@am-agency is a music supervisors duo. For this show they made a special mix and share two exclusive tracks by Lamusa II and Muki bu Mudiubi, a new project of Celestial Trax, both artists they are working with for original compositions and publishing. amsoundesign.com

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Celestial Trax returns with new work of tonal-textural explorations.
On 'Lifecodes' the producer born Joni Judén weaves together a dense quilt of sound, shimmering and surging as it unfolds in free-time. Judén invites the listener down a luminous, harmonically adventurous path, where sound takes creaturely dimensions. The songs blossom and wilt, at times floating in states of ambivalence, at others washing over the listener like waves, bathing them in heavy light.

'Lifecodes' was created in the small village of Pynnölä, Joutsa in central Finland, where Celestial Trax has been living and working since 2020.

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Music by Celestial Trax, recorded and mixed at TUO TUO
Album art and visual concept by Robert Ra linktr.ee/RobertRa



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In Hour 2 we hand over to Celestial Trax following the release of his debut album 'Nothing Is Real' out now on PTP. The New York based producer describes his album as a departure not only in sound but also geographically and spiritually from his previous output, having found an increased interest in mysticism and esotericism. In beginning 'Nothing Is Real,' he had reached the point of creative purge, deleting almost all samples, sample packs, and software synths. Fueled by ideas of rebirth and true self-projection, he amassed a library of field recordings from New York City, plus samples from his own cassettes, vinyl, and Youtube search history - utilizing every sound source he could come across in his studio whilst trying to spend as little time as possible on the computer screen, which has paid off judging by the reviews. He had this to say about his mix;
"An hour of deep space exploration, with nods to the art of spoken word and the avant-garde. Recorded using my live set up somewhere in Finland on a cold day in October. "

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Celestial Trax - Sketches From The North 3
Marie Davidson & Invisible Church - Never Release The Tension
Ben Frost - Entropy In Blue
Bjerga-Iversen - Short Circuit
Celestial Trax- Sketches From The North 7
Voice of Eye- The Shadow I Knew 
Pauline Oliveros - A Love Song
Sten Hanson - Am Strengsten Verboten
Damien Dubrovnik - Arrow 5
Para Coma - We've Seen It
Iasos - Libra Sunrise
Celestial Trax - Sketches From The North 2
WILDLIFE! - Dandelion
Kepla and DeForrest Brown Jr - Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VIII
Earth - The Dry Lake
Bernard Baum - Cold Agriculture
Puce Mary - In Your Shadow
blackhumour - Three Spoken Words
Celestial Trax - Sketches From The North 4
Ice - The Dredger
Nobuo Yamada - By The Road
AMM - Vandoevre
Celestial Trax - Sketches From The North 8
Lars-Gunnar Bodin - Plus
EAR - Hydroponic
Argot - New Hide

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Solid Steel Radio Show 10/11/2017 Hour 2 - Celestial Trax

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black Earth Traditional composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, and vinyl addict. She is also a sonic archaeologist gathering and excavating soundz/music from space, the heavens, the ether and beyond. She restores peace, love and healing to the world, using the most powerful tool imaginable: omniversal sound. In 2017, Angel self-released the EP, The Joy of Living; and in 2018, she composed a “cosmic love opera” based on Song of Solomon that was performed at Co-Prosperity Sphere, an experimental arts and cultural center in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood that is home to International Anthem Recording Co, Lumpen Radio, Public Media Institute, and a handful of other grassroots organizations. This evening, the Brothahood will consist of Xris Espinoza (percussion, saxophone), Adam Zanolini (woodwinds, bass), Isaiah Collier (saxophones, percussion) and N.W. Long (electronics).

Angel Bat Dawid - "What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black Dr. Burroughs"

HoxA-5
Sisilisko. Hypnotic bliss.
Journey through 6 pieces. 
Encoded.

Presented by Celestial Trax.

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HoxA-11
AEpep. Trippy tool.
Fix of a 1 off experience. 
Encoded.

Presented by Rasa Realfo.

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HoxA-8
Mehen. Emotive grit. 
Spawn of 4 components. 
Encoded.

Presented by Hadone.

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amniote • net

HoxA-5.2: Sisilisko - Oh Ji Ram Ja (In Turiya)

The 2nd episode of PTP's residency on Montez Press Radio comes with a show title, 'Channel PTP'. For this installment, Saint Abdullah present 'Mechanical Flirtations' (their forthcoming album on @True-Aether) and engage in conversation with writer and friend, Marwa Helal.

if u know then u know

Channel PTP: Saint Abdullah w/ Marwa Helal on Montez Press Radio 5.24.19

Celestial Trax - Plant Worship (out on True Aether)

After his second cardiac arrest where his heart was revived for the second time in Homerton Hospital (Hackney, London, UK), MR 28GRAMS decided to give life another chance. Upon recovery and returning to his routines, he coasted over to his neighbor’s to bum weed. Fellow Homerton resident, Finnish trans woman, rapper and producer Ville Valoton recently moved to London in search for refuge from the transphobia she experienced in her native country. As it happened, Ville was working on her first set of beats and MR 28GRAMS decided to stay for a smoke. Returned from the kitchen with cups of tea, Ville found him freestyling on her productions and pressed record. Soon they’d completed a collection of emotive, gloomy and raw experimental music.

