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TODAYS DISCOVERY – OBLAAT

O. Blaat with Ikue Mori

SUNDAY MIX – WALKING

 Every Sunday I put together a mix loosely based around a theme, as I think that music and poetry go so well together and since today I went for a stroll along the seafront to blow the cobwebs away, todays theme is Walking

My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-

and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)

Rain so dark I
can’t get through—
train going by
in a hurry. The voice
said walk or die, I
walked,—the train
and the voice all
blurry. I walked with
my bones and my heart
of chalk, not even
a splintered notion:
days of thought, nights
of worry,—lonesome
train in a hurry.

 

 

I will have been walking away:
no matter what direction I intended,
at that moment, I will have been walking
Away into the direction that you now say
I have always intended, no matter what my
intention was then, I will have been
Walking away, though it will not be clear
what it was that I was leaving or
even why, it seems that you will say
That always, I was walking away,
intending a direction that was not towards
you, but moving away with every step,
Or, even when I pretended to be walking
towards you, only making the place
for my feet to go backwards,
Away, where I will have been walking,
always away:   intention and direction
unknown, but knowing you will always
say I will have been walking away.
A Kind of Villanelle

 

 

Poems courtesy of Poetry Foundation

TODAYS DISCOVERY – SOUND AWAKENER AND GALLERY SIX

Here is another discovery for the Africa and Asian Electronics Season.

SOUND AWAKENER

GALLERY SIX

Leslie Deere – Live at Fractal Meat Cuts Launch

Discovered this little gem on Fractal Meat with a Spongy Bone : )

Graham Dunning's avatarFractal Meat

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TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – IKUE MORI – BHIMA SWARGA

I recommend you sit down, listen and watch this wonderful video.

IKUE MORI

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – UNII

UNII

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – SYRPHE WEBSITE AND LITTER

The Syrphe site is a treasure trove of wonderful electronic and experimental music and soundscapes from mainly Africa and Asia and was spotlighted by @reaktorplayer on Twitter. I thought that I would take some time this month and through May, to discover for myself and bring you some gems of female artists that are producing creative electronic music from these areas of the world, beginning with Litter aka Elyse Tabet  an audio-visual artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. As Syrphe says – “In her first album, omnipresent is the image of a machine running out of power while passing through a stream of hazy, often almost melodic sonic landscapes.”

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – PAPERDOLLHOUSE

FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERS TODAY – SHIRLEY CASON

SHIRLEY CASON

FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERS – CANNED FIT

CANNED FIT – Christine Schörkhuber

Many thanks to A Closer Listen for pointing me in the right direction