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)
Category: Inter-Dimensional Music
Inter-Dimensional Music September 2012 Playlist
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.
– Jonas Frederiksen aka Dreamers Cloth in Semantic Uproar. More Dreamers Cloth music can be found at Microphones in the Trees.
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
Inter-Dimensional Music August 2012 Playlist
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:
Hollander: 9-10p
Hypergnostic Meditation
Music In The Nine Rings
both by the Arica Institute
Chambo: 10-11p
[nsfw]
Blanck Mass – White Math
BEAK > – 0898 – >>
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country – Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Anywhere – Shaman Mantra – Anywhere
Acid Rain – Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday
Sinai – OM – Advaitic Songs
Al Umm – Mahmoud Guinia – Mahmoud Kania – Star de la Chanson Gnaoua
O Come And Walk Along (for S.) – Daniel (A.I.U) Higgs – Ancestral Songs
ID Music July 2012 Playlist
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
SET II
Henrietta – Yeasayer – Henrietta
Opium Den – Fade to Blue – Blues Control – Valley Tangents
Ya Sudani Bangara Bangara – Mahmoud Guinia – Mahmoud Guinia – Fikriphone 42
Fat Old Sun – Pink Floyd – BBC Archives 1970-1971
4 – Reedbeds – Fervent Pitches
Inter-Dimensional Music playlist for June 2012
Hollander played a full hour of obscuro New Age library music “face-melters.” Here’s what Chambo answered back with in the second hour.
N.E.W. – Actress – R.I.P.
Dream Girl Sky Surfer – Lone – Galaxy Garden
Ekki múkk – Sigur Rós – Valtari
The Heavens Turn by Themselves – Sleep ∞ Over – Forever
Intra Ecstasy – Roy Orb D. MT – Doctor of Metaphysical Healing
tape4 – Matthewdavid with Run DMT – DISK II
Summer of the Cat’s Eye – Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Cymatics
This is material shot by Dr. Hans Jenny.
Please just enjoy. It is all for you.
New M. Geddes Gengras music
The last time we saw M. Geddes Gengras he was eating sweet potato hash in our kitchen here in Marfa with Matthewdavid, Sun Araw Band, Rene Hell and the rest of the Tonalism crew. We were trying to remember why we got kicked out of that yurt the night before … was it because we were bumping Juicy J mixtapes too loud, or something more scandalous? All we know for sure is the beer was gone by dawn.
Ged has a new 3-cassette release on 905 Tapes. Essential galaxy-melting modular synth listening. Get it here.
New Grouper Music
New music from Liz Harris abounds: First there was her collaboration from late in 2011 with ID Music fave Ilyas Ahmed, Visitor, a mellow guitar ‘n’ treated tapes affair that in-the-know heads have been listening for ever since hearing their inter-mingled vibrations at the On Land Festival back in 2010, a happening circulated widely via the YouTubes.
This was followed soon after by a Grouper cover of Dead Moon’s “Demona” on 7-inch accompanying the new issue of high class goner ‘zine Yeti, and then by Mirroring’s Foreign Body, an album-length collaboration with Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers. The latter of which sounds to our ears like the interstitial ambient pieces — e.g. “Rainbow Illness” — from the last Wolves in the Throne Room album drawn out to epic proportions.
And now, Violet Replacement Parts I and II, a CDr on Harris’ Yellow Electric label. These two long-form ambient works — 90 minutes of music broken into two sets — go along with her European Tour of the same name (details at the Yellow Electric website). According to her website, “tape collage” is what she’s doing here, guitar echoes, field recordings and muffled keyboard tones that drift in and out of spaces that are much noisier than anything on her last few albums, sort of Pete Swanson’s Ghost O’Clock slowed and throwed, Yellow Swans in amber.
No doubt the CDr — limited to 100 copies — will sell out on tour, but it’s available online at places like the iTunes store, where you can also download the sublime Grouper “Water People/Moving Machine” 7-inch she recorded when Ballroom brought her out here to Marfa in May of 2010. Check out photos and a brief Q&A on the Ballroom Marfa blog.
Behind the scenes at ID Music
Hollander, Chambo and friends prepare the monthly ID Music transmission.
(RIP Moebius. From his 1986 Crystal Saga portfolio, via Arthur pal John Coulthart)
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