Streams of the unconscious, Ville Valoton presents MR 28GRAMS: 28 GRAMS IN A JAR (FREESTYLES) reflects upon a collapsing contemporary society. MR 28GRAMS’ freestyled vocals are street prophecies latent with anarchist political satire. They are the lived experiences of an enlightened, battle-scarred black man with a massive heart: a heart that mirrors an ailing society.

released September 4, 2020

Vocals by MR 28GRAMS

All tracks produced by Ville Valoton (except track 3 produced by Agamwe)

Tracks 2–5 mixed and mastered by Joni Judén

Album art by Siiri Raasakka

MR 28GRAMS: 'TELETUBBIES (in B&W) (FREESTYLE)'

Mix by @celestial-trax curated by @am-agency

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Saint Abdullah - In God's Image
Oval - Compact Disc
Ville Valoton - Sillanpää
Badgerlore - Prayer 
Ｍａｎａ- Symphony of Regulations
Tricky & Gravediggaz - Psychosis
Pharoah Sanders - Kazuko
MR 28GRAMS - UNORTHODOX (FREESTYLE) (Agamwe remix)
AMANI + KING VISION ULTRA - 52 Vision
Helena Pulkkinen - Hello Flower
TaiK - ERUPTIOdemoraw
Phew - Dream
Pan Sonic - Kuvaputki
Anna Homler - Oo Nu Dah
King Vision Ultra - Pain of Mind
Breakup - Katri Vala
John McLaughlin - Marbles
Teho Teardo - Dance The Sauris
Paternoster - Paternoster
Helena Pulkkinen - When they go under, how they navigate

Celestial Trax Mix Nº48

Food, sex, glory to God; in which order? Do you first eat, and then pray to thank Them? Or perhaps coupling takes the top spot for you. 

Each of these three fundamentals is about service. What is your way of serving others while you’re in this world? And will we keep doing it ever after? In heaven—if we’ll make it there—will W serve us their mass of resonating frequencies and clipping digital ornaments? 

A new release by W is here to go alongside our feasts, orgies, and other acts of devotion. Yes, it’s suited for all kinds of services. You must try it on fried fish, living bodies, or celestial ones. 

From right to left and back again from left to right; W spins the middle frequencies into a ritual that helps us to forget ourselves. For a while, heaven and earth exist on the horizon, instead of the vertical. 

The sonic horizon reminds us of the beauty of the plain from which nothing arises to compete with God. What's more, the panning offers an exercise in humility: everything is around you, but you’re not the center. 

The distorting of those sweet basslines tells you that what you’re hearing is growth and rot, crop and compost, both at the same instance. The distortion invites you to go medieval—think Ars moriendi, the art of dying. Learn from these sounds by reflecting on how they’re ready—but not willing—to leave this plane at any moment. 

The sounds that make up Maanpinna follow neither a linear understanding of time, nor a hierarchical understanding of bodies, but an instantaneous one of both. You could call it quantum music, but then why would you do so when you can call it a service? 

Of the three acts of services mentioned, sex and God demand the most trust. Can you trust these sounds? You could learn to do so by listening to them on repeat. No: forget the idea of being able to know music, forget beginnings and ends; try living with these sounds forever, always unearthing new aspects. 

Commit to the sounds, because why else would they trust you? Touch the wobbly melodies and feel them touching you like nothing has ever done before. 

Apart from the sea of sine waves, Maanpinna sometimes gives you bursts, pops, and washes of filtered white noise. They are gestures of good faith made by the music itself towards you. If you didn't trust the sounds before, perhaps now you will. 

Those bursts are not pure noise, but cut down to a serving size by W. The modified noise tells you what the dead always tell the living: ‘What I am, you will become.’ The art, in life and audio, is in learning to lose. It’s a lesson that reverberates deep in the bare soundscape of Maanpinna. 

It is music made from very few elements. And while reduction has always formed the basis for aural worship, on the hands of W, sounds are never reduced to the level of blasphemy: there's always the noise and the distortion. 

- Kaino Wennerstrand 

Produced by Eero Pulkkinen (@susiovet). 
Vocals in 'Half-Mast' by Elatu Nessa.
Mastering by Jaakko Viitalähde. 
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza. 
AFN005 - A Flooded Need, 2021.

Maanpinna

W - Half-Mast

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