tuluum shimmering / the exhalers

 tuluum shimmering ~ space is the place / prince of peace (branch tapes, 2015)

"reissue of 2 cdrs previously issued separately by artist. several years back Jake (Tuluum Shimmering) offered to send recordings out to those who sent him something in the mail. I went ahead and sent some things and in return got an amazing box back several weeks later. Included were these two discs. two single track long pieces that just blew me away and continue to blow me away to this day. over the years the discs Ive owned have become worn or almost lost in the chaos and the need to have these recordings given a second life, especially on a physical format became important in my mind. Tuluum Shimmering recordings always seems to head towards somewhere very sacred and these two recordings are some of the strongest journeys for me. much thanks for the chance to release this." josh/ tomentosa

'la música de tuluum shimmering parece dirigirse siempre hacia un lugar muy sagrado, y estas dos grabaciones son, para mí,  dos de sus viajes más poderosos. muchas gracias por darme la oportunidad de reeditarlas."

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 the exhalers ~ bay of light, frases de entretanto (branch tapes, 2015)

"I sat on my stoop at dusk last night remarking on the loss of the divine. how the landscape in front of me now so heavily civilized, felt razed and distant. within moments the landscape shifted and the power lines and buildings seeped into the background and muted as the landscape exerted it’s true continuous nature that I had just been unable to see. these recording seem to bridge that gap; expressing that which is razed but also paying homage to something greater that runs beneath it all. there’s a piece on the second side that took me many listens to even hear, to really listen and have set in to my conscious to the point of it being my most favorite part of the tape. It was always there but only the shift of my own perspective brought about true appreciation. the artwork, dubbing and putting together of this tape went from deliberate ideas to something that existed beyond my immediate vision; something that brought me out of the sky and down to the point where the sea laps at your feet and the landscape folds out behind your back strong but ebbing at the shore. many thanks for the chance to release this." josh/tomentosa

algo me dice que la canción a la que se refiere josh es 'moonshine tale'. demasiado especial para describirla, tan sólo las palabras de josh. pura melancolía.

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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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state of constant levitation ~ happy birthday

 va ~ state of constant levitation (calm in trees, noviembre 2013)

01 in passing ~ former selves | in passing (hi shadow, 2013)
02 underwater calm ~ x.y.r. | big calm (singapore sling tapes, 2013)
03 side a ~ doritos cool ranch 1986 | highest mountain in the universe (bergenost, 2013)
04 II ~ melanie velarde | laS (temporary archives, 2013)
05 side a ~ of the dreams and ambitions | s/t (inspired school of astral music, 2011)
06 interlude ~ julian lynch | mare (olde english spelling bee, 2010)
07 hosshin side b ~ the original flowering earth | hosshin (cave recordings, 2013)
08 pulse ~ the dept. of harmonic integrity | in deck & depth, a whim, a weft (beest, 2013)
09 palmetto rose II ~ cenote glow | palmetto rose (worn habit, 2013)
10 1 minute 38 seconds for loren connors ~ valerio cosi | s/t (home sweet home, 2013)
11 life line ~ journey of mind | soma string (field studies, 2013)
12 lacuna lagoon ~ tidal | split w/ inner city (sunk series, 2013)
13 white hymn 11 ~ infinite body | white hymn (not today, 2007)
14 martin denny in spain ~ tom recchion | lafms: lowest... (cortical foundation, 1996)
15 dreams of ireland ~ white poppy | s&s dreams (stadiums & shrines, 2013)
16 autorretrato... ~ karolos wojtylas in the night | empty church (salvador rec, 2013)
17 baby buddha ~ orphan fairytale | 7" split w/ dolphinsintothefuture (slowboy, 2013)
18 inter alia ~ venn rain | diamond dust (fadeaway tapes, 2012)
19 hyper kali ~ råd kjetil senza testa | of the augmented... (zeon light kassette, 2013)
20  i can't stop taking ~ golden donna | split w/ floating gardens (field studies, 2013)
21 phantasia ~ floating gardens | split w/ golden donna (field studies, 2013)
22 babylon weeping willow ~ gora sou | music for girls (further, 2013)
23 #15 ~ happy trendy | for trial listening (carpi, 2013)
24 hopeless tropicalia ~ magnétophonique | unreleased song (2013)
25 drinking the seabloom ~ komodo haunts | coming soon on cooper cult (2013)

