c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

dedica speciale a Florian Fricke

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2020)

The best tracks of the friends and residents of Meticulous Midgets anti-label (http://stopcran.ru)
☀ In rotation on the radio http://mitota.club ☀ About: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2020-03-28-193

Thanks for your help of sharing this information!

🐞 Meticulous Midgets Magazine 🐞 The magazine’s release scheduled to the end of the March (for obvious reasons) is delayed. Please, be healthy and keep calm!

Order a copy of MMM:  https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/meticulous-midgets-magazine-2020

HIT-PARADE: all №1 (march 2020)

Encoded Rainbows

Samy Ben Rabah & Jeff Wiedenfeld

All tracks from this playlist will be sent to rotation on our radio http://mitota.club/
☀ About it: https://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-08-28-223 ☀ Thanks for sharing!

HIT-PARADE: all №1 (august 2021)

Things may not be quite the way we think. And not like most say.

All tracks from this playlist will be sent to rotation on our radio http://mitota.club
☀ About it: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2022-03-27-242 ☀ Thanks for sharing!

We are sending the magazine to print:  https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/meticulous-midgets-2022

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(Photo: a fragment of the film "Me and Others" by Felix Sobolev)

"Both White" - an excerpt from the film "Me and Others" (turn on the subtitles!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35w7MV5j_ao

"Me and others" (1971) - full version (turn on subtitles!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNuib06EkIE 

About it: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF_%D0%B8_%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5

HIT-PARADE: all №1 (march 2022) & MM news

super

Warning, contains between 31.5% and 100% mandolin, which depending on your mental condition could have serious consequences or nothing at all - which is even worse.
You cannot claim that you weren't warned.

I repost this playlist whenever I update it

Warning, contains mandolin!

Ethno & Others

Track 3 from the album 'Kleurtonen'.
You can buy the album at Bandcamp: https://geluidenfabriek.bandcamp.com/album/kleurtonen

About the album:
Working with A=432Hz tuning, for this album, I am exploring the possibilities of sustained sounds and their transcendental character, with repetition and subtile shifts in sounds and timbre.

Instruments used on this album: Sustainer guitar, Acoustic guitar with bow, Acoustic piano, Analog synth (Soma Lyra 8), Weeldophone, Percussion instruments.

Production and mastering: Simon van Weelden

released June 29, 2021

Gebrande Omber

Библиотека состояний - Секта служителей старого маяка  - Ночной прибой
State Library - Keepers sect of the old lighthouse - Night surf 

Full Album on bandcamp: https://statelibrary.bandcamp.com/album/keepers-sect-of-the-old-lighthouse
Review on @Meticulous-Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/news/2021-08-06-298

Archival records of the State Library in one of its most primal states with:
Ivan Kirichenko - processor, synth, sampler, oxoma (vtol)
Sergey Kobzev - guitar, tech support
Nata Boundariver - harmonica, singing

Photo by Alexander Bozhday

from: Keepers sect of the old lighthouse [live 2.12.2017]

feed the silence, I'll pray for you
while I bleed again within
your knife cuts violent, the wounds are deep
and it stings the soul you need

I see a pool of black and no light
the way you stare at me with those dead eyes
turn on the energy with the right vibe
too late, you got so cold, no revive
no revive (x3), the thoughts they thrive (x3), still alive (x3), must survive (x3)

feed the silence, I'll pray for you
while I bleed again within
your knife cuts violent, the wounds are deep
and it stings the soul you need

I put you in the box you belong in
waved bye and said so long to the demons
come out from underground, it was pushing
old wounds that stitched back up, well they're open

well they're open (x3)

feed the silence, I'll pray for you
while I bleed again within 
your knife cuts violent, the wounds are deep
and it stings the soul you need

Feed the Silence

This song about the Gifts that are given to us throughout life. 
Priceless gifts of existence, knowledge, awareness and love.

Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass (Moscow, Russia) > singing, painting
Luciole Langevine @Luciole-Langevine (France)  > singing
Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey (Moscow, Russia) > drums, bass, acoustic guitar
Samy Ben Rabah @samybr (Near Pazin, Croatia) > mandolin
Steve Layton @NiwoSound (Seattle, United States) > synth
Laurent Donckers @Deep-Man-2-121969062 (Belgium) > vocal, guitar
Alan Ingall @NewShoe (North Carolina, United States) > accordion
Hilary Dirlam @Hilary-Dirlam (Mars Hill, United States) > melodica
Корней @Vladimir-Kornienko-409386936 (Moscow, Russia) > guitar
Gautam Karnik @GautamKarnik (Edmonton, Canada) > violin 
Alexander Bozhday @Somebody-Bo (Penza, Russia) > ocarina, guitar

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia, France, Belgium, Croatia, USA, Canada (8 march 2022)

Picture: "Дары" 60 x 60 cm (canvas, oil)

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Дары / Gifts

Domain Of Signals

Closeness is included in the collective performance 'Brain of Many Rooms' by Marjorie Van Halteren https://soundcloud.com/vanwindmill, Tony Brewer, Brian K. Price, https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek that you can listen to here:  http://mixlr.com/eaps/showreel/brain-of-many-rooms

Field recording taken by Ilaria Boffa on the Oresund strait in Copenhagen, 2021
(Please use headset)

Closeness

There was a day when
C’è stato un giorno in cui

sounding different seemed 
un suono diverso è sembrato

a useful coping strategy.
un’utile strategia di adattamento.

The gender of objects
Il genere degli oggetti

never stopped flashing 
non ha mai smesso di far capolino

like reminders of identities.
come promemoria di identità.

The road, a path
La strada, un tragitto

our relationship to the world
la nostra relazione con il mondo

our multiple us 
i nostri multipli noi

foreign to each other
stranieri a se stessi

one and the same.
eppure identici.

Voices whispering from behind
doors left ajar
Voci che bisbigliano dietro porte 
socchiuse

we are the morning, the backwash 
of faraway seas and the dusk chorus.
Siamo il mattino, la risacca di mari
lontani e il verso degli uccelli la sera.

Such Interlocutors complement
Tali interlocutori si completano

and when it’s time they temporise
e quando è ora temporeggiano

imperceptibly to get ready and 
play their role.
Impercettibilmente nel prepararsi
e fare la loro parte.

Alternate soundscapes they vocalise 
their own anima. 

Paesaggi sonori alternativi verbalizzano 
la propria anima.

Is this deconstruction and reconstruction 
is this closeness?
	
Si tratta forse di decostruire e ricostruire
oppure vicinanza?

And so I’m here writing through 
E così sono qui a scrivere attraverso

my two breaths, choosing words 
i miei due respiri, scegliendo parole

that you may understand.
che tu possa comprendere.

For when the beginning comes
Perché quando l’inizio verrà

each end will be forgotten
ogni fine sarà dimenticata

though the record of pain
sebbene la testimonianza del dolore

will remain lost in translation.
resterà intraducibile.

Closeness

The terrible disaster on March 11, 2011 in the Tohoku, Japan leaves us with a long-lasting emotional scar... Of course, my family, my friends, and myself included, still have the post-disaster trauma, but still we are dealing with these things and living our lives as we should...
Sometimes I have difficulty remembering how I used to live my life well and what I've loved to do...then just sit down quietly, almost cry but cannot cry.
I should say thank you for many people those pray for japan, keep touch wit us, but as the same time,I want to shout to someone or something, "Why!? Why should we lost too much things? Why should we live with the too much pain from now on ?"...this is the song of my true feeling right now...Thanks, Riko

自分自身の正直な気持ちを歌うことは、一番難しく、特に震災後の気持ちについては、歌うことによって誰かを傷つけてしまうのではないかと常に思ってしまいます。それでも私は東北が、そこで生きている家族や友達や、皆が大好きなことに変わりはありません…。だから、ここにその気持ちを綴りたいと思います。

Vocal and Lyrics by Riko

the English translation of lyrics:

I cannot stop feeling heartache...
I cannot stop feeling heartache...

I don't know how can I deal with the stress after that day.
On that day, on that moment,
everyone felt too cold,
everyone went blank,
and everyone asked oneself over and over again, "Why? Why?"

I also carry horrible scars left by these disasters.
very deep... very deep ones on my mind.
Why too many people were gone forever in a moment?
Oh God... why? ...why?

Everyone is still shuddering.
Shuddering under their smile.
It was too much things for us to lost.
And we don't know why we lost them.

