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April 2016

Sound Marks

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in the shadows

Techno Hit

Old train station

Q-Tex-Power Of Love 97 (The Digital bot Italian rave  remix )

Sailing Ship,Creaking With Sea Crashes,Gentle Creaks,Seagulls

ულხინე / (for Archibishops)

Summer Dreams Of Love (Makina)

წმიდაო, წმიდაო, წმიდაო უფალო საბაოთ / Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of Sabaoth (ll)

წირვის საგალობელი, სვეტიცხოვლის სკოლა, "გამშვენებული" / Svetitskhovli Monastery School, in "decorated style"

რომელნი ქერუბიმთა / Let us, Cherubim

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Graveyard Tapes announce 'White Rooms', the follow-up to their acclaimed debut. Edinburgh based duo Euan McMeeken (glacis, The Kays Lavelle) and Matthew Collings (Splintered Instruments, Sketches For Albinos) joined the Tribe in 2013 with 'Our Sound Is Our Wound'. 

Only the simplest and most elegant of ideas offer this sort of combustive force. McMeeken builds the audio structures and Collings nearly tears them back down again. Of their debut, Textura lauded “McMeeken's heartfelt singing and piano playing and Collings’ electronic and guitar colourations,” while Incendiary Magazine declared the album “a rare blend of inquisitive dark pop.” The track “Bloodbridge” inspired and was featured in Matty Ross’s enigmatic short film. 

Where 'Our Sound Is Our Wound' confronted heartbreak, solitude and death, White Rooms looks to progress, even repair, restore. Collings assumed the role of primary songwriter, and here the darkly lit, fully curtained spaces of their inaugural record serve not as a wake, but a wake-up call. As McMeeken writes, 'White Rooms' accepts "the difficult 
but essential challenge of finding the incongruent beauty in loss and moving forward as people.” This way the curtains are thrown open, daylight floods in, the colors of the interior come into full view, and we realize that what is left is a blank canvas, ready for our paints. 

Both Collings and McMeeken have long embraced collaboration in their solo careers, having worked with the likes of Ben Frost, Old Earth, and Dag Rosenqvist (Jasper TX). This time around they’ve given their collaborative natures ample room to breathe. Many tracks were improvised with Ben Chatwin, who records as Talvihorros, while the song “Flicker” finds omni-instrumentalist/ singer-songwriter William Ryan Fritch (Vieo Abiungo, Death Blues Ensemble) lending his cello. 

'White Rooms' releases mere months after Collings delivered his stunning 2nd solo album 'Silence Is A Rhythm Too', further solidifying his position as one of the most innovative and exciting producers around. It’s an addictive combo when paired with the searing and iconic vocals of McMeeken. It is clear from the initial moments: this incarnation of Graveyard Tapes digs ever deeper.

Graveyard Tapes are Matthew Collings and Euan McMeeken 
with additional performances by Ben Chatwin, William Ryan Fritch, and Brady Swan 

All songs written by M. Collings and E. McMeeken 
Except tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 written by M. Collings, E. McMeeken and B.Chatwin. 
String arrangement on track 1 by WR. Fritch 
Drums on track 2 performed by Brady Swan, recorded by Ben Frost and Paul Evans at Greenhouse Studios, Iceland 
All lyrics by E. McMeeken 
Recorded in various locations around Edinburgh, Scotland 
Mixed by M. Collings 
Mastered by Carl Saff 
Art by Shawn Stephany 
Layout by Daniel Murphy

White Rooms

Death Rattle

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Graveyard Tapes - Death Rattle (from White Rooms)

A montage of fog and ships horn sound effects from the BBC archives, mixed and arranged by Robin The Fog and played down the 27-foot Denman horn at The Science Museum, South Kensington, 01.06.14. Recording was made approximately six feet from the mouth of the horn using a simple hand-held recorder. Occasional background sounds, including the next-door canteen, can also be heard. 

More on the Exponential horn here: http://robinthefog.com/2014/06/09/the-fog-gets-the-horn/

Fog and Ships Horns - The Denman Recording, Science Museum, 01.06.14.WAV

This episode explores the ways in which breaking something into pieces can help to understand it, from the story of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction photograph that revealed the DNA double helix, to artist and academic Lina Hakim on what breaking toys apart has in common with crystallography, and the work of composer Margaret Schedel who is experimenting with new ways for scientists to understand X-ray data more deeply – by using their ears.

Find out more about this episode at http://atomicradio.org.

Atomic Radio Episode 3: To Break Into Pieces

A kaleidoscope of rainbow textures and rhythms disperse into the exotic soundscape of ‘Tropical’. Electronics, real folk instruments and noise-making objects feature here generously on this six-track concept album, blending together a sonic palette influenced by a rich variety of music, people and places.

My Panda Shall Fly AKA musician and visual artist Suren Seneviratne, is set to release ‘Tropical’ via Soundway Records on 4th August 2014.

