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evaporation

01 Friday Jan 2021

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evaporation | Experimental/Ambient/Noise/Glitch | 78:21

Happy 2021! Here’s hoping this brand new year brings you to the threshold of your dreams & goals . . . & beyond!

This is a culling of various, vaporous, ambient artifacts, relics & cherished sacrificial aural ceremonies from years gone by and 3 more recent tracks (1, 3 & 11); meshing/mashing experimental derivatives with the vast ambient landscape.

Constructed over this past Thanksgiving break.

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  • 01 Nicola Di Croce – Deus Sive Natura (excerpt)
  • 02 Juta Takahashi – Silence
  • 03 Harold Budd – Yellow
  • 04 Jeff Greinke – City Light
  • 05 Tomas Weiss & Anthony Kerby – Vision 4
  • 06 Brian Eno – Written, Forgotten
  • 07 Max Corbacho – One True Light (edit)
  • 08 Steve Roach – Cloud Cover
  • 09 Jacob Newman & Devin Underwood – Tracing Memory
  • 10 Mystified – Earthwaves.3
  • 11 .foundation – Vesper Hymn
  • 12 The Circular Ruins – Perpetuum Mobile

Post-COVID constructular emanations . . .

r O t O

25 Friday Dec 2020

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r O t O [rotogravure / roh-tuh-gruh-vyoor]
a photo-mechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.

Cover art for a rework (& new opening treatment) of a previous mix.

The new cover speaks to the content, which has a lot of glitch & found-sound tapestries woven in, much better than did the original. Having artwork embedded into the mp3 as it plays on my phone or iPad is something I find enjoyable (I use mp3 Tag). I think that art & music go hand-in-hand in the final deliverable (mixes being, in a manner of speaking, the new albums).

At first I was going to use this image for a new mix . . . but with no new material on the drawing board, and our show schedule nearly complete for 2021, I decided to do a reissue . . . only slightly altered
(heh . . . just like Brian Eno does ;- D )

r O t O (track-listing contained in d/l zip file)

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the vicinity of bLue

29 Sunday Nov 2020

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the vicinity of b L u e | ambient/glitch/noise/experimental | 80:44
(releases December 1st . . . but don’t tell anyone you got early access!)

An experimental outing of slicing, dicing, arranging & rearranging compositional segments of sound, until the audiological effect was . . .
“just right”!

It represents not so much the emotional/psychological state of “being” blue . . . but the empty sparseness the color can invoke (e.g. “Blue, blue, ‘lectric blue; that’s the color of my room — where I will live”*).

Glitch. Space. Drift. Some Ether-Jazz . . . and nuanced Ambient Drone
(with a new film composition from Brian Eno).

All shades . . . all hues . . . all bLue.

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01 Slow City, 2nd Stack: 3 tracks, simultaneously
……a. Fabio Perletta + Luigi Turra – Ma pt 3
……b. Fripp, Buck, Chalenor, Chamberlain, Rieflin & Zazou –
………..The Slow Music Project
……c. Richard Chartier – Second End
02 Serries, Verhoeven & Webster – Fissure
03 Lowered – Distance Flooded Us
04 Brian Eno – Decline and Fall [extended remix]
05 Christopher Bissonnette – Consequence
06 Focus on the Breath – Waves
07 Ethereal Ephemera – A Place Where Strangers Gather to Watch the Sunrise (excerpt)
08 Hollie Kenniff – Aubade
09 Scott Lawlor – Morning Calm (excerpt)
10 Gimmick – La peau de la femme (excerpt)
11 Keys for Eclipse – Social Amnesia
12 Cryptic Scenery – Hospitals 1 (edit)
13 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – Terebellum
14 Motorpig – Tesla Coil
15 Jonas Meyer – Strömung

white noise room

14 Saturday Nov 2020

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white noise room | Experimental Ambient/Ambient/Minimal/Noise | 80:48

“You know I hear a lot of talk
So I’m headed for the stereo store
To get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten!”

…………………………………………………………..~Frank Black

Pale fog juxtaposed against a faded backdrop with nondescript, texturized sound emanations . . . like an isolation tank for your ears.

