Name: Hidden Terraces by Sofie Birch (16/02/20) by Retreat Radio
Duration: 36 min 32 s
Description: will be made available on cassette and digital via the label Vaknar (https://soundcloud.com/vaagner)

Cannot get over this. So sublime and beautiful. Very grateful for having discovered Sofie's work. Verdens bedste, ...

What a lovely selection and I'm a sucker for the sounds of nature!

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 382: Ben Bondy's Cocoon Mix

SPIRITUAL OBJECTS RADIO EPISODE 11 W/ PHILIP SHERBURNE

2022 kicks off with a mix by long time dear friend and Lullabies For Insomniacs mastermind Izabel (@lullabiesforinsomniacs) who recorded the mix live in Melbourne outdoors during a Wax'O Paradiso event. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hey Izabel, nice to have you kicking off the mix series in this new year. You're in sunny Australia now but before that you'd been living in Europe for quite some years. What made you decide to move back?

IZ: Europe was home for almost 7 years, I left Australia in my early 20’s thinking I would be away for some months but fell in love in Amsterdam and spent years living in the city. In 2018, I moved to Berlin where I lived for a year, I found inspiration through all walks and was surrounded by great crew but grew tired of life in the big smoke. I wanted new challenges and yearned to be amongst nature, so left the city and travelled south to the Atlantic where I spent time in France, Spain and Portugal before heading to Corsica. I slept in a tent or stayed with friends and got on by doing seasonal work. I had not been back to Australia to see family and friends for many moons and was homesick, so decided to make my way across the Indian Ocean. Australia had heavy border restrictions, so plans to return were slow.

MFM: Your label Lullabies For Insomniacs had some busy times from 2016 to around 2019, after that it got more quiet and also the format shifted from vinyl to digital and cassette. What can you tell about this transition?

IZ: The transition happened naturally, I was traveling a lot which effected the label and my creative output. The tapes from Unearth Noise and Baldruin are recordings that we had been sitting on for some time but for various reasons kept delaying release. We decided to bring them out on tape as the music was better suited to this format. My sound world has been heavily inspired by the DIY music and tape scenes of Amsterdam and Berlin in the 80’s and there are great tape labels around today that were also motivating, my friend Etkin’s label ‘Kinship’ is one of these.

MFM: And now that you're settled in Australia again, what are your thoughts and plans with the label and music? Did the past 2/3 years change your perspective/vision?

IZ: Visions and inspirations come and go, some solidify and take root while others are fleeting in dream form. My focus has certainly changed as I devote more time to learning new skills and pursuing other crafts like furniture design, ceramics and writing. The music scene here in Melbourne is thriving, there are a lot of great artists and as I was
away for so long there is much to discover.

MFM: What can you say about the set/mix? Perhaps you can describe the setting it was recorded in?

IZ: The records I packed were chosen while isolating at home, this setting could not be more different to the glorious Sunday afternoon on the lawns at the Wax’o event. I played before OK EG who did a live set to celebrate their new record released as the debut on the Wax’o imprint. It was the second time I had the pleasure hearing them perform, their set made way for a great night. I thought a lot about European winter whilst making selections, I do miss spending the end of the year wrapped warm in Winters caress. These reflections and the recent passing of someone close to the family has brought me into a state of deep
introspect these last weeks, the session is both celebratory of life and a lament to lost life. This mix is a recording from the first hour, the second hour I played some psych, dub and percussive jams. 

MFM: Any plans, wishes or anything else for the near future that you'd like to share maybe?

IZ: At the moment I am taking each day as it arrives and am happy to continue on a journey learning and growing and enjoying time with family and friends. In February I will start a little party series in Melbourne with my friend Martha called Dub Cake. All the while my dream to move sea or country side lingers.

MFM Mix 036: Izabel

A sparse, dubbed-out collection of psychedelic rhythms and experimental grooves from the Livity Sound producer.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/03/31/stamp-mix-112-azu-tiwaline/

Stamp Mix 112: Azu Tiwaline

Lucrecia Dalt supplies this week's Sunday listening, offering up a lush and softly energising blend of jazz, blues and traditional Latin American rhythms for your end of week reflections.