The material was initially written over the course of a few months during what Seneviratne called "a beautiful burst of inspiration". Working with veteran producer Asier Leatxe Ibanez d'Opakoa (Electric Lady Studios, NYC), Seneviratne then set about disassembling all the songs and re-working them meticulously, enriching the sounds by adding a huge range of live instrumentation, before processing the audio through vintage analogue studio gear. 

Suren Seneviratne, born in Sri Lanka before settling in London in 1996, first caught the attention of the music world with a remix that featured on Pitchfork back in 2010. Since then he has released a plethora of diverse records, gaining support from the likes of Clash Magazine, The Fader, Mixmag and Dazed Digital, as well as regularly touring internationally. He has also remixed the likes of The Weeknd, Stay Positive & Little Boots as well as appearing at festivals like BBC Hackney Weekender, Outlook Croatia & Glade as well as performing at prestigious venues such as The Design Museum, Tate Modern & Barbican. 

My Panda Shall Fly has gone through many an incarnation but it was around seven years ago that music from other continents first began piquing his interest, filling his head with new sounds that eventually seeded the ideas for this project. On ‘Rainfall’ he works with the sound of tongue mallets, cymbals and synthesized bass while on ‘'Yapeyú' he manipulates the sound of pan pipes with poly-rhythmic Rhumba percussion.

With the release of ‘Tropical’, My Panda Shall Fly has yet again set himself apart as one of the most unique contemporary electronic musicians around today. 

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My Panda Shall Fly - Yapeyú

FUMAÇA PRETA’s hard hitting, free-wheeling debut LP brings together elements of tropicalia, psychedelic rock, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics, hair metal, voodoo and African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. Beaming down from another planet and sonically stretching across decades, ‘FUMAÇA PRETA’ will be released on Soundway Records on 15th September.

FUMAÇA PRETA (pronounced Foomassa Pretta – meaning Black Smoke) started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer and percussionist, invited some old friends to join him in the tiny analogue studio he built on the back of his house in Amsterdam.

After producing 2 critically acclaimed 45s, Fumaça Preta continued to work in the Barracão Sound Laboratory, swiftly producing their debut album. All musical boundaries collapsed during recording as the band drew upon their vast array of varied influences.

Live, FUMAÇA PRETA becomes a quintet that swerves in and out of endless musical avenues but never loses the rock solid heavy psychedelic groove that drives them.


Fumaça Preta - Tire Sua Máscara

In STEALTH by Sonallah Ibrahim, the narrator, a boy living in Cairo sneaks around the city spying on its citzens. By taking in its sights, sounds, and smells, the boy creates a portraint of 1950s Cairo. In a previous post, we explored those sights with an animation by Nathaniel Whitcomb who created a motion collage from the mid-century Cairo photographs of Don Church. Now, we present to you a mix of popular 1950s Egytian music compiled by Brian Shimkovitz of Awesome Tapes From Africa. 

1. Samia Gamal “Ay Ya Zein” [Oh Beautiful] (from the film Valley of the Kings) 
2. Um Kalthoum “Howa Sahih El-Hawa Ghallab” [Is It True That Love Is Irresistible?]
3. Laila Murad “Men Al Qalb Lel-Qalb Rasool” [Heart to Heart] (from the film Heart to Heart)
4. Fareed al-Atrash “Hebeena Hebeena” [Love Us, Love Us] (from the film Nagham Fi Hayati)
5. Mohamed Abdel Wahab “El Sudan”
6. Laila Mourad “Abgad Hawaz”
7. Mohamed Abdel Wahab “Ahebo Mahma Ashof Meno”
8. Farid Shawqi & Yehia Chahine with dancer Naemat Mokhtar [title unknown] (from the film The Black Knight)
9. Um Kalthoum “Ya Hobena Al Kabir” [Oh Great Love] 
10. Mohamed Fawzi “Ta'ab el-Hawa Albi” [Oh the Sweetness of Love] (from the film Banat Hawaa) 
11.  Laila Murad “Aahd El Hawa” (from the film Flirtation of Girls)

More info on the novel STEALTH and a Q&A with ATFA: http://ndbooks.com/blog/article/stealth-mix-awesome-tapes-from-africa-for-nd

STEALTH Mix: Awesome Tapes From Africa for New Directions

Veni Veni Emmanuel 1

Disturbed performs a track from their album Immortalized, live on Conan. You can see the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7RVw3I8eg



Disturbed - Sound of Silence *Live HD*

CLOCK TOWER HJKL poop spooky

Spectacular Sound Effects Volume Two

Aircraft: Jet Passing Overhead

4oclock in the morning

One-Man Radiophonic Workshop and founder of haunted tape splicers Howlround. Devout catalyst. Recent albums include 'The Debatable Lands' on Touch and 'Worm Food Delivery' on The Tapeworm.