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music tagged with: jazz

Guillaume Gargaud & Eero Savela – HELSINKI

Guillaume Gargaud & Eero Savela – HELSINKI
[PT109]

Guillaume Gargaud & Eero Savela

“HELSINKI”

This album is a meeting of two new friends. Coming together is always a chance for new directions, a chance to learn from each other and enjoy the free flow of music.
Recording in Helsinki 21st of February 2020 by Eero Savela.
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posted 26 September 2020

CLOUDWARMER – The Happening At Groom Lake

CLOUDWARMER – The Happening At Groom Lake

CLOUDWARMER

“The Happening At Groom Lake”

SYMPTOMS
Shortness of breath
Anxiety
Trembling
Feelings of terror
Panic
Rapid heartbeat

If you have _____, you aren’t just uneasy with the thought of ______. You have a persistent fear and anxiety related to it possibly affecting your life.

The symptoms of _______ are similar to those of other common phobias, which include:

______ can cause some symptoms that are similar to those of other phobias, as well as some that are unique. Sweating, shaking and crying may occur during a thunderstorm or even just before one begins. You may seek constant reassurance during the storm. Symptoms are often heightened when you are alone.

Additionally, many people with ______ seek shelter beyond normal protection from the storm. For example, you may hide under the covers or even under the bed. You may go to the basement, an inside room (such as a bathroom) or even a closet. You may close the curtains and attempt to block out the sounds of the storm.

Another fairly common symptom is an obsession with weather forecasts. You may find yourself glued to the ______ during the rainy season or tracking storms online. You may develop an inability to go about activities outside your home without first checking the weather reports. In extreme cases, _____ can eventually lead to you being afraid to leave your home.
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released August 14, 2020

Eddie Palmer
Brett Zehner

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posted 18 August 2020

Eric Zwang-Eriksson – Me And My Ipad

Eric Zwang-Eriksson – Me And My Ipad
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Eric Zwang-Eriksson

“Me And My Ipad”

Just some improvisations along with different iPad apps … or myself.

Interweaving two distinct forms of creative expression, Eric Zwang-Eriksson aka EaZy aka Klangwahn fashions a variety of audio-visual installations. Likewise, he works with performers, authors and theaters as a musician and a composer. The artist’s approach is shaped by his 30 years’ experience in improvised music.

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posted 08 August 2020

High Step Society – Perception

High Step Society – Perception

High Step Society

“Perception”

In the midst of overblown computer noises and a rainbow LED sea, the man felt beckoned by a soft, distant light. Upon entering the fantastical shanty village known as The Folly, he and his tribe happened upon an debaucherous, balcony-shaking dance party, thumping to a sound that fit just as readily into a gilded vintage ballroom as a digital desert playground. In that moment, Music, Love, Art, and the Present Moment were the only things that mattered; this was the day Gravitas and High Step Society united.

High Step Society’s new EP Perception, out via Gravitas Recordings, boldly combines the driving beats and bass drops of modern electronica with the hallowed tones of jazz. Through exploring this fusion, the result is an EP that is unstoppably danceable and overflowing with creativity. High Step Society evokes subtle nostalgia for another era, while authentically translating timelessness into a form of contemporary grit. A work spawned from a diverse group of creatives – trained jazz musicians, dark folkies, seasoned funk/rock players, and bass music aficionados – Perception represents a melting pot of collaboration and blending of styles.

