faves of this month
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in the pic: John Fahey

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2024)

"Mirror", 2 album preview release pieces

One of the first people I met on this platform was the wonderful Societe Cantine. He listened with open ears and offered indepth thoughts on my music and sparked conversation and experimentation. He, himself a mind-blowing sound artist, has released a  string of albums over the last decade that still sing with originality and genre breaking optimism. We danced round the edges of collaboration for a longtime, adding little bits of sound to bigger projects or producing video. Just before COVID hit the world we finally met in Paris - I had so much talk about, as did he.. like children we struggled with face to face language; his english is good, my french is terrible : ) We decided that we should finally start collaborating in depth and this is the first piece - conceived and played with, back and forth during lockdown COVID times. Naturally enough we titled it Language Gap after our initial stumbling meeting. It got an honourary mention in the 2023 One Minute Radio Festival and through that has been played all over the world . Fardeau Losange (as he now known) and I are working now, very slowly on some sort of album - it will take forever, but its almost secondary to the friendship that has grown around the music we have listened to, written and shared on this platform.   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com/album/lopacit-des-interlignes

Language Gap (Fardeau Losange/Mat Ward)

Electronic composition, basic sounds created in Pure Data.

Easy (naviarhaiku530)

1Mar24

My naviarhaiku530 track
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/743612557262274560/naviarhaiku530-taking-it-easy
:D

taking it easy [naviahaiku530]

Marco Lucchi : piano, mellotron and tape
Akemi Takeya : shamisen and voice

marzo 2024

Iki no kôzô # 2 - w/Akemi Takeya

I sent music I titled "Ravine" to Paulo Chagas, who listened closely to it and responded with his alto sax. Our album explores this close listening in context of various mental landscapes, with this piece, being in a metaphoric ravine.

In A Ravine, (Matthies And Chagas)

“Mirror” is a reflection on the album (by the same name), that Paul Chagas and I collaborated on. Paulo initiated this piece via internet, and I responded. 
It touches on the various soundscapes that we evoked.

We hope that you enjoy this 2nd of two album preview pieces.
We would love to hear you response,….please leave a comment…

You can hear the whole album and download it here:  https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/mirror

With love, Wilhelm Matthies and Paulo Chagas

Mirror, (Chagas And Matthies)

I share music that I have made here solo or in groups. I am bundling my work with some online friends as a project oriented, micro-collective. We are happy to share with you!

https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Wilhelm Mattthies, John Daly (aka Tuneind52), Paulo Chagas and Matthias Boss