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sound claudicante playlist

An ongoing collection of Soundcloud finds that speak to my innermost and give a window in to how I hear, see, feel, touch and smell music particularly through this ambient/experimental doorway. If ya dig, stay close and check out my original worx as they bubble up from the depths.... and make the world a better place, give your gifts... every day <3

fruit From the treE

Andrew Pekler

Abdoul Kader-Medan Akal nanagh!

Kris Vanderstraeten : Drums/Percussie
Jean Demey : Double Bass
Christophe Albertijn : Electric Guitar

image by Kris Vanderstraeten
Recorded live with a stereo microphone pair 
at Les Ateliers Claus September 2012

(concert curated by Kris Vanderstraeten which featured this trio along with a concert by Sheldon Siegel of which the recording was released as a split LP of Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing/ Sheldon Siegel by Smeraldine Rima/Croxhapox)

Kris Vanderstraeten/Jean Demey/Christophe Albertijn - Live (excerpt) 2012

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Send Two Sunsets’ released 5th May
Pre-order from iTunes and get an instant download of ‘Let Me Love You' - hyperurl.co/sendtwosunsets
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Gacha - Let Me Love You

I do not own the rights to this music.

It's all about sharing the love.

Portable Homeland by John Zorn

We're delighted to give you the first listen off Bakradze latest Message From Home EP, forthcoming on Bristol-based label Space Hardware; a project led by Hypercolour's boss Jamie Russell.

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/06/04/premiere-bakradze-message-from-home/

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Bakradze - Message from Home (STW Premiere)

Made this one in the last 24 hours with another sunrise event ☀ 

Prepping for my Emerald City EP dropping fornever <3

Supported by @labellemusiqueofficial

D o w n l o a d <3 

Coastal Aura

from the Hospital Productions record  "Risveglio", out July 27 2015.

BUY ALL FORMATS

02 La Sveglia

Olives

out now on Hospital Records. 

Reviews:

http://www.spin.com/2015/07/review-alessandro-cortini-risveglio/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20802-risveglio/



01 Stambecco

Buy: http://bit.ly/1LdcmNM

Archangel --- The Bedroom Slant Versions

01. Blue Eyes Blind---This Romance
02. Half-Man Half-Lisa (Peter Gordon Version)
03. Julia (Dean Blunt "On Wine, Hashish & Molly" Version)
04. L.A. Teen (Oliver Coates Version "X")

Released November 6th 2015 on Foom.

Bruno Pronsato’s debut album as Archangel, The Bedroom Slant, released in 2014, saw the producer update the style he has developed over the last decade on labels such as Hello?Repeat, Perlon, DFA and TheSongSays, and in the process, manifesting his love of pop, rock and post-punk in his music for the first time. On this EP, selected tracks from the album are reworked by Dean Blunt, Peter Gordon & Oliver Coates.

The EP opens with “Blue Eyes Blind/This Romance,” an early, unreleased track from 2012. A perfect blend of the percussive dancefloor Bruno Pronsato sound and his darkly melodic and lyrical Archangel aesthetic, the overlap between the projects at this early stage is captured in the recording.

Dean Blunt, using an extracted loop of Pronsato’s percussion as foundation for his euphoric strings, creates a unique 23-minute automated spoken-word rework of “Julia.” (9.5-minutes for the vinyl edit). It details the first narcotic experiences of the narrator (with numerous appearances by Dean Blunt, himself, as a character in the narrative). A 90-second instrumental snippet of this piece was extracted for use as the intro for Dean Blunt’s temporarily available Babyfather download-only album, continuing the enigmatic producer’s hall-of-mirrors style approach that often manifests itself in his own work, as it also did in Hype Williams.

New York Downtown-scene figurehead and Love Of Life Orchestra bandleader, Peter Gordon, having made a guest appearance on The Bedroom Slant on the album track “Steal The Groom,” now strips back the album opener “Half-Man Half-Lisa.” On what is his first ever remix, Gordon draws out the original’s track‘s obscured undertones while enriching Pronsato’s intricate percussive patterns further by adding his own playful rhythms and restless melodies.
Cellist & producer Oliver Coates brings the EP to a close with his reworking of the album’s only instrumental, “L.A. Teen (Live).” Recorded in an apartment in Hong Kong during the protests at the end of 2014, the Jonny Greenwood & Micachu collaborator rearranges the original track’s synthesized melody for cello, adding his own electronics and reconstructing the original track’s percussive elements to fit his vision. 



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Bruno Pronsato presents Archangel — Half-Man Half-Lisa (Peter Gordon Version)

Cosmic Quest has enjoyed a steady ascent in the last few months, and deservedly so.

With "Moonbow" he embarks us on a chill coastal voyage filled with elegant piano lead, crisp drum work and pitch down vocal chops(Gracieuseté of https://soundcloud.com/imoonzz).

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Cosmic Quest - Moonbow

1. The Man I love w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk - 2. Swing Spring w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk - 3. Bemsha Swing w-Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk

MILES DAVIS & THE JAZZ GIANTS



Christophe Albertijn : Electric Guitar
David Maranha : Electric Organ
Manuel Mota : Electric Guitar

recorded live @ Desterro Lisbon, Portugal
september 2015

photo: Filipe Felizardo


Albertijn Maranha Mota @ Desterro Lisbon PT 09 2015  (excerpt)

More info here: http://bit.ly/SOSpremiere

B2 1170 Siva

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

Lusitânia Playboys

Rak Song

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.