2019 mixes (V): Sean Conrad

Greetings, dear follower! Today we resume our 2019 mix series for a special mixtape made by Sean Conrad ~ an artist and label curator whose work must be familiar even to our least frequent readers. Through the years, Inner Islands label remains one of our most beloved labels simply because it shares the same aesthetics and feeling we always tried to carry on here on Microphones. Some of the most soulful ambiences and gentle new age hymns are being released at Inner Islands and under Sean's main aliases ~ Ashan and Channelers, among many others which you can always explore through Discogs. Sean's mix features tunes radiating love and light, joy of the being here on this planet and simply experiencing being a human with all its ups and downs ~ as an ongoing project of neverending evolution. Hope you'll enjoy it! ~ piedpaper

Tracklist:

0:00 ~ Malibu ~ Nana (Like A Star Made For Me) (Joyful Noise, White Label Series, 2019)
3:38 ~ Julianna Barwick ~ noon (Commend, 2019)
07:21 ~ Jogging House ~ Traverse (Dauw, 2019)
12:47 ~ Emily A. Sprague ~ Synth 2 (RVNG, 2019)
20:17 ~ Wanderwelle & Bandhagens Musikförening ~ Before The Rain (Semantica Records, 2019)
23:43 ~ H. Takahashi ~ Pollen (Where To Now? Records, 2019)
31:30 ~ Green-House ~ Peperomia Seedling (Leaving Records, 2019)
34:47 ~ Andrew Pekler ~ Hy Brasil (Faitiche, 2019)
39:20 ~ peafowl - part two ~ (Self-Released, 2019)
47:17 ~ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ Joy (Mexican Summer, 2019)

# rewind 2011 ~ part I & II

 

01. missing you less ~ Margaret Dygas | "st", perlon
02. new ground ~ Andy Stott | "passed me by", modern love
03. tick of the clock ~ The Chromatics | "ost drive", lakeshore
04. under your spell ~ Desire | "ost drive", lakeshore
05. animal dreams ~ Sapphire Slows | "true breath ep", not not fun
06. like dunes ~ Motion Sickness of Time Travel | "luminaries and synastry", digitalis
07. your fingers the snake ~ Cankun | "ethiopian dreams", hands in the dark
08. graphics bloom ~ Nova Scotian Arms | "slow architecture", sweat lodge guru
09. all the sun that shines ~ Peaking Lights | "936", not not fun
10. the 5 ~ FWY! | "ca 80's ca 90's", brave mysteries
11. slim ~ James Ferraro | "far side virtual", hippos in tanks
12. modern through movement ~ The Advisory Circle | "as the crow flies", ghostbox
13. like glass ~ Charlatan | "split w/ Spare Death Icon", stunned
14. heiress to the throne ~ Silver Antlers | "pulling diamonds from dirt", self-released
15. wälzer ~ Kaboom Karavan | "barra barra", miasmah
16. fuji descent ~ High Wolf | "atlas nation", holy mountain
17. friends ~ Meg Baird | "seasons on earth", drag city
18. telepathy ~ Motion Sickness of Time Travel | "seeping through the veil of the unconscious", digitalis
19. nebula ~ Pulse Emitter | "spiritual vistas", expansive & cylindrical habitat modules 
20. i'm willing to stagger ~ Mind Over Mirrors | "high & upon", gift tapes
21. el bosque de los huizaches ~ Smokey Feather | "árbore en la cresta", luzzzalig / microphones in the trees

hace tiempo que no hacemos listas con lo mejor del año, cosas de la edad y la pereza supongo. el caso es que este año nos apetecía hacer algo, así que ahí va este recopilatorio con las canciones que ahora mismo más me llaman la atención ya que el oráculo del buen gusto, es decir, ana, está más perezosa que yo. aunque en cine estará de acuerdo en proclamar "melancholia" como la mejor peli, de "breaking bad" dirá que es la mejor serie y el universo lartigue como el mayor descubrimiento fotográfico supongo.

y sí, tenéis toda la razón del mundo, es verdad, faltan un montón de canciones, de discos, de artistas, de sellos. pero muchos de ellos ya han aparecido en el blog a lo largo y ancho de este 2011, en el que por ejemplo para mí el mejor disco es "the magic place" de julianna barwick y ni siquiera lo hemos reseñado, tampoco la sopresa más agradable del año; el sello hooker vision con un arsenal de discos devastador; reedbeds, mohave triangles, nova scotian arms, motion sickness of time travel, quite evenings, kon tiki gemini, etc... pensemos en este puñado de canciones como la postdata musical de un año tremendamente fértil. esperemos que el 2012 se porte por lo menos igual de bien. ahora ya os toca a vosotros y vosotras inundar los comentarios con los olvidados y olvidadas. opinen, opinen!

*feliz año*

download part I / download part II

foto: jacques henri lartigue

following the sun

va ~ following the sun (november 2011)

01. kentucky moonshiner ~ bill staines
02. cantina crawl ~ toby burke
03. baby where you are ~ ted lucas
04. lady with the braid ~ dory previn
05. lady blue ~ trevor swadling
06. the road is hard ~ graham davies
07. south someday ~ edgar wappenhalter
08. sunny california theme ~ michael james tapscott
09. how to collect branches ~ je suis le petit chevalier
10. prizewinning ~ julianna barwick
11. alpine valley shelter point ~ food pyramid
12. sea bed meditation ~ jürgen müller
13. crickets sing for ana maría ~ walter wanderly
14. siberian girls ~ monster rally
15. long time before this ~ jim guthrie, sarah harmer & bry webb
16. voice of god ~ castlemusic & wyrd visions
17. hey moon ~ john maus
18. violet ~ moonshine moonshine
19. stagnant water ~ shipwrecks
20. gardenfull ~ theo angell
21. under the sun ~ mia doi todd
22. wendy bird ~ haley bonar
23. fly eye ~ wizard oz
24. sa sa samoa ~ korallreven with julianna barwick
25. nature is a song ~ sister irene o'connor
26. guaglione ~ marino marini

otro año más, happy birthday maicropóns!

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julianna barwick

julianna barwick - sanguine (self-released 2007)

"julianna barwick has self released her first album, sanguine. the cd is a collection of short loop based songs. lacking definable lyrics, the songs create their own themes sonically and leave nameless emotional impressions. julianna's talents as a vocalist push most of the musical strength in the album, her choice of melodic vocal overdubs with vocal percussion is fascinating and dizzying. some sounds become indecipherable as the human voice. most of the tracks are all vocal based. julianna's all vocal album has less of a political method behind it as does bjork's medula; it's based more on her natural approach to songwriting: spontaneously improving and recording immediately. many of the songs were written on the fly." alias pail

filed under: panda bear + cocteau twins + fursaxa = julianna barwick

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dancing with friends (mp3)

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