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Mixtape: Fractured Air – June 2020
June’s mix features the hugely anticipated debut solo LP by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Bear. Released under the American drummer and multi-instrumentalist’s Fools moniker, “Fools’ Harp Vol. 1” is available via the forever dependable Music From Memory label. What’s immediately apparent on listening to the album’s thirteen tracks (more will be made available shortly, via a cassette edition with bonus tracks) is the considerable gestation period these compositions undertook (Bear plays every instrument himself) before bearing fruition as a fully formed record. Recorded in between Grizzly Bear tours, the album took it’s final shape over a six week period in summer 2019, the results are a breathtaking insight into this truly independent and wholly creative spirit whose technical ability and improvisational spirit shines throughout his Fools’ debut.
Another masterful drummer in the contemporary independent music scene is the ever-prolific New York-based artist Greg Fox. “Contact” is released by the hugely influential RVNG Intl label and sees Fox traverse even further sonic boundaries – always tirelessly seeking to push the envelope further with each subsequent work – creating one of the year’s most defining records in the process.
Other 2020 gems included here are courtesy of the celebrated cellist and multi-instrumentalist Rebecca Foon (the Saltland composer releases her first album via her own name, once again via Constellation); extraordinary South Korean cellist Okkyung Lee releases the majestic “Yeo-Neun” (Shelter Press); Julianna Barwick returns with the magnificent “Inspirit” from her much anticipated “Healing Is a Miracle” album (Ninja Tune); world renowned drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) joins acclaimed American guitarist Marisa Anderson for the breathtaking collaborative album “The Quickening” (Thrill Jockey).
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Fractured Air – June 2020 Mix
01. Yasuaki Shimizu – “Seiko 3” (Light In The Attic)
02. Yoshiaki Ochi – “Ear Dreamin’” (Light In The Attic)
03. Inventions – “Spirit Refinement Exploder” (Temporary Residence)
04. Hiroshi Yoshimura – “Creek” (Light In The Attic)
05. Nicolas Jaar – “Gocce” (Other People)
06. 2814 – “恢复” (Dream Catalogue)
07. Giuseppe Ielasi – “8” (12k)
08. DJ Python – “oooophi” (Incienso)
09. Minor Science – “Polyglottal” (Whities)
10. Jamie xx – “Idontknow” (Young Turks)
11. Four Tet – “Insect Near Piha Beach” (Text)
12. Hood – “They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Happened Here” (Domino)
13. Warren Ellis – “Time to Run, Time to Drive” (Mustang OST, Milan)
14. Bill Callahan – “Circles” (Drag City)
15. Jim White and Marisa Anderson – “The Quickening” (Thrill Jockey)
16. Xylouris White – “Inland” (Drag City)
17. Batsumi – “Moving Along” (R & T)
18. El Wali – “The People of El Aaiun” (Sahel Sounds)
19. Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band – “Embuwa Bey Lamitu” (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
20. Fools – “Nnuunn” (Music From Memory)
21. Greg Fox – “Ill Being” (RVNG Intl)
22. Julia Kent – “Imbalance” (The Leaf Label)
23. Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Fólk fær andlit” (Deutsche Grammophon)
24. Okkyung Lee – “The Yellow Porcelain Bird” (Shelter Press)
25. Daniel Ögren – “Levi” (Sing a Song Fighter)
26. Julianna Barwick – “Inspirit” (Ninja Tune)
27. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Leviathan” (Ghosteen Ltd.)
28. Jóhann Jóhannsson – “The Navigators” (Last And First Men OST, Deutsche Grammophon)
29. Arvo Pärt, Paul Hillier – “My Heart Is In The Highlands” (perf. Else Torp, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent) (Harmonia Mundi)
30. Rebecca Foon – “Another Realm” (Constellation)
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Xylouris White (AUS/GRE, Bella Union) / DALI, Cork / Fri. 5th April 2019
We are delighted to welcome back the legendary duo Xylouris White for a Cork show on Friday 5th April 2019. All details are below.