Revisit the past with “Side Step,” where a luscious sonic soundscape is concocted from perennial jazz and dreamy, euphonious ingredients. After communing with the past, “Back to the Roots” extends an energetic groove that leaves all worries behind. Title track “Perception” is a dynamic, alluring killer that dances along the concepts of perception, attraction, and infatuation. Woefully rolling through the night on “No. 9,” imaginative instrumentation drives you back into your darkest hour. Transfiguring into a ghostly escapade, “Howlin” is an unearthly companion that escorts you to the brink of the multicolored musical cauldron.
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released May 1, 2020

Mixed by Justin Phelps at The Hallowed Halls
Mastered by Ambrus Deak
Artwork by Jaquelyn Cruz

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posted 03 May 2020

Christoph Gallio / Omar Grandoso / Sam Nacht / Marcelo von Schultz – Ecce homo. Wie man wird, was man ist

Christoph Gallio / Omar Grandoso / Sam Nacht / Marcelo von Schultz – Ecce homo. Wie man wird, was man ist
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Christoph Gallio / Omar Grandoso / Sam Nacht / Marcelo von Schultz

“Ecce homo. Wie man wird, was man ist”

Christoph Gallio: alto & soprano saxes
Omar Grandoso: trombone & fx pedals
Sam Nacht: trombone & fx pedals
Marcelo von Schultz: drums & percussion

Recorded by Sam Nacht in Estudios Libres, 16/11/2018. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mixed by Sam, Marcelo, Christoph & Omar.
Mastered by Gerardo Morel.

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posted 01 May 2020

Contaminado – Vultos

Contaminado – Vultos
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Contaminado

“Vultos”

New album of Contaminado gathering some old tracks of acoustic guitar with bossa nova / blues / jazz / world fusion influences and a couple of acappella tracks reminiscent of his previous release at Enough Records. Contaminado is the music project of André Coelho. Tracks remastered by M-PeX. Artwork by Amanda Wray.
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posted 03 March 2020

mentolados durruti – de acá a cien años

mentolados durruti – de acá a cien años
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mentolados durruti

“de acá a cien años”

Release date: January 15, 2020.

Luis Conde (clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone)
Luis Ianes (acoustic guitars)
Carlos Vega (double bass)
Recorded by Sam Nacht on March 3, 2019 at Leandra & Vega (Villa Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires)
Mixed y mastered by Sam Nacht in April of 2019 at Estudio Libres (Buenos Aires)
Art and design by Cecilia Ivanchevich

“…los sonidos intentan recuperar una narrativa de paisajes escuchados en la arqueología de otras músicas y otros discursos. No hay fusión. En todo caso, hay una épica. Los roles de voz principal y acompañamiento se disuelven y reconstruyen, jugando entre lo idiomatico y lo diferente en busca del extrañamiento…” – L. Conde

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posted 18 February 2020

Mariano Rodriguez – Huesos Secos

Mariano Rodriguez – Huesos Secos

Mariano Rodriguez

“Huesos Secos”

We are very pleased and grateful to share Huesos Secos (Dry Bones), by Mariano Rodríguez through Carbono Proyecto Records. The idea has been brewing for a long time now, but as we know, in our sound, musical and self-managed projects, if we have anything, it is the freedom to let the processes flow until the ideas and personal planets align.

It’s been already four years since we last published a disc by this guitar artist-craftsman-monk based in Bariloche for a couple of decades. It was Praise the Road, first edited by the American label Grass-Tops Recordings and currently available through his own bandcamp. Anyway, he frequently participates in various compilations that range from the experimental to specific tributes such as the recent one to Jack Rose, another of Mariano’s acoustic guitarists of reference.

In many ways inspired by the logic of the “American primitive guitar” (a term that designates a “transitional” genre according to Wikipedia, to which a legion of guitarists from pioneer John Fahey in the 50-60s, through Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and the aforementioned Jack Rose until today), Mariano Rodríguez’s music does not focus on the technical deployment of the guitarist, but on the more spiritual or meditative dimension of it. And in connection with all this, although not as conditioning, of course, his deep Christian faith intervenes since his adherence to the theology of Third World liberation. Listen for example to Liberation Theology for beginners, described by him as a Christmas album.

