Nathan Dawidowicz, recorded live.... From Oscar der Winzige's semi reg party representing his otherworldly radio station Musikií....

Enjoy!

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Nathan Dawidowicz - Musikií Nights # 2 @ Sameheads 07.01.23

ZZK Records Presents Montoya’s ‘Flor del Mar’ ft. Pahua, the second single from Montoya's upcoming album 'El Nido'. 

This is a tribute to those impossible love affairs that happen on your summer vacations, the idea of falling in love with the beauty, the context. In that tropical context that makes everything taste of salt, everything bathed in sunshine. That memory inspired me for this song, but also as a sensorial aid to get through the winter and dream about returning to that place and reliving that warm sensation. 

‘Flor del Mar’ will be released on May 24th, 2023 on ZZK Records
'El Nido' will be released on July 7th, 2023

Flor del Mar

Montoya - Flor Del Mar (ft. Pahua)

Midnight Reverie

Out Of The Blue

This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Podcast, but until then we hope you’ll enjoy the exciting interim episodes we have in store for you.

Matteo Pasquinelli is an associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and many other places besides. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence - out now with Verso Books (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master).

Matteo sat down with Richard Hames to explore some of the ideas laid out in his latest text - cutting against popular understandings of artificial intelligence that have come to increasingly dominate our cultural imaginaries, our workplaces, our digital lives, and our visions of the future. Pasquinelli argues that whilst many may claim that artificial intelligence imitates biological intelligence, the reality is that AI does not amount to a digital proxy of the neural pathways of individual human beings. Instead, he advances the opinion that AI imitates the intelligence of labor and social relations - framing it as a social and political creature, whose problems demand social and political responses. 

In this interview Matteo talks algorithms, IQ tests, and why AI will ultimately lead to us working more, not less.

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AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli

Sunshine (Blondes remix)

Pat Thomas - Coming Home
Out 30th September on Strut
Order: https://strut.lnk.to/PatThomasComingHomeSo

Tracklist:
PAT THOMAS - AWURADE MPAEBO
NYAME BEKYERE BAND - AWULADE
BOOM TALENTS - ANOKWAFO
DIPLOMATS DANCE BAND - EMMA NO NNYE ANSA
BLACK STAR LINE - MOKO EFEE EKO DA
OGYATANAA SHOWBAND - OSUO AMUNA
PAT THOMAS & MARIJATA - LET’S THINK IT OVER
NZEMA - ME SEKE ME NYULU
MERINGUE & THE PILSENERS - UNKNOWN
O.P.K - YENFA ANIKAN NKO ASAMANDO
BRIGADE DANCE BAND - WUO ASENKE
F. MICAH’S BAND - KA NO NANIM
UNITY STARS BAND - MESOAFO NE HWAN
REPUBLICANS DANCE BAND - ODO YE WU
GHANA POLICE BAND - JOLLY WO HEN
PAT THOMAS & THE BIG ‘7’ - EYE COLO
E.K’S BAND - MAN DEYTIRE

Duncan Brooker - Ghana 45 Mix: Highlife & Afro Blues '69-'76 Pat Thomas & Friends

Deaf Safari

Pietermaritzburg

Awa Poulo "Djulau" from the album Poulo Warali, out now on Awesome Tapes From Africa (LP/CD/Digital). 
https://awapoulo.bandcamp.com/album/poulo-warali
Pre-order: http://amzn.to/2hhXxCn * http://apple.co/2hhVSfX * NL/BE http://bit.ly/2gdEynf * FR http://bit.ly/2h8IFpp * DE http://bit.ly/2gm2W9G 

Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. Largely pastoral and often nomadic, Peulh- (or Fula-)speaking peoples are found from Senegal to Ethiopia but predominate in the Sahel region of West Africa. Awesome Tapes From Africa is proud to release Poulo’s newest recording of highly virtuosic folk-pop, fresh from the studio, broadcasting her vision of Peulh music beyond the grazing grounds and central markets of her remote home region in southwestern Mali. 

It’s not very common to find a female singer performing publicly among the Peulh. But Poulo’s mother’s co-wife is Inna Baba Coulibaly, who is a celebrated singer most Malian music fans know. Coulibaly herself was brought into music by forces outside her control when a regional music contest required an entry from her village and she was chosen to be a singer. So, set in motion by a surprising series of events, young Poulo’s entree into the music world was auspicious as she gained popularity across the region. After several locally released tapes and CDs, this record is Poulo’s first internationally-distributed record.

