Hope you’re doing well, Todd! This one’s a lot of fun!

'Sonic Bayou', written and produced by Editor Cole. I wrote this recently with the idea of it being on an EP for spa music, but when It was complete, It worked really well with the rest of the tracks I had written for 'Landing Party', which is an electronic album I'm releasing this spring. It's mostly ambient, dark ambient, atmospheric, sometimes hypnotic, and cinematic in parts. I've yet to finish mixing this, but as ever, best to listen with headphones, or through good monitors.

Sonic Bayou

Ignited by "Landfill Totems" by @Hainbach (w. Spitfire Audio)  - Wires, Noises, and some LABS auxiliary (Frozen Strings). 

Added eurorack chatter (mainly Moog 32, DFAM, DSM01,02,03 and Wogglebug) + Lexicons (41 and 80).

Beauty Oscillator

Narcoleptic Beauty Oscillator

Now there are two BARP2600 in the collection, finally. How does two 2600 sound together? Well I guess that needs almost an endless answer but here is one example in a bit of madness...or beautiful music as I call it. 
2 x BARP2600 + Piano.
Korg SQ-1 sequencer.
FX=reverb

Artwork by Randy Mora: https://www.randymora.com/

Squids Are Ok

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This is actually the first track I recorded by myself since early 4-track recordings decades ago. Recorded at the start of lockdown on an iPad before I discovered Ableton; cleaned up in 2023 for a new airing. Always saw it as a sonic future-scape that is a little rough around the edges but worth sharing again.
Image: AI via Lexica.

El Futuro Es...

Used Sonic Pi to live code an improvisation from a rich modular synth sound provided by Steve Meyer (https://soundcloud.com/user-684506476).

Live Code Session (6/24/2023) [from source sound by Steve Meyer]

Tea-Snuggery Show #49 with Wilfried Hanrath (Threads*Wuppertal)-27-jun-23
https://threadsradio.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/tea-snuggery-show-49-w-wilfried-hanrath-_wuppertal-27-jun-23/

With Wilfried Hanrath we present a very versatile artist whose music celebrates the moment. Wilfried draws on collaborations with friends from all over the world.
They work on the tracks on an equal footing, at the same time the creative process plays an important role. According to Wilfried, this open-ended way of working produces the most surprising results, the creative process leads to unexpected twists and turns, spontaneity is the key to creating a world of sound all his own - for the artist, the freest and most honest kind of music. Improvisation is the core and starting point for his compositions.  

About this mix: 
This approach is also reflected in every part of Hanrath's mix. Calm and dreamy passages, krautrock nuances that suddenly discharge themselves, freely after Jaco Pastorius: "keeping your mind open".
Change is possible, soul music for advanced listeners, sometimes stirring, then again soothing and calming - in any case always recorded with a lot of heart and soul - come along on a journey into the fantastic sound worlds of Wilfried Hanrath and friends. Listen with care q:
https://wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wilfriedhanrath/?hl=de
https://soundcloud.com/flyingtonefish
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChy-UmF-m0FiRGkW33-w5aw?view_as=subscriber

Track list:

1.	Wilfried Hanrath - In-sel
2.	Wilfried Hanrath - Today feat. xiiixxi
3.	Wilfried Hanrath - Yonder (edit) feat. Marco Lucchi
4.	Wilfried Hanrath – Amber
5.	Wilfried Hanrath - The Man who smiled and waved Good-Bye (edit)
6.	Wilfried Hanrath - Ongit (edit)
7.	Wilfried Hanrath - Dub (Dub Dub)
8.	Wilfried Hanrath - In through the Outdoor (edit)
9.	Wilfried Hanrath - Where has my Love gone
10.	Wilfried Hanrath & I, Eternal - Starcitizen, Oddities in Space 
11.	Wilfried Hanrath - One for Manies
12.	FutureLight (Wilfried Hanrath & Thomas Jackson Park) - Gathering Sticks,  ____Whistling down the Wind (edit)
13.	Wilfried Hanrath: - Secrets Unfold
14.	Wilfried Hanrath - Ich singe Dir vom Glücke (für Selma)
15.	Wilfried Hanrath & Shoza - Re-imagining September by Marco Lucchi (edit)
16.	Wilfried Hanrath & Roger Hatfield (R.I.P.) - Quiet in the Disquiet
17.	Wilfried Hanrath - The Portland Grand Sud
18.	Wilfried Hanrath – Dreaming
19.	Wilfried Hanrath - Timeless Astral Beauty (edit)

