The title speaks volumes the emotive phrasing  very deep in the violin cello and strings just an amazing piece J.

Love the way your tracks conjure an inexplicable mood, great work!

Beautiful, dark, ominous, tense.  Great work!

You create this continuous sense of strain within the music, as if there a struggle to unravel something that is tied too tight to be revealed.

Forbidden planet stuff going on here - fantastic!

Ah, the looming terror of eternal penance - you’ve constructed this beautifully Josef.

There’s Bartok here too - that’s always good!

Love the abiding mystery - the unfailing communion with it - like, as the image suggests, a deep prayer - thank you J

the chronological list of works since June 2020.

Sound Cloud Array 3

Illusory

Written in October 2025. Violin and orchestra.
Seated Balinese Woman, Arthur John Fleischmann.

Violin Concerto 2 (ii)

This is the third and final song in the group of settings of poems by Rabindranath Tagore by Frank Bridge which I have orchestrated.

III DWELLER IN MY DEATHLESS DREAMS song by Frank Bridge, arr. John Hopkins

Akeldama 1

John Minster: Melodics and Harmonics
https://soundcloud.com/user-344452265


J Umo: Riddems

After Galt

another angry pre dawn polonaise about frustration.

Pamietasz?

16(s)NNE

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vandals-deface-image-of-polands-black-madonna-in-dutch-city-15127

Anomie

Contrition

piano reduction of "Polonaise"
all other instruments and all effects removed
from the original session.

https://soundcloud.com/user-351690291/polonaise

WARSAWA (Polonaise 1a)

Something Going Crazy Session

Mama Knows Judo, and Chubby made the grade.

Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar(Solo)- Admiral Krank
Bass Guitar, Lead Guitar(Melody)- Vice Commandant Dubois
Drums - Monkey Blood Lowdown
Vocals - Nic

Copyright 2020. All Tights Reversed.

Greatest Hits

Mama Knows Judo

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4E91iv6ciiQBtsyQaprtug

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2z2ugiTNppfcvhmUq8ocsY?si=ooZFkaWIQI29JN7KRHe84Q

Won't Die

DENs: guitar & fx  https://soundcloud.com/mknradio
Sanja: modal synthesis & electronics

Thee Sorceress Plays Axis Harp Upon Ae Fairy Lullaby (MKN/SanjajnaG ArkestrA))

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass-geography-of-translations

In support of the "Translations" album by @Ilaria_Boffa:  https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/sets/translations
On @Meticulous-Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/news/2020-11-20-272

A year ago, we recorded our first joint track with Ilaria (https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/ilaria-boffa-foreign), and then we agreed that we would do another one later in which each of us will read own poem in native language. Everything coincided. "We translated our voices into exact references and wording. Now, hear." 

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (november 2020)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/geography-of-translations-ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass

Poem in Italian: Ilaria Boffa @Ilaria_Boffa
Poem in Russian, field recording & photo (poplars & wind): Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass
Music: Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey

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TRADUZIONI (Ilaria Boffa)

Una precisa geografia di pioppi bianchi
frassini e aceri circonda quest’area fluviale.
Narrazione di fruscii, conversazioni rumorose.
Traduzioni. Ciò che sentiamo e il linguaggio
udibile implicano indagini
sui modi di ascolto dell’altro.
In dubbio l’affettività, il riverbero degli oggetti
che scontra soggetti oltre noi.
Dentro quei metri cubi di suolo e aria
il suono prende spazio, costruisce e colpisce.
Neuro-trasforma e impatta la plasticità
delle cose.
Abbiamo tradotto le nostre voci in
riferimenti e formulazioni. Ora, ascoltami.

TRANSLATIONS 

A clear geography of silver poplars
ashes and maples surrounds this fluvial area.
A narrative of rustles, chatting loudly.
Translations. What we hear and the language
that makes it audible imply investigations
on others’ listening modes.
We question affectivity, objects’ reverbs
crashing into beings beyond us.
Inside those cubic metres of soil and air
noise spacialises, builds and hits.
It neuroshapes and impacts the plasticity
of things.
We translated our voices into exact
references and wording. Now, hear.

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ГЕОГРАФИЯ (Nata Boundariver)

На свете так много мест, куда я не смогу попасть.
Попасть бы хотя бы туда, где я есть.
Почти нигде и почти никогда.
Забытое слово я.

GEOGRAPHY 

There are so many places in the world where I cannot get.
Get at least where I am.
Almost nowhere and almost never.
Forgotten word I'm.

full

Geography of Translations (Ilaria Boffa & Crazy Compass)

dry sound of footsteps 
continue regularly 
close to this lamp

naviarhaiku359: dry sound of footsteps

“Liberate sound beyond all tradition” - 
Krzysztof Penderecki

My SoundCloud page = 
"...like a cripple who leaves behind his crooked footprints." - Fellini. - 8 1/2.

Contrition

Josef Umo (deceased)

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