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/fractured-air-dali-present-xylouris-white-and-special-guests-tickets-57166586800
Xylouris White (Jim White and George Xylouris)
Xylouris White is the inspired collaboration between Greek lute player George Xylouris and the Australian, Brooklyn-based drummer Jim White. Both composers are legends in their own right, the former through his Cretan lute-led sounds of the Xylouris Ensemble, the latter through his membership of mythical Australian trio Dirty Three and myriad collaborations over the years (Nina Nastasia, Cat Power, Bill Callahan, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, to name a few). Both have harnessed truly unique and unparalleled playing styles and levels of musicianship in their respective instruments where inspiration seems in endless supply at all times. Xylouris White create the kind of celestial, contemporary and powerful music which blurs all boundaries and constantly defies all categorization (and logic) in the process.
A passion for exploration comes naturally to Xylouris White, the ruggedly visionary duo formed of Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White. For their debut album, 2014’s Goats, Xylouris White compared themselves to the titular animals, wandering fearlessly through rough-hewn terrain. Two years later, they showed how far their horizons could reach on 2016’s majestically expansive Black Peak, named after a mountain top in Crete.
Just 15 well-toured months after the band’s universally acclaimed sophomore full length ‘Black Peak’, the duo’s exploratory instincts drive them further onwards still on their third album, Mother, released last year on Bella Union, and named to denote “new life”. As Xylouris puts it, “Mother is the extension of Goats and Black Peak. Three things, all part of a whole. Goats are mothers, Zeus was raised on Amaltheia’s milk, Black Peak is Mother Earth… Mother Earth is the mother of everything.”
Across Mother’s nine tracks, Xylouris White nurture fecund growths from the spaces between their instruments. Sometimes the songs drive with an invigorating urgency; sometimes they brood, plead, yearn and lull. The duo seems to discover each other anew at every turn, teasing the songs out from their fluid chemistry with the kind of virtuosity that knows when to listen, accommodate and learn afresh. “A theme of the album is the significance of simplicity and a child-like approach,” Xylouris explains. “So, we connect mother and child and play instruments as toys. Xylouris White is still gestating.”
That ongoing gestation is a remarkable extension of already remarkable back-stories. Xylouris is a scion of one of Greece’s most revered musical families. His father is legendary singer and lyra player Psarantonis. Jim White, meanwhile, has commanded international attention for more than two decades as part of Australia’s Dirty Three. Now New York-based, White has often been called on to collaborate with numerous alt-A-listers (including: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, PJ Harvey, Cat Power and Smog), where he redeploys the rolling momentum of free-jazz to variously supple, sensitive and seismic ends. Most recently he performed with Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett on their acclaimed album “Lotta Sea Lice”.
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Mixtape: Fractured Air – May 2018 Mix
Our May mix features: Actress & London Contemporary Orchestra’s essential “LAGEOS” album (Ninja Tune); new releases from the forever dependable Berlin-based Sonic Pieces label (Rauelsson and Tatu Rönkkö); Seattle-based composer Benoît Pioulard’s new self-released EP entitled “May”; Italian electronic producer Caterina Barbieri; Philadelphia harpist Mary Lattimore’s breathtaking “Hundreds of Days” (Ghostly) and much more…
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Fractured Air – May 2018 Mix
01. Actress & London Contemporary Orchestra – ‘Galya Beat’ (Ninja Tune)
02. Tatu Rönkkö – ‘Olio’ (Sonic Pieces)
03. Copeland – ‘advice to young girls’ (self-released)
04. Autechre – ‘Flutter’ (Warp)
05. Michal Turtle – ‘Are You Psychic?’ (excerpt) (Music From Memory)
06. Lloydie Slim & King Tubby – ‘State Dub’ (Record Smith Production)
07. Anna Domino – ‘With the Day Comes the Dawn’ (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)
08. DJ Koze – ‘Music On My Teeth’ (Pampa Records)
09. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – ‘Message To My People’ (Strut)
10. Miles Davis – ‘Sur L’Autoroute’ (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud OST, Fontana)
11. CZARFACE & MF Doom – ‘Astral Traveling’ (Silver Age)
12. Little Ann – ‘Deep Shadows’ (Ace)
13. Sarah Louise – ‘Bowman’s Root’ (Thrill Jockey)
