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My Carpathian Music Special is featured on David G. Balasch’s amazing show The Invisible Shelter on Noods Radio (Broadcasted on Sun, Jan 16 2022).

This episode is a meditation on the traditional music of Carpathian countries including my native Ukraine as well as Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Slovak Republic. This is not necessarily a Bartókian focus on the rich melodic vocabulary of the region. Rather I am interested in the textural aspects of this music: drone, microtonality and Middle Eastern style ornamentation.

In addition I was keen to include some contemporary pieces by the experimental musicians from Eastern Europe that appear to be influenced by this folk heritage. Roughly half of this show is dedicated to Carpathian music echoes in post-minimalist, ambient and avant classical composition of such artists as Henryk Górecki, Lubomyr Melnyk, Księżyc, Svitlana Nianio, Iury Lech, Valentina Goncharova and others.

Artwork by Andrew Elvish
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Tracklist:
01.	Iury Lech "Ukraïna" 2011 Hyades Arts
02.	Outtake from Sergei Parajanov's 'Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors' "Gutsul Melodies" 1991 Unreleased
03.	Unknown ”Bocet" 1983 (Folk Music Of Rumania) Ethnic Folkways
04.	Miroslav Skorik "Remember Me Ivanko, At Least Twice a Day.  I Remember You Seven Times and Hour" 1976 (from Sergei Parajanov's 'Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors') Unreleased
05.	Unknown ”Din Zori De Zi Si Joc Batrinesc" 1982 (Roumanie - La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie) Ocora
06.	Unknown “Marche" 1978 (Pologne. Instruments Populaires) Ocora
07.	Henryk Górecki "Muzyka Staropolska, Op. 24" 1984 Argo
08.	Lubomyr Melnyk "KMH - Part I" 2015 Music Gallery Editions
09.	Rex Ilusivii "Moon Cage I" 1978 Offen Music
10.	Valentina Goncharova "Dance" 2020 Leo
11.	Oleska Suyhodolyak "Gutsul Kolomyika (Dance Song)" 1987 (Folk Music Of The Ukraine (Historic 'In The Field' Recordings) Ethnic Folkways
12.	Ion Papuc "Braul" 2018 (Folk Music Of Rumania) Ethnic Folkways
13.	Unknown ”Melodie De Bergers" 2009 (Pologne. Instruments Populaires) Ocora
14.	Unknown ”Szerelem, Szerelem / O Love, O Love" 1997 (Folk Music Of Hungary) Ethnic Folkways
15.	Julian Kytasty "Black Sea Winds" 1988 November Music
16.	Unknown "Bate Vint De La Oradea" 1983 (Roumanie - La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie) Ocora
17.	Ihor Tsymbrovsky "By The Sea" 2001 Koka / Offen Music
18.	Księżyc "Zakopana" 2019 OBUH
19.	Unknown "Tarina De La Gaina" 1974 (Roumanie - La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie) Ocora
20.	Svitlana Nianio "Near The Forest" 1994 Koka
21.	Zoltan Juhász "Melodies From Somogy" 1998 (Hongrie: Le Dernier Passage) Ocora 
22.	Plavna "Zorile" 1995 (Yougoslavie: Serbie Orentiale - Les Bougies Du Paradis) Ocora
23.	Márta Sebestyén "Jézus az asztalnál" 1991 Hungaroton Classic

Carpathian Music Special (Jan 2022 issue of The Invisible Shelter on Noods Radio)

A weaving song recited in 1974 by Thomas Kenneth Penniman (1895-1977), former Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum (from 1939-1963), who was preparing a manuscript on 'Work and Song in the northwest Gower' at his death.

"Mrs Tanner had six sons, and they all sang like thrushes while they worked at the loom..." 

The reference is to Phil Tanner (1862-1950), the noted Gower folk singer from Llangennith, who was one of six sons (and one sister). This is probably a song written by Phil Tanner.

Gower weaving song "Mrs Tanner had six sons" [2012_70_46]

A mesmerizing mixtape from Greek musician Tasos Stamou. Bouncing back and forth between his recent retro Balkan folk-wave album for the Akuphone label and some of the styles and sounds that inspired it. Vintage combo keyboards, a folk instrument used in a contemporary context, long sustained krautrock and beyond.

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Balkan Express Mixtape (RIAFC097)

Like in drawings, a sound material not only exists in the moment but sometimes hints at the path it can be heading next. The direction is derived from very subtle traits of the sound—not only the texture, gestural aspect, degree of tension but also implied visuality and expectation generated from it. While working on my fixed media piece, Openings, I followed the invisible but tangible threads that the sound materials were organically engendering and chased the sonic sceneries that emerged afterward.

Openings (2022)

Industrial Sunshine Hour with their first Narr broadcast for you now

“A selection of tunes that I like that could be categorised as ‘industrial’. I’ve been buying records containing this stuff for years so it’s nice to share some of them with you.

I’ve been promoting weird electronic gigs, over the years, in Bradford and Leeds under the names Fifth Circuit, Golden Cabinet, Room 237 (with the wonderful Tom Hammond) and most recently as Silent Snake Gang with Ewan Frater & Gaz Battersby. I’m also involved in the musical outfit STALINGRAD.”

Industrial Sunshine Hour 08/11/24

a bellend so far

Pain prod by Purptokyo

Pulses is an acousmatic piece based on the iteration of different pulses, in many different contexts, and transformations.
The piece was commissioned by Projecto DME (Dias de Música Electroacústica). 


Pulses

Noumen - Hidden

My Voice : Formal

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Fedbymachines - Undecided

Badminton Bis

Forthcoming 12" release on Eat Concrete
Also featured on The Wire Tapper CD (Issue #338, Apr 2012)
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/8719/
© 2011 - Baconhead

Baconhead - Flytraps

https://galaverna.bandcamp.com/album/j-j

processionary caterpillars (Ochrogaster lunifer)
may, 2019

many peoples from across the darling downs area and further east & west have a connection with the bunya mountains. due to the violent history of this area and the varied cultures that shared this space i am unsure of who lived here and claimed/shared this space

processionary caterpillars, bunya mountains

An older track from 2006. I still think it has some neat ideas... :)

a bellend so far

A Lenient Mother

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