Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - The Closest Thing to Silence

In August 2022, Australia-based, French born fourth-world music legend Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – International Anthem recording artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, whose critically-acclaimed duo debut 'Recordings from the Åland Islands' had been released just a few months earlier. An invitation was sent to Chiu and Honer, which was received with great enthusiasm, as Chiu had long been a fan of Kalma’s work, even citing him as a major influence on his approach to electronic music composition. The essential structure of the Late Junction collaboration was that the artists would work together to create around twenty minutes of music. They began passing music back and forth, some that Kalma had started, and some that Honer & Chiu had started, with each adding to or editing the track before returning it to the other. The music would only go back and forth a few times before being finalized. After meeting their twenty minute goal for the program (four pieces total), the three musicians were satisfied in what they would present and sent along their work to the producers of Late Junction. However, there was a nagging suspicion that this wasn’t the end of the story. There were several pieces that they had nearly completed but that weren’t sent for inclusion in the radio program, and there were many ideas for refining those pieces that had. With this in mind Kalma, Chiu and Honer agreed that they would continue to work together to try to push the music further. The freshly minted trio felt like there was much more to be said and more work to be done. The Late Junction program was broadcast in September of 2022. Simultaneously, Kalma, Chiu and Honer began expanding upon the music they had started for the purpose of the broadcast, working diligently on the music for several months. Their collective approach to this work was born in improvisation and realized via collage-based editing. The end result brings several distinct musical moments — recorded sometimes decades apart — into conversation with one another, forming new narratives from building blocks of old ones. There are snippets of improvised playing from each musician, edited together with recordings that Kalma had made in the 70s at GRM, and even moments of audio notes — like Kalma explaining his ideas — that would make it into the final mixes. Ultimately, the collection of music highlights the work of all three musicians, intertwining the contextual immersion heard on Chiu & Honer’s 'Recordings from the Åland Islands' with an intergenerational reverence for (and the undeniable presence of) Kalma’s decades-spanning body of work. It is work that has definitively enshrined him as one of the true, transcendent pioneers and sages of new age and fourth-world music. That reverence is affirmed by the album title chosen by the group — "The Closest Thing to Silence" — which is taken from a quote by Kalma included in a documentary by RVNG Intl (as part of their release of the 2014 compendium/retrospective An Evolutionary Music). Perhaps coincidental, Kalma’s quote was a slight modulation of a legendary ECM Records motto, as he said: “Music is the closest thing to silence.”  All Compositions by Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, and Marta Sofia Honer. Design and layout by Will Work for Good & Some All None. Photography by Alejandro Ayala & Ama Kalma.

An Evolutionary Music (1972-1979)

Volume 300

0:00:00 — "The Dream of the Island" (Edit) by Jeff Johnson (1990)

0:03:59 — "Lost at Shore" (Edit) by Clifford White (1989)

0:07:12 — DJ

0:10:55 — "If I Could" (Edit) by Darrell Barnes (1993)

0:17:12 — "Vinterpassage" by Tom Wolgers (1987)

0:21:47 — "Les Animaux" by Jean-Louis Murat (1989)

0:22:36 — "Depressions" (Instrumental Edit) by Gregorian (1991)

0:23:42 — "Buzz Off" by Cyborgasm (1993)

0:24:13 — "Serenity, Pt. 1" (Edit) by Ariel Kalma (1989)

0:30:42 — "Absolute Sadist" by Mistress Kat (1993)

0:31:24 — "A Vampire Dances (Symmetry)" by Jon Hassell & Farafina (1988)

0:35:35 — "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" (Edit) by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays (1981)

0:43:12 — "Tantric Sexuality" (Edit) by Llewellyn (1999)

0:49:20 — "After I Said Goodnight" (Edit) by Kevin Braheny (1980)

0:54:33 — "Beyond Skin" (Edit) by Germán Bringas (1992)

0:56:19 — "Synergistic Perceptions" (Edit) by Robert Rich & B. Lustmord (1995)

0:57:36 — "Mkwaju II" by Vasilisk (1988)

1:00:37 — "An Echo of Night" (Edit) by Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois (1984)

1:02:38 — "Eternal Dusk" (Edit) by Clifford White (1985)

1:03:15 — "For Those Who Ponder" by Jeff Johnson & David Friesen & Dave Hagelganz (1987)

1:08:15 — "幻惑" by Yukiyo Nakamura (1994)

1:10:18 — "Allegra" by Hans-Joachim Roedelius (1989)

1:14:40 — "Hope (Time Is Up?)" by Bo Stief (1987)

1:18:22 — "Peace of Mind" by Danny Gottlieb (1987)

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Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu e Marta Sofia Honer - The Closest Thing to Silence (2024)

Lançado em fevereiro de 2024, The Closest Thing to Silence é o resultado da colaboração entre o compositor francês Ariel Kalma e a dupla de Jeremiah Chiu e Marta Honer.