14. Alice Coltrane – ‘Om Shanti’ (Luaka Bop)
15. Xylouris White – ‘Lullaby’ (Bella Union)
16. Gwen Raymond – ‘Sometimes There’s Blood’ (Tompkins Square)
17. Aisha Burns – ‘Would You Come To Me’ (Western Vinyl)
18. Birds Of Passage – ‘Modern Monster’ (Denovali)
19. Caterina Barbieri – ‘Glory Bitch’ (Bandcamp)
20. Nils Frahm – ‘Kaleidoscope’ (Erased Tapes)
21. Arvo Pärt – ‘De Profundis (Psalm 129)’ (Paul Hillier, Dan Kennedy, Theatre of Voices & Christopher Bowers-Broadbent) (Harmonia Mundi)
22. Benoît Pioulard – ‘Sixth Hour Bloom’ (Bandcamp)
23. Grouper – ‘Blouse’ (Kranky)
24. Mary Lattimore – ‘Hello From the Edge Of the Earth’ (Ghostly)
25. DEEPLEARNING – ‘Freedom Of Things’ (Salmon Universe)
26. Lucrecia Dalt – ‘Luminalidad’ (RVNG Intl)
27. John Hassell – ‘Dreaming’ (Nyeda Records)
28. David Toop – ‘A Cartographic Anomaly’ (Barooni)
29. Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – ‘Mag11P82′ (Timesig)
30. Rauelsson – ‘Map Of Mirrors’ (Sonic Pieces)
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Mixtape: Fractured Air – February 2018 Mix
This month’s mix is dedicated in loving memory of Jóhann Jóhannsson. The gifted Icelandic composer was responsible for some of the most vital and captivating musical works of the 21st Century (across his rich body of solo albums and seminal scorework).
My first introduction to Jóhann Jóhannsson’s music was his sublime masterwork “IBM 1401, A User’s Manual”. An entire new world unfolded before my very ears – “I hear a new world calling me”, to coin a Joe Meek creation – as the modern classical sphere became beautifully merged with utterly compelling electronic elements. In many ways, the Icelandic composer represented the visionary luminary figures of Steve Reich, Philip Glass or Gavin Bryars (from a previous generation) but importantly, Jóhann’s music belonged to my generation. His music is an eternal gift that forever shines light upon your path.
I fondly recall witnessing the Icelandic composer’s live show circa 2012 (during the “Miners’ Hymns” tour). His gentle presence on stage right, oftentimes at the piano. The sea of raw emotion that ascended into the night’s atmosphere: the sheer force of which penetrated the pores of the human heart. How an immense beauty filled the air; magic floated throughout the venue like a kaleidoscope of beautiful butterflies. I remember how Georges Delerue’s “Camille” came on the speakers just before the show. Thinking back on it now, how fitting this choice of music was, for Jóhann’s breathtaking creations (for instance, think of the immense beauty captured in a composition like “A Song For Europe”) shared the visionary spirit of Delerue’s most celebrated works. In a word: timeless.
Indeed, the sun’s gone dim and the sky’s turned black in your departure from this world. Rest in peace.
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Fractured Air – February 2018 Mix
01. Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – “End of Summer Part 2” (Sonic Pieces)
02. Björk – “Unravel” (One Little Indian)
03. Greg Fox – “Earth Center Possessing Stream” (RVNG Intl)
04. Nightmares On Wax – “Back To Nature” (Warp)
05. Deutsche Wertarbeit – “Deutscher Wald” (Soul Jazz)
06. Paper Dollhouse – “4 Moons” (Moondome)
07. Silvia Kastel – “Target” (Blackest Ever Black)
08. The Gentleman Losers – “Swimming After Dark” (Grainy)
09. CosBV – “Night Drifting” (100% Silk)
10. Mark Renner – “Autumn Calls You By Name” (RVNG Intl)
11. Amen Dunes – “Blue Rose” (Sacred Bones)
12. Khruangbin – “Cómo Me Quieres” (Night Time Stories)
13. Moon Duo – “Jukebox Babe” (Sacred Bones)
14. James Holden & The Animal Spirits – “The Animal Spirits” (Border Community)
15. Nina Simone – “Freedom” (excerpt) (YouTube)
16. Nils Frahm – “Sunson” (Erased Tapes)
17. Dedekind Cut – “Equity” (Kranky)
18. Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Flight From The City” (Deutsche Gramophone)
19. June 11 – “Who Is Still Dreaming?” (STROOM)
20. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – “Symphony of the Dead” (Mars OST, Milan)
21. Xylouris White – “In Media Res” (Bella Union)
22. Baba Zula – “Cecom” (Glitterbeat)
23. Colleen – “Summer night (Bat song)” (Thrill Jockey)
24. Jóhann Jóhannsson – “Part 5/The Sun’s Gone Dim And The Sky’s Turned Black” (4AD)
25. Georges Delerue – “Camille” (Le Mepris OST) (EmArcy)
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E10 | October mix
This month saw the eagerly awaited return of prestigious American musician John Maus with the release of ‘Screen Memories’; a synth pop masterpiece (and follow-up to the remarkable 2011 opus ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves’). Opening this mix is one of the heavenly synthesizer-based tracks culled from Maus’ recent Bleep mix.
