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Live recordings from the Workers Union Ensemble performance at the Birmingham Conservatoire; 29th October 2014. Part of the 'Constructing a Repertoire' tour.

Chaconne: Daniel Saleeb

J S Bach His Kaleidoscope

Vibraphone: James Leveridge

This piece was written in collaboration with electronic musician Christian Czornyj for a Nico Mulhy curated event: 'Electronic music Pioneers', as part of his new music festival 'A Scream and an Outrage' at the Barbican Centre. It is a stylised representation of different recordings of Earth by NASA space probes. 

(Photography: Thomas Fournil)

Representation of NASA's Space Sounds: Earth . Vibraphone & Live Electronics . Fournil, Czornyj

Pilgrims’ trails leading you on through woodland and thicket towards ancient temples. The softness of the temple mosses and a thousand hues of green. Osaka: the hustle and bustle of a Japanese city offering an overwhelming abundance. For all my walking is the title of the Kyoto sound diaries, with music and words composed by pianist Ulrike Haage and percussionist Eric Schaefer during their three-month stay in Japan. The work is named after, indeed inspired by, a Santoka Taneda haiku with its reference to the search for meaning through pilgrimage. 

For All My Walking KODOU

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.

Limited edition 2x12" Gatefold LP with 180G black vinyl, black sleeves.

A1. Enter The Jungle
A2. The Jungle Is Thick
B1. Arrival
B2. The Ritual Begins
C1. Through The Spirit Realm
C2. Plateau
D1. Exit The Jungle

 Artwork by Plástica 

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci

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Campfire Stories 11 (Autumn at Plaenterwald) by Robert Heel (@robertheel)

~ About The Story ~

After a long autumn walk out of Berlin in the Brandenburg Forest and Spree River at Plaenterwald (which has an old abandoned amusement park) I went back home and basically continued my autumn journey with selecting music for a mix. I tried to create an atmosphere and images of for autumn, I worked quite long on the music selection to really paint the picture and tell the story I wanted to achieve and then recorded the mix in Ableton with a delay and reverb and most tracks I also slightly edited. From rainy textures, falling leaves, sunny days to cloudy and windy atmospheres. I chose a poem to go accompany the mix.

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Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth,
      This autumn morning! How he sets his bones
To bask i’ the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet
For the ripple to run over in its mirth;
      Listening the while, where on the heap of stones
The white breast of the sea-lark twitters sweet.

That is the doctrine, simple, ancient, true;
      Such is life’s trial, as old earth smiles and knows.
If you loved only what were worth your love,
Love were clear gain, and wholly well for you:
      Make the low nature better by your throes!
Give earth yourself, go up for gain above!
“Among the Rocks” by Robert Browning
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~ Chapters ~

01. VidasM - Mire (Cold Tear Records)
02. AS If - Travel (Trip 3)    
03. Textural Being - Rush (Energostatic) 
04. Nemo - The Sleeping Forest (Forest Roots)
05. Audub - Northern Shore (Part 1) (Archives) 
06. Snufmumriko - Mukul (Warmth Remix) (Archives) 
07. Konstant - Schwarz-Weiß (Robert Heel Remix) (Heiter Bis Wolkig)
08. Reformed Society - MDMA (Superb Recordings)
09. Peter Van Hoesen - Attribute 39 (Donato Dozzy remix) (Time To Express)
10. Inanitas - Tuesday Evening (Silent Season)
11. Dt-90 - Alone Man (Tehnofonika Records)
12. 36 - Nistarim (36 Recordings)
13. Michael Mantra - Mountain Version II (Ohrwert Remix) (Silent Season)
14. Desove - Tier One (Rohs!)
15. Loscil - Sturgeon Bank (Kranky)
16. Recondite - Floe (Ghostly International)
17. Son.sine - Upekah (Nurture)
18. Docetism - Waldeinsamkeit (Nichts) 
19. Hydrangea - Ananké (Silent Season)

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.


Campfire Stories 11 (Autumn at Plaenterwald) by Robert Heel

Modus Triplex explores the rich, resonant sonorities that are available on three cellos, especially when playing multiple strings at once. Three pairs of strings that can be double stopped (CG, GD and DA) and the three cellos in Tre Voci meant that number 3 was a natural starting point for a simple number row (111223), from which the entire piece was constructed. 

Modus Triplex has been released on Nonclassical's 'Outside the Lines' EP 
 https://open.spotify.com/user/nonclassical/playlist/7bw0IuUACL7vS0Vc38ziES

Modus Triplex was written for Tre Voci and premiered at the 840: New Music for Cellos on 12/10/2015.

Modus Triplex

Daniel Lanois' Aquatic - m. geddes gengras’ phogene version

Aquatic (m. geddes gengras’ phonogene version)

good day good day bad day bad day (I)

Tenor - Leighton Triplow
Piano - Rhodri Clarke
Text - Ursula Vaughan-Williams

A Hymn for St Cecilia

From the premiere of Tristan & Iseult, Köln 2018: Reis glorios by G. de Bornelh with Miriam Andersén - voice and percussion, Raitis Grigalis - voice, Lucia Mense - transverse flute and recorder, Susanne Ansorg - fiddle.

Guiraut de Bornelh: Reis Glorios

[APWW #424] [Originally aired 2003]
Tarab, the ecstatic feeling associated with listening to and playing great music, is a fundamental characteristic in many varieties of Arab music. In this program, we explore tarab with special guest UCLA ethnomusicology professor A.J. Racy. Racy draws on his lifelong study of music and musicians, and also his insights as a virtuoso performer on the nay flute and the buzuq.  Racy guides us through the experiences of listeners and players, providing deep insight into many varieties of tarab. We hear works by A.J. Racy, Sabah Fakhri and Ensemble Al-Kindi of Syria, the great Egyptian singer Uum Kalthoum, and many others. Produced by Banning Eyre.

Tarab, The Art of Ecstasy in Arab Music

Brood

Full recordings of the pieces written through the 2012/13 Adopt a Composer scheme

Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society & Duncan Macleod: Behold the best of morning’s  dawns

00:00 A piece commissioned to be presented at the House of Commons, London, 2018 for the 750th birth anniversary of the saint Vedanta Desikar. I composed, sang and arranged music for his poem on Krishna with my collaborators Kedar and Rohit on the violin and mridangam respectively.

01:24 celebrating the historic judgment decriminalizing homosexuality in India with stories from the queer community and sung poetry from the temple traditions; performed in Nepal, 2019. Learnt from the repertoire of a transgender community (Jogatis) celebrating their goddess Yellamma, joyously cross-dressing and busking at the temple tank. I sing and play tambura.

02:44 With musicians Shruthi Vishwanath(vocal) and S.Sreecharan(khanjira) (2016) exploring the commonality in the philosophies of Kabir and the mystics from across the Indian Subcontinent; An 18th century composition that we sang from the repertoire of temple dancers. Here the lovelorn heroine is pining for the return of her belove

Representation of NASA's Space Sounds: Earth . Vibraphone & Live Electronics . Fournil, Czornyj

Thomas Fournil

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