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Michael Formanek - double bass and electronics
Tomas Fujiwara - drums and vibraphone
Mary Halvorson - guitar

THUMBSCREW "Survival Fetish" from "Multicolored Midnight" (Cuneiform Records)

FactoTUM

03 swamp turkey

it all hurts (prod. bloom)

Untitled Dec 3 2022 229 AM

It’s December, and the world seems to hit that particular state of neutral gear, where everything seems to be slowly rolling down that hill until, eventually, it will come to a slow crawl somewhere near the end of the year before pressing the foot on the pedal again. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the state of affairs in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Finally, even the press outlets and Wikipedia have officially started calling the Russo-Ukrainian war, starting back in February 2014 and a full-scale invasion on February 24th, 2022. If anything, the tensions are escalating. Switch over your channel from football to news, and you will get confronted with the reality of the situation. As the first anniversary of the invasion approaches, Kyiv-based composer and sound-artist Heinali announces the upcoming release of an album, Kyiv Eternal, scheduled for February 24th via Injazero Records. Today I am premiering for you the title track, “whose rich swell and powerful soaring chords rise with the sound of hope.” On the beautiful album cover, we see a monument to the 16th-century Ukrainian political, military and civic leader Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, which has been wrapped up to protect it from Russian air strikes. This music is a tribute to the city we both love (as I was, too, born in Kyiv and will always call it my home), to the city that refuses to fall in hopes that this horrible war will finally end.

Kyiv Eternal

TRACK PREMIERE : Heinali - Kyiv Eternal

Recorded live at the EarShot Detroit Symphony Classical Roots New Music Readings. For more about American Composers Orchestra and EarShot, visit http://www.americancomposers.org. 

Three Glorious Days - Excerpt

We've been singing a lot of Leonard Cohen around the house the past few months.

It's time we began

First mvt. of Symphony 7. New England Philharmonic, Richard Pittman, conductor.

Water

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano (2019/2020) http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Dario Panzeri (2020) http://dariopanzeri.org

AN ELECTRONIC VOICES ALBUM

"Metafonia" is the Italian word that identifies the phenomenon known in parapsychology as "electronic voices".

- Metafonia II, IV and V are the less edited tracks, in order to leave the spirit of improvisation unchanged. Ideally these three represent a second volume within the first volume.

Each piece was made starting from vocal samples recorded and processed in real time with a laptop (and with the addition of some synths). The only voice behind these pieces is mine (at least I think, and above all I hope, even if I can never be completely sure), recorded while I was improvising random phrases, as if I were my own medium.

I waited a long time before deciding to finish and release this series of songs, the gloomy atmosphere of this end of October 2020 made me realize that it was time to let them go.

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"Metafonia" è la parola italiana che identifica il fenomeno noto in parapsicologia come "voci elettroniche".

- Metafonia II, IV e V sono le tracce meno editate, in modo da lasciare invariato lo spirito dell'improvvisazione. Idealmente queste tre rappresentano un secondo volume dentro il primo volume.

Ogni brano stato è realizzato a partire da campioni vocali registrati ed elaborati in tempo reale con un laptop (e con l'aggiunta di un po' di synth). L'unica voce alla base di questi brani è la mia (almeno credo, e soprattutto spero, anche se non potrò mai esserne del tutto certo), registrata mentre improvvisavo frasi casuali, come fossi il medium di me stesso.

Ho aspettato diverso tempo prima di decidere di terminare e pubblicare questa serie di brani, l'atmosfera cupa di questo fine di ottobre 2020 mi ha fatto capire che era arrivato il momento di lasciarli andare.

Released October 31, 2020

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