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Mixtape: Fractured Air – “Everything Unfolds” – September 2018
Our September mix opens with the utterly captivating new single “I Shall Love 2” from the peerless Los Angeles-based composer and songwriter Julia Holter. “That is all, that is all / There is nothing else” softly whispers Holter, beneath hushed silence before a cinematic synth back drop melds effortlessly with her majestic harmonies. The shape-shifting ballad continually builds with intricate layers of strings, percussion and double bass, forming a wholly shape shifting song cycle of stunning beauty. Her latest sonic creation journeys through astral planes – filled with hope and undying strength – in a search for inner peace and purpose amidst a world of chaos. “I Shall Love 2” somehow encapsulates one’s dreams inside one pulsating, vital heartbeat. The gifted composer’s fifth studio album ‘Aviary’ is released via Domino on 25th October 2018 alongside a European and U.S. tour.
Elsewhere, September’s mixtape features new releases from: legendary Minnesota trio Low; techno bliss courtesy of Djrum (R&S Records); Brendon Anderegg’s solo synthesizer explorations (Thrill Jockey’s “June” LP); the beautifully compiled Ivor Raymonde retrospective “Paradise – The Sound of Ivor Raymonde” (including his timeless arrangements for The Walker Brothers, Bill Fury, Dusty Springfield and many more); more essential re-issues via the Belgian imprint Stroom (Patrick Sellinger’s new wave/electronic opus “Businessmen” marking the label’s latest release); Carrie Cleveland’s soul treasure “Looking Up” LP (in a glorious expanded edition via London’s Kalita Records) and a gorgeous document of Sudan’s rich musical heritage on Ostinato’s new release “Two Niles To Sing A Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan”. September’s mixtape also includes new soundtracks from Mogwai’s “KIN” score and the sorely missed Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Mandy” original score.
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Fractured Air – “Everything Unfolds” – September 2018
01. Julia Holter – “I Shall Love 2” (Domino)
02. The Majority – “Wait by the Fire” (Bella Union)
03. Ennio Morricone – “The Sundown” (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly OST, United Artists)
04. Silver Jews – “We Are Real” (Drag City)
05. WHY? – “Good Friday” (Boards of Canada Remix) (Joyful Noise Recordings)
06. Carrie Cleveland – “Love Will Set You Free” (Kalita Records)
07. Virginia Wing – “Relativity” (Fire)
08. Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Children of the New Dawn” (‘Mandy’ OST, Invada/Lakeshore)
09. Mogwai – “We’re Not Done” (End Title) (KIN OST, Rock Action/Temporary Residence)
10. Jonny Greenwood – “Sandy’s Necklace” (You Were Never Really Here OST, Invada/Lakeshore)
11. Kamal Tarbas – “Forget Those That Divide Us” (Ostinato)
12. Ahmed Malek – “Tape 19. 11” (Habibi Funk)
13. Djrum – “Blue Violet” (R&S)
14. Curve – “Falling Free” (Aphex Twin Mix) (Warp)
15. Patrick Selinger – “Businessmen” (Original) (Stroom)
16. Helena Hauff – “Qualm” (Ninja Tune)
17. The Space Lady – “Across The Universe” (Bongo Joe Records)
18. Rachel’s – “4 or 5 Trees” (Quarterstick Records)
19. Casino Versus Japan – “Sunset Wake” (Self-Released)
20. Brendon Anderegg – “June” (excerpt) (Thrill Jockey)
21. June11 – “Memories” (Stroom)
22. Low – “Quorum” (Sub Pop)
23. Oneohtrix Point Never – “Toys 2” (Warp)
24. The Gentle People – “Journey” (Aphex Twin Care Mix) (Warp)
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Mixtape: Fractured Air – March 2018 Mix
This April marks the beloved U.S. band Mercury Rev’s 20th Anniversary tour of their classic “Deserter’s Songs” album (including an extensive Irish tour, UK and Belgium shows). We had the honour to recently interview Mercury Rev frontman Jonathan Donahue (soon-to-be-published) and an excerpt of this interview is featured in this month’s mix.
Our March mix contains two exclusive tracks from the compelling German independent label Denovali Records.
