Ambient Complex

available now on brownswood bubblers three and also forthcoming on emanative// time which drops on april the 5th 2010

Turn Your Lights On

Moses Boyd drums/composition/production 
binker golding- tenor sax
artie zaits-guitar
theon cross - Tuba

A Message From Saturn

40 Winks is an instrumental hip hop duo made up of producers Padmo' and Weedy from Antwerp, Belgium. Meticulously chopping and pasting samples together since 2002, 40 Winks create cinematic atmospheres and vibes which we love here at LDBK radio. 

A couple of weeks ago, 40 Winks released their 5th full length album on Project: Mooncircle, a double LP entitled "It’s The Trip". Check the mix they offered to LDBK to celebrate this release: http://i.mixcloud.com/CYXvi  

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This track is produced by Weedy.

This track will be part of the LDBK compilation album.
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40 Winks - Flight of Ideas

Voices

[Verse 1 – Enfolding the Whole]

We are enfolded in the universe —
every moment holds the totality. 
Like Bohm said: man is a microcosm of the whole;
what you are is clue to reality. 

I come with infinite heat,
calm blue meeting me like a friend.
Where the matter wears me thin,
that’s where awareness begins.

An envelope that dreams us,
the implicate singing the overture.
Every fold is a pattern,
every pattern is the nature of what’s sure.

[Chorus – Rhythm of the Breath]

This is the implicate breath,
a funk in the folds of time.
We breathe the hidden pattern,
we move the unseen rhyme.

Consciousness swirls in flux,
matter and mind converge. 

This is the implicate breath,
the code beneath the door.
What unfolds from us becomes us—
and becomes us even more.

[Verse 2 – Holomovement Groove]

Bohm called it holomovement—
the whole flowing unseen. 
Undivided wholeness is the ground we’ve been.
Time and space just screens,
while the deeper stream hums between.

Consciousness more implicate than matter,
yet inseparable over the chatter. 
What hides in silence
speaks in fractal song.
Every memory is enfolded,
every moment’s breath prolongs.

[Bridge – Dialogue of Being]

Thought creates our world,
then says, “I didn’t do it.”
Dialogues suspend certainty
and let the truth renew it. 

Wholeness is real—even when fragmentation seems false.
The whole responds not to us
but to our fragmented pulse. 

So take a breath here—
knowledge as law,
difference as dance,
perception as awe.

[Chorus – Rhythm of the Breath]

This is the implicate breath,
a funk in the folds of time.
We breathe the hidden pattern,
we move the unseen rhyme.

Consciousness swirls in flux,
matter and mind converge.
This is the implicate breath,
the code beneath the door.

[Verse 3 – Identity as Pattern]

Our identity isn’t solid—
it’s a signature in movement.
A wave singing itself
through the dance of improvement.

Implicate folds into explicate,
the hidden births the seen. ￼
Every part is a portal,
every moment evergreen.

We can’t see past our sight
until we see from outside.
In the implicate breath,
stillness is the ride.

[Break – Urban Quantum Jam]

Feel the funk of wholeness,
hear the hum of the grid.
What you’re living breathes the song,
what you sing is what you become.

Consciousness and carbon,
matter and mind align.
Every inhale is a weave,
every exhale is divine.

[Final Chorus – Breath Expanded]

This is the implicate breath,
where energy meets identity.
We’re both creator and created,
in holo-synchronicity.

This is the implicate breath,
the map that dreams the frame.
We are the envelope
that dreams itself aflame.


[Outro – Whispered Return]

Undivided wholeness sings,
fragmentation only sings back.
Hold the breath in both ends,
and reality brings us back.

We are the hint,
we are the pattern,
we are the breath
that folds the matter.

— The Implicate Breath.

The Implicate Breath

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Fold – Something Gives
Released September 12, 2016
CD & digital download

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Having included this track among his favourites of 2016 on the last day of the year Huey Morgan also provided the UK national radio debut on BBC 6 Music followed by a hat trick of spins from Gideon Coe. Kara Manning broadcasted the US radio premiere courtesy of WFUV, New York.

Something Gives is a timely vehicle for the keen eloquence of James Baldwin whose voice, along with that of the wonderful Alice Walker, is the basis of the track.

We've been feeling urgently compelled to respond somehow to the heavy sociopolitical escalations of late on both sides of the pond. This release is our way of bridging the distances & expressing universal solidarity as human beings. Musically the tune bears similarities to A Tribe Called Quest's jazzy hip hop vibes and Arthur Verocai's Brazilian way of joy and despair all at once.

All music written, arranged, performed, engineered, produced & mixed by Seth Mowshowitz apart from tenor saxophone arranged and performed by Emma Johnson.
http://www.johnsonmusic.co.uk/

Mastered by Erik Aldrey
http://www.erikaldrey.com/

LYRICS
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[James Baldwin]

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

These people have deluded themselves for so long they really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.