Lançado em fevereiro de 2024, The Closest Thing to Silence é o resultado da colaboração entre o compositor francês Ariel Kalma e a dupla Jeremiah Chiu e Marta Honer. Tendo como base o improviso e a colagem, o álbum de estreia do trio incorpora vertentes de new age, ambiente, eletrónica e jazz, eloquentemente combinadas numa experiência ilusória e quase hipnótica. Mergulhar neste álbum é algo…

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(Scheduled) Saturday 10 September 4:30 pm

Mixtape 218 “Bird Lullaby Side A”

Warning for birdsong.

Paint Groove Playlist #94 "Hope for The Sun and Moon"

1. Talking Drums - Ariel Kalma

2. Effe - Kikagaku Moyo

3. Saturday Morning Doze - Ernest Hood

4. Angels and Demons at Play - Bitchin Bajas

5. Canticle - Les Hommes

6. Riversong - Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Snackpoint Charlie: music from old places long gone, new places not yet discovered, and a few spots in between. 10pm EST Wednesday September 20 on WGXC, 90.7FM, streaming at WGXC.org, and podcast afterwards at all those old familiar places. In fact this week’s Snackpoint Charlie is already here and yours to keep at the link below, grab it and you’ll be glad you did

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 123 - 2023.09.20 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/mr28yk [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) El Fjer (Tangier) - “Early Morning Calls to Prayer” from MUSIC OF MOROCCO: RECORDED BY PAUL BOWLES, 1959 https://dust-digital.com/products/music-of-morocco-recorded-by-paul-bowles-1959

2) Hassan Wargui - “Ar Allakh” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycajSvKY_ro

3) Bixiga 70 - “Malungu (feat. Simone Sou)” from VAPOR https://bixiga70.bandcamp.com/album/vapor

4) Sapan Jagmohan (vocal: Salma Agha) - “Sote Sote Adhi Rat” from SISKEYAN https://www.discogs.com/release/3190185-Sapan-Jagmohan-Siskeyan

5) Sinn Sisamouth - “Angkalimea” from CHLANGDEN VOL. 115 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/obituaries/overlooked-sinn-sisamouth.html

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “17yrickz”

6) Ahouach Abrakad - “Ahouach Side 1” from VOLUIM 10 https://www.gofundme.com/f/psjn9p-morocco-earthquake-relief https://sudestmaroc.com/ahwach-the-amazigh-tradition-in-morocco/ https://hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ahouach-rare-recordings-from-the-atlas-mountains-in-aid-of-moroccan-earthquake-relief

7) Abdellah el Magana - “Kassidat el Hakka (The Poem of the Truth)” from KASSIDAT: RAW 45S FROM MOROCCO https://dust-digital.com/products/kassidat-raw-45s-from-morocco?_pos=1&_sid=428a3f6a9&_ss=r

8) Omar Souleyman - “Li Raja Behawakom (I Beg You, Baby)” from JAZEERA NIGHTS: FOLK & POP SOUNDS OF SYRIA https://sublimefrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/jazeera-nights-folk-pop-sounds-of-syria

9) Boussouar El Maghnaoui Et Belemou - “Tu Es Belle, Fidèle” from CHEB GERO’S BELLEVILLE HABIBI MIX #2 https://soundcloud.com/cheb-gero/belleville-habibi-mix-2

10) Ariel Kalma - “Chase Me Now” from AN EVOLUTIONARY MUSIC (ORIGINAL RECORDINGS: 1972 - 1979) https://arielkalma.bandcamp.com

11) Oskar & His Orchestra - “4” from THE APOLLO VOL. 38 https://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com/2023/08/unknown-taiwanese-artists.html

12) สุริยา ฟ้าปทุม [Suriya Fahpathum] - “เผลอจูบ [Accidental Kiss]” from หนุ่ม น.ป.ข. [YOUNG N.P.K.] https://www.discogs.com/release/12123132-%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2-%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A1-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%82

13) Ho Lan - “Echo from Deep Valley 幽谷傳聲” from ECHO FROM DEEP VALLEY https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/ho-lan-echo-from-deep-valley-interview https://holan.bandcamp.com/album/echo-from-deep-valley-2

14) Maria Elena Silva - “Jasper” from DULCE https://astralmariaelenasilva.bandcamp.com/album/dulce

15) Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey - “Tierceron II” from TIERCERON https://othermindsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tierceron

