A year and a half has passed since Slovak-Hungarian artist Adela Mede self-released her debut album ‘Szabadság’. Its liner notes described it as “a navigation”, a search through “the personal, familial, cultural, folkloric and geographic of her past and present.” Her second album, ‘Ne Lépj a Virágra’ no longer searches; here, she puts down roots and delves deeper into the earthy reality of her home, Central Europe. Mede sings in three languages with newfound conviction and grace – this is an album of profound faith and confidence in the potential of this fertile soil.

Ne Lépj a Virágra

Adela Mede - Nestoj Nado Mnou (ft. Wojciech Rusin)

Charles Burnett, the film director acclaimed for his intimate portraits of Black Americans in films like Killer of Sheep and My Brother's Wedding, picks out his favourite blues music from Folkways' deep library of recordings.

75 Years of Folkways: Charles Burnett

In Iceland, Thomas Stankiewicz contemplates the constant flux of the elements. A composer & musician in his own right, he selectively weaves in between soundtracks, classical music, and evocative ambient sounds, symphonically unveiling untold stories from past and future… [@tommmasi]

https://www.nts.live/shows/tommasi/episodes/tommasi-14th-january-2024

Tommasi 140124

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Rhetorical Islands
Cat#: faitiche 35
Release: Mar 1st 2024
Format: LP/DL

First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris.

The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as what Ielasi himself has called “isolated sound worlds”. They are nonetheless unparalleled in their plasticity, acoustic events with a rare degree of tangibility. Ielasi evokes physical objects, some of which seem to have been constructed out of paper and cardboard, others based on a mechanics of elastic materials. Of course these objects are hallucinations, and precisely because Ielasi constructs them so masterfully there’s no need for any further information. Here’s to everyone creating their very own sculptures while listening to Rhetorical Islands!

The front and back cover features 0.058, a work on paper by the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius. They make sculptures whose form and artistic inspiration are defined by their materials. Like Ielasi’s acoustic islands, their impact derives from self-referentiality, resulting in paradoxical objects that embody both a detailed material study and a potential for free association.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

Follow gab__i as they guide you through gentle waves of new age, ambient, and downtempo tranquility.

gab__i @ Drift Radio 11-01-24

Self-taught folk singer and guitarist, Michael Hurley plays music reminiscent of his upbringing in the rural backcountry of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

His journey from making fanzines to playing music reflects in his raggedy, joyful freak-folk. His debut album, “First Songs,” released in 1965 on Folkways, marked the onset of a unique career amid the Greenwich Village folk scene. His large body of work sits somewhere between bluegrass, folk, country, and blues jazz. His songs have been described as similarly haunting, warm, sparse, tender, and spikily surreal.

Describing the essence of his music, Hurley says, “The way music comes to you … it’s like dreaming. Melodies just drop into my thinking.” Selected by NTS. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-michael-hurley-26th-january-2024

In Focus: Michael Hurley 260124

Here in Wales, the wells hold the stories from our ancestors, these tunes are still being played, faint notes can still be heard, if you listen very carefully. 
Centres for ceremony, storytelling and healing, where the Naiads and fairies are home.
This sound journey takes you on the adventure into the watery depths of the soul, a playful promise from the past, that this water goes through you, into the streams, rivers, back to the sea, just like it's always done, and always 

TRACKLIST:

Peter Seiler - Reef mode
Alan Stivell - Cochevelou
Sam Mcloughlin - Crazywell pool
JH1-FS3 - Virtues of despiration
Piper Spray + Lena Tsibizova - Lost cars
Habitat ensemble - Rounded edges
Vadin - Astrologica
KMRU - Uneven
Laurence Pike - Holy spring
Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker -The Heavenly realms
Memotone - Measure for measure
Peter Seiler - Sensitive touch
Folklore tapes - The Queen of the Well pt 1
Sam McLoughlin and David Chatton Barker - The Heavenly realms
Folklore tapes - The Queen of the well pt 2
Sylva Sylvarum - Ophir
Luca Yupanqui - V3-2
Sylva Sylvarum - Umbrella spinner
Scott Gailey - Ginger Soy Milk Pudding
Kmru - Matching teal surfaces
Felicia Atkinson - The sun perhaps three of them
Motte - Crystal Waters
Vadin - Plateau

@elliement22

Invitée Spéciale — e l e m e n t

« Elles contaminent passionnément les écosystèmes
favorables à l'existence des choses auxquelles
elles refusent de s'opposer, au risque de causer
leur extinction lente et durable (elles disent que
d'autres ont appelé ça amour). »
Léa Rivière (L’odeur des pierres mouillées)
Artwork : Clémentine Blaison

An Hour Is A Sea w/ Mélodie Blaison (07/02/24)

Palestine shining in our hearts

Human voice, just like the sunlight calls for and witnesses Palestine each and every day
A joint mix by Yousef Anastas and Stefan Christoff for broadcast on NTS and Radio AlHara. Half an hour first from Stefan, follwed by Yousef

After I got a chance to meet Yousef in person in Paris in early November 2023 I could feel why we were connected for the past years through a shared love for Palestine and our common space shared through Radio AlHara. Yousef and a network of amazing Palestinian artists launched this incredible vehicle and space online, Radio AlHara, which is both a space to act together for Palestine but also to share our collective dreams. What a gift. I worked on this mix to celebrate Radio AlHara at this time of collective revolt and protest toward the ongoing Israeli state moves to colonize and rip apart Palestine. The Israeli state project, backed by im... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/debt-refuge/episodes/debt-refuge-21st-february-2024

Palestine Shining In Our Hearts w/ Yousef Anastas & Stefan Christoff 210224

materials

新年花墟丶二月九日
at night- sergei sarostin's vocal family
travelling tartars- sergei sarostin's vocal family
佛山丶二月十四日
inuit wedding, sainkho namtchylak
酉環丶二月十七日
messetschinko lio greilivko, the bulgarian state radio and television female vocal choir
松坪子丶 wei island
goodbye song, kwmjur
大埔丶八月三日
initiation ceremony of guhyasamaja tantra, the gyuto monks tantric choir
goat herder二月二十五曰
ancestral affirmations, abel selaocoe
長洲海丶二月四日
creature, pt 1, djrum
長洲葬禮丶二月五日
ginger soy milk pudding, scott gailey
松坪子丶 wei island
ripples, tokyo gagaku ensemble
佛山丶二月十三日
cloud plexus, m.sage
松坪子煙火丶 wei island
la’āli, field works
松坪子丶 wei island
lark in the clear air, iona lane & ranjana ghatak
大埔丶二月十一日
salt spell, tomoko sauvage
新年花墟丶二月九日
...

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Radio Alhara, 21st April 2024

toward prayer, constellations #6

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