👩🏼‍🚀 Дань Юрию Алексеевичу Гагарину (9 марта 1934 - 27 марта 1968). Русский летчик и космонавт. Первый человек, отправившийся в космическое путешествие, на борту "Востока-1". Завершил одно из полетов на орбиту Земли 12 апреля 1961 г. в 1h48mn (60-летие) 🚀 селекторная резка = 1h48mn 🌏 
👩🏼‍🚀 Tribute to Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin  (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968). Russian pilot and cosmonaut. First human to journey into outer space, aboard Vostok 1. Completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961 in 1h48mn (60th anniversary) 🚀 Selector's cut - Full flight version = 1h48mn 🌏
🎧 Трек-лист - Tracklist : 
У Радио Москвы сенсационные новости. Ракета с человеком на борту выведена на орбиту. Космонавт Юрий Гагарин в космосе / KARPOV NOT KARPAROV Elisabeta / YUTO TAKEI Bells from the East / BOORA Na guslyah (клип к фильму = Зеркало - Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) / JEAN-JACQUES PERREY In first orbit / JESSE Possibilities / SUBWAY Delta II / ENO - ROEDELIUS - MOEBIUS Base & Apex / TREES SPEAK Transmitter / GEORGES RODI Airplane - Space - Deep sounds / BERNARD FEVRE Satellite 33 / ORFEON GAGARIN Capri horses in Pal Secam (+ Юрий Гагарин на борту Восток) / МЕЩЕРИНСКИЙ ОРКЕСТР  попкорн / GROUPUSCULE Je suis marxiste / OLEV MUSKA Tuljak - Vocoder variatsioonid / Юрий Гагарин (записанная на лагеря Камчатка) / BOORA Gagarin in outer space / ПРОБЛЕМА КВАРТЕТА Юрий Гагарин / BENJAMIN LEW Le personnage principal est un peuple isolé /  МАЙЯ КРИСТАЛИНСКАЯ Нежность / AIR Retour sur la Terre / ХОР МОСКОВСКОЙ КОНСЕРВАТОРИИ Родина слышит (Дми́трий Шостако́вич) / THE BALANESCU QUARTET Computer love / ZDENEK LISKA "Do Not Eat The Fruit" (from "Ikarie XB-1" soundtrack) / GUESS WHAT Odes to Yuri Gagarin (The earth is blue) / NIK RAICEVIC Cannabis Sativa ( + excerpts from : RADIO MOSCOW + VOICE OF YURI GAGARIN + SOVIET ARMY CHOIR Hymn + TOMITA Great gate of Kiev + GYORGY LIGETI Requiem For Soprano (from "2001 A Space Odyssey" soundtrack) / POPOL VUH Lacrime di Rei (from "Aguirre" soundtrack) / ADAM LEONARD Entkommen / ЭДУАРД АРТЕМЬЕВ Солярис - часть 9 (из фильма "Солярис" - Андрей Тарковский) / HANS ZIMMER Where we're going (from "Interstellar" soundtrack) + Lower Voices of Vladimir Pasuikov and Yuri Wichniakov) / PHILIP GLASS Prophecies (from "Koyaanisqatsi" soundtrack) / Cosmos atmosphere - атмосфера космоса

