günter schlienz

 günter schlienz ~ live tape (branch tapes / tomentosa, 2015)

"tracks recorded live with modular synthesizer, tape loops and tapes. thanks to josh for  support and mastering. kudos to all those wonderful people who made those gigs  possible, and many thanks to all who came to listen." günter schlienz

"really love the new Guenter Schlienz tape. really thankful we were able to release this on tomentosa sub label Branch Tapes." tomentosa

quería que la música hablase por sí sola, pero al final he caído... Günter, el ser con más luz de todo el universo calm in trees, siempre hace milagros. me da hasta apuro decir nada, pero de verdad es imposible no decir ni pío. nada ha cambiado, o sí, tal vez por ser un directo (en polonia, en alemania, o en medio de la nada), tal vez porque fueron noches mágicas, desde 'through the music to the self' no me emocionaba tanto una cinta. destacaría tantos momentos, pero: 'cara a', minuto 8:50. 'cara b', a partir del minuto 8:48. voces, retransmisiones, un escalofrío, una melodía antigua (un loop recortado de una ópera de Bernstein, el mismo que suena en 'presentation one ~ found sounds, modular synthesizer and tape loops', debilidad de Günter que suele utilizar en todos sus conciertos), un sónar lejano que emite vibraciones bajo el agua y acompaña a su electrónica melancólica, enlazando finalmente con 'tape studies', 'chapter IV' y 'swim trunks''...el cielo ('and voilà, some magic happened'). y los pajaritos de la portada revoloteando sobre todo el disco. del todo indescriptible. muy fuerte haber presenciado eso. tengo la sensación de que el formato cinta, o cualquier otro formato, se queda pequeño ante esto...Günter en directo lo desborda todo. sorprendente, enigmático, innovador, genio. el dicho "nada malo puede ocurrir dentro de una canción de Günter Schlienz" cobra todo el sentido: tiene una sensibilidad y una dulzura fuera de lo común y sus canciones de estructura frágil avanzan tan suavemente que parece que se vayan a romper de un momento a otro. también entiendo estas palabras de Norm Chambers: "stoked about this new live Guenter tape". además es de las poquitas cintas que ha elegido Branches Tapes para su mini catálogo ascendente, un sub sello de Tomentosa que parece creado casi para la ocasión (pocas cosas me harían más feliz que tener un sello y editar sólo cintas de Bill Doob, Josh Burke, Mia Prce y él). 

...llegar a casa y abrir el paquetito con esta preciosidad es lo más cercano a la felicidad. gracias de corazón a Günter y Josh por este regalo. con permiso de 'blaue stunde' de skomsvold & schlienz (ay, palabras mayores), dang olsen dream tape, +you, miaux, inner travels, wave temples, x.y.r., tropical rock, charles cohen, tuluum shimmering, visible cloaks, naran ratan, oliwa, les halles, head chameleon, isam: blue communion, black eagle child (pío pío) y una lista infinitamente infinita... ya tengo mi disco del año (:

 

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plant music / grey garden home

va ~ plant music: a leafy listening compilation (dublab, 2015)

"nurture nature with dublab’s Plant Music! these songs were composed by dublab’s favorite musicians with growth of leafy friends in mind. Plant Music is a dublab Proton Drive exclusive so when you pick this up you will not only be helping plants to grow, but you will also cultivate dublab’s positive music mission."

1. a&r ~ weeping willow

 2. alejandro cohen ~ remembering
3. carmen villain ~ blomic
4. dexter story ~ mahogany
5. dntel ~ ficus sheen
6. ethio cali ~ green tej
7. golden hits ~ for the ferns
8. suneye ~ sprout
9. impa quince ~ i bloom when you bloom
10. j d emmanual ~ texas star plant
11. jp jenkins ~ cactus conciousness
12. mary lattimore ~ david green
13. matthewdavid ~ electronic dream plant
14. prints ~ vision
15. rainbow arabia ~ succulent
16. t.e.a.l. ~ moss
17. vitamin wig c ~ rose power

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va ~  グレーガーデン ホーム (grey garden home compilation) (onmyōdō cassette, 2015)

opaline, sunmoonstar, sleepland, aeki takashi, ...

