The Sound Of Living Things, by Tatsuro Murakami

Each track was inspired by the experience of the landscapes connecting the body and displacing it into a sound.

Track1: La Paz (Bolivia)
Track2: Eduardo Avarua Andean National Reserve (Bolivia)
Track3: Machu Picchu (Peru)
Track4: Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Track5: Atacama Desert (Chile)
Track6: São Paulo (Brazil)

Tatsuro Murakami is a guitarist and composer, based in Tokyo and São Paulo. Since 2014 he has been studying the roots of Brazilian popular music from Choro and 7-string classic guitar. Besides ambient music, he works with soundtracks for movies, art installations, and his own creations on sound art.
(tatsuromurakami.com)

credits

released March 18, 2022

Music by Tatsuro Murakami
Vocal on track 2 and original photography by Anais-karenin
(anaiskarenin.com)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

La meccanica degli oggetti, by Macrogramma

La meccanica degli oggetti
(Soundtrack to “UNDICI” by Dario Panzeri)

SIDE A “La meccanica degli oggetti”(The mechanics of objects): the personal acknowledgement of how helpless we are against the emotional connection between cause and effect.

SIDE B “Due collisoni” (Two collisions): NYC – September 11th 2001, first collision (08:46), second collision (09:03).

– –

La meccanica degli oggetti
(Commento sonoro a “UNDICI” di Dario Panzeri)

SIDE A “La meccanica degli oggetti”: la constatazione personale di quanto siamo inermi davanti alla connessione emozionale tra causa ed effetto.

SIDE B “Due collisoni”: NYC – 11 settembre 2001, prima collisione(08:46), seconda collisione (09:03).

credits

released December 15, 2021

Music by: Matteo Mariano (macrogramma.com)
Mastered by: Andrea Porcu
Cover art by: Dario Panzeri (dariopanzeri.org)
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

u n f o c u s e d [formation]

u n f o c u s e d [ formation ] | 79:52

Slightly gritty ambient & experimental aural meanderings . . . with some
mild turbulence near the end.

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Numina – The Waking Breath (excerpt)
02 Steve Roach – Orbit of Memory (excerpt)
03 SVR – XXXVI (excerpt)
04 Christopher Hanlon – Grey Weather Friend
05 Tunnelwater – Floating Weeds
06 Juan Pablo de Lucca – 2
07 rand – San Gimignano
08 Minimo & Asuna – Behind Comprehension For (excerpt)
09 Conrad Praetzel – Sanctuary
10 Brian Eno & Robert Fripp – Meissa
11 Thorny – The End of Before
12 Matthew Whiteside – Quartet No. 5 (Remix)
13 Janek Schaefer – Unfolding Honey
14 Viridian Sun – Spinning Timeworks
15 Jonathan Hughes – Viscous Space
16 rand – Smouldering

Suíte Onírica, by Rafael Martini Sexteto, Orquestra Sinfônica da Venezuela e Coral, Maestro Osvaldo FerreiraSuíte Oníricaby Rafael Martini Sexteto, Orquestra Sinfônica da Venezuela e Coral, Maestro Osvaldo Ferreira

“Suite Onirica”, recorded in Brazil and Venezuela, joins Rafael Martini Sextet, the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra and Choral, under the direction of the Portuguese conductor Osvaldo Ferreira, and brings the jazz-symphonic piece “Suite Onírica”, in five movements, composed and orchestrated by Martini, with texts by the poet Makely Ka, inspired on the universe of dreams, the interpretations and in the writings of Carl Jung on the subject.
The musicians of Rafael Martini Sextet, who has some of the most outstanding composers of the new scene of instrumental music in Brazil, such as flutist Alexandre Andrés, clarinetist Joana Queiroz and drummer Felipe Continentino, are the main soloists of this work, which presents a strength rarely found in popular music nowadays.
Produced by Rafael Martini and the Venezuelan musician Hildemaro Álvarez, the album counts approximately with150 musicians to present a hybrid music, that transits between song, symphonic music, jazz and Brazilianmusic.

credits

released May 29, 2017

Maestro Osvaldo Ferreira – Regência

Rafael Martini Sexteto
Alexandre Andrés – Flautas
Joana Queiroz – Clarineta e Clarone
Jonas Vitor – Saxofone
Rafael Martini – Piano e Voz
Trigo Santana – Contrabaixo
Felipe Continentino – Bateria

https://youtu.be/-fvQZP6qnHs

Offgrid, by Mind over MIDI

I’m fascinated by TV shows like Mountain Men, The Last Alaskans, Alaska the Last Frontier a.o.
They are masters of independence and living offgrid and off the land.
This album is dedicated to the men who make their living off the land – hunting, fishing and trapping to put food on the table.
For Mountain Men, survival is predicated on using ancient skills perfected over hundreds of years.

– –

Long-serving Norwegian electronic explorer Helge Tommervag is fascinated by those who choose to live their lives in farthest corners of the globe, miles from ‘civilisation’. Offgrid, his latest album for Lontano Series, takes this idea and runs with it, with Tommervag doing a spot of musical daydreaming about the “coldest, darkest parts of Norway”. Like his contemporary Geir Jenson (AKA Biosphere), Tommervag’s take on ambient has always been icy, glacial and windswept, but on Offgrid he pushes this to extremes, delivering a chilly and immersive epic crafted from a…  more

credits

released July 22, 2022

Music & photography by: Helge Tømmervåg
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS

‘A New Wave of Jazz’ [podcast series]

Next edition, “Brick by Brick“ out next month . . . October, 8-9 2022.

God Save the Queen [!]

May she rest in peace (we mean it, man)!

u n f o c u s e d [e l e m e n t s]

u n f o c u s e d_e l e m e n t s | Jazz/Ether Jazz/Minimal | 79:20

Expressions of lingering quietude . . . leading off with the Ulation Remix and fusing a portion of part one’s long-form ‘Moss‘ (new extract) with ECM-based ether-jazz — all fully driven by the Ayumi Tanaka Trio: I was contemplating an ambient playlist for this edition when ECM released ‘Subaqueous Silence‘ . . .

. . .and the deal was sealed.

Part 5 in an ongoing series . . .

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Matthew Whiteside – Ulation_Remix + Moss (extract 4)
02 Marc Johnson – Yin and Yang
03 Ayumi Tanaka Trio – Black Rain
04 Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Fluvius
05 Ayumi Tanaka Trio – Ruins
06 Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang & Tigran Hamasyan – Traces VIII
07 Ayumi Tanaka Trio – Subaqueous Silence
08 Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy – Slaraffenland
09 Stefano Battaglia & Michele Rabbia – Metaphysical Consolations
10 Heiner Goebbels – Fog+Salt (fused tracks)
11 J.Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen – Wellenzeit
12 Mats Eilertsen, Harmen Fraanje & Thomas Strønen – Then Comes The Night
13 Wolfert Brederode Trio – Conclusion
14 Nik Bärtsch – Modul 11 (solo piano)
15 Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith & Bill Frisell – Lebroba

Audioloom 2, by The Green Kingdom

“This release is a continuation of the sounds explored on Audioloom 1/Streams, which was a split release with Maps & Diagrams. These short ambient pieces are woven together from various sources, including acoustic and electric guitars, samples, synths and other acoustic instruments. My hope is that they provide moments of peace as a soundtrack to your daily activities or times of reflection..”

Releases August 19, 2022

Music by Michael Cottone
Mastered by: Andrea Porcu
Artwork by: Annie Spratt
Record label: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series
Publisher: ROHS! RECORDS