New Zealand’s Alicia Merz (under her Birds Of Passage moniker) unveils her fourth full-length “The Death of Our Invention” with a beguiling collection of dark pop song cycles embedded deep within a lattice of mimimal ambient soundscapes (released on 6th April 2018). The prestigious Rotterdam-based electronic producer Nadia Struiwigh has carved out a shape shifting ambient techno voyage with her Denovali debut full-length “WHRRu” (Where are you) which will be released on 27th April 2018.
Also featured on our latest mix is new music from the peerless Belgian re-issue label Stroom; Jonny Greenwood’s “You Were Never Really Here” score; Grouper’s Liz Harris; A Winged Victory For The Sullen and Paul de Jong (The Books).
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Fractured Air – March 2018 Mix
01. Birds Of Passage – “Wake to the Dream” (Denovali)
02. A.A.L. – “This Old House Is All I Have” (Other People)
03. Sudan Archives – “Come Meh Way” (Stones Throw)
04. Dabrye – “Culture Shuffle” (feat. Kadence Intricate Dialect & Silas Green) (Ghostly)
05. Tomaga – “Greetings From The Bitter End” (Kaya Kaya)
06. Aphex Twin – “We Are the Music Makers” (Warp)
07. Nils Frahm – “All Melody” (Erased Tapes)
08. Nadia Struiwigh – “WHRRu” (Denovali)
09. Pablo’s Eye – “Double Language” (Stroom)
10. Dorothy Ashby – “Soul Vibrations” (Soul Jazz)
11. Maximum Joy – “Silent Street/Silent Dub” (Y)
12. Ben Morris – “Gissningsleken” (Original Mix) (Music For Dreams)
13. Sonoko – “Danse Avec La Tristesse” (Stroom)
14. B. Fleischmann – “Here Comes the a Train” (Morr Music)
15. The Fall – “Lost In Music” (Cherry Red)
16. Shinichi Atobe – “Regret” (excerpt) (DDS)
17. DJ Koze (feat. Róisín Murphy) – “Illumination” (Pampa)
18. U.S. Girls – “Rosebud” (4AD)
19. Balmorhea – “Sky Could Undress” (Western Vinyl)
20. Normil Hawaiians – “Yellow Rain” (Upset The Rhythm)
21. The Gentleman Losers – “Wintergreen” (Grainy)
22. Beautify Junkyards – “Ghost Dance” (Ghost Box)
23. Paul de Jong – “It’s Only About Sex” (Temporary Residence)
24. Hatis Noit – “Illogical Lullaby” (excerpt) (Erased Tapes)
25. Valiska – “Forever” (Trouble In Utopia)
26. Grouper – “Parking Lot” (Kranky)
27. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – “Long May It Sustain” (Erased Tapes)
28. Jonny Greenwood – “Tree Synthesisers” (“You Were Never Really Here” OST) (Invada)
29. Jonathan Donahue – [interview excerpt] (Fractured Air)
30. Mercury Rev – “Holes” (V2)
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S01E12 | December mix
Welcome to our final mixtape for 2016.
For our last mix we are really excited to share an exclusive first listen of the forthcoming album by Finland’s The Gentleman Losers. Based in Helsinki, The Gentleman Losers comprise the brothers Samu and Ville Kuukka. The duo have released their music on such independent labels as Büro, City Centre Offices, Warp, Nothings66 and Standard Form. Their two full-length releases – 2006’s self-titled debut album and 2009’s sophomore “Dustland” – have been universally acclaimed, winning the hearts of many esteemed music-lovers worldwide, while also being championed by such independent music stalwarts as Germany’s Nils Frahm and UK’s Bibio. The forthcoming third record – the brothers’ latest venture into blissful instrumental music of unknown pleasures – is set to be released during 2017.
December’s mix also features our favourite album of the year: “Upstepping” by UK cellist and composer Oliver Coates. As well as releasing his second solo album earlier this year (via PRAH Recordings) Coates has also released the sublime collaborative work “Remain Calm” (with Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes) via the UK label Slip Discs. In addition to a busy schedule of extensive touring and live performances during the year, Coates also performed strings on the current Radiohead album “A Moon Shaped Pool” (XL Recordings).
Other 2016 favourites are featured here, including: Brigid Mae Power (self-titled LP via Tompkins Square), Carla dal Forno (“You Know What It’s Like” via Blackest Ever Black), Kevin Morby (“Singing Saw” via Dead Oceans), Jessy Lanza’s “Oh No” (Hyperdub), Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s “EARS” (Western Vinyl), Amiina’s “Fantômas” (Mengi) and Eluvium’s “False Readings On” (Temporary Residence).