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filed under: i wanna be leaf

rachel evans / motion sickness of time travel

rachel evans ~ cradle songs (adversary, 2015)

~ late night lullabies for cello and Rhodes ~

listen ~ coming soon...

motion sickness of time travel ~ weeks (self-released, 2015) 

"originally composed as an aid for lessons in self-hypnosis. piles of books, reciting affirmations, remembering vividly those early prophetic dreams of the future... now all has come true and those weeks seem light-years away." rachel evans

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magia 

that summer feeling

va ~ that summer feeling (calm in trees ☀ julio 2015)

01 above the high rays ~ miaux | above the high rays (ultra eczema. 2015)
02 phase 7 ~ inner travels | phases of a forest moon (coming soon..., 2015)
03 umi no chikaku / morning coffee ~ +you | world tour (exo tapes, 2015)
04 profiter de ce qu'il ~ patricia escudero | satie sonneries (grabaciones accidentales, 1987)
05 girl of my dreams (saxophone version) ~ courtney pine | angel heart ost (antilles, 1987)
06 side b ~ donald walters | rainbows and waterfalls (clarity sound & light, 1995)
07 ya ho wa ~ ya ho wa | penetration: an aquarium symphony (higher key, 1974)
08 peanut vendor ~ dudley smith steel band | steel band carnival (carib, 1960)
09 leaves of the telegraph plant ~ david edren | music for mimosa (earth.rope.pot.plant, 2015)
10 a dream sails out to sea ~ takashi kokubo | get at the wave (sanyo, 1987)
11 smokey ruxpin ~ dang olsen dream tape | just roll (constellation tatsu, 2015)
12 brisas ~ jccg | diz​-​te a ânsia (aquae, 2015)
13 sea kaleidoscope ~ x.y.r. | waves t​*​pes vol​.​1 (handstitched*, 2015)
14 nice ~ maliblu | unreleased (soundcloud, 2015)
15 epitaph ~ nico niquo | epitaph (orange milk records, 2015)
16 oct16. 1964 ~ 夕方の犬 (dog in the evening) | oct16. 1964 (spring break tapes, 2015)
17 mesmerize ~ sky limousine | album (midnight star media, 2010)
18 fetishistic scopofilia ~ eddies in the water/alicia nogueira | unknown (vhs, 1985)
19 pretty one ~ dave jones | devil's child (inner records, 1965)
20 flow ~ elodie lauten | transform ep (wilde calm, 2014)
21 intervalos de incorporação ~ aquae | um dia levou​-​me (aquae, 2015)
22 solo french horn in stuffetta ~ typhonian highlife | hr gigers studiolo 1 (pacific city, 2014)
23 harpe #1 ~ éveline rousseau  | tu dors nicole (bande sonore du film) (sainte cécile, 2014)
24 teenage spaceship (smog) ~ dura | split series volume II w/ m sage (wounded knife, 2015)
25 soft hands ~ drew swinburne | "just ladew it" garden party (soundtrack, 2015)

26 pink river dolphins ~ kay gardner| amazon (ladyslipper, 1994)
27 hawaii ~ bobby brown | live (destiny, 1978)
28 sois prudente ~ avril23 | unreleased (soundcloud, 2015)
29 je suis un garçon / fille ~ poney galllant | chroniques mutantes sur radiopanik (2015)
30 the boy and the snake dance ~ charles cohen | brother i prove you wrong (morphine, 2015)
31 bundle of flames ~ tuluum shimmering | bundle of flames (tuluum shimmering, 2015)
32 a subtle landscape ~ dolphins into the future | songs of gold, incandescent (edições cn, 2015)
33 sea drift  ~ jonny trunk | unreleased (trunk, 2014)
34 pascal ~ motohiko hamase | notes of forestry (newsic, 1988)
35 side b ~ big torso | caffeinated depression (mmm sound, 2015)
36 cdcpp ~ baden powell | from mitamine lab mix (unknown, 1966)
37 títulos de crédito iniciales ~ luis de pablo | el espíritu de la colmena (media, 1973)
38 side b (excerpt) ~ skomsvold & schlienz | blaue stunde (sicsic tapes, 2015)
39 bathysphere suite ~ norm chambers | swim trunks (space slave, 2013)
40 waterfall ~ tropical rock | buru (newhive, 2015)
41 punta alem ~ gora sou | ramifications (orange milk records, 2015)
42 panettone ~ nils quak | titoli di coda (sicsic, 2015)
43 dream daze ~ rubba (karl jenkins & mike ratledge) | push button (music de wolfe, 1979)
44 dwell ~ ross fish | the pelican curse (bridgetown records, 2015)
45 dzi to l'abe nam ~ amoaku | african songs & rhythms for children (folkways, 1978)
46 matty groves part 1& 2 ~ dragontime | dragontime (inner islands, 2015)
47 cherry berry fairy ~ suryummy | prismatic escalator (constellation tatsu, 2015))
48 gungles ~ wendy reid | three pieces (frog recordings, 1988)
49 saint basil ~ bruce haack | the electronic record for children (dimension 5, 1969)
50 soulful ~ the upsetters & lee 'scratch' perry | return of django (fontana, 1970)