26 stream entrant ~ kyle landstra | the illusion of becoming (field studies, 2013)
27 center of light ~ ecstatic cosmic union | xcu (eiderdown, 2013)
28 good slowly night ~ strmlnd | unreleased song (2012)
29 side a, part II ~ terminals | terminals (vaald, 2013)
30 untitled ~ 1958-2009 | II (ekhein, 2010)
31 derelictdollhouse ~ sleep ∞ over | unreleased track (2012)
32 christmas angels ~ jonas frederiksen | angel takeaway (relax with nature, 2010)
33 mistycoded aura ~ ala vjiior | split w/ twin polygamists (no kings, 2011)
34 floating island ~ sean gadoury | floating island punches vol. 1 (cloud valley, 2010)
35 imitation of life side a ~ pierrot lunaire | imitation of life (space slave, 2013)
36 untitled ~ criminals | coral blade grotto (midnight star media, 2010)
37 underwater ~ eric vann | waterworld (coloursound library, 1982)
38 fountain of youth ~ wave temples | in the shade of the island (dept tapes, 2013)
39 bucolica ~ the house in the woods | bucolica (exotic pylon, 2013)
40 gatefold ~ sky stadium | split w/ potions (lillerne tapes, 2012)
41 passion I ~ josh burke | passion (self-released, 2009) 
42 amethyst moors ~ difference clouds | shiro (tranquility tapes, 2012)
43 arrastrado ~ jccg | eje (dept tapes, 2013)
44 cielo blanco eterno ~ bear bones, lay low | occultciti (smelktop, 2013)
45 kaikki loppunu ~ molnbär av john | 7'' split w/ milan warmoeskerken (IIIW, 2013)
46 stereo mcs ~ the afternoon exchange | s/t (digitalis, 2013)
47 decisions part II ~ hecia | split w/ leopold (birkhouse, 2013)
48 under the surface ~ gouriet/phillips | atmospheric/sea water (chappell, 1986)
49 cirkelsegment ~dsr lines | venndiagram (smelktop, 2013)
50 i'm a dreamer ~ josephine foster | i'm a dreamer (fire, 2013)

fotos: natalie podaima & carmen marchena

chin chin! hoy microphones cumple ocho años. a pesar de las ausencias, de los cambios y cierta evolución natural, me siento agradecida por muchas cosas, entre ellas las aportaciones, por poquito o mucho que sea, de rafa, mar, adrián, dani, salvador y el nejo, y de fran, un nuevo tree people que es un regalo y un lujo para mí ~decir gracias a estas palabras se queda demasiado corto:). ocho, número infinito y par, algo que para una maniática de los números redondos y pares como yo es la guinda perfecta para celebrarlo.

...y qué complicado es a veces decidirse. sólo unos pequeños detalles son clave para que una canción sea un poco más especial que otra. claro, hay tantas canciones y tantos detalles clave que al final mis recopilatorios son casi infinitos. y aún así siempre se quedan demasiadas canciones bonitas fuera y las guardo para el siguiente. luego surgen muchas nuevas y aquellas que no pude incluir vuelven a quedarse para el siguiente y así compilado tras compilado...hasta que acaban amontonándose o perdiéndose. he aquí algunas de ellas, colisionando en perfecta harmonía con las que son novedades e incluso emocionantes y prometedores adelantos como 'underwater calm' de x.y.r. ~qué difícil también la decisión de incluirla en vez de 'on the beach (daydream)', que también es nueva y preciosa y que tanto me recuerda a nuestra 'calm in trees'. (aunque ante esto me quedo muda. la espera ha valido la pena :'). en fin, en estado de levitación constante, o de felicidad constante, ésa es la sensación cuando suenan las primeras notas de la que es ahora mismo la canción más bonita del mundo: 'in passing' de Former Selves (es fácil con Paul Skomsvold), Bill Doob en todas sus versiones, Jonas Frederiksen  en todas sus versiones. a veces bastaría hacer sólo recopilatorios, en mi corazón, la verdadera razón de ser de este blog. a veces me parece imposible hacer un recopilatorio sin una canción de Günter Schlienz, Miaux o Panabrite, pero entonces sería el bucle, un déjà vu eterno. incluso a veces bastaría hacer un recopilatorio sólo con canciones de Josh Burke y sus hipnóticas ramificaciones. lo que sí, tengo que dar las gracias a Aritza Land por recordarme lo bonita que sigue siendo 'i'm appealing' de Town and Country, a Sean Gadoury por ser tan amable y rescatar para nosotros la misteriosa e inencontrable 'floating island' (única colaboración con su mujer Caitlin Eady) y una vez más a todos esos mixtapes-clima-de otro mundo en los que siempre encuentro inspiración, como los de Mika Pérez, Brad Barry, Toys and Techniques (piel de gallina con su homenaje a Trish Keenan), Eric Hanss, Voice of the Garden,  Brad 'jewelled' Rose, Stadiums & Shrines o Jimmy Billingham (la perfección).

