Saturday, 10 June 2017

Patterson Hood & Talib Kweli Discussing Music and Activism


Rhythms Of The World: Bombay And All That Jazz (BBC Arena 1992)

Renowned double violinist L.Shankar invites other jazz fusion greats including Don Cherry, Trilok Gurtu and Vikku Vinayakaram to perform at the Lakshminarayana World Music Festival in Bombay on New Years Day 1992. Also, featured in the films is Alice Coltrane, wife of John Coltrane

Friday, 9 June 2017

Sonic Traces: From the Arab World (Radio Edit)

Collected and mixed by the Norient collective – Thomas Burkhalter, Simon Grab and Michael Spahr.
Speakers: Joumana Seikaly, Hisham Awad, Rayya Badran
Voices recorded by Ziad Nawfal in the studios in Radio Lebanon 96.2FM, Beirut, Lebanon on February 25, 2013
With sounds, music and quotes from:
Ahmed Basiony (R.I.P.), Asmahan, Bao, Charbel Haber, Cheik Imam, El General, Electro-Jurjina, Filastine, Hassan Khan, Hassan Taha, Ibrahim Qashoush, John Kamel Farah, Kamiliya Jubran +Werner Hasler, Kareem Lofty, Koji, Les Djinns, Leyla Murad, Luigi Russolo, Machine eat man (Mohamed Ragab), Mahmoud Refat, Mahmoud Turkmani, Mazen Kerbaj, Morocco, Mustafa Ismaiel, Praed, Raed Yassin, Ramsi Lehner, Rana Eid, Sharif Sehnaoui, Simon Grab, Skander Guetaria + Khaled Waghleni, Tahal Fasny, Tarek Atoui, The Devil's Anvil, Thomas Burkhalter, Ulcerium feat. Cheb Lahbitry, Walid Gholmieh, Waslah in Dugah, Weeping Willow, Xardas, and others.
Tracklist, Liner Notes and more background information: arabtraces.norient.com

David Gilmour: Wider Horizons (BBC 2015)


Tripping: Ken Kesey/Merry Pranksters (Ch4 UK 1999)


Thursday, 8 June 2017

Fret - Lift Method


Fret (AKA Mick Harris) from forthcoming album 'Over Depth' out in October 2017

Paul: Wishing you a full and speedy recovery XXX


Friend for Hire

Haarp! The Herald

Debug Injector

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Last week an unsolicitated parcel arrived from Paul in Japan containing his complete works as Akatombo.  I have been immeresed in his world since then...excellent sounds that tick all my boxes and makes me wonder how I missed hearing them for so long. 
Some background interviews from The Quietus here and here.
Do yourself the proverbial favour... 

PJ Harvey and Ramy Essam - The Camp

PJ Harvey and Egyptian recording artist Ramy Essam have come together to write and record ‘The Camp’ which they hope will raise awareness and much needed support towards the health and educational well-being of displaced children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. The artists will donate all net profits from the track to Beyond Association in the Bekaa Valley, a national Lebanese non-Governmental Organisation. Beyond Association provides services such as access to education, healthcare, and psycho-social support mainly through art therapy, neuro-physiotherapy, and recreational activities.
‘The Camp’ - released digitally on Friday 9 June 2017 - was recorded in Bristol with Harvey’s longtime collaborator John Parish, who produced and mixed the track.
"It is hard to comprehend the scale of the crisis in Lebanon, a country of 4 million now hosting over 1 million Syrian refugees,” states photo-journalist Giles Duley whose arresting photographs feature in the official music video, edited by Rick Holbrook. “The infrastructure of the country is pushed to its limit, and nowhere is that situation more desperate than in the Bekaa Valley. However, there are some amazing organisations doing incredible, effective, and selfless work on the ground there, and of all the NGOs I have documented, none have impressed me more than Beyond. To visit their schools and witness their programs is to see hope - and that is something we have to support.”
The following is an excerpt from Ramy Essam's verse of The Camp, translated from Egyptian to English: "I wish I had wings to fly away, far away. Meet smiley faces who never ask where I came from; not to ask about colour, race, or religion. What difference does it make if we're all humans? No wars, no limits, no borders. Earth is everyone's right.”
Music Video Credits:
Video edited by Rick Holbrook
Photographs provided by Giles Duley
Studio footage provided by Ramy Essam
Sound Recording Credits:
PJ Harvey: Vocals, piano, shaker
Ramy Essam: Vocals, acoustic guitar
John Parish: Drums, bass, electric & acoustic guitars
Produced by John Parish
Recorded by Oliver Baldwin at J&J Studios, Bristol
http://pjharvey.net/
http://ramyessam.net/
#WithRefugees

How a turntable works

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Black Cab: '明' Melbourne launch with Toshi Sakamoto (Howler August 18)


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Here's a Taiko drum mix I put together that I shall be listening to on my journey up to Brunswick on the night

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Are There More Like Me Mix

Tracklist:
1 Odonna by Woob
2 Part X by Solarium
3 Lost In Glass by Bedouin Ascent
4 Steady State Music 5 by Wieland Samolak
5 Corsair by Boards of Canada
6 Urban Ritual by The Skull Defekts
7 Linoleum (Teargas & Plateglass Remix) by Tweaker (ft David Sylvian)
8 4 Note Bass (Peel Session) by 23 Skidoo
9 Manila Envelope by Eno (ft Robert Fripp)
10 From Hate To Smoke by El Mahdy Jr
11 Bad Cop by Akatombo

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Alexander Hammid & Maya Deren: Private Life of a Cat (1947)


Bob Dylan: Nobel Lecture


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Quadrant and its slide into deluded extremism

Mayhem