16) Mort Garson - “Moon Journey” from JOURNEY TO THE MOON AND BEYOND https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-moon-and-beyond

17) Antonio Russolo - “Serenata” from FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED https://www.discogs.com/release/370353-Various-Futurism-Dada-Reviewed

18) Akanssa Sikirou - “Sakara (Benin)” from THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE 19) Musicians of Benin - “Cengumé” from THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/590766-the-photographs-of-charles-duvelle-disques-ocora-and-collection-prophet

20) Deben Bhattacharya - “Jai Chand Bhagat and Babu - Bhajan (devotional song)” from PARIS TO CALCUTTA: MEN AND MUSIC ON THE DESERT ROAD https://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/625798-deben-bhattacharya-paris-to-calcutta-men-and-music-on-the-desert-road

Recorded for Urf Radio, SOS EARTH is a wake up call for the humans of Planet Earth. Comprising of various talks / lectures and sonics that address topics like inequality, racism, war, nationalism, environmental collapse, mental & physical health, addiction, the fall of the American empire and more. It’s in all honesty not the most uplifting mix to consume but rather something made in the hope that it could in some way educate and inspire those who are feeling lost on this ball of confusion into revolutionising their minds and their environment. Tracklist The Art Of Noise - Crusoe Ft Yassin Bey Franco Tamponi - Submarino The Art Of Noise - Camilla Tom Dokoupil - Feelings Remo - SOS Earth The Orb - Close Encounters of The Ultraworld Ft Gabor Mate & The Watts Prophets Funkadelic - Free your mind and your ass will follow Curtis Mayfield - Check Out Your Mind Pure Essence - Wake Up The Exaltics & Paris The Black Fu - Propaganda DNA MCNZI - This Is Our Generation Friz Be - Now Is The Time Houschyar - Workers & Bosses Missing Persons - Rotten To The Core Spontaneous Overthrow - All About Money Jimmy Young - Times Are Tight The B.U.M.S. - Who Gives You The Right Dr Mary Sullivan Bain - Do You Know Black History Don Julian & The Larks - Message from a Black Man Speaker Music - Amerikkka's Bay (ft. Maia Sanaa) Ryuichi Sakamoto - ubi The Watts Prophets - Pain ommetis - seesick Ft The Ukrainian Army June11 - Who Is Still Dreaming? ommetis - sitting Ft Let’s Paint TV Sign Ibra - Mantodea vs. Furcifer Pardalis (Original Mix) Ft Noam Chomsky exael - room of veiled lights (2020 mix) Ft Saul Williams Paradise 3001 - Low Sun In Dub Ft Gabor Mate VASE - Versal Haki R Madhubuti & Nation - We Wound Each Other The System - Pendy! You're In Some Awful Danger Haki R Madhubuti & Nation - We Are A Nation Horace Silver - I've Had A Little Talk Maxayn - Everything Begins with You Nuno Canavarro - Untitled New Age Steppers - Nuclear Zulu Ft Lauryn Hill xphresh - luh MF DOOM - a word of advice (w- fog) Theatre West - Children Of Tomorrows Dreams Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - LesLang Gus Coma - HMV rip Raymond Scott - IBM MT/ST - The Paperwork Explosion WeR7 - Word Perect (Edited) Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup - Barbecues's Version Beth Anderson - I Can't Stand It Haruomi Hosono - Down To The Earth Yusef Lateef - Robot Man Stevo - Save The World ommetis - cry Electronic Eye - Fourth World Destination Ft Heavens Gate Cult Sahel Sounds - Bambara affirmations, relaxation cassette Gonzo SE Asian Noises Ft Fred Hampton Hiroshi Yoshimura - Humming Water foraging - cry SAULT - Add A Little Bit Of Sault Ariel Kalma & Richard Tinti - Message 18.10.77 Frank Foster - The Loud Minority Ash Ra Tempel - Interplay Of Forces Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Vague Yet Walt Barr - Free Spirit

The AM: April 22, 2024

A throwback to an early 2000s post-rock debut, excursions into psych-folk and ambient country, and your usual genre-and-decade-spanning mix of offbeat easy listening—enjoy another three hours of mellow Monday mantras on The AM.

Stream on CJSW, or use the Spotify and Soundcloud links below. Tracklist is after the break.

