do you love me now ?

A collaboration between paulfcook and Machina X

Who Will I Count The Stars With Now

The new single from Oli Barton, out now on Coke & Dagger Records.

The Light

Idiot is an anthem for phoney culture war influencers and fake news pseudo-prophets everywhere.

Following alt-glam stomper Mirror Shoes, Idiot is the second single from Matt Edible & The Obtuse Angels' forthcoming album The Optometrist.

Idiot

Lucy Starr - Shame

This week's podcast features music made by Naviar's community inspired by
Takahama Kyoshi’s poem “A distant mountain / Seen in the sunlight: / A desolate field”

Tracklist:

Adrian Lane - Seen In The Sunlight
Stan Magendanz - A distant mountain
LazenbeeIndustries - desolate field
mikey_a - Distant Mountain Seen
noble-earths – Distance
Night Note - A Distant Mountain

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku529-a-distant-mountain/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Alessio Soggetti
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #309 – A distant mountain – Wednesday 6th March 2024

A X6402 collaboration:

STEPAN
TaNezha x Six Four Zero Two

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THE COLLABORATION
This X6402 Collaboration is with 'TaNezha'  (Tetyana Nizhynska) who is a singer based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The lyrics were written and sung by TaNezHa, a capella, in the style of a traditional Folk song. 'Six Four Zero Two' created the music, responding emotionally to the story and mood: "I wanted the music to soar and weave fluidly around the constant that is the voice".

THE TRACK
‘Stepan’ is a story about the strength of a young girl whose partner goes off to war and is lost for some time. When the people eventually gather to hail the Cossacks triumphant return, he is not with them. The girl is forlorn and returns home where, she finds him waiting in the courtyard. A joyful return to love, peace and their homeland.

CREDITS:
Lyrics and Vocal: Tetyana Nizhynska.
Music, Instrumentation and Production: Six Four Zero Two.
Design: 6402.

LYRICS:
Translation from Ukrainian.

There, in the meadow at the edge of the forest, a girl was walking,
looking for healing thyme, mint and roses.
She was singing as she walked "I am collecting the potion for Stepan,
so he can stay strong and defeat the enemies".

When she went to the valley she saw Cossacks,
returning home to Nenka (homeland) in a big crowd.
"Oh, you men, you dear fellows, how happy I am to see you.
Where is my beloved Stepan? I yearn to see him".

"Oh my dear, we do not know, he did not follow.
We know not of his fate, we have not seen him".
The sweet girl burst into tears and went home.
“Where have you gone, my Stepan? My eternal love".

"Oh, you dear man, if only you all would come back home.
Let all of our enemies be gone!", the sweet girl cried.
Then, as she entered the yard she saw Stepan,
waiting there, to joyfully meet his beloved girl.

Stepan (TaNezha x Six Four Zero Two)

Written in 2017 alongside my book, overlove, I produced this song for the book's web series in 2018, for which it was the theme tune.

As a release, it sat on the backburner as I completed my other albums. I started producing the overlove album, for which this is the title track done from scratch, in 2023, when I also began working with producer Richard Knight - whose guitar parts, ethereal effects, and unique electronic drums complete it.

The artwork is my 2020 video work Smile, which evolved from the original overlove text's blush emoji motif! With my crying eyes superimposed through

With overlove ❤️‍🔥💔🕳️ find out more about the book, web series, and other overlove album music releases at http://geraldinesnell.com  🔗 🎶

LYRICS
It's losing its appeal
Since I fell asleep at the wheel
Gone beyond right and wrong
I'm just looking for a way to carry on
This road winds on and on
But if you keep the beat then I will drift along
Never questioning the why
Of my
Self-perpetuating hypomanic high
I watch you from afar
You are on my radar
But it's all in my head
Not a word has been said
But when your eyes meet mine
Feeling is so divine
How I revel in the rush
The sensation I can't trust
I make the same mistake
I fall from grace, again
Can't take the weight
This state
S'all too much
I overlove
I'm over love
S'all too much
I overlove
I'm over love
S'all too much
I over love
I'm over love
S'all too much
If you If you 
I overlove
If you keep the beat then I will drift along
I'm over love
S'all too much
If you If you 
I overlove
If you keep the beat then I will drift along
I'm over love
S'all too much
If you If you 
I overlove
If you keep the beat then I will drift along
I'm over love

overlove

My brand new single, the first music I've released since 2022's ablum 'Koinkidink'. Based on a true story...I lost my job to automation. I wanted to write an anthem for everyone in my position, and hopefully give them some encouragement to not give up!

Robots Stole My Job - Radio Edit

"Thank You For Last Time," Project Blackbird’s new single, sees the band’s shapeshifting sound subtly moving in a dub-flavored direction. Echoing elements of spy-fi movie soundtracks, the band creates swirling grooves beneath a blanket of vocals that recall ‘60s French pop.

“It was just two words in my head: time, fiction. That was the jumping off point,” notes vocalist Ming Nagel. “I went back to Iceland a few years ago (after first going there in the '90s), and culled some of the lines in the verses and the spoken word part from a poem I wrote during that second visit. There’s a phrase in Icelandic that basically translates to ‘thank you for last time.’ It’s what Icelanders say when they bump into old friends. On the surface, the song is a love letter to Iceland; it’s an incredibly mysterious and inspiring place. On a deeper level, it’s about the elasticity of time and the process of grappling with getting older and meeting your past selves.”

As the song unfolds like a slightly funkified casual Sunday drive, a dreamscape travelogue emerges, adding an air of mystery that hints at multiple layers of meaning beneath the surface. It’s otherworldly and earthbound all at once, defying time and creating new musical fiction.
(Night Train PR)

Lyrics:

to everything that I adore
in this isolated world:
fates and furies, nights unfurled

time – fiction – time – fiction

mounds of graymoss in the fields
reptiles swelling to reveal
cracks of their tectonic scales

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

I head to sands that are still belted by a sash of volcanic boulders
it’s strange to be back again - 20 years on and feeling much older
like looking in a mirror through a hazy lens, backwards over your shoulder
later we search for the cottage, on the coastline where I stayed

waters rich in alkaline
write a somnolent slow sweep
dreams tilt on the edge of sleep

time – fiction – time – fiction

each departure is a loss
each farewell is something gained
time stealing itself from time

time – fiction – time – fiction

outer space must pale in comparison to this
other-worldly landscape of darkening bliss

here it stands – Bakkasel, my age
I know that both our stories have changed
I walk past expanses of green and unused foundations
everything is dying or in a state of gestation
the corrugated slopes bleed into the sky like an impressionist painting

Credits:
Music: Varley / Read / Project Blackbird
Lyrics: Nagel

ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – bass guitar / JON READ – keyboards, trumpet / MING NAGEL – vocals

Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK).
Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read.
Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird.
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA).

This is the first single from Project Blackbird's forthcoming (2024) album, True Names.

Thank You For Last Time

Wychbury's music is a tapestry woven with threads of tradition and innovation, with a blend of acoustic instrumentation and modern production techniques, they breathe new life into age-old narratives, offering a fresh perspective for contemporary listeners.

Geordie is a traditional English folk song, that speaks of the inequalities between the richest and poorest in our society. It has been passed down the generations for hundreds of years. By mixing acoustic instrumentation with modern production, we aim to fuse the old with the new, and reimagine the song for the modern day.

Geordie

A sonic sketchbook. 
Independent, Not-for-profit, Post-Punk.
Featured on BBC Introducing.

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