fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Franco Battiato

"musica assoluta" (maggio 2025)

All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- 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 X, 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

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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 Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

Naviar Records Membership (access to full discography, creative meetups, workshops, and more): 

All submissions are here: www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591…-spring-rains/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- 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 X, 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

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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 Records store: www.naviarrecords.bandcamp.com

Naviar Records Membership (access to full discography, creative meetups, workshops, and more): https://www.naviarrecords.com/membership-and-services/#membership

haiku #592: slanting sunlight rays / a warm hazy afternoon / the forest to hear

A hopefully peaceful track composed for the 591st Naviar Haiku challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Haiku:
steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!
— Ōshima Ryōta

Photo by: Soubhagya Ranjan (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tree-with-green-leaves-YqFqYd_WQHU)

The rain field recording felt inevitable as a starting point—once in place, the chimes followed naturally. Two measures of gentle drones and a few understated piano notes later, and the piece settled into a safe haven. Nothing more felt necessary.

Steady spring rains (naviarhaiku591)

Su Gurdoni - The Seven Sisters (A sardinian night sky)

a kind word costs nothing

I definitely believe Joy Division is the greatest band of all time. Are they on the gold record in the Voyager spacecraft? If not, humanity has made a mistake. Probably just a launch date that was too early!

Freedom from something

2025-05-03 08_52_05

Messing with a crystal bell ... !

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

Marc Sheridan is an ever-curious person who loves what is just around the corner: the unusual and the mysterious. Even everyday objects and scenes can always be viewed differently.

He is English but currently living in the US, and he always remembers what Ansel Adams once said, "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Marc believes that photography rewards him with a greater connection to everything around him.

Lately, Marc has been writing haiku, but he's not sure whether he illustrates his photos with haiku or reveals his haiku through photography.

He has been published in numerous magazines in the US and the UK and has exhibited up and down the West Coast of the US for the past 23 years.

Haiku by Marc Sheridan: https://bsky.app/profile/northernvoodoo.bsky.social

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF slantinG [naviarhaiku592]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
592
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/

2025-05-07

slanting sunlight rays Naviarhaiku 592 )

Recorded, mixed & mastered on 07 May 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Guitar, ebow, prepared guitar, bow, guitar synth, effects.

This original version of "Reply Hazy, Try Again" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 592: Slanting Sunlight Rays.

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear

by: Marc Sheridan

Marc Sheridan is an ever-curious person who loves what is just around the corner: the unusual and the mysterious. Even everyday objects and scenes can always be viewed differently.

He has been published in numerous magazines in the US and the UK and has exhibited up and down the West Coast of the US for the past 23 years.

Infrared photography/art - Jim Lemanowicz, 27 Apr 2009,  Massapequa, NY, USA. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

Reply Hazy, Try Again (naviarhaiku592)

slanting sunlight rays
a warm hazy afternoon
the forest to hear
(Marc Sheridan)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku592-slanting-sunlight-rays/
Komposition1068 Klavier

slanting /naviarhaiku592/

A textured drone sequence, sounds created using Pure Data.

the forest is listening_NAVIARHAIKU592

mike shockley