In a year that has all too often thrown up troubling and distressing news and events, it places an even brighter spotlight on the vital role – in expressing emotions, articulating thoughts, distilling messages, blurring boundaries and lighting the way – that music brings to all our lives. In our tiny capacity, we’d like to thank all the musicians, labels and listeners for helping to keep that eternal light flickering.
Wishing our readers and listeners a very happy Christmas and peaceful new year.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S01E12 | December mix
To listen on La Blogothèque:
http://www.blogotheque.net/2016/12/27/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s01e12-december-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. Uncle Charlie – “…today is the thing” (Shadow Of A Doubt)
02. The Caretaker – “It’s just a burning memory” (History Always Favours the Winners)
03. Julianna Barwick – “Heading Home” (excerpt) (Dead Oceans)
04. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani – “Closed Circuit” (excerpt) (RVNG Intl)
05. Jessy Lanza – “Going Somewhere” (DVA HI:EMOTIONS Remix) (Hyperdub)
06. Tim Hecker – “Violet Monumental II” (4AD)
07. Arthur Russell – “You And Me Both” (Rough Trade)
08. Oliver Coates – “PERFECT LOVE” (PRAH Recordings)
09. Demdike Stare – “Animal Style” (Modern Love)
10. Grouper – “Headache” (Yellow Electric)
11. The Gentleman Losers – “There Will Come Soft Rains” (Exclusive)
12. Carla dal Forno – “You Know What It’s Like” (Blackest Ever Black)
13. Amiina – “Lady Beltham” (Mengi)
14. Kevin Morby – “Cut Me Down” (Dead Oceans)
15. Dungen – “Trollkarlen Och Fågeldräkten” (Smalltown Supersound / Mexican Summer)
16. Exploded View – “Stand Your Ground” (Sacred Bones)
17. Brigid Mae Power – “I Left Myself For A While” (Tompkins Square)
18. Ben Frost – “Stormfront” (Bedroom Community)
19. Sarah Neufeld – “They All Came Down” (Paper Bag)
20. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – “Gare du Nord Part One” (Iris OST, Erased Tapes)
21. Philip Glass – “Heroes” (Aphex Twin Remix) (Warp)
22. Eluvium – “Washer Logistics” (Temporary Residence)
23. Leonard Cohen – “The Partisan” (Columbia)
24. Naïm Amor & John Convertino – “Before We Go” (LM Dupli-cation)
25. Calexico – “Gift X-Change” (Our Soil, Our Strength)
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Compiled by Fractured Air, December 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Guest Mixtape: Oliver Coates
Several ground-breaking records from 2016 can be attributed to the gifted talents of British cellist and composer Oliver Coates. The London-based composer’s sophomore full-length release ‘Upstepping’ is undoubtedly one of the year’s most accomplished, innovative and compelling musical journeys with its meticulously crafted and sumptuously layered cello-based compositions that carves out techno-fueled waves of pure bliss and transcendence. ‘Upstepping’ is indeed (in the words of Coates) “pumped-up body music”. In addition to ‘Upstepping’, Coates performed on Radiohead’s latest ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ LP and most recently, a collaborative work with UK’s Mica Levi (Micachu & The Shapes) in the form of ‘Remain Calm’, another crowning jewel of 2016.
The British composer, producer and arranger is best known for his collaborative work with the London Contemporary Orchestra, Jonny Greenwood (‘The Master’ score) and Mica Levi (score for ‘Under The Skin’). On Coates’ latest solo masterwork ‘Upstepping’, A scintillating record of disparate influences is crafted where vital sounds of electronic and techno collide with neo-classical elements, which somehow feels closely adjacent to the works of Aphex Twin, Four Tet and Boards of Canada as it does to the modern-classical realm of today.
We are delighted to present to you a special guest mix compiled by Oliver Coates. Below is Oliver’s description about this inspired selection of music:
“Here is a panorama: the integration of human voice, real or concocted, as formant synthesis which binds instrumental haze beyond slamming rhythms and does wonders for the physiology. There are versions upon versions – distorted cello play over sequenced dance music is my current activity – where the cello intercedes as human element, using the bow as a Cirklon Sequencer. All the different attacks. Wahs and pointillisms, bulges, swells, sighs. Airs, ahs and pointed teeth. Polyphony like a baby’s mobile, Alexander Calder, hot and cold, monophonic bassline attitude underneath large and diffuse chords.”
