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Steve Reich: Duet

Black String is founded on Korean traditional music but guided by universal emotions, freely crossing generic borders while actively working to create a new level of improvisational performance. They present a repertory which is both contemporary and filled with Black String’s distinctive aesthetic. Led by master geomungo (traditional Korean six-string zither) player Yoon Jeong HEO, the band is further made up of guitarist Jean OH , daegeum (traditional Korean flute) and yanggeum (hammered dulcimer) player Aram LEE, and percussionist and vocalist Min Wang HWANG. Black String was selected for the 2016 World Music Expo Official Showcase, and was the first Korean band to win the Asia & Pacific Award from renowned world music magazine Songlines in 2018, demonstrating the excellence and artistic potential of traditional Korean music to the world. Following on from an invitational tour at a series of prestigious international festivals, Black String was the first Asian band to sign with ACT, Europe’s largest jazz label, so far releasing two studio albums, Mask Dance (2016) and Karma (2019), as well as a live album, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic (2020).

01 - Surena  44k - 16b

Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1

Overture No. 3 In D Major

Premiers Succes

Rue Saint-Vincent

Track from the 'Laraaji Remixes' 12" EP released 12 May 2014 on All Saints Records. Features the music of legendary electronic mystic Laraaji re-interpreted by Bee Mask (Spectrum Spools),
Ela Orleans (Night People), Sun Araw (Not Not Fun/Drag City) 
and Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (Digitalis/Boomkat Editions). 

Laraaji and Sun Araw on tour throughout Europe May & June 2014.


Laraaji - Kalimba (Ela Orleans version)

I believe this is the final edit. As long as I can get some good feedback on it I believe this will go up in the next few days.

Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack And Sinfonia Viva) (Apollo Remix)

Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life (Official Video)

Remix - Kepler / Nobukazu Takemura

Ursula K. Leguin teyzenin Always Coming Home kitabında geçen kurgusal Kesh toplumundan "Balıkçıl Dansı" şarkısı. Enstrümantal.

*The Image originally belongs to artist Jane Keeling.

Ursula LeGuin & Todd Barton - Kesh Musics from Always Coming Home - Heron Dance

Õdangule (Une meeles, 2016)

Classical Collections The Masters, Vol. 5

Suite No.4 In D Major BWV 1096

This is a cover of the Philip Glass piece "Etoile Polaire (North Star)" from the album "North Star".  It is performed via sampler and electric piano. 

Etoile Polaire (North Star) (Philip Glass)

Jonny Greenwood - House of Woodcock (Piano cover)

Release date: 20/03/20

Max de Wardener returns to Village Green with an album of detuned acoustic piano pieces, performed by British jazz pianist Kit Downes (ECM).

Drawing inspiration from modernist composers James Tenney, Harry Partch and La Monte Young, de Wardener’s intentions here were “to try and bend something established and monumental into something new”. 

The resulting album is deceptively simple, belying the project’s myriad technical challenges, (pianos are immensely stubborn when subject to unorthodox tuning methods). Captured over a two year period, Downes’ enlivening improvisations do justice to de Wardener’s vision in creating an elegant record that feels at once familiar, yet otherworldly.

Music For Detuned Pianos

Star Song

London-based trio Quest Ensemble present a distinctive twist on the traditional piano trio format. A collaboration between three powerful performers/composers, "The Other Side" sees musical styles woven together into a lyrical tapestry of sound, blending improvisation with co-created original compositions. A truly unique ensemble in compositional process and performance style.

On 5th June, Quest Ensemble will release their sophomore album ‘The Other Side’. With nods to influences as broad as the contemporary minimalism of John Adams and Steve Reich, the experimental melancholic textures of Radiohead to the progressive jazz precision of Brad Mehldau, ‘The Other Side’ inhabits its own soundworld somewhere in the gaps between chamber, jazz, folk and contemporary classical music.

Fusing their backgrounds in western classical, Indian classical, jazz and improvisational technique, Filipe Sousa (piano), Tara Franks (cello) and Preetha Narayanan (violin) are all graduates of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Leadership Programme.

The Other Side

The Boatman

A tribute to the courage of all those who attempt to cross the Mediterranean looking for a better future, often fleeing terrifying circumstances, both to the people who tragically lose their lives during the crossing and to those facing uncertain futures once they arrive.

https://smarturl.it/jptribute

All proceeds will be donated to Marevivo Onlus and Mediterranea Saving Humans⠀
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Support music, save human lives, help the sea.⠀

Mediterraneo

Tribute

Jim Perkins - Tribute

https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/debris-of-echoes

DEATHBED CONVERT - DEBRIS OF ECHOES

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR20 
Limited Cassette & Digital
Friday 1st May 2020

Following on from 2018’s ‘Sentience and Sapience’ under his Ai Messiah alias, Connor Dougan returns to Touch Sensitive with a deeply personal and arresting nine-track album - Deathbed Convert’s ‘Debris of Echoes’.

Dougan has been a long-standing fixture of the Irish electronic underground - he was a founding member of the cult club night & future-funk ensemble RESET (featuring Kaidi Tatham), both solo and collaborative works have graced Boxcutter’s Kinnego label, and recently - the Ai Messiah project has morphed in to an immersive live audio/visual collaboration.

Despite an inclination towards futuristic sonics and group work, ‘Debris of Echoes’ reverts back to solo composition - creating a truly singular vision. “This record grew quite organically out of me probably not playing with other musicians enough and trying to form something out of my introverted guitar experiments instead.”

Alongside the more personal aspect of playing and recording alone, ‘Debris of Echoes’ is rooted in an emotional connection to the rural Irish landscape of home. “I took a lot of inspiration from old photographs, the bleakness and beauty of the countryside, old graveyards and ruined churches”

Juxtaposed with Ai Messiah’s subjective speculations on the future - the escapism of ’Debris of Echoes’ can be found in subjective impressions of the past.
A connection with the mid-nineteenth century photography of Hill & Adamson (whose work features on the sleeve) resonated heavily and further shaped the record. “They have an artificiality to them - a deliberately exaggerated pastoral sense - that makes them very romantic and alluring”.

Masters such as Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, and Talk Talk are mentioned as ever present influences. ‘Debris of Echoes’ may be removed from the sonic aesthetic of that quartet but we feel the spirit. Musically - with sparse, repetitive guitar tones paired with effected, minimal keys and hypnotic field recordings - connections can be made with the melancholic beauty of The Durutti Column, Gigi Masin’s deep, ambient ocean, and Iasos’ endless expanse.

Dwelling on themes of home, ancestry and belonging that have rarely felt more relevant, 'Debris of Echoes' is one of the most affecting albums we’ve had the pleasure to release.

Debris of Echoes

Deathbed Convert - Inner Mountain

Laudes Matutinae from Apocrypha by Hugi Gudmundsson. Taken from the album Apocrypha released by Musmap (2008)

Laudes Matutinae from Apocrypha by Hugi Gudmundsson

Sara Parkman och Samantha Ohlanders

Vallåt från Ångermanland e. Ulrika Bodén och polska av Sara Parkman. 

Tack till Höga Kusten och alla älvar, dalar och berg. Puss. 

Sara och Samantha - Vallåt + Berget

wifi - too many
ヨルシカ - ただ君に晴れ 
kiryano, bliss, emo - down bad (prod. 
4am)
exodus - arrogant (prod. kurai)
hiroshi yoshimura - view from my window
dolly - masochist (prod. elxnce + kurai) *unreleased*
完全版たくいまれる別野加奈(Kana Wakareno)
yungster jack - half empty (prod. kurai) *original version*

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