Tag Archives: electronic musician

Articles, Interviews, Season

AN INTERVIEW WITH ELYSE TABET OF LITTER – AFRICAN PAPER

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Space may just be what connects the senses.

An Interview with Elyse Tabet of Litter

Africa Paper

Discovery, Season, Web Focus

FOCUS ON IKUE MORI

Here is a spotlight on one of the great pioneers of electronic experimental music, Ikue Mori, which is part of the African and Asian Season .

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IKUE MORI INTERVIEW – PERFECT SOUND FOREVER

INTERVIEW BY JASON GROSS (1997)

PHANTOM ORCHARD: STEVE ELKINS INTERVIEWS

ZEENA PARKINS AND IKUE MORI

Twitter, Update, Web Focus

NEWS FROM THE TWITTERSPHERE

Todays twitter posts all have African and Asian artists in common or sites that promote them and their music: –

 

 

 

 

 

Discovery, Season, YouTube

Todays Discovery – Liliane Chlela

This is a beautiful and evocative piece by the Beirut artist Liliane Chlela.

LILIANE CHLELA

Bandcamp, Discovers, Season

TODAYS DISCOVERY – OBLAAT

O. Blaat with Ikue Mori

Articles, Recommends, Reposts

Kate Carr ~ Songs from a Cold Place

Kate Carr ~ Songs from a Cold Place.

Here are a couple of “cold” reviews from A Closer Listen –

Poetry, Recommends, Sunday Mix

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
Discovery, Recommends, Season

TODAYS DISCOVERY – SOUND AWAKENER AND GALLERY SIX

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

SOUND AWAKENER

GALLERY SIX

News

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELIAH DERBYSHIRE

Here are a couple of my favourites

Discovery, Season

TODAYS’ DISCOVERY – IKUE MORI – BHIMA SWARGA

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

IKUE MORI