Taken from 'Endling' by Qasim Naqvi
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Endling

Qasim Naqvi - Plastic Glacier

'Pentatonic Ruins' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den385
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mansur

"Pentatonic Ruins" is MANSUR’s 5th release on Denovali - it follows the 2022 "Oscuras Flores" album. "Pentatonic Ruins" is more of a song adaptation album than a new material album. It highlights the vocals of Martina Horvath and presents a collection of Mansur songs in a more hypnotic and trance like manner. This album can be seen as songs for transcendental rituals.

Mansur - Szaturnusz

Three different spots in the woods where the melting snow was raining and falling from the trees

Trois différents endroits dans le bois où la neige tombe des arbres en pluie et en paquets...

250316 · Bois de Toulx (Creuse, France) · Melting Snow Variations

Sometimes I wake up in a different bed, in a different city, at a different time. Everything around me is new and there is excitement about all the possibilities. But there’s also a bit of anxiety and maybe even dread. My anchor is gone, and I am drifting with the current, afloat among the unfamiliar waters. This is when I turn back towards music. Music that makes me feel like I am safe, serene and cosy. Music that I often call my home. This is precisely what I hear in the soft piano keys of the Norwegian pianist and composer Øystein Skar, who has announced his upcoming debut album, titled Hem. I may not know him as a person, and yet his playing makes me calm. I may not truly know his story, and yet his story’s somehow mine. And while I navigate the stormy weather, this ray of sunshine points the way. In these turbulent and truly anxious times, I turn back towards home. I turn back towards music.

Composed during winter’s embrace in his woodland home outside Oslo (I imagine a hushed sanctuary of a snow-draped retreat), the piece embodies the album’s central theme of homecoming – not merely to a physical place, but to essential truths long carried within. In its patient build and emotional resolution, “Levva” invites listeners into the intimate geography of Skar’s personal mindspace. The piece stands as testimony to what becomes possible when an artist, after years of outward exploration, turns the compass needle toward the territories of the heart.

"Levva, meaning “to live well,” is a longer, more experimental track blending classical, improvisational, and electronic music. Anchored by a synth arpeggiation and a piano melody, the piece has two parts with the second evolving into an expansive, percussive, and dreamy landscape created with an array of synths. For me, it’s about embracing strength through authenticity." — Øystein Skar

TRACK PREMIERE : Øystein Skar - Levva

A track from the recently released new album by Rauelsson entitled "Niu". 
Out February 7th, 2025. https://www.mi-so-store.com/products/rauelsson-niu

Rauelsson - Prelude No. 7

Tracklist

01.  Ian Hawgood - I Was Never Really Here
02. Michael Grigoni and Pan•American - Baritone Boderlands
03. Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
04. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee -  Case Study 7
05. The Birds Companion - A Place Outside of Time
06. Tides - Fragile 
07.  HERE - Sun-Warmed Earth
08.  Katharina Schmidt - The Multiplicities 
09. Tomosla - Rivermouth

418. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Section II of the three part orchestral suite "The Three Virtues of Zarathustra" Hu'ukhta - Good Words. Themed on the three pillars of belief in the Zoroastrian faith - Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds. Premiered live at Kahilu Theater on the Big Island of Hawai'i, Jan 22, 2022. Maestro Brian Dollinger conducting.



The Three Virtues of Zarathustra - Hu'uhkta (part 2)

Blossom Chill

Jist some more backgrpund tracks to keep you going.

Stars

I’ve been mesmerised with the sound of Deaf Center since the very beginning. I think it’s been more than 20 years now since their Neon City EP was released on Type. This is way before I even knew that behind the project was a Norwegian duo who started making music together as friends. This is before I knew their names to be Erik K Skodvin and Otto A. Totland. Before I listened to, admired, and celebrated their solo works on here. And, before I met each one in person, and of course, before we naturally became friends. This is precisely why, when it came to launching Headphone Community and deciding on who I should profile there from the start, I reached out to Erik and his partner Monique Recknagel (who runs Sonic Pieces imprint) to pitch them this idea (it was actually when I visited their mi-so shop in Berlin). This is why Erik is the currently featured artist for the month of May on Headphone Community (join for just $1 for an intimate journey!), and this is why I am premiering this track for you today. It’s been another long period of silence for Deaf Center, but the two long-form pieces on Reverie clearly show that they have not put their collaboration on hold. If anything, it has only evolved into a hypnotic meditation on Otto’s keys and Erik’s strings, guitar, effects, and atmospherics, designed for a very deep listening session. The recordings actually come from a live performance in October 2024 in Rabih Beaini’s studio, Morphine Raum in Berlin, during the 15th anniversary celebration of Sonic Pieces. This is less of an improvisation and more of a dialogue between the two friends who haven’t spoken in a while. It is truly magical, and I only wish I could be there to experience it live.

In “Rev”, deeply effected piano motifs reverberate and echo in the depths of the room, evolving through looping and electronics into a blissful, mesmerising cloud of (dis)harmony. The sound is reminiscent of the 7inch “Vintage Well” mixed with the basic elements of 2011’s “Owl Splinters”. […] The immediate duality of the two performers has rarely been so strongly felt, Totland’s deep melodic feeling is underscored by Skodvin’s abstract ambience and processing. Dark versus light, loud versus quiet – this has always been at the core of what makes Deaf Center a special project.

TRACK PREMIERE : Deaf Center - Rev (excerpt)

"May-mess" - Profusion of hedge-blossom in full spring (Gerard Manley Hopkins, poetic)

Music by Dalot
Artwork by Gregory Euclide

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Dalot - May-Mess

SONIC PIECES is a boutique record label based in Berlin. Every carefully selected release comes as a limited edition in genuine packaging, hand-crafted with locally produced and designed material. The label's musical output and unique artwork form a connection between each release that is both recognizable and challenging, while celebrating the difference and individuality of each project.

Rauelsson - Prelude No. 7

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