foto: oh faye dunaway ('the thomas crown affair) by james turnley

intro... plant talk ~ molly roth | plant talk/sound advice (plant talk productions, 1976) 
end: east at easter (channeling lana del rey/chelsea hotel #2) ~ class of 69 (unreleased, 2013)

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naran ratan

naran ratan ~ trees etc. (tasty morsels, 2015)

"tasty morsels jam club just added 11 minutes and 11 seconds of spiritual jazz miniatures, garden music, beginner clarinet jams etc to our archive. it's all a big ode to nature and so on and makes good background music probably. it is called "trees etc." and was created by our weird friend, naran ratan, some time ago. on behalf of naran ratan, here given, phrased mainly in Spirit Quest, is a quite quiet journey, dedicated to oldest friends and nearby shrubbery."

composition: n ratan 

keyboard: n ratan 

clarinet: n ratan 

'e' guitar: simone 

art: 'bath' by r. mccarthy 

otherwise: n ratan

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venn rain / jeff brown / jade poppyfield / cool person / kurma

venn rain ~ early + unreleased (mmm sound, 2015)

~ long ago recordings from Jimmy Billingham's dark wafting dream machine ~

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kurma / jeff brown / jade poppyfield / cool person ~ worlds of tomorrow (mmm sound, 2015)

 ~ a two cassette, four way split. the answered ad in the back of a science fiction novella asking writers to submit their own work. heavy on themes, and story arch placement ~

 featured sounds:

North Carolina's Kurma

Georgia's Jade Poppyfield

Florida's Cool Person

Washington's Jeff Brown

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strom noir / sij

strom noir ~ eσοπτρον (πάνθεον, 2015)

"our long-time favorite ambient music maker joins our label for this tape. warm, contemplative guitar tunes of Strom Noir are very good for listening on repeat in your quietest time of day, when nothing will distract you. ambient impressionism in its best, reflecting and radiating all and everything around ~ through the music, through the self." 

~ all tracks conceived as headphone music. 

written and recorded by Emil Maťko ~

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sij ~ the earth shrine (πάνθεον, 2015)

"second "shrine" from imaginative world of SiJ music expands the colorful landscapes of ancient myths and legends, merging tribal pulses with timeless ambient flows. entraining mind with mysterious sounds, this album isn't just telling stories, but invites the listener to solve enigmas of hidden shrines and symbolic tales. from here and now ~ to infinite beyond."

 all tracks written, mixed and mastered by Vladislav Sikach 

 percussion by Robert Rich, Bill Laswell, Robin Storey/Rapoon.
field recordings by jymdavis, ahmadSA, D W, 

everythingsounds, annhawks, Sclolex. 

singing Bowl by Tim Six/Creation VI

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david edren

 david edren ~ music for mimosa pudica & codariocalyx (earth rope pot plant, 2015)

"When Sigrid Volders & Narelle Dore asked me to make a musical mix for the presentation of their project "Earth.Rope.Pot.Plant", i immediately thought of the "Plantasia" album by Mort Garson, who is one of my favourite electronic composers. Little did i know, i soon discovered, although truly amazing, it is just one of many plant-related albums. Roger Roger, that other pioneer of electronic library music, made "De La Musique et Des Secrets Pour Enchanter vos Plantes" in 1978, a remarkable album which, like the Mort Garson album, also included a booklet with enchanting text and pictures. For me, discovering more and more, it all began to form into this greater spiral of interest. I saw the film "The Secret Life Of Plants" and this documentary called "Mind Of Plants" by Jacques Mitsch (Arte 2009). 

