Archipelago Minimix (Album Preview July 2012)

Tricky - Nothing's Changed

Excited to share my newest collaboration featuring Shigeto (electronics), Jonathan Maron (bass) and Mark Guiliana (drums). They brought so much of themselves to this project. Available 6/23 on Greenleaf Music.

TOUR DATES
April 20 - WROCLAW/Poland
Impart Art Center/Centrum Sztuki Impart

April 21 - PARIS/France
New Morning

April 23 - PRAGUE/Czech Republic
Jazz Dock

April 24 - KRAKOW/Poland
Radio Krakow

April 25 - GETXO/Spain
Escuela de Música Andrés Isasi de Las Arenas

April 26 - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA/Spain
Teatro Principal de Santiago de Compostela

April 27 - MADRID/Spain
Teatro Lara

April 28 - MIDDELBURG/Netherlands
Schuttershofcafe

April 29 - KÖLN/Germany
Stadtgarten

April 30 - MONTPELLIER/France
Maison pour tous Voltaire

June 25 – Rochester, NY
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

June 26 – Ottawa, Canada
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival

June 30 – Montreal, Canada
Montreal Jazz Festival

July 1 – 2 – Chicago, IL
Constellation

July 3 – Iowa City, IA
Iowa City Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas & HIGH RISK Ft. Shigeto "Cardinals"

Release Date : 23rd February 2015

Grasscut, the duo of Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair, return in February with a new single, Curlews/September Night’s Sky – the first single from the band’s forthcoming third album, Everyone Was A Bird, to be released by Lo Recordings in May 2015. 

Whilst first performed in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet to over 4,000 people in a warehouse in Poland, Curlews origins lie much closer to home. It’s meditative piano intro, soaring strings and sense of open skies and distant horizons inspired by the British coastline. “I’d started it on the train from Birmingham to Wales,” say Phillips, “and as I reworked it later for the album the music, especially the piano and string rhythms, kept pulling me back back to the Mawddach Estuary. I kept stripping layers and layers away, till eventually the melody, mood, and words were exposed – like they'd always been there.”

“The poet Harriet Tarlo cautions against the lazy use of ornithological metaphors for human emotion, but watching the curlews on the estuary, I really thought: this is me, digging around in the mud till I find it. I hope that's not lazy.”

That sense of place and belonging resonates throughout much of Grasscut’s work, and the forthcoming album features liner notes from the renowned landscape writer Robert Macfarlane. 

Alongside Curlews comes September's Night Sky, a story of a spring equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Scored by fragmented keyboards, guitars and sweeping strings it brings to mind the sense of both majesty and fragility that a starry night can inspire.

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September's Night Sky

11 - Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

I always loved this song and wanted to start of a mix tape with it and since the original is so stripped down i decided to add bass, drums and synths to make it flow perfectly into to the next song. After doing the mixtape i realized that it's quite good as a standalone track too. You can get the mixtape here: http://this.bigstereo.net/2009/07/10/turbotito/

Tuxedomoon - In A Manner Of Speaking (Turbotito Jam Along Rerub)

"Unexplored Valley" unfolds a meditative journey through dense mists, ancient ruins, and the soft whispers of nature. Deep basslines, textured ambient layers, and subtle ethnic elements intertwine to create an atmosphere of mystery and tranquility. The slow, flowing rhythm, where each sound becomes a step on moss-covered ground, and every pause echoes a long-forgotten story. It’s a space where time stands still and consciousness expands. A descent into an unexplored valley, hidden from sight and time.
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Thenaria - Unexplored Valley

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Nirvana - Something in the Way (Nothing In The Way)

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd  March 2018. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit’s recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby. 

Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon.

It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha’s birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women’s temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. 

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts. 

“The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature’s many sounds, a language that isn’t logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn’t restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.” — Hatis Noit

Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit’s full range and introduces a truly original artist. 



After participating in a memorial and appreciation ceremony tailored to the withdrawal of the evacuation area in Fukushima on 31st March 2017, Hatis Noit collaborated with renowned visual artist Nobumichi Asai on a project titled INORI (prayer) which they premiered live as part of an Erased Tapes showcase at Mutek Japan in Tokyo. 

Having recently moved to London and performed a first string of UK shows, followed by a special live performance at the Milan Fashion Week and Mutek Japan appearance, Peter Broderick has invited Hatis Noit to support him at the Jazz Cafe on April 15th. She’s also been announced as part of this year’s Sea Change Festival line-up, and asked to participate in a workshop with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Illogical Dance

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Hatis Noit - Illogical Lullaby

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‘There Be Monsters‘, the sophomore full length double LP feat. Monsoonsiren and Fynn Rider, out Sept 30th: https://raindog.lnk.to/tbm

Nirvana - Something in the Way (Nothing In The Way)

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