Frosty w/guest Laraaji – Celsius Drop

http://dublab.com/frosty-wguest-laraaji-celsius-drop-06-16-16/

https://www.mixcloud.com/dublab/frosty-wguest-laraaji-celsius-drop-061616/

Here it is, highly honed and happening for YOU. On his weekly “Celsius Drop” show, dublab co-founder Frosty guides you through an exploration of the vast Future Roots music spectrum.

For this special episode dublab is thrilled to welcome the transcendent Laraaji back on the dublab airwaves to send brilliant, orange resonance your way. His radio appearance featured a live set that was one of the most luminous dublab ever streamed. Please click play and go with the flow.

Frosty w/guest Laraaji – Celsius Drop (06.16.16) 

MIX: DOWNLOAD

Daedelus

http://dublab.com/daedelus-wguest-martyn-pepperell-entropy-sessions-07-05-16/
https://www.mixcloud.com/dublab/daedelus-entropy-sessions-060716/

"Daedelus is the gentleman you need to be in touch with to get your serious business sorted out. He’ll give you the full rundown on the up and up. His offering of tomorrow’s sounds swirled through the filter of yesteryear’s finest tried and true is a concoction finely blended. You’ll enter one end of the listening experience with rust around the edges and come out the other end spic and span and ready for the world. Enjoy your servicing courtesy of Daedelus!"

Daedelus w/guest Martyn Pepperell - Entropy Sessions (07.05.16) 

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BD1982 – Mbielu
Jimmy Edgar – Iphone
Voyager – Hai
Arian Cook – Quantuum Racer
Eprom – Brixton
Sayer & Bleep Bloop – First of All
Tokyo Megaplex – Fuzzy Dice
Sadkey – Ought 2
Ocular – Time After Time
Ujico* – Dream City
Wave Racer – Introooo
Ebon -Matane
MYRNE – Architect
Saul Williams – Down For Some Ignorance (Mono/Poly Remix)
Daedelus – Tear It Down
Daedelus – Baba Yaga (Breathing effect Cover)
Martyn Pepperwell Interview
Unerscore:
Swell – I’m Sorry
Misogi – Clairvoyant
Lucas – Like Glass
Lucas – Pain
Amoeba – Sjom

Norio Maeda meets Tin Pan Alley – Manha de carnaval
Hailu Mergia Dahlak Band – Migibima Moltual
Toshiyuki Honda – Rakuen
Miles Davis – Tutu
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Tighten Up
The Slits – Heard It Through The Grapevine
Sun City Girls – The flower
Nass El Ghiwane – Mahamouni

Tekvision – Plush
DOT – MR (Goodnight Cody Remix)
Jaw Gems – Born God

Valley Queen: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

At first it was simply the voice that shook me. I was in Austin, Texas, during SXSW, and my buddy Sean Moeller of Daytrotter told me he was recording a new favorite band and I should come by. The house/makeshift studio on Austin's East Side was saturated with the alluring voice of Natalie Carol and her solid yet rattling Neil Young-ish band. That was my introduction to Valley Queen, and I've seen them shake the walls at a few venues around the country now, one of which was here at NPR. When this band, which has only put out a few singles on Bandcamp so far, came to the Tiny Desk, its members played like veterans. Valley Queen's music is rich with nuance and depth, rooted deep in California country. They are working toward that debut record, and three songs they played at the Tiny Desk were unreleased. Here is an early glimpse of some growing talent.

- Bob Boilen

For more information about Valley Queen, visit its website: http://www.valleyqueenmusic.com/


Set List:

"In My Place"
"Hold On You"
"Ride"

George Cromarty

13 de septiembre 2014

Compré este elepé de un vendedor ambulante en un pasillo en la Universidad de Puerto Rico en 1986. Eso era cuando se permitían vendedores ambulantes en la facultad de humanidades. Cromarty, quien falleció en 1992, tocaba "new age guitar", subgénero musical de guitarra acústica en el cual el intérprete usualmente toca sin acompañamiento. Sus principales exponentes, William Ackerman, Michael Hedges y Alex Degrassi, grababan en la casa disquera Windham Hill en las décadas de los 70, 80 y 90.
Wind in the Heather fue lanzado por Dancing Cat Records, una subsidiaria de Windham Hill manejada por el músico George Winston.

