Gozen Atila

@menqui cooked us a laidback hour for the hotter days. Prepare yourself a Ti'punch, layout under a tree and enjoy the coming summer while listening to this groovy selection.

Karagi ಏ Menqui

Dream Weapons present: SEVEN SUTRAS C60 ☾

Art has its triptychs, religion has its trinities and Prabha Devi has finally finished the unholy collection of three Sevens. In the very early days of Dream Weapons, Seven Daemons was released. Seven Rays came along a little later, and now finally the penultimate chapter is complete: Seven Sutras.

Though a Sutra is more of poetic roots, the name sounded evocative and fit with the overall theme of "exotic oriental" that runs through the spine of the mix, delving sideways into some Brazilian girl groups and even Mauritius rock. Largely instrumental, but collected to be listened to as a whole album, turn it on during an extra dull winter day and let it brighten up the living room for an hour at least -Prabha Devi

1 Mohamed Mazouni - Ecoute Moi Camarade
2 Elias Rahbani - La Dance De Nadia
3 Ammar El Sherei - Asmar Ya Asmarani
4 Zafer Dilek - Çiçek Dağı
5 Gökçen Kaynatan - Pencerenin Perdesini
6 R.D. Burman - Shalimar Title Music
7 Ti L'Afrique - Soul Sock Séga
8 Teo Usuelli - Piacere Sequenc

9 Regiane - Broken Heart Melody
10 Isabelle Aubret - Pour Aimer Il Faut Etre Trois
11 Kartina Dahari - Seruling Senja
12 不得了 - 姚蘇蓉
13 Hany Mehanna - فرحة - Farha
14 Bimbo & Lin - Lalaki
15 Fer'et El Moseeqa El Arabeya - Ahwak
16 Baligh Hamdi - Zamane

Dream Weapons present: ☾ SEVEN SUTRAS C60 ☾

soFa elsewhere on Alhara

Set I played this year at »C∅smic Gathering« at Alte Spinnerei Chemnitz, enjoy! x

Big thanks to〰️❤
〰️🪐 C∅smic Gathering crew & all the lovely people on the dancefloor  〰️💎 Florentin Tudor and Perija for some tracks 〰️🫦 Hannah Pezzack for voiceovers


All sets of the weekend can be found at https://soundcloud.com/cosmicgathering/sets/recordings-cosmic-gathering


@cosmicgathering @poor-relatives @hannah-pezzack

Cosmic Gathering 2022

C∅smic Gathering 2◐22

https://soundcloud.com/andrepahl is a freelance creative coder with graphic design background. After 10 years abroad –Amsterdam and Mexico City– he settled in Berlin. There, he began a mix series of pitched down cinematic journeys called 'Safari', often constructed in many sonic layers. He's a true Gemini, always up for some mischief and new adventures when travelling with friends and like-minded peeps. He hates waiting, certainly in queues. His only phobia is of spiders above a certain size, which will def occur in this mix at some point. Furthermore, it's again a fierce collage concept. A sultry, mad, flaming, desperate river of no return.....

» This sonic landscape is a musical odyssey into a distant realm and its hidden memories — a tribute to nature's relentless brutality as well as its beauty, to an everlasting cycle of of extreme conditions that shape an unforgiving landscape. Imagine gnarled, sun-bleached trees shrouded in mist while countless creatures crawl beneath their twisted roots, and with every overturned leaf, a new microcosm emerges, revealing the intricate beauty amidst the savagery. It becomes difficult to tell whether the sky or the abyss lies above or below. 

What you hear is a collage of ethereal voices and sounds, fusing echoes of the past with whispers of the future. It is also a metaphor for an inner journey. Joy and sorrow shake hands, love, decay and renewal intertwine — a tapestry woven from the strands of existence, representing the unbridled power of the subconscious. «

For Hannah ♥

NOSE JOB 39 — ANDRÉ PAHL

Prepare for an electrifying journey into the realm of experimental electronic music as @freybenedikt takes the reins of our channel. With a knack for curating strange yet captivating sounds, this mix promises to defy conventions and immerse listeners in a sonic landscape unlike any other.

Karagi ಏ Benedikt Frey

This mixtape features (mostly) Sundanese psychedelic pop music recorded during the 1970s when the Suharto military dictatorship ruled Indonesia. These recordings were chosen due to their signature sound in which haunting and darkly psychedelic notes mingle strangely with endearing girl pop vibes to create an unusual, intense and suspenseful atmosphere.

