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REBLOG – RARO 13: Ale Hop (Female Pioneers of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in Latin America) — female:pressure

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RARO 13: Ale Hop (Female Pioneers of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in Latin America) — female:pressure

Full details here, which I will be exploring more in future weeks –

‘Female Pioneers of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music in Latin America’, with pieces from the twentieth century (mainly 60s-80s)’

Tracklisting
Beatriz Ferreyra – Echos (1978)
Hilda Dianda – Después del silencio (1976)
Jacqueline Nova – Creación de la tierra (1972)
Jocy de Oliveira – Wave Song (1981)
Oksana Linde – Mariposas acuáticas (1985)
Vânia Dantas Leite – L’Indien et L’Ovni (1986)
Nelly Moretto – Composición 9b (1966)
Marlene Migliari Fernandes – Espectros Cromáticos (1967)
Graciela Paraskevaídis – Algún sonido de la vida (1993)
Graciela Castillo – Y así era (1982)
Olga Pozzi Escot – Three Poems of Rilke (1959)
Alicia Urreta – Dameros I (1984)

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REBLOG – Yuko Araki ~ End of Trilogy — a closer listen

Sunday reading and one of the best overviews of Yuko Araki’s work –

End Of Trilogy
by Yuko Araki
2021

dark ambient, electronics, noise, noizu

It is common to read about the mind-obliterating qualities of noise and its negative paths towards selfless meditation, but there is another undercurrent in its stark associations with bodily harm and the possibility to access some sort of outside within: a psychic reality that does not flow into oneness, but that violently multiplies every time […]

Yuko Araki ~ End of Trilogy — a closer listen
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SUNDAY AMBIENCE…

Spirit Trance
by Constance Demby
2004

Ambient, healing, contemplative, electronic, meditation, space, space music, synthesizer, trance

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THROWBACK TRACKS 11/4/2021

It’s been a bit of a strange week…but here’s an eclectic collection of releases to bring balm to the ear –

Five Cadences
by Sarah Davachi
2020

Experimental, ambient, drone, electroacoustic, minimal, neo-classical, tape

Planetes
by Sofie Birch
2019

Ambient, downtempo, electronic, experimental, synthwave, analog, avant-garde, instrumental, lofi, soundscapes, synthesizer, tape

Spellbound! (mode199)
by Lydia Kavina
2008

Theremin

Feminoise Uruguay
by Feminoise Uruguay
2018

Electronic, experimental, electroacoustic, soundscape

Women in Electronic Music – 1977
by Laurie Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Megan Roberts
2006

1970s, 1977, electronic, synthesizer

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A BEAUTIFUL READ…

https://thequietus.com/articles/29814-annea-lockwood-interview

A Quietus Interview
Earth, Wind And Fire: An Interview With Annea Lockwood

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the New Zealand born composer about love letters on quarter-inch tape, piano gardens and doll shops, and the physical effects of sound upon our bodies

7704A – Tiger Balm
by Annea Lockwood
1977

Experimental, chants, folk, meditation, traditional

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REBLOG – Else Marie Pade – Electronic Works 1958-1995 — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Else Marie PadeTitle: Electronic Works 1958-1995Keywords: electronic, avant garde, experimental Else Marie Pade brings us on a journey through her electronic works made in 1858 to 1995. I guess we could ask uncle Google to spot out more information about this artist, but let’s be an alternative in the information age and just be […]

Else Marie Pade – Electronic Works 1958-1995 — Yeah I Know It Sucks

As usual a different take on the works of Else Marie Pade but this is one of the best descriptions of her music…

“Dangling on the fine line of enjoyment and captivating interest. Things ploink and plink like smooth lines of water drips with enough sparkles to widen up your iris. Things play like electronic breaths that give life to the silence, that shovel around the furniture of vibrating sounds with great expense, leaving you in a state of mind that is equally reached when listening to the soundtrack of a strange movie in which you feel disoriented and yet firmly at home.“…

Yes…Indeed.

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and finally…

Constance Demby – http://www.constancedemby.com/

It’s with sadness that I write that one of my long term heroines has died. Constance Demby was an important pioneer of electronic New Age and Spacemusic, a composer, multi instrumentalist and instrument builder.

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THROWBACK TRACKS 21/3/2021

Releases that are older than a couple of weeks : D

CosmoTengri
by Angelina Yershova

Electronic, dark ambient, experimenta,l experimental electronic, indie, folk, modern classic, piano, drone, postmodern

Geofamiliar
by Experimental Housewife

World, abstract, ambient, mash-up, drone, non-creative

My Favorite Fairytale
by Orphan Fairytale

Drone, experimental, new age,avant-garde

The King
by CHAINES

Electronic, experimental, ambient, dark ambient, instrumental, neo-classical

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LISTENING TO…

Pioneers EP
by Johanna Knutsson, Lioness, Tora Vinter, Fjäder, Ravens’vor
2020

Electronic, experimental, house, ambient, ambient electronic, deephouse, new age, techno

“These tracks were inspired by three pioneers within electronic music, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire and Clara Rockmore. The approach was to mould these artists tools, sounds and mannerisms, but filter them trough our own, contemporary creative lenses.“

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THROWBACK TRACKS 11/3/2021

The Drought
by Puce Mary
2018

Electronic, experimental, drone, electroacoustic, experimental industrial, noise

{this is not a piano album}
by Elizabeth A. Baker
2016

Classical, clarinet, concert music, electroacoustic, electronics, experimental, harmonium, improvisation, new music, piano, toy piano, viola

Seven Sisters
by SOUNDICIAN
2004

Electronic, ambient electronic, classical electronic, instrumental, melodic, new age, mythology, sonic pictures, sound pictures, soundpainting

Euphoric
by Lomita
2016

Euphoric, experimental, ambient, chill, chillout