Somehow the tracks that make up Huesos Secos synthesize the mental and sound journey that Mariano started with his family in southern Argentina. This experience was also rooted in half of his life living in Buenos Aires, forming part of different rock and punk bands, and projects with the excellent singer-songwriter Adrián Paoletti among others. But without a doubt his current music is an inseparable part of a Patagonia that he has made his own, resignifying a whole set of influences, which finally act as tools to establish a back and forth movement with his perception of those places of the Argentine interior and its story.

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posted 05 February 2020

Vladimir Luchansky – Helioglabus

Vladimir Luchansky – Helioglabus

Vladimir Luchansky

“Helioglabus”

saxophone/reeds, recording: Vladimir Luchansky
mastering: Ilia Belorukov
curating: Tiago Morais Morgado

Vladimir Luchansky (b. 1990) – composer and improviser from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He worked with musicians from all over the world such as Oliver Lake, William Parker, Assif Tsahar, Tim Hodgkinson, Glen Hall, Ilia Belorukov, Mia Zabelka, Matt Mottel, Kevin Shea, Alexander Markvart, Roman Stolyar, Sergey Belichenko, and many others. A member of International Society of Improvising Musicians, he performed in North America and Europe with solo gigs and in various combos. He interferes with all kinds of contemporary improvisational music from noise to free jazz and multidisciplinary arts.

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. He’s a member of different projects with local and foreign musicians. He collaborates with artists who work in other musical directions (from hardcore and metal to academic contemporary music); with dancers and painters; with theater. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone with objects, uses electronics and other instruments. Also he is a founder of Intonema label (www.intonema.org) and one of curators of Spina!Rec label (www.spinarec.bandcamp.com).

Tiago Morais Morgado | Violetista e laptoper, estudou música clássica, musicologia, informática música e sonologia na Artave, na Esart, nas universidades Nova de Lisboa e do Minho e no Conservatório de Haia. Curador da editora Nachtstuck Records, que criou em 2014. Seleção de concertos: Frequency, na final do Termómetro Unplugged 2005, Alfândega do Porto; Orquestra Artave (viola tutti), com António Rosado e Ernst Schelle, Coliseu do Porto, 2006; Quinteto Pedro Lopes, David Filipe, Tiago Morais Morgado, António José Oliveira e Denis Ferreira, Casa das Artes de Famalicão, 2006; Tiago Morais Solo, Teatro a Barraca, 2010; :papercutz, no Inslington Metal Works de Londres (Reino Unido), no SXSW Austin (EUA) e no Exit Festival (Sérvia), 2010; Encerramento do ciclo “Colaborações Improvisações”, Serralves, 2011; Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, com Peter Evans, 2011; Com Yedo Gibson e Ofir Klemperer e como Tiago Morais Solo, no Studio Loos Den Haag, Holanda, 2011; Tiago Morais Morgado Solo, Fiber Festival Amsterdam, Holanda, 2012; Visuais, A First Approach to Morgenstra – Juan Marco Albarracin, 2012; Arnold Schoenbergzaal; Com Nicola Casetta, Maskarade Sinzine; Com James Hewitt e Renato Meganha Ferreira, Leo Svirsky House, Holanda, 2012; Tiago Morais Morgado solo, Kees van Barenzaal, Holanda, 2013; Com Teresa Matias, MNS, 2013; Com Stelios Manousakis, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, 2014; Festival O Mundo Somos Nos, 2014 e 2017; Festival Dias de Música Electroacústica, 2015 e 2016; Moita Mostra, 2016 e 2017; Serralves em Festa, 2017; Com Marcelo dos Reis e Sérgio Tavares, MNS, 2017; Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet, MNS, 2017; Ocupa #2, GNRation, 2017.

