Sublime Frequencies

psykokarkki · 28.03.2013 22:18

uutta pukkaa:

VA: Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China CD (SF 081CD)
The fifth Sublime Frequencies volume in Laurent Jeanneau's amazing documentation of vanishing indigenous music of the rural Asian frontiers, this CD focuses on ethnic minority groups of Southern China. Presented here are 17 tracks of supremely infectious vocals and folkloric instrumentals played on a wide variety of local traditional instruments. The centerpiece of this collection is the 13-minute "Do Djui Atsei" (track 5), an absolutely epic male and female group choral vocal piece which is improvised as a song of intimate personal emotions that brings tears to the performers as they are singing together. Jeanneau has spent many years traversing the hills and valleys of Southeast Asia and China, and he has captured a dizzying array of folk music, much of which has never been documented before. He is perhaps the most committed and accomplished procurer of rare and threatened music from the region and seems more focused than ever as he states in his liner notes for this release: "In China, by the end of the 1950s, 400 ethnic groups registered to be counted in the census. There might be 300 remaining groups nowadays. I was facing an incredible amount of potential musicians. Now after six years spent in Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces, I have recorded 55 CDs of raw stuff. This Sublime Frequencies product is a compilation from those CDs, displaying the diversity I was able to find between 2006 and 2012, and I'm not finished." This disc comes with a 16-page booklet of detailed notes and photographs of the musicians by Laurent Jeanneau.
01. Sumi Yeinyo (Hani Crying Song)
02. Pambie (Nuosu Language) or Sixian (Chinese Language) Nuosu (Yi)
03. Song on the Origin of the World (Kai Tian Pi Di)
04. Noitiey
05. Do Djui Atsei
06. Wu Bulang Theravada Buddhist Drum Ensemble
07. Gu Tong Yue Wu
08. Pumi Song
09. Responded Love Song
10. Love Song
11. Dongliang
12. Amukadela
13. Isong (Nisu Language) or Sixian (Chinese Language)
14. Calling Back the Soul (Chuei)
15. Wedding Song
16. Niu Tui Qin
17. Chang Fo Ji

niin ja broken-hearted dragonflies: insect electronica from southeast asia ilmestyy vinyylinä icon_surprised

enpä kyllä ole noita edellisiäkään vielä hankkinut ja saa nähdä tuleeko edes hankittua kun ei sitä kaikkea pysty icon_neutral no se yeh yeh kyllä varmaan pitää.

psykokarkki · 27.08.2013 09:31

Coming soon from Sublime Frequencies:
VA: Hassaniya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania LP (SF 083LP)
In 2006, Hisham Mayet returned to West Africa to continue his search for an unknown musician he had heard six months earlier on the radio in a Morocco hotel room. Knowing only that it was Sahrawi music -- music of the south -- he headed down through the vast and remote desert landscape of the Western Sahara and Mauritania in hopes of finding someone who could identify these revelatory recordings. The story of how he finally found this elusive artist is the stuff of ethnomusicological legend. But he also found much, much more as he wandered from LaÃ¢youne, Western Sahara, to Mauritania's capital city of Nouakchott. From intimate, sinuous home recordings by Group Marwani, to a sublimely devastating track by the enigmatic Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid, to the inimitable tidinit artistry of Sadoum Ouled Aida, the performers on this album exemplify the haunting and intoxicating qualities of Sahrawi music. Featuring Mayet's first recordings of the electrifying Group Doueh, as well as dizzying field recordings from Nouakchott's MarchÃ© Capitale -- where relentless traffic noise swirls together with fragments of melody from countless cassette vendors' PA speakers -- Hass?n?ya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania is the evocative soundtrack to a chimerical journey that is also documented visually in Sublime Frequencies' breathtaking film Palace of the Winds (SF 047DVD). It not only traces Mayet's own passage through these barren and beautiful lands, but also charts the evolution of Sahrawi music from sung poetry accompanied by traditional acoustic instruments to electrifying modern grooves drenched in reverb and phase effects. Limited edition pressing with Stoughton tip-on full-color gatefold jacket.
A1. Group Marwani - Bismi Lahi Lahi Namdah
A2. Group Doueh - Beyt Kar Labyad (Khaymat- Abdul Azziz.)
A3. Abdul Rahman Al-Gheid - Beyt Kar Akhal
A4. Group Doueh - Madam Jat Faabuni
B1. Sadoum Ouled Aida - Kar Akhal
B2. Group Marwani - Wanyey Allah Idumu
B3. Group Doueh - Beyt Alayan
B4. HM - Audio Apothecary
Street sounds of MarchÃ© Capitale - Nouakchott
B5. Sadoum Group - Hanun

