microphones in the trees: corum
Showing posts with label corum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corum. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2020

~ interstellar communications ~



"Timelash is the freshly erupted synthesizer & SFX duet of Embassador Dulgoon (Nonlocal Research) and Corum (Psychic Sounds / Million Brazilians). Together they reveal new sound forms by playing with primeval motifs contrasted sharply against unfolding futuristic developments. The result is a simultaneous listening experience of ancient and alien settings told through their unique rhythm of language by mood-driven atmospheres, exotic tones, and electrifying sci-fi Cumbia jolt." ~ hareakedod 

Even though the labels description gives away pretty much everything you need to know about the cassette, it also worth mentioning if you're still not a fan of both Embassador Dulgoon and Grant Corum, then this collab is a perfect entry point to a prolific output of both channellers of the alien wisdom. Just google their bandcamp pages and take a nice trip into holographic juxtaposition of archaic rituals, sacred geometry, modern technologies to proceed into psychedelic exploration and further development of the human race. Of course, you may talk to some McKenna or Leary entities along the way, probably visit Pleiades and receive some cryptic messages from Sirius star system ~ and definitely will be seeing more signs and repeating numbers ever since. But don't rush to the pyramids to meet your higher-density brothers, first you need to realize that due to the holographic nature of the Universe you are the pyramid (to some degree) and you are the spirit molecule (on a certain level) and many, many other things, including this very cassette. The fact that you're reading this (yes, this) and listening to these tunes is not a coincidence. There are no such things. Only patterns, and you'll see some in this music as well.  Watch closely, while the the portal is open.


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"This is shamane's first project in a series of healing albums. This music can be used for healing, meditation, reiki, or balancing chakras. Thank you so much for listening to it and i hope that it will give you guidance in your healing / meditation practice. Thank you for the love you give to the music that returns in infinite permutations. Thank you so much for the love in the music. Thank you so much" ~ shamane

One of the recent transmissions from the outlandish body of work by popular culture's shamane is a good entry point to his multi-faceted acid-warped world if you're mostly an ambient fan but don't mind discovering yourself enjoying heavy trap beats drowned in a perfectly zoned-out pools of vivid synths and half-cetacean / half-alien / half-pixie rapping over it all. Oh, wait it's three halfs, how is that even possible... well, here it is. Okay, on this very album it's all subdued into astral plane and all mostly just aftersounds of what shamane music can be, but believe me, this medicine can make you just a little bit prepared to anything else which can be heard on that bandcamp page. Yet even if you go no further, that short ambient work is perfect enough on its own. Gnomes playing flutes from a window of a flying saucer hanging over the crystal clear lake full of glowing fish... Just a glimpse, there's much more. Oh, and if you happen to know any cetacean language, that's an advantage!


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 ~ rejoice, people of planet earth! ~ pleiadian starships are coming ~ all starseeds are prepared ~ it's time for the transition ~ gpds

Next chapter of our journey leads us deeper into far out zones of the New Age mythology, where it was tightly merged with UFO cults and conspiracy theories... well, probably since the very beginning. Channelled wisdom of our space brothers and sisters radiates here through the short vignettes of hazy media taken off instructional tapes, home videos of UFO enthusiasts and new age apostles but also constantly gets interrupted with advertisements, creepy documentaries, news reports, weather channel muzak... Which obviously simulates an experience of watching the TV at some late hours and randomly browsing the channels ~ and all of them for some reason are UFO and New Age themed... Maybe that's just California in the 90s where Unarius Academy and Heaven's Gate are on the same street? Or it's some parallel (yet pretty close) universe, where society got into all that stuff much deeply? Maybe it's already ruled by Pleiadians in peace and harmony now, after their promised arrival in 2012? While our timeline is lingering in this absurd post-capitalist agony... Who knows, who knows. One may wonder. And wander ~ preferably in space.

