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A.r.t. Wilson - Rebecca's Theme (Water)

björk: stonemilker (patten rework) from vulnicura remixed - part three

Stonemilker (Patten Rework)

 [[tapedel] played & programmed customised Yamaha Disklavier Pro, Recorded To Nagra IVS 5"]

avril 14th, notes played backwards, not the audio.

chrome sparks meets psychic twin

Thunder Tillman is a cosmic vagabond who travels through space and time accompanied by his personal shaman. Together, as if having fallen to Earth, their mission is to recreate the music of their estranged home, reuniting with their brothers and sisters through an exquisite form of storytelling. While Western music may have degenerated over the past 65 years, troopers such as Thunder Tillman continue to drill down toward an elusive core, searching for something holy while never bastardizing their art with insincere advents of technology or convenience—as is apparent throughout their immaculate analogue production on this ESP Institute debut, Jaguar Mirror. Comparisons to genres like Krautrock are predictable, however we feel these four songs are so heavily narrative and wildly visceral that attempting to categorize the music would be a disservice to your imagination. We implore you to lay back in a nice stereo environment and absorb the purity of Thunder Tillman’s endeavor—appreciate their command of melody, composition, spectrum, magic… and try to recall the last time you chanced upon something truly different.

[ESP038] Jaguar Mirror

Jaguar Mirror

THUNDER TILLMAN - Exact Location of the Soul

Soon available on growing bin records: Krakatau' Tharsis Montes EP. The Melbourne based quartet is diving deep into black holes and solar flares to create their own style of sun-kissed funk and moonlit jazz. Enjoy your ride!

Krakatau - Tharsis Montes (9.57) shortened

The mysterious Leipzig based duo JAJA released one of favourite albums of 2016 (Tropical Bird Club) on ynfnd (you need friends not discs) and we have been waiting to release something from them on Shika Shika ever since! 

For this Botanas, JAJA serve us up two humid, organic tracks seeped in dark green vegetation and marked by screeching birds from the canopy and mysterious voices from the forest floor. One for the deep groove. 

Follow JAJA at: 

soundcloud.com/jaja-music
https://www.facebook.com/jajaminusmusic/

Download

JAJA - Zaka

Jako Maron, was born in St Denis, Reunion Island in 1968. He developed an interest in electronic music composition from the late 90’s and for the last 15 years began experimenting with the tertiary and binary beats of Maloya music via modular synthesis and drum machines. This album compiles for the first time his electro-Maloya experiments.

Traditional Maloya described the songs, music and dances of slaves of sugar plantations of Réunion Island in the 17th Century – Maloya ceremonies paid tribute to ancestors and mediated between the living and the dead. The music and culture began to be more widely accepted by Réunionese society from the 1930s as folklorist Georges Fourcade began to play Maloya songs. By the ‘50s, Maloya tracks were appearing on 78rpm releases and, in the ‘60s, it was used as a form of cultural protest music. In the mid-‘70s, a new generation began exploring new directions in the music, using Créole language and may different styles of Maloya music emerged. Jako Maron explores the full spectrum of these styles through his electronic re-interpretations of his native lands music.

Jako Maron - 08 - Papiyon Zerb Zon

This album is part of the crowdfunding campaign of Chakana. With the profit of it, you can help a native community in the Amazon rain forest of Peru. 

Chakana is a nonprofit association, creating a conscious and active audience. Promoting campaigns of care for the environment and preservation of native communities. 

All the songs in the album have icaros from the ancient culture of the shipibos community from the Peruvian rain forest.

Produced By Dharma Collective 
www.dharmaartinbalance.com 
Mastering by Tilman 
Art Cover by Sordi 
www.chakanaproject.com 
2018

Oxhala - Ancient Wisdom

Loya - Amba (Dengue Dengue Dengue Remix)

After years of playing peak time sets in clubs around the globe I became too focused on a world where everything is turned up to maximum, where screams and hands in the air are the main measure of approval. I was missing something, so I made a return to my downtempo roots with this EP for Amselcom.

These 4 songs are the music I hear when I close my eyes and drift away. These are the soundtracks of my daydreams.

John Cobalt's deer photograph perfectly captures my feelings of curiosity and trepidation which led me to the release of this EP.

@leejones

Lee Jones - Shaman's Blues

Boundary-pushing composer and sound designer Andi Otto returns with his new album ‘Rwandance’, which sees live instruments, studio recordings and sampled archival material melded together as part of an electrifying reimagining of the musical traditions of Rwanda.

‘Rwandance’ is a collaboration between Rwandan dancer and musician Evariste Karinganire and cello player and electronic music producer Andi Otto, brought together by a chance connection. Inspired by Steve Reich, Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 and Otto’s mesmerising musical experiences touring India, Otto built software to translate the intensity of Karinganire’s hand claps into different synth notes - the structure and time signature of traditional Rwandan music providing the framework for Otto’s creations, new instruments and sounds incorporated into its parameters.

Otto follows a path similar to many producers from Latin America’s burgeoning electronic music scene but instead of using Andean folk music as a starting point, he reappraises Rwandan music mirroring traditional sounds but similarly, reimagined through a contemporary lens. ‘Rwandance’ follows Otto’s 2016 link-up with Indian singer and actress M.D. Pallavi and underground hit ‘Bangalore Whispers’, a showcase for his original approach to cross-cultural musical dialogue. He has since cemented that reputation with subsequent albums “Via” and “Bow Wave”, weaving global sounds into his distinct sonic approach.

