On And On

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On his exquisite third solo album, Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) again augments his mesmeric clawhammer banjo pieces with piano, percussion, and vocals. Instead of the programmatic place-based narratives of its predecessor Nansemond (PoB-16), Whole & Cloven offers a stoic meditation on absence, loss, and fragmentation, populating those experiential gaps—the weighty interstices and places in-between—with stillness and wonder. Straddling Appalachian string band music and avant-garde composition but beholden to neither idiom, Nathan proves himself heir to deconstructivist tradition-bearers like Henry Flynt and Jack Rose. With download code. 

+ The third solo album by multi-instrumentalist Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) is his most exquisite, immersive, and ambitious to date
+ RIYL: Steve Gunn, the Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Jack Rose, Michael Chapman, Daniel Bachman, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Hiss Golden Messenger, Henry Flynt, Clive Palmer, Terry Riley
+ Available on 140g virgin vinyl as an LP, with heavy-duty 24-point reverse board matte jacket, printed inner sleeve, and download code
+ CD edition features heavy-duty gatefold jacket
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“Nathan's music is marked by both his deep study of vernacular American forms and his years-long dedication to the development of his own voice. He is a musician who respects tradition as he values experimentation, an artist whose work commands careful listening. This balance is what makes Nathan's voice singular: as a player, he is fearless, challenging. And as a listener, I am grateful and inspired.” – Steve Gunn 

“Wry, sad, troubled, and mesmeric compositions imbued with a spooked and grainy Appalachian potency. Rich chaparrals of deep buzzing color you could lose yourself in forever.” – MOJO 

“He could play forever without boring himself or anyone listening.” – Pitchfork 

“A portal through time.” – NPR 

“Stunning. A Terrence Malick film with just a handful of strings.” – Steven Hyden 

“I have huge respect for Nathan as a musician on so many levels.” – Michael Chapman

“Nathan Bowles is like my spirit animal. It’s the real shit … beautiful then, beautiful now. Timeless.” – Kurt Vile

Whole & Cloven

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Nathan Bowles: Whole & Cloven – "Words Spoken Aloud" (2016, PoB-28)

Nathan Bowles: Whole & Cloven – "Burnt Ends Rag" (2016, PoB-28)

Erotic City By Prince

From the remastered 2016 reissue of the albums The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, out December 2, 2016 on Merge Records.

The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Remastered)

The Magnetic Fields "You Love to Fail" (2016 Remaster)

twenty minutes in this chair
and it felt like twenty years
I was underneath your stare
Trying to see what you see

I know what I do to you
But i do not know why
I can be so damn cruel
and then just play it cool

yeah I just play it cool 
well I just play it cool


I chained my guilt up to your leg
now you're stuck with me
And there’s no getting out
unless you wrestle away the key

and I’m not calming down
you know thats just not my thing
And if you wanna get out,
well then you're br—bringing me

yeah you know what I mean
you know I’m just being mean
Yeah you know what I mean
You know that I’m just being me

I’ve been working on a way 
to just say it to you
instead of letting it build up 
and throwing everything at you

And you’re ready to give up, 
But I'm ready for you too
And I’ll bring the fight to you, 
although thats no-nothing new

just play it cool 
shhh shhh just just play it cool
just play it cool   

yeah you know what I mean
you know I’m just being mean
Yeah you know what I mean
You know that I’m just being me

What I Mean

Carnival feat. Randy Valentine & Solis. Produced by Mista Savona. 

World exclusive on BBC Radio 1Xtra. Hosted by the legend himself - David Rodigan. 

Taken from the forthcoming 'Havana Meets Kingston' project:

https://www.facebook.com/havanameetskingston/videos/1047104088752100/

Rodigan plays 'Carnival' (excerpt)on BBC1 Xtra

Taken from 'I Can Be a Clay Snapper'
Order: https://goo.gl/3hCLGz
tak:til / glitterbeat

Hailing from Slovenia, Širom play vividly textured and (mostly) imagined, instrumental folk musics. Handmade and global instrumentation meets fearless sound exploration. 

Slovenia’s miniature, but incredibly diverse landscapes, echo through its distinctive cultural, historic and linguistic traits. When thinking about Širom’s geographical trajectories, as well as their musical ebb and flow, one has to consider the abundance of water that can be found in the individual regions where they come from. Cascading mountain stream lilt, lazy lowland river meandering and the mysteriously vanishing waters of Karst are most certainly inscribed into Samo Kutin’s, Iztok Koren’s and Ana Kravanja’s childhood memories and subsequently, their remarkable musical art. 

The band’s emergent sound oscillates between a wide array of acoustic folk sounds and contemporary post rock meditations, often drifting from improvisation to structured composition and then back. It is described by the members themselves as imaginary folk or folk from a parallel universe. “Our music creates emotional landscapes. When I was still painting every day (Ana holds a degree in painting) I was trying to paint my dreams but that didn’t work out,” Ana remembers. “I discovered that by using an abstract image I can draw nearer to what I felt in my dreams. Our music is based on a similar principle.”

According to Samo, the guiding concepts of their music-making are: “To play on acoustic instruments, to work with repetition and a common sound. Each of us can play a simple thing, but the overall result is that a complex thing comes to life. The quality of sound depends on the combination of the instruments and that’s why we modify and prepare instruments or create our own.”

As an avid sound-seeker, Samo began to develop an interest in building instruments out of everyday objects like drawers, computer boxes and other “junk” (as he lovingly calls his creations) as well as re-tooling the ones he brought back from his globetrotting adventures that have included personal encounters with local musicians in India, Morocco, Mali, Greece and elsewhere. 

Ana, who also nurtures a very personal relationship with music paraphernalia, adds: “There is a different attitude at play if you make an instrument yourself. It already tells you a story. If you buy it, it takes longer to get to know it, to tame it.”

In the little village of Lesno Brdo, tucked in the rolling hills ten kilometers south of Ljubljana, Ana and Samo organize music performances and festivals on a farm they rent, and divide their time between music making and vegetable farming. A close connection with nature is also important to Iztok who now resides in the capital city. “It’s a sort of a contact with the past but it also has its own life in the present.” 

Fearlessly textured sonic landscapes – both linked to and unbound by – the past and present, geography and tradition, the real and imagined. Hypnotic, otherworldly and epic. 

Širom’s music moves like the restless waters of their homeland. No matter how hushed or slow it may seem, it is never ever standing still. 
  
Širom are: Iztok Koren – banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, various objects // Ana Kravanja – violin, viola, ribab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, various objects, voice // Samo Kutin – lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, brač, gongoma, mizmar, various objects, voice

I Can Be a Clay Snapper

Širom - Maestro Kneading Screams of Joy (Maestro mane vriskanje)

Dead and Gone

Alina

Amateur hour....first attempt at recording  controller performance....simple unfinished track....it's enough to start playing around with my controller....longggg


Alina

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