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star searchers ~ avatar blue (pacific city sound visions, 2020)

"A 30 Track 2 hour plus dive into our parallel hidden Earth Ocean World using the Previsual approach of Movie Making FX digested into a musical language that approaches the identity of the Swimming Motions of Earth's Aquatic Life." ~ pacific city


Okay, dear follower ~ if you got that far, then you must be ready for the next initiation stage. Of course, you must've been by now aknowledged with the teachings of the great starseed master Spencer Clark and his extensive exploration of the higher density worlds, starting from tropical utopias and hellish media entities ~ and now entering the watery realm of the Avatar Blue. Obviously rooted in the studies of our planet's hydrosphere and its meta-language, the waveforms on this document should be used carefully in order to operate harmoniously in the higher dimensional hierarchy. Technologies the neophite must perfect in order to proceed to the avatar realm, include sacred geometry classes, Atlantean channelings and meditation techniques, stable telepathic connection with cetaceans, and, of course, fully activated lightdobies. Exceptional bliss and epiphany awaits those who enter fully prepared. I'll say no more from now, the path is yours.

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Monday, November 18, 2013

million brazilians


Million Brazilians entran en el catálogo de Moon Glyph definitivamente después de entregar un aporte en la recopilación del sello "Opal vol.I & II" el año pasado. El universo de Corum (aunque no tengo más información acerca de quién/es se esconde/n tras este proyecto de Portland) desarrollado en este nuevo trabajo titulado "Wet Dry Jungala" consigue reunir muchas de mis fijaciones y pasiones dentro del terreno psicodélico que se nutre de referentes exóticos y cósmica dub para tejer el sonido de sus composiciones. Muestra de la búsqueda de estos tesoros y referentes culturales desde la perspectiva de un norteamericano sondeando las peculiaridades culturales de otras culturas ajenas se puede observar en las diferentes sesiones colgadas en su web "planes of corum". Como fruto de toda esta investigación y las referencias del sello Psychic Sound Recordings, podemos ir estrechando el círculo que nos conduce de manera hipnótica y subyugante por las nueve composiciones de este disco.

El recorrido marca un recorrido espiritual por diferentes culturas pero no deja que se caiga en el puro trance o una mirada bohemia relajada de dudoso gusto. La precisión rítmica y chamanista, de ritual ocultista enfrentado ante referentes diversos de psicodelia nos situa en claroscuros que conocemos en nuestro viaje al colocarse de manera natural entre los páramos de High Wolf, Peaking Lights, Roberto Musci, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Herbcraft e incluso podría decir que en la parte menos dramática de Ghédalia Tazartès en sus exploraciones de la cultura india, las percusiones lunares de Sun Ra y el sentido de extravagancia de Moondog. "Untitled I", abre el viaje con la percusión en primer plano y dejando que el sentido primitivo se afile para conducirnos dentro del aquelarre que después va buscando diferentes puntos de apoyo como el pulso de Sun Araw, Leven Signs, Pocahaunted y los Peaking Lights de "Imaginary Falcons" (en realidad estoy redundando en referencias que hablan de igual manera del catálogo de Moon Glyph o Not Not Fun) con "Untitled II", aumentando la sensación de plegaria perdida entre la ventisca de una fría noche de otoño con esas melodías de banda sonora de película de suspense. Momentos de jazz espiritual que parecen encapsular la pureza de Mulatu Astatke y Getatchew Mekuria entre juguetonas melodías que apuntan directamente a la cósmica visión de terapia mental de Sun Ra.

En la parte central, se desarrollan los tres cortes más extensos del disco y que triangulan con mayor precisión las diferentes emociones deambulantes, como en "Untitled IV" que parece rescatar el espíritu del post-punk y me recuerda a Annie Anxiety Bandez en "Jackamo" o "Soul Possession, spoken words psicodélicos y más experimentales en la transmisión desorientada de "Untitled V" y la maravillosa joya de "Untitled VI" con una melodía de saxo lunar que te hace entrar en el Cairo de la mano de Salah Ragab y dejarte llevar por la percusión en una danza rodeado de cobras y reptiles que conecta con la marciana estampa de "Untitled VIII" con una rítmica que me recuerda a Dirty Beaches y melodías sonámbulas perdidas en el limbo. Disfrutar de "Wet Dry Jungala" es todo un placer sensorial.