You could nap to this . . . literally.
It’s glitchy, droney, drifty (a little ambient for you purists out there!) with a smidge of caustic undertone (original play-list was penned on the back of a cancelled postage stamp with a #2, bonded Ticonderoga pencil).

#Yum!

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01 Motorpig – Glue Doesn’t Stick To Everything (edit)
02 Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand – Xenon Wind (edit)
03 Richard Chartier + Yann Novak – Undefined (edit)
04 Susan Drone/Kris Force – Sinusoidal Dance/Auric Blade #3
(dual tracks, stacked & blended)
05 Jared Sugar – Ininda
06 The Star Pillow – Molize Forest
07 Neuro… No Neuro – They’re Always There
08 Jonas Meyer – Sekundenschlaf
09 arbee – moutons sur le lac
10 Keys for Eclipse – Two Part
11 Ümlaut – To Leave it As it Is (edit)
12 Cryptic Scenery – Hospitals III (edit)
13 Rafael Anton Irisarri – Lutecia
14 AUME – Hypnopompia (edit)
15 Jeff Greinke – Urban Pasture
16 Tsone – BeetsOVseq
17 Strië – Test For Ability

Transit (15th Anniversary Edition), by Lawrence English

08 Sunday Nov 2020

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Transit was my first full length solo recording. When I say solo, I’m in no way reducing the contributions of friends like Mike Cooper, Tam Patton, Cat Hope, DJ Olive, Ben Frost, Gail Priest, Scanner, Philip Samartzis, John Chantler and Heinz Riegler who all helped to realise this work. Frankly, without them the record would have been a whole lot less interesting.

As the title suggests, this is categorically a record about motion, about transitions and about the ways of recognising the lived-in world that is so acutely felt in the earliest years of travelling. During this time, my world view expanded considerably and I was struck by the complexities of the world, the interpersonal relationships people experienced each day, the political intensities that haunted cities (perhaps most clearly captured in the transformed recordings of ultra nationalist speakers on the streets of Tokyo), the dynamic shifts of season (something rather foreign to us antipodeans) and the experiential list goes on.

At the time of making this record, I was quite focused on the idea of creating sound works that were detached from emotion. This wasn’t to say I wanted to create a cold music, but rather one that was utterly focused on the sensory qualities of the experiences that informed it. Phenomenology instead of affect theory I guess you could say. Returning to this record a decade and a half on, it’s funny how powerfully nostalgic and intensely emotional the memories carried in these pieces have become. My intensions, at least from my own listenership, have completely failed and I can say I do (deeply) feel this music (and thankfully sense its places and spaces too).

Each of the pieces on Transit were born out of field recording. During these years, I was recording literally all the time. I found it a powerful device for memory and also for imagination. Revisiting the recordings months or years after making them, I found different qualities of those times were revealed and those shifts often shaped the way the pieces were composed. It’s with pleasure I share this work again, freshly remastered and with a few little bits and pieces cleaned up. 

Releases November 27, 2020

Serus, by Siavash Amini

05 Thursday Nov 2020

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“Every night is two nights”, according to Maurice Blanchot. “The night the body spends in sleep is not the same as the night the dreamer spends in dreams. The sleeping body may lie under the stars, and the dreamer may dream of the stars—even of a journey to the stars—but the night of the dream is a night without stars.”

From Siavash
The Idea of this album, when I first started drafting it, was to continue what struck me as very interesting yet simple idea; night. I became interested in different definitions of what night is, our perception of it and what night means physically to us as well as symbolically.

I came across the idea of ‘other night’ described by Maurice Blanchot, during my research. It started me recognising night as something we experience as ‘the night of sleep’; it is night that we resist in sleep, by way of dreaming.

Things became more interesting for me during many nights of not sleeping and intoxication, and an eventual nervous breakdown. This experience, culminating in me spending three days in ICU, gave me pause to think about Blanchot’s words.

Slipping in and out of consciousness my mind, which had already experienced a blurring of what one might call the ‘other night’ and the night itself, by being in half sleep most of the time. I felt myself far way from all my surroundings and at the same time being very attentive to some details in the objects around me. It was as if my body and mind where in an in-between state. I can only describe this as being distant or more precisely being in the dark. Objects and people showed themselves out of proportion and mostly dim.