After which i immediately obtained some codariocalyx and mimosa pudica seeds; both known as the dancing and sensitive plants respectively. I really wanted to start growing these plants myself. When the first seedlings popped up, in my head a plan began to grow. You get emotionally attached to plants, watering them at specific times and taking care of them every day; something that was new to me, really. After the codario was already grown quite a bit, i started placing a little speaker next to it and play it gentle electronic sounds. The littlest leaves would start twitching and turning right after these waves of sound would come out of the speaker. As for the mimosa pudica, it was rather obvious from the beginning this was a very sensitive being; The slightest touch or breeze would set off it's receptors, folding up it's leaves one by one and even branches collapsing towards it's roots. I was mesmerized! As an ode to these two botanical beings, i decided to make sounds which are gathered here on the attached cd. Enjoy." David Edren / DSR Lines

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data garden

data garden ~ live at the switched​-​on garden 002 (data garden, 2013)

"On October 14, 2012 more than 1,200 participants joined us to wander Bartram’s Garden and connect with their natural environment through live music, performance and sculpture that blurred the distinction between biological and digital worlds, exploring the relationship between plants, music and technology. 

Sounds by Tim Eads, Austen Brown, Joe Patitucci, Alex Tyson, Sam Cusumano, Dan Scofield, Patrick Proctor, Steven Litt, Leslie Zacharkow, Kyle Stetz, Klip Collective, Laura Baird, Allen Crawford, Dino Lionetti, Gretchen Lohse, King Britt, Pia Ercole and Spaceship Aloha (Christopher Sean Powell)."

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portopia '81 / sarah davachi / overscan

 overscan ~ conscious (constellation tatsu, 2015)

"plush and emotive widescreen synth composition from Osaka's Overscan. composed and recorded between 2013 and 2014. all music by Marcus Miller." boomkat

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portopia '81 ~ jet stream (constellation tatsu, 2015)

"the best from Constellation Tatsu's latest batch is a creamy kosmiche trip from Shin Buchikama a.k.a. Portopia '81. gazing at classic Kraftwerk and YMO thru the rosiest of tinted gegs, he takes flight with six deeply charming synth fancies, scaling giddy, breathless heights between the satin arpeggios and vocoder navigations of 'Jet Stream' before diving into the tranquil silicon pools of 'Sparkling Constellation', free-floating in the 'Sea of Clouds' and scanning the melting skies of 'Distant Horizon', eventually slipping into the sweetest reverie of 'Strange Dream' and pirouetting in slow motion between the syntherzones of 'Light and Shadow'." boomkat

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sarah davachi ~ qualities of bodies permanent (constellation tatsu, 2015)

"synthesist, Sarah Davachi follows up her lovely 'Baron's Court' LP for Students of Decay with this suite of ominous, mystical drone composition for Constellation Tatsu. they're slow moving unfolding and quietly intense pieces, poised with a chamber music-like elegance and folk-wise simplicity, perhaps at best in the uncurling fronds of 'Flowers and Other Voiceless Things' and the curdled, keening harmonics of 'Praha'." boomkat

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de las hornadas de constellation tatsu, siempre tan perfectas, sólo puedo decir cosas bonitas. el hecho de no saber nada de Overscan (Marcus Miller) hace que todavía sea más emocionante adentrarme en 'conscious', mi gran descubrimiento de esta hornada primaveral. tan sólo escuchando las primeras notas de 'old haunts' ya estoy rendida, imaginando un split con Floating Gardens y Voice of the Garden (¿qué fue de Eric Hanss y Field Studies?). texturas de cristal, teclados acuosos, placeres ingrávidos a los que soy adicta. 'perspective' es mi favorita: ese fluir, un sol cegador, un mar azul inmenso rumbo a las islas cíes. las olas salpicándote a cada vaivén. pienso, no sé porqué, en 'la foto más foto'. esa sensación.

debilidad de debilidades. nostálgico de los diseños comestibles (Ginjoha Tapes), devoto de décadas pasadas y la música futurista, a Shin Buchikama seguro que le hubiera gustado haber nacido en otra época. por eso viaja al pasado cada vez que reaparece como Portopia '81. 'jet stream' es un flujo de aire rápido y estrecho que se encuentra en las atmósferas de algunos planetas, incluyendo la Tierra. de ese fluir brotan sonidos analógicos, naturales y del espacio exterior dispuestos elegantemente para diseñar canciones entre la nostalgia y el éxtasis. una voz robótica puro Jean Michel Jarre nos da la bienvenida en 'jet stream', tierna y eufórica como 'sparkling constellation'. 'sea of clouds', cuyo título es del todo explícito, es la más ambient, la más bonita, electrónica de brisa constante, confortable. muy difícil describirla: un mar de nubes, nada más. y ese sentido de la armonía tan buchikamashi. suena 'distant horizon' y vuelvo a Overscan, a 'perspective', a esa foto.

