Brandon Clark's "Binary for Fukushima" is a compilation project for the victims of the
radiation leak in Fukushima. It is a collection of Binaural artist from
around the world that aims to help repair the DNA of those exposed by using
528 hz. 528 hz in Solfeggio tones have been known to help repair DNA from
harmful environmental information.Best listened to in headphones.


Binary for Fukushima_Restoration in Chronology (excerpt)

Roubles Goes To Hell

Not Rocket Science

Watching Dew - Pascal Savy

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet.

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Released by:
The Helen Scarsdale Agency
Release date:
17 August 2018

Bloody Sunday

Lemegeton Party is the narcotic and occluded industrial-ambient debut for the Junkie Flamingos, a project conceived in 2017 by Luca Sigurtà, Alice Kundalini, and Daniele Delogu. Each of these musicians has their distinctive sounds: Sigurtà with his vertiginous electronica, Kundalini best known as the author behind the death industrial project She Spread Sorrow, and Delogu in the bombastic folk of the Barbarian Pipe Band. Their collective amalgamation shifts but does not denude each of these aesthetics in the construction of this oblique, sidereal album. 

Inspired by Freidrich Holderlin’s Hyperion, Lemegeton Party is gilded with a neoclassical sheen that alludes to both the divine and the diabolical. Kundalini’s whispered invocations which have so creepily effective in addressing psychosexually abject conditions in She Spread Sorrow are immediately recognizable here. Yet, she shifts the content towards messages of power and strength, even if cast in the shadows of desolation and solitude. 

The arrangements ebb and flow upon a rhythmic spine of drum machines and cybernetic sequences, laden with acoustic instrumentation bathed in effects and treatments that all serve to bolster Kundalini’s allegorical declarations. To think of Coil’s post-MDMA experiments in chill-out isolationism wouldn’t be far from the mark, with the Junkie Flamingos making a stark nod to the slow motion, proto-techno torpor of Elettronica Meccanica instead of ‘90s British rave culture.

Lemegeton Party

Junkie Flamingos // Evening Of Our Days

"Ninth Ward" is from the album "Dark Matter" and was an improvised eulogy to the people of New Orlean's during the time of the Katrina Hurricane.

personnel:
Doug Hirlinger: traps, flute, mbira, percussion
Barry Meehan: bass
Tim Motzer: baritone guitars, and looping

Buy the physical edition here:
http://1krecordings.com/1kstore/shopexd.asp?id=211

A spontaneous session of visceral cinematic improvisations and in the moment compositions from 3 prominent Philadelphia musicians. Base3 is an experimental trio featuring Doug Hirlinger on traps, mbira, percussion, flutes; Barry Meehan on bass; and Tim Motzer on electric and baritone guitars, and loops--all international musicians vibrant on the Philadelphia jazz & experimental scenes. DarkMatter reveals an honest and compelling record exhibiting the musicians multi-faceted abilities and their pure expression. Among the albums four extended pieces in the haunting closer, Ninth Ward, a beautiful and dark eulogy for the people of New Orleans. Fans of guitar improvisers, like Marc Ribot, Derek Bailey, and Fred Frith, will appreciate Base3_DarkMatter.

C 2008 1k Recordings
P 2008 One K Music Co. (BMI)

Base3 - Ninth Ward

The courage to cover another Schubert in days of corona. 2020. 
 Winterreise, D.911 - 1. Gute Nacht

gute nacht essay

"Isolate with", a compilation of music made during covid 19 pandemic, from Katuktu Collective avaliable now via bandcamp. Featurin a track "detour" from myself. Free download. https://katuktucollective.bandcamp.com/album/isolate-with-i

Ekin Fil - Detour

A work from the upcoming multimedia release 'Small Magic' by Instant Takemitsu. 
Visit http://instanttakemitsu.com and watch the video.

Dino J.A. Deane - 3 string electric dulcimer, electronics
Tim Motzer - acoustic-electric guitar, electronics
Dejha Ti - visuals

Drawing on the incredibly wide timbral palette that can be produced by vibrating metal strings processed through traditional guitar stompboxes, and refraining from the use of backing tracks, Tim Motzer and Dino J.A. Deane create a range of sonics, completely in the moment, that is amazingly similar to the palette created by composers such as Takemitsu, Messiaen, Debussy and Stravinsky using traditional orchestral instrumentation.

In a stunning reversal of the concepts of film scoring, Dejha Ti manifests a real-time cinematic vision on modular projection surfaces which are integrated into the physical setup of the musicians. The venue itself influences the unique sculptural design of the projection surfaces from show to show. Ti draws on a library of self generated visuals as well as from live capture of the musician's physicality, as they are playing, to create her part of the ensemble's collective composition.

Read Guitar Moderne's Spotlight article on Instant Takemitsu.
A true multimedia ensemble, Instant Takemitsu, http://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/spotlight-instant-takemitsu

Instant Takemitsu - That Which We Know Is Divine

sweetness follows.
music by c.cu
artworks  by c.cu

In this year of our loss, 2011

side 2, begin

The happy dream place of Nick Roubles of the Drunken Gentlemen. He come from Cardiff man with a couple of Euros & a crowded mind-head. Fermented in arcane cultural references, this ongoing project is to be a 2001-esque voyage to the end of the sonic universe.

Not Rocket Science

They've Got Fleas