piano vinyl session selected by DJ Sonar

Tracklist:

1. Julien Marchal         "Insight XXXVIII"                      from the Album "Insight IV"
2. Dustin O'Halloran.  "	Opus 23"                                 from the Album "Piano Solos                           
                                                                                         Vol. 2"
3. Hania Rani               "	Esja"                                         from the Album "Esia"           
4. Poppy Ackroyd        "Release"                                   from the Album "Pause"            
5. C. C. Poetzsch          "Ascending"                              from the Album "Remember                    
                                                                                          Tomorrow"
6. Roberto Attanasio   "Isolated VII"                             from the Album "Isolated"   
7. Jean-Michel Blais    "La ferme"                                 from the Original Motion     
                                                                                          Picture Soundtrack Matthias  
                                                                                          & Maxime" 
8. Thomas Méreur       "A Steady and Sad Process"   from the Album "Dyrholaey"
9.  Malakoff Kowalski   "Anin Goldkind"                        from the Album "My first 
                                                                                          piano"
10. H.J. Roedlius          "durchaus"                                 from the Album "Drauf und 
                                                                                          Dran"
11.  ironomi                    "舞子 maigo"                             from the Album "kotonoha"
12. Luke Howard           "In Metaphor, Solace"              from the Album "Open 
                                                                                           Heart Story"
13. Otto a Totland         "The lost"                                   from the Album "The Lost"
14. Shida Shahabi         "Afterword "                               from the Album "Homes"

piano session

09 Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois -

Resident composer and musician Bill Frisell performed at the Red Mill, showcasing new compositions he'd created while at VSC. Born in Baltimore, Bill Frisell played clarinet throughout his childhood in Denver, Colorado. His interest in guitar began with his exposure to pop music on the radio. Soon, the Chicago Blues became a passion through the work of Otis Rush, B.B. King, Paul Butterfield and Buddy Guy. In high school, he played in bands covering pop and soul classics, James Brown and other dance material. Later, Bill studied music at the University of Northern Colorado before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with John Damian, Herb Pomeroy and Michael Gibbs. In 1978, Frisell moved for a year to Belgium where he concentrated on writing music. In this period, he toured with Michael Gibbs and first recorded with German bassist Eberhard Weber. Bill moved to the New York City area in 1979 and stayed until 1989. He now lives in Seattle.

Photo by Monica Frisell.


VSC Special Event: Bill Frisell in the Red Mill 2/27/2014

Inspired by the Armenian instrument, the duduk. Vocal expression of the very emotional and mysterious sounds of this music. 

Duduk For Two Voices

As a tribute to Susumu Yokota, a much loved friend and colleague who passed away this year, The Leaf Label and Lo Recordings have joined forces to release My Energy, a 6 track EP featuring selected highlights from Yokota’s varied and much acclaimed back catalogue. The EP is available now on Bandcamp as a ‘Pay What You Want’ release with half the proceeds going to Animal Refuge Kensai and half to Yokota's family.

https://susumuyokota.bandcamp.com/album/my-energy-ep

Susumu Yokota - Morino Gakudan

Gustave Le Grey
for solo piano
performed by Amy J. Yang, 2012

Gustave Le Grey

Simon Peter makes his Claremont 56 debut with a joyous slice of languid, organic Balearica entitled "Arc Of Lark". The young musician made his debut in February 2014 with the "Double Up EP" on Silhouette Music, which contained the shimmering nu-Balearic disco of “Espacio Temporal”. While that was laden with sun-kissed synthesizers, “Arc of Lark” is a much more organic affair. Blissful electric piano keys, hazy guitars and fluttering flutes cascade over an undulating live bassline and shuffling, bongo-laden beats. Warm and humid, it’s a slice of audible sunshine to brighten up the grim winter months.Long-time friends of the family 40 Thieves handle remix duties, turning Simon Peter’s picturesque original into an effects-laden chunk of slo-mo dub disco goodness. 40 Thieves member Layne Fox loved the track so much that he’s also contributed an additional remix that focues the action around a loose, languid, dub reggae influenced groove, spiralling electronics and Peter’s mesmerizing flute line. It’s a fitting conclusion to a magical label debut.

Simon Peter - Arc Of Lark

World premiere performance, Wrocław, Poland, April 30, 2016.
Vijay Iyer Trio (with Tyshawn Sorey & Stephan Crump)
Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra  
Nikola Kolodziejczyk, conductor

Score available from Schott Music

Emergence (2016) for Trio and Orchestra

An important debate from Marxism 1987 on how Marxists understand how things change.
Transcript of Harman article here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1986/xx/base-super.html

"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces.
The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real basis on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite form of social consciousness.
The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
At a certain stage in their development the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – what is but a legal expression for the same thing – the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto.
From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution.
With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.
In considering such transformations, a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the material conditions of production, which can be determined with
the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophical – in short ideological – forms in which men become conscious of the conflict and fight it out.
... We do not judge a period of transformation by its consciousness; on the contrary this consciousness must itself be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflicts between the social productive forces and the relations of production.
In broad outlines Asiatic, ancient, feudal, and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic foundation of society"
[Karl Marx: from the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy].

Base and Superstructure

Debate: Base And Superstructure with Harman, Hallas, Callinicos and Barker

In hour 2 we hand over to Moon Gangs ahead of the release of his debut album 'Earth Loop' on Village Green Recordings. A classically­trained pianist, William Young composed ‘Earth Loop’ “half and half in a classical sense", some played live on keyboards, with ideas notated traditionally, the other half created using analogue sequencers with random voltage sources. He had this to say about his mix;
"It’s a selection of things I keep finding myself going back to listen to, a mix of old and new.  My studio is where my hifi setup is, so it’s most of this is what I sit and listen to in the dark when I’ve finished working. There’s a lot of nostalgia in there, music from C64 and Amiga games I loved as a kid, film scores that I grew up with, and some TV shows I remember loving from childhood. Some of these tracks are ripped from old computers, cassettes or VHS tapes so a good chunk of it is hardly what you’d call high fidelity, but that’s something that’s never really bothered me."

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Hour 2 - Moon Gangs  https://twitter.com/MoonGangs

Joe Delia - Driller Killer Opening
Matt Gray - The Mansion (from Last Ninja II for C64)
Children of the Stones (1977) VHS rip
XAM Duo - Ashtanga
Matt Furniss - Castle Master Theme (for Amiga)
Lau Nau - Koti
Asa Chang and Junray - Hana
Sky (1975) VHS rip
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and Pandit Anindo Chatterje - Raag Kirwani
Paul Nelson - Vortex 1
Michael Stearns - Marriage Chords
Sky (1975) VHS rip
Allister Brimble - Alien Breed II Main Theme (for Amiga)
Julia Kent - Heavy Eyes
Louis and Bebe Barron - Love at the Swimming Hole
Jo Johnson - Ancestral Footsteps
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Parola
Children of the Stones (1977) VHS rip
Shivkumar Sharma - Malkauns & Darbari Kanhara

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/2/2018 Hour 2 - Moon Gangs

From the album A Separation Of Being by JOYFULTALK

JOYFULTALK
A Separation Of Being
180gLP/CD/DL
CST150

cstrecords.com/cst150

A Separation Of Being

JOYFULTALK • "Part II - Pixelated skin"

Sound archive of recordings of meetings at Marxism Festival from the 1970's.
Most were originally recorded on cassette tape.
Curated by Dave Gilchrist

Debate: Base And Superstructure with Harman, Hallas, Callinicos and Barker

The Bookmarks Marxism Sound Archive