Name: Ell Of The Ow by scott gailey
Duration: 3 min 50 s
Description: for little big band & bagpipes. raccoon print photo courtesy of my grandma

Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova - Driveway

MIMS is excited to share more heart-warming music from Felbm, solo project of Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Eelco Topper. On "Cycli" Felbm creates a delicate balance between soothing vibraphone, looping guitar progressions, and effects.

"Cycli" is taken from 'Elements of Nature', the forthcoming project by Felbm, due to be released on a limited edition cassette in November 2021. The 150 cassettes will be accompanied by a riso-printed book with photos and drawings by illustrator and long-time Felbm-collaborator Joost Stokhof. Continuing the careful crafted physical and visual aesthetic to Felbm's releases.

Each side of the cassette contains 10 interwoven tracks that were initially written and recorded during a two week residency at Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a former monastery near Utrecht (NL), known for its contemplative and sober architecture in "Bossche School" style. The compositions and recordings are inspired by patterns and textures found in the woodsy park of Doornburgh, as well as by the architecture of the building itself, which happens to be inspired by ratios that appear in nature.

The music is performed with only natural elements in the form of acoustic instruments: metal and wooden percussion, acoustic guitar, bass ukulele, cello, flute, saxophone and more, which were captured on 4-track-cassette, in some cases manipulated with outboard effects or combined with field recordings from the residency period.

VIDEO

Exclusive Premiere: Felbm "Cycli" (Forthcoming on Felbm)

Collected Pieces: 2015-2020

Mary, You Were Wrong

FKR113
Miquela E Lei Chapacans
Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Released 14th October 2022

The first progressive girl group of the French Occitan language pop scene bring you folk funk, sun-baked bossa, Coltrane jazz and their own brand of punky “Dizco rural” against an untouched French Balearic backdrop spanning the late 70s and 80s.

If even the most assiduous of European record collectors consider the Occitan language music scene to be France’s best-kept secret then it’s as fair to say that the incredible multifaceted recordings of langue d’oc prog girl group Lei Chapacans has spent the last four decades hiding in plain sight. In all fairness this overlooked treasure chest of minority language excursions into folk funk, Balearic, bossa, John Coltrane penned jazz, baroque psych, Palestinian poetry, comedic synth skits (and even the rawest form of femme-fronted multiingual punky disco) has been stowed away in inconspicuous photographic record sleeves, falsely evoking something closer to contemporary C&W while oft-misplaced in record shop cassette racks alongside “traditional” spoken-word and scholastic albums. So for the uninitiated, don’t be too hard on yourself.  The fun starts here.  For those who are familiar with the rare and sought-after one-off solo album by Occitan singer Miquela and have craved for more, then you’ve come to exactly the right place. Lei Chapacans (a name that roughly translates to The Vagabonds) is the all-girl vocal group assembled by Miquela herself just two years after her debut release, having toured the word and snubbed major label record deal offers with a steadfast allegiance to the protection of the Occitan language in which this album is primarily penned and performed (minus a small amount of German and sarcastic English in one rebellious instance). For European collectors with a penchant for French savoir faire, but have further yearnings for folkloric femme funk, then it’s time to look towards the Occitan sunset where you will meet Lolo, Miquela, Sophie, Irena and Denise.

These amazing, and undeniably culturally important recordings might have taken some time to find a wider audience, but for music lovers, crate diggers and vinyl vultures alike there are still a lot of tasty morsels out there to be scavenged and devoured, ask any self-respecting Chapacan and they’ll concur wholeheartedly.

Miquela e Lei Chapacans

Dizco Rural

Miquela e Lei Chapacans - Dizco Rural

Live performance by the Jon Hassell Performance Group, Avignon, France, June 1982. John Hassell: trumpet; Michael Brook: processing, kalimba; J. A. Dino Dean: log drum, percussion; Miguel Frasconi: udu, glass, keyboard (Casio 202).

Hassell in Avignon 1982_2

for little big band & bagpipes. raccoon print photo courtesy of my grandma

Ell Of The Ow

From the Neptunalia LP compilation (LAL-92 / IKU-054). Edition of 300. Release day hopefully July 23rd.