Sarah Davachi (de gira hace poco con Panabrite) nos cautivó con canciones como 'doline' y 'leicht' (que la filomena incluyó en 'river of god') y vuelve a cautivarnos con 'qualities of bodies permanent', tan afín al minimalismo y a las salmodias hipnóticas de Eliane Radigue y Terry Riley. en 'codex' un sintetizador cual órgano eclesiástico me deja muda. si Kathleen Baird cantase en ella, podría ser una canción de Spires That in The Sunset Rise. todo en ella es como el zumbido de una avispa, un drone suspendido en la atmósfera de manera permanente, un ritmo obsesivo que no sube ni baja, se mantiene estático, enriquecido por el violoncello barroco, la flauta y el mellotron de Shirley Hunt. 'praha', 'geneva' (favoritísima) y 'codex'. tres canciones, inalterables pero tan imprevisibles las tres, que son un bálsamo.

el nuevo octeto folklórica del instituto lahmogie

 el nuevo octeto folklórica del instituto lahmogie ~ the flukey furlong anvils and ditches (the lahmogie Institute, 2014)

"hey folks, been a long time! very pleased to announce that Tuluum Shimmering has been appointed musical and translunary advisor to that most ancient and mystical organisation, the Lahmogie Institute! The Institute, of which you have no doubt heard much, can be found here:  as well as within your hearts. on the website you will find all manner of recorded musical sounds by Tuluum Shimmering, both old and new, on a veriety of media. also to be found are Musical Instruments! Books! Tradional Music from Ohgig Eeyah! Ohgigets: Original Artyfacts from the first Ohgig Eeyahn Electric Era! Sounds of Nature! Radio Revels! Films! Pamphlet Series! Ohgig Eeyah Archive! Prof. Pufajakit! Mix of the Month! And much else besides!!! In case you might miss it, I would like to draw your attention in particular to the book People Speaking About Making Music: A Collection of Quotes Presented in Random Order, which I believe may be of much interest to many here. more info on the website. be sure to take a peek at the musical instruments too if you have any interest in unusual sound making devices. many thanks from all at the Institute!" jake webster

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~ tuluum shimmering ~ four new releases ~

tuluum shimmering ~ in the grove the moon is drowned with stars / bundle of flames / over seven mountains, over seven plains / the edge of the sky on either side

(tuluum shimmering records, 2015)

"four magical cd's by UK-based, one-man transcendental-drone band Tuluum Shimmering. the sound of Tuluum Shimmering is like a sort of loop-driven, timeless ethnic music without a region or a tradition. an array of instruments (sampling keyboard, flutes, violin, kalimba, percussion) are run, via a mixer, through a multi-FX pedal into a 30-second looper, and out to an amp." aguirre

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Everything has its cycles. Since the very start of everything we know, every single movement was part of some cycle. Galaxies spinning around each other or seasonal changes - it's only question of a scale. And with every cycle something changes - slowly, steady, it may be something absolutely invisible, - but it changes. Constant renovation of cosmos goes endlessly, through myriads ways of self-knowing. We can say that we breathe for life, but maybe it's Life breathes through us. Everything flows and everything remains the same. Your body changes every second, but you find yourself in the bed every morning - looking same, living same pattern, performing same rituals, thinking same thoughts. Days are going, but you don't feel them like a cycle - we are walking a straight line from past to future. But most likely this is spiral - unfolding, unfurling - and each new coil takes us one step up. Aeons ago people celebrated such turns with rituals, and we do same thing, only in different form. But if you don't have to explain why X-mas celebration ritual is important, why we should do those celebration only on determined days? Nature celebrates every sunrise, why shouldn't we? I think that music of Tuluum Shimmering is the way of such celebration. It cycles, brings joy and refreshing view of everything you put your mind on and it gives perspective of this endlessly unfolding Mystery of Creation that we all happened to be part of.