ЮРИЙ ГАГАРИН В КОСМОСЕ (1h48mn) YURI GAGARIN IN SPACE 🚀 12-04-2021 @ Kiosk Radio

✊🏾 Angela Davis. Woman writer & freedom fighter. Her political and feminist activism. Her involvement in Civil Rights Movements and Human Rights. Her commitment for the abolition of prisons. A voice of resistance. Yesterday, now and tomorrow. My admiration for her is growing over time. Deep thanks 🙏🏼
Musics and politics. History and poetry. 50 years ago : Soledad Brothers, Angela Davis' incarceration. 
One year later, her trial and her acquittal (June 4, 1972). "Free Angela and all political prisoners" ✊🏾
📷 Photo credit : Angela Davis (Soul & Soledad - Record cover - 1971 - B.B.M. Associates)
🎙️ Tracklist (1st part with tracks from 1924 to 1980, 2nd part with tracks from 1999 to 2021) : 
ANGELA DAVIS About abolishment of imprisonment(from "Free Angela and all political prisoners", Shola Lynch's documentary -  2012)/ WENDELL HARRISON & PHILLIP RANELIN Angela's dilemma (1972) / LARRY SAUNDERS Free Angela (1971) / BAYETE Free Angela (1972) / Liberté pour Angela Davis (1971) / MARLENA SHAW Woman of the ghetto (Live at Montreux - 1974) / DEE DEE McNEILL & THE WATTS PROPHETS Black in a white world (1971) / ARETHA FRANKLIN Ol man river (1966) / NINA SIMONE Work song (1969) / Black woman (Prison blues - Mississippi penitentiary - 1947) / TAJ MAHAL Free the brothers (1977) / SARAH WEBSTER FABIO Nina giving Mr. Backlash the blues (1973) / THE LAST POETS True blues (1971) / ANGELA DAVIS Oppression, prison and political awakening (1972 - Black Journal interview)/ AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS Jailhouse blues (1980) / MYRIAM MAKEBA Nongqongqo (To Those We Love) 1965 / BILLIE HOLIDAY Lady sings the blues (1956) / BESSIE SMITH Sing sing prison blues (1924) / GERTRUDE MA RAINEY Chain gang blues (1925) / ABBEY LINCOLN & MAX ROACH Freedom day (1961) / PHAROAH SANDERS You've got to have freedom (1980) / KATHLEEN CLEAVER Change it / DAMON LOCKS BLACK MONUMENT ENSEMBLE Sounds like now (2019) / ANGEL BAT DAWID We are starzz (2019) / DEZRON DOUGLAS & BRANDEE YOUNGER Wise one (2020) / GABRIELS The blind (2021) / FANTASTIC NEGRITO In the pines (2016) / MOURNING (A) BLKSTAR Anti anthem (2018) / SONS OF KEMET My queen is Angela Davis (2018) / AVERY R. YOUNG Tchala (2019) / FREEDOM AFFAIR Rise up (2019) / URSULA RUCKER Poon tang clan (2006) / SAULT Hard life (2020) / VINIA MOJICA Evolution (1999) / ADRIAN YOUNGE Black Lives Matter (2021) / HURRICANE G. No more prisons (1999) / ADRIAN YOUNGE Revolutionize (2021) / SAMPA THE GREAT & CHRONIXX Black is beautiful (2020) / THE BLACK MAN'S COLLATION FOR JUSTICE Break Free (Minority justice) 2021 / KAI ALCE Black rhapsody (2015) / TENESHA THE WORDSMITH Dangerous women (2019) / LILLIAN ALLEN Black voice (2012) / JESSICA CARE MOORE & COMMON A beautiful revolution (2021) / MAYA ANGELOU Phenomenal woman (1995) / LILLIAN ALLEN Anxious for a revolution (2012)

ANGELA DAVIS ~ SOUL & SOLEDAD ~ SOLACE & LIBERTADE ✊🏾 04-06-2021 @ Kiosk Radio

HANK LEVINE AND THE BLAZERS - Midnight (chöko Aba edit)

https://www.nts.live/shows/timeisaway/episodes/time-is-away-4th-october-2021

Time is Away: Another Green World Revisited  041021

This episode of Hermetic Journals explores the idea of music in or for the architecture. The show features a lot of pieces that have been designed specifically as environmental ambience for public spaces: buildings, exhibition pavilions, courtyards, galleries & museums, airports. There is also work that was directly shaped by the spaces where it was created or explicitly refers to the architectural concepts. This show features small excerpts from the interviews of the architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee.
Artwork by Andrew William Elvish
Listen to more episodes and read more at: https://snowsovgethen.com/

