Name: Behringer 2500 - "Morse" by Tim Shoebridge
Duration: 4 min
Description: This demo track features in my video review of the Behringer 2500 range of eurorack modules, You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/9VqdMoeSmcM

Energy

Melancholy and beautifully haunting.
Afetr acoustic guitar intro Ocean builds up towards the end with wandering violins and ambient soundscapes. 
Close your eyes. 
Can you see the lonely waves hitting the shoreline?

Ocean

Swonfocator

This is a taster of the forthcoming album by Kumo - Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) written, and produced by Kumo AKA Jono Podmore.

Over 15 years ago, while working on an album of music based on the dance rhythms of the time, my old friend Uli Gerlach asked if I'd ever thought of investigating earlier dance music, the Foxtrot, Charleston, and so on. The idea stayed with me and, as it has been for so many of us, the lockdowns provided a chance to finally research this music and apply the findings to my own work.

My first discovery was that the essence of this music is a far cry from the superficial glitziness of Strictly Ballroom or the geriatric end-of-pier dancehall. The truth is that these are all slave dances. They all derive from African American culture of the late 19th and early 20th century and carry with them the trauma of slavery and treasured remnants of African culture. 
 
The work culminated in  Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) and an accompanying full-color zine available here:

http://www.psychomat.com/slave-dances-seven-portraits-zine

"Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is an immensely pleasurable, brilliantly sourced weave of rhythm, texture and repurposed, reworked sounds doctored up in his
South London home studio. It is, however, a vital tool for reflection on the
connective history of Black music, remaking connections which have been erased by the habitual omission by whites of black agency in music history and its origins.

There is the sensibility of the gallery of these pieces; one could imagine them as hanging sculptures, or mixed media works incorporating diverse visual elements and materials. However, there is none of the gallery’s white-walled, silent sterility about Slave Dances (Seven Portraits), which is bristling and teeming, kinetic, and, despite the sombre subject matter, joyful, playful even. Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) is as delightful as it is educational."

David Stubbs

Slave Dances

Slave Dances (Seven Portraits) Taster

Closing Capacity

Recorded in the village of Belovo, Bulgaria. Белово, България
I uploaded this for sharing but then truly felt at a loss, or hesitant, to say anything about it other than it is uncut. Perhaps my lack will to publicize or speculate idly is due to respect for the spiritual nature of the song (clearly a prayer/incantation) and that words can't serve a at this junction. Perhaps also not being able to find a photo that is appropriate prevents the words to assemble themselves. It could also be just a matter of time. I captured 2 other occassions. Our hasty departure did not give me another opportunity to meet Angelina and ask her about these actions. We had even written ourselves a script of Bulgarian phrases and questions just for the occasion of meeting her in the street which never came. I am not sure where she lives really.

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Angelina in Bulgaria 46

DARK

Magumag Heart  

Ta Da Tse

•TA DA  TSE•

... improvisation in one go. I hope my amateurish search on the keyboard is not too bad :-D ... but in places I can at least implement some "vague" feelings, so I hope it's music :-)
Photo: Jan Brennenstuhl, unsplash

winding paths

Composed and produced by Francesco Vitti
Registered in the studios of EKOS records (Italy)

This demo track features in my video review of the Behringer 2500 range of eurorack modules, You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/9VqdMoeSmcM

Behringer 2500 - "Morse"

Photographer, musician, soundtrack composer, independent film-maker, Getty Images® contributor, and part-time journalist.

Behringer 2500 - "Morse"

Tim Shoebridge

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