Circle Of Celebration is a collaboration between composer Christopher Bono’s NOUS ensemble, and sound healing musicians Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda. “Spending time in the company of Circle of Celebration is a transcendent experience. The album has a warm, enveloping tonality that forces deep and uplifting contemplation.”
Suzanne Ciani is a an electronic music pioneer, whose work has also been featured in films, games, and commercials. “Voices Of Packaged Souls is a limited edition LP produced by Ciani in collaboration with artist Harold Paris for his exhibition at the Galerie Withofs in Brussels in 1970. … Ciani produced this, her first album, at radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where she was given access to the tape machines from midnight until 6am gratis.”
Based in Rome, Italy, “Mike Cooper has traced a path completely his own for the past 60 years as an international musical explorer, lap steel guitarist, singer, improviser and composer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. stretching the possibilities of the guitar with an eclectic mix of the many styles he has practiced over the years.” He plays electric lap steel guitar, acoustic Brazilian viola ciapira and virtual pedal steel guitar, double bass, koto, strings, percussion and drums.
“Moodoïd is the brainchild of Pablo Padovani, a songwriter, musician and film director in Paris." This is their debut album, featuring Melody’s Echo Chamber, Didier Malherbe (from Gong) and Riff Cohen.
“In a truly global venture, this album first began to take shape in Tenzin’s home studio in Brisbane, Australia, taking inspiration from his own Buddhist practice. It was shared and shaped with an international cast of talented collaborators and recorded in studios in Canada, UK, Japan and Australia. With each track Tenzin draws on his nomadic roots, skilfully blending elements of eastern and western music, while always holding his Tibetan lineage. The result is a deeply immersive album of hauntingly beautiful melodies and evocative lyrics.”
"Leipzig’s Gunnar Wendel, better known as Kassem Mosse, abandons his house music background for thorny synthesizer sketches—fistfuls of gurgle and ping, sometimes beatless, and maddeningly absorbing." -- Pitchfork
About this poem: “I started this poem at the beginning of the pandemic. ... I could not help but make the correlation between the inability to take in breath—a symptom of COVID-19 and the loss of breath at the hands of the police—a reality of being Black in America. This was before we knew that this virus would take us in such higher numbers compared to white folks. This was before George Floyd and all that has happened and continues to happen and will continue to happen as we try to get free.” —Yesenia Montilla
"This is an abridged version of a broadcast made in the summer of 1989 from WRUV-FM, Burlington, VT in a fit of youthful over-exuberance. It was made from old educational filmstrip soundtracks, pilfered science documentaries, book readings and various records. Ingram Marshall, Holst, Skinny Puppy, Ray Lynch, Sun Ra, Ultimate Spinach, Dead Can Dance, Laurie Anderson, Z'ev, The Residents, Ry Cooder, John Holland, Time-Life books, Niven & Pournelle, the CBC, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the BBC Sound Effects Library (including a lot of vintage Dr Who sounds) were all gleefully taken and mangled. This is not an entirely original piece and is not pretending to be. This is an attempt at making an entertaining late night college (collage) radio show in the form of a parody of the 1970s educational programing I grew up with."
Recorded in 2016 and released as a single in 2020, "Instant Transcendent Conjecture is a cryptic suggestion into the realization of the poem as a springing into nature. Through the haze of chemical assault, the spring springs by any means necessary. Earth prayers are in action. Transcendence through understanding, and through sacrifice :: we are here in community service to a garden named Heaven."
"All Becomes Indistict" is the second full-length album from Chris Trull and Danny Piechocki. "Terms, arriving by way of Tampa Bay, Florida and St. Louis, Missouri, surfaced during the pandemic as a socially distanced band - dealing in dissonance, atonality and the unknown."
"Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016.... Half Alive is a compilation album by Suicide, originally released on cassette only in 1981. It is composed of live recordings from 1978 and home and studio demos recorded between 1974 and 1979."
