Eclectic currents

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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Track list:

Delia Derbyshire – Build Up To...
James Blackshaw – Gate Of Horn
Current 93 – Good Morning, Great Moloch
Ivan Black – Immertion 1
Marco Lucchi, Pete Swinton, M.Nomized & James Hill – #9
Riley Lee – Looking South
Dronæment – Field Map 2
Senza Misura – ghostsoul (excerpt)
Shirley Collins & David Tibet – Idumea
the wolfgirl liberation – Stupor
Joel Putman – Sines and Symbols
Robbie Robertson – Sacrifice
Eeem – Last ride across a damaged Bifrost
Yasuaki Shimizu – Tachikawa
Utu Lautturi – Garden of Vissarion
Zenjungle – Tre Passi
Stitched Vision – The Greatest Depth
Tuonela – They are waiting with maps of heaven

Eclectic current – They are waiting with maps of heaven

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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”  ― J.G. Ballard
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Tracklist:

An Moku – Kodama
Wout Steenhuis & The Kontikis – On Treasure Island
Stuart Chalmers and Claus Poulsen – Looking Into The Heart
Rabbitsquirrel – A lull in pursuing a hollow taste
Galan Wade – What I Need
Anna Von Hausswolff – Epitaph of Theodor
Sculpture – Hackle Scam Populator
Hidden Orchestra – Dust
Barn Owl – Void and Devotion
Kyriakos Sfetsas – Smog (excerpt)
Pjusk – Dorsk
Detritus Tabu3 – Sisyphus And The Ants By Jennifer S. Flescher (naviarhaiku356)
Listening Mirror – Molech Astronaut
Vampillia – Land (excerpt)
Tuonela – They can't arrest all of us
Carolyn Margrete  - Assyrian Women Mourners
Terence Hannum – Invocation of Deities
Demdike Stare – Extwistle Hall
Eye of Theta – Hydrogené
vanessa rossetto – century oaks (excerpt)

Eclectic current – Secret hungers

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The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.  ~  Ken Kesey

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Track list:

Mark Isham – The Time of Harvey Milk (excerpt)
Mark Isham – Passacaglia In Ab For Oberheim 4 Voice 11.27
Boson Spin – The long, long river
Enigma Curry – Transport
cliff swank - mass for oscillator and tape (excerpt)
Gozne – Gotario
infidel?/castro! – the onset of life
Brian Lavelle – Mare Nostrum (excerpt)
Roger Woodward & Rolf Gehlhaar – Takemitsu’s  Corona / Crossing (excerpt)
Carum – Claus Narr
Rumblin Cynth Rampo – The long long river
maxx black – Trumpooze
jim haynes – carbon-arc flare (version two)
Simon Scott – Eel Spine
Vienna.648 – Sciesect
Sovetskaya Gone – Unknown b side (excerpt)
Tuonela – endmix

Eclectic current – With a cruel reverberation

The Fifth Element happens to be… curry!

Tracklist:

001	Deep Forest – The First Twilight
002	Boards Of Canada – Reach For The Dead
003	GrevusAnjl – Father Time and the Clockwork Homunculus
004	Chris O & Idris Davis – Death Medley (Ecklecticmick Re-Edit)
005	If, Bwana – Not Wanted
006	PJ Harvey – Teclo
007	Boson Spin – Clear Thought Part 2
008	Adderall Canyonly – We Walk The Streets Of Flesh
009	yellow salamander – motherinlawofhope
010	Ruthie Henshall – Summertime
011	Sleepmakeswaves – Exits To Nowhere
012	Cherokee Spirit – The Last Mohicans
013	Dead Can Dance – Towards The Within
014	Harvey Mandel – Christo Redentor
015	Three – Curry
016	Spanner Jazz Punks – Didja Get Any Onya
017	Jack ‘Bongo’ Burger – Blue Prelude
018	Andrew Liles – Hyena Police
019	Charlie Hunter Feat Theryl De Clouet – Spoonful
020	Deep Forest – The Second Twilight
021	Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot
022	Atticus Ross – Meant To Be Shared (from The Book Of Eli)
023	Jonesy – No Alternative
024	John Cale – The Philosopher (Academy)
025	Tuonela  - We are standing in the ruins of the future (Remix)

Eclectic current – Standing in the ruins of the future

(This was the first Eclectic current compilation, just on 2 years ago.)

"Looking for drone in the strangest places… sometimes I might even be imagining it. Welcome to my world."

001	 Zoe Keating – Optimist
002  Yellow Magic Orchestra – Mass 
003  Katie Gately – Left Half
004  Kevin Ayers - Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong
005  Leafcutter John – Endless Wave
006  NASA – Symphonies of the Planets, Vol. 1; The Voyager Recordings
007  John Moran & John Boatswain – S’track - Lagonda 1934 Saloon
008  Stone the Crows - Seven Lakes
009  Bakersfield Boogie Boys - Flying Tigers
010	 Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans From Venus 
011	Nico - Janitor of lunacy 
012	A Child's Garden Of Grass - Listening To Music  - Jack Margolis
013	Jerry Garcia– Late for supper / Spidergawd / Eep Hour
014	Tuonela – Seventies Sunrise

Eclectic current – Droneing In Pt 1

2 hours + of all sorts of stuff at https://www.mixcloud.com/Tuonela/eclectic-current-music-for-a-fall-through-the-dark/

Eclectic current – Music for a fall through the dark PROMO

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...