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Tradacoustic series no. 276

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

created on: 2023/10/13

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Tonsatta dikter av min farfar Axel Alfredsson.
Handlar om hans tid i USA, dit han emigrerade 1912-1921
Låtarna på Svenska handlar i huvudsak om hans tid i Sverige och de övriga fem låtarna på engelska om hans tid i USA bl.a. med mötet med Joe Hill.
Detta är ett projekt tillsammans med mina söner, där Anton Alfredsson producerat och Axel Alfredsson spelar bas. Konvolut är designat av Moa Grundvik Ördell

02. Höstnatt

Não sei porquê não corro bem pra longe até não ver
O que me tira a vontade de querer viver até um belo dia envelhecer
Morrer até a meia noite escurecer

Até a meia noite (Until Midnight)

We travel alone in all the important times that we grow. We have our tribe, our friends, our family, to help us along the way. But it becomes so quiet and still when we need to truly grow. Growth and fear and grappling with the unknown in this world and in our next travels, feels highly volatile…the perplexing instability of the human life form that is neither particle nor wave, but a figment of a fraction of our time spent in this human life form. 

I cannot settle my spirit. It had known settlement and comfort, but that illusion dulled my senses, my inner thoughts and knowings. And although it brought me great pleasure and happiness for the time it was present, deep down I always grapple with our humanity and our purpose as a species…time is of no essence…the spirit lives in its own time and space.

So what am I describing in this music? What have I written?  I know exactly what I have sketched out. I’ve sketched out our infinite search for when our spirit will find a home…whether it’s beside a lake, in the eyes reflecting back at us, in the stars, in the wind whipping through our hair, in the smell of the fire, in the touch of a loved one or in the sounds of a song…our spirit dances and soars and takes infinite shapes as we journey and grow…

I write something of this journey…

For JC and his Dad

Touching The Infinite

Instrumental versions of the arias I composed

Aria 3 - Flute Solo

Vincent(Instrumental)

these songs are all well over a year old but i think they still sorta hold up

karma/morphine laced ears

Got It

NOSTALGIE

A piece about the center of things. La Metà in Italian. Hope you like it....
This is the link to spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4rGwjfyWDvo2UToiryQd7W?si=XBSY60zYQYmwfRxe8cPo6A

la Metà

Recorded in Modesto, Ca. Germany, Canada.  Featuring Gibson 335 Electric guitar solo. Georg Boehme Brass, Alto, Tenor, Baritone saxophones,(Germany).  Steve Roy Bass. (Canada).  Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. String Quartet, 1st & 2nd Violins, Viola, Cello, Bowed Acoustic Bass. Drums Full kit drum set. Percussion Tambourine, Ago go Bells, Timbales. Cowbell.

Release me

Hermosa 2

Even taking into consideration the small pressing quantities & strictly local distribution of many gospel 45s, it was still quite a surprise that a previously "unknown" record with Rev. Charlie Jackson on guitar should surface in 2021.  

The Superstars seem to have been led by Rev. Charles Ray Moncriffe Sr. and based in or around Jeanerette, Louisiana. According to his 2012 obituary, "Rev. Moncriffe was instrumental in forming many singing groups, such as Willie Mitchell and the Gospel Voices, the Superflies (sic?), the Untouchables, the Dynamic MPs, and many others." Pianist Emmaline White passed away in 2016.

Further details about this record have been elusive. To my ear, Rev. Jackson's involvement sounds spontaneous, somewhat in keeping with how he, in his role as a guitarist at church programs, would sometimes provide a basic, bedrock accompaniment to a vocalist would sing an unrehearsed song on the spur of the moment. The overall feel is heartfelt & sincere. 

