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ARTICLE REBLOG – The Top Ten Sounding Out! Posts of 2015!

So much to read and also revisit. Relevant and thoughtful as ever.

Aaron Trammell's avatarSounding Out!

The holidays are here and to celebrate Sounding Out! has compiled a list of 2015’s top ten most popular posts (according to views). So, cozy up to that monitor, queue up that epic album you’ve been meaning to listen to, and take a second to revisit some of our best memories this year.
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Vincent Andrisani
To conceive of Havana in sound is to think not of the material spaces of the city, but rather, across them. From inside the home, residents participate in conversations taking place in the streets, while those in the streets often call for the attention of their friends or family indoors. Through windows, open doors, and porticoes, residents engage in interpersonal exchanges that bring neighbourhood communities to life. To listen across these spaces is to listen trans-liminally from the threshold through which sounds must pass as they animate the vibrant social life…

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REBLOG – v o x : circe family work ~ 2015

What a discovery…

annastereo's avatarAnna Stereopoulou ~ A STEREOSCOPIC perspective of Music & Art©

V O X

a Family Album of the
« c i r c e :the black cut: » project
released on 7MNS Music

46Artists ~ 28Tracks ~ 15Countries
1Voice

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ARTICLE REBLOG – Borders & folk devils…

Something thought provoking this afternoon…

limbonaut's avatarAttack/Decay

…via Children of Men and M.I.A

The last few months have been scary. The news has been a continuous, apocalyptic horror-show, full of bloodshed, chaos and carnage. Refugees from Syria have been fleeing one of the worst humanitarian crises since the Second World War, only to be greeted by the resurgence of fascism in many parts of Europe and a Republican presidential candidate – who seems more like a buffoonish cartoon villain than an actual politician – calling for a ban on all Muslim migration to the US.

Xenophobia is nothing new. The tabloid press often wields images of foreign troublemakers to pacify and terrify the population, many of whom are themselves struggling against the effects of austerity. But in recent months, The Migrant, that shadowy figure sneaking over fences and under trains at Calais, has become a new kind of Folk Devil: a furtive, dark-skinned menace seeking to…

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NEWS – female:pressure – Call for Submissions

female pressure

< CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS >

via female:pressure statement –

female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the canton of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.

With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.

We are calling for participation and submission of works. The work must be related and critically deal with the topic of #Rojava; otherwise there are no restrictions. Everybody is welcome!

Further details HERE

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ARTICLE REBLOG – Alyx’s Favorite Albums of 2015

Whatever your musical tastes there is much to agree with and discover here and some time left before Christmas to add to wish lists…

Recommended reading – Not just any old Best of List.

Alyx Vesey's avatarFeminist Music Geek

On Monday, I discussed some of the TV show music cues I liked from this year. Today I’m providing a list of my favorite albums. I’m not really one for hierarchies. There is a top three (kinda), but after that it’s unranked because what does it mean to be the seventh-best record of the year really? That said, it’s no accident that many of these entries interrogate citizenship in a year profoundly defined by malevolent structures and forces that unequally restrict and allocate who gets to be a citizen and under what conditions. It’s also quite deliberate that many of these albums were self-produced by women resisting the pressure to justify themselves. It’s not a comprehensive list, as undoubtedly soon I’ll unearth a treasure or someone will recommend something. Year-end lists are comforting narratives we craft about our own tastes to cope with the passage of time and I always like…

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Ars Sonor

“When you can’t find the light within yourself, as you believe, you search for it in others instead, totally forgetting about yourself… no matter how ominous this situation sounds, eventually you find your way back, through growth and experience. To your own light within you…” (Ars Sonor)

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REVIEW REBLOG -Ars Sonor – Sjöarna (Eg0_149)

Finally have got around to reblogging a few of the Yeah I Know it Sucks reviews of Ars Sonor : ))

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REVIEW REBLOG – AOTY 2015 #8: Grimes – Art Angels

Great little review here and the final two sentences sums up nicely how I feel about this artist.
Courtesy to PonDeWayWayWay for the reblog.

pondewaywayway's avatarPon De Way Way Way

grimes art angels new album 2015 Grimes – Art Angels

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Deemer / Dee Byrne

Dee Byrne

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Dee Byrne composes for and leads ‘space-jazz’ group Entropi (debut album, New Era was released on the F-IRE Presents label in June 2015), is one half of experimental electronics/sound art duo Deemer (debut album, Interference Patterns was released on Luminous Label in December 2015), is involved in numerous collaborations including six piece improvising electro-acoustic ensemble Zonica, eight piece saxophone ensemble Saxoctopus (debut album released on Raw Tonk Records in July 2015) and Word of Moth (debut album to be released on Luminous label in 2016). Dee also plays with Xantone Blacq (Platinum Fingers/Whirlwind) and the Soul Immigrants (P-Vine records Japan). She is co-founder of the acclaimed original and improvised music platform LUME with Cath Roberts and is Project Manager for the National Youth Jazz Collective.

Deemer employ, among other things, alto saxophone, drums, analogue electronics, tape, transducer microphones/speakers to instantly compose, activate space, and blur the boundaries between free jazz and sound installation.

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TODAYS DISCOVERY – Gato Preto

Since the focus this week is on Duo’s, it gives me a chance to post tracks and artists that do not easily fit into Feminatronic mould, so to speak, in a strict sense but there is some very interesting music being created by duo’s that I cannot miss out, Gato Preto is one such group.

What can I say? Best leave it to them –

Hard African Kuduro rhythms meet Punk guitars, Portuguese Raps and Electro Bleeps. Gato Preto are an energetic duo  with their roots in Ghana, Portugal and Mozambique.

Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female