credits: 
heartfelt thanks go out to:
Tom Bossert, Mr. TeaSnuggery, for inviting me to his show
the following musicians for wonderful collaborations:
xiiixxii: https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxii
Marco Lucchi: https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi
Shoza: https://soundcloud.com/shoza-454002623
Thomas Jackson Park: https://archive.org/search?query=thomas+jackson+park
Roger Hatfield (R.I.P.): https://soundcloud.com/roger-hatfield
https://soundcloud.com/wilwilwil/wil-and-roger-hatfield-quiet-in-the-disquiet
(such a beautiful photo of Roger here)
Susanne Stepbach: for inspiration for the artwork
https://www.kunstnet.de/SusanneStepbach

Wielfried Hanrath & friends

Tea-Snuggery Show #49w_Wilfried Hanrath (Threads*Wuppertal)-27-jun-23

out of control

The Fairies Coo

DOOWINIT (music: Mark Paton / words: Justin Paton)
Recorded on 4-track tape, London 1997
* Justin Paton: voice, guitar, keyboard & percussion
* Mark Paton: keyboard & percussion

an introduction to The Fear Of Muzak

Doowinit (1997)

Challenge was to make one of my shorter songs with one of my longer lyrics, so I 'had' to craft it into an amalgam of 9/4 and 4/4 signatures. Thus, it may feel crazy on verses but I hope also catchy on refrains.

Letra / Translated lyrics:

Sólo pido no tener deseos (Ya no quiero imaginar)  /  I ask only not to have desires (I don’t want to imagine anymore)

¿Puedes explicarme qué es lo que me pasa?  /  Can you tell me what happens to me?
Señor, llévate de mí esta confusión.  /  Lord, take away this confusion.
Quítame el don de la inteligencia,  /  Take the gift of intelligence from me,
pues si no pensara tanto, sería feliz.  /  because if I didn’t think so much, I would be happy.

Siento que este mundo me es extraño,  /  I feel this world is strange,
estoy a disgusto con mis sentidos.  /  I get displeasure from my senses.
No puedo comprender su funcionamiento,  /  I cannot understand their functioning,
ni siquiera amoldarme a él.  /  nor even get used to it.

Sólo pido no tener deseos,  /  I ask only not to have desires,
ya no quiero imaginarme nada.  /  I don’t want to imagine anything anymore.

Esta situación siempre es pasajera,  /  This situation is always temporary,
pero se repite una y otra vez.  /  but repeats itself again and again.
Este malestar de cuerpo y alma  /  This discomfort of soul and body
me hace desear dejar de ser.  /  makes me wish to stop being.  

Pienso entonces en todos los que me quieren,  /  Then I think of all those who love me,
o al menos en los que a veces lo parecen…  /  or at least about those who sometimes seem to…
¿Por qué es tan difícil la coexistencia  /  Why is coexistence so difficult
en medio de una sociedad inteligente?  /  in an intelligent society?

Sólo pido…  /  I ask only…

No deberías dejar pensar a algo imperfecto,  /  You should not allow something imperfect to think,
sino limitarlo a cumplir su función social.  /  but limit it to fulfilling its social role.
Sólo quiero ser un engranaje más, señor,  /  I only want to be one more cog, Lord,
en tu rebaño de almas, sin preguntas.  /  in your flock of souls, without questions.

Esta vida que me has dado, señor,  /  This life you have given me, Lord,
me tortura, de modos insospechados,  /  tortures me, in unsuspected manners,
a buscarle un sentido a mis dudas,  /  to look for a sense to my doubts,
lo cual, tal vez, sea precisamente su fin!  /  which, maybe, is precisely its purpose!

Sólo pido…  /  I ask only…

ER43FI10 97-18

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