Momma kick things off this week, with plenty of jangly, swirling guitars and double-tracked vocals. Naon Kino keep things in a similar vein, and I'm still a huge fan of Sarah Suri's voice, before passing the baton to Anemone where the organ adds a psych twirl to proceedings. Then Les Sympathics start things moving with some great, almost demented at times, Afrobeat out of Benin. Saivor & Meis then move us into harder dance territory, and Will Lister and Detroit Rising both keep things going. The Vessels remix of PSB signals the beginning of the ambient end, with the excellent Sven Laux leading us nicely to some lovely harp from Mary Lattimore (and I mean harp, not harmonica!). I really like Nano Kino, and I bought the Sven Laux album, and will (probably) buy the Mary Lattimore one too, but pick of the week for me is Les Sympathics "A Min We Vo Nou We", which is just fantastic (and yes, I've ordered my copy).

Apr 13 -Apr 19 2018

5Jun25

My naviarhaiku596 track
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku596-spring-dream/
:D

not becoming unhinged [naviarhaiku596]

#4198 92.55% 338 left): Jun. 12, 2025: Beside her clean-swept hearth, her quiet shade (again, William Butler Yeats from May 22, 2025) 

So gently does the mind risk forgetting to embrace the rosy peace of dawn.

In “and softly make a rosy peace,” Chair House blends into the morning’s pale light, painting tranquility in soft sonic hues. A dewy, lingering touch evokes the scent of petals, kindling a quiet celebration within. On the drizzly dawn of 250518, this improvisation strikes the perfect balance of calm and tender nostalgia.



*** NEW SELECTION ALBUM 30th JUST RELEASESD ***

Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536:
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

######## Latest Album: 30th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########

"wind of mysteriousness" - the 30th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/tkqms1ZjAEg?si=RlWgQZBbe9z523f_

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/7CiAmnJmm5Wnm3CVfmC234?si=tImTyWj5TT6dUBRhMRXVYg

apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/wind-of-mysteriousness/1817351475

amazon music:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=chair+house+%E4%B8%8D%E6%80%9D%E8%AD%B0%E3%81%AE%E9%A2%A8&i=digital-music&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/PQ45u0dG?lang=en


beside her clean-swept hearth her quiet shade - #4198 (92R55 pc 338 left) by chair house 250612

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

orchids by night – within their fragrance looms their blossoms’ white!

by: Yosa Buson

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

Orchids by night (naviarhaiku597)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Konishi Raizan’s poem “spring dream… not becoming unhinged is what’s unbearable”.   

Tracklist:   

Debroc · spring dream  https://soundcloud.com/user-99036881/spring-dream_naviarhaiku596
El Wud - Sound notes from an anomalous spring  https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1/sound-notes-from-an-anomalous
Stan Magendanz · not becoming unhinged  https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/not-becoming-unhinged-naviarhaiku596
Jimmy Lem · Navigation Problem No. 1  https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/navigation-problem-no-1-naviarhaiku596 
Mr_Lamppost · Spring Dream   https://soundcloud.com/mr_lamppost/spring-dream-naviarhaiku-596 

Credits:   

music intro: “This ruined house”by Tuonela  
voice intro: Ian Joyce  
cover image: Micah Hallahan   

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.  

To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku  

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #372 – Spring dream… – Wednesday 18th June 2025

« Among the pines » is my contribution for the 600th haiku proposed by naviar records:

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

by: Andrea Cecon

I take this opportunity to thank Marco Sebastiano Alessi of naviar records for setting up this wonderful adventure.

—

https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.

Among the pines (naviarhaiku600)

This is an excerpt from a larger work called "warsaw"
I wrote this while in Brussels, Belgium, making a piece for electronics, clarinet, and video for The Pride Museum.
[I will probably retitle this piece a bit lateer]

warsaw

it all begins with a spark.   an idea.  a promise.   then it's about the instruments.   then about balancing all of the things i want it to do.  as simple as that.

as simple as that

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
602
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku602-scent-of-plum/

2025-07-17

scent of plum(Naviarhaiku 602)

My sound practice investigates the spiritual dimensions of listening through sustained tones, silence, and subtle transformation, inviting inward attention and expanded awareness.

sound practice (disquiet0707)

sound art for disquiet0707.

More on the 707th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chain of Practice — The Assignment: Make music from how you make music — at https://disquiet.com/0707/

shhh, I'm recording this (disquiet0707)

A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear; gut-busting yelps, lethally well-drilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into its own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.

