Il concerto completo lo trovi sul gruppo Facebook "Live Rarities" / You can download this complete show FREE on a Facebook group called "Live Rarities"

DAVID SYLVIAN "World Citizen" (live in Bruxelles, 13 Ottobre 2003)

In 1972, Sun Ra inked a high-profile deal with ABC / Impulse, bringing his recorded work to the widest audience he’d had to date.  A slew of Saturn back catalog titles and two newly-recorded albums (Astro Black, Pathways To Unknown Worlds) were issued before ABC cancelled the contract, dumped the records into the cut-out bins, and left the unreleased albums to languish.  Now, over four decades later, Roaratorio is proud to offer one of the lost Impulse recordings for the first time.  Sign Of The Myth hails from the same studio session as Pathways, and shares its emphasis on guided improvisations.  With a constantly shifting palette of Moog textures, Ra tosses off a dazzling array of ideas throughout, supported by the usual Arkestra stalwarts; in particular, bassist Ronnie Boykins and drummer Clifford Jarvis are in shining form here, giving shape and solidity to these pieces.  Sign Of The Myth is a welcome augmentation to an especially fertile period from Sun Ra’s time on Earth.

Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra - The Truth Of Maat

Pauline Oliveros puts together a mixtape featuring some of her own work ahead of Deep Minimalism this month at the Southbank Centre

Pauline Oliveros - Deep Minimalism Mixtape

Tompkins Square is very proud to announce the signing of Welsh multi-instrumentalist, Gwenifer Raymond. Hailing from Cardiff and now residing in Brighton in the South of England, Raymond began playing guitar at the age of 8. 

Her debut album, You Never Were Much of a Dancer, is out on Tompkins Square in early 2018.

Sometimes There's Blood

Buy / Stream: https://KidKoala.lnk.to/io
Catch Kid Koala on tour: http://kidkoala.com/upcoming-events/

Kid Koala’s Music To Draw To: Io is the second volume in the legendary scratch DJ’s transportive ambient-vocal collaboration series. Inspired by music that allows space for the listener’s own ideas, the Music To Draw To series is an unfolding universe of wintry soundscapes and enchanting vocal journeys. Io is a constellation of electronic meditations that glint with the otherworldly blues of singer Trixie Whitley on six of its eighteen songs. Heartrending poetry once again written by Kid Koala channel the turbulence of the modern global psyche using the Greek mythology of Io, an unwilling mortal lover of the god Zeus, as its compass. Transcendently personified by the force of Trixie Whitley, Io is a vivid universe of brilliant characters and inimitable voices. Written and performed entirely by Kid Koala a.k.a. Eric San on an array of synthesizers, including the trove of rare instruments at Calgary’s National Music Centre, Music To Draw To: Io reveals layer-by-layer what Whitley describes as “the bottomless depth of Kid Koala as a thinker, creator, and artist, with the incredible ability to invent new artistic dimensions, and fill them with uncanny characters.”

BUY 2LP Vinyl

Resonance

~ IIKKI 008 ~

music : Aries Mond
photography : Dmitri Markov
album/book : Cut Off
duration : 37.55 mn
date : March 2019

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : February 18th, 2019 / official release : March 18th, 2019

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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Dmitri Markov
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

https://www.ariesmond.com/
https://soundcloud.com/aries-mond
http://www.dcim.ru/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 1 9 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 0 8

Aries Mond - Cut Off (album preview)

To hear this music at it's best download from iTunes or buy the CD from Amazon.

Steve Reich : Different Trains : 1 America, Before The War

We’re pleased to announce our sixtieth release, which is a collaborative project between renowned musician and Montreal, Canada activist Stefan Christoff and Italian sound artist Matteo Uggeri, as well as musicians Claire Abraham (Cello), Fern O’Dactyl (Violin), Peter Burton (Double Bass) and Will Eizlini (Tabla).

‘Raven, Raven, Raven’ is a longform piece which originates from a live performance at Casa Del Popolo in Montreal, between Christoff and the aforementioned musicians. The ensemble performance was for a benefit show at the Native Friendship Centre and at a later date this was subsequently passed to Milan-based artist Matteo Uggeri, who had previously collaborated with Stefan through their mutual contact Vasco Viviani, owner of Old Bicycle Records. Matteo was tasked with the opportunity to deconstruct, rearrange and rebuild this raw recording as well as to adorn it with additional layers of sounds. Matteo’s own take on the original work took up a new approach to something that was originally live and flowing and once each artist had their own space in which to bring their own separate ideas, they then spent a slow period of regular communication via email during which the project gathered the momentum to eventually achieve the final results which have been beautifully mastered by Ian Hawgood.