Shika Shika is a home for music that combines organic and electronic sounds, a meeting place between the past and the future. (They also put an emphasis on supporting artists, splitting profits in their favour.) This chimes exactly with what Otto wanted to achieve in his collaboration with Karinganire, taking deeply-rooted traditions and giving them a new sonic make-up.

Rwandance

Andi Otto - Amahamba

Stream & Download: ffm.to/zenitnadir

Dengue Dengue Dengue continue expanding their carefully created aesthetic on their new album ‘Zenit & Nadir’ by diving into the deep and rich musical history of Afro-Peruvian music, already hinted in the first single ‘Ágni’, which is the inversion of the traditional Afro-Peruvian rhythm Ingá. The ongoing exploration of the vast and rich musical heritage of the descendants of the former African slaves in Peru has become the main focus of their new album. 

Their interest in Afro-Peruvian music has led them to meet and record extensively with several members of the Ballumbrosio family, a renowned musical dynasty in Peru that has kept Afro-Peruvian musical traditions alive, masters of rhythms like landó, festejo and crioullo music, with traditional dances and instruments such as the iconic quijada - a rattling percussive instrument made out of a donkey’s jawbone. 

The introduction of live recordings with the Ballumbrosio brothers has given a whole new dimension to their always-expanding sound, and they feature extensively all throughout the album. As they were such an integral part of the recording process it made perfect sense that they would contribute to expand Dengue Dengue Dengue’s memorable audiovisual performance as well, and have began playing live shows together this year. The marriage between the traditional and organic percussion of the Ballumbrosios with DDD’s hypnotic electronic production has created a whole new chapter for the band. 

After debuting in 2012, they established themselves as a driving force in the thriving South American digital cumbia scene, but have since expanded their hybrid approach to music to introduce more references such as kuduro and zouk - and more recently the above mentioned Afro-Peruvian styles - which they fuse with traditional Latin American rhythms to build a sonic identity that is hypnotic and dark, while simultaneously festive and life-affirming. 

With the band being a visual project as much as a musical one, their carefully created aesthetic can be immediately noticed in the iconic masks they wear, often referencing traditional or indigenous elements while being artful and futuristic, a striking visual representation of their approach to music. Their new masks, which are being debuted on their upcoming tour, were handcrafted by Barcelona-based artists Twee Muizen.

Zenit & Nadir

Banyuwangi

Stream & Nadir

Dengue Dengue Dengue - Banyuwangi

Células Ácidas - Gravedad Blanca (Free Download)

@santide
www.facebook.com/santidecanaldub
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La música , como la naturaleza, tiene la capacidad de transformarse infinitamente. Los humanos, en esa transformación, nos adaptamos y somos parte de lo que ocurre, no solo musicalmente, sino a la vez en otros ámbitos y acontecimientos sociales. Vivimos una realidad donde presenciamos logros/fracasos, éxitos/errores, construcción/destrucción, etc. Resultando así una suma de situaciones, decisiones, y posiciones que definen realidades, estilos de vida, forman culturas..

Cultura, a la que pertenecemos y representamos.
Cultura, el tesoro más valiosa de un grupo humano.
Cultura, la manera más segura para ir de la mano.

Alterno, es un álbum que hace una alusión a esas infinitas posibilidades y culturas musicales del presente pasado y futuro , desde un contexto sudamericano.
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Master: Nathan Hall
Artwork: Möstros (www.instagram.com/mostrosinside)

Santi D - Aqui Nomas (Original Mix)

Vinyl/Download/Stream:

https://nicolacruz.lnk.to/siku-reworks

Nicola Cruz re-visits his second album 'Siku', released earlier this year to widespread acclaim, with ‘Siku Reworks’. The release provides the listener with another perspective on the ‘Siku’ domain, one envisioned in different corners of the world; Argentina, the UK, and Japan to name a few.  In an effort to unlink the original material, Cruz has selected producers to re-work a designated song on 'Siku' according to their own style. Additionally, Cruz has chosen to re-record two tracks whose live versions have stuck with him throughout a year of constant touring.

   ‘Siku Reworks’ invokes a psychedelic view of the original material, Hermetics (R&S) provides deep atmospherics with his take on 'Obsidiana' and Nicola offers an acid-merengue-infused live version of 'Señor de las Piedras' alongside an infectious and club-ready re-work of live favourite 'Siete'. In some ways it's hard to define Nicola's sound, shaped by years of global touring, and every track here is unique and succeeds in breaking from the usual electronic music format in captivating fashion.

Siku Reworks

Nicola Cruz - Obsidiana (Makedub Steppers Remix)

MinolPirol

This is NAOBA's remake of NILLO's "Maga" originally released on Akumandra.
This remake describes the kind of eхöтιc elecтronιca & нaυnтed world вeaт that is currently being developed by some Central American artists taking from the indigenous sounds connected to the ancient spirituality of the land.

Music by: @Naobamusic & @NilloCR
Vocals by: Teresa Gabriel

Artwork: http://www.instagram.com/mostrosinside
More music by NAOBA : http://www.naoba.bandcamp.com
And Teresa Gabriel: www.teresagabriel.pt

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