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On this edition of Free City Radio we hear about the independent record label in São Paulo. The conversation is with Yann Dardenne who speaks about creating autonomous cultural space within the music scene in São Paulo today. You can find more information about Seloki Records here: https://selokirecords.bandcamp.com

Music on this edition is from a Seloki Records release.

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211, Seloki Records in São Paulo

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-22nd-april-2024

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 220424

Solpara’s debut album, Melancholy Sabotage, marks his return to Other People. While it was recorded over Covid lockdowns, Jaar had been talking about wanting to back a Solpara full-length since he put out Swing. The album came to life while Solpara was living alone in a Brooklyn loft, collecting unemployment checks and viewing ample free time as the artist residency he’d dreamed of; he’d previously been forced to make music in odd windows between numerous jobs and the unmerciful pace of city life. Free from obligations, he would wake up early to take Arabic lessons, read Tracey Thorn’s autobiography, and skateboard the deserted streets, then come home and design sounds until he had a track that felt like it needed to be released. While this easy going lifestyle was peaceful in many ways, Solpara found more complex inspiration in the emotion that stemmed from participation in Black Lives Matter protests and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion which rocked all of his extended family members in Lebanon.

Melancholy Sabotage explores the theme of sabotaging melancholy. Echoing sounds from the post-punk, trip-hop, and ambient genres, it is about sabotaging the cycle of melancholy and looking at this process without ignoring the sources that put it into motion. It may be compared to a rattling breaking free from retention, reaching states of dreamy euphoria and transcendence while simultaneously acknowledging the sources of retention, viewed from above. “The melancholy is going and going. It’s both beautiful and painful and you can get engulfed by it, but you can sabotage it,” he muses on the album’s title.

Pre order here -https://otherpeople.bandcamp.com/album/melancholy-sabotage

Solpara - Measures

Contributions:

Giuseppe Gavazza, Erin Armstrong, Ulrich Lampen, Élisabeth Bergeron, Viviane Li , Tomáš Šenkyřík, Orpheus Lummis, Stéphane Marin, Ricardo Huisman, Tsan-Cheng Wu, Valentine Abraham, Lucas Olivares, Sammy Halimi

Musique et extraits:

Harold Budd - Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim
Jon Hassell - Toucan Ocean
Hatis Noit - Inori
Yialmelic Frequencies - Aggregate (Edit)
Extrait de "Convalescence" de Élisabeth Bergeron
HNNY - Sunday
Iasos - Lueena Coast
Art Tatum - Under a Blanket of Blue
Extrait d'une émission de radio de Scott Simon, NPR
Biosphere - Kobresia
Entrevue avec Viktor Frankl
Stars Of The Lid - Piano Aquieu
"Élévation" de Beaudelaire, lu par Sammy Halimi

Produit par Sammy Halimi

Épisode 1

Série documentaire sonore portant sur la vie au temps de la Covid-19. 

Appel à tous les artistes de son, envoyez-nous vos enregistrements!

Sound documentary series about life in the time of Covid-19. 

Calling all sound artists, send us your recordings!

lesiecleassagi@gmail.com

Aussi sur Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HYu3QFdqh4gkW5Pir5NdD?si=D-twQjU6R2CBjXkjZumSiA

Épisode 1

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