It doesn't matter any longer what you do to me: you can put me in jail, you can kill me. By the time I was 17 you'd done everything that you could do to me. The problem now is: how you gonna save yourselves?

How you gonna save yourselves?

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

There are days, one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How precisely are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here, and how you're going to communicate that you are here?

The country has arrived at a place where it can no longer contain revolt. Human beings are not by nature non-violent, you know? You can only survive so many beatings, so much humiliation, so much despair, so many broken promises before something gives.

Before something gives.

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
We are being killed by people who don't feel – if we get down to that, that is the problem.

[James Baldwin]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart…

[Alice Walker]
If you don't feel it you kill it because you think it doesn't feel either…

[REFRAIN]
I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.

[Alice Walker]
So away with that, we don't want that.

[James Baldwin]
I'm aware that something terrible has happened, which is very hard to describe.

Something Gives

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Taken from the debut Kamaal Williams LP 'The Return'
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Kamaal Williams - High Roller

This is a rare recording of folkloric free jazz soul music by Sam Gendel.
Listen if you want to view paradise.

Sam Gendel - Pure Imagination

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar full-length album on ltd cassette and world wide digital June 15th

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Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar album out June 15th on cassette and world wide digital via Leaving Records

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - THEEM AND VARIATIONS

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Forest Run"

The Anne EP is the afterword to Joseph Shabason’s acclaimed 2018 full-length Anne through which he examined and processed his mother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease.  Employing a small supporting cast that includes vocalist Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and guitarist Thomas Gill (Owen Pallett), Anne EP spotlights the Toronto saxophonist as he builds empathic tropospheres of woodwinds and synthesizers, deepening the sentiment established by the EP's companion album, which was released in November 2018.  The detail and idiosyncrasy beneath the material's dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen, elevates Shabason's work far beyond mere aesthetic exercise, cementing jazz, ambient sound design, and new age revivalism into a timely new genre all his own.

Tour with Jessica Pratt:
May-09-Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
May-10-Chicago, IL Sleeping Village
May-11-Pittsburgh, PA The Warhol
May-12-Toronto, ON The Garrison
May-13-Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
May-15-Boston, MA Great Scott
May-16-Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
May-17-Washington, DC Miracle Theatre
May-19-Brooklyn, NY Park Church Co-Op

Anne EP

Joseph Shabason - "Broken Hearted Kota"

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Eddie Chacon experienced proper, peak-nineties acclaim in the soul duo Charles and Eddie: they scored a global No. 1 in 1992 with “Would I Lie To You,” appeared three times on Top of the Pops, and featured on soundtracks from True Romance to Super Mario Bros.. Their crooning style was clearly pop-ready, but undeniably reverent: the pair first met when Eddie noticed Charles carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s "Trouble Man” on a New York subway train.

By that time, Chacon had already been navigating music in interesting ways, all the way back to his teen garage rock band with the late Cliff Burton (Metallica) and Mike Bordin (Faith No More). In the late ’80s, he released a full-length on Uncle Luke from 2 Live Crew’s label and signed to Columbia as a solo act. He was a working artist, always popping up in unexpected places: through the course of his career, Chacon would write, sing, or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe.

In the words of Mac DeMarco: “Eddie Chacon is planet earth’s number one musician. Yesterday, today, and forever.”

Years ago, Chacon retired from music for a second calling as a fashion photographer and creative director. In an interview at the time, he said, “I was fortunate to have a 35-year music career and felt that there wasn’t that much more for me to say or achieve.” Very thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Private experiments, far from the major-label center he once frequented, began to feel urgent and new. “There’s nothing more exciting for me than getting to start from the beginning again,” he says today.

“Pleasure, Joy and Happiness” will be available July of 2020 on the boutique Los Angeles-based label Day End Records. This is a thoughtfully considered album of quiet, confident R&B: it doesn’t jump out at you, but rather gets in you. Produced by John Carroll Kirby, the like-minded artist and collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, it features restrained percussion from Kanye West’s Sunday Service drummer Lamar Carter. Celestial soul as a break from chaos, these are quietly challenging songs as timeless as they are contemporary.

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus,” says John Carroll Kirby. “I was excited to produce a record for him that captured the chill, laid-back wisdom and easy vocal mastery he has that you don’t see that much these days.”

Lead single “My Mind Is Out of Its Mind” finds a deep groove to try and contain spiraling heartbreak, while the sweet and wobbly “Trouble” balances the delightful near whisper of the title track “Pleasure, Joy and Happiness.” But even the project’s lightest moments feel sincere and mature. Altogether: a truly unifying release, coming from a man who’s earned the right to share such a regal, romantic sound.

“I used to think to myself,” Chacon says, “if I ever make a record again, I’d want it to be a record you’d have to be my age to make.”

Eddie Chacon - 01 - "Trouble"

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Eddie Chacon - 01 - "Trouble"

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