A feeling to describe this sensation, the word for which I only came across later, is ‘Serus’. There was a sense of repetition and familiarity in some feelings and emotions that I had towards some objects like sensing I knew them but not exactly from where or when. It was as if my body was resisting sleep and my sleepy mind was resisting being awake, only to dream of another type of the world that I could be awake in. 

Released August 2, 2019

u r b a n

01 Sunday Nov 2020

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u r b a n | Minimal Techno/Noise/Techno | 77:24

Extraneous aural lamentations from an isolated, undisclosed, non-rural municipality.

. . . and (more to the point) gritty turbulence & granular causticity, constantly grating across the listener’s ear so as to create a state of sonacular trance.
(earbuds will prove most helpful on this auditory excursion!)

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01 Aes Dana – Beneath
02 Simon Šerc – Greybody Fit (excerpt)
03 Tonaliens – Vesta part 1 (excerpt)
04 Miktek – Serene
05 Rag Dun – The Echo that Swings
06 Ebauche – Umbilical Transfer
07 Nine Inch Nails – Temp Fix
08 J Peter Schwalm – Gangesthal
……(w/ Eivind Aarset & Tim Harries)
09 Lingua Lustra – Return
10 Ümlaut – If the Eye Never Sleeps
11 David Torn – Outsider (excerpt)
12 Neuro…No Neuro – Showers
13 Martin Nonstatic – Distance C
……(extended edit)
14 Eskostatic – Shadow
15 Vcam – Coreceptor_Env

Manfred Eicher, Founder of ECM Records, Picks his Top Five Blue Note Albums

23 Friday Oct 2020

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Field Studies: Manfred Eicher, Founder of ECM Records, Picks His Top Five Blue Note Albums
~ By Nate Chinen

Manfred Eicher is the founder and producer at ECM Records, but the word that best describes his role at the label might be “auteur.”

For more than 50 years, Eicher has provided the vision and direction for the label, while often obsessing no less over the particulars of a given recording session. And if invoking auteur theory feels like a stretch, consider that Eicher himself has often compared albums to cinema — an inclination that manifests in both the “ECM sound” (famously, at once reverberant and pristine) and the visual aesthetic of the label’s cover art (iconic enough to be subject to parody).

As many have noted, the closest parallel to Eicher’s achievement at ECM is that of Alfred Lion at Blue Note, from its start in 1939 up until his retirement in 1967. Eicher holds Lion’s example in high esteem, and he has a relationship with many of the albums in the Blue Note catalog.

So when the Australian music website ZoneOut asked him to name his five favorite Blue Note albums, he had no problem providing thoughtful answers — just as current Blue Note president Don Was selected his Top Five ECM Albums. (A disclaimer: ZoneOut is owned by Universal Music Australia. WBGO is republishing the list with permission, and received no compensation for doing so.) 

Last year, Jazz Night in America celebrated ECM’s 50th anniversary with help from the Big Ears Festival — and we were aware at every turn that we were really just scratching the surface. The same feels true of Eicher’s bouquet of Blue Note albums below, though he provides astute insights on every single pick.

Ornette Coleman, The Empty Foxhole (1966)
Ornette’s Atlantic albums were so striking that they still overshadow other Coleman discs from the 1960s — including Blue Note’s live recordings from Stockholm’s Golden Circle, and this studio date from 1966. It has Ornette on alto sax, trumpet and violin, Charlie Haden on bass and 10-year-old Denardo Coleman on drums.  It’s a recording that effectively elevates feeling above technique, and it has a purity and a naïve freshness that endures somehow, vibrant as folk art.  Some great tunes here too, including “Zig Zag” and especially “Faithful.”  We introduced the Marcin Wasilewski Trio to this album; they subsequently made “Faithful” the title track of one of their own recordings.
Purchase at Amazon, or stream on YouTube

Anthony Williams, Spring (1966)
An impressive band on Tony Williams’ second Blue Note album, recorded in 1965, with Sam Rivers and Wayne Shorter on saxophones, Herbie Hancock on piano and Gary Peacock on bass. Among other admirable qualities, this album provides one of the best early instances of Peacock’s innovative approach, and you can hear him much better than on Albert Ayler’s ESP- Disk albums released around the same time. In this well-crafted music, Gary is a lead voice from the first moment, interacting with the saxophones, as well as with Williams’ fanatically detailed brushwork.
Purchase at the Blue Note Store, or stream on YouTube

