An ambient new years mixtape recorded live with a technics tape machine from 1978 & a simple lenco record player setup. Write me for tracklist. Photo taken in Blankenfelde.
feat.tracks & pieces by
records: pauline oliveiros, kevin mc corrnick, david horridge, svitllana nianio, ash ra temple, finis africai, nick schonfield, miguel a ruiz, chen ming chang
tapes: tangerine dream, bitchin bajas, jiyeon kim, iguana moonlight, ssaliva, lieven martins moana, daniel emmanuel, casino hearts
Here’s a new fantastic compilation by Efficient Space. Similar to the former selections Sky Girl and Ghostriders, you’ll find hardly known tracks raging from 1934 Schubert piano ballad versions to recent folk songs by European artists. One Highlight is the meditative 8 Minutes track Rainwater from Taiwanese Chan Ming Chang on side B.
Second LP comes from Tompkins Square, whose 12th issue of their imaginational anthem series is a tribute to Micael Chapman, who unfortunately died in 2021. Raging from 1970s Yorkshire loner folk by Henry Parker or Holly Blackshaw to 2020 raggas by Andrew DR Abbot this is heartbreaking record with an incredible artwork by the way.
Next record that is in heavy rotation since its release is the first solo record by Ukrainian Svetlana Nianio, called Transilvanian Smile, 1994, a soundtrack for a dance performance. It reminds of Yann Tiersen sometimes – guess there’s even one not credited cover of Tiersen´s la phare – but the music is hypnotic and has something completely special, meandering between classical music, folk and avant-garde.
And at last, I discovered the wonderful world of Smiling C records, with its weird hardly known 80ies releases like the bedroom tapes by David Horridge and Kevin Mc Cormick – ambient folk treasures.
Annex: I forgot: There´s a new Duster LP called Remote Echoes with sketches from early tapes and once you’ll get into the duster universe you have to listen to everything they release. And it’s worth it. Even if the tracks are so short…