MUSIC OF THE PSYCHEDELIC MILITARY STATE

with @theatreofforgottenconcern at ELLIPTICA, Porto, Portugal
https://www.instagram.com/elliptica.elliptica/?api=1

INSTRUÇÕES RITUAIS

Again, I know, it has been years since the last episode of Respuesta Alternativa. But things need time, I guess, and after two years of travelling, devastating earthquakes, beautiful friendships, magical basements, lonely nights behind bars and lazy afternoons at the beach, I thought now is the right moment to reflect on the current state of mind in this format. Although the radioshow itself seems to not be sufficient to explain everything i have felt during that time, it still allows me to display a certain result, a specific feeling I am left with at the moment. Now just take my hand, close your eyes and let me take you elsewhere..

Starting from a darker point, I try to tell a story about loneliness, vagabondage and love, always accompanied by my dirty pair of leather shoes.

This is for my dearest Brothers (they know..) and Sisters (they definitely know..) and everyone I could win over ;)

Respuesta Alternativa #12 - Love me, On A Windy Night

SON OBJET at Sameheads

From "Hard Sell", album coming up on June 6, 2025.
https://disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/album/hard-sell

The Manchester-born, Brussels-shaped Giulio Erasmus plays with time, space, era, and the words that weave it all together.
After two solo records released on Mangel Records & Absolute Fiction (plus a freshly unveiled live album from Meakusma 2024), he now - joined by the quintet The End of The Worm - presents his new offering: Hard Sell.

A redigestion of forty years of underground English culture, collided by the urgency and freedom of Brussels' new wave; Hard Sell is an exploration led by a bassline that acts like a compass - around which swirl whispers, cut-ups, abstractions, percussion bursts and sudden clearings.
Together they shape a quiet narration, murmuring possible futures, indifferent to any of their consent. 
credits

Mute, Fastened (LPSPI004)

We are happy to welcome London based Sally Evans aka SALLAD EGG, an artist, maker and music selector with a passion for the weird, wonky and wonderful. Enjoy listening. @salladegg

LAF Podcast #056 | SALLAD EGG

Invited Andra Ljos & Zalou on for Ice Exposure show

Music selected as synaesthetic response to this image

Part I: Luis Martin Gonzalez
Part II: Andra Ljos
Part III: Zalou

Ice Exposure w/ Luis Martin Gonzalez, Andra Ljos & Zalou

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Pinata

How does it feel on the side 
of the world when the war is on?
we're still looking for a place
but in between the dark void is deep

Uh I'm walking in a graveyard 
I say goodbye
Uh the sunshine is still there
it's a gift, it's amazing grace

Even if we felt in chains 
we were at our best and alive
You're vanishing like dust
when it blows your memories out

Uh I don't forget to thank
for each second that I have
Uh the weapons will now rest
'cause we blend this amazing grace

Religion has destroyed churches
Flashes in the dark
In the sleeplees city of fuzz

From that day we always bring
ematite bracelets and seeds
we meditate and observe
the tiny details of the sphere

Uh no time left to waste
a stranger has come
Uh we stipulate a pact
under the sign of a brand new day

Andrea & Alexander - Amazing Grace (feat. Cid Hohner)

Ursula Bogner: Winkel Pong
Format: 7” Vinyl/DL
Label#: faitiche15
Release date: Sept 8th 2017
 
Faitiche is delighted to announce the release of a new Ursula Bogner record (faitiche15). Winkel Pong contains three previously unreleased pieces from the archive of the sound researcher who died in 1994. In 2008, Jan Jelinek put together a first album from Bogner’s tape archive (CD/LP Recordings 1969-1988, faitiche01). A second followed in 2011, compiled this time by Andrew Pekler (CD/LP Sonne = Blackbox, accompanying the book of the same name with texts, photographs and Bogner’s graphic oeuvre). For Winkel Pong the tape archive was passed on to Lucrecia Dalt. The Berlin-based Colombian sound artist and musician chose three tracks from the 1980s (exact dates unknown), editing the tape recordings for their release on Winkel Pong.
 
Gundrun Gut (Malaria!, Einstürzende Neubauten), an activist and reluctant chronicler of Berlin’s underground scene since the 1980s, has worked with Lucrecia Dalt. She is also familiar with Ursula Bogner’s work. Reason enough to ask her for an interview:
 
Jan Jelinek: Gudrun, how does it feel to be constantly obliged to talk about the 1980s Berlin underground as someone who was there at the time?
 
