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THROWBACK TRACKS 16/5/2021

It seems, at the moment, that like many, I’m just treading water, so these Sunday posts about some of my listening through the week have kept me going and given some airing and possible audience for lesser known artists….

Martha Riva Palacio – Soundscape
from Silent Spring at 50 by Silent Spring at 50
2012

music, poetry, theatre

Unfinished movie
by Svetlana Maraš
2015

contemporary, electronic, experimental, sound art, experimental film music

WHOLE
by LIEW PICHAANAN NIYOMKARN
2015

electronics, experimental, classical electronics, experimental electronic, field recordings, psychedelic, sound art

Music for the Answer
by France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu
2016

electronic, experimental, ambient, experimental electronic, minimal

glaciers and the devaluation of real time
by Geneva Skeen
2015

ambient, drone, electronic experimental, musique concrete, noise

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SUNDAY AMBIENCE…

Ancient Memories
Lucette Bourdin
2008

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THROWBACK TRACKS 9/5/2021

This weeks throwback releases cover the world…

Rompiente EP
by Alisú
2019

electronic ambient electronica space techno

Feminoise Latinoamerica Vol 1
by Compilado de mujeres latinoamericanas en experimentacion con sonidos
2016

electronic experimental

desvio para o vermelho
by Input Nulo
2018

electronic experimental

Qoosui
by Haco
2017

ambient avant pop dream pop electronica experimental new age progressive soundart vocals

electron
by Anna Stereopoulou
2017

experimental ambient classical electroacoustic electronica jazz psychedelic psychoacoustic

Isabel Nogueira & Linda O’Keeffe – If I Were Me​/​Se eu fosse eu
by Estranhas Ocupações
2018

experimental

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SUNDAY AMBIENCE

This week end is Sound Reveil 2021, a 24 hr broadcast tracking sunrise around the earth with live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, so today’s ambience reflects this with what I can say is one of my all time favourite field recording releases…

Soundscapes of spring
by Izabela Dłużyk
2017

experimental, birdsong, field recording, nature

Various closeup recordings of blackbirds, mistle thrushes, golden orioles and many others are joined by natural ambiences of endangered Bialowieza primeval forest, Siemianowka lake or Biebrza marshes.

“As I am blind since birth, I have always been particularly sensitive to sounds. When I was a child, I became interested in bird voices, which soon led me to discover nature recording. I started with a noisy, hissing tape recorder, but what treasures those recordings seemed to me at that time! Now, sixteen years later, I am still following my passion, but with a fully professional equipment. Through recording the natural world, I try to capture its beauty, its subtle music, its gentle voice. I try to understand its mystery: the mystery of life – this indescribable treasure we share with all the creatures, the mystery of fleeting moments, of sadness and hope brought by changing seasons… It is through observing nature that I have received perhaps the greatest lessons regarding the meaning of life in general and the meaning of my own life. Through my recordings, I hope to share with you some glimpses of wisdom and beauty of the natural world.” – Izabela Dłużyk

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THROWBCK TRACKS 2/5/2021

This is one way to try and shine some light on the many many female identifying artists past and present, in case you were wondering : )

Stay Gold
by Neon Bunny
2016

future pop, chill, electro, electropop, indie, kpop, synthpop

Early Morning§tar WerQ
by ‡Starving Poet§
2016

electronic, experimental, noise, psychedelic, sound art

This Is Fine
by Belisha Beacon
2017

experimental, tech, house, algorave, algorithmic, drone, electronic music, improv, ixi lang, live coding, livecoding, minimal, minimal techno, sound art, techno

Music For Candy Shops LP
by Poly C
2017

electronic, ambient, beats, dance, electronica, house

Discovery (Experimental Ambient)
by Magnetic Wind
2012

ambient, drift, ethereal, meditation, meditative, new age, space

Photogenic EP
by Ryo Utasato
2013

world, ambient, electronic, electronica, ethnic, ethnic fusion

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THROWBACK TRACKS 25/4/2021

Eclectic as ever…

MNQ 120 Doris Norton – Personal Computer LP
2018

Electronic, cold wave, ebm, electro, minimal, synth techno

The Role of Purity EP (Mundus001)
by Sapphire Slows
2017

Electronic

Louis and Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet
Original motion picture soundtrack 1956

Eclipse by Pril Smiley
1967

Fundamentals
by Analog Tara
2018

Electronic, ambient, dance, dub, electro, electronic jazz, house, supercollider, techno

Iceberg the Drift
by Christine Webster
2018

Experimental, darkambiant, drone, electroacoustic, minimalist, modular

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SUNDAY AMBIENCE…

Not all Sunday’s have a quiet drift. Sometimes Sunday can sound like this and be challenging in a good way…

GOL, Ana-Maria Avram, Iancu Dumitrescu And Members Of Ansamblul Hyperion – Musique Directe (Full)

“Volume 1, hence the title “Musique Directe”, shows the band facing the leaders of Roumenian spectralism Ana-Maria Avaram and Iancu Dumitrescu. Electric and intense spontaneous experiments, on the edge of electroacoustic music and primitive avant-garde.” – Soundohm

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THROWBACK TRACKS 18/4/2021

Everything here…to space and back…

Water’s Edge
by Future Shuttle
2011

Spaced

Kissing Infinity
by Mira Martin-Gray
2019

Experimental, noise, ambient, drone, field recordings, glitch, improvised, musique concrete

MANIPULATION
by Lauren Sarah Hayes
2016

Experimental

IX Pieces for UPIC
by Christi Denton
2003

Ambient, experimental, experimental electronic, noise

AUTOSAVE
by may hd
2019

Experimental, bootleg, free improvisation, improvisation, mixtape, noise, sound art

Uno todo tres
by Clara de Asís
2016

Drone. electronic, experimental, ambient, concrete, contemporary classical, drone ambient, electric guitar, electroacoustic, minimal, sound art

pyr228 lucía chamorro – luna anfibia 2017-

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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