EAST AFRICAN FRQUENCIES (RIAFC)
1. ZANZIBAR CACOPHONIES & ROASTED SQUID. AN AMAZING UNPUBLISHED FIELD RECORDING OF A FAIR IN ZANZIBAR, RECORDED IN 1987 BY GERRIT KALSBEEK, WHERE THE MAIN SNACK WAS ROASTED SQUID ON A STICK. IT CAN BE FOUND, AMONG MANY OTHER AUDIO TREASURES AND WONDERS, AT LOLA RADIO BLOGSPOT.
2. NUBA MOUNTAIN ETHNO-FOLK BANGER. RECORDED OFF THE RADIO AT KOSH RADIO اذاعة كوش (ATTBARA, SUDAN). UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARTIST AND SONG TITLE ARE UNKNOWN. MANY THANKS TO KIDUS BERHANU (MITMITTA), NICOLAS SHEIKHOLESLAMI (ÇAYKH), AND MORTON ZAKARIA FOR THEIR HELP IN TRYING TO TRACK DOWN MORE INFORMATION. IF YOU RECOGNIZE THIS ARTIST LET US KNOW. 
3. REBABA MELODIES. UNKNOWN ARTIST & SONG TITLE. COURTESY OF RABABA MELODIES. 
4. REBABA JAM IN A LORRY. REBABA PERFORMED INSIDE A LORRY. ALTHOUGH THE ARTIST IS UNKNOWN, THIS IS BATAHIN MUSIC FROM THE BUTANA REGION OF EASTERN SUDAN. COURTESY OF OMAR EL-TAYEB HASSAN.
5. VILLAGE DISTORTION FEST – MAHMOUD ALI AL-HOUT. 
6. RIAFC BUMPER – FAHIMA ABDULLAH LOOP
7. WED AL-BALLAH HOWIDE (ود البله هويدي)
8. UNKNOWN ARTIST & SONG TITLE RECORDED OFF THE RADIO AT KOSH RADIO اذاعة كوش (ATTBARA, SUDAN).  
9. EXCERPT FROM AL SAQRIA CASSETTE (SUDAN) - COURTESY OF BRENDAN GARVEY. 
10. ALI ABAYAZID DAHABLI GICLO GAD (DJIBOUTI).
11. “NAS FI NAS” FROM THE SHAIGIYA SOUND OF SUDAN, ABU OBAIDA HASSAN & HIS TAMBOUR (OSTINATO RECORDS).
12. “DEBDABE LAKIBIGN” – BEZAWORK ASFAW (ETHIOPIA).
13. “WUBA” FROM TEWOLDE REDDA: ERITREA'S GUITAR PIONEER: SINGLES 1970-73. COMPILED BY MITMITTA (DOMINO SOUND). 
14. RADIO DANAB WANLAWEYN (SOMALIA).
15. KARAMA ZIJIRI – ZUHURA SWALEH & MORNING STAR (ZILIZOPENDWA – KENYA). COURTESY OF LOLA RADIO. 
16. JUMA SULTWANA – ZUHURA SWALEH & MORNING STAR (ZILIZOPENDWA – KENYA). COURTESY OF LOLA RADIO.

East African Frequencies (RIAFC091)

The audio presented here was lifted from a VHS tape posted online, then broadcast during our weekly show on a local LPFM, and recorded from home using a GRUNDIG AM/FM/shortwave radio on the night of SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2022. It features the legendary RAFIG "REMISH" HUSEYNOV, the GODFATHER OF AZERBAIJANI ELECTRIC GUITAR, and one of the great GUITAR GODS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, performing a blistering set at a wedding in the town of AGHDAM in 1991. The entire performance, as Ben Wheeler and Anna Harbaugh note on the CAUCASCAPADES BLOG, is an orgy of insane electric guitar ornamentation using trills and bends, as well as some heavy analog delay and overdrive. There are also unpredictable tempo changes and shifts between major and minor 3rds, impromptu exchanges with a clarinetist and accordionist, and some slide guitar using a glass bottle. Remish smokes cigarettes throughout and, at one point, plays with one hand while drinking vodka with the other.