Gudrun Gut: I’ve learned to live with it as there are clearly too few people who witnessed it first-hand. Maybe it’s even important to do these interviews as a woman – so that someone actually says that women, too, have written music history. Men tend not to mention this. But it’s true, people do always ask the same questions.
 
JJ: Did you know about Ursula Bogner in the 1980s? Did you ever meet her?
 
GG: No, I never met Ursula Bogner in person and I only discovered her in 2008 thanks to Faitiche. But that’s no surprise: firstly, I don’t know every single woman artist, and secondly, far too many women artists never see the light of day. In the male-dominated art and music market, women are not considered important – or worse still, they are not understood. Look at artists like Sonia Delaunay, Eva Hesse, Bebe Baron, Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram. Some of them have now been discovered – but only recently. A lot has changed in the last few years: there is a growing awareness of art and music made by women.
 
JJ: But isn’t it annoying that the conventional distribution of roles still applies? One example: in many articles, Ursula Bogner has been presented as an “electronic housewife”.
 
GG: When Ursula Bogner is referred to as an electronic housewife, then sadly that reflects the situation of many women artists at the time. Women could only pursue artistic activities in private – transcendence was reserved for men. This has still not been overcome. But today, the home has become a site of professional production for all. I’m talking about bedroom producers: it is totally normal to make art and music at home. And that makes things interesting, because “working at home” is no longer associated solely with women.
 
JJ: For Winkel Pong, Lucrecia Dalt compiled and remixed three pieces from the Bogner archive. You know Lucrecia and you’ve already worked with her. How did you meet?
 
GG: I met Lucrecia through MySpace – I think it was 2007. Back then she was still living in Medellin, Colombia. Lucrecia’s father made loop machines for her that she still uses. The Sound of Lucrecia was part of my 4 Women no Cry compilation series on Monika Enterprise, each with four producers from different countries. She’s great fun to watch as a performer because she has a unique sense of rhythm and feel for music. Above all I’m impressed by her sustained approach as an artist, someone who can and does think around corners. I’m thinking specifically of her album Ou, for which she ploughed her way through post-war German cinema, using it as a source of inspiration for a soundtrack. This is proof that she thinks like an engineer – so it makes perfect sense that she would want to explore the work of Ursula Bogner.
 
Berlin, 2017

Ursula Bogner: Atmosphärische Energie (edited by Lucrecia Dalt)

see description of Star-shaped Biscuit, scene 1.

Star-shaped Biscuit: scene 2- Curiosity

Slavic folk, ambient psychedelia, 20th century minimalism and vocal experiments - Polish band Księżyc floats somewhere between, happily resisting simple genre categorization. The surreal and haunting beauty of their music is amplified by the fairy tale inspired lyrics Remek Hanaj has created.

For this episode, Remek has curated an hour of Eastern European 
avant-folk. It displays some of the creative diversity of the region and its relationship with blending traditional and contemporary ideas.

1. Almost Dead Celebrities - Factory Girl
2. Maarja Nuut - Haned Kadunud / Geese Lost
3. Svitlana Nianio & Illkutan - Kites
4. Maniucha Bikont & Assaf Talmudi - Cipi гуси / Grey Geese
5. Lautari - I’m Going Home
6. Odpoczno - Polka
7. Širom – A Washed Out Boy Taking Fossils from a Frog Sack 
8. Bastarda – Achar  
9. Księżyc – Kapkowa
10. Remek Hanaj feat. Tade Sudnik & Paweł Nowicki – Carpet
11. Pole – Radom 
12. Berjozkele ] – A yingele, a meydele / A little Boy, a Little Girl
13. Iva Bittova – Zeleny vineček / Green Maidenhead

Image: Jan Stanisławski - Orchard (1890)

https://skylab-radio.com/shows/off-the-edge-e7

Off The Edge E7 - Remek Hanaj (Księżyc)

ANADOL "ÇürüyenYıllar"

Recorded at Office du Pain, 2019
Mastered by Kris Jakob (Linear.ms)
Photo by Johanna Bieber

Das Kinn

Das Kinn ( MDM#5 )

Chopin, Morton Feldman, Satie, Schifrin ….

Gozen Atila

PhD