Wonderful deep vibrations. I will have to take another listen later 🙂

raelx2013 TDWM A long time, such a beautiful piece in concept/execution.

All submissions to Haiku 340:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze


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- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

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haiku #341: A fragrant breeze / Is blowing from China / Over these seven strings

Transit is the 8th track on the new album 'Shō Ga Nai' by QUBIK.

Shō Ga Nai

Fall out

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j'es-danouis - 2025:06:18, 14.36

Emotionally Suited To Be A Solo Pianist is an album by pianist and composer Louis Gardner, a singer-songwriter and artist based in London, UK. Louis began improvising at the age of 12, writing songs by 15 and recording at 18, steadily developing a practice rooted in instinct and exploration. His music sits somewhere between Modern Classical, experimental Folk and lo-fi songwriting, drawing influence from key musical figures such as Morton Feldman, Arthur Russell and Elliott Smith.

Louis’ creative process begins in solitude, often at the piano or guitar, where ideas emerge freely without preconception. “Everything begins in a place of improvisation and exploration” he explains. “I try to capture my ideas as fresh as possible, often using the first take and not scrutinising my playing.” This unfiltered approach has become central to his identity as an artist, reflecting an affinity for raw expression and imperfection over gloss and polish.

Recorded in a studio session during a long winter in London, Emotionally Suited To Be A Solo Pianist began as a single three-hour piano improvisation, completed just after his girlfriend had returned home to America. The album unfolds as both a document of that moment and a reflection on distance, solitude and emotional unravelling. The opening track preserves the first 15 minutes of the improvisation in full, with its unedited flow capturing this sense of isolation that defined the recording period.

Between these piano passages, Louis wove intimate songs for guitar, dulcimer and accordion - all recorded with AKG pencil microphones and performed on what he calls his 'special guitar', an old instrument passed down from his father. Louis recalls “it was the first guitar my father gave me which he used to learn Nick Drake songs, it’s strings have not been changed in decades”. Vocals were later added at home using an Aston Spirit microphone, their soft, unguarded delivery providing a fragile counterpoint to the instrumentals.

In his own words, “I was excited to make a Christmas album that, instead of expressing the normal joyful feeling of winter time, expressed feelings of hollowness and solitude.” The result is a deeply personal collection that feels timeless; a quiet, human account of being alone in a season usually filled with togetherness, where warmth and melancholy coexist in equal measure. The album draws to its conclusion ‘I can't wait to see you this Christmas’ as the melancholy is underpinned with a sense of hope, reflecting on being reunited at last for Christmas.

Emotionally Suited to Be a Solo Pianist

wlr196 Louis Gardner - Emotionally Suited To Be A Solo Pianist

Photo: Aceh Indonesia, 2016.

Sucker for filtered guitars, so enjoy.

As ever, listen all the way through = good karma... thank you.

Drums: NI Kontakt loops.
Bass: Sandberg Elektra 4-string with flats through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Fender Telecaster into NI GuitarRig and Archetype Mateus Asato
Keys: various VST from NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 11 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12

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Raindrops on Cherries

root conductor

trm;ln_generative

Fluid Audio presents 'Broadcasting From Nowhere', the debut album from Ondelunghe, a collaboration between Tokyo-based multi-instrumentalist Hiromu Yamaguchi and Italian composer Guido Lusetti. Conceived not through physical proximity but through distance, correspondence, and quiet exchange, the album feels like a message transmitted across frozen air-intimate, fragile, and partly obscured by static.

Yamaguchi’s contributions-piano and field recordings, carry the brittle tenderness of winter breath. Keys sound as though pressed with hesitation, leaving behind vapour trails of melody that threaten to vanish the moment they form. The recordings themselves crackle and hiss, as if weathered by frost, capturing the small, persistent noises of a world bracing against silence: creaking surfaces, shifting air, something moving just out of sight.

Lusetti’s work-what he refers to as electronic pointillism, does not counter these gestures but suspends them. His tones drift like cold particulate matter, dust motes in a beam of static, circling the piano without ever enclosing it. Occasionally, other voices, Henrik Meierkord’s cello, Ed van der Berkel’s trumpet, Daniele Varelli’s shakuhachi-surface not as performers but as spectral presences. Their sounds arrive like signals from an abandoned transmitter, lingering momentarily before dissolving back into the dark.

The album unfolds slowly, as though aware that silence has weight, and too sudden a movement might shatter it. Notes hang, unravel, and fall away like light snow. The music never insists; it waits. To listen to Broadcasting From Nowhere is to tune into a frequency that feels both familiar and unreachable, a broadcast sent from a place you’re not entirely sure exists, or ever did.

Credits:

Hiromu Yamaguchi: piano, field recordings
Guido Lusetti: free electrons, found voices

Henrik Meierkord: cello 
Ed van der Berkel: trumpet
Daniele Varelli: shakuhachi 

Mixing and mastering: Hiromu Yamaguchi

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Ondelunghe - Rust Nostalgia

2025-12-05

moment of peace

bUT  Not  2day

A fragrant breeze
Is blowing from China
Over these seven strings

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/

Samples from https://github.com/abalone1969/tiochatopiano
Photo by Joshua Fuller: https://unsplash.com/photos/9Ng6mvu7ZNg

Stochastic piano

Stochastic piano (naviarhaiku341)

Kaoru kaze ya morokoshi kakete nana no o ni

A fragrant breeze
Is blowing from China
Over these seven strings

[trans. Fumiko Yamamoto]

haiku by Tagami Kikusha https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/tagami-kikusha.html

picture by zhu wei https://unsplash.com/@zhuwei5021

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

blah freeze

halF breezE [naviarhaiku341]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
341week haiku
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https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/

2020-07-16

A Fragrant Breeze Is Blowing From China Over These Seven Strings ( Naviarhaiku 341 )

a fragrant breeze
is blowing from China 
over these seven strings

naviarhaiku341: a fragrant breeze

I was mad at the world…and then I let it go. 
This song represents the process of recognizing an automatic negative thought and eliminating it mindfully.

Ends With Hope

Ends with Hope (NaviarHaiku341)

Based on a traditional piece played on the guqin by Yin Yihao Nan.

Created for Naviar Records' 341st Haiku Challenge. See https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/07/15/naviarhaiku341-a-fragrant-breeze/ for details and other inspirations.

White snow variations [naviarhaiku341]

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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...

White snow variations [naviarhaiku341]

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