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Homegrown

Cadillac

Floating Here

The second single from the upcoming LP, Humid Sun (March 31, 2023)
masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/humid-sun

Humid Sun 

Sweltering Drive (ft. Joseph Shabason, Bram Gielen, Yamaan)

Surround

Time after time

y do i miss u?

From Colin Self's respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis, aka r∞L4nGc
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respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis

respite for the tulpamancer

Skeletrix Melodies (2)

Wes Herrera

Floating so far, even the sky flips.

The fourth chapter of the Luminous Horizons series continues the sonic exploration of emotion, space, and light. Blending downtempo, ambient, and progressive elements with atmospheric piano, each track offers a moment of calm introspection and immersive escape. A sound journey through dreamlike worlds, soft rhythms, and luminous textures - designed for quiet evenings, inner travel, and gentle reflection.

Sky Beneath Me

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Taken from the album 'taking into account only a portion of your emotions' released as CD and Download

taking into account only a portion of your emotions

pinkcourtesyphone 'Reference Point Intermission 1' (EMEGO 236)

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

Taken from the upcoming 'Taking My Time To Be EP' - out 27/9.
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Strawberry Guy - Mrs Magic

Artist: Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek
Album: Bird, Lake, Objects
Label#: faitiche03
Format: LP/DL

Vinyl repress of faitiche03 & 13 available on July 17th 2020!

Queried on his favourite word in the German language, Masayoshi Fujita will pick ‘getragen’ – without a sliver of hesitation. Further questioning will reveal that he loves the term’s semantic signifiers, its inherent sense of “expansive, deep, quiet and sombre.” And yet, ‘getragen’ leaves plenty of room for interpretation: depending on context, it might also indicate wearing apparel or the state of being carried – two more mundane interpretations that I would rather keep from him.
Does Masayoshi’s own definition, however, apply to Bird, Lake, Objects? Only to a limited extent. Compared to previous Faitiche releases, Bird, Lake, Objects is certainly the most ‘getragen’ of them all. Nevertheless, this is by far not the first association that comes to mind. From a distance, these tracks seem rather introspective, cautious even – and reflect the recording situation: deliberately pared down, reduced to a single microphone in space and a separate track for all other instruments, each movement and action is chronicled by the treacherous mike. This confronted me with some unexpected and unfamiliar problems. For example, we had to swap out the seating in the studio as my favoured chair had a characteristic creak. Other, external influences proved to be beyond our control: fire engine klaxons, street noise and footfall became part of the recordings and their improvisatory nature. Each movement required careful orchestration, fully aware of its irrevocable nature. Space itself was always present and an audible entity, except on "Stripped to RM" (recorded without a microphone or vibraphone track). After extensive deliberations, we decided to forgo the vibes on this piece – a very similar version had already been released in 2008 (on the compilation Enjoy The Silence, Mule Electronic, 2008).

Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek:  I'll Change Your Life

Taken from ‘Sketch for Winter: Perlita’ - out now on Geographic North.

Two Halves Touching

Based in Toronto.
New LP "Humis Sun" is coming out on March 31 on Telephone Explosion Record.


Past Shows: 
5/21 @Corpi sonori, Vilnius, Lithuania (Online)

3/10 @ Tranzac, Toronto

2/7 @ La lumière collective, Montreal
w/ Sometime people

11/10 @ Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherland 

11/4 @ Temple, Tokyo (in Takao band)
w/Laraaji (from USA), Chee shimizu

10/27 @Chifuriguri, Sendai
w/Tsubasa Uchida etc

10/6 @Kyokusen, Sendai
w/H.Takahashi

7/10 @ Mitaka scool, Tokyo (in Takao band)
w/mmm

6/1 @Fall, Nishiogikubo,Tokyo
なnD launch Party

5/24 @Shibuya 7th floor, Tokyo
w/Joni Void (Canada), JANGMYUNGSUN (Korea), Metronori

5/18 @Nishiobikugo uchi, Tokyo
w/7FO, Metronori, Y. Ohashi

4/21@Amalab, Tokyo

4/10@Shibuya 7th Floor, Tokyo

3/29@Jyunbichu, Tokyo

3/20@Asagaya Ten, Tokyo

1/23 @Forestlimit, Tokyo
K/A/T/O Massacre 
w/Emerald four, Tajima Haruko, Meijin, Le Perry
 
1/7 @Liquid room (in Takao band)
w/Shuta Hasunuma

12/4 @Forest limit, Tokyo
w/ 幡ヶ谷ちっちゃいものクラブ、miku-mari, sofheso, werid-meddle, AKIRAM EN

12/1 @Uchi, Tokyo
w/ H.Takahashi, Hegira Moya, Takao

Sweltering Drive (ft. Joseph Shabason, Bram Gielen, Yamaan)

Masahiro Takahashi

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