Muddy Boots Podcast. 2017 - Episode 2: Reveries of the Lotus Blossom (Part I) Down-The-Rabbit-Hole Tenali invites you to take a billion year psychedelic adventure through caverns of pure light while bathing in elixirs of visionary bliss. Be prepared to dissolve in the cosmic you, splitting into amoebas and amoebas and amoebas all the way down. Tune in, turn on, and melt beyond... For archives + info, please check out muddybootsradio.org Notes + Track list: Notes + Track list: reveries-of-the-lotus-blossom-part-i

A Side - Reveries of the Lotus Blossom

Created by Tenali Hrenak & Kristen Blinne for #CurrentSoundscapes #CurrentNewsMedia #velocityVsboredom

This sound painting features a menagerie of music boxes as well as swinging chimes, a wind-up toy, and random field recordings from around the house. The voices in the mix come from the 1979 record, "The Multi-lingual Bird," an album to help train talking birds to speak Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Yiddish.

velocity vs boredom

Safe 'N Sound

Created by Tenali Hrenak and Kristen Blinne for #CurrentSoundscapes #CurrentsNewMedia #everfinerdetails

Our beloved friend “Show Us Your Kitties” whimsically reflects on the relationship between isolation and connection, in conversation with a range of field recordings.

ever finer details

Show Us Your Kitties

Created by Tenali Hrenak for #CurrentSoundscapes #CurrentsNewMedia #cavumclouds

The breakdown becomes the breakthrough...

Hall of Mirrors in the Sky integrates a pump organ, gongs, and a variety of field recordings.

cavum clouds

Hall of Mirrors in the Sky

Created by the The Quarancat Choir for #CurrentSoundscapes #CurrentsNewMedia #mineownhands

Lead Vocals: Leopold 
Back-up Vocals: Bindi
Jump Beats: Leopold 
Drone Purr: Matcha 
Growls: Matcha 
Licks: Bindi 

About this musical composition: 

We live in perpetual quarantine and we hope that this cat-centric jam evokes the various emotions that come with isolation from a cat's perspective. #Catsrule

mine own hands

By Our Paws

Created by Tenali Hrenak & Kristen Blinne for #Currentsoundscapes #CurrentsNewMedia #Embroidered 

The Currents New Media “Currentsoundscapes” cycle five theme “Embroidered” invited contributors to weave together sounds from the four previous soundscape cycles, incorporating sound art from other project contributors. “Interwoven Beings” features excerpts from Jar of Sparkle - “Behind the Door” (week 4 “mine own hands”); LØBØG∆MM∆® “CS4.0” (week 4 “mine own hands”); and Sara Marinelli “Sheltered” (week 4 “mine own hands”), in addition to a range of field recordings from Peru and Myanmar.

Interwoven Beings

The B-Side (Hour 1) originally aired on KVMR's The Other Side on June 14th, 2016: Come ye brothers and sisters to embrace the cosmic bliss of sun bathing oneness. Featuring field recordings from rainbow gatherings for over 15 years including songs, stories, snippets, and mash-ups. Be sure to tune in, turn on, and lend an ear - Weeeeeee Loooooooove Youuuuuuuuuu!!!! More info: https://soundsfromtherainbow.org/podcast

B-Side: Totally High Holy Rainbow-Coloured Spirit Hawk of Awakened Manifestation (Part I)

The A-Side (Hour 1) originally aired on KVMR's The Other Side on June 14th, 2016: Come ye brothers and sisters to embrace the cosmic bliss of sun bathing oneness. Featuring field recordings from rainbow gatherings for over 15 years including songs, stories, snippets, and mash-ups. Be sure to tune in, turn on, and lend an ear - Weeeeeee Loooooooove Youuuuuuuuuu!!!! More info: https://soundsfromtherainbow.org/podcast

A-Side: Totally High Holy Rainbow-Coloured Spirit Hawk of Awakened Manifestation (Part I)

Muddy Boots wanders where sneakers never will, moving on the back roads through the backwoods and to the forgotten cracks of our imagination. Tune in to hear a patchwork of sounds, snippet, and song; field recordings from wherever, the random whimsical, and the rare, and not-so-rare.

I like to call this weaving thread of audio a Sound Painting. That's because,  intertwined throughout the musical playlist are artisanal and anachronistic cuts, film clips, one-off sounds, folktales, cut-ups, literary snippets, poetic whimsy, and other assorted oddities. The intent is to impart a loose-knit story within the playlist in order to provide the listener with the opportunity to marvel at what musician Robin Williamson refers to as “the sheer unspeakable strangeness of being here at all.”

There’s something to be said for radio – streaming or the good ol’ radio waves – being a vehicle to journey into a sonic wonderland. Lend an ear and embark on a voyage. . . Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay!!

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