The one top left is 景 by 光淵 (Pool Of Light).
The other three are ITANGEON’s Summer Solstice bundle.
A quiet happy morning.
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I discovered this a few months ago, and only just got around to picking it up. It is nine improvised soundscapes with no edits. It is, as you may imagine from the title, like listening to someone paint the sky. There are raw, rumbling textures that are very nearly the sound of the pigment against the tooth of the paper. MORPHING CLOUDS is a good place to be tonight.
The other Laraaji record I wanted on physical, the superb collaboration with Blues Control, arrived. It’s worth it for “Freeflow” alone.
The one below is what I’m listening to right now. It’s a space between certain musics and methods. A couple of different generations of ambient styles, traditional and classical musics, early instruments and digital futures. It’s calm and explorational. I want to live inside it for the rest of the day.
The FRKWYS series has been inspirational.
yes i’m a writer who talks about music all the time deal with it
My vision is so fucked up today I have no idea if this photo is blurry or not:
The øjeRum, WITHOUT BLOOD THE SUN DARKENS, is an hour-long landscape-soundscape, and it’s helping.
The MUUR, entitled BOD, is also an hour long, and is far more like listening into a weird ritual under a mystery cult temple. One for late nights when I’m trying to think.
Both available through Cyclic Law.
What we have here this morning is the complete works of Christina Vantzou sans the remix collections. All available via her Bandcamp page, where you can also stream them all and decide for yourself that she’s a genius. Oops, guess I just decided that for you. Oh well.
A sample, from NO. 4.
It’s been fully The Week From Hell over here, but this turned up this morning and improved things no end:
It’s a CD and 44-page book, from Aurota Borealis Recordings here in Britain. Link. “A concept compilation based on the invasion of the moon 50 years ago on 20th July 1969.”
Like I wasn’t going to buy a record with Hawthonn and Anji Cheung on it. No brainer. It is, as I expected, towering and rippling with the power of the lunar and numinous. I am delighted, and recommend it to you.
Been a big fan since his CASSINI/TRAPPIST-1 last year, discovered his recent THE BIG CHILL was on CD, grabbed it while I could. You can find his output at thelastambienthero.com . It’s all very good. I note now that this photo is not very good. Oh well.
I am way behind on logging these for myself and starting to forget things. Very bad.
If you didn’t buy CALIGULA by LINGUA IGNOTA this month then you are doing it wrong.
It’s a hell of an experience. Hope to write a bit more about it soon.
Almost all the Laraaji stuff I immediately thought I needed to own in permanent editions. The collab he did with Blues Control is still in the post.
Love this simple, tasteful packaging.
Necessary.
So I ordered a CD bundle from Black Mara Records. If you’re reading this on the Instagram pass-through, you’re going to want to click over to warrenellis . ltd for this. It arrived today. It needed to be documented in full.
That describes them well enough. One of the things I have always loved about the internet is being able to listen to music from everywhere. Anyway, this big package arrived.
This all seems normal, right? Beautiful CDs.
Some large CD packs. This is fine. I have many outside CD cases. They’ll fit right next to the big Phurpa pak.
Some handmade stuff is emerging with the handmade CD sleeves. It occurs to me that this may be a spell.
This is lovely.
It’s a box, yes.
what is happening
The little cake is a candle.
This is a book.
So is this.
Beautifully wrapped in fabric, both of them, as you can see, along with another pendant. I actually wear pendants – my usual wear is a slice of the ayahuasca vine, brought back for me from the Peruvian jungle. Now I have several more to choose from every day, all evidently from several parts of Russia.
If you’re curious, it’s this bundle here, I think. I suspect the individual objects will vary from package to package.
I’d already had a few deliveries this morning that delighted me, but this was something else entirely. Thank you, Black Mara. I am amazed.