Name: Vertical Mix 001: Aquatic and Synthesized Life by Vertical Music
Duration: 1 h

Great mix. I enjoyed listening to it very much.

This mix helps me "relax" as the humans call it

Coming into a new environment isn't always easy. You have the plan to evolve, to move forward, but that's not always easy. This album is about that and, ultimately, about being at peace with yourself.

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Arriving

Aquatic and synthesized life; distant voices; pure perception.

Seiji Takahashi: Cue(@seiji-takahashi)
Jonáš Gruska: Volanie (@jonas-gruska)
Otto Siddharta: Negendau 
Josiah Steinbrick: (Two Bonangs, Coated Spheres, Piano, Two Synthesizers, Natural Objects) (@leavingrecords)
Annea Lockwood: Water Gong 
Haruomi Hosono: バイバイ (Bye Bye)
Laraaji: I Am Ocean
Jon Hassell: Caracas Night September 11, 1975	
Hideo Osaka: Take No Odori
Andrew Pekler: Bororo (@pekler)
Annea Lockwood: Popina To Rasova
François Bayle: petite polyphonie
Noël Akchoté, Erik Minkkinen, Andrew Sharpley: Rien (@noelakchote-1)
Sontag Shogun: no.16 (Windmill) (@sontagshogun)
Joshua Bonnetta: Everything that was Ever Something
Geoffrey Landers: Minored Birds
Abby Lee Tee: Respository II (@abbyleetee)
Rubén D’Hers: Disipador de tension (@dhers)
Ludwig Berger: Cargo (@ludwigberger)
Mika Vainio: Tila
Frank Bretschneider, ralph streinbrüchel: spirale
Rafael Toral: The Stars (@rtoral)
Tom Arthurs, Isambard Khroustaliov: Can’t Unsee (@tomarthurs) (@isambardkhroustaliov)
Kenneth Kirschner: September 19, 1998 (@kennethkirschner)
Izabela Dłużyk: Dawn with the white storks
John Cage, Hildegard Kleeb: Prelude for a Meditation

Mix and photo by Ludwig Berger, November 2018
Graphic design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay

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Vertical Mix 001: Aquatic and Synthesized Life

Martina Lussi - Higher Energy

Juma - Selected Works (Excerpt 2)

Forthcoming on Akuphone (AKU1016)

feat: 
FUJI-YUKI - KIKI HITOMI - MIKADO KOKO - MIKI YUI 
KAKUSHIN NISHIHARA - KUUNATIC and KEIKO HIGUCHI.

DIGITAL  => JUNE, 14. 2019 
VINYL-CD  => JULY, 13. 2019

Seitō gathers Japanese female artists from various electronic and experimental music fields. Like the « Tokyo Flashback » series issued by P.S.F. in the early 1990s, this collection recorded between 2017 and 2019 exposes the richness of the contemporary Japanese underground music scene. The title refers to a cult feminist magazine printed in Japan in the 1910s. All tracks issued for the first time.

www.akuphone.com

AKU1016 // VA - Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (Album preview)

Preview of Mark Gergis new tape Early-Century Sound Recordings.

Featuring locational recordings, radio and TV intercepts, cassette excerpts, environments and street music all expertly all expertly meshed up into a vivid sound journey from places that were (and might) never be again.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Mark Gergis -  Early- Century Sound Recordings (Morocco tape excerpt)

Guest mix for faitiche's radio show on LYL - Temple of Faitiche, Nº20, 27 March 2020 

https://lyl.live/episode/temple-of-faitiche-20/

Hanno Leichtmann – Selbstbespiegelung
Else Marie Pade – Syv Cirkler
Andrés Lewin-Richter – Study No. 1
Fracture Mechanics – Pendentive
Katrine Ring – Den Politiske Håndvask 1
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Marja Ahti – Chora
Hideki Umezawa – Still | Steel
Marcus Schmickler – Wabi Sabi (Part 4)
Boris Hegenbart – Wasser Studie
Nicola Ratti – Bn2
Daniel Majer – Tu Lip
Jan Jelinek – Framework 10 (Remix)
Mads Emil Nielsen – Buchla Sketch
Riviera Tape Stash – Strong Arm Baby
Ahnnu – Dovetail
Boris Hegenbart with Stephan Mathieu – S Anode M
David Moss – Terrain 3
James Sey / James Webb – Book Of Imaginary Wavelengths: Book 5
Mads Emil Nielsen – Framework 3 – 3
Andrew Pekler – Tuanahe

https://faitiche.de/blog/2020/03/25/temple-of-faitiche-march-2020

Temple of Faitiche 20 - guest mix

「Small Stone」

"In Japan during the Covid-19 lock down we saw a movement. It was created from a woman who raised her voice to say NO via SNS to one of the controversial bills, a revision of the public prosecutor's office law* that was about to go through the Lower House without a fair public hearing. This tiny voice of hers went viral and formed an online demonstration to protect our democracy. It is very rare in Japan for the public to be actively involved in any policies. Alas the bill was temporarily suspended because many finally stood up.