 ¡chin chin!

frase infinita

 frase infinita ~ trilho da nascente / trilho do poente (exo tapes, 2013)

~ dois temas circunstanciais diluídos pela colisão  

num rascunho mal apagado

debaixo de uma Estrela Assombrada ~

más cosas bonitas de João (The Exhalers, jccg), field recordings que sin parecerse (sin piano, sin música que no sea la que emiten los pajaritos, ranas...parecen casi orquestados!) me recuerda a 'music from the guardhouse: a play for magnetic tape recorder' de lieven martens moana. una sinfonía de miles de sonidos animalescos no identificados que es la naturaleza en ebullición. algunos fueron grabados en una pequeña isla desierta en Mondego ~a la que João llama Berlenga~ otros en un bosque detrás del mar y otros pertenecen a unas viejas cintas de cassette de su tío en África. me encantan los búhos cantarines del final...

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jccg

 jccg ~ eje (dep tapes, 2013)

"JCCG is a musician from Portugal who makes songs that sound bashed up but full of love. They're scraps, really ~ slivers of decaying guitar playing, slices of jam sessions. but boy, do they sting. like memories when the form and facts have fallen away and just the emotion remains. I've gone on about him many times before. He's got a new tape coming out on Mexican label Department Tapes. It's called 'Eje', which means axis in Spanish, and you can listen to the title track here via this slo-mo video of a kid playing hula hoop. there's something super-compressed New Order-y about it, which is obviously a plus." dummy

hay tres sellos que últimamente me hacen muy muy feliz, carpi, rainbow cult y department tapes, francia, florida y méxico, lo diminuto y lo entrañable en orgánicas e hipnagógicas dosis. esos sellos que transmiten seguridad por el estilo tan concreto, por el aura tan especial que desprenden y que parece que van a existir siempre ofreciendo deliciosas cintas mágicas. department tapes acaba de editar a jccg, terlu, wave temples, dolphin tears, indias, indios y uton. ¡seis! no hay palabras para tantas cintas favoritas en una misma hornada. todo está unido, porque todas tienen en común ese sonido orgánico, contemplativo, relajante, onírico y lo-fi que me encanta. hace poco caía rendida con rainbow cult, sello que acaba de empezar y que también parece leerte la mente: editan justo lo que querrías, musical y estéticamente, ver editado (poco a poco espero poder ir dejando en el blog algunas cosas de rainbow cult y carpi).

'eje' de jccg ~ nuestro querido, fiel y casi invisible joão costa gonçalves de the exhalers y artífice de exo tapes, ~ suena como una perfecta cinta de department tapes pasada por los filtros de la nostalgia del verano: acordes sencillos y efectos, suaves melodías que no llegan nunca a explotar sino que se diluyen sin liberarse en bucles y texturas preciosas. un sueño de verano, como la foto de su perfil de last fm, joão apoyado en la barandilla de un barco, cruzando de tarifa a ceuta o tal vez rumbo a una isla secreta. no hay guitarra en el mundo que suene así de bonita: abduce y es abducida por el clima siempre acuático y ensoñador y vuelve a ser el más apreciable argumento de nueve sugerentes, pacientes y despejadas tonadillas bucólicas que me recuerdan a un mark mcguire adormecido y casi grogui en una jam sin fin. o incluso, de refilón y salvando las muchísimas distancias, a the cure en la canción '6'. pero, con permiso de 'wending&wandering', 'eixo', 'rare twee', 'splash clash tempo', days of days' hechiza casi la que más con una melodía soleada, jovial y fluorescente, tan agradable y evocadora que me quedo muda.

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the exhalers

 the exhalers ~ dive hard (exo tapes, 2012)

"Portugal's João (aka Mediafired, jccg, and Sofa Pits) returns with a new track from his delphinidae-inspired project, The Exhalers. according to João, 'Pearls and Shells' is 'again a little narrative through the eyes of a dolphin and its relationships, in which basic emotions/affections are expressed in that fluffy, spontaneous, mammal way.' It's hard to beat that description, as it's just so easy to imagine this winding, mercurial piece as a backing track (or cosmic conversation?) within the daily adventures of our four-lobed brained friends. the heavily effected tones of the casio ctk-495 also add an appealing element of simplicity that make it all easier for our own two-lobed brains to calm the fuck down for a minute. meditation aid? yes, definitely. 

