Name: Tree of two skies [naviarhaiku489] by Tuonela in GodKing MajorLucre - Mkp ( Bread On Bread Freestyle )
Duration: 5 min 30 s
Description: Made for Naviar Records' 489th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/17/naviarhaiku489-dividing-the-autumn-sky/

GodKing MajorLucre - Mkp ( Bread On Bread Freestyle )

'Lincoln’s Tinned Peaches have a new track out called Surrender. It brings together an intriguing mix of flavours. Fast and funky in a frantic Post-Punk influenced manner, the striking melody and tasty Bass Guitar figures grab me immediately. The band’s playing and chemistry is impressive across the board. In the chorus we get tempo shifts, multi-tracked voal harmonies. In the final section, the lead guitarist goes for it and the band’s playing is fluid and almost freeform'.

Neil March, Trust the doc., Ed. 81

Surrender

Made for Naviar Records' 489th Haiku Challenge. Details at https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/05/17/naviarhaiku489-dividing-the-autumn-sky/

Tree of two skies [naviarhaiku489]

Uxiesqu

One hand becomes two. Original recording:
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/one-hand-piano-n1-you-to-play-with-if-you-like-it?in=marcolucchi/sets/one-hand-piano-1

Marco Lucchi - One hand Piano in duo w  Michael's left hand

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DividingTheSky(NaviarHaiku489)

Check out the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/p4NniZesIT8

The cold forest flaunts 
A newly webbed blanket of 
Wood anemones

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF flaunT [naviarhaiku490]

naviarhaiku490

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.
Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st May 2023
Haiku by Pritee Rel
Picture by Annie Spratt

The Cold Forest Flaunts (naviarhaiku490)

a tiny phrase on a palm sized thumb piano started this little cacophony- of sonic forest reflected in the rippling water of a lake..

AtTheForest'sEdge(NaviarHaiku491)

Created on iPad with AUM and several AUv3 synths and effects.
Mixed in Cubase 12, mastered with Ozone 10.

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 493:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/14/naviarhaiku493-desolate-street-at-dawn/

Photo by zenbytes (2021, Baudinard-sur-Verdon, Provence, France)

desolate street - Naviarhaiku 493

Silent Sentinels(NaviarHaiku 494)

Our last song to complete our release.
Shane Beck & progettosonoro

You Let Go

A slow interconnect rule returns a new collection

ROKKOKO

Partial Holograms is the latest album by US-based artist Todd Gautreau, who records under the moniker Tapes and Topographies. Since launching the project in 2014, Todd has crafted a distinct form of Ambient music which is built around quietly expressive and cinematic textures. He has released on respected imprints such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Rohs!, Shimmering Moods his own label Simulacra Records. This is his third record for Whitelabrecs, following Amplitudes (2021) and Floating World - Reflections on 36 views of Newland Island (2022) in which he collaborated with painter Jonathan S Hooper. His practice blends analogue and digital processes, drawing from a background in guitar, hardware pedals and synthesizers. His artistic worldview is shaped by the shadowy, poetic sensibilities of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Jean Cocteau.

In Partial Holograms, Todd shifts his usual methods by intentionally removing one of his most familiar tools: the guitar. Though there are timbres that mimic stringed instruments, none were recorded in the traditional sense. Instead, this work leans more heavily into software processing, filtering Ambient textures and melodic fragments through a deliberately limited palette. This approach is typical of Todd’s ethos which is to change direction from one project to the next, by excluding previously used techniques. This creates a sense of evolution without abandoning the core aesthetic of Tapes and Topographies.

Initially, Partial Holograms was conceived as a more melodic record, one that incorporated piano, strings and even brass. This was the version which reached the mixing stage, but something essential felt absent; its atmosphere, its texture. Most of the material was set aside, with only two tracks surviving into the final sequence. What emerged from the second attempt was more immediate, with ideas flowing freely and a final product that strikes a thoughtful balance between melody and abstraction.

While there was no set narrative concept guiding this album, recurring themes began to surface during its creation, of isolation, dreams, memory and loss - all hallmarks of the Tapes and Topographies’ sound. Sometimes these themes are consciously woven in and at other times, they only become apparent in hindsight, or through the interpretations of others. As with his previous work, Partial Holograms invites the listener to drift between real and imagined spaces, forming connections in the half-light of memory and meaning.

Credits:
Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Artwork by nkl
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Partial Holograms

wlr191 Tapes and Topographies - Partial Holograms

Rott - Eai

10 Record 10

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

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

*****

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...

Tree of two skies [naviarhaiku489]

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