On Poulo Warali, she and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant calabash gourd hand percussion—with broader Malian sounds like lightly-distorted guitar and a heavier, rollicking inertia. Shape-shifting layers of rhythm and woody overtones match Poulo’s commanding voice in a jocular yet deliberate dance.  

This is a relatively rare example of Malian Peulh music played in a modern, cosmopolitan context, reflecting the mixed society of Dilly, where Bambara, Soninke and Peulh-speaking people live among each other. 

Poulo’s conscious lyrics about community concerns speak to the distinctive identity of her broadly-flung people. While Peulh represents less than 10% of Mali’s melting pot of languages, the dynamic music here powerfully resonates well beyond the linguistic borders.

Poulo Warali

Awa Poulo — Djulau

The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Nicolas Jaar Edit)

from 'Mujo' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den346
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/eraldobernocchi

Denovali is pleased to present the first cooperation album of the Italian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist ERALDO BERNOCCHI with the Berlin-based Japanese violinist, composer, electronic producer and TANGERINE DREAM member HOSHIKO YAMANE.

Born in Osaka, Hoshiko Yamane attended the University of Arts in Aichi. Her training destined her to be an excellent violinist - later on she extended her practice to modern and pop music. In 2011 she joined the legendary band Tangerine Dream. In 2014 she started to release her first solo works.

During his long lasting career in several musical fields and genres London-based Eraldo Bernocchi worked with artists like Nils Petter Molvaer, Harold Budd, Thomas Fehlmann, Bill Laswell, Colin Edwin, Mark Stockhausen, Mick Harris or Robin Guthrie.

The first collaboration of both artists called "Mujo" combines traditional classical music with innovative electronic production techniques. The result is a coherent album that combines eight pieces to a timeless soundscape. The artwork of "Mujo" was arranged by the renowned media artist Petulia Mattioli.

Mujo

Eraldo Bernocchi / Hoshiko Yamane - Floater

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Μουσική: Κωσταντης Παπακωνσταντίνου
Στίχοι: Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου


'Εχω μια θλίψη που έρχεται απ' την αρχή του κόσμου
μαζί με την βαθιά πνοή, την παγωμένη λάμψη.
Μπήκε στο πρώτο κύταρο σαν μια μικρή ακίδα
κι ότι απ' αυτό γεννήθηκε θέλησε να υποτάξει

Τ'αμέριμνα μικρά παιδιά, τα ζώα και τα δέντρα
ποτέ της δεν τα γλέντησε, δεν είχε τι να κάνει.
Μα αν έβρισκε συνείδηση, έβγαζε την βουκέντρα
κι έσπρωχνε την βαρύθυμη στην τρομερή χοάνη

Θλίψη σαν αδιόρατο βελόυδο, σαν μετάξι
Κανείς δεν την ανίχνευσε, δεν βρέθηκε ο τρόπος
Δεν σου φωνάζει: ''είμ' εδω'', κι ενώ όλα είναι εντάξι,
αυτή είναι που θα φταίει αν δεν σε χωράει ο τόπος

Όπου τα λόγια είναι φτωχά, το πένθος είναι γλέντι
κι όπου μπορούν να ερωτευτούν η όμορφη κυρία 
-που από τα ψώνια της γυρνά στο σπίτι ευτυχισμένη-
κι ο σκελετός που βρέθηκε κάπου στην Σιβηρία

Στρατιές περάσαν απο κεί, χαθήκανε στην δίνη 
σε μιά πραγματικότητα ρευστή σαν άγριο μέλι
οι ανήσυχοι σταυρώθηκαν, οι ήσυχοι τρομάξαν
κι ένας περίπου αλώβητος: ''ο κύριος δεν με μέλει"

Θλίψη σαν αδιόρατο βελόυδο, σαν μετάξι
Κανείς δεν την ανίχνευσε, δεν βρέθηκε ο τρόπος
Δεν σου φωνάζει: ''είμ' εδω'', κι ενώ όλα είναι εντάξι,
αυτή είναι που θα φταίει αν δεν σε χωράει ο τόπος



ap tin arxi tou kosmou - Kostantis Papakonstantinou

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