this track will serve as the finale of a new musical 'trilogy' entitled Dive Hard. check out trailer for that here. we're excited to see how this semi-narrative, sonic experience takes shape, but in the meantime, take a moment to let this track wrap your head in digital ring bubbles and carry it off to who knows where." international tapes

foto: emir ozsahin

sold out 

pearls and shells 

 look who's back!~missed you so much

the view from here

01 standing mandala ~ oren ambarchi & robin fox | connected (kranky 2012)
02 sea channels ~ colored mushroom  | sea channels (wagon 2010)
03 figure 1 ~ suaves figures  | nouveaux gymnastes (sangoplasmo 2012)
04 music to sleep walk on by ~ andrew pekler | sentimental favourites (dekorder 2011)
05. land ~ pulsating in the eye and vision |  family (sloow tapes 2007)
06 kuxan suum ~ enumclaw | inscriptions vol. 2 (sacred phrases 2012)
07 oneness ~ kyle landstra | look inward (db tapes 2012)
08 untitled # 4 ~ virtually underwater | s/t (inspired school os astral music 2011) 
09 everything in opposition ~ former selves | upcoming cd-r (teal fx 2012)
10 port of call ~ autistic argonauts | lunar jams for tom carter (feathered coyote 2012)
11 coconut hut ~ sunhiilow | split w/ baldruin (sicsic tapes 2012)
12 lucid realm I ~ inspired school of a.m. | celestrial stairway (psychic sounds 2012) 

13 æonian ~ so. lung | s/t (calypso hum 2010)

14 alien abduction ~ runawei |  abduction (digitalis ltd. 2012)
15 untitled # 7 ~ kane pour | cat on a paisley shawl (housecraft 2009)
16 interpretations of daily routes crusin ~ rag lore | vol. 1 (poor farm 2012) 
17 sackgasse ~ baldruin | nachtfalter (brave mysteries 2012)
18 shapeless tathagata ~ talk west | old wired fault (scissor tail 2012)
19 ff.prelude.midi ~ difference clouds | new weird asheville (swamping 2012)
20 orinoco ~ venn rain | split w/ past utopia (goldtimers tapes 2012)
21 surface ~ the aloha spirit | split w/ matt northrup (space slave editions 2012)
22 beau vallon ~ panabrite | seychelles (field studies 2012)
23 hallorann-a revo ~ robert aiki aubrey lowe | unreleased (not on label 2012)
24 convergent boundary ~ guyute | split w/ evelyn war (early mourning 2009)
25 keynes utopia IV~ soothsayer | keynes utopia (no kings 2012)
26 drug song ~ dave bixby | ode to quetzalcoatl (not on label 1969)

01 chapter III ~ guenter schlienz | through music to the self (gift tapes 2012)
02 floral fantasy fern ~ floating gardens | split w/ quicksails (field studies 2011)
03 cirrus ~ gaston borreani | rêve abyssal (editions montparnasse 1972) 
04 circles ~ cults percussion ensemble (highland recording studio/trunk 1979)
05 reruns ~ booze candy | peninsula (self-released 2011)
06 keep cool ~ les halles | split w/ magnétophonique (carpi 2012)
07 days of days ~ jccg | unreleased song (not on label 2012) 
08 i panema ~ je suis le petit chevalier | pannacotta (stunned 2011)
09 in him is no sin ~ brethren of the free spirit | all things... (audiomer 2008)
10 rhapsody in green ~ mort garson | mother earth's plantasia (homewood 1976)
11 brumes sur mars ~ roger davy | patchwork orchestra 5 (disques magellan 1972)
12 musique pour venus ~ hobo cubes | ciel optique (905 tapes 2012)
13 gossamer web ~ herbcraft | lunar jams for tom carter (feathered coyote 2012)
14 song for hyperion ~ inez lighfoot | three weaving at the well (biological radio 2012)
15 untitled b ~ western standards | the siren (sweat lodge guru 2012)
16 guided imagery ~ former selves | goldrush II companion tape (goldrush 2012)
17 snap sail ~ todd dockstader | electronic vol 1 (boosey & hawkes 1979)
18 siren shallows ~ iasos | inter-dimensional music (rotifer 2010)
19 myna bird ~ eden ahbez | eden's island, music of an enchanted isle (del-fi 1960)
20 prélude aux voiliers ~ gaston borreani | rêve abyssal (e. montparnasse 1972)
21 twin reflections ~ grapefruit | twin reflections (sloow tapes 2012)
22 bubbles to miles ~ the exhalers | wave reader II.o (exo tapes 2012)
23 astral interlude #1 ~ branches | alto astral (self-released 2010) 
24 yesterday's entertainment ~ pye corner audio | sleep games (ghost box 2012)
25 sparkling dreams ~ sunhiilow | from there to here (om ha sva ha ksha 2012)
26 moon daples (sunset) ~ élément kuuda | air rings vol. 3 (digitalis ltd 2012)
27 samba de verão ~ walter wanderly | rain forest (verve 1966)
28 homesick kid ~ compton & batteau | in california (columbia 1971)

dibujo y foto: hans malmberg & ché parker

 

hoy microphones cumple siete años y para celebrarlo, dos compilados como dos soles con muchas canciones nuevas y tesoros rescatados del pasado... bajo el mar y en las alturas ¡chin chin microphones in the waves!

p.d. gracias infinitas a paul skomsvold por cedernos la preciosa 'everything in opposition', adelanto del que será el nuevo disco de former selves en teal fx

download part I ~ download part II