Hour One:

Lillian Kindly Spoken Thieves • Phonic Smoke

Flight SUSS • Birds & Beasts

The Chauffeur The Golden Age of Wrestling • Scorpion Deathlock

Meadow Transient In The Well • Meadow Transient

Tessellate! Zachary Gray • Plan B

Kiki’s Tavern (For Vasilis) Greg Foat, Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire, Ayo Salawu • Live at Villa Maximus, Mykonos

Sunday Hiro Ama • Music for Peace and Harmony / Sunday

Yoti e Miyauchi Yuri • Single

Communal Imagination Tommy Perman, Andrew Wasylyk • Single

I Gotta Find Some New Friends Salami Rose Joe Louis, Flanafi • SARAH

Hour Two:

Wave By Wave Harmonia, featuring Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother • Musik Von Harmonia / Anniversary Edition

Melting on the Meadow Black Moth Super Rainbow • Start A People (Expanded Tracks)

The Ecstatic Dance MISZCZYK, featuring Bile Sister • Thyrsis of Etna

Creating Love and Happiness out of the Noir - the Melancholy Dreamsploitation • The Soft Focus Sound of Today

Tracers Miracle Fortress • Was I the Wave?

Silky Spring Yuuf • In the Sun

Antitech Efterklang • Springer

Rumeurs Caméra • Caméra

Old Growth Year of Glad • Old Growth

Dizzy Ditty Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer • The Closest Thing to Silence

The New Last Sam Prekop • Comma

Hour Three:

Seven Seconds to Sunrise Project Gemini • Colours & Light

Gassed Up Jeffrey Silverstein • Roseway

Lay With Luck Woods • Five More Flowers

Reaching Out Beth Gibbons • Lives Outgrown

Endless Shore Melody's Echo Chamber • Melody's Echo Chamber

Under a Pale Light Felt • The Pictorial Jackson Review

Constellation Knife Pleats • Hat Bark Beach

Harm's Way Ducks Ltd. • Harm's Way

Astronaut Lab Coast • Walking on Ayr

As Night Is Falling The Clientele • Suburban Light

Fog Summer Bruises • Light to Waste

Andy Bell & Masal - Tidal Love Numbers - the label calls it “ambient, astral jazz” but I call it one of the best New Age albums of the year

Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell has taken yet another musical detour, this time collaborating with Essex-based duo Masal on an incredible new album of ambient, astral jazz. ‘Tidal Love Numbers’ is made up of four mesmerising, meandering instrumental tracks that combine Andy’s incredible guitar playing with analogue synths and harp. Andy’s history in Ride, Oasis and numerous other bands is well-known, and his solo career has also taken off; his most recent album, Flicker, was one of last year’s finest. Masal, meanwhile, came together in Leigh-on-Sea after a chance meeting in a charity shop. You can find more of their music here: masalbanduk.bandcamp.com Al Johnson has performed and released records as Alien for a number of years now, while Oz Simsek studied classical harp while growing up in Turkey, before joining a jazz band. Since relocating to the UK she has worked with the likes of Viv Albertine and Gazelle Twin. The duo connected over a shared love of electronic and world music and released their debut album ‘Charity Shop’ in 2020. The collaboration with Andy came about after they supported him at an Andy Bell Space Station gig in Chelmsford during Independent Venue Week at the start of 2022. They got chatting on the night, and bonded over ‘Promises’, the collaboration between Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra. Andy was inspired by the likes of William Basinski, Harold Budd, Ariel Kalma’s ‘Osmose’ and Babe, Terror’s ‘Ancient M’ocean’, while Masal shared their love for Prince Lasha, Turkish prog and folk, medieval harp music and ‘Guitarrorists’, a 1991 compilation of outsider guitar sounds. The end result – sympathetically mastered by Andy’s Ride bandmate Mark Gardener – lands somewhere between Mary Lattimore, psych-folk guitarist Sandy Bull and Spacemen 3’s ‘Dreamweapon’, with the four pieces subtly ebbing and flowing from pastoral picking to psychedelic bliss to noisy drones and back again, all punctuated by Oz’s heavenly harp. All tracks written by Andy Bell, Ozlem Simsek & Alastair Johnson (Kobalt/Copyright Control) Artwork by Marc Jones

An Evolutionary Music (1972-1979)

Strange Harvest Apr 14

Strange Harvest 9pm EST bombshellradio.com Archival Shows available on bombshellradiopodcasts.com Strange Harvest  (9-10pm EST) offers up that once a month trawl of new issues and reissues from some cultish, emerging and generally underrated acts. If you want the chance to drop names into “what are you listening to?” conversations that’ll make you sound like you’re ahead of the game, we’d like an hour of your time, here: https://bombshellradio.com/   #newmusic #independentradio #newrelease2024     English Teacher: The World’s Biggest Paving Slab Mildlife: Yourself The Tygers of Pan Tang: Bad Times The Slits: Ping Pong Affair Robert Wyatt: Born Again Cretin Red Red: Spoonful Ill Considered: Jellyfish Not Me But Us: When we See Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: A Treasure Chest Sunlit: Back Conchur White: Swirling Violets Delta Saxophone Quartet: Transmission Dexter Gordon Quartet: Didn’t We?     Read the full article