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Sunday Mix: Lucrecia Dalt

Delighted to host Eva Geist Oddity Influence Mix for @macadam-mambo

@andreanoce: It's a collection of some of my favorite songs and some abstract sounds, music to chill and feel at ease, no harm, no expectations. I need to listen to this kind of music a lot these days, as everything around seems to spin so fast. Angel's voice, flowers around, some lyrics, to find a mind-heart coherence. 

Turn on, tune in and don't drop out!

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Macadam Mambo - Oddity Influence Mix by Eva Geist

https://soundcloud.com/andrepahl is a freelance creative coder with graphic design background. After 10 years abroad –Amsterdam and Mexico City– he settled in Berlin. There, he began a mix series of pitched down cinematic journeys called 'Safari', often constructed in many sonic layers. He's a true Gemini, always up for some mischief and new adventures when travelling with friends and like-minded peeps. He hates waiting, certainly in queues. His only phobia is of spiders above a certain size, which will def occur in this mix at some point. Furthermore, it's again a fierce collage concept. A sultry, mad, flaming, desperate river of no return.....

» This sonic landscape is a musical odyssey into a distant realm and its hidden memories — a tribute to nature's relentless brutality as well as its beauty, to an everlasting cycle of of extreme conditions that shape an unforgiving landscape. Imagine gnarled, sun-bleached trees shrouded in mist while countless creatures crawl beneath their twisted roots, and with every overturned leaf, a new microcosm emerges, revealing the intricate beauty amidst the savagery. It becomes difficult to tell whether the sky or the abyss lies above or below. 

What you hear is a collage of ethereal voices and sounds, fusing echoes of the past with whispers of the future. It is also a metaphor for an inner journey. Joy and sorrow shake hands, love, decay and renewal intertwine — a tapestry woven from the strands of existence, representing the unbridled power of the subconscious. «

For Hannah ♥

NOSE JOB 39 — ANDRÉ PAHL

Dreaming Is A Private Thing by Alicia Carrera | NOODS Radio 19.12.2019

will be made available on cassette and digital via the label Vaknar (https://soundcloud.com/vaagner)

Hidden Terraces by Sofie Birch (16/02/20)

This mix, originally made for @mysteriesofthedeep, features a few favorite (mostly unaccompanied) piano meanderings from Australia, Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, South Africa and the US set against a shifting backdrop of nocturnal field recordings.

Tracklist:
1.  Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
2. Chris Abrahams - Roller
3. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Pilgrim
4. Mustapha Skandrani - Mode Ghrib
5. Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ‎– Golgotha
6. Domenico De Clario - June 5
7. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude III
8. William Duckworth - Time Curve Prelude XIII
9. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
10. Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo

Pianos In The Wild

VF Mix 174: Sven-Åke Johansson by Phuong-Dan

DJ and music programmer Phuong-Dan is a passionate “anything-goes” selector. This eclectic open-mindedness can be heard in his sets – fuelled by his Pudel Club residency that spans nearly 20 years alongside international gigs, as well as his project specific audio works and programming. His passion for digging and collecting is ignited by a voracious curiosity, and genreless approach, something that is apparent when you see him play live.

For his VF Mix, Phuong-Dan explores the oeuvre of Swedish composer, multi-instrumentalist and artist Sven-Åke Johansson. For the uninitiated: Johansson is an unsung pioneer of free jazz and the fluxus movement, who never lets boundaries get in the way of his creativity – as likely to play boxes using a stringed bow as he is to wail out improvisational drum compositions.

Article by Gabriela Helfet

For more details and tracklist please visit:

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/vf-mix-174-sven-ake-johansson-by-phuong-dan/?fbclid=IwAR1pjKLMFnlOmFXC6y7n1TqwnN5zFWIRStdeG_bTp9nWhHlek32M2A2Jvvs

Vinyl Factory Mix 174 – Sven-Åke Johansson By Phuong-Dan

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