iranian disc and asked my old pal Kevan Harris to translate the label for me.
He told me it was by the great singer Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri (b. 1905; d. 1959. No relation to the composer and tarist Col. Ali Naqi Vaziri; she named herself after him) who was, famously, the first woman to sing in front of men unveiled.
She made dozens of recordings in the late 20s, but this one is significant and exceedingly scarce. Kevan pointed out a very good English-language entry describing the song's "long and troubled history." https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/morg-e-sahar
To summarize the article, the lyrics to Morg-E Sahar (Dawn Bird) were composed in the early 1920s when their author began to notice the rise of the dictatorship. When the country's new ruler Reza Shah heard Qamar-ol-Moluk sing it at a party in the mid-20s, he banned the second verse, which bemoans militarism, corruption, and tyranny. Over the course of the past century, the song has taken on significant nationalist meaning, through various administrations and hopes for a political new dawn in Iran.
The article, last updated a decade ago, points out there was at the time no evidence of a recording of it by Qamar-ol-Moluk existing. Since then, a copy of the first side has appeared on YouTube but the politically sensitive second side does not circulate online, so despite the poor condition of the disc, I felt obliged to make the entire performance available in reasonably listenable form.
It is presented here in solidarity for the struggle of women in Iran.
The lyrics in English, taken from the above article are: 
Dawn bird, lament!
Make my brand burn even more.
With the sparks from your sigh, break
And turn this cage upside down.
Wing-tied nightingale come out of the corner of your cage, and
Sing the song of freedom for human kind.
With your fiery breath ignite,
The breath of this peopled land.
The cruelty of the cruel and the tyranny of the hunter
Have blown away my nest.
O God, O Heavens, O Nature,
Turn our dark night to dawn.
It’s a new spring, roses are in bloom
Dew drops are falling from my cloudy eyes
This cage, like my heart, is narrow and dark.
O fiery sigh set alight this cage
O fate, do not pick the flower of my life.
O rose, look towards this lover ,
Look again, again, again.
O heart-lost bird, shorten, shorten, shorten,
The tale of separation.
Truth’s life has come to an end
Faith and fidelity have been replaced by the shield of war.
Lover’s lament and beloved’s coyness,
Are but lies and have no power.
Truth, love and affection are but myths
Oath and honour are but vanished.
For thieving, country and religion are pretexts, eyes are wet
Landlord’s cruelty, master’s tyranny,
The farmer’s restless from sorrow.
The cup of the rich is full of pure wine,
Our cup is filled with our heart’s blood.
O anxious heart, cry out aloud
And avoid those who have powerful hands,
Count not on justice.
O rosy-cheeked cup-bearer, give the fiery water,
Play a joyful tune, O charming friend.
O sad nightingale lament from your cage.
Because of your grief my heart is
Full of sparks, sparks, sparks.

Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri - Morghe Sahar parts 1 & 2

Prayer for the Victims of Syria & Turkey EQ - Soundtracking Wet Dreams 3rd Session - Yamen Mekdad

Sonic Profile: Mi Ho
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Born in Japan, started to play piano since very young, she immediately fell in love with pieces by Béla Bartók. She began to compose piano pieces inspired by him. 

She moved to Berlin 2011, teaching music to children and being active musician since 2015, playing piano, drums, percussions, violin and voice.

Her curiosity is placed in between harmony and inharmony, between veiling reality and revealing fantasy.
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064 – Mi Ho – Sonic Profile

A random kurdish tape vol #1: an hour set of music by artists from Kurdistan across bakur, bashur, and rojhalat (Rojava is next). This set serves as a general introduction to Kurdish music. This set focuses on upbeat dance music with slower songs to let the listener breathe. The slower songs range from rock to pop to more alternative sounds. Kurdish dance as a genre is very lively and intense, and if I had to describe it, it feels like free therapy. A trait of Kurdish dance songs is how singers often start their songs or verses. They let out a long note, and it sounds like a scream. They do this to signal the start of their verse, but it feels like utter catharsis. It feels like they are telling me to leave all my problems behind, to take a moment to vent and dance. 

Tracklist: https://radioflouka.com/shows/a-random-kurdish-tape-vol-1-with-darwon-07-06-2023

STREAM RADIO FLOUKA

A random Kurdish Tape vol.#1 with Darwon - 07/06/2023

Mircosite: http://iddk.houndstoothlabel.com/
Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/2CNyA8V
Buy individual tracks each day as they are premiered on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2Djl6CU

The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

"This poem made me want to go upward and to a brighter side of the world :)" ~ Tomoko Sauvage

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

In Death's Dream Kingdom

To The Brightest

Pre-Order

Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere (Clip)

Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond (10.12.2018 Red Light Radio)

Archive from my radio show Pli.

About this show:
Lucrecia Dalt and influential Argentinian composer Beatriz Ferreyra discuss collaborating with Pierre Schaeffer, the risks of leaving tapes on the floor and more.

This episode features the work of Beatriz Ferreyra, whom I met in Berlin for her presentation at the Heroines of Sound festival. In this episode, she explains how she became a composer, her processes for composition, her work for Fiorella Marian and her time with Groupe De Recherche Musicales (GRM)-director Pierre Schaeffer. Please, enjoy. – Lucrecia Dalt

Beatriz Ferreyra interviewed by Lucrecia Dalt

London Contemporary Orchestra, 
Robert Ames director, 
Tate Modern, Sept 2017

Prisma Interius V (2017)

EXTRA-GENRE COMMUNITY RADIO «FANTASIA» ORIGINATED BY TYPOGRAPHY CENTER WORKERS IS TO CREATE A PLATFORM TO SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD SOCIETY AND ARCHIVE MATERIALS COLLECTED BY ARTISTS, CURATORS, JOURNALISTS, ART AND SOCIAL THEORISTS, SONIC RESEARCHERS AND SOUND POETS.

WE CREATE AN IMPULSE AND HOPE THAT IT WILL FIND AN OUTLET IN DIFFERENT POINTS OF REALITY, WE WANT TO COME TOGETHER WITH THOSE CULTURAL WORKERS THAT CONTINUE TO WORK IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

WE CONSIDER IT IS IMPORTANT TO FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS, STATEMENTS AND FREEDOM IN VARIOUS FORMS. THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS OF CIVIL RESISTANCE, SPREADING INFORMATION ABOUT WARS, CONFLICTS, DISCRIMINATION AND A CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS EXPRESSION OF THE POSITIONS.

064 – Mi Ho – Sonic Profile

Radio Fantasia

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