fave listenings of this month
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in the pic: Loney, Dear

"musica assoluta" (febbraio 2024)

Deadline: 7th February 2024

All submissions to Haiku 526:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

To participate:
- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”
To submit your track:
- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz
Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

Naviar Haiku Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
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haiku #526: Turning around / I see my shadow / in the moonlight

Here's a track from the forth coming album ....
The Rat Palace was our studio from when we first started seriously working together in 2016 until the landlords decided it was time for the artists to go and the tourists to come. It had been Mat's base since 2009 and hosted dozens of artists and musicians since it first started in 2006.
As the name suggests the place was run down, lacked various things like hot water, proper access and heating but it had a vibe, and the people we shared the space with all felt and helped to create it....Art was everything, day after night after day for years.
These 7 improvisations are a tiny fraction of the jams we had there, just a few highlights from 100s of jams. They are raw, unpolished and unconcerned with anything outside the moment. We rarely 'rehearsed' as such at the Rat Palace - just played.
Things come and things go - Vale Rat Palace, you were amazing.

Kirby/Ward -  Rat Palace Sessions Track 1 : Frantic. New Album out March 16

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin

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

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halF moonlighT [naviarhaiku526]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
526
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku526-turning-around/

2024-02-01

Turning Around ( Naviarhaiku 526)

My new contribution to the current Naviar Haiku project.

Moonlight Shadow (naviarhaiku526)

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poety after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.

 

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin
Picture by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Turning in the moon light (naviarhaiku526)

2024-02-02

Reflection Of The Moon On A Calm Surface

Exhibition title: Fukuoka Postcards
https://www.naviarrecords.com/fukuoka-postcards/

Drawing inspiration from his first two years as a father and the recent tenth anniversary of his record label Naviar Records, sound artist Marco Sebastiano Alessi created Fukuoka Postcards, a sound installation focused on the concept of time, and how humans and landscapes perceive it differently.

Marco spent four weeks at Studio Kura in Itoshima, collecting sounds from the local nature, temples, and shrines, looking for places where time seems to have stopped. Creating a collage of soundscapes and applying minimal melodies to convey human presence, Marco aims to create organic music in an endless, ever-changing loop, to represent the impermanence of art and timelessness of nature.

more info

Fukuoka Postcards - 30 min sound installation

A sequence of modulated sounds from a recorded improvisation.

Shadows In Moonlight (naviarhaiku526)

Hazed and Amused - Track 3

This week's haiku challenge:

Turning around,
I see my shadow
in the moonlight

Haiku by Sumitaku Kenshin

Sumitaku Kenshin was a haiku poet who practiced free-form haiku. He started writing poetry after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, and dedicated the last 2 years of his life to haiku, leaving 281 poems, mostly published by the free-form haiku magazine Kaishi.

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

Submission deadline: 7th Febuary 2024

Glimpse of a former self (naviarhaiku526)

Electronic music, field recordings and weird electroacoustic sounds.

Glimpse of a former self (naviarhaiku526)

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