Glad i found this. The Ocora label, bringing the sounds from far away worlds into your living room, is a whole universe on it's own. It's an amazing travel guide to close and faraway places.  My first encounter with "Hermetic Journals" is a beauty. This 1 hour "Ocora" session is an excellent guided trip through a small part of the immense and wonderful Ocora label.   Thanks for sharing, much apriciated.

what a nice surprise to hear "Gagaku • Ono Gagaku Kaï", one of my all time Ocora favs

This episode of Hermetic Journals is dedicated to the brief exploration of the amazing French ethnomusicological label Ocora. Their catalogue is vast; so many more hours are required to make a comprehensive introduction. Therefore I resort to selection of my personal favourites. Structure-wise I dedicate roughly similar sections to the music of African continent, Western + South Asia with the final 20 minutes or so spent in East / Southeast Asia. It felt appropriate to bookend this ‘journey’ with a beautiful and timeless sounding overtone singing – an almost universal singing practice that coincidentally exists in traditional music of many cultures, eras and ethnic groups - by David Hykes and his Harmonic Choir.

Artwork by Andrew William Elvish
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Tracklist:
01.	David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir • Hearing Solar Winds "Arc Descents" 2011 Ocora
02.	Nomades du Niger • Musique des Touareg, Musique des Bororo "Ouane-Ouane" 1991 Ocora
03.	Burundi - Musiques Traditionnelles (Recorded by Michel Vuylsteke) "Ubuhuha" 1983 Ocora
04.	Polyphonies Mongo • Batwa Ekonda "Marker 4" 1976 Ocora
05.	Musique Malgache "Choeurs Et Arcs Musicaux Masikoro" 1982 Ocora
06.	Musique Centrafricaine • Bianda "Complainte" 1978 Ocora
07.	Burundi - Musiques Traditionnelles (Recorded by Michel Vuylsteke) "Akazéhé Par Deux Jeunes Filles" 1984 Ocora
08.	Kudsi Erguner & Xavier Bellenger • Ney Et Ken "Rahat-ul-ervah - Le repos des esprits" 2015 Ocora
09.	Egypte: Les Musiciens du Nil "Taksim arghoul (petit)" 1978 Ocora
10.	Arménie 1 : Chants liturgiques du Moyen-Âge et musique instrumentale "Percussion Solo" 2020 Ocora
11.	Musique Traditionnelle Turque: Pieces Instrumentales • Erguner/Kutbay/Ergin/Hatipoglu "Tanbur et Ney (Makam Segâh)" 1987 Ocora
12.	Arménie 1 : Chants liturgiques du Moyen-Âge et musique instrumentale "Je me mets à genoux devant toi" 2018 Ocora
13.	Iran Les Maitres De La Musique Traditionnelle Volume 1 • Daryoush Tala'i, Mohammad Moussavi, Madjid Kiani "Avâz-e Bayât-e" 2009 Ocora
14.	Birmanie: Musique d'art • Maung That Win "Pa Pa Win / pat pyo (La princesse Pa Pa Win / improvisation)" 1997 Ocora
15.	La Musique Traditionnelle Des Mon • En Thailande "Solo De Cithare + Solo De Xylophone" 1988 Ocora
16.	Japon: Gagaku • Ono Gagaku Kaï "Batô" 2001 Ocora
17.	David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir • Hearing Solar Winds "Multiplying Voices at the Heart of the Body of sound" 2019 Ocora

Hermetic Journals : Ocora Records Special Music (Jan 2022) @ Internet Public Radio

This instalment of the Forecast series comes from the heart, mind and laptop of Nat Earthsine. Nat was, until very recently, a resident of Glasgow before making the move to the much more temperate and far less monochromatic city of Manchester, so the mix was created as a kind of soundtrack for this upheaval. Think John Carpenter's stabby synth lines for Escape from New York, only it's an hour and a bit of meandering genre hopping, the escape is from a puddle soaked west coast of Scotland and not an 80s future Big Apple, and there's nary an eyepatch'ed Kurt Russel in sight. 

Please keep an eye out for Nat’s upcoming tape label "Listen to Believe", check out his productions AFTER listening to this mix and Godspeed on wherever your journey takes you.

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Forecast 068: Nat Earthsine

for the backroom and basement dwellers among us, summer offers a rare side quest to less darkened surrounds. fase uno of these dances are ye olde aluminium room 2s that navigate the a-roads and home our journeys. 

I got this mix just in time for one of those trips two weeks back. dubbed out, cosmic, with zero concern to conform, it’s 3hrs ov mix totally at ease with letting go. music like this could only come from one of the realest, jaye ward. being introduced to jaye’s sounds from early on has been of one of life’s better coincidences. 

reaching back to those early days, jaye always reminds u that [somehow] this thing is still alive.

jaye ward

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