100 Top Tracks Going Into Winter 2024

Four of Seven

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nPK8BsIxIdI?si=hM7vAvYfBhU41Ot5

I'm happy to present soon my new album "Soul Pulse". I started a new job this month, so I'm a bit slow to finish the mix. So here it is a very direct track I just did between yesterday (electronic) and today (bowls), trying to capture the essence of this album. Mainly I played with singing bowls and other meditative instruments like tongue drums, custom percussions mixed with electronic. I was inspired by this kind of electro/techno, with repetitive beats, trying to express the link between body and soul, very organic, a kind of spirituality all pumping by blood, and how everything is connected. And the power of will. It's all about being alive. This is how I would describe this bunch of tracks - and this quick track could be an introduction.

Aorta

narration : an angel?  ha!  a putto!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus

and
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theses_on_the_Philosophy_of_History

no words this time, just disbelief, moving backwards and forwards

this image: seen in march 2011 - and immediately photographed (look at the feet - this guy is not just playing hide and seek)

BTW: I had been thinking about an open collab .... it's been awhile .... but then again: disbelief is such a private and intimate thing .... still, if you want to work with a copy, just message me on soundcloud

putto (the incredibly extended version of an act of incredulity)

V-Roar of His Ignorance

🔮New album: https://ariad.bandcamp.com/album/soul-pulse 
🪬Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ewhX5jr_w 
🩸Learn more: https://ariad-music.com/musique/soul-pulse/

I am glad to finally present my new album SOUL PULSE. It contains 12 original tracks + 3 bonus. I hope you will enjoy this new musical trip. This time, I worked with singing bowls, tongue drums, custom percussions and electronics. This track is the first one, it is based on a tongue drums improvisation and then I added some electronics. Please enjoy!

Soul Pulse

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Elevation Particles

On the Outskirts

I am overjoyed to partake in sounds beautiful:
https://youtu.be/1TnalFltP_Q?si=VidMVZ9VDKGZiNUm  by Dan and
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out by Jeff.

Jeff also gifted me a visiting role on his previous album: 
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/quintessential

On his bandcamp page, Jeff points out: "This is the page where you can give some monetary support to me and the StonerJazz experiment."

.... and here is my own test account:
https://sonicstructuresandsilentstretches.bandcamp.com/track/eliza

POETRY IS VITAL

This threshold space exists for those who feel like listening to some of my quite professional poetry embedded in rather amateurishly recorded but judiciously arranged sound, a modicum of purely acoustic work notwithstanding.  Fortunately, some other artists have also transformed the symbolic expression of my words into the tangible beauty of real songs and soundscapes - just listen to Sympoetic Ultrasounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/sympoetic-ultrasounds !

SOUND, SPACE AND TIME

Tend your listening senses gently. Even though my general approach welcomes and embraces lo-fi concepts like the precision of spontaneously occuring imprecisions, headphones worth their membranes are recommended - unless you like your sounds flat, mangled, battered and helpless. You don't, do you? Be kind to these soundscapes.

STRUCTURING IMPULSE

Due to the nature of "poetry soundscapes", your listening expectations regarding traditionally structured "songs", sonically purified "raw wildlife soundscapes", keyboard-laden "ambient recordings" or voice-centered "readings" might not be met. You will find some of those in my list of /likes/. "Noise" is a recurring structural element like any other. This is what this sounds like - within its own rights, limitations, tangents and interconnections. Sonic structures. Silent stretches. Poetry emerges from the gaps between the ruts, seeps in from the undergrowth, sweeps down.

CARVING, CHISELLING, KNEADING, MORPHING

A quick glance into my toolshed rests on Zoom recorders, Samplitude software and a dizzying array of diverse sonic machinery.

LARGE AND SMALL GIFTS

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Small Gifts

the less to remember, the more to listen
gifts from the ice age reverberate
a simple story, a forest, a coastline
entangled in silence, one starts to relate
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In case you have read up to this point, you might be a sonic creator yourself. May I ask you for a helping ear? Above, there is a tiny poem of mine that I do not understand how to translate into sound. If you do - please act on it. It is a matter of common decency, of course, to keep the title (Small Gifts) and to credit the lyrics to me (jo richter). And please do notify me of your version via a soundcloud message. One bewilderingly beautiful version crafted by mono-lux has already gone public, as well as an amazing version by cthonicist.  You'll find both in my playlist Sympoetic Ultrasounds. This is just a small gift, not a challenge - life already has more than enough of those on offer, doesn't it? Treat it this way.

POETRY IS VITAL
sound, space and time
structuring impulse
carving, chiselling, kneading, morphing
large and small gifts
poetry is vital

GENERAL POLICY regarding the use of LIKES, REPOSTS and FOLLOWS:
I like what I like and want to hear again.
I only repost what I've had a hand in creating.
I follow when I see directions or arrivals I like, not when followed (though I might peek in to get an idea of what your sounds are about). I have set myself a limit of accounts I follow not to be all too overwhelmed. Not following does therefore not mean I do not appreciate what you contribute to the enjoyments of soundcloud.
Do not expect other behaviour from me.
(jo richter)

putto (the incredibly extended version of an act of incredulity)

sonic structures and silent stretches