NEPTUNALIA, a festival of Neptune, celebrated at Rome, of which
very little is known. The day on which it was held, was probably the 23rd
of July. The festival was celebrated with games. Respecting the ceremonies
of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build
huts of branches and foliage, in which they probably feasted, drank, and
amused themselves.
From a "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" by John Murray, London,
1875.

Side A:
David Edren - Whale Bubbler
H. Takahashi - Deep
Nuslux - Hippocampi
Olli Aarni - Eliksiiri A & B
Ilpo Numminen - Speleothem

Side B:
H. Takahashi - Coral
Non Local Society - Latiaxis Mawae
Kuupuu - Jään alle
Marja Ahti - Silent Floor
Miaux - Rip Current at Avalon Beach

Compiled by Roope Eronen
Cover Art by Leon Sadler
Mastered by Tommi Keränen
Laquer cut at Duplates and Mastering

Lal Lal Lal & Ikuisuus, 2018

Miaux - Rip Current at Avalon Beach

Forthcoming on Akuphone (AKU1017)
Digital only
Buy: akuphone.com/catalog/NRer109T2eQ#content

SAMPLE: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1285941.media

At the end of 2018, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Gallica (the digital archive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France), Akuphone and Ko Shin Moon were invited to create a piece from the library’s audio archives. After working on it for several weeks, a first version was presented during the anniversary ceremony. The project continued to develop over four months before arriving at a definitive version. 

The scope of the project was limited to audio recordings from the library’s collection that were free of legal restrictions, which meant: only 78 rpm records from the first half of the 20th century. The format is unique, left to specialists and forgotten by listeners and producers. 78 records are almost never used for sampling and it’s this application that makes Ko Shin Moon’s album stand out. Many factors needed to be considered, including white noise, breaths, the harshness of certain frequencies, and the production style from the era of the recordings. 

 Using these precious resources as a creative tool, Ko Shin Moon made substantial rearrangements, but he forced himself to respect the original tuning of the recordings by setting his analog synthesizers and instruments to the same microtonality as the records. 

 Most of the chosen samples were recorded between 1910 and 1940 and came from different parts of the world. These include: North Africa for “Gasba” and “The River,” The Middle East and Central Asia for “Segah,” “Bayati Chiraz,” and “Nava,” India for “Devi Sthothra” and “Narayan,” Mozambique for “I-XIII,” South Asia for “The Offering” and “Sabat Sabing,” Japan for “The Consonants,” and France for “The Offering.” 

 “We’re very thankful to have been able to have our work infused with such cultural heritage,” says Ko Shin Moon. “We thank the Bibliothèque nationale de France for their trust and above all, we want to show our respect to the musicians and singers present on these recordings. We hope to bring their voices to life with our music.” 

SAMPLE: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1285941.media

Ko Shin Moon - L'Offrande

“Bandiera Di Carta” represents the ongoing collaboration between instrument builder and composer Pierre Bastien and the London based experimental duo Tomaga (Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen).

From the forthcoming album "Bandiera Di Carta", out on Other People September 20th

Tomaga & Pierre Bastien - Bandiera Di Carta

As featured on the "Lost Transmissions From The Off-World Territories" 2xLP compilation on Invisible Inc.

Komodo Kolektif - Fire Walk (taken from "Lost Transmissions From The Off-World Territories)

Coconut Dealers "S/T" 2xCS (NNF357)
Not Not Fun / 2021

DEALERS ENTRY:
https://coconutdealers.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
https://midheaven.com/item/st-by-coconut-dealers

Coconut Dealers "Papaya Waterfall 1"

summer to night and back again

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ ~obit for sunshade
 - https://hotspring.bandcamp.com/album/obit-for-sunshade ~♥

Polysensuality on Séance Centre here (Repressed): https://scottgailey.bandcamp.com/album/polysensuality

suggesting that every line supposes the arc of a circle (12/31/2056)

you're me : 
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/youre-me

juniper systems:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/juniper-systems-s-t

Ell Of The Ow

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