There are many people offer prayers for us,
we can hear the prayers from all over the world.
There are many people those who think of
"What can I do for them?" "How can I support them?"

Now, victims are still living their life here,
gazing at the tsunami-driven town.
Barely pass the borderline,
they keep coming through this moment right now.

Now we have a lot of feelings inside our heart...
the feeling of thankfulness for many supports,
the feelings of disappointment,
a deep and immeasurable sense of regret,
and the anger which we have no idea where to direct at...

How can I deal with these feelings?
How can I deal with these feelings?

Just cannot stop crying...
Just cannot stop crying now...

Too much pain (singing from Miyagi, Tohoku, Japan)

Snowed In, lonesome winter. 
Left out, to come undone. 
I - could've been. 
Should've been - better. 
The sun we steal, until night's won. 

Tame this wild mind and save me. 
Something I refrain from lately. 

(chief coyote spoken word) 
The walking things are our friends, 
The swimming things are our friends, 
The flying things are our friends, 
The trees, the plants, the rivers, the clouds. 
The lightning, the thunder. 
All of these things are our friends. 
When you are still, lift up your hands 
and hold them out in front of you - 
with your palms upwards. 
In this way you can express confidence 
that the great mystery 
will supply everything you need to live. 
You see, within your hands lyes your heart. 
A heart, filled with love and blessings. 

Old friends, sunken faces. 
Let's walk, on down the hall. 
I - could've been. 
Should've been - stronger. 
The sand, the seed - we call our own.

.mp3 on bandcamp

Sand & Seed

Piece I created with mandolin/guitars + other instruments added electronically. Most of the mandolin parts are recorded twice and superimposed, which might give an impression that there were a lot of people playing. - but that was just me playing at different positions in space-time.
Pictured: Squeaky a.k.a Squeak, the South Indian cat (http://instagram.com/thedailysqueak) who doesn't like music and is just trying to find a spot to sleep on the sofa.

Quest for Something

Entschlossen lieb`

`hab dich so unentschlossen lieb
in dieser ruhelosen stille
ich bin so froh, dass es dich gibt
und das lied in deiner stimme

ich hab den augenblick gesehn`
um den sich " unsere welten " drehn`
`hab dich so unentschlossen lieb
ich bin so froh, dass es dich gibt

`hab dich so unentschlossen lieb
ich bin so froh, dass es dich gibt
`hab dich so unentschlossen lieb
in dieser ruhelosen stille
ich bin so froh, dass es dich gibt
und das lied
das lied in deiner stimme

h.

deus est

digital busking 

Entschlossen Lieb`

If the melted core penetrates the pressure vessel, there are theories and speculations as to what may then occur.

Alpha Mode Containment Failure

Can You Live Without Conflict?

"Mello" are a fantastic soul/trip-hop duo from the UK.When I first heard Jasmine Bee singing i literally got goosebumps. Like many brilliant soul singers she has that wonderful ability to sound assured and vulnerable at the same time. Pete Owen, aka Soundtrack-Audio plays, arranges and produces. Pete is that rare type that produces to a professional level and combines that with top-quality musicianship....and together they write great songs. I'm absolutely delighted to have had the chance to contribute a bit of saxophone to the mix . Enjoy!

http://soundcloud.com/soundtrack-audio

http://soundcloud.com/jasmine-bee


7 Years, Dave McKeown with Mello (Jasmine Bee and Soundtrack-Audio)

A little piece on the mandolin created this Saturday afternoon after a nap. 
Crappy microphone + crappy sound card = crappy sound + scratches. No mystery to this equation.
Točka (pronounced tochka) means "dot" or "spot" in Croatian and is the name we gave to a little kitten who appeared one day in the courtyard (pictured). 
That's all it is really.
August 14th 2017: The little Točka left us yesterday. Too soon. She was very fun and sweet.  You can see some pics of her here: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/tockathepanda

Perso

Točka

Točka The Panda

Having fun.

