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KA 73 Rehearsal - Part One.

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Magma Kohntarkosz Manchester 2015

Magma Endless Tour Manchester 2015 2nd Track

Magma MDK Manchester 2015

Real-time improvisational mood music inspired by waxing gibbous moon, clear sunny skies, sea gulls and an optimistic imminence of spring maybe.  Begins with random harmonics which are then looped for the underlying ostinato for the Ebow on the D string.  The picture I took the day before of a seagull sitting on a lamppost at the end of our street with the moon behind it.  What a wonderful world we could live in.  

Gull Moon Mood Thang  : Friday 18.3.2016

Unreleased song from the De La Soul Is Dead sessions 1991.  Produced by Posdnuos.

Sho Nuff (Unreleased song from the De La Soul Is Dead sessions 1991 www.delasoulisdead.com)

A very short improvisation I recorded in 2014 to illustrate the sound of the instrument known to musicologists as a "lyre" but known in the Viking and Anglo-Saxon world as a "harp".

Improvisation on Strummed Lyre - Anglo-Saxon Hearpe / Viking Harpr

The title is from The Tempest when Ceres blesses Ferdinand and Miranda - i have always found this line joyfully moving - the latest that Spring should come, for the two lovers, would be at the end of harvest, in other words that there should be, for them, no winter.

Spring come to you, at the farthest, in the very end of harvest

Apology : Folk Music is outsider by default; feral, vernacular, idiosyncratic; it is the untutored natural born individual touched by both tradition and the prospective urge to create within that tradition (whatever it may be, however so derived). Ironically, this applies less to singing Traditional Songs in a revival context than it does to exploring the analogue vocabularies of electronic music that I've been brought up with since year dot by way of general cultural ambiance, from the ubiquitous sounds of Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire though the experimental sonorities of Sun Ra and the Prog Era, to the general Dance Aesthetic of the present time, itself determined by the glorious legacy of Kraftwerk et al. The Folk Musician is a product of all this, and more, as they cast their gaze into the heavens, and let the music dream awhile whilst pondering the infinite and the eternal, however so mundane the cause. As with our sexuality and spirituality, music is unique to each of us, yet common to all.  I mostly do this because the walls of our lovely little sea-side Victorian terraced house are too thin to persist in acoustic instruments, of which there's a few here, mostly field-recorded in old churches. 

History : Since being given a hand-crafted Yugoslavian wooden whistle flute * by his grandparents as an inquisitive 7-year-old in 1968, Sedayne has devoted himself to the exploration of ethnic and folk instruments, recording and performing since 1977 in areas of Mediaeval, Traditional &amp; Experimental music, somehow managing to combine all three in his own compositional work.  His first forays into pure electronica were at the age of 12 in 1973 when introduced to the EMS Synthi & TEAC 4-track tape recorder at a local Arts Centre.  This aspect of things has re-emerged of late, as has his interest in electric guitars & diverse glissando techniques, filters, delays and loops which he abandoned as a teenager in search of acoustic purity.  40 years on, it seems, such things don't matter anymore.

Related : With his wife Rachel, Sean is one half of folk 'n' fun duo Rapunzel & Sedayne.  He also masquerades as Hermione Harvestman - a seance of hauntological curation in words, images and music.   

Cover Pic : June 2015, St. Barnabas, Queen Camel, Somerset.  In the footsteps of Kathleen Basford...

Gull Moon Mood Thang : Friday 18.3.2016

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