Tracklist:
01.	Iannis Xenakis "Concret PH (1958)" 2011 Erato
02.	Morton Feldman "Rothko Chapel 3" 1991 New Albion
03.	Roberto Détrée "Architectura Celestis" 1983 Spectrum
04.	Steve Douglas "Impressions From The IVth Dynasty: C. Flight Of Horus" 1976 Takoma
05.	Daniel Goode "The Bertoia In The Yamasaki Building-Princeton" 1982 Opus One
06.	Brian Eno "Ambient 1 (Music For Airports) 1/1" 1978 Editions EG
07.	Haruomi Hosono "花に水 • Watering A Flower (Music for MUJI store)" 1984 冬樹社
08.	Aine O'Dwyer "The Cloud of Unkowning / The Ruling Of Pan" 2015 MIE Music
09.	Philip Glass "Building" 1978 Nonesuch
10.	CV & JAB "Phantom Tunnel" 2020 Editions Basilic
11.	Moniek Darge "Turkish Square" 1987 Igloo
12.	Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto "Glass" 2018 Noton
13.	Oneohtrix Point Never "A House In Rasinari" 2009 No Fun
14.	Mychael Danna "Empty House" 1997 Velvel
15.	Yoshio Ojima "Serene" 1988 Wacoal Art Center / Newsic
16.	Arthur Russell "Tower Of Meaning" 1983 Chatham Square Productions
17.	The Detroit Escalator Company "Folding Space" 2001 Peacefrog
18.	Craig Leon "Standing Crosswise In The Square" 2019 RVNG
19.	Tonto "Building The Pyramid" 1974 Polydor
20.	Luke Slater's 7th Plain  "Reality Of Space" 1994 General Production Recordings (GPR)
21.	Theo Parrish "Paradise Architects" 1998 Deep House/Detroit
22.	Clark "Knowledge" 1995 Planet E
23.	Maximum Joy " Building Bridges / Building Dub" 1982 Y / 2017 Blackest Ever Black

Hermetic Journals : Music & Architecture (Nov 2021) @ Internet Public Radio

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
Listen to more episodes and read more at: https://snowsovgethen.com/


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)

Here is the introductory mini-guide (or as they say ‘special’) to the film music of the iconic Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu (武満 徹, 1930-1996).

Takemitsu’s soundtracks are as plentiful as his vast catalogue of orchestral and chamber music, so many hours would be required to make it justice. Instead of being exhaustive, chronological or stylistically homogenous this audio-primer is focused on showcasing Takemitsu’s gift of compositional versatility. Be it jazz, Japanese traditional music, postserialism, symphonic grandeur or drone music I tried to include all of this composer’s aesthetical facets.

In order to render this eclecticism in a coherent way I’ve chosen the method of ‘audio-tapestry’ or sound collage.  Extensive details on the particular works that have been selected as well as very long tracklist are featured at the link below. I hope this mini-guide will spark some listener’s interest for a deeper exploration on their own time.

https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-toru-takemitsu-film-music-special-november-2022

Hermetic Journals: Toru Takemitsu Film Music Special (October 2022)

This month attempting to "capture glamour without falling into it". This is my loving tribute to the great Canadian conceptual art pranksters General Idea. Recently I dreamt I was attending their Miss General Idea Pageant of 1971. As far as I know there are no full video renderings of the event apart from a few grainy clips and staged photographs. Neither there is footage of the one they planned for 1984 in the imaginary ziggurat-shaped Miss General Idea Pavilion. Basically, I'm trying to resound the event by grafting the music (narratively, if you will) onto General Idea's various TV cues, forgeries, and mystifications. Or "framing devices" in the trio's own wording. 

Includes sounds, words and music by:
General Idea, Terre Thaemlitz, William Basinski, Graham Lambkin, The Caretaker, Svitlana Nianio, Su Tissue, Kraftwerk, Hype Williams, Anne Waldman, Einsturzende Neubauten, Laurence Crane, John Celona, Tom Recchion, Brigitte Fontaine, Jacqueline Humbert, Ellen Zweig and others.