Posted here as part of a retrospective on Rev. Charlie Jackson, which includes previously unpublished interviews, images, photos, audio, & video. See http://50milesofelbowroom.com/articles/576-reverend-charlie-jackson.html

Capital City Gospel Records CC-667-A

The Superstars: My Life is Too Important (Capital City Gospel Records CC-667-A/B)

Re-released on Philips. Arabic title: اه يا هناه

Zohra El Fassia - Ah Ya Aua [Sides 1-2] (Polyphon, 1940)

This brilliant LP of Hungarian folk music from Western Moldavia, featuring a masterful lyrical violin and a stunning percussive gardon cello, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/10/romania-roumanie-mihaly-halmagyi.html

Gyimesi Népzene (Hungarian Folk Music fom Gyimes) – Hungaroton SLPX 18145

Mihály Halmágyi & Gizella Ádám / Hungarian Folk Music fom Gyimes (Romania)

Photo : Marielle Lemaire - Ariège - France

Marcher, c'est des captures d'images, des sentiments qui se composent, se transforment, se ruminent en de douces pensées. Dans l'enlacement continu du parcours, cette source de satiété physique offre une richesse grandissante à l'esprit. La pérégrination ancre nos sens dans cette réalité.

Walking is capturing images, feelings that are composed, transformed, ruminated in sweet thoughts. In the continuous embrace of the journey, this source of physical satiety offers a growing richness to the spirit. The journey anchors our senses in this reality.

Ce projet se compose d'un prélude, d'une pièce principale, de cet interlude suivi de son postlude.

3 - Sur Le Chemin - Avec Franck Douvin

This excellent album by the great Carnatic vocalist Maharajapuram Santhanam, featuring his deep, mellifluous baritone voice and impeccable vocal phrasing, is available in Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/10/india-inde-maharajapuram-santhanam.html

Carnatic Vocals – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan – Bhavan Master Series BMS2 (Cassette)

Maharajapuram Santhanam - great Indian Carnatic vocalist

Colorful Colorado – Autumn (feat. Video)
Watch the YouTube video featuring beautiful photography by Heidi Schnicker at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_JLb9uDbrc
October 2023
Duration: 3:10
Cover art photo: Heidi Schnicker 
Originally composed November 2016, revised and re-orchestrated October 2023
For strings, flute, oboe d'amore, bass flute, heckelphone, piano, vibraphone, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Colorful Colorado  - Autumn (feat. Video)

Fukkeduk - Cochonet

Revolution

Red Vinyls - Liar

A short piece for clarinet and orchestra, which I wrote to practice using Spitfire's BBC Symphony Orchestra and Abbey Road One libraries. The strings are mainly from Abbey Road though I used the BBC Legato on the first violins. The clarinet is BBC and the Trumpets are Abbey Road. Most of the percussion is Abbey Road as well, with some cymbals from the Originals Cinematic Percussion, and a big ol' Tubular Bell from BBCSO.

Clarinet With Orchestra

Music,
centered on dance but I made the circle very,
very wide, from everywhere, for everyone.
Enjoy.
...

2024/03/20:
My linux won't boot so I'm presently forced to use Windows, and because of the bug in Soundcloud's system my account is all messed up when I don't use a VPN to connect which I am unable to do now... trying to get help from my VPN provider.  Because of this, and because I started working very long days I will be less present here.  Sorry, I'm trying.

2024/02/22:
Hi,
"Tracks: 0" is wrong, it should read 40.
Ever since the closing of this account by error by SC two or three months ago, this problem has remained unfixed.  Soundcloud and their AI are apparently still working on solving this and other problems with this account, and with my other account ; )

2024/01/29:
What I wrote below was heart felt but presumptuous and pretentious.  I would have to not be stupid myself to be allowed to claim such a thing.  More importantly though, I don't believe it is correct or accurate.  These people are probably not stupid but just don't care.  Justice is a collective thing and many if not most people seem to live in bubbles.  It is perhaps economic oppression which is responsible, they just don't have the resources, the time, the energy to be concerned about what lies behond that bubble.  It used to be fine but there's this thing they call globalization which makes this increasingly impractical or impossible.

mid January 2024:
Justice and vengeance are not the same.  Apparently most people are too stupid to see the difference.  Unfortunately it is not something unique to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and not unique to group conflicts.

What happened to intelligence?  Aren't we supposed to be the "intelligent" specie.
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Here's the other account, for celebrities, ... this one here is for regular folks:

https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong

I love you.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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Ha Kékong