—Oliver Coates
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Oliver Coates – Fractured Air Mix – December 2016
01. Gecko Afterlife HD – “Earth Jump” (YouTube)
02. AFX – “simple slamming b 2” (Warp)
03. Levantis – “Undr” (Technicolour)
04. Elysia Crampton – “Dummy Track” (Break World)
05. Micachu feat. KEVIN – “Clothes Wear Me” (adult swim)
06. Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland – “9” (Hyperdub)
07. Boards of Canada – “Dayvan Cowboy” (Warp)
08. My Bloody Valentine – “To Here Knows When” (Creation)
09. Cocteau Twins – “Pitch The Baby” (4AD)
10. DMX Krew – “You Can’t Hide Your Love” (Hidden Love Mix) (Warp)
11. D’Breez – “Crazy for Love” (Autechre remix) (Skam)
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‘Upstepping’ is out now on PRAH Recordings & ‘Remain Calm’ by Mica Levi & Oliver Coates is out now on Slip Discs.
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Compiled by Oliver Coates, 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Mixtape: Dmitry Evgrafov (RUS/130701)
Later this month sees the eagerly awaited release of Russian pianist & composer Dmitry Evgrafov’s seven-track EP, ‘The Quiet Observation’, which will be released on the prestigious FatCat imprint 130701. To coincide with its release we are delighted to share a special classical-based mixtape that Dmitry Evgrafov has recently made.
Dmitry Evgrafov is a hugely promising and gifted young Russian pianist/composer whose music blends intimate piano with rich strings and electronics, bringing to mind the work of peers such as Goldmund, Carlos Cipa, Poppy Ackroyd or Nils Frahm. Completely self-taught, Dmitry began self-releasing his music at the age of seventeen, and in 2015 signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, releasing his label debut, ‘Collage’, last October. A beautifully focused and concise seven-track EP, ‘The Quiet Observation’ follows up that release and precedes a new album due next year.
A striking intimacy and delicate beauty permeates the stratosphere of luminous piano tones and minimal instrumentation of glockenspiel, strings (and two tracks played on a virtual church organ). In the same way as labelmate Resina’s singular cello works, a vivid sense of solitude and quiet bliss pours from the gorgeous modern-classical splendour.
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‘The Quiet Observation’ is available on 14th October 2016 via 130701 Records.
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“My aim here is to give a listener a new look at the classical music. Whilst much music from that time is boring and excessive but through years my interest was to gather some compositions that are hundreds of years old but that sound really contemporary. For example, there are two compositions from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov that were written in the 19th century but sound like a soundtrack for a good 2016 movie. There are also two of my personal reworks of classical compositions by Georges Bizet and Edward Grieg, to make them modern-day in a weird and subtle way. I have included a number of beautiful contributions from XX and XXI century composers including Arvo Part and Daniel Bjarnason as well as the orchestral rendition of Aphex Twin and two pieces from modern Russian composers — Pavel Karmanov and Valery Gavrilin.”
—Dmitry Evgrafov
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TRACKLIST:
0:00 Georges Bizet — Carmen (Dmitry Evgrafov’s Rework)
2:22 Edward Grieg — Funeral Song (Dmitry Evgrafov’s Rework)
4:14 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov — Sadko. Introduction
5:44 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov — The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh. Introduction
10:00 Hanan Townshend — Water Theme No. 3
11:50 Aphex Twin — rhubarb orc.
19.53 rev
18:10 Pavel Karmanov — Interlichkeit
24:00 Arvo Pärt — Miserere
28:52 Daníel Bjarnason — Solitudes I. Holy
31:18 Hanan Townshend — Awareness
33:04 Gabriel Faure – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
38:10 Valery Gavrilin — Perezvony
42:15 Wojciech Kilar – Exodus (Excerpt No. 1)
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‘The Quiet Observation’ is available on 14th October 2016 via 130701 Records.
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https://dmitry-evgrafov.bandcamp.com/
http://130701.com/
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