“ When we threw lots of small stones, the mountain got moved a little. However we shouldn’t celebrate yet. We need to be calm and grounded and observe what the government will do.” says Kyoko Koizumi, an actress and a producer whom I respect dearly. Her phrases sums up things that do not change so easily. 


*A proposed legal revision that would raise the retirement age for prosecutors became the centre of controversy this week when it was taken up by the Lower House. Unlike officials in other administrative organizations, prosecutors have wide powers to investigate, arrest and indict anyone, even prime ministers and other high officials. They must remain highly neutral and independent from other authorities and political powers. Since the proposed revision could allow the Cabinet to intervene in the personnel affairs of prosecutors’ offices, many experts fear it could jeopardize the independence of prosecutors and the separation of powers.

「Serene」

The music of Eric Dolphy lives with Breathing.

We never forget the day May 25th 2020 for the world we can freely breath in and out. 

「Two Blue Kites」

June 4th 1989 , it is a very memorable day for me. 

31 years ago I took part in a demonstration for the first time ever in my life. It was a small resistance held in Tokyo. I was with the Chinese people raising my voice out loud in the crowd. I couldn’t do anything but I felt that I had to do something. 

In the beginning of the 90s I was going back and forth between Tokyo and Hong Kong making music. I was offered to make music for a film portrait the night before the Chinese Cultural Revolution called “ The Blue Kite”. The producer of this film invited me to make the music for the film. The film director was banned from making this film in mainland China and he escaped to Japan via Hong Kong. The film was finally completed in Japan. Hong Kong was still in British colony then. This film made my film music career begin. 

June 4th 2020 The Hong Kong government banned the public to organise and attend the candlelight rallies to mark the Tiananmen Square massacre. Despite the harsh policing and the Covid-19 regulation many people (still) defied the ban and tried to attend the commemoration. I was thinking of many of my friends there at the moment.  

I wonder how this little country, Hong Kong, that “brought me up” and “ shaped me who I am today” will be from now. My heart is full of concern for its future.

The film The Blue Kite is still banned in China to this date."

- Otomo Yoshihide



In Japanese / 日本語訳

「Small Stone」

日本では、ステイホームの期間中の5月8日、一人の女性の発言をきっかけに、現

政権がやろうとしていた三権分立をゆるがすようなひどい法案(検察庁法改正案)に対し多くの人々

がSNSを使って異を唱え、それがデモのような効果をもたらし、5月18日国会で

の法案決議を阻止するに至った。

「小さな石をたくさん投げたら山が少し動いた。が、浮き足立ってはいけない。

冷静に誰が何を言い、どんな行動を取るのか見守りたい。」敬愛する女優であり

プロデューサーの小泉今日子が5月19日にSNSで呟いたこの発言は、そのうねり

のことと同時に、しかしそう簡単に現状は変わらないことも表している。

「Serene」

エリック・ドルフィーが作る曲は呼吸とともにある。2020年5月25日は忘れては

ならない日だ。みなが伸び伸びと息ができる世界のために。

「Two Blue Kites」

  6月4日は個人的にも忘れられない日だ。31年前のこの日、わたしは初めてデモに

参加した。東京でおこなわれた小さなデモだった。東京に住む中国人たちと一緒

にわたしも声をあげていた。いてもたってもいられなかったのだ。

90年代初頭、わたしは香港と東京を行き来して音楽をつくっていた。そんな中

1993年、文化大革命前夜の北京を描いた「The Blue Kite」という中国映画の音楽

を作ることになったのが、わたしが映画の世界に入る切っ掛けだった。中国で作

ることを禁じられ、香港経由でフィルムを持って日本に脱出した監督が東京で完

成させた映画で、香港のプロデューサーがわたしを誘ってくれたのだ。当時香港

はまだイギリス領だった。

2020年6月4日、香港では天安門事件31周年の集会が新型コロナを理由に禁止され

ていたにも関わらず、多くの人たちが集まり追悼集会が開かれていた。きっと多

くの友人もそこにいるのだろう。わたしを育ててくれた香港はどうなっていくの

だろうか。「The Blue Kite」は今でも中国での上映が禁止されている。

TR045 - Otomo Yoshihide - 'Small Stones 2 (The Diet May 18th 2020'

July 3, 2020  Live at VOID   (Rehearsal Demo)

from my solo guitar LP 'Higher Order'.
released on Carbon Records, summer 2021
available to order:
from Europe   https://ericarn.bandcamp.com/album/higher-order
from the USA https://carbon-records.bandcamp.com/album/higher-order

the glass scarab, from 'higher order', carbon records 2021

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-178/

FFFoxy Podcast #178

Presence of beings, places and things. 

Field recording and experimental music label curated by Ludwig Berger. Graphic design by Nicolas Turki Duchesnay.

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