"Million Brazilians sound like a corps not of this hemisphere, but one influenced by its discoveries via travel and/or scouring the deep web. Separated into nine untitled compositions, Wet Dry Jungala clings with a humidity mostly foreign to the North Americas. It’s not to be mistaken for the escapist brand of tropicalia - the sort that inspires relaxation and cabana service - but rather the hysteria of eight days in the desert, the spiritual exhaustion of following a shaman into a sweat lodge, and the endurance of trudging through a rainforest bog, swatting off mosquitos." moon glyph

Friday, October 04, 2013

corum


"star of wonder, star of night, star of royal beauty bright; Westward leading, still proceeding: guide me through my darkest night. guide me to the perfect light."

Corum: solo piano/ fountain music / post Guatemala

released in 2012 as tour only cassette in addition of 50 for Beguiling Isles Sundance Tour w/ 3 Moons Jefferson Zurna. released 09 April 2013

por fin tengo en mis manos esta cajita blanca e inmaculada, la segunda parte de aquel primer vinilo que era la banda sonora de un cortometraje hecho con imágenes de sus giras. aunque siempre me hago un lío con Lost Discoveries, Isoam y Sonic Meditations, sí puedo decir que Corum es Grant Corum de Million Brazilians y artífice de ese sello mágico llamado Psychic Sounds en el que el año pasado se había editado, al alimón con Isoam, uno de los discos más fascinantes habidos y por haber, Celestrial Stairway aka Bill Doob aka Inspired School of Astral Music. y claro, como Bill Doob, Corum también es de otro planeta. nunca las palabras orgánico, balsámico y submarino fueron tan tan merecidas. tal vez Clime, Journey of Mind, Valerio Cosi y todo lo que edita Taped Sounds y Worn habit. tal vez las cintas subterráneas de Vodka Soup y la definitiva conexión con los lugares inventados de Spencer Clark. las percusiones y ese saxo estratosférico que parece un remolino no pueden ser más dulces, las flautas, las trompetillas y los bongos camuflados bajo mullidísimas notas de sintetizador... todos esos colores y no colores. ¿hay algo más agradable en el mundo que lo que ocurre a partir del minuto 12:36 de la cara a?. detrás de estos sonidos exóticos y extraños, inmersos en mil imágenes tropicales borrosas, hay algo honesto, algo real que cuenta que toda la belleza del mundo se esconde en una isla cualquiera, en una mañana cualquiera. música que siempre será un respiro.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

still feeling the waves

va ~ still feeling the waves (calm in trees, agosto 2013)

01 departing & welcome to paradise island ~ heroin in tahiti
02 hypnotized by snowflakes ~ günter schlienz 
03 tears & sand ~ sunny dunes
04 ewe nyota zuhura ~ daniel katuga
05 through the frozen lava fields ~ bruce langhorne
06 winding road ~ sharron kraus
07 abyssal II ~ panabrite
08 vertical integration ~ steve moore
09 on the other side of silence ~ kevin greenspon
10 cryo ~ noseph janner
11 aurora ~ muffin
12 kyangabukama ~ calypso borealis
13 beguiling isles westward star side a ~ corum
14 keys to the inner island side b ~ wave temples
15 future person side a ~ cool person
16 solo flight ~ alan gesso
17 when i'm gone ~ white poppy
18 free sentient beings #2 ~ the rainbow body
19 embudo ~ marisa anderson
20 vaporware #7 ~ donato dozzy
21 and you be ~ ruth garbus
22 40 summers left ~ lace bows
23 tucana's light ~ sunhillow
24 santa cruz ~ cankun
25 silver tongues, soft whispers ~ peaking lights


26 water body ~ hobo cubes
27 night club ~ radio people
28 watercourse way ~ former selves
29 under the leaves ~ silver antlers
30 plaza ~ tadoma
31 labelled 'test 2' ~ barry trent
32 best friends ~ strange mountain
33 nachtwacht ~ hellvete
34 cattnip ~ cattnip
35 fedora ~ gora sou
36 why have i become so blue? ~ possible shapes
37 theme V ~ rameses III
38 corrina  ~ ralph white
39 shilela ~ hailu mergia & his classical instrument 
40 sun comes up ~ avocados
41 índices ~ monte
42 wending & wandering ~ jccg
43 egyptian sports network ~ egyptian sports network
44 typhonian highlife ~ monopoly child star searchers 
45 fungi ~ puerta del sol
46 good girl ~ the fractal skulls
47 first vision ~ günter schlienz
48 drifters gold ~ white poppy
49 a sound ~ molly drake
50 fleur de corail ~ john taaroa & his hawaiian guitars


gracias infinitas a Félicia por sweet august playlist, todo inspiración. 'ewe nyota zuhura'...mmmm. y septiembre, a la vuelta de la esquina.

