7 days with birds on synths

Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

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“Never, just as you wanted” is the first track off the eagerly awaited forthcoming Benoît Pioulard studio album. ‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ will be released on November 17th on limited edition tape and digital via Dauw.
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First Listen: Benoît Pioulard - "Never, Just As You Wanted"

The Joy And Agony Of Travel (On A Train Version)

live mantra playing... late Friday night jamming...

(tech: played live on my Nord Electro and Elektron Octatrack, audio effects through SourceAudio Ventris...)

20191206 mantra live jamming and looping (Octatrack, Nord Electro 6, Source Audio Ventris)

The Solar Flare Buried Us

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The Last Wave Remix 1

v Bhútánu lidé kontemplují smrt pětkrát denně. Pětkrát denně se zastaví a uvědomí si, že zemřou. Bhútánci jsou také prý nejšťastnějším národem světa. 

Buddhisté mají na smrt jednu z nejdůležitějších meditací, Maraṇasati. Buddhisté prý mají největší šance dosáhnutí osvícení – života bez utrpení.

My na západě jsme úspěšně téma smrti zatratili, odstřihli a odignorovali. Odmítnutí smrti je ale – stejně jako strach z ní – úplně k ničemu. 

Oddělujeme se tak od možnosti prožívat hlubokou lásku a úctu k životu, vděčnost za možnost žít a žít vědomě. 
 
Umění zemřít je uměním žít.

Účelem meditace na smrt není vyděsit Tě. Naopak je velmi pravděpodobné, že se po jejím skončení budeš cítit plná života.

Je možné, že během meditace pocítíš strach nebo smutek. To je ale v jistém smyslu dobře – poukazuje to na to, že jsi náměty ke kontemplaci brala vážně. Jak jsem psala, není užitečné mít strach ze smrti. Užitečné je bát se zemřít nepřipravená, s negativními stavy mysli, otisky, samskarami. Užitečné je získat silný pocit odhodlání k tomu, žít moudře a dělat dobro! 
 
Meditace na smrt Tě čeká tady. Záměrně teď – v adventním očekávání svátků, kdy se můžeme ztratit samy sobě, ztratit ze zřetele to, co je skutečně důležité.

Meditace Na Smrt

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Sad because #hamitko was delayed.
Ableton User Group Prague 7days Exercise #3

Blanka Kočka - Delay

I love to play... and experiment, explore and learn... playing my piano, synthesizers, shaman and meditation flutes, kalimbas and sansulas, guitars... exploring sound magic... I am only interested in the present moment, playing live... here and now... peace

20191206 mantra live jamming and looping (Octatrack, Nord Electro 6, Source Audio Ventris)

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