City sounds, industrial ambience, excellent mallet  accompliment... a well integrated sonic structure... 

tapes and leaves

Made this collage the night he died. Used these sampled loops for a live performance at Mostra Barcelona 2023

https://ryuichisakamoto.bandcamp.com

Sakamoto Tribute Collage

Thx HOC radio X Mostra for adding my ambient mix "We Carry Eden" to your great playlist. You can listen to the voice of American minimal poet Robert Lax (photo) who lived on Patmos, Greece. Music contains samples from artists like Sigur Rós, Shabaka, Sam Gendel, Ulla, Arooj Aftab, Houeida Hedfi, Mira Calix, O Yuki Conjugate, Jon Hassell, Nala Sinephro, Pharoah Sanders and more. 

Vocal samples in this mix from the "Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep" docu by Demetrios. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq-l26UOhw&t=433s

Coming soon the "We Carry Eden" album by Son Of Chi

Listen more:
https://soundcloud.com/hoc-radio

We Carry Eden - Son Of Chi Mix for HOC Radio X Mostra Barcelona

A 13.30 minute collage of the album "Travel In Peace" that i recorded in 2019 as a requiem for my soulbrother J.Derwort. 

At 11.30 min you can hear his last flute ever recorded. I call this piece "Last Breath". It was a sunny day in january 2019 at his house in Santa Fe, where he moved december 2018. I put out a comfortable chair with a blanket in the winter sun. And a small table, a cup of tea and his first ever made bamboo flute. He said: thank you but i can not play anymore. After 30 minutes he still picked up the flute and played for a few seconds, that i recorded on my telephone. He said: it's no good at all, but still it's oke, i know you will put your magic to it later. He borrowed me this flute that he made at the Kallikatsou early eighties to record more myself. It was a kind of farwell. A month later he died. Of course i was there too and his best friends.
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You can download the original album (2 x 21 minute) here:
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-18-travel-in-peace
The vinyl was sold out shortly after the release. They now sell copies up to Є 200 on Discogs, which is of course crazy.  I hope Astral will do a repress soon. 

Here are a few of the reviews:

Fred Mikardo-Greaves for Norman Records:
‘Travel In Peace’. Sound advice. Our own Ant rather delightfully described Chi Factory’s ‘Travel In Peace’ as a ‘mind lozenge’, and this latest set is certainly a balm for the soul in extraordinary times. The two side-long meditations here are sonically rather amorphous - aquatic drone, fourth-world soundscapes, spiritual incantations and far-out flurries of field recording can all be found across the course of the LP. Jon Hassell, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra and ‘Tower Of Meaning’-mode Arthur Russell keep watch over both band and listener throughout. ‘Travel In Peace’, and leave refreshed.

Juno Records:
"Following the death of his one-time Chi Factory partner J.Derwort in February 2019, Hanyo van Oosterom went back to Patmos, the magical island where they once recorded their most famous works, armed with some of the artefacts and hand-built instruments they'd collected together. While there, he made the field recordings and musical sketches that form the backbone of "Travel In Peace", Oosterom's emotional final album as Chi Factory. Poignant, atmospheric, melancholic, dreamy and otherworldly with a genuine sense of time and place (you can almost smell the surrounding flora and fauna), the album's two lengthy tracks - collages of interlinked sketches and recurring musical motifs - are fittingly fantastic. As curtain calls go, we can think of few better".

Here's an interview with "A Vague New World" from 2019. It's all about the story behind CHI, The Chi Factory and Son Of Chi:
https://vaguenewworld.substack.com/p/in-conversation-hanyo-van-oosterom

And a video collage on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6scnruYei0Q

Travel In Peace Collage

Not for sale, free download here

"Inspired by my visit at the house of the American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) on Patmos, Greece October 2015. Back home I started making random samples from Youtube and creating soundscapes. All loops are realtime and randomly put together. While doing this i got the test vinyl of the "Original Recordings" by CHI, that we made 30 years ago. To be released in 2016 by Astral Industries (UK). It felt like the circle was closed.

"My first ambient track ever was called Hopi (1983). This new soundscape closes with a Hopi message. The photo is a Hopi Angel (this is what i googled). The soundscape created itself. I was only putting it together. It all came random and easily.

"A collective of sounds and voices from around the world. You'll hear poetry by Robert Lax, a Bukovski reading by Tom Waits, samples of Sun Ra, Nikos Eliou (Patmos), Koos Derwort (CHI) the voice of Nelson Mandela, John Cage, Inayat Khan, Ram Dass and much, much more. Hope you'll like it".

One Moment, Not Separate

REALLY went back to my roots with this one.

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