Friday, October 19, 2012

inspired school of astral music


"the music on this cassette is recommended to be used in conjunction with a Light Excluding Mask (LEM) and experienced with headphones on in a tranquil environment. journey beyond forced reality to your inner mind space and explore it. pay attention to what you encounter. this cassette is a tool to help you enter your personal Enhanced Lucid Realm (ELR). there are no restrictions to what you can achieve." isam

"the source of all music is universal. the realms of astral music are manifold; a natural hierarchy exists organically."



"good for you, Stalker Recall & Inspired School of Astral Music, to not have a web presence. hard for you, fan of alien drone, to procure a copy of this I’m sure. slow descent of UFOs onto the burning front lawns of isolated farmers, crews of loggers returning from work or wave-drunk sea captains. Stalker Recall flow out like a smoother-sounding version of Telecult Powers, the sound is more coalesced, but heavily rooted in the bubbles between oscillations. totally worth the buy if you can find it, but it sounds like something your astral spirit may have to procure." foxy digitalis



"split release with Psychic Sounds. Birthed as Bill Doob, Inspired School of Astral Music is Sam Jones of Million Brazilians, who also played drums in a few Kansas City bands before departing for Portland a few years ago. the synth-driven solo project of Jones' captures minimal synth explorations in the tradition of Brian Eno's "Ambient" series, early New Age explorer's and moments of Terry Riley's tape loop melodies. more of a conceptual project that also features essays with each release and concentrating on deep meditation and out-of-body experiences, ISAM will surely bring the calm, float your brain and drift your body." psychic sounds


"dreams of the void
diverging from a path
where we can find another way"

recorded by bill doob.
insired school of astral music
lucidity phase temple trilogy

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

corum


"Psychic Sounds is very pleased to announce the highly anticipated release of Corum's exotic trance score for his touring short film Beguiling Isles: Born of Earth's Torments.  Beautiful melodies waft in and out of your consciousness like a humid island ether. It's a travelogue, hypnotizing and also lulling. It's easy to fall under Corum's island spells producing sweaty aural excitement and imagining the "Specter of Polar Reversal", as described in the liner notes, twinkling it's eye before the volcanic explosion of horns, drums and keys lay down a lush rush of eerie tropical groove." psychic sounds


"This outfit has a distinctive middle-eastern flair, occupying the Interzone, known to play with dream machine, this time they had projections of burning incense, a cloaked figure. Jefferson played clarinet with delay, White Gourd sax and the same, with Corum laying down a Marrakesh flea-market beat, crunchy distorted tape beats, like Muslim Gauze in his prime. They brought the root down stomp, swaying like cobra charmers. The room was as full as i'd ever seen it, everyone was mesmerized. The group consciousness rayed and sparked like Quicksilver spray, and i was reminded, with fresh eyes" j's heaven

son (es) de Oregon, pero a Corum me lo imagino viviendo en un paraíso de palmeras y aguas cristalinas. así suena este precioso vinilo color turquesa incatalogable y exótico, como casi todo los tesoros que esconde el misterioso sello psychic sound recordings: Million Brazillians, grupo en el que también colabora Corum, Celestrial Starway o el extraterrestre Bill Doob. Beguiling Islands es de este año pero podría ser otro de esos vinilos desempolvados de la biblioteca de Lunar Atrium, tan onírico, alucinado y difícil de situar en el tiempo. imposible no enamorarse, aunque sea por acto reflejo, sólo con ver los títulos y escuchar dos segundos de la cara a, pero es que una vez que te sumerges hay tanto y tan bonito... órganos y cánticos tribales afines a la locura desbocada de Sylvester Anfang, Pierrot Lunaire y Valerio Cosi, percusiones, sintetizadores y guitarras planeadoras que recuerdan a Emeralds, a Cetacean Nation, a unos Monopoly Child Star Searchers arabizados, saxos estratosféricos y flautillas con un poder de atracción que ya quisiera para sí el flautista de Hammelin, groove, psicodelia, hipnagogia... que en directo suena así de bien