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TODAYS DISCOVERY – NAOMI KASHIWAGI

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Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist who produces sound works, installations, performances and works on paper, that draw upon her cultural heritage, an intrinsic fusion of two cultures, British and Japanese. Drawing is central to Kashiwagi’s practice and she makes drawings using a range of media including diamonds, typewriters, gramophones and pianos, as well as graphite and pen.

The reason this artist is my Todays Discovery is her work with Gramophone records entitled –  Gramophonica

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REMEMBRANCE…

Here is this weeks’ Soundcloud playlist – Electro Strings –  a little early as it seems to fit the week to come –

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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

This is my Todays Discovery. Nothing more needs to be said…

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK – KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH

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REVIEW REBLOG – Various Artists ~ Pod Tune

This is a pure ambient joy and wonderful collection of tracks that I can’t fail to make my Todays Discovery, including Christina Vantzou and Mia Hsieh to name a couple of artists.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review.

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4 POD TUNE Cover ArtBefore podcasts, there were pod tunes ~ long, intricate songs flowing from underwater behemoth to underwater behemoth.  These dynamic vocalizations carried stories of other pods in other oceans.  Together, the humpback whales would learn these new songs, sometimes hours long, and share them with those they met.  Even with dwindling populations, they continue this practice to the present day.

A humpback whale’s ability to memorize music is unsurpassed, and yet each rendition is different: a nuance here, an inflection there.  It’s easy to project our emotions upon the whales, hearing plaintive cries in the drawn-out lower registers and joy in the higher tones.  Yet their true depth of meaning lies beyond us.  Whalesong provides a window into something ultimately unfathomable: the life of the earth’s largest creatures, connected by ancestry and geographic expanse.

Humans have been fascinated by whales for years, although the earliest fascinations had more to do with…

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Not for the first time but well worth rediscovering the beautiful sounds of the Buchla Music Easel via the music of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

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TODAYS DISCOVERY / SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – Phantasm Nocturnes

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INTERVIEW REBLOG – Phantasm Nocturnes (Betty Koster) interview

Phantasm Nocturnes has been on my Artist page for sometime and her music is on the Noise playlists. It’s pretty powerful music and so glad I can post this interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks

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Hello dear reader; good to see you here! I’m KN and on my way to the house of Betty Koster for an interview. In case you have been hiding away under a gravestone; Betty Koster is the music producer fairly known for her work under the Phantasm Nocturnes (and PN-lobit) moniker. Her music is pretty special and in general pretty damn spooky too!  I’ve always wanted to meet her, so recently I just asked if she would be up for an interview. She agreed and now I’m on my way to her home.. How exciting and glad you can come along, as I’m probably too excited to pull this one off all on my own.

Luckily it’s been a wonderful day weather wise, maybe she has a garden to sit and sunbathe for a bit.. We are close now.. A nice and posh looking neighborhood..

a nice looking neighborhood Betty Koster lives in a…

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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – BUFFYS

 As you may know, I try to spotlight the SoundCloud pages of artists. Many but not all, only have their SoundCloud pages as their web presence, especially new or under the radar artists and so this is another means to give a bit of a boost  and shine a light on their music. I am also posting tracks from the artist on Twitter and Facebook throughout the week as an Introducing strand.

This weeks’ artist is Buffys I know very little about her except the Soundcloud page description is Budding Composer. I like the eclecticism and hope she will continue to write and record in the future.

 

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REVIEW REBLOG – The Space Lady – The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits

Finally on my Monday round up here is a review of The Space Lady, courtesy of Yeah I Know it Sucks.

They say never meet your heroes but thankfully I ignored that and here is proof.

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I spent Saturday evening in the company of a legend, in my view, and a genuine human being. Oh and she is a wizz on the Casio. Don’t be deceived by the minimal tech, the sound was ace and mesmerising.

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Artist: The Space Lady
title: The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits
keywords: electronic, independent, synth, whatever, London
label: Night Schoolhttp://www.nightschoolrecords.com/

I must have been living under the ground too much not to have heard of The Space Lady before. But all changed when a good music loving friend (Graham Boosey) dropped the word of the (to me mysterious) ‘the space lady’ in my eyes. My friend was going to see The Space Lady perform in London and knowing him taking the effort to go; this must be very special stuff!

Clueless and curious person that I was, I asked who the Space Lady was and my friend gave a nice short answer for me to scratch the surface of this (to me previously unknown) magic on. Here is what he answered when asked who this special lady was:

“”She originally worked as a street musician back in Boston, with a…

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