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Author: Daniel Chamberlin
Inter-Dimensional Music • Basking in Gravity • Void Contemplation Tactics
The intrepid cowboy sound-voyager was inverted, forging a synthesis with the Ecstatic Other; digested exotic instrumentation fuel the tepid journeys of a sampler tourist. Instead of leaning heavily on the proverbial Malian time signature’s sublime truth, Instrumental Tourist pictures the synthetic veneer of exoticism as pushed air captured by oscillating ribbons. (via Self-Titled)
“Uptown Psychedelia”, a glimpse of the new Instrumental Tourist album coming on November 20 from Tim Hecker & ONP. Yes, please.
Sunday morning, 50ºF and heavy fog on the Marfa Plateau. Twenty-seven minutes of unreleased Cluster & Eno warmup jams via Mutant Sounds. Bliss. Listen here.
Machinedrum has taken an unreleased AUD-sourced track from Boards of Canada’s performance at Warp’s 10th Anniversary show — that’s the original low-fidelity recording via YouTube up top there — and …
Since I am a huge nerd I decided to take this bootleg recording and re-produce it for fun. Using the recording I laid new drums over the existing drum patterns (almost 100% accurate to original), replayed some synth parts and the bassline. The only thing I didn’t try to re-create was the original vocoder parts and some random samples so I used the original bootleg recording for that. I was tempted to make a shorter 4-5 minute version but I figured I should preserve the original piece in its intended length.
It is excellent. Get the whole story at Self-Titled.
Regular listeners of Inter-Dimensional Music will be familiar with the music of Lieven Martens, a Belgian fellow who records under the name Dolphins into the Future. His 2009 album … On Seafaring Isolation now canonized in the expanding genre of Cetacean mind-jams. It’s just been reissued on the Fonal label, and as we were skimming through the press release the closing line caught our attention:
But if Martens taps into a pool of tropical references (as he undoubtedly does), such influences are relayed from an unashamedly outside perspective – a deliberate refraction of nature, a re-imagined idyll, that shows him to be as close in spirit to the Romantics, or perhaps even filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s surreal take on aquatic life.
A few keystrokes later and we were lost in the surreal “scientific-poetic cinema” of Painlevé’s films on YouTube. Two of our favorites from the French anarcho-biologist are below: The Love Life of the Octopus (1967), scored by Pierre Henry, and Sea Urchins (1954) with original music by Yo La Tengo from the eight-film cycle they scored as part of Science is Fiction, a 3-disc survey of Painlevé’s films from Criterion.
Two videos from ID Music fave Thoughts on Air, the ethereal Earth-psych project of Hamilton, CA-based Scott Johnson aka Scott Cloud. Waves of obfuscated, pitch-shifting guitar melody echo all around as corn cooks on an idyllic ’50s campfire. The second video is somewhat more bewildering, as it features ’50s-era car crashes over ToA’s mellow drones. (via ToA)
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to our show last night, from the pasta kitchens of Los Angeles to the Modelo-tallboy-toting pals who stopped by the KRTS studios. We’ll be back on the air on Sunday, October 7 2012.
David Hollander, 9-10p:
Excerpt from Outside The Circle Of Fire by Chris Watson
Unknown track from unknown LP hand-labelled “YinYang” found in the Ram Dass “Love, Serve, Remember” LP box set
Puja – Zanagoria
Fairy Tale – V.D.B. Joel
Violet Hour – Arica Institute
Evening Star – Brian Eno/Robert Fripp
An Ending (Ascent) – Brian Eno
Space Commercial – Eddie Harris
Chambo, 10-11p:
I think that what I’m trying to evoke is an atmosphere of a place where civilization and culture is non-existing. Maybe I should call it cultural-civilization, since our concept of civilization is defined and interpreted via our culture.
What I’m talking about is a place – or a state of mind, which becomes real the very second cultural-civilization is cancelled, and all that is left is nature – BUT – a new nature (New Natural Reality) where, amongst other things, communication between individuals isn’t corrupted by words.
I know this sounds really romantic and it’s also paradoxical to try to describe a place free from culture by means of words!
Ironically, the way things work right now, it’s impossible to reach this place without the aid of cultural-civilization and a vague attempt in trying to describe this place can only be done by one person to another by means of culture.
This is a problem, because you can ask me “why this” and “why that” etc. and the answers I give you will never be correct, since most of it is just a feeling which can never be properly described by means of culture.
Dreamers Cloth – Side A – Total Descent to Mind Beach
Parotia Mold – Carter Mullin – Xelim/Parotia Mold split
Barb – Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan & Jeff Witscher – Barb
Thanks to everyone who joined us for last night’s broadcast. We’ll be back on the air at KRTS on September 2, 2012 from 9-11p (CST). Until then, here’s the playlist for last night’s unexpected gnosis showcase, from the Arica Institute’s “hypergnostic meditation” to OM’s heavy gnostic stoner drone:
Thanks to everyone who joined us for last night’s show: the broke-nose landscrapers in the Faubourg Marigny of New Orleans, the art collectors of Spanish Andalucia, the furniture-crafters in Red Hook, the electricians of Brooklyn, the Chuck UK family in Mount Washington, the audio designers of Lincoln Square, the salon shamans of Paris, the Greenfriars of Joshua Tree, the stargazers at McDonald Observatory, the outer-limits oilfielders of the Permian Basin and the true heads keeping it topless in the Hamptons.
And we’ve got nothing but love for the OGs out here in occupied Northern Mexico, our neighbors in Terlingua, Ojinaga, Presidio, Fort Davis, Alpine, El Paso, any long-haulers who had their ears on riding the 10, the 90, the 17 or the 67; and of course ID Music’s immediate family here in the bohemian enclave of Marfa.
Here’s what we listened to. Links go to downloads or further listening opportunities. If you were digging the gnawa jams from Mahmoud Guinia, we recommend visiting the first rate audioblog Moroccan Tape Stash at your earliest convenience.
We’re live on KRTS again on Sunday, August 5 from 9-11p (CST).
SET I
Beautiful Son – Peaking Lights – Lucifer
Hear River Jordan – Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus – Love Thy Neighbor
5.19.12 3 – M. Geddes Gengras – Leaving Records Compilation
Exodus Now – Ursprung – Ursprung
Human – Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape 2
Crzx – The Cyclist – Leaving Records Compilation Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Faceless Kiss – Alone Together #6
Side II – Olympus Mons – Reflections Of Bliss Lake
The ID Music team on a field expedition in search of new underwater jams.
(via OfNational Geographic)
Tune in to KRTS on Sunday, July 1 from 9-11p (CST) to see what we found on our recent trip to the wilds of Southern California. If you’re out here with us in the Big Bend of Far West Texas, point your radio dial to 93.5FM. Everybody else can zone-out via computer at www.marfapublicradio.org.
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