song 7

Áchim György - shaman eye

Viktar Siamaška – winds, percussion, voice, delay.

Recorded 08-06-2012 in the outdoor area of the 'NewTon Fashion Art Buffet', Miensk, Biełaruś.

Photo & design by Aleś Siamaška.

Vieccarella

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

DC Promo Tracks #152: "Tbilisi Night" by Mårble is part of the new release "Diego" on Not Not Fun @not-not-fun-1

Order: https://marble-music.bandcamp.com/album/diego

Russian fourth-world fusion voyager Mårble runs a colorful hand-assembled tape imprint called Hair Del. and travels extensively gathering evocative field recordings to color his warped ethno-hybrid instrumental improvisations feat. balafon, flute, percussion, saxophone, and synths. Diego is his deepest yet. 

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Diego

DC Promo Tracks #152: Mårble "Tbilisi Night"

excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/dark-arc

Dan Melchior & Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson (Dark Arc A Side)

Juma - Selected Works (Excerpt 2)

From the expanded digital release of the 2012 album Cover Versions. Available now at: andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/cover-versions

Download includes 10 bonus tracks not included on the original vinyl release, a PDF of 100 unique Cover Versions album covers, and installation photos.

Original press release text:
Cover Versions – Record-edition and installation by Andrew Pekler

For ten days, the gallery Laura Mars Grp. is transformed into a record shop, complete with records in browser bins, recommendations on the walls and a record shop clerk to assist customers. This record shop, however, only sells one record: Cover Versions by Andrew Pekler, each copy of which is packaged in its own individual album cover.

Andrew Pekler selected 300 different covers from cheap second-hand records and, using colorful geometric elements to cover over all titles, performer's names, and label logos, removed traces of the covers' original contexts.

The sunsets, couples in silhouette, alpine panoramas, roses on pianos, faces in close-up, and seascapes no longer serve as the packaging for easy listening, , volksmusik, exotica and light classical. Instead, the romantic, bizarre and intriguingly bland images of the original covers are free to lend their evocative powers to the record of new music they now house.

Likewise, the principle of collage is audible in Andrew Pekler's compositions. The electronically transformed fragments of audio extracted from the original records take on a new existence as Cover Versions.

Cover Versions is a co-production between Andrew Pekler, Laura Mars Grp., Fantôme Verlag and Senufo Editions.

Bandcamp

Sunset/Sunrise

https://soundcloud.com/moonilena & https://soundcloud.com/sand-circles

https://www.retreatradio.net/continuity

Moonilena:
Kirill Mazhai - Greenland
Meitei - Utano
ng2 - explore
súnpoíēsis underworld - sún
Deux Filles - The City Sleeps
Sonja Tofik - Lullaby For The Newborn
OMMA - Cycle Of
Moonilena - Untitled
Ryan Wick - MoVIng Forward
fuga dream - Observation
accou - B

Continuity:
Otilo - Kodachrome
Karaoke VHS - lying on the ground with blueberries
Jake Muir - Lanterns Below
154 - Daze
aircode - easy
Tissu - On Ecr (AR Mix)
talisman - reservoir
tech palms - beeeeen yurd (stupid long edit)
Maria Moles - Trace
Page - Reef
in Fosa - Wilt
ϙue - the flowery backyard
DYL & DB1 - ECOU #1
Noi - Your subtle tendencies
IC Lander - Room Tone
Unknown - Field recording, Den-en-chōfu, Ōta Ward

Continuity #6 w/ Moonilena (13/09/20)

The Rose

Eva - Love Is A Fool, Love Is A Fault

Factish (french / german faitiche) "(...) is a combination of facts and fetishes, and makes it obvious that the two have a common element of fabrication." Bruno Latour, 1999.

Faitiche is a label by Jan Jelinek.