2024年　1~2月リリースの新譜・ベスト

2024年1~2月リリースの新譜から、よかったもの／よく聞いたもの16枚。 以下、リリース日順です。

Kali Uchis『Orquídeas』1/12（Geffen Records）

Folly Group『Down There!』1/12（So Young Records）

Surya Botofashina, Nate Mercereau & Carlos Nino『Subtle Movements』1/12（Leaving Records）

Mary Halvorson『Cloudward』1/19（Nonesuch Records）

PACKS『Melt the Honey』1/19（Fire Talk）

角銅真実『Contact』1/24（ユニバーサルミュージック）

The Smile『Wall of Eyes』1/26（XL Recordings）

Angry Blackmen『The Legend of ABM』1/26（ Deathbomb Arc）

Tapir!『The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain』1/26（Heavenly Recordings）

Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia『The Closest Thing to Silence』2/2（International Anthem）

Helado Negro『PHASOR』2/9（4AD）

Brittany Howard『What Now』2/9（Island Records）

Friko『Where we've been, Where we go from here』2/16（ATO Records）

Rafael Toral『Spectral Evolution』2/23（MOIKAI）

Steve Gunn & David Moore『Live in London』2/23（RVNG Intl.）

柴田聡子『Your Favorite Things』2/28（AWDR/LR2）

tune into wlur from 8pm until midnight tonight for this week's episode of no love for ned with artists new (including another @nerf-cat request!) and old. as always, you can stream last week's show on mixcloud if you'd like to catch up!

no love for ned on wlur – february 2nd, 2024 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label jeanines // tilt in your eye // each day 7" // slumberland soup assistants // boys with plants // mummy what are flowers for? cassette // mangel love child // cigarette ash // okay? // homestead essential logic // wake up // john peel session on february 21st, 1979 10" // precious billiam // i got a girl (and she's got a problem with you) // jump to 3d 7" ep // discos de muerte / cow tool the serfs // the dice man will become // half eaten by dogs // trouble in mind exwhite // fomo // this is future // spared flesh cold cream // cactus wife // cold cream ii // (self-released) watery love // face the door // decorative feeding // in the red blues lawyer // our divide // sight gags on the radio 7" ep // dark entries j mascis // can’t believe we're here // what do we do now // sub pop the paranoid style // the ballad of pertinent information (turn it on) // the interrogator // bar/none ramona and the holy smokes // i want you to be my man // i want you to be my man - single // (self-released) matthew "doc" dunn // fantastic light // fantastic light // cosmic range barbara morgenstern // zwischen den stühlen // in anderem licht // staatsakt sigur rós // hoppípolla // takk // geffen ariel kalma, jeremiah chiu and marta sofia honer // ten hour wave // the closest thing to silence // international anthem jessica ackerley, kevin cheli and gahlord dewald // silently // submerging silently cassette // cacophonous revival francisco mela and zoh amba // causa y efecto // causa y efecto, volume two // 577 pan afrikan peoples arkestra // nation rising // sixty years // the village mourning [a] blkstar featuring dragonchild // jack johnson // mourning [a] blkstar in boston live // (self-released) theravada and zoomo // sus tain // waste management // rrc music co. jamila woods featuring peter cottontale // thermostat // water made us // jagjaguwar corinne bailey rae // red horse // black rainbows // thirty tigers surya botofasina, nate mercereau and carlos niño // so much love // subtle movements // leaving shira small // lights gleam lonely // the line of time and the plane of now // numero group jad fair and samuel locke ward // boys don't cry // the same cured hair as you- a tribute to the cure cassette // almost halloween time corvair // tenseless // bound to be // paper walls lavender blush // jealousy // there's nothing inside your heart ep // shelflife silver biplanes // uas 29396 // a moment in the sun // where it's at is where you are cheerbleederz // my condolences // even in jest // alcopop!

Beatport Best New Hype Electronica: February

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-02-02 GENRES: Electronica Tracklist : 1. UTO - Art&Life(Original Mix) 2. Jacob Stoy - Fokus(Original Mix) 3. Ian Wellman - Forest of Tragedy(Original Mix) 4. Gustav Anders, Muudu - I Miss Freiser(Original Mix) 5. Joachim Spieth, Markus Guentner - Overlay Variation 1(Original Mix) 6. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Ten Hour Wave(Original Mix)   Download FileCat Read the full article