Calm & Steady series

- short tracks of dance music

All tracks were uploaded between 06/2021 and 04/2021, with the following older exceptions:
. . - Jerry Rockwell "Baidin Fheilimi"(#19): 5 years,
. . - Beraccah Kisia "Special Day"(#7): 3 years,
. . - Marzena Majcher Trio "TransMission 6"(#13): 12 - 23 months,
. . - BLKCODE "DECODED"(#5): 11 months.

The other series (short tracks) so far are:
- "Hard-Fast-or-Nasty" (more intense/abrasive)
- "MiddleLane", and "Superdance" (the middle, or ambivalence)
- "Funky-Dub-Trap", and Funky (terminology conundrum)
- "Fantaisies" (for professional dancers only)
- "Minimal"
- "Dark"
- "BreakB-Jungle-DnB"

There is little overlap between them, mostly between: *
. . A) MiddleLane, Superdance
and
. . B) all other series

* Increasingly there is some overlap between "Calm & Steady" and "Funky-Dub-Trap", and between a bunch of others (Dark, Minimal, ...). I'm trying to keep it to the minimum, the overlap, tracks finding themselves in more than one playlist.  I don't think I'm very good at it.

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TRIIB - Seclusion Rite

Madalitso Band - Computered Love (Carol Rich)

minimal ambient downtempo sound world crafted live on the elektron model:samples from the mainframe entertainment system

Sunaïra ~*~ Oxygen

Radius

From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

My entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #199 RipplerX

DAW: Studio One
Synth: 13x RipplerX by tilr8/tiagolr

Studio one fx: Pro EQ, Splitter, Bitcrusher, Fat Chanel, Compressor, X-Trem, Autofilter, RedlightDist, Groove Delay, Open Air, Limiter, Pedalboard, TriComp

Other fx: BassKit64, DrumSlam64, ElectroHat64, BassDrive64 (AirWindows), Solaris, Valhalla Supermassive



juergenk_One Synth Challenge #199 RipplerX

last night experiment with arp and piano, hope you enjoy!

Converge

Enitokwa's​​ new ​​work,​​ which​ r​eleased​ t​he ​​ultimate​​ ultra​ r​eality​​ Utopia ​​drone​​ album​​ "​2069"​​ i​n early ​​2016, ​i​s ​t​he​ third​​ part ​​of​ t​he​"​Tealightsound" ​​series​​ advocated​​ by​​ Kyoto's​ t​ea wholesaler,​​ Ujikoen,​​which ​​has​​ continued​​ since ​t​he​​ Edo ​​period.​​​ Sounds​​ of​​ nature, environmental,​​ electronic​​ and​​ prepared​​ piano​​ sublime ​t​ogether​​ as​​ a​​whole​l ​ike​​ a​​ miraculous ambient ​​music​​ picture​​scroll.

2016年初頭、最果ての超現実ユートピア・ドローンアルバム​“​2069”​​をリリースし たEnitokwaの新作は江戸時代から続く京都の茶問屋、宇治香園が提唱する ”Tealightsound”​​シリーズ第3弾。自然音、環境音と電子音、プリペアードピアノが 渾然一体に昇華した環境音楽奇観絵巻。

Ujikoen presents “Tealightsound” (http://ujikoen.co.jp/tealightsound/)

Artist: Enitokwa 
Title:  o.n.s.a.   
Label: non-entertainment-research / Ujikoen

Format: CD  (nercd003)   
Contents: 5 Tracks    42min. 41sec.

⚫︎15:01
⚫︎⚫︎23:28
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎29:17
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎34:13
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎42:41

Date of Release: Oct.6. 2017
Price: 1500yen ＋ Tax

Enitokwa: Electronics, Field Recordings and Mix
Shigeki Ieguti: Prepared Piano on Track 2 and 3
Mastered by Kabamix (LMD)

Produced by Enitokwa  
Executive Producer: Hirokazu Kojima (Ujikoen Co. Ltd.)

Drawing: Sakura Kondo
Photograph : Mai Narita
Design: Kei Sakawaki

©Ⓟ 2017 non-entertainment-research & Ujikoen Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.


Comment:

I think that ambient music is the music that does not limit how to listen. I hope this album will be familiar to each way of listening to music.

AMBIENT MUSIC= 環境音楽とは聴き方を限定しない音楽のことだと思っています。このアルバムを手にとって下さった方々それぞれの聴き方に馴染みますように今は祈るばかりです。

Enitokwa

Mr. Isao Tomita, a pioneer of synthesizer music, has left a word that "electronic and human beings are phenomena" as well as before life. That moment and eternity the dust of the universe gathers and eventually returns to the dust of the universe. Listening to Enitokwa's music, such feelings go round.

シンセサイザー・ミュージックの先駆者、富田勲さんが生前に、「電子音も人間も現象である」と言葉を残されています。宇宙の塵が集合し、やがてまた宇宙の塵へと戻る、その一瞬と永遠。Enitokwaの音楽を聴いて、そんな想いが巡ります。

Chee Shimizu

It is a sound richly containing theanine (sweet ingredient of tea), a gem that can taste slowly and lean heart. A documentary scenery sound reminiscent of the tea making process at Ujikoen is arranged in the whole story, and the virtuous thing with a frankly act is very refreshing.
Please try to entrust with peace of mind in "definite" works which extracted carefully every single drop.