'Raven, Raven, Raven' still flows like a live record, as if Matteo was there, present at this intimate live music venue, playing to the small crowd. Field recordings, samples and radio static blend through the individual movements of this modern classical micro-symphony in a seamless way. The album is intended to be gapless, playing continually both as the single track on the CD or as the split 5 movements within the stream or digital version.

The title to this body of work reflects back to how the original concert performance was set up to help support indigenous programs for people struggling with homelessness and poverty, with birds not only being particularly important in poetics, but also in different indigenous cultures too. It is often a symbol and this motif repeats itself within the recurring themes throughout this recording both within the music and the beautiful packaging, which features paintings by Chris Day and graphic design which Matteo also contributed to. Both Stefan and Matteo care deeply about human rights and the playful composition they have produced alongside this group of musicians represent this, with characterful glints of hope and freedom.

Raven, Raven, Raven

wlr060 Spring Quintet - Raven, Raven, Raven

Piano

Kjetil Mulelid - Skjong

Renowned for its passionate performances, both live and recorded, the Duke Quartet has established itself as one of Europe's most dynamic and exciting ensembles. The group's versatility and fearless approach to music-making has led them into an unequalled range of projects including pop, education, dance and their own compositions all of which have been highly acclaimed for its quality of musicianship, technique and diversity of repertoire.
The Duke Quartet's passion for the new and a desire to push back the boundaries is evident in their commitment to commissioning and performing new works from composers. Most recently the quartet has premiered works by Deirdre Gribben , Rolf Hind, Stephen McNeff, Joby Talbot and Philip Venables. This, together with the player's love and command of the traditional string quartet repertoire, has helped them to become one of the most sought-after string quartets. They have been giving recitals for over seventeen years becoming a vibrant part of the national chamber music scene, performing in the UK's top venues and festivals with such artists as Marc-Andre Hamelin, Alexander Baillie and Jessye Norman and broadcasting regularly on  Radio 3. Their international schedule has taken them to countries as far apart as Columbia, the Yemen, South Africa and Japan.
The Quartet's outstanding musicianship can by heard on their many CDs. The Dukes' debut recording, featuring works by Barber, Dvorak and Philip Glass, was selected at the 1995 Cannes Classical Music Awards as one of the world's top debut CDs of the year and their disc featuring Berg's Lyric Suite and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht received glowing reviews for its intense musicality and technical excellence. The 2002 recording of music by Kevin Volans, with whom they have had a close working relationship for many years, received a Gramophone Award nomination for best contemporary recording. The Dukes most recent release is Steve Reich's Different Trains and Marc Mellits String Quartet No 2 on Black Box.
Following The Duke's work on Morrissey's first solo album Viva Hate, the quartet has developed into one of the most in-demand string quartets in the pop industry. Their unique and rich timbre, coupled with intuitive arrangements from violist John Metcalfe, has flavoured music from many top bands including Blur, the Cranberries and The Corrs. They have worked many times with the Pretenders, collaborating on an acoustic greatest hits album, Isle of View, and touring the UK and the USA. In 2004, the quartet toured Australia with the Dixie Chicks.
The Duke Quartet has enjoyed a long association with the renowned Belgian dance company Rosas, with whom they have performed worldwide. In 2003 they toured Europe to celebrate Rosas' 20th anniversary year performing Beethoven's Grosse Fugue and Bartok's Fourth String Quartet. In 2006/07 the Dukes and Rosas took part in another European tour performing works by Bartok, Beethoven and Schoenberg in Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK.
Education and outreach work is an important part of the quartet's output and during the last ten years they have given over 400 workshops and concerts in schools, colleges, hospitals, prisons and universities. This ranges from simple demonstration and games with primary school children to detailed discussion of technique and composition with university students.
Recent engagements have included performances for Cheltenham and Soundwaves Festivals, Manchester's QuartetFest, BBC's John Cage Festival, Wigmore Hall London, Queen's Hall Edinburgh and The Gate Cardiff.