I accidentally ended up playing this here and on Spotify at the same time, though unsynced. It was still amazing.

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En chlotz dra
Ha di no eimal wele gseh aber
Du willsch es au

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Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

from the album Charles Cohen - "Brother I Prove You Wrong" out on Morphine Records 2015 - doser026LP

Composer, improviser, and Buchla Music Easel master Charles Cohen returns to Morphine with a suite of new material. In keeping with the timbre spectrum of his semi-modular system, Brother I Prove You Wrong is built around pointillist analog tones—Cohen's cosmic "beeps and boops"—that swarm and scatter in mesmeric patterns across four sides. Moving through surrealistic textural overlays and industrial miasma, the album's nine tracks reveal a more introspective and personal side of the artist, following from a retrospective LP trilogy released via Morphine in 2013. Those assembled works, dating back to the late '70s, quickly became essential listening and brought Cohen—at the time largely unknown outside Philadelphia's experimental circuit—to critical renown. 

Brother I Prove You Wrong was recorded in Berlin in September 2014 using the Buchla Music Easel, with production help and support from Rabih Beaini. Mastered by Neel and curated and designed by TankBoys; cover art by Nathalie du Pasquier.

Charles Cohen - The Boy and the Snake Dance

Mountain IV. From the album Pocket Planet Earth x Minute Meditations vol.III.

Bandcamp: https://linakamura.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JJaCP2DNoIXagSqLAWfhF
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6yfGX0ev4
Find More Here: linktr.ee/linakamura

Composed and Produced by linakamura
Artwork/photography by linakamura
Released August 27th, 2025

Pocket Planet Earth x Minute Meditations vol.III

Mountain IV

Written in September 2025. Orchestra.
Cape Pillar Near the Entrance to the Derwent, Van Diemens Land, Joseph Lycett.

Symphony 9 (vi)

Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall LP (SLT-003)

First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, originally released in 1985 by famed free jazz label FMP. Recorded in Berlin on May 11 and 12, 1984, by a quartet featuring Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ (hand-built by Wada), and Andreas Schmidt Neri on percussion. Edition of 750. Mastered by Rashad Becker and housed in old-style gatefold jackets printed by Stoughton.

"Off The Wall belongs somewhere between the exuberant harmolodic ritual of Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head, a damp, medieval dirge and the inner ear soundings of composer Maryanne Amacher." – David Keenan, The Wire

"It may be more accurate to think of Wada as a sculptor than as a composer, because his music seems to be a physical reality, like wood or stone, and also because of the way he treats this material. Most composers work with ideas. Their basic interest is in melodies, harmonies, thematic relationships, tone rows, tonal centers, emotional qualities, and other rather abstract things, all of which can then be conveyed in sound, but none of which really are sound. Wada, on the other hand, works directly with the sound itself. His music would sound silly arranged for church organ for example. And if he prefers to preserve some improvisatory freedom rather than to notate specific musical ideas, this is at least partly because he is not so interested in the kinds of musical ideas that can be written down on paper. He wants to maintain direct contact with the physical reality of the sound." – Tom Johnson

Yoshi Wada – Off The Wall I (excerpt)

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

The final movement of Glory is a slowly evolving canon for two electric guitars pouring landscapes of bliss from the pythagorean region of the harmonic spectrum.

Composed at EMS in Stockholm SE 2015.
Recorded at Villa Strozzi in Florence IT 2016.

Side A from XKatedral Volume III
Edition of 100
Released on October 6th 2016

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

2nd track on 'Intact' (Jj funhouse, 2016)
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj010

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Ama Yes Uzume (featuring Caroline Polachek on vocals) 
Track B2 from All Kind Music, out 11/11/2016

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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18620-georgia-ama-yes-uzume/

Georgia - Ama Yes Uzume - All Kind Music / PFLP 005

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Excerpt from Pierre Bastien's Live album ''The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien'' out on 27th October on Vinyl and Digital.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Pierre Bastien - May Yam (Excerpt from The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien)

II: La Bella Vita

Obsession

No Light (Intro)

New album 'What We Do For Others', released 28 October 2022 on Brainfeeder: https://dorianconcept.lnk.to/wwdfoSo

The Nature of Imitation

Parted Plains out August 2nd 2019
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Ami Dang fuses sitar, voice, and electronics to create east-meets-west, ambient/trance music. On the all-instrumental album Parted Plains, she draws inspiration from South Asian and Middle Eastern folktales, specifically, the four tragic romances of Punjab, Sohni Mahiwal, Sassi Punnun, Heer Ranjha, and Mirza Sahiba; Flora Annie Steel’s Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India, and selected stories from One Thousand and One Nights. Galvanized by the Western interpretations of these stories, Parted Plains unfolds as a new sort of soundtrack for a yet-to-be written folktale that is neither Eastern nor Western, not traditional or contemporary--but somewhere in between.
~ 

AMI DANG - WEST COAST TOUR 

June 5 - Los Angeles @ PAM 
June 7 - San Diego @ House of Natasha 
June 9 - Joshua Tree @ Beatnik Lounge 
June 10 - La Puente, CA @ Bridgetown DIY 
June 11 - Santa Cruz @ Felix Culpa 
June 13 - Berkeley @ Empress Vintage 
June 14 - Oakland @ Martial Arts 
June 15 - Sacramento @ Gold Lion Arts 
June 16 - Chico @ House Venue 
June 20 - Healdsburg @ Elephant in the Room 
June 21 - Arcata, CA @ Richards Goat Tavern 
June 22 - Portland @ Xhurch 
June 23 - Eugene  @ Funagain Games 
June 24 - Corvallis @ Corvallis Experiments in Noise Anniversary 
June 26 - Olympia @ Hobbit Hole 
June 27 - Tacoma @ Space Planet 
June 28 - Seattle @ Hollow Earth Radio

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Ami Dang - Raiments

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Schlahni mal druf, mal dri
Mal druf, mal dri
Ha nüme lang wele warte
Du willsch es au

So trägi mis herz zum see abe
Mache en chlotz, en stei
En chlotz dra
Ha di no eimal wele gseh aber
Du willsch es au

So trägi die sache all in garte
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En chlotz dra
Lah di no lang la warte
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Du willsch es au

"Remembrance" is taken from "Invisible Island". Midori Hirano´s follow up album from 2015s "Minor Planet". Handmade LP and CD editions available from Sonic Pieces February 7th.

Midori Hirano - Remembrance

Record label run by Tashi Wada and distributed by Forced Exposure. Limited UK and EU distribution by Republic of Music.

Yoshi Wada – Off The Wall I (excerpt)

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