Every ritual has its pattern, and Jake Webster's tunes are always ritualistic in their own way. This is such kind of music that don't really tells you stories, but involves in creation of your own ones. It reminds wondrous magic carpet that hypnotizes you with its patterns - they seem repetitive at first glance, but longer you look the more you see. And it appears to be a flying carpet and it takes you far-far away from usual routine that we fill our lives by some silly reasons. This music gives you a ride that reminds about sacred nature of everything existing under this sun. A journey which is needed to recall that you're always on a journey. You're sitting on the couch, but meanwhile sun makes it cycle through the galaxy and this music makes you feel that. Under the layers and layers of loops and melodies it contains this wonderful never ending raga-like drone flow that connects every living creature in the Universe. Huge web, where energy flows, changing shapes and states. Once you feel it, you'll never be alone! Perform your rituals, celebrate your life, and don't think you run in circles - every circle is only a planar projection of neverending, infinitely unfolding spiral of Life. And this music goes along with it, just feel - just follow.

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a year in your garden ~ spring mixtape

va ~ a year in your garden • spring mixtape (calm in trees, mayo 2015)

01 harvest ~ günter schlienz | new song (unreleased, 2015)
02 side a ~ plastic moonrise | plastic moonrise 2 (self-released, 2015)
03 song bird ~ eric allen | happy times (parry music library, 1979)
04 california images 1-5 ~ visible cloaks | 008 (hare akedod, 2015)
05 sleeping frog/cherry blossoms ~ tropical rock | buru (newhive, 2015)
06 river song ~ todd barton & ursula k. le guin | music&poetry of the kesh (valley, 1985)
07 jenny ~ gary atkins | nothin' else around (unknown, 1975)
08 tropical tan / er was eens / baby budha ~ orphan fairytale | tropical tan (pluim, 2014)
09 lazy oasis/rainbowed in the wind ~ pospulenn | sun people sleepwalker (housecraft, 2010)
10 untitled ~ color dream | cloud factory (digitalis, 2008)
11 side b ~ begonia / diminishing shrine recycles ~ james ferraro / coral blade grotto ~ criminals
12 doordarshan's signature tune ~ ustad ali ahmed hussain khan & ravi shankar (1974)
13 carina sayles (vhs video version) ~ palmbomen II | palmbomen II (rvng intl, 2015)
14 stockholm 2024 ~ metro riders | coming soon... (unreleased, 2015)
15 dolphin sea / hot sun / afternoon of sun hot meditation ~ wave temples | spring ritual (2015)
16 fanfare for naran ratan/jam for bwengo ~ naran ratan | trees etc. (tasty morsels, 2015)
17 spacewalkin imagination #5 ~ adrian marcator | imagination (trance, 1984)
18 polaris / crystal ~ jonathan fitoussi | live / parallelograms (pan european, 2014)
19 memories of hurstwood ~ lancashire folklore tapes | vol.IV (floklore tapes, 2015)
20 dusk side a ~ scorpio love child | triple healing mixtape (social harmony, 2014)
21 tropical sea ~ h. takahashi | soundcloud song (unreleased, 2014)
22 (something) ~ mount eerie | sauna (p.w. elverum & sun, ltd., 2015)
23 misleading familiarity ~ les halles | forum (noumenal loom, 2015)
24 jungle longing ~ pulse emitter | digital rainforest (beer on the rug 2015)
25 sol ~ oliwa | eras (illuminated paths, 2015)