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posted 23 December 2019

Lavoura – Ayizan

Lavoura – Ayizan
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Lavoura

“Ayizan”

Formed 16 years ago, Lavoura is a reference in future jazz made in Brazil. The group debuted two more songs, after a series of singles started in 2018. “Ayizan” is the first single. Climatic, the track brings in its DNA the Brazilian rhythm and the psychedelia, amplified by the arrangements and the accurate production, that confer a certain epic tone to the sonority, without losing the characteristic groove. The other single, “Bossa Exploitation”, refers to the anthropophagic research involving African music. It is the result of impromptu sessions that the group held between 2017 and 2018. Integrated by composers, producers, arrangers, beatmakers, musicians, visual artists and inventors, Lavoura makes a cinematic sound, referenced by the rhythm science and inspired by the concepts of phusion (fusion of the 21st century) and psychogeography, transform spaces in sensory experiences).

Caleb Mascarenhas (synths, beats)
Fabiano Alcântara (bass)
Fernando TRZ Falcoski (synths, electric piano, beats)
Junião (percussion, beats)
Marcelo Monteiro (sax, flute)
Thiago Duar (guitar, beats)
Paulo Pires (drums, drum machine, beats)
Carlos Pedreanez and Rodrigo ZoomB (visual artists)

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posted 24 November 2019

Diego Lorenzini – De Algo Hay Que Morir (feat. Simón Campusano)

Diego Lorenzini – De Algo Hay Que Morir (feat. Simón Campusano)

Diego Lorenzini

“De Algo Hay Que Morir (feat. Simón Campusano)”

All songs composed and arranged by Diego Lorenzini, but “Valparaisito”, composed by Diego Lorenzini and arranged by Javier Bobbert.

All the lyrics written by Diego Lorenzini but “Introduction to Viva Chillán, Una Crueldad Unnecesaria” written by Diego Lorenzini along with Cristóbal León, and “Viva Chillán, Una Crueldad Unnecesaria”, compiled from different fragments written by anonymous authors and reorganized by Diego Lorenzini.

“Soy Un Corpóreo y Dentro De Mí Hay Una Actriz Recién Titulada Llorando” is based on a true story of the actrees and theater director Nicole Waak.

Diego Lorenzini: Vocals, guitars, ukulele, bass, keyboards, percussions, drums, “trumpets” and programming.

Guest musicians:

Erlend Øye: vocals and “trumpets” in “Me Voy a Valparaíso”
Tiare Galaz (Storm Girl): vocals in “Chao Mi Niño”, “Billete de Luca” and “Pony”
Chini Ayarza (Chini.png): voices in “Mierda”, “Pony”, “Billete de Luca”
Rosario Alfonso: vocals in “Sin Otro particular Se Despide”, “Me Voy a Valparaíso”, “Pony” and “Billete de Luca”
Simón Campusano (Niños del Cerro): vocals in “Estamos Fritos”, “Sí Po'”, “Billete de Luca” and “Pony”
Nicolás Lorenzini (The Rapin Brothers): vocals in “Pony” and “Billete de Luca”
Martín Perez Roa (Merci): keyboard in “Me Voy a Valparaíso” and vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Javier Bobbert: guitar solo in “Valparaisito” and in “Me Voy a Valparaíso”
Juan Celofán: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Juan Manuel Daza: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Maite Pizarro: vocals in “Billete de Luca”
Alejandro Pino: Flugelhorn in “Spoiler”, “Mierda” and “Soy Un Corpóreo y Dentro De Mí Hay Una Actriz Recién Titulada Llorando”

Produced by Diego Lorenzini along with Martín Perez Roa (a.k.a. Merci) in Estudios Niebla.

Mastered on analog tape by Arturo Zegers in Estudios Triana

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posted 02 November 2019

Zen in a Nightclub – The Mass Pursuit of Nothingness

Zen in a Nightclub – The Mass Pursuit of Nothingness
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Zen in a Nightclub

“The Mass Pursuit of Nothingness”

This is the debut release of the international mix-media/cross-genre collaboration project called, ‘Zen in a Nightclub’. This release features improvisations with musical saw, free-form vocals and poetry, saxophone, knee violin, gadulka and more.
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posted 27 October 2019