It has been inherited the calmness from Keizan Temple constantly since 700 years ago.
How does the former pioneers feel the fragrance that Enitokwa brings up？

テアニン(お茶の甘み成分)を芳醇に含んだ音であり、心を傾けてゆっくりと味わうことの出来る逸品。宇治香園での製茶工程を想起させるドキュメンタリーな風景音が全編に配置されており、そこはかとない作為との妙がとても静涼です。 一滴一滴丁寧に抽出された"確実な"作品に安心して身を委ねてみて下さい。

径山寺から700余年 連綿と受け継がれる清閑な
営み
Enitokwaが立ち上らせる薫りはかつての先人達にどう映るのであろうか?

SUGAI KEN

The level to make it play after the storm. It was organic and quiet sequence that emerged and relieved feeling. I'd love to recommend the new work of Enitokwa which is completed!

嵐の後に再生させる境地。浮き出たのは有機的で静かなシーケンスと安堵感でした。完成されているEnitokwaの新作を是非!

ALTZ

o.n.s.a.

o.n.s.a.  (nercd003) DIGEST MIX

Shida Shahabi is an Iranian-Swedish pianist and composer, with a background in sound art.  Early Autumn is timed to coincide with the release of Homes, Shahabi's debut album. Mainly featuring an old Swedish upright piano as its sole instrument, Homes delves deep into explorations of intimate piano tones, assured in its imperfections and sparse arrangements. This mix brings together old favorites with new releases in honor of her debut solo release. 

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Shida Shahabi presents Early Autumn

From the album The Grid, available June 21, 2019 on Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp: https://robburger.bandcamp.com/album/the-grid
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-grid/1455379979?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-grid/1455379979?ls=1
Spotify: 	http://open.spotify.com/album/0IPX0k7LE3SJ6RIetDUUzQ

Rob Burger is an accomplished keyboardist and composer whose storied career comprises film soundtracks and other compositional work, as well as meaningful contributions to the albums of artists such as John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, and Iron & Wine with whom he maintains an ongoing working relationship. Burger rightfully brings his skills and nuanced sensibilities to the fore on The Grid, an LP that recombines neo-classical soundscapes, Harmonia-esque kosmische, and jaunts of 20th-century exotica into a multigenre quilt-work all his own. As a listening experience, the album ranges meanders gracefully between the jovially playful, the contemplative-- and occasionally the menacingly stark-- with masterful ease.

Artist Site http://robburgermusic.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/robburgermusic/
Twitter https://twitter.com/robburgermusic
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rob.burger.526

The Grid

Rob Burger - "Souls Of Winter (feat Laurie Anderson)"

Sandro Perri • Soft Landing
Release date: 06 September 2019
CST148

180gramLP / CD / DL
Constellation

Release date:
06 September 2019

Sandro Perri • "Time (You Got Me)" Edit

**taken from the upcoming Zelienople album "Hold You Up", coming March 13th on Miasmah.

"For their first album in 5 years, Zelienople turns on the current time with a record of low-key decaying songs wrapped in hypnotic, driving rhythms.

The Chicago based trio is back with a stunner of an underground pop album. Their most reverb heavy bombast is gone in favour of pure earth bound intimate tunes that feel like they summon the spirit of the late Mark Hollis. Shrouded tribal percussion and rippling vocals are at the forefront, while looped atmospheres echo in the distance.

Since the release of their last album, vocalist Matt Christensen has been known for pouring his soul out in countless bandcamp releases of singer/songwriter, experimental and ambient offerings. It's hard to keep up with him, but one can't but to admire the dedication and extremely high quality of it all. Mike Weis on the other hand is less prolific, but has become a focused student of Korean Shaman and Buddhist music, often performing in zen based percussive rituals when he's not involved in side projects of improvisational music. Brian Harding is perhaps the most anonymous of the three, yet he is the steady, grounding element on bass that keeps them as one. Together, they create a beautifully realised own voice that feels especially close on their new album. Hold You Up is like a slow walk through a withering world, though one with a sense of refuge. This is music with heart - navigating darkness through light."

Hold You Up

Zelienople - You Have It

Decoded extract track from Decoded EP 2020

Decoded EP

decoded

BLKCODE - DECODED

Windin N Grindin Regfant Refizz

Espen Eriksen Trio - Back To Base

Jessica Moss
"Opened Ending"

Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series
https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com/track/opened-ending
100% of revenue goes directly to the artist

With a short film by Jem Cohen 
https://vimeo.com/466384584

cstrecords.com/coronaborealis

Corona Borealis Singles Series

Jessica Moss • "Opened Ending"

a record label dedicated to release work by the most adventurous and creative norwegian artists and composers

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International Vermin Conspiracy
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The vermin will outlive your grand children's grand children.
Like Mickey Mouse the vermin is eternal.
: )
Antifa is my cousin.  I heard some people were looking for her.  Since I like to be helpful when I can, she was in Alexandria last time I talked to her, three week ago.  I think she mentioned going to Zurich in the near future.
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As I understand it a conspiracy is supposed to be secret so please don't tell anyone.

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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