All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.
- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on X, Facebook or Instagram
- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

more info here: www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want) compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

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haiku #597: orchids by night – / within their fragrance looms / their blossoms’ white!

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

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson: https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202207/202207_12_en.html
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF orchiD [naviarhaiku597]

A standard jazz ballad chord progression treated as an abstract ambient soundscape with three tracks of electric bass and 3 tracks of synthesisers.

Created June 12th 2025 For this haiku:

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

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson
Picture by Nataliia Davydenko

Orchids by Night -  naviarhaiku597

orchids by night –
within their fragrance looms
their blossoms’ white!
(Yosa Buson)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/
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Looming White (naviarhaiku597)

An electronic composition, sounds created using Pure Data.

Night Fragrance (naviarhaiku597)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
597
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

2025-06-14

orchids by night –(Naviarhaiku 597 )

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 597:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku597-orchids-by-night/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

orchids by night - Naviarhaiku597

Redwoods

X" marks the spot and "X" marks the years.

Belial Pelegrim: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim

A compilation of brand new and exclusive music to celebrate a decade of Bricolage. 27 tracks in total. Over 2 and a half hours of sound. A journey that captures a multitude of styles from all across the electronic spectrum.

It's a 'who's who' of the label past, present and future. We've got Bricolage stalwarts like Dark Fidelity Hi Fi, Belial Pelegrim, Minimal Drone GRL, Fragile X and No Arrival. Some returning old favourites in the form of The Jaffa Kid, Foundered, Minerva and Arran Trax. A bunch of some of our newer regulars in Wilks, Sulci, The New Human and Beira alongside some completely fresh faces on Bricolage with appearances from Veelargo, Kuma and Oceanographer. There's a whole host of other artists that help characterise exactly what Bricolage endeavours towards musically.

Available @ bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/x-bc094

Belial Pelegrim - When the Mobile Spins Counterclockwise…. (from the "X" compilation)

naviarhaiku606 – slightly faint
August 13, 2025
'slightly faint
yet clear
the milky way'

by: Toshio Kiyosaki

Toshio Kiyosaki (1922-1999) was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar of Japanese literature. He published a biography of Kyoshi Takahama in 1966 and co-authored Kyoshi Monogatari, another study on the renowned haiku poet, in 1979.

The Milky Way (amanogawa, or "Heavenly River" in Japanese) is a kigo for Autumn, mainly because that's when the galaxy is most visible in Japan.

Haiku by Toshio Kiyosaki

Picture by Yong Chuan Tan

Join The Naviar 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. https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 116 - NaviarHaiku606 - Slightly Faint

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 606:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku606-slightly-faint/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (La Palma, Spain, 2015)


faint yet clear - Naviarhaiku606

Made for the haiku challenge 607 of Naviar records.

Winter waterfall a rock untouched by sunrise or sunset

by: Setsuko Nozawa

Setsuko Nozawa (1920–1995) was a poet from Yokohama. Inspired by the works of Bashō and Rinka Ōno, she started writing haiku in the 1930s, joined the magazine Shakunagein 1939, and later moved to Hama in 1946. Later in life, she dedicated herself fully to poetry and ikebana, and in 1971 she founded the haiku magazine Ran, later directed by Kōzaburō Wada.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Winter waterfall (naviarhaiku607)

tuabitha

2025-08-24

The day is getting shorter.

"To see the lingering ember of humanity in the most corrupt. This is the truest form of mercy." – Grahame, Realms Unravelled

Track list and start times:
00:00  evergreen avenue – Maybe If I Really Tried with All of My Heart (excerpt)
05:10  Mads Emil Nielsen – Vibrations
12:09  Zoë Keating – Empty Field
14:08  Deadman's Ghost – Chthonic Currents
17:28  Hand To Earth – Gaḏayka
23:18  Lavatone – Rain Lashes
30:28  Donald Gisbey – Jazz - Punk - Seagull
40:11  John Murphy & Underworld – Mercury (from ‘Sunshine’)
42:10  Peter Chilvers – A Frosted World
44:47  Loop(c)y – Underground Walk
48:00  Third Ear Band – Water
54:45  Stan Magendanz – levetatha
58:44  RNL – Anxiety Engine
1:04:55  Himukalt – Sehr Empfindlich
1:12:15  Marcin Lasek – Untitled 4 (excerpt)
1:16:54  Passepartout Duo – From Narva
1:21:19  Roberto Vodanović Čopor – I didn't even know that you had died
1:27:15  Peter Chilvers – The Unbroken Sky
1:32:16  Thalictroa – A Spiral Density Wave
1:39:12  RNL – Anxiety Inhibitor
1:45:00  Zoë Keating – The Last Bird
1:46:52  Underworld – Distortions (from ‘Sunshine’)
1:52:31  Passepartout Duo – From Taipei
1:57:40  Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee – Spiral of Breath (excerpt)
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Image: Lexica.art



Eclectic current – The embers of humanity

Start of Autumn

revealing in the dark
the sadness of things
a fisherman's torch

by: Tagami Kikusha

609
Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) was a Japanese multi-disciplinary artist and Buddhist nun, mostly known as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and tea practitioner.

Haiku by Tagami Kikusha

Picture by Michael Shannon

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.

For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 119 - NaviarHaiku609 - Revealing in the Dark

Traveller in sound and space.  Enjoying and creating ambient, drone and experimental music.

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

orchids by night - Naviarhaiku597

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