Name: Better To Walk Not Knowing Where You’re Going Than To Sit Doing Nothing (RIAFC 043) by RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY
Duration: 59 min 4 s
Description: Hausa, Tuareg and Peul monochord violin; Zarma/Songhai cult music; a crazy Super Onze de Gao cassette; desert radio transmissions; Yoruba sakara records; Sudanese haqeeba on VHS tape; and back to the Sahel with a tende cassette from Agadez. Special thanks to Matthew Lavioe for sharing the awesome cover image!

In this episode, Ryan and Todd are joined by guest cohost Mari Ruti to discuss the relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. Delving into the problems of desire and power, they question how psychoanalysis might contribute to the feminist project.

Feminism & Psychoanalysis with Mari Ruti

Prix Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer 2021

Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot, Birds and wires
4’47, autoproduction, France

Une clôture fraîchement construite entoure un point d’eau dans la campagne lyonnaise. À l’aube, les oiseaux s’y relaient pour boire. Leurs vols les amènent à se poser sur les fils barbelés, laissant naître des résonances métalliques. Cette phonographie révèle par surprise les traces de la musicalité du paysage.

“Une très belle rencontre sonore avec ces oiseaux acteurs musiciens qui conjuguent les volutes et les mélismes de leur vol avec des ponctuations timbrées des cordes de barbelés tendues comme des contrebasses fantomatiques. Avec une grande maîtrise du son, de sa captation, un art subtil du mixage à peine décelable, Mélia Roger et Grégoire Chauvet nous invitent à goûter cette rencontre du vivant avec l’art sonore comme un instant intriguant et appaisant.” (Jean-Loup Graton, membre du jury)

Mélia Roger (*1996) partage son temps entre le cinéma et l’art sonore. Après un master d’ingénieure du son (ENS Louis-Lumière, FR), elle développe depuis une approche artistique de terrain, explorant l’intimité de la voix et du paysage sonore. Entre Paris et Zurich, elle collabore à différents projets autour de l’écoute.

https://meliaroger.com

Grégoire Chauvot (*1992) est passionné d’oiseaux. Diplômé de la Femis, il enregistre le paysage pour construire des histoires, d’abord pour le cinéma et aujourd’hui pour le son seul. Il réalise des prises de son expérimentales à la recherche du beau et de l'inattendu.  

https://soundcloud.com/gchauvot

Le Dinard Podcast Festival #1 leur a consacré un portrait en juillet 2021, à retrouver sur Calaméo https://fr.calameo.com/read/006778443aa1e1d1c5db1

Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot_Birds And Wires

Altérité

Abuse (feat. Alice Imbert & Luke Sutherland)

it's the fall and the leaves 
are changing 
it's the fall and trees
are crying

they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying
they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying

it's the fall and the leaves 
are changing 
it's the fall and trees
are crying

they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying
they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying

they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying
they cry for me and you
and this town keeps on dying...

Fall

As Sunak continues to defend Braverman's decisions over Marston, the Home Office is dumping asylum seekers in London without anywhere to stay. How low can this government go?

Plus: Netanyahu is back in power after general elections in Israel; and Matt Hancock's decision to go on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

With Dalia Gebrial and Ash Sarkar.

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Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Tories Defend Manston Conditions

De cara al paréntesis navideño, en esta sesión presentaremos algunos textos de Marina Garcñes y Carolina Meloni que mandaremos previamente y que nos ayuden pensar la crisis capitalista en términos económicos y también micropolíticos. ¿Dónde se genera el malestar?¿dónde quedan la esperanzas revolucionarias y las construcciones de un mundo común?

También aprovecharemos para elaborar una serie de preguntas a las dos siguientes ponentes del curso Carolina Meloni y Marina Garcés.

Entender, pensar y hacer en la crisis del capitalismo. [Lecturas] Con Pablo Carmona.

1	Lim Giong–	Walker (Lim Giong Follow The Steps Remodel)
Producer – Lim Giong
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
2	David Sylvian–	Grains (Sweet Paulownia Wood) (David Sylvian Remodel)
Producer – David Sylvian
Written-By – Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto
3	Thundercat, Taylor Graves–	Thousand Knives (Thundercat Remodel)
Engineer, Mixed By – Vic Wainstein*
Producer – Thundercat
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
4	Electric Youth–	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Electric Youth Remodel)
Producer – Electric Youth
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
5	Cornelius–	Thatness And Thereness
Producer – Cornelius
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
6	Hildur Guðnadóttir–	World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Hildur Guðnadóttir Remodel)
Bass, Guitar, Recorded By – Skúli Sverrisson
Producer, Mixed By – Sam Slater
Voice, Cello, Recorded By – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Written-By – David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto
7	Alva Noto–	The Sheltering Sky (Alva Noto Remodel)
Producer – Alva Noto
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
8	Fennesz–	Amore (Fennesz Remodel)
Producer – Fennesz
Written-By – Arto Lindsay, Ryuichi Sakamoto
9	Devonté Hynes*, Emily Schubert (2)–	Choral No.1 (Devonté Hynes Remodel)
Producer – Devonté Hynes*
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
10	The Cinematic Orchestra–	DNA (The Cinematic Orchestra Remodel)
Producer – The Cinematic Orchestra
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
11	Yoshihide Otomo*–	With Snow And Moonlight - Snow, Silence, Partially Sunny (Yoshihide Otomo Remodel)
Producer – Yoshihide Otomo*
Written-By – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sachiko M
12	Gabrial Wek–	Forbidden Colours (Gabrial Wek Remodel)
Producer – Gabrial Wek
Written-By – David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto
13	404.Zero–	The Revenant Main Theme (404.Zero Remodel)
Mixed By – Francisco Farris                                                                                                                               There is a reason why this tribute album to the revered Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is so titled. In 2014, he was diagnosed with throat cancer, which went into remission after six years. In 2021, however, he shared the news of his stage 4 rectal cancer diagnosis.
Earlier this year, in an essay that broached the issue, he wrote, “Since I have been granted life, I am praying that I will be able to make music until my last moments, just like my beloved Bach and Debussy. I have just turned 70, but how many more times will I be able to see the full moon?”
Sakamoto significantly influenced electro and techno – via much of his early work with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and his 1980 second solo album, B-2 Unit, notably with the track Riot in Lagos – but also film soundtrack music via Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990) and more recently The Revenant (2015).
All of his creative dimensions are addressed on this tribute album for which the artists, who include friends and past collaborators such as David Sylvian, Thundercat, Cinematic Orchestra, Devonté Hynes, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Alva Noto, were allowed full access to his far-reaching catalogue of solo work and film scores. Some 13 pieces of music, ranging from his best-known to more obscure works – at least to casual admirers – have in the parlance of the production been “remodelled” to varying degrees of familiarity.

