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| Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 | |
| 12:39 am | {6} ARIEL KALMA: Osmose (1978 2xLP; 2006 cd; 2013 LP)  On this first day of the year, i decline until the first year of the existence of this blog (2008), in which his second publication was the excellent album that is "osmose". Originally released in 1978 through the talented composer Ariel Kalma, using all manner of keyboards, harmonium, sound effects, saxophone etc. where rhythms and melodies are inspired from Nature, various cultures, native instruments, modal music (music that uses diatonic scales that are not necessarily major or minor and does not use functional harmony as we understand it within tonality...) and even circular breathing. This record is a trip in to the ecological environment, the mystical side of man and Nature, where the minimalist complexety of the sounds are fused with the rainforest "music", record by Richard Tinti in Borneó. From this mix Ariel created abastract melodies and warm chordal, accompanied with simplistic tribal beats, wich in all perfectly blended with the calls of crickets, frogs, cicadas and the artificial drone. But please, do not confuse this sublime music with commercial new age music, it has nothing in common in their construction and elegance, because this disc is superior in all its essence and experimentalism, which differs from such a poor product as the mentioned gender. Highly recommended for listening in the days when the physical, emotional and spiritual wear need additional reinforcement. |
| Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 | |
| 12:11 am | {5} PLURALS & TULUMM SHIMMERING:split (2010)  For the last day of the year, according to the current Gregorian calendar (the most widely used today in most of the world), I decided to gift you with a very interesting split between two great projects. The disk in question belongs to a series of splits released by Dead Pilot Records in very limited cdr editions, this is the seventh in the series. The first track belongs to Plurals (Pete Dodd, Duncan Harrison, Daniel Mackenzie and others...from uk), they play somekind of psichadelic drone noise music with layers & layers of sound textures, that pervade our brain waves with strange frequencies that elevate us to a state of pleasurable catalepsy. Tullum Shimmeting brings us the second track of this record and it's a UK based one man's project (Jake Webster) that i like a lot. The sound that he creates it's an amazing trancedental drone music with timeless loops and a lot of ethnic influences.Certainly in the near future I will here post an album of these two projects. Not even worth saying that this is another record that I highly recommend. Limited edition of 100 copies. |
| Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 | |
| 8:41 pm | {4} DEEP MAGIC & PINE SMOKE LODGE:split (2010)  Few days after the commemoration of the winter solstice and on the eve of modern consumerist Christmas Day, I decided to leave you with a 4 tracks "split" cassette, of two very interesting projects. Even not being very familiar with their sound, because both Deep Magic as Pine Smoke Lodge has a dense discography. Let's start, Pine Smoke Lodge is an duo from Portland Maine, consisting of Matt McKeever (that runs the Existential Cloth label) with Hillary Dickerson (I read somewhere that the project is "dead", although it can not comply with any certainty...), they create an alchemical music with dense layers of sounds, which both explore the meditative drone, devotional chants (mantras), intimate landscapes in which the use of instruments such as the xylophone and bells, give it a beautiful, strange nature where being merges with the surrounding universe. In a similar field, we have Deep Magic, a solo project by Alexander Gray, who has also contributed in other projects (Pocahaunted, Black Eagle Child...), that explore great drone psychedelic soundscapes which could melting our mind on a state of trance (like the 32 minute track that we find here), but beware, not all his albums contains this sublime contemplation, sometimes could be in a more noisy way. In the future I will definitely post here a record of both projects, until then, enjoy this gem. Limited edition of 65 copies. |