26 mental journey to b.c. (medley) ~ x.y.r. | coming soon... (terminal dream, 2015)
27 running late ~ rangefinder | alta vista (unreleased, 2015)
28 garden of delays ~ quentin nicolai (young girls, 2012)
29 tv idents ~ aleksandra domanovic / untamed world outro 1970s ~ mort garson
30 le orme ~ nicola piovani | soundtrack (unknown, 1975)
31 response ~ radio people | fall on mars (centre, 2014)
32 side b ~ mahjoop | mahjoop (cave recordings, 2015)
33 untitled ~ h takahashi & loto retina | soundcloud song (unreleased, 2015)
34 april showers ~ clifford white / night rain ~ deuter (spring fantasy 1987/ecstasy 1979)
35 ...and out come the boards ~ old svrfers | ain't scared of shaka (tranquility tapes, 2015)
36 dal gioco all'esercizio ~ il ritmo nella scuola elementare /unelaul ~ h. jurisalu (1977)
37 expédition bauges/la voix du phénix/première séance/bois enterrés ~ loto retina (2015)
38 la nuit_xylophonstucke ~ carl orff & gunild keetman | flûte à bec & percussions (1971)
39 water drums 1-2 ~ baka forest people of southeast cameroon | heart of the forest (1993)
40 4 mosche di velluto grigio ~ ennio morricone / cats ~ the bugs / tsukasa suzuki
41 9dub ~ el nuevo octeto folklórica del instituto lahmogie | the flukey furlong... (2014)
42 tension against the stream (edit) ~ former selves | three wells (wounded knife, 2015)
43 song four ~ heat sureens | split w/ i am just a pupil (light tapes, 2014)
44 touch me & die ~ kara-lis coverdale | aftertouches (sacred phrases, 2015)
45 unicornis, melankolia/flute theme for princess of egypt (silmäterä) ~ lau nau (2013)
46 hypnosis ~ terlu | split with the solex-mal (bergenost, 2014)
47 song of india ~ the dream dusters featuring kenny at the hammond | organ favorites (1960)
48 tropical paradise ~ nature's course | retreat to the forest (krb music companies, 1995)
49 the magic book ~ black eagle child | playing (scissor tail, 2015)
50 spicks and specks (from walking dead 5x13) ~ bee gees | spicks & specks (csj, 1967)

recuerdo cuando vladimir nos sorprendía con 'calm in trees', un regalo muy muy especial que inauguraba 'a window open'. hoy es 'harvest' de nuestro querido Günter Schlienz, con cariño para los micrófonos. y es preciosa. de cuando la expresión 'ir por el aire' se queda infradiminuta. esa eterna sensación de estar acariciando las notas sin llegar a tocarlas... más no puedo decir, tan sólo gracias por formar parte de este compilado primaveral. "I started to work on 'harvest' last autumn, and as always this time around the year i was thrown back a bit to childhood memories. grow up on a farm to which belonged lots of vines. the harvest time for the grapes was a highlight for me as a kid, lots of people around which helped, everybody was in a good mood and very talkative. so it was definitely a highlight, but always a bit overshadowed by melancholy, because you knew that the harsh winter was just around the corner. so with this track i've tried to capture this special mixture of my feelings in those days. ok, it's not that much a story for some spring mix tape! actually i thought about to rename it because of this, but i can't. for me this track will always be connected with this concept, so i decided to keep the name."  günter schlienz 

el resto de canciones tienen, casi todas, una característica común: suenan bajitas, brumosas, siguiendo la estela de aquella insólita cosecha del inframundo que brotaba con fuerza en el 2009 (baja fidelidad, alta emotividad) y daba sus últimos coletazos en el 2011. quería centrarme sólo en ellas, pero al final, por suerte, hay tantas canciones que aparecen cada día que ha sido imposible. de vez en cuando se cuelan diálogos y fugaces momentos musicales arrancados de películas antiguas, sintonías,... buscando la inspiración en palmbomen II (ay) y en josh burke. pero sobre todo en muchas páginas, sellos y mixtapes que me hacen feliz: toys and tecniques (todos los mixtapes que ha ido subiendo a lo largo de los años están aquí, actualizados), voices of the silence, russian mind, dispokino (ojo a su sección 'tv ident of the month'), pattern & shape, a sound awareness, luzzzalig, waxwing arts, edições cn, gift tapes, the growing bin, pontone (spectral cassettes), dublab, the sum of your life, tabs out cassette podcast, continuo, y tantas y tantas. pelos de punta cuando escucho la sintonía de Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan & Pt. Ravi Shankar. gracias a Mark de unearthed in the atomic attic por regalarnos 'song of india' cuando ya casi había desfallecido... y gracias también a Kathleen por compartir las canciones de 'buru', el nuevo disco de Tropical Rock junto a Camilla Padgitt-Coles. imposible desligarlas de las imágenes: esa ranita durmiente... chin chin!

fotos: kaśka maniak & cynthia wood

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