Sorry, one string is a bit off by a few hertz in the mandolin solo (oh no! why?)
Pictured: Squeaky my dear little South Indian cat (picture used with her permission) https://www.instagram.com/thedailysqueak

Kind of Superfluous

Rough piece on the mandolin for this afternoon. You can even hear some sloppy fingering - proof that it's not generated by a computer (although...).
In French, "arbre à palabres" refers to the tree under which people gather to discuss, debate or listen to the village sage. It's a tradition usually associated with some African cultures but you've probably seen it somewhere else - people talking under the shade of a tree.

Arbre a palabres

L'arbre à palabres

music : Ownowl https://soundcloud.com/ownowl 
words : luciole langevine

Back to Peru - Ownowl & Luciole Langevine

Marco Lucchi : synth and tape

morphing the central part of "Birth of Liquid Plejades" by Tangerine Dream
(Florian Fricke on Moog synth)

second track of the album "Kosmische"
http://www.batenimnetlabel.net/BN_LP019_10_16.html

27 agosto 2016

a tribute to Florian Fricke

https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/il-giardino-di-tutte-le-delizie free download

"Chiudiamo alla grande con un altrettanto grande e doveroso tributo a Florian Fricke e ai Tangerine Dream. Un'ora e zero cinque minuti di sospensione temporale sulle "note di una sola nota", un piccolo capolavoro di avanguardia tedesca ricreato da un maestro modenese in una calda estate settembrina del 2016. Il sempre prolifico Marco Lucchi ipnotizza e i Tangerine senz'altro ringraziano.
METEMPSICOSI ORFICA"

Mirco Salvadori - ROCKERILLA n. 434, Ottobre 2016

Il Giardino di Tutte le Delizie

The always inventive Jeff (@jwiedenfeld) secretly recorded a mermaid and played along on his piano. 
I played some guitar to accompany them.

Jeff (@jwiedenfeld): mermaid, piano
Samy: mixing, guitar, whale guitar

Lost Pools (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

Another musical collaboration with Jeff (@jwiedenfeld)!
Jeff:  Gambian bass, string bass, environmental acoustics
Me: Mandolin

Meowing Tall (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

My friend Jeff, who is never short of good ideas, came up with this one. 
A typical feline jazz piece.

@jwiedenfeld guitar, steel guitar, double bass
Me: mandolin, mixing (sort of)

Pictured: my cat Squeak (a.k.a Squeaky), who is kind of furry. Used with permission of course. She got a double ration of yogurt as royalties. 
Thank you Jeff!

Full Featured Fur (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

Maybe I'll try to make a song of this -  maybe.

A Few Drops...

une petite ambiance sur ma lap steel  artisanal,,
 loop de une note,,,,et une piste mélodie,,,,
tonalité E,,,,,
pour la paix dans le monde,,,,-)

pour la paix dans le monde ,,,,(,sur lap steel artisanale),,

This is the second reflection. Always good to think twice.

Reflections II

( this was posted earlier by CrazyCompass). 
Nata had the good idea to add her voice on one of my tracks (Kind of Superfluous https://soundcloud.com/samybr/kind-of-supefluous).
I never imagined a voice when I made this music and this came as a very good surprise. Thank you Nata!

Vocals, drawing: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass
Music: Samy Ben Rabah

Celestial Need (with CrazyCompass)

It was a strategic reserve of energy from May) Thanks to Samy for sweet mandolin!
Original track: https://soundcloud.com/samybr/aym-ceegeedee-twenty-four

CRAZY COMPASS: Near Pazin, Croatia - Moscow, Russia (september 2017)

all music: Samy Ben Rabah @samybr
choir: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

Listen all album by Samy Ben Rabah - "Mandolin Thoughts" (2017): 
https://soundcloud.com/meticulous-midgets/sets/samy-ben-rabah-mandolin

sign shine (with Samy Ben Rabah)

This is one of my favorite poem. I'm very glad to find the music for it.
The original track of https://soundcloud.com/the-black-diamond-train/below-freezing
Full album by The Black Diamond Train - Waiting at the Door: http://stopcran.ru/news/2017-10-04-186

CRAZY COMPASS: Eureka, California, United States - Moscow, Russia (october 2017) https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/silence

music: Michael VanderMallie @the-black-diamond-train
text/vocals: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

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ТИШИНА

Хочется тишины?  
Поработай на тишину. 
Возьми тишину. 

Где прячется тишина? 
Все прячется в тишине. 