Dice la Wikipedia:
George Cromarty (September 15, 1941^[1] – February 12, 1992^[2]) was an American folk guitarist and singer. He is best known as the co-writer, with Ed Rush, of the song Plastic Jesus,^[3][4] though he went on to record three albums of solo guitar music in the 1970s and 1980s. The Folk Music Sourcebook likened his playing style to John Fahey's,^[5] and George Winston cites Cromarty as a musical influence.^[6] His music has been heard on the soundtracks of many films, including the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis.^[7] The "Columbia record exec" in Inside Llewyn Davis was named "Mr. Cromarty" in honor of Cromarty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cromarty

David Byrne Radio Summer Mix

http://davidbyrne.com/july-radio-summer-mix
https://www.mixcloud.com/Todomundo/summer-mix/

The title says it all: the vibe is classic summer; a multiform mix of soul, post-punk, funk, and dub-influenced tunes from all over in the mostly early-ish eighties. Yeah!

Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho was the least celebrated of the trio of '60s acoustic guitar virtuosos who established themselves as innovators on the Takoma label (the other two were John Fahey and Leo Kottke). It's not hard to surmise why Basho found a natural home on Takoma. Like Fahey and Kottke, he was determined to expand the horizons of the acoustic steel-string guitar by utilizing dissonance, unusual tunings, and influences from all over the world. At the same time, it's not hard to see why Bashoattracted a smaller, more specialized audience than Fahey and Kottke. His work requires a little more time and effort to absorb, and is more colored by Eastern and Indian modal influences.

"Haunting" is an overused adjective for Basho's instrumentals (as it has often been for Fahey's records), but entirely appropriate. Difficult to pigeonhole and categorize, Basho's strums were characterized by a tension between spiritual, meditative moods and bursts of restlessness. In addition to American folk and Middle Eastern influences, traces of classical, Irish, koto, medieval, and other musics could be heard in his material (and he had notably little pure blues influence when compared to his Takoma labelmates). Occasionally he would add some eerie whistling, or even eerier, not to say unsettling, singing; even dedicated Basho fans concede that his vocals weren't what you came to hear.

From the mid-'60s to his death in 1986, Basho recorded several respected if little-heard albums for Takoma, Windham Hill, and other labels. Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman, who wrote some appreciative liner notes on the 1996 reissueGuitar Soli, was a big fan of Basho. Like John Fahey,Basho's solo instrumental approach helped lay the groundwork for the meditative new age sounds that Windham Hill and others would make a specialty. And also like Fahey,Basho's work is far darker and more challenging than most of what is now categorized as new age music.

- Richie Unterberger
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robbie-basho-mn0000830321/biography

The Invisible Man TV series

The Hobbit 1977 Cartoon

The Hobbit is a 1977 animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass, a studio known for their holiday specials, and animated by Topcraft, a precursor to Studio Ghibli, using lyrics adapted from the book. The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien and was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977.

- Wikipedia

Laraaji - Universe

LaraaJi Venus Nadabrahmananda(LVN) has performed in USA and abroad since late 1970’s with his innovative style of electric open tuned zither/harp. After studying piano, music theory & composition at Howard University School of Fine Arts in Washington , DC during the mid 1960’s he became inspired to move to New York city to follow his passion for both musical sound composition and comedy acting. After mild success in theatre, film, TV commercials and night club performance he investigated eastern philosophy, meditation and meta-physics, an investigation which initiated his creative expression into cosmic themes and vibrant new musical tone language.
From Busking in New York City during the late 1970's into early 1980's, to performing improvisational compositions on concert stage, to collaborations within interdisciplinary artist events, to Spirit Festivals, to Yoga Expos and to many recording sessions he has brought an inspiring non-traditional Zither musical sound that has captivated a peaceful global following.

FUENTE http://laraaji.blogspot.com/

Dice la Wikipedia:

Laraaji (born 1943) is an American musician. Born Edward Larry Gordon in Philadelphia, he studied violin, piano, trombone and voice in his early years in New Jersey. He attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. on a scholarship to study composition and piano. After studying at Howard, he spent time in New York pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian and actor.

In the early seventies he began to study Eastern mysticism and believed he'd found a new path for his music and his life. It was also at this time he bought his first zither from a local pawn shop. Converting it to an electronic instrument, he began to experiment using the instrument like a piano. By 1978, he developed enough skill to begin busking in the parks and on the sidewalks of New York.

The following year he was "discovered" by Brian Eno while playing in Washington Square Park. The result was his most widely-recognized release, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, the third installment of Brian Eno's Ambient series. This was his first album released under the name of Laraaji.

This international exposure led to many requests for longer versions of his compositions which he supplied to many meditation groups on cassette tapes. It also resulted in an expansion of his mystic studies with such gurus as Swami Satchidananda and Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, founder of the Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New York.

Another product of Laraaji's increasing enlightenment was the creation of the Laughter Meditation Workshops which he still presents around the globe.