Happy 2014. To all those who have loved, and lost.

(due to the LAMM's ridiculous frequency range, this is perhaps best listened to with a good-quality hifi/headphone setup opposed to inadequate laptop speakers...)

I Loved Her, Madly

with same as you, i wanted it to be pure in one emotion,just choosing different ways to express that
this tune for me is a different feeling so felt right to me to share it by itself

polar bear live:
Wed 11 Nov Festiwal Jazz Jantar, Gdansk, POLAND
Sun 15 Nov  #Leaf20 - co-headline w/ James Holden, Electric Brixton, London
Wed 2 Dec #Leaf20 - Headrow House, Leeds
Fri 4 Dec Turner Sims, Southampton


No More Goodbyes

Taken from the album 'City Lake'...

Double 140g vinyl with instant digital download. First edition (limited to 250 copies) features wide-spine chipboard packaging painstakingly silkscreened by members and friends of the band...

www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/11/bing-and-ruth-city-lake-2-x-vinyl

Bing and Ruth - Broad Channel

Pauline Oliveros puts together a mixtape featuring some of her own work ahead of Deep Minimalism this month at the Southbank Centre

Pauline Oliveros - Deep Minimalism Mixtape

"The Challenge" by Yuri Ancarani

Original Soundtrack - Lorenzo Senni & Francesco Fantini

Orchestration consultant - Maestro Michele Fedrigotti 

Orchestra - Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Director - Slav Slavtchev

Recording Studio - Studio 1 BNR (Sofia)
Mix Studio - Stone Recording Studio / Marco Streccioni(Roma)

Soundtrack Executive Producer - Antonella Rodriguez Boccanelli

Original track "Happic" (Superimpositions, Boomkat Editions 2014)

Official Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hts5A_fWc




Lorenzo Senni & Francesco Fantini "The Challenge" Movie by Yuri Ancarani - Soundtrack Excerpt

Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years.  Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records.  More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched.  We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances.

Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces.  Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before. 

This is Rural Colours 081
Written and produced by Leigh Toro
Artwork by Katie English
www.ruralcolours.co.uk / innit

Leigh Toro / Layers of Ash (Snippets)

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

Recorded Live on April 11 at Kilbourn Hall @ Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY
Music Nova & Ensemble Signal
Brad Lubman, conductor

Steve Reich - Double Sextet

From the album Stand Above The Streams by Jason Sharp

Released 23 Feb 2018
180gLP / DL
cstrecords.com/cst130

Composed by Jason Sharp

This music was performed wearing a customized heart monitor providing a single pulse to trigger analogue drums, sine wave patterns, controlled feedback, and synthesizers in real time. All electronic rhythmic material stems from this source.

Jason Sharp: Amplified heart, feedback, synthesizers, bass and baritone saxophones

Adam Basanta: Controlled feedback and amplification systems

Stand Above The Streams

Jason Sharp • "Stand Above The Streams Pt 2A"

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"

Branches of the Tree

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