Hey Opag, here is my remix of Bizarcool ! https://soundcloud.com/celestianteapot/bizarcool-ft-opag-kamel

Mike Cooper - Fratello Mare (RM462)

http://emporium.room40.org/products/551984-mike-cooper-fratello-mare

6. Mike Cooper - Fratello Mare

Vacanza Blu - Alessandro Alessandroni

This track is a segment from Galis and Pouya Ehsaei's live collaboration at Manana 2016. Pouya's live processing pushed the sonic boundaries of Gali's ancient Yoruba Bata rhythms, exploring their tonal possibilities, and shaping the pinpoint accuracy and energy of the percussion.

The result was a truly special exchange of musical craft and culture that both challenged and pulled audiences together at MANANA.

Galis is the founder of many of the most important musical institutions on the island, & one of the last men to still practice the secret rituals of batá drum-making. He embodies tradition, & has shared his vast bank of knowledge with many of the most important percussionists on the island, earning him a place as one of the last remaining "Godfathers" of Afro-Cuban drumming.

Gali & Pouya Ehsaei - Live at Manana 2016 - Santiago de Cuba

BizarCool

"Twist It All" - NYC New Wave Jam 7" - US, 1980's

Artist: Gigi
Title: Illuminated Audio
Cat Num: TIME003
Label: Time Capsule
Format: 180g Heavy double vinyl LP with liner notes by Tyran Grillo. Japanese Obi for the first pressing. Original artwork by Russell Mills and photography by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Remastered: Claudio Passavanti at Doctor Mix Studios, UK
Curator and Coordinator: Ken Hidaka

01 Abay

Abuja

Okokobioko

Suzanne Ciani
Flowers Of Evil
(Finders Keepers Records, FKR099)

As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of “modernité” (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the eeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exempli ed in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).

In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major lm soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless… Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and icks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/ electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically re ective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Flowers Of Evil

Suzanne Ciani - Flowers Of Evil (Excerpt)

Vic Mars – Inner Roads and Outer Paths
Inner Roads and Outer Paths is Herefordshire born Vic Mars’ third release on Clay Pipe Music.  It follows last years ‘The Soundtrack To The Hospice’ commissioned by Gideon Coe for BBC 6 Music, and 2015s critically acclaimed  ‘The Land and the Garden’.
Inspired by in part by Alfred Watkins words and photographs of Herefordshire, the record also harks back to a period in Vic’s youth spent exploring the abandoned houses and factories on the fringes of his home town; the in-between places where nature either takes back or loses its grip. On a recent visit home, he found a new road cutting through the fields he had played in as a child and realised that some of the older pathways and lanes had become lost or overgrown.  It is a record of trails, roads and holloways, that lead you out along the river, through ruined arches and over railway lines, past crumbling stately homes and back into the centre of town.
The album was recorded with 1980s style ‘tracker’ software, and a collection of instruments that includes alto recorders, school glockenspiels, a Roland Juno 60 and a Korg Monopoly. He manages to merge the wow and flutter of orchestral sounds from vintage British cinema documentaries, with Freddie Phillips style acoustic guitars and sequenced analog synths.  ‘Inner Roads and Outer Paths’ is a lush beautiful record that magically captures the Hereford landscape of Vic’s youth.

BizarCool

Recent comments

Related tracks