Colleen is an artist very close to our hearts and the release of Cécile Schott’s sixth full-length ‘A flame my love, a frequency’ (via Thrill Jockey) marks 2017’s most bewitching, absorbing and deeply affecting records to have graced the atmosphere. Armed with just electronics and voice, the album’s eight otherworldly compositions transcend space and time: drifting majestically in the ether of unknown dimensions. Colleen’s tour dates (including U.S, North America and Europe) are listed here.
On the 14th & 15th December, the second edition of The Notwist-curated Alien Disko returns to Munich. The festival’s line-up reflects the boundless and pioneering qualities of the chosen acts, from Shabazz Palaces, Konono Nº1 and Amiina to Colleen, Sam Amidon and The Notwist. Tickets are onsale now.
This month’s mix also includes new releases from: Xylouris White; SAICOBAB; Spirit Fest; Lindstrøm; Sufjan Stevens; Gunn – Truscinski Duo and Les Filles de Illighadad.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S02E10 | October mix
To listen on La Blogothèque:
http://www.blogotheque.net/2017/10/31/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s02e10-october-mix/
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01. Peter Davison – “Shadow” (Higher Octave Music)
02. John Maus – “The Combine” (Ribbon Music)
03. Shabazz Palaces – “Moon Whip Quäz” (feat. Darrius) (Sub Pop)
04. John Carpenter – “Assault on Precinct 13” (Death Waltz Recording Company)
05. Severed Heads – “George the Animal” (Dark Entries)
06. The Velvet Underground – “I Can’t Stand It” (Verve)
07. The Cat’s Miaow – “Not Like I Was Doing Anything” (Library)
08. Cymbeline – “Look at the Stars” (Guerssen)
09. Gunn – Truscinski Duo – “Flood and Fire” (Three Lobed Recordings)
10. Les Filles de Illighadad – “Abadrarass” (Sahel Sounds)
11. SAICOBAB – “One” (Thrill Jockey)
12. Xylouris White – “Only Love” (Bella Union)
13. Guelewar – “Ya Mom Samaray” (Kindred Spirits)
14. Wallias Band – “Muziqawi Silt” (Manteca)
15. Don Cherry – “Brown Rice” (EMI)
16. Spiritualized – “Feel So Sad (Glides And Chimes)” (Spaceman, Arista)
17. Colleen – “The stars vs creatures” (Thrill Jockey)
18. Spectrum – “All Night Long” (Silvertone)
19. Slowdive – “No Longer Making Time” (Dead Oceans)
20. Spirit Fest – “River River” (Alien Transistor)
21. NSRD – “Schwenn” (STROOM)
22. Lali Puna – “Wear My Heart” (Morr Music)
23. Four Tet – “Daughter” (Text)
24. Sufjan Stevens – “Wallowa Lake Monster” (Asthmatic Kitty)
25. William Eggleston – “On the Street Where You Live” (Secretly Canadian)
26. Lindstrøm – “Bungl (Like a Ghost)” [feat. Jenny Hval] (Smalltown Supersound)
27. Daphni – “Carry on” (Jiaolong)
28. Blanck Mass – “The Rat” (Sacred Bones)
29. Colin Stetson – “All this I do for glory” (52Hz)
30. Dirty Three – “Moon On The Land” (Bella Union)
31. Cat Power – “Metal Heart” (Matador)
32. Marisa Anderson – “Amazing Grace” (Mississippi)
33. Jackson C. Frank – “Milk and Honey” (Sanctuary)
34. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – “Three Seasons in Wyoming” (Wind River OST) (Invada, Lakeshore)
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Compiled by Fractured Air, October 2017. 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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