Ryuichi Sakamoto 1952 - 2023.To The Moon And Back,A Tribute by V.A.

El encuentro que se produjo a finales de los años 60 en el norte de Gran Bretaña entre la música soul y los jóvenes de clase obrera, produjo uno de los fenómenos de música y baile popular más singulares del siglo XX. El Northern soul fue las largas noches de música y baile en el Wigan Casino, pero también el anuncio de una nueva sociabilidad de las clases obreras juveniles inglesas, punto de partida de las nuevas subculturas obreras.

Podía ser en el Twisted Wheel en Manchester o en cualquier otro rincón. Joyas del soul americano y una escena creciente inglesa, si se preguntase cual fue el valor de esta escena se podría dar la misma contestación que dio Pol O'Maoleoin a Roberto Herreros hace años en la revista LaDinamo “Lo más importante fue que, al estar fuera del alcance de los medios de comunicación y de la escena londinense, se mantuvo el control y nunca fue desvirtuado por las grandes compañías discográficas. Muchos movimientos, como el punk, fueron estrangulados hasta la muerte por la industria musical, que buscaba hacer dinero rápido. Fuera de Londres, aquellos chicos tuvieron tiempo de desarrollar la escena por sí mismos. Se trataba de pasión, no de dinero, y cuando crecieron lo suficiente como para atraer la atención de la industria, ya le habían dado forma y dirección. Me encanta eso. La industria musical (¡escupo en su cara!) jamás ha sido capaz de establecerse en nuestro movimiento, aparte de unas pocas recopilaciones, y hasta el día de hoy todo sigue en nuestras manos.”  

LISTADO DE TEMAS QUE SUENAN

1 Martha Reeves & the Vandellas 'Motoring' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHgRJXUgcM

2 Frank Wilson 'Do I love you (indeed I do) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88NbwhZWvUY

3 Gloria Jones 'Tainted love' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH4yq-goqiA

4 The Pointer Sisters 'Send him back' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lH-gBAOjs

5 Four Tops 'I can't help myself' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXavZYeXEc0

6 Northern Shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7XxOATwlI + Northern Soul Stomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-FuW3d-TbQ

7 Dana Valery 'You don't know where your interest lies' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkWUNPr6Rn8

8 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdD5E7N0NU

Keep the Faith! Lenguajes de clase en el Northern Soul. Con Ignacio Pato

flow motion

Hausa, Tuareg and Peul monochord violin; Zarma/Songhai cult music; a crazy Super Onze de Gao cassette; desert radio transmissions; Yoruba sakara records; Sudanese haqeeba on VHS tape; and back to the Sahel with a tende cassette from Agadez. Special thanks to Matthew Lavioe for sharing the awesome cover image!

RIAFC 043

Better To Walk Not Knowing Where You’re Going Than To Sit Doing Nothing (RIAFC 043)

A phenomenal selection of Japanese 78s (mostly) curated by Robert Millis (Sublime Frequencies/Climax Golden Twins). “The surface noise,” Rob writes, “pulls me back through time: Tsugaru samisen, Buddhist chants, gagaku, flutes, folk song, popular tunes, street music, and more…mostly from scratchy noisy Japanese 78rpm records (with some vinyl thrown in for good measure) that managed to survived the turbulent 20th century for your listening pleasure here in the 21st. If 78rpm surface noise interests you, I recently finished an LP for SUBLIME FREQUENCIES called Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records from Japan (1903-12). Out in April 2021. The first records made in East Asia at the dawn of man’s ability to record and the beginnings of what would become one of the largest physical record industries in the world—Japan.”

Impossible without the fantastic work done by Riyo Mountains:
www.mixcloud.com/riyomountains/
www.facebook.com/riyomountains/
Not to mention DJ Pallaksch, Soi48, Yuichi Kishino and many others. Look their work up.

Tracklist:
I love the sound of these tracks, outside of context or translations and I have imposed on my Japanese speaking friends more than enough lately and the labels are in Japanese kanji—old Japanese kanji at that. So write to me with specific questions and I’ll see what I can trace down for you. 

Robertmillis.net
sublimefrequencies.com

Shellac (mostly) from Japan (RIAFC 047)

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