✧Sea Urchin✧ are

Leila Hassan: spoken words, lights & textiles
Francesco Cavaliere: music, words & lights

Counting for the next tide. side a ✧ Sea Urchin ✧ c.20

Martina Lussi - Higher Energy

Nuova Musica Ostinata

Non mi è piaciuto

cirklon
prologue 8
digitone
rytm
xenophone
midiverb2

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On The Shores of Hali

Before and After Being (Twin Suns Mix)

Live excerpt @Festival Baignade Interdite

Eric Andersen - "The Crying Space" 2xCD
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Release date: Feb. 14th, 2020

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R65 - Eric Andersen - "Le Chemin Des Larmes" excerpt from The Crying Space 2xCD

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Customer’s Copy is the debut LP of contorted cosmic jazz and eccentric minimal electronics by Exotic Sin. The duo of Naima Karlsson and Kenichi Iwasa first came together for a performance celebrating the art and music of Karlsson’s grandparents, Moki and Don Cherry, before continuing as an independent unit that still incorporates some of the Cherrys’ instruments as well as their synergetic integration of music with artistic practice.

Preferring the stark contrast of analog/digital, acoustic/electric, and natural/unnatural sounds, Karlsson contributes synthesizers in addition to piano, celesta, and bells, while Iwasa collides anachronistic 90s Yamaha keyboard and guitaret with contrabass recorder, drums, kalimba, and three of Don Cherry’s instruments: one of his trumpets as well as two of his “zen saxophones,” handmade woodwinds appending reed mouthpieces to plastic plumbing parts, also called Don’s kettles after their high-pitched sound. With such timbral juxtapositions, the spirit of Exotic Sin is reminiscent of a number of leftfield jazz-meets-electronics ‘70s duos from Don Cherry’s maverick collaborations with Jon Appleton and Terry Riley to Anthony Braxton’s work with Richard Teitelbaum, İlhan Mimaroğlu and Freddie Hubbard’s Sing Me a Song of Songmy, and Muhal Richard Abrams’ electronic works. On album opener “Dot 2 Dot,” Karlsson’s measured, monastic piano sets an elegiac stage for kettle bends and absurdist electro-percussive filtering courtesy of Iwasa before a flourish of cascading ebonies and ivories together with restorative circular trumpet motifs bring the sidelong piece to a majestic resolution. Named after the character from Ridley Scott’s 1989 film Black Rain, the schizosphere of “Charlie Vincent” interfaces ominous, dystopian synthesizer with permuted organ swells before album closer “Canis Minor” sets gentle sail for a distant bed of lonesome stars.

A visual artist as well as an archivist and coordinator for the Cherry estate, Karlsson continues to learn and study Don’s compositions and approach to piano with her uncles Eagle-Eye and David, who were taught by Don himself, and his use of short piano compositions as loose scaffoldings for improvisation is prevalent across the record’s three otherworldly unfurlings. Improvisor and multidisciplinary artist Kenichi Iwasa is also known for his legendary Krautrock Karaoke night, his contribution to Beatrice Dillon’s 2020 album Workaround, and collaborations with visual artists and musicians from Linder Sterling to members of Can, Neu!, Faust, Cluster, and Wire. Recorded and mixed, with additional alto flute, woodwinds, and contrabass recorder by Robbie Lee.

Exotic Sin: Customer's Copy (excerpts)

Yolabmi - Rebirth - (Senglar Birth Full Version)

Marching Parades

Twenty second episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @actebonte

States United 22: acte bonté

@salllvage (Rowan Savage) is a proud Kombumerri First Nations man living on Gadigal Land ('Sydney,' 'Australia'). He is a producer, DJ and dancer working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection with Country. He uses field recordings from Kombumerri Country ('Gold Coast') to make experimental electronic music. His DJ sets fuse underground influences from across the globe with a strong First Nations sensibility. He is influenced by Indigenous Futurisms, and by an ongoing engagement with vogue and ballroom culture. His art aims to inhabit and bridge the tensions between abstraction and emotion, the wild bush and the dancefloor, the personal and the social, authenticity and reconstruction.

What was a crucial sound experience in your life?
The moment I heard Lechuga Zafiro create a beat from water; the moment I read David Toop describe noise itself as a haunting; and most of all, the moment I understood that sound could be a path back to Culture.

Links:
soundcloud.com/salllvage
www.instagram.com/salllvage/

Field recordings throughout were recorded on Kombumerri Country ('Gold Coast,' 'Australia') 2019-2020

Dialogue:
Bedevil (Tracey Moffatt, 1993)
David Toop (interview)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
Space is the Place (Sun Ra, 1974)
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)

Tracklist:
Severed Heads - Skippy Roo Kangaroo
Graeme Revell - Nature Morte (Still Life)
Brian Eno - Shadow
amby downs - gaarra-y gaarra-li (doing a painting)
The Walker Brothers - The Electrician
Áine O'Dwyer - We Plough the Fields and Scatter
Lankum - What Will We Do When We Have No Money (Lighght Bitcoin Blockchain Blend)
salllvage - vapour on the estuary
Virginia Astley - When the Fields Were On Fire
Four Tet - Unspoken (promo version)
Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik
Thames Estuary Birds
Euglossine - Eco Fascist Dethroned
Phil Struck - Im Knick
Pendant - IBX-BZC
Lila Tirando a Violeta - Karanga Ngeru
Waak Waak Djungi - Gonawarra
salllvage - Guanaba
salllvage - SALT WATER BLOOD
Syntonic Research Inc. - The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore

MNEMOSYNE #012 - SALLLVAGE

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R65 - Eric Andersen - "Le Chemin Des Larmes" excerpt from The Crying Space 2xCD

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