fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Franco Battiato

"musica assoluta" (maggio 2025)

Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third

The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio.

Details at disquiet.com/0699

Deadline Monday, May 26, 2025, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Disquiet Junto Project 0699: Third Third

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 565

infinitely open ... except for the beat, no beat, or not enough to call it a beat, or too many of them either in succession or concurrent.

created: 2025/05/26

These tracks were uploaded in April and May 2025,
except for the following, older ones:

The additional tags beginning with a capital letter are SoundCloud's suggestions, except for Hip Hop which remains spelled this way, with two capital letters, no matter how you type it, i.e. SC made an exception for Hip Hop. The other ones are mine.
. . .

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

[TO BE COMPLETED]

hk_fantaisies_tracks_565

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 387

Music, exceptionally recent for this one, a few days old, like under 10 days, mostly 1, 2 days!  I've never had one like this.

created: 2025/05/26

hk_tradacoustic_387

Jar Of Jarre 15

A hopefully peaceful track composed for the 591st Naviar Haiku challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Haiku:
steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!
— Ōshima Ryōta

Photo by: Soubhagya Ranjan (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tree-with-green-leaves-YqFqYd_WQHU)

The rain field recording felt inevitable as a starting point—once in place, the chimes followed naturally. Two measures of gentle drones and a few understated piano notes later, and the piece settled into a safe haven. Nothing more felt necessary.

Steady spring rains (naviarhaiku591)

Su Gurdoni - The Seven Sisters (A sardinian night sky)

a kind word costs nothing

I definitely believe Joy Division is the greatest band of all time. Are they on the gold record in the Voyager spacecraft? If not, humanity has made a mistake. Probably just a launch date that was too early!

Freedom from something

2025-05-03 08_52_05

;|~ blooming ~|;
For my series: Project VEIL
Tiktok: projectveil.zip
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lyrics:
cold hands on my back again
whispers through the sterile walls
they promised peace inside the void
but all i found were masks and gods

dragged me through your sacred dirt
called me clay with something wrong

hands tied in the name of order
mouth stitched with you design
you told me silence was a virtue
while you buried me alive

your garden grows in shadowed halls
filled with blood and consequence
you said i'd bloom if i obeyed
so now i'm listening

burn the soul and call it sacred
burn the skin and say it's clean
tell lies until i beg you to make me into something seen
underneath your garden walls where obedience forgot
i still scream, and i still bleed,
and i still rot

steel walls, white lights
i was born anew
my name, in blood,
underneath compliance
they dressed it up like therapy
but all i heard was "die for me"

doctor said if i listen, i'll become better than this

do you hear what they're saying?
do you know their schemes?
don't know who to trust now,
you're just like me

do you hear what they're saying?
that they're scared of me?
don't know who to trust,
you've run out of luck,
a moth to a flame

you say you want to leave,
but there's no escape
they'll always find you
even if you run away

no one comes in, no one goes out
if you go missing, no one will find out

burn the soul and call it sacred
burn the skin and say it's clean
tell lies until i beg you to make me into something seen
underneath your garden walls where obedience forgot
i still scream, and i still bleed,
and i still rot

cold hands on my back again
whispers through the sterile walls
they called it peace inside the void
but all i found were masks and gods

ROT [ p. Ryini Beats ]

Parte di un progetto  per Musica Acusmatica multicanale. Suoni della natura, umani, meccanici. Campioni del Violino della Mutter.

Part of a project for Multichannel Acousmatic Music. Sounds of nature, human, mechanical. Sampled Mutter's violin.

A forest to hear (naviarhaiku592)

MMXXIIIVIXIIINCCSSBL

Piece composed for amplified moderen ensemble, Dortmund May 2025

"DELUGE" • Modern Ensemble #neoclassical

Marcel

For this third of three, I chose the inspired track by Campos and Samplair from last week ... https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei/soothing-nightmare-carnival-disquiet0698-with-samplair

Check out my collaborators' brilliant work at https://soundcloud.com/tannes-marrei and https://soundcloud.com/user-248104983 ...

Enjoy! 🤗

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the third third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

more halF unusuaL

halF nightmarE [disquiet0699] with Campos & Samplair

little helper

Melodic Dark and Luminous Drones - disquiet0699 (with Ray Cobley and Alanblip)
This one’s quite experimental yet melodic and with a positive, luminous vibe (but with moments of darkness when Ray’s drone takes the foreground). 

Took this duo: https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/drone-double-with-alanblipdisquiet0698 by @ray_cobley 
who worked on this solo by  @alanblip https://soundcloud.com/alanblip/b-drone-disquiet0697 

Added a solo lead on my Oberheim OB-X and some noise washes on the same sytnh to channel the mighty Vangelis…

For this collaboration project:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0699-third-third/

Melodic Dark and Luminous Drones (w/ray cobley & alanblip) - disquiet0699

Worked on this duo by e_nu_ri (@user-807707609) : https://soundcloud.com/user-807707609/bowed-and-jangled-farther-disquiet0698  based on this original track by 
@red_robin
https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet-junto-0697-mr-bowed-jangles

The all-synth background is great. I thought the contrast between those synth tracks and a warm, acoustic tone could be interesting, so I improvised a lead part on tenor ukulele. I also added an infra bass drone playing the tonic, and used a little software I’m beta testing that generates sound from a text prompt using some kind of AI (can’t say more here, but it’s fun for drones!).
It's like a dark, abstract recitativo, hope you like it.

For this collaboration project:
llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…t-0699-third-third/

Mr Bowed Jangles returns (w/ he_nu_ri and Tristan Louth-Robins) - disquiet0699

Built on top of the excellent bass and rhythm work of DD and halF unusuaL in the previous two weeks, and operating under the influence of Lol Tolhurst's rock and roll memoirs, as well as the unease of being here now in 2025, here is a happy little song about modern life. 

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

Mother of Thirds (disquiet 0699) Torpid Scorpion x Daniel Diaz x Half Unusual

More on the 699th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Third Third — The Assignment: Record the final third of a trio — at https://disquiet.com/0699/

Source tracks:
Marjorie Van Halteren, "Disquiet0698 second with Torpid Scorpion"
https://soundcloud.com/vanwindmill/disquiet0698-second-with

Torpid Scorpion, "Disquiet0697 - First Third"
https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion/disquiet0697-first-third

tercero (third) (ft. Torpid Scorpion & Marjorie Van Halteren) [Disquiet0699]

accidental scary art

Dreamland (2007)

Combining elements of Meccaniche del Sueno´s  contributions to the past two disquiet junto projects plus adding some music I created is how I made this track

Wilfried Hanrath - Mechanics of Dreams, with Meccaniche del Sueno (disquiet0699)

Freestyle and non-genre mostly. I am a composer and sound-designer, but in the first place a musician, mixing free improvisation and composition. I like collaborations; in case you feel inclined towards playing with me, feel free to contact me
Latest release: https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/heyla

Wilfried Hanrath - Mechanics of Dreams, with Meccaniche del Sueno (disquiet0699)

W:I:L