The Art of Dying: Sounds from the Mountains of Sulawesi. Known for their elaborate funeral ceremonies, mortuary practices, and cliffside burials, the Toraja of Sulawesi (Celebes) also make beautiful music. Here's a brief selection of Torjaja fiddle and flute music, and a song or two, culled from field recordings by the amazing Dana Rappoport, Aural Archipelago and others. You''ll also hear a backing track of lush regional forest soundscapes featuring a wide variety of exotic bird species and more.

The Art of Dying: Sounds from the Mountains of Sulawesi

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Bara (Tukanoan) Pipe Music - Jean Jackson

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)

EXPOCAST 86 - Hannah Lee

pre-orders available now via IMPREC.comIn 1970 Harry Bertoia had been developing his sonic sculptures for over ten years. He had only been composing/recording for two years and the four long pieces chosen for this CD find him starting to arrive at the sonic forms he had been searching for.

Hints Of Things To Come is one of the most unique and melodic pieces discovered so far in the Bertoia tape archive. In this piece we hear him slowly create and articulate a musical riff.  Bertoia builds this phrase patiently until the composition reaches an intense climax where the riff is played heavily and distinctly.

7 ½ & 7 ½ Combined, another historic standout, is one of the earliest examples of Bertoia overdubbing by playing a tape and then performing along to the playback.

This CD is defined by ambient passages, long drones, gongs that sound like whales, shimmering harmonics and the feeling of an artist searching for sounds deep within his own sonic sculpture.

Hints Of Things To Come

Harry Bertoia  "Hints Of Things To Come" CD - release date 12.16.22

Glossy Mistakes invites Diego Hernandez, manager and curator of the Berlin-based label Eck Echo who talks with us about the undercurrents of Latin electronica, the perks of managing record labels on different formats and flavors and even shares some interesting facts about the connections between Congo and the Caribbean. 

Diego has also prepared a mix showcasing both the music of the Eck Echo label and some of his DJ skills. Press play to kick back, enjoy the music and learn more about Eck Echo’s current releases “Jalea Mixta” and “Jalea Real” , showcasing 15 years of digital cumbia by Peruvian pioneer Tribilin Sound. 

https://eckecho.bandcamp.com/album/tribilin-sound-jalea-mixta 

1) Los Shapis - Valle Sagrado  (Tribilín Sound & Rolo Gallardo Rework); from Valley Mashes EP, Eck Echo 2018
2)  QOQEQA - Yuvia; from Radio Amazonia, Eck Echo 2021
3) Tribilin Sound - Virgenes del Sol (Plasic Toy Sounds remix); from Jalea Real / Jalea Mixta, Eck Echo 2022
4) Tribilin Sound - Condorcanqui (original mix); from Jalea Real, Eck Echo 2022
5) Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling; from Peel Sessions, Warp 1998
6) Ahmed Ben Ali - Damek Majeb; from Subhana, Habibi Funk 2020
7) Quixosis - Las Nalgas de Venus; from Rocafuerte, Eck Echo 2020
8) Dengue Dengue Dengue - Los Arboles; from Cuatro Suyos EP, Eck Echo 2019
9) Tribilin Sound - Sarita (Loris remix); from Jalea Real / Jalea Mixta, Eck Echo 2022
10) Quixosis - Triciclo; from Rocafuerte, Eck Echo 2020
11) Romare - I Wanna Go (Turn Back); from Meditations on Afrocentrism EP, Black Acre 2012
12) Joaquin Cornejo feat. Gotopo - Eso; from Las Frutas EP, Earthly Measures 2021
13)  Carla Valenti - Canto y Tierras ;from Radio Amazonia, Eck Echo 2021
14) Les Bantous de La Capitale - El Loco; from Rumba on the River mixtape, Elefandes 2022. Originally released by Sonafric, 1976
15) Mikongo - Pregones ;from Radio Amazonia, Eck Echo 2021
16) Tribilin Sound - El Carmen (Dengue Dengue Dengue remix); from Jalea Real / Jalea Mixta, Eck Echo 2022

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Outsiders: Glossy Mistakes w/ Eck Echo @ Kiosk Radio 06.12.2022

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.

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On February 6th, two earthquakes took the lives of over 40,000 and counting Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish people, and displaced millions more, in what is one of the most devastating natural disasters of the 21st century. The effects of this disaster will be felt for years to come, and we as an international community need to raise money however we can to help, and also need to keep the crisis visible in global news.

On Sunday, February 19th, we hosted a fundraiser event at arkaoda Berlin, in collaboration with Root Radio, Radio Alhara and Resident Advisor. It was be a chance for people from the affected communities to meet and mourn together, to listen to some DJs from these regions play downtempo sets, to buy some donated artworks and crafts and, most importantly, to raise money. 

Together, we raised 12,000€ which was split equally between three reliable organisations: AHBAP who focus on Turkey, The White Helmets focusing on Syria and Heyva Sor focusing on Kurdish people.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Et Kin

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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?

PREMIERE | MEMOTONE - GLOW IN THE DARK [PATIENCE / IMPATIENCE]

Two visionary maestros, Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila, unite in their first collaborative album, Baba Soirée. The veterans of electronic music bring their unique expertise to the table, resulting in a captivating fusion of experimental styles. Bastien’s mechanical loops and experimental instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila's sound design and impeccable skills of sampling collages. It's not a dance party, nor is it an avant-garde intervention. It's a soirée: a cultivated evening of sonic alchemy hosted by these two charismatic gentlemen.

Pierre Bastien is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a background in French literature. He has spent decades crafting an idiosyncratic world of experimental sound with his self-built mechanical orchestra Mecanium. It was most notably showcased in audiovisual releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. Bastien's creations are a mesmerizing combination of traditional instruments (he has a vast collection) and mechanical automatons. The violin in the track Rotomotor, for example, is physically played by one of his machines. In Baba Soirée, Bastien also plays a prepared cornet (Slow Dance, Banbas Aura), infusing the recordings with a breathy, dreamy dimension.

Michel Banabila, a sound artist, composer and producer, possesses an eclectic musical repertoire that defies genres. His seamless blend of minimal electronica, tribal ambient, and neo-classical influences has earned him a prominent place in the world of experimental music, and an impressive discography (Knekelhuis, Bureau B, Séance Center, a.o.). Banabila serves as the creative sampling editor for Baba Soirée, expertly weaving together the recordings to craft an evocative sonic tapestry.

The two share a curiosity for traditional instruments from various cultures. The instruments used in the recordings are shown in the cover artwork. A mutual admiration for each other's work paved the way for this fruitful artistic partnership of the Rotterdam-based artists: Collaborating on a single as a fundraiser for Yemen in 2022 set the stage for the creation of Baba Soirée.

For Pierre Bastien, Dada, Fluxus and International Situationism have played a significant role in shaping his artistic vision. The title Baba Soirée is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg's "Kleine Dada Soirée" collaboration which took place exactly a century ago. There's an unmistakable stoicism and an anarchic not-giving-a-f*** attitude in these recordings by Bastien & Banabila, which resonates in the light of this Dada reference.

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Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: Senseless (Pingipung 083 / LP, digital)

CHAPTER 1: PATTERN INTERRUPT 
1. restart (intro)
2. way out 
3. inward 
4. forward 
5. self engineering

REWIRE - ALBUM PART I 2025

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