Вокруг ужасающая тишина. 
Пронзительность тонет в тишине
и поглощается тишиной.

Никто не слышит никого
в этой оглушительной тишине.

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SILENCE (pidgin-version)

Do you want silence?
Work for silence.
Take the silence.

Where is the silence hiding?
Everything hides in silence.

There is a terrible silence all around.
The penetrating drowns in silence
and is absorbed by silence.

Nobody hears anyone
in this deafening silence.

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more photos: jasny-svetly.ru/load/10-1-0-38

full

ТИШИНА / silence (with The Black Diamond Train)

My friend Jeff (@jwiedenfeld) recently posted this inspiring track : https://soundcloud.com/jwiedenfeld/just-passing-through.
I sprinkled some mandolin.

Just Passing Through II (Jeff Wiedenfeld & Samy Ben Rabah)

highways oof the old town

highways of the old town

Final mix of a track produced as a contribution to the Open Source Music Nexus Challenge 2019 (the website is dead...) which finished in 3rd place. Listen to the original "open source" mix (and download the file for free) at https://archive.org/details/michelemarangonrainbowbrain .

Teth Sin : guitars, vocals, bass guitar, samplers (drums)

Original composition, arrangement, lyrics, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Rainbow Brain

Letters

oberlin - grauer morgen, ungewisse bilder_medley

Movement 2 from my 2020 exhibition 'La morte mi troverà vivo' (death will find me alive). The whole piece can be found on bandcamp  or my website including catalogue essays and photos/video 
https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo  
https://www.matward.net/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo
Childhood Garden is built from a field recording taken at the childhood home of Luigi Russolo in Portogruaro and was one of three pieces i took to and played at Luigi Russolo's grave as a form of 'calling ' to his spirit.

Childhood Garden-Portogruaro (La morte mi troverà vivo -mov.2)

there again

Mandolin with some delay here and there and there and there...

From A Distance (with Jeff Wiedenfeld)

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza, Russia - Belgium - France - Moscow, Russia (march 2020)

Music: Somebody Bo @somebody-bo & Deep Man @deep-man-2-121969062
Singing/words: Luciole Langevine @luciole-langevine & Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

*

French text (Luciole Langevine):

I'm looking for words that slip away and wobble
Words
I'm looking for words that slip away and wobble
Words, words words
Black on white

I was looking for words
And here are colors that sparkle
Colours
I was looking for words
And here are colors

*

Russian text (Nata Boundariver):

I woke up.
And pure unminded world
opened before my eyes.
From viscous sounds -
straight, curved and spherical -
arose
High Day.

/

Original in Russian:

Я проснулась.
И перед глазами застыл
чистый неподуманный мир.
Из звуков вязких
прямых, кривых и шарообразных
возник
Праздник.

*

P.S. This flower grew on my windowsill from a bulb thrown by someone.

Free Download

ПРАЗДНИК / High Day (with Luciole Langevine, Deep Man & Somebody Bo)

Скоро: новый EP https://jasny-svetly.bandcamp.com

Каждый знает, что во сне летают

Каждый знает, что ушедших не ругают

Каждый знает, что любовь не умирает

Каждый знает, что во сне летают

МАНТРЫ И КОАНЫ

Каждый знает / everyone knows

Playing and creating some music, drawing cartoons and baking bread. That's what I like to do!
I play guitar and mandolin. I used to play sitar and learn Hindustani music - but not anymore - so you might hear some influence in my music, especially the pieces with mandolin. I don't play accordion, despite my profile photo. I wish I could pay it though, and many other instruments.

Some selected reviews written by my cat in the in-house Music & Arts magazine: 

"The equivalent of an acoustic waterboarding!"
"Music? What music?"
"Just noise"
"No place to sleep with all these instruments"
"A daily torture"
"I wish I was deaf"
"Noise arrogantly called music"
"A pleasure... when it stops"
"Can't even unsubscribe to this"

I'm very glad to have stumbled upon very fine artists on Soundcloud and honored to have collaborated with some very talented individuals.
You can listen to my collaborations here:
https://soundcloud.com/samybr/sets/collaborations-1
The drawings on my page are from my cartoon blog:
http://imprimatuur.blogspot.com/search/label/popular

That's it folks! Thanks for listening.
samy