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Asura Cave

Sunrise

Artist: Jan Jelinek
Album: The Raw and  The Cooked
Label#: faitiche 24
Format: LP/DL
Release: Sept 17th 2021

Faitiche is delighted to release an album version of the radio piece Vom Rohen und Gekochten (The Raw and The Cooked) originally composed and produced by Jan Jelinek for the state broadcaster SWR2. The album The Raw and The Cooked brings together five sound collages that deal with the consistency of material and its mutability.    

Solid, raw, boiling, powdery, liquid, broken and folded - categories which describe the nature of material. They can also be read in a chronological sequence: solid becomes broken becomes liquid becomes powdery... Material tells of its essence as it drifts through its states, always in correspondence with external energies. The Raw and The Cooked observes the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius as they design their paper and metal objects and the artist Peter Granser as he ritually prepares Japanese tea, it shatters glass, bends metal and burns wood. The resulting audio documents capture processes of material transformation as sound.


The Raw and The Cooked was created with the help of ITO Raum Stuttgart and Thomas & Renée Rapedius. Originally produced for radio broadcast on Südwestrundfunk in 2020 it contains a variation of the collage Zwischen/Raum that was made with funding from Musikfonds. Many thanks to Eckhart Holzboog and Beatrice Theil, as well as Frank Halbig/SWR.

Written and produced by Jan Jelinek
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Graphic design by Tim Tetzner
Copyright Control, faitiche 2021

Jan Jelinek: The Raw And The Cooked (Zwischen Raum)

New Sevish album Formless Shadows coming September 17th 2021 — it's a quite cinematic album with a variety of moods on it. You can listen on streaming and Bandcamp.

This is the first time I've been able to release two albums in the same year. But you'll find Formless Shadows quite a different listen to January's Bubble. I just really had the urge to make music like this so here it is. As I write this I'm already making plans for future projects that go in a totally different direction. So big thanks to everybody who listens and supports my music making!

Formless Shadows

The Child Within (Astropilot's Ambient Remix)

The Child Within (Astropilot's Ambient Remix) [feat. Pooja Tiwari & Fatou Gozlan]

music by
Marco Lucchi : synthesizer and piano

with contributions from
Henrik Meierkord : cello and fx

field recordings
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/510179/

Morning Star (w/ Henrik Meierkord)

October Sounds

Cloaked by Ravens Wings (feat. Chris Watson)

Forest Park Ruins

The Last Wave

Last Earth

In Russian, Skazka means a fairytale. Each track in this album creates a magical image, symbolically depicting the gradual path of the soul from the external false ego through fears and delusions to understanding its true desires.

Fairytales are more real than modern life filled with illusory values. Man truly exists only in myth, in a supernatural mystical reality, and everything else is just an external pursuit of illusory success, which prevents us from being here and now, understanding ourselves, and being truly happy.

Mixing and Mastering by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Artwork and cover design by Olga Sharaeva: www.instagram.com/ola_shanti

Label: Tiny Drones For Lovers (Italy) TDFL-004
tinydronesforlovers.bandcamp.com/album/skazka

Skazka on Apple Music: music.apple.com/album/skazka/1597708765

Skazka on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1Sp6seSKutXqnBA2r1P41I?si=85CQyZpeT4Oe0S8ng0ibpQ&nd=1

Skazka

Fireflies

Ngarwul, ‘to look’ in Yorta Yorta language, is a 13 minute sound journey, and portal to connect with mother nature through the recordings of birds, wind, water and the spirit within. I looked, listened, felt, sensed, learned, responded, acted and reacted. Ngarwul is a cultural interaction that shares ancient knowledge and Indigenous ways of being. 
 
After creating this work, I titled it Ngarwul, which I thought meant ‘to listen’, but when yarning with Dhoma Nynini Djetja (my dear Aunty Lou*), I learned about Gulpa Ngawar-l  ... 
 
“Gulpa Ngawar-l is the combined Yorta Yorta terms for ‘deep looking and listening.’ In Yorta Yorta gulpa is ‘deep’, ngawar is ‘to listen’ and ngawal is ‘to look’... to Indigenous people it is an important way of being in the world and not exclusive to the Yorta Yorta.

... for example, let us look at the English term Deep Listening. It explains the way in which to listen. Conceptually, in English, we listen only with our ears and deeply inferring that we focus on what we are listening to. The Yorta Yorta term Ngawar-l is a double meaning to both looking and listening simultaneously, it furthers the definition with the addition of the other senses of touching, tasting, feeling and even further depth of instinctual action. The terminology in English still has its limitations, and fails to some extent to relay the depth and understanding” p20 of Dr Lou Bennett’s Thesis; Lotjpa Yorta Yorta! Retrieving, Reclaiming and Regenerating Language and Culture through the Arts. 

During Melbourne’s 6th lockdown (September/October 2021), my mental health slipped into a very dark place. I was doing a lot of meditation, using mindfulness apps, trying to reduce the intense feelings of anxiety and depression but wasn't able to stay present or make sense of anything. Although the practice of mindfulness was helpful, I just couldn’t get into the soundscapes, and came to the realisation that not many First Nations artists are creating music in the ‘ambient’ genre. With the rate of mental health issues in the world today, especially those experienced by First Nations people, I felt it would be deadly to create something not just for me, but for all of us. 
 
Without consciously knowing about Gulpa Ngarwar-l, I used my own instinctual action in my performance on the double bass. My improvisation was a response to the recordings from the Darebin Creek behind Northland Shopping Centre, Preston on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. This was a place I went to to re-ground myself, listen, breathe and look within. Ngarwul is a work of resilience and survival, a commitment towards inner peace. It is a diary entry, a time capsule, it is lockdown, freedom, depression, connection and healing. Finally, it was my world when I was desperately looking for a shimmer of hope, when it was hard to see the light. 
 
It is a gift to you, to practice Gulpa Ngarwa-l … 			
 
 
*Djetja Lou, Senior Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung song woman Dr Lou Bennett AM, Westpac Research Fellow of University of Melbourne

Ngarwul

https://open.spotify.com/track/5kjkUAVkyb5xsGQtidawte?si=322eb20e57e346ad

May this find you well and give you peace. <3

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Chatter

Caracas Night September 11, 1975

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