Full tracklist at: https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-the-miss-general-idea-pageant-a-surrogate-soundtrack

Hermetic Journals: The Miss General Idea Pageant (A Surrogate Soundtrack)

Feeling like 3 hours of American gamelan? I got you covered.

In the last few months, I had an immersion into the 'genre'. A story of how deeply personal obsession of Canadian composer Colin McPhee (and later his American counterpart Lou Harrison) resulted in the unlikely transplant of traditional Indonesian music culture into the ivied towers of American academia. A story somewhat related, but very different from musicological cliché about Exposition Universelle 1889, French musical impressionists and tiresome litanies about cultural colonialism.

While I was going through the written history, I also started to amass the recordings. In stark contrast to the abundance of bibliography - McPhee alone wrote three books - I was surprised to find that audio renderings are few and far between. Most of it out-of-print or released by tiny avant classical or uni-adjacent imprints. It took a while to source and process it. Most of what I encountered is gorgeous. Depressingly, obscure to anyone but people purposely researching the subject. Midway through this process I realized I should systematize the findings into a sort of digestible genre survey. I find it's a good way to remember things. And since not many people in their right mind would undertake similar deep-dive I decided to share it. The 'programme' is a lengthy one due to the nature of the material. So, I split it in 2 parts.

The timespan is from the 1930s (McPhee's brilliant proto-Reichian orchestral stylisation Tabuh-tabuhan) via postwar music by Harrison and minimalist gamelan by the 1970s downtown cohort (Barbara Benary, Philip Corner) + their West Coast counterparts (Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Lentz). With healthy dose of recent'ish pieces by Brian Baumbusch, Bill Alves and Michael Tenzer. I also included some sonorically sympathetic works by Partch and Cage which influenced all the above. There're also odder bits by Robert Turman, John L.Adams, Maggi Payne and R. Murray Schafer to keep things quirky. Now I don't know who would be interested in 3 hours of gamelan, but it's up there for the taking.

Full tracklist here:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-american-gamelan-part-i-ii

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part II

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part I

What would Medieval Solstice Discothèque sound like? Saltarello, estampie, pavane, galliards... A few motets, tientos, virelais, conductuses, canons? This one is holidays decoration aid, a mini-survey of early music substrata of Gerd Berg's gorgeous Reflexe Series and a celebration of Winter Solstice (hence the title). All for the price of one! Mind you, it's ninety minutes of Medieval, Renaissance and a pinch of Baroque musics. All of it pre-equal temperament, pre-standardized notation and pre-tonal music setup. There's no neat set of major/minor scales, standard chord progressions or artificial symmetry. Many of these tunes and compositions are in rather fanciful renditions. Most of it done in the second half of the twentieth century by musicians and researchers raised on hardcore musical modernism. No wonder many arcane techniques (hocket, canon, Ars Nova's isorhythms) were so thoroughly appropriated in post-WWII musical avantgarde.

Deciphering rhythmic notation with is fairly problematic for a large swathe of this repertoire. So don't think about these interpretations in terms of precision. One of the charms of early music is that each time one and the same composition is performed it will likely sound very different. But some early music ensembles managed to piece together their own recognizable style, despite foggy research and disparate sources. In this set we have Studio Der Frühen Music; The Hilliard Ensemble; Ricercare-Ensemble Für Alte Musik, Zürich; Jordi Savall and his Hespèrion XX; Das Linde Consort. Those were all brilliant and lucky enough to be active when the recording industry was awash with money and could throw big budgets at niche projects. Reflexe Series being one of the finest. These 1.5 hours is a quick parkours of my personal favourites, but there're many others. Perhaps for another time. I hope it could be the gateway for someone who only start their exploration or just a temporary festive companion. Happy start to the holidays run-up!
Tracklist here:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-reflexiones-solstitii-medieval-renaissance-baroque-early-music-solstice-special

Hermetic Journals: Reflexiones Solstitii

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Hermetic Journals : Music & Architecture (Nov 2021) @ Internet Public Radio

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