Ten years on, intrepid crate-digger Samy Ben Rejeb unveils a new treasure-trove of Vodoun-inspired Afrobeat heavy funk crossover greatness. Right from the laceratingly raw guitar fanfare which kicks off Les Sympathics’ pile-driving opener, it’s clear that African Scream Contest II is going to be every bit as joyous a voyage of discovery as its predecessor. And just as you’re trying to get off the canvas after this one-punch knock out, an irresistible Afro-ska romp with a more than subliminal echo of the Batman theme puts you right back there. Ignace De Souza and the Melody Aces’ “Asaw Fofor" would’ve been a killer instrumental but once you’ve factored in the improbably-rich-to-the-point-of-being-Nat-King-Cole-influenced lead vocal, it’s a total revelation.

The screaming does not stop there, in fact it’s only just beginning. But the strange thing about African Scream Contest II’s celebration of unfettered Beninese creativity is that it would not have been possible without the assistance of a musician who had been trained by the Russian secret services to "find and destroy" enemies of the country’s (then) Marxist-Leninist president Mathieu Kerekou.

Already familiar to fans of the first African Scream Contest as a mainstay of ruthlessly disciplined police band Les Volcans de la Capitale, Lokonon Andre vanished in a cloud of dust at Ben Redjeb’s behest with a list of names and some petrol money, only to return a few days later having miraculously tracked down every single name he’d been given. The source of this Afrobeat bounty-hunter’s impressive people-finding skills - his training with the KGB - highlights the tension between encroaching authoritarian politics and fearless expressions of personal creative freedom which is the back-story of so much great African music of the 60s and 70s. Happily, in this instance, Lokonon was tracking the artists down to offer them licensing deals, rather than to arrest them.

Where some purveyors of vintage African sounds seem to be strip-mining the continent’s musical heritage with no less rapacious intent than the mining companies and colonial authorities who previously extracted its mineral wealth, Samy Ben Redjeb’s determination to track this amazing music to its human sources pays huge karmic dividends. Like every other Analog Africa release, African Scream Contest II is illuminated by meticulously researched text and effortlessly fashion-forward photography supplied by the artists themselves. Looming large - alongside Lokonon Andre - in the cast of biopic-worthy characters to emerge from this seductive tropical miasma is visionary space-nerd Bernard Dohounso, who laid the foundations for Benin’s vinyl predominance by importing and assembling the record players that would play the products of his Bond villain-acronymed pressing plant SATEL, a company that would revolutionise the music industry in the whole region.

The scene documented here couldn’t have been born anywhere else but in Benin, and the prime reason for that was Vodoun. It’s one of the world’s most complex religions, involving the worship of some 250 divinities, where each divinity has its own specific set of rhythms, and the bands introduced on the African Scream Contest series and other compilations from the region were no less diverse than that army of different Gods.

African Scream Contest Vol.2

African Scream Contest Volume 2

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A Min We Vo Nou We // Les Sympathics (All Comments will be forwarded to Herman Laléyé, the founder)

Released on @alienrec
@Saivor : https://www.facebook.com/SaivorOfficial

@Meiss : https://www.facebook.com/meispsr

Saivor & Meis - ONIMENA

Sven Laux is a German artist residing in Berlin, a city with a rich heritage in minimalism and modern composition. Sven isn’t new to this scene having started creating electronic music in 2003, with material released through labels such as Microcosm Music, Archipel, Sleep is Commercial and most recently, Dronarivm. 

Sven’s early work would often focus on Minimal Techno rhythms, adorned by vacant Ambient tones. His more recent work has been centred more around developing his Ambient sound, with modern classical influences listing the likes of A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Hans Zimmer, Max Richter and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. 2017 saw the emergence of ‘Paper Streets’ on Dronarivm which felt like a landmark release in Sven’s discography, ranking highly in many an end of year list. 

We’re pleased to present his follow up ‘Schachmatt’ which is a German phrase for something that ends or when something is finalised or indeed, the last move in chess. The concept was born as Sven was inspired by watching a movie about famous chess players and as a result, he has created a set of disparate tracks to reference this as each player in the film had a different strategy. He wanted the approach for each track to play out along a differing path, each with its own unique characteristics or game plan, if you will. 
The resulting soundtrack presents itself as a melancholic space for the listener, with every move of the chess pieces offered as undefined metaphors for your own interpretation.

releases April 21, 2018 

Written and produced by Sven Laux
www.svenlaux.com
Mastered by Pheek 
Photography by James Gelsthorpe

Schachmatt

wlr038 Sven Laux - Schachmatt

Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2fM0N2rehA
Free download here : https://nanokino.bandcamp.com/track/sick-dreamer

Sick Dreamer

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Whitelabrecs was set up by Harry Towell in late 2015 as another outlet to put out experimental electronic/acoustic music. It followed Harry’s previous labels Audio Gourmet, Tessellate and Warehouse Decay and focuses on a collectable series of highly limited edition vinyl-effect CDr packaging, with the first 50 releases influenced by white label vinyl records. The label also runs a digital only series called eRecords, with each of these releases including a special PDF booklet.

https://www.whitelabrecs.com
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/

wlr038 Sven Laux - Schachmatt

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