Moon Reflecting "Non G.M.O. Rain Dance"

In the shadow of Arizona’s mesas, shrouded in swirls of sand, there exist the keyboard meditations of Cynthia Montross a.k.a. Moon Reflecting. Her instrumentals are hymns to a precarious planet: basslines blur like chemtrails smudged over the firmament; melodies glint through veils of narcotic mist.  There is no consistent rhythm, no robotic sequencing. Her songs are wobbly and winding. They shuffle between tempos and lean in on off-beats. They twinkle at random. Non G.M.O. Rain Dance pulses like a transmission out of time, shot through with stardust and radiated soil, and left to wander the desert skies. 

Cassette $7.00
Available here: https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/non-g-m-o-rain-dance/

Moon Reflecting - Astral Blue

from the "Highway Dreamscape" CS (NNF379)
Not Not Fun / 2021

DREAM ON:
https://newmexicanstargazers.bandcamp.com/album/highway-dreamscape
https://midheaven.com/item/highway-dreamscape-by-new-mexican-stargazers

New Mexican Stargazers "Santa Fe Cruiser"

Live Video: https://youtu.be/HCkigl1GgXg?si=sxjWLNwH_YTrGxyO

Living Room 017

Taken from Eliane Radigue 's Biogenesis © Metamkine 1996

http://www.discogs.com/Eliane-Radigue-Biogenesis/release/253649

This 1973 piece by Eliane Radigue stands out on surface level as being very unlike her work before or after this period. The sources are essentially acoustic and a far cry from the technology she most often sought: with a stethoscope and a microphone, she recorded the heartbeats of her son, her pregnant daughter, and the rhythms of her yet to be born grandchild.It was during this time that Radigue was truly immersing herself in the ARP synth, and shortly prior to her brief sabbatical from music to further hone her interest in and devotion to Tibetan Buddhism. Though seemingly in contrast with her penchant for waveforms, the resulting pulses stir at a pace all too familiar from her electronic work. As with her ARP creations, her role here is to never interfere, merely to seek out the waves and allow them to do as they wish.



Eliane Radigue – Biogenesis

from the Adhesive Sounds 'Summer Sampler' cassette, available here:
https://adhesivesounds.bandcamp.com/album/adhesive-sounds-schools-out-summer-sampler-2017

Olinda Falls

Second track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

Following the news last month of the first album in nine years by Jon Hassell, Ndeya Records is proud to share the second piece of music from Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One). Whereas first track “Dreaming” utilised a repetitive, pulsating structure of lush texture, “Pastorale Vassant” deploys a different style with it’s skittering, insectoid, electronic gamelan sound. 

It has also recently been announced that to coincide with the release of the album, Jon will be making a rare appearance in New York City, reading excerpts from his forthcoming book The North And South Of You. The writing expands on some of the thinking that has underpinned his musical work for the last 40 years since he coined the term ‘Fourth World’ to describe his graceful interface of deep tradition with new technologies.
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/jon-hassell-riffs-hyperopia-and-music

JON HASSELL ON “PASTORALE VASSANT”:
"Hillside Pastorale" in the Catalan dialect of Spain.

I was staying in Deya, on the island of Mallorca at Mati Klarwein's house where flocks of goats roamed in the hills at night, each one with a slightly different neck bell. One balmy Summer midnight I stayed awake to record this floating, constantly-changing "gamelan" that enters in the distant background halfway into the piece.

Asked to say something about the piece, I listened again and, sure enough - "Twittering Machine" - the title of a Paul Klee painting of 1922 popped into my mind. Although I knew his work for years and his Pedagogical Sketchbook was in my library, the "twittering" title was what stuck to me and I had only a vague memory of the painting. But when I looked at the painting while listening I was amazed at how they reflected off one another in a kind of unintended "tone-painting" way (where the picture sounds like the music and vice-versa).

This highlights the difference in "Listening to Pictures" as the title of the record and "listening to pictures" programatically (i.e., does the music paint the picture like the title?)
 
Another notable comparison here is how two possible angles on "listening" appear:
1) programmatically - where features of the "painting" are being evoked as in "tone painting." (Debussy - La Mer)
2) in the meaning of the title, Listening to Pictures, where vertical listening facilitates perception of shapes and a heightened consciousness of the entire audio spectrum which leads to your own "internal paintings."

NOTE: THESE ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!!

© 2018 jon hassell

Jon Hassell - Pastorale Vassant

Unreleased work included on the "A Turn of Breath: Deluxe Edition" 2xLP
Available to pre-order now, available on June 29th, 2018
www.recitalprogram.com/a-turn-of-breath
www.recitalprogram.com/purchase

R8 - Ian William Craig - "Heaviness Sketch in Winter" from A Turn of Breath 2xLP

A track from the album Lili out now on Constellation Tatsu.

Liai - Brunnen

Odds Against Tomorrow

The Sun and Its Horizon

The Sun And Its Horizon

This morning I sat and watched a poppy open. This is a track from one of the four albums I have finished during lock down. Love.xx

Bees And Raindrops

https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus

Claire Rousay - Discrete (the Market)

Sodalite is a rich royal blue tectosilicate mineral widely used as an ornamental gemstone. A light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral, well known for its blue colour, it may also be grey, yellow, green, or pink and is often mottled with white veins or patches. According to crystal symbolic theory, sodalite is a stone that is 'good for healing breaches in communication.'

'Soda' is found naturally in alkaline lakes, in deposits where such lakes have dried, and from ash produced by burning various seaside plants. 'Lite' is a word-forming element meaning "stone," from French -lite, variant of -lithe, from Greek lithos "stone.” In soundscape ecology, it may refer to an imaginative environment focused on timbral variation with a novice approach to melodic arrangement.

Olinda Falls

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