Brilliant dub groove anchoring a great song. Really kicks in. Vocals lift it too. Nicely done.

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by 
Clive Bennett’s poem “distant hills … / beyond the gate / winter stillness”


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/03/01/naviarhaiku478-distant-hills/


Tracklist:


John Wright - Between Us
Night Note - Distant Hills
Douglas James's DarkWaterBlue - Distant Hills Winter Stillness
Ingvar Tautra - Beyond The Gate
Seramind - Ferne Hügel
Leon Clowes - Beyond The Gate


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #259 – distant hills – Wednesday 15th March 2023

RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 13th October 

A hop, skip and a jump down the rabbit hole into alternative singer-songwriter Phoebe Coco’s ecological EP to sing in the trees and dance on a moon-plane. 



‘Phoebe Coco has just the thing’
Tom Robinson- BBC 6 Music

Effortlessly compelling.
Adam Watson BBC Introducing Wales 


‘Feels like a dark fairytale…’
Sarah Gosling 
London artist and composer Phoebe Coco sets forth with a highly anticipated new EP release I Am Not a Machine this coming October the 13th, with a release show on the same date at Saint Pancras Old Church. 

Born in the rolling hills of The Bannue* and growing up in London, Phoebe Coco seeks living contradictions, the wilderness within the city; the forest within London’s walls. These themes are interwoven in her music, in lilting lyrics and layered landscapes of organic and electronic instrumentation, in a quest to marry the two worlds- the natural and the urban. 


Raised within a singing matriarchy of grandmothers, mothers and sisters, Phoebe Coco experienced live music from an early age. Songs were sung in all settings, from kitchen tables to bohemian parties. Now, on occasion, she invites her family on stage, who sing with her in ‘blood harmonies’- a phrase coined to describe the uncanny, specific and unusual sound of close relations singing together. These unique blood harmonies can be heard throughout the EP. 

As a community and ecological activist, environmental themes are at the foreground of I Am Not a Machine. Phoebe Coco’s writings and performances with trees have been aired by renowned nature author Robert Macfarlane on BBC 4’s Front Row. For the award-winning Urban Tree Festival, she created a project called Tree Song in which she composed, arranged and recorded a series of acapella, folk inspired songs to create a site-specific installation. Elements of this folk heritage are present in her single Machine: ‘ We are singing in a tree, connection fails, try again with your feet’. In an age of expansive development Phoebe Coco sought to “encourage us all to slow down, listen and reflect on how the old ways can meet the new.”


The EP was primarily recorded in Abbey Road and Tostada studios and was co-produced by Phoebe Coco and three times grammy award winning producer Eduardo De La Paz.
The music spans genres, in some places reminiscent of Bat for Lashes and other times Weyes Blood and Kate Bush. This translates live into a seven piece family band, featuring a selection of London's finest players in an amalgamation of complex vocal harmonies, rippling piano, soaring synthesisers, flute, saxophone, guitar and drums. Expect the full works from the full band on the Friday on the 13th October Launch Show. 

Nature also prevails in Phoebe Coco’s acclaimed debut album My White Horse & I (2020), which was championed by Tom Robinson and also achieved local, national and global radio play from BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2.  She has played stages far and wide, from Shambala Festival to Iceland Airwaves to Sofar Sounds and is well known on the London music scene, with recent shows including well-loved music venues The Old Blue Last, The Sebrite and Peckham Audio. 



http://instagram.com/phoebe.coco/
http://twitter.com/phoebecoco
http://facebook.com/phoebecoco/
https://www.youtube.com/phoebecocomusic
https://phoebe-coco.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2eTeVjDnOBzKMTyyRgRfIv
https://music.apple.com/bw/artist/phoebe-coco/465121809

*The Brecon Beacons National Park will refer to itself as Bannau Brycheiniog – or informally as ‘the Bannau’ in reclaiming its Welsh name.

Machine

Composer: Sonophoria
Performer: Sonophoria 
Producer: Sonophoria

Links:
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Follow Sonophoria on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sonophoria 
Follow Sonophoria on Instagram: SonophoriaMusic https://instagram.com/Sonophoriamusic

Vestige

A clatter of frantic beats rides over a dark, rebellious undertow of harsh bass and protesting vocals.

Future Sings

The Sludgefork

23 - 10 - 17.a

release date :29/10/2023   
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Once Full Of Life (naviarhaiku 512)

Single / No Return

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/bigbigsky/sadist

BIG big SKY - Sadist
Out December 2023
Watch the weird music video I made:
https://youtu.be/KBSYEkOeKbw?si=nizOCfgeD3dwQsbX

Recorded and Produced by me
Drums by Jack Gordon
Mastered by George Perks

https://www.instagram.com/big.big.sky
https://www.facebook.com/bigbigskymusic
https://bigbigsky.bandcamp.com

Sadist

Original 'CHIMERA' version before it was stretched and remixed in DAW...

SRJ183 V1 [Chimera] 1

(Nonprofit) original track
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Clear Dark (original track)

method: mostly stylophone sounds, heavily processed ... and voice
narration: portrait of a timid person
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

nein, so häufig spricht er nicht
wenn andermund voll meinung ist
es ist eher so: er wundert sich
wie leicht sich wort von lippen löst

sich aus zusammenhang losbricht
und stolz darauf besteht, zurecht
im wahrheitslicht zu leuchten
als sei es nicht gewalt, die hier geschieht

es wirkt bedachtsam, wie sein blick
von sprecher hin zu sprecher schweift
als sehe er ein etwas, das nur er begreift

dies ist das du, das sich in willkür
zeigt, das zugehörigkeit performt
 aus leere und in nichts geformt

interlinear translation: timid // no, he does not speak that often / when others are full of themselves / it's rather like he is astonished / how easily those words and lips depart // how easily those words break free from context / insisting proudly / to rightly shine in the light of truth / as though it wasn't violence he sees first hand // it appears considerate, how his eyes / move from speaker to speaker / as though he saw something only he realizes // this is the you arbitrarily showing / performing belonging / shaped into emptiness out of nothing at all

scheu

Composition inspired by haiku written by Kobayashi Issa

Basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut

Basking in the Sun

Basking in the Sun - (naviarhaiku521)

Believe

Put Your Fingers Right Through

kpop prod Djzozodubai

Welcome to The Tea Leaves. The Nottingham based Trip Hop/Electronic collective led by singer Alice B working alongside producers Olly B & Diggy. Influences are a plenty. Dusty breaks, heavy basslines & a nod to the UK Soundsystem culture transporting you back to the era of Bristol pioneers such as Smith & Mighty, Portishead & Massive Attack. Their use of uplifting orchestral layers, innovative synth sounds & carefully selected samples all combine in new & original ways whilst referencing a rich musical past. So have your cake & eat it, pour yourself a cuppa & see what The Tea Leaves have in store for you today!

Play the Sax a bit. I really like to get up and dance.

Believe

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