Chick Corea, The Song of Singing (1971)
Featuring the trio with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, this was recorded in 1970, about six months before ECM’s A.R.C. album. Chick was on fire, creatively, in this period, expanding his artistic reach in many directions. And of course, Dave and Barry were a wonderful combination, too. The three of them were about to be joined by Anthony Braxton to form the great but short-lived band Circle and record Paris Concert.
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Don Cherry, Complete Communion (1966)
It’s hard to choose between Complete Communion, Symphony for Improvisers and Where Is Brooklyn? Recorded within the space of a year in 1965 and ‘66, the albums form a trilogy. At the start of the cycle Gato Barbieri is the tenor player, at the end it’s Pharoah Sanders, and on  the middle album it’s both of them. Complete Communion lays out the basic concept. Don’s lyricism and sense of space, and his open ear to the sounds of the world, and Ed Blackwell’s dancing rhythms are the keys to everything. The musical evolution from here to El Corazón and Old and New Dreams is not quite straightforward but poetically logical.
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Pete La Roca, Basra (1965)

I had loved the combination of drummer Pete La Roca and bassist Steve Swallow on Paul Bley’s Footloose (1963), and on Basra (1965) Pete and Steve reunited to explore more outgoing music, joined by the ever-inspiring Steve Kuhn on piano and Joe Henderson on tenor.  Among the many Blue Notes with Henderson, this one stands out for its spirit and energy. La Roca disappeared from the scene for a long time to study and then practice law. After his return, he played with John Abercrombie and there was talk for a while about a recording project with Pete, John, and Kenny Wheeler – which remained unrealized, unfortunately.
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Also see: Don Was, President of Blue Note Records, Picks His Top Five ECM Albums
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https://www.wbgo.org/post/field-studies-manfred-eicher-founder-ecm-records-picks-his-top-five-blue-note-albums#stream/0

elements_graphic

17 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by gabulmer in Ambient, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, Mixing

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elements_graphic | Ether-Jazz & Jazz-ish Noise | 67:48

Aurally graphic examples of ether-jazz, noise & dangerously cacophonous din (listener discretion advised!).
: ) (inside joke!)

This is predominantly TONUS (who are releasing the albums represented here on Tuesday, October 20th) in construction . . . with some alternative guitar sonance (Rypdal & Torn) included as . . . sonic bookends.

These are my favorite TONUS releases thus far – – the group is progressively moving through this “New Wave of Jazz” at breakneck speed & compositional improvisation . . .

. . . Well done!

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01 Terje Rypdal – Dawn
02 Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Kuggar
03 Rubicon Quartet – Airs Out
04 Ward, Verhoeven, Serries & Roberts – Imaginary Junction, pt 2 (edit)
05 Russell, Keune & Vanderstraeten – On Sunday, pt 2 (edit)
06 Benedict Taylor & Dirk Serries – Puncture Cycle IV
07 Rubicon Quartet – Made Dream
08 Colin Webster & Andrew Lisle – Zennor
09 David Torn – Swayed

i n v i s i b l e . 2

03 Saturday Oct 2020

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i n v i s i b l e 2 | 85:11

Part II – leveraging long-form pieces by which to create another sonic space; this time elongated with infinite segues, edits, overdubs & echoes that challenge even the parameters of linear quantum physics.

Begun whilst tinkering with the Roach composition (layered & ghost edited), recording the live Serries piece last April & then discovering the riverrun back-catalog (wonderful!). I often utilize these types of mixes (as well as part 1), as backdrops on the stereo when working from home.

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01 riverrun – Marina Way Garden
02 Dirk Serries – Serries Live; April 05, 2020 (excerpt)
03 Steve Roach – This Place To Be, (remixed excerpt)
04 Max Corbacho – Dreaming Spaces (excerpt)
05 Hammock – Without Form and Void
06 Scott Lawlor – Perfect Calm
07 riverrun – Bae Treaddur
08 .foundation & Keys for Eclipse – Disintegration Patterns

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