AGHDAM WEDDING – RƏMİŞ (RIAFC094)

The August 2022 episode of Andy Votel's monthly show for NTS RADIO which was sadly never archived. This show is dedicated to the tragic passing of Dan Dwayre aka Black Lodge. Check out the NTS website for a further 80 x 1 hour long episodes of Randomonium which can all be streamed in full.

Andy Votel "Missing" Randomonium show August 13th 2022

An immersive and head-spinning collage of radio broadcasts and field recordings made on location in Syria in 2007 by Jahmorinz. You’ll hear street and market sounds, muezzins, local radio transmissions, local dabke bangers, cats and frogs, a killer Omar Souleyman recording, the eerie groans of a noria or hydropowered wheel, and more.

Suonds from Sourya (RIAFC099)

The man behind the various Emotional labels jumps in the NTS cockpit for a chance to show off his expansive taste.

https://www.nts.live/shows/emotional/episodes/emotional-29th-january-2023

All Trades w/ Chuggy 290123

2 hours of trance inducers, stress reducers, sonic meditations, sun salutations, deep vibrations, drone emanations and setting you up for a weekend of re-calibration. Keep it horizontal, keep it locked.

https://www.nts.live/shows/golden-ratio-frequencies/episodes/golden-ratio-frequencies-11th-february-2023

Golden Ratio Frequencies 110223

Les yeux fermés proposent des concerts dans l’obscurité, sans écrans ni téléphones portables, avec un dispositif d’écoute immersif pour mieux se perdre dans le son et renouer avec une expérience intime et collective.
Après des concerts à la Gaité Lyrique, au Lieu Unique (Nantes), la Fondation Beyeler (Basel) ou la SAT de Montréal, Les Yeux Fermés investissent les ondes de Rinse France pour une émission mensuelle de deux heures dédiée aux musiques d'écoute, ambient et expérimentales.

Les Yeux Fermés gives birth to a sonic geography of the intimate landscape, curated by artists from diverse backgrounds - fitting the theme of their concept of concerts held in the dark, to listen to with your eyes closed.

Catch Les yeux fermés every 4th Monday of the month, from 14hh to 16h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

LES YEUX FERMES - 24 Février 2023

@memotone
@patienceimpatience

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance.

HOW WAS YOUR LIFE?

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"Join Erevan DJ from Bamboo Shows, here filling the air with the most bittersweet guitar ballads. From the bottomless pit of memories may bubble up prog-rock haunting riffs and medieval-synth whimsical melodies."

Diffusé le 08/06/2023 sur @lyl_radio: lyl.live/episode/herbe-a-chat-15

LYL Radio | Herbe À Chat (08/06/2023) w/ Erevan DJ

•  Armchchair the World (Vol 1)  •

•  Travel within and see the world  •

* Artist : Track : Release : (Country)* 
Geir Jenssen : Zhangmu – Crossing A Landslide Area : Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings From Tibet) 
Olli Aarni : Kukkapeitto : Tuokioita (Finland)
Tran Quang Hai, Bach Yen : Van Thien Tuong : Vietnam: Dreams & Reality (Vietnam)
Old Radio Tuning Sound Effect : nBeats  
Bug Bus Piano : Crystal Palace : Jurassic Period Dishwasher (USA)
Hamza El Din : Ollin Arageed : Eclipse  (Sudan)
Friedrich Glorian : E/mi : Tanpura Sounds  (Germany)
Pandit Raghunath Seth : Rag Yaman : Classical Flute Music of (India)  
Phonaut : Skydrift Mode : Skymaps  (USA)
Ishq : Sundreams : Moon Tide Collection  (UK)

ABD 2023 - With rocks and zithers, we held everything together against the chaotic waves and overhead spirals.

(ASC10) Armchair the World

KULL Monthly Show [21.10.2023]

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AGHDAM WEDDING – RƏMİŞ (RIAFC094)

RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

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