näköjään kaikki merkit ei tässä näy oikein mut sou not, pitäisköhän taas alkaa ostaa näitä, nimim. viime aikojen julkaisut jääneet väliin frown2

psykokarkki · 24.09.2013 16:00

niijjoo tämmönen tulossa:

V/A - Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq Vol. 2 double LP $28.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"In 2005, Sublime Frequencies released Choubi Choubi: Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq, and in the ensuing years it has become one of the most beloved and venerable titles in their catalog. Now almost 10 years later, this highly-anticipated second volume is finally here. Compiler and producer Mark Gergis has once again put forth a revelatory and poignant collection of Iraq's national folk music. What has happened to Iraq since the 2003 U.S. invasion and eventual occupation? Endless death, destruction and chaos, the complete take-down of a functional and sovereign secular government (regardless of your opinion on that government), puppet installations, contrived sectarian divisions, the wholesale looting of culture, rampant opportunism, and apparently no lessons learned -- all at the Iraqi people's expense. Naturally, music has continued to be produced in Iraq -- however, since 2003, musicians and artists have been consistently targeted and attacked by extremists, who have also bombed music shops and forced the closing of venues and music halls. The musical style most prominently focused on in this volume is the infamous Iraqi choubi, (pronounced choe-bee), with its distinct driving rhythm that feature fiddles, double-reed instruments, bass, keyboards, and oud over its signature beat. Choubi is Iraq's version of the regionally popular dabke, another celebratory Levantine folkloric style of rhythm and line dance. What really defines the Iraqi choubi sound are the crisp, rapid-fire machine-gun style percussive rhythms set atop the main beat. To the uninitiated, they sound almost electronic. Sometimes they are, but more often this is the work of the khishba -- a unique hand-drum of nomadic origin (aka the zanbour -- Arabic for wasp), which appears across the board in many styles of Iraqi music today, with extensions of it also heard in Syrian and Kuwaiti music. Among other styles featured in this volume are Iraq's legendary brand of mawal -- an ornamental vocal improvisation that sets the tone of a song, regardless of the style, and the outstanding Iraqi hecha, with its lumbering and determined rhythm pulsing beneath sad, antagonized vocals -- as heard on tracks A4 and B2. The tracks on this collection were produced during the Saddam era -- between the 1980s and early-2000s. An important goal within the Iraqi Baathist agenda was to promote its brand of secularism, which saw the establishment of cultural centers, and a fostering of the arts. Music was more encouraged, albeit more institutionalized than ever -- particularly folkloric and heritage music such as choubi. In an Iraqi army comprised of seven divisions, Saddam referred to singers as the eighth. Still, unless a rare level of stardom has been achieved, being a singer or musician isn't usually encouraged or viewed as a respectable lifestyle in much of the Arab world. It's often those deemed social outsiders that tend to find their niche in music -- particularly the "party music" heard on this collection. Among them are the Rom Gypsy Iraqis (known as Kawliya in Arabic). A number of female singers wear masks and adopt pseudonyms to protect their identities, as some are runaways or prostitutes making ends meet in the seedy nightclub scene. Occasionally, they end up with successful recording careers. Sajida Obeid, who has appeared on both volumes of Choubi Choubi! is an example of a talented Kawliya singer from the nightclub scene of the 1980s who rose to choubi infamy in Baghdad. Choubi inevitably invokes tawdry connotations within Iraqi society (cheap nightclubs for the lower classes, outcast gypsies and singing prostitutes), but in fact, many calibers of Iraqi singers and ensembles have recorded and performed the music. Unofficially, choubi can be called the national dance of Iraq. Though some may deny this claim (mostly due to its reputation and stigma), at most Iraqi weddings you'll find people from all walks flaunting their best choubi moves. Iraqi music has always had a way of transcending religious groups and ethnicity, collectively shared between Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and myriad other Iraqi minorities. In 2013 sadly, this diversity and unity within Iraq is increasingly fragmented, but traditions continue throughout the internationally displaced diaspora. Limited edition 2LP set in a heavy gatefold jacket with beautiful artwork and liner notes by Mark Gergis."

psykokarkki · 17.10.2013 22:13

Remembering Syria: Mark Gergis Of Sublime Frequencies Interviewed

psykokarkki · 26.10.2013 23:27

en muista oliks tätä linkkiä vielä mut http://sublimefrequenciescommunique.blogspot.fi/

nyt on icon_cool

psykokarkki · 22.12.2013 13:39

radio-sarja jatkuuu colorflash

Eclipse Records wrote:

*V/A - Radio Niger CD $16.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Although it's one of the poorest nations on the planet in terms of the UN's Human Development Index, Niger has one of the most diverse and richly ornamented cultures on the African continent. The country's first station, Radio Niger, went on the air in 1958 and was renamed Voix du Sahel in 1974. In 1979, the government established the Broadcasting Corporation of Niger State (BCNS). Today, Radio Niger is where the country's range of ethnicities, with their disparate customs of language and music, combine to create an astonishingly complex sonic patchwork: Bawdy, drunken sages and storytellers wandering into the studio; local shout-outs to girlfriends and family members; comedy skits juxtaposed with Zarma/Songhai mollo (a regional stringed instrument) and Denke-denke mollo from neighboring Burkina Faso dissolving into Tuareg guitar blues trance. News snippets from RFI and the BBC vie for supremacy with Hausa women's ensembles; Malian Kora collides with Zarma Koranic transmissions; lo-fi cassettes from the marketplace bump up against animist Bori folk dirges and the vapid autotune stylings of modern Nigerian pop. DJs bring an improvisational element to local radio: singing along with tracks live on air; creating live multichannel compositions and avant-collage cut-ups; and generally preserving the human element that has long since disappeared from corporate Western radio. In short, Radio Niger is outlaw radio, broadcast with freedom and spontaneity, and bathed in an arid fidelity that reveals the region's character and landscape. Recorded on location by Hisham Mayet 2004-2007. Edited/sequenced by Alan Bishop. Includes an 8-page booklet with photos and liner notes by Hisham Mayet."

ammmmm · 22.12.2013 22:28

Noni! peuk

Alxity · 24.12.2013 20:46

Tämä oli hyvä uutinen! peuk

psykokarkki · 22.01.2014 11:36

http://sublimefrequenciescommunique.blogspot.fi/

TWISTED BITCH · 04.03.2014 14:46

Blind, left-handed, and fully equipped. Nong Khai, Thailand (Photo by Richard Bishop)

psykokarkki · 13.03.2014 14:05

eipä toi radio niger sen kummempia tunteita ole herättänyt icon_neutral

mutta postataanpas klassikkobiisi, joka oli välillä youtubesta poissa, mutta näköjään taas löytyy:

rakkaus colorflash

artsy · 13.03.2014 14:18

quote=psykokarkki]eipä toi radio niger sen kummempia tunteita ole herättänyt icon_neutral

Jep, toistaiseksi on kyllä jotenkin väärällä tavalla sekavan tuntuinen. Radiolätinää ei määräänsä enempää jaksa kuitenkaan.
Loppupuolella toki muutama timantti mutta nekin loppuu muutaman sekunnin jälkeen..

artsy · 13.03.2014 14:22

Mainittakoon tässä yhteydessä myös, että käynnissä kova yritys saada Sub.Freq-perustajahahmo, Climax Golden Twins-jäsen Robert Millis Suomeen leffascreenaus/spoken word/dj-keikalle/keikoille toukokuussa.......

artsy wrote:

quote=psykokarkki]eipä toi radio niger sen kummempia tunteita ole herättänyt
Jep, toistaiseksi on kyllä jotenkin väärällä tavalla sekavan tuntuinen. Radiolätinää ei määräänsä enempää jaksa kuitenkaan.
Loppupuolella toki muutama timantti mutta nekin loppuu muutaman sekunnin jälkeen..

psykokarkki · 14.03.2014 22:37

Eclipse Records wrote:

*V/A - Choubi Choubi - Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq Vol. 1 double LP + 7" $28.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Originally released in 2005, while the U.S.-led war against Iraq was tearing the country to pieces, Choubi Choubi Vol. 1 brought a collection of incredible Iraqi music and styles that had rarely showcased abroad. This 2014 deluxe-edition vinyl reissue is a must-have. It features re-mastered, and in some cases, completely restored audio, revised and updated liner-notes with new artist and track information, plus four additional tracks not featured in the first CD issue. Meticulously compiled by Mark Gergis from his archives of Iraqi cassettes and LPs found in Syria, Europe and the Iraqi neighborhoods of Detroit, Michigan and elsewhere within the diaspora, this unique collection of folk and pop styles displays a wealth of outstanding music that is exclusive to Iraq. Choubi is Iraq's version of Middle Eastern dabke music, and can be found throughout the country. It's performed at weddings and parties nationally by its melting pot of Arabs, Kurds, Christians, and Rom gypsies -- known as Kawlia. The Kawlia have been some of the most active recorded choubi artists in Iraq since the 1980s, and many tracks featured in this volume feature their outstanding performances. There are many reasons why Iraqi music stands alone in the dynamic world of Arabic music: one example is the unbelievable rapid-fire machine-gun rhythms fluttering atop the main tempo. This is the work of a unique nomadic hand drum called the Khishba -- also known as the Zanbour (Arabic for wasp). A style prominently featured here is the infamous Iraqi Choubi -- a driving, rhythmic style that can include fiddles, double reeded instruments, percussion, bass, keyboards and oud over its signature beat. Other styles featured are the Basta (an urban Baghdadi sound), Iraq's legendary brand of Mawal -- an ornamental vocal improvisation that sets the tone of a song, regardless of the style, and the outstanding Iraqi Hecha -- with its lumbering and determined rhythm pulsing beneath sad, antagonized vocals. Most of the music in this collection was produced during the Saddam period -- between the 1980s and 2002. Since the 2003 invasion and the wholesale disassembly of the country, classic tracks like these have already become part of a disappeared past. This limited edition 2LP vinyl release features 70 minutes of classic original recordings compiled by Mark Gergis, housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold jacket with extensive liner-notes and a bonus 7" with a picture sleeve."
*V/A - 1970s Algerian Folk and Pop LP $24.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Sublime Frequencies is thrilled to present a second volume of classic tracks from Algeria's popular music history. Where volume 1 focused on the early to mid-1970s Rai scene in western Algeria, this album features a variety of pop and folk styles from that same period. From the heavier rock and psychedelic sounds of Rachid & Fethi, Les Djinns and Les Abranis, to the haunting folk music of Kri Kri and Djamel Allem and the film soundtrack moods of Ahmed Malek, 1970s Algerian Folk & Pop documents a key period in the modern musical renaissance of a nation in transition. Most of these tracks are from 45 rpm singles, the key format during the early 1970s before the cassette took over as the medium of choice. Western musical influences can be heard throughout this extremely diverse record, yet there is an undeniable Algerian sense of sadness contained here within a more tolerant space in time between two of the country's most significant historical periods; National Independence from France and the darker times of a brutal civil war yet to come. Compiled by Hicham Chadly, this limited edition LP comes in a full-color gatefold jacket with lovely images from the period and extensive liner-notes by Omar Zelig."

dance :psykee::bileet:

psykokarkki · 17.03.2014 10:21

kuuntelin taas pitkästä aikaa choubi choubia, eli irakilaista musaa ja on kyllä yksi parhaista julkaisuista, ja ilmestyy tosiaan remasteroituna vinyylinä lisäbiisein, ja kakkososaa pukkaa myös. youtubesta ei tietenkään tunnu löytyvän niitä parhaita raitoja, joten en nyt linkkaa mitään, mutta tsekatkaa ihmeessä jos on jäänyt väliin, kai tuo jostain löytyy kuunteluun ja sit vaan vinskaa tilaukseen.

tuolta voi hieman tsekkailla

EDIT: näköjään ja'afar hassanin biisit on siirretty vinyylillä omalle bonari-ep:lle (+yksi jota ei cd:llä), kas kun eivät saman tien olisi julkaisseet koko levyä eli let's sing together -albumia.

psykokarkki · 17.03.2014 10:35

mitä hemmettiä, evan dando signattu sublime frequenciesille icon_eek eiq mitäs colorflash

p.s.
record store dayna ilmestyy vinyyleinä pop yeh yeh ja omar souleymanin jazeera nights.

Alxity · 28.03.2014 15:30

psykokarkki wrote:

kuuntelin taas pitkästä aikaa choubi choubia, eli irakilaista musaa ja on kyllä yksi parhaista julkaisuista, ja ilmestyy tosiaan remasteroituna vinyylinä lisäbiisein, ja kakkososaa pukkaa myös. youtubesta ei tietenkään tunnu löytyvän niitä parhaita raitoja, joten en nyt linkkaa mitään, mutta tsekatkaa ihmeessä jos on jäänyt väliin, kai tuo jostain löytyy kuunteluun ja sit vaan vinskaa tilaukseen.

Syystä tai toisesta en tuosta niin kauheasti innostunut. Useamman kerran kyllä yritin. Ne folkkibiisit oli hyviä, mutta muista en saanut oikein otetta. Itse asiassa pistkin levyn eteenpäin henkilölle, joka ehkä osaa arvostaa sitä minua paremmin.

Radio Nigeriä en ole saanut vielä hankittua ja jos kerran se ei suurempia tunteita ole herättänyt niin saattaa ehkä sitten jäädä hankkimattakin...

Omar Souleymanin Dabke 2020 on muuten näköjään myös julkaistu vinyylinä. Siinä on kyllä yksi aivan tajuttoman mahtava biisi. Ostaisin ellen omistaisi jo cd:nä.

ammmmm · 03.04.2014 14:46

psykokarkki wrote:

ammmmm wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/BMOuu0I.jpg
crying princess? laitapa rapsaa sublime frequencies -topikkiin, jotenkin ajattelin että selviäisin hankkimatta mutta enpä kuule tiijä

Ihan kiva, onhan tätä kuultu mutta toisaalta kuulee aina lisää mielellään. Ei nyt missään mielessä mitenkään essential.

Voiskin ton Radio Nigerin jo testikuunnella. Tossa sarjassa viehättää eniten kuitenkin se satunnainen radioasemien häly ja kollaasimaisuus yhdistettynä pienempään osaan mahtavia biisejä, niin ei pysty ennakkoon kauheen negatiivisesti suhtautumaan.

artsy · 15.04.2014 14:32

ROBERT MILLIS (climax golden twins / sublime frequencies) Suomeen !!!
mm. crying princessin ja scattered melodiesin kasannut gubbe siis

näin mennään:

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28.5. korjaamo / hki

leffa: This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope + 4-channel installation
+ avarus + leppänen & tolvi + pelkkää sun raata levymusana!

29.5. telakka / tre

leffa: Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan
+ live guitar music set + robert millis dj set + amon düde & taikuri tali + TBA

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EDIT: mulla on myynnissä myös erittäin vähän käytetty Radio Niger-cd (8e)

Last edited by artsy (15.04.2014 15:14)

psykokarkki · 28.05.2014 20:11

tais jäädä väliin tämä, nyt kävi näin icon_neutral

psykokarkki · 22.07.2014 17:01

Alxity wrote:

psykokarkki wrote:
kuuntelin taas pitkästä aikaa choubi choubia, eli irakilaista musaa ja on kyllä yksi parhaista julkaisuista, ja ilmestyy tosiaan remasteroituna vinyylinä lisäbiisein, ja kakkososaa pukkaa myös. youtubesta ei tietenkään tunnu löytyvän niitä parhaita raitoja, joten en nyt linkkaa mitään, mutta tsekatkaa ihmeessä jos on jäänyt väliin, kai tuo jostain löytyy kuunteluun ja sit vaan vinskaa tilaukseen.
Syystä tai toisesta en tuosta niin kauheasti innostunut. Useamman kerran kyllä yritin. Ne folkkibiisit oli hyviä, mutta muista en saanut oikein otetta.

ilmeisesti ne kovimmat folkkibiisit oli sitten ja'afar hassanin tekeleitä, ja nyt tuolla uudella painoksella ne on laitettu omalle levylleen, vinskaversiossa omaksi kuvakantiseksi seiskaksi. mielenkiintoiseksi homman tekee se, että kyseiset kappaleet on vuonna 1978 DDR:ssä (!!!) julkaistulta albumilta let's sing together, miksei koko levyä samantien uusiksi?

Alxity · 23.07.2014 21:00

No jopas. Discogsissa joku näyttää kaupittelevan naarmuista levyä 70 eurolla. Varmaan jostain kirppikseltä Saksan itäosista tuon voisi parilla eurolla löytää mukaansa jos vaan olisi tuuria... Ja jotain sosialistifolkkiahan tuo taitaa olla eli siksi varmaan DDR:ssä julkaistu.

artsy · 08.09.2014 13:40

Ostin Mark Gergisiltä viikonlopun festarihumussa Choubi Choubi vol kakkosen kun halvalla sai, ja ainakin ekan kuuntelun perusteella jopa parempi kuin eka!

psykokarkki · 04.01.2015 20:58

tässä viimeisimpiä eclipsen ennakkotilauslistalta, radio vietnam colorflash

*Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band - Juguya LP $24.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the BurkinabÃ© musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer, first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band. His current band -- when he's not playing with the now-famous BurkinabÃ© musician Victor DÃ©mÃ© -- is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny AdÃ© are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia. Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali). His audience comprises multiple generations and strata of BurkinabÃ© society; he accordingly adapts his repertoire to his surroundings, which range from cabaret Sundays in Bobo-Dioulasso to the sound systems of Ouagadougou. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a formidable force steeped in Ouagadougou's DIY underground musical culture. Juguya is their sound. Limited edition LP housed in a Stoughton tip-on sleeve."
*Mark Gergis - Radio Vietnam CD $16.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Radio is an audio compass; the radio antennae, a divining rod. Positioned anywhere, it opens an exclusive window directly into the location in which it sits. Signals received on the medium wave (AM) and FM bands reveal programming intended for a local population by governmental, independent, pirate, or corporate media broadcasters. Anything from low-powered ethnic minority transmissions, high-powered westernized pop stations, and omnipresent state-run radio can be found on these bands. Shortwave bands expand the breadth and scope, pulling in regional and international receptions. Everything received factors into the experience. Music, news, talk shows, advertisements, station IDs, cross-phased interference, errant or intentional static-generated sounds, distant detritus, and random broadcast anomalies all become equally relevant. This disc continues the Sublime Frequencies locale-specific radio collage series with Vietnamese radio recordings culled and assembled from signals received in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City between December 2013 and November 2014. Inside the 70-minute program are moments of outstanding folkloric, traditional, and pop music, including performances on the electric guitar and the dan bau (a one-stringed guitar-like instrument), eclectic Vietnamese folk and rock stylings, dramatic effects-laden radio theater and musical segues, new wave pop forays, traditional percussion and vocal chants, news segments, dynamic radio bumpers, jingles and advertisements, comedic interludes, phoned-in karaoke sing-a-longs, English-language programming, early-morning exercise regimens, and coded messages from the outer ether. The grand total sum of these radio recordings doesn't aim to present a certified ethnographic study of contemporary Vietnam. Rather, the material here aims to distill and replicate the excitement, engagement, and discovery gained during heavy exposure to Vietnamese broadcasts over an eleven-month period during the teenage years of the twenty-first century. CD comes in a beautiful digipak with full color images, a booklet, and liner notes by Mark Gergis, who recorded, compiled, sequenced, and produced the project for Sublime Frequencies on location in Vietnam."
*V/A - Music of Tanzania double LP $28.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Music of Tanzania is a spectacular collection of field recordings gathered by Laurent Jeanneau between December 1999 and March 2000. This debut volume of Sublime Frequencies' exploration of indigenous Tanzanian music compiles sacred and profane songs and dances of the Hadza, Datoga, and Makonde people. Highlights include stoned ecstatic dancing in a Hadza encampment; a drunken celebration of preteen sexual initiation from a Makonde fishing village; baboon imitations performed on the malimba; electrified Islamic trance percussion; and useful tips for amateur hyrax hunters. Many of these poignant, exhilarating performances come from dwindling minority groups whose way of life stretches back to the Stone Age, and who are capable of creating breathtaking music with anything from agricultural tools to tin cans and plastic tubes. Laurent Jeanneau is absolutely fearless in his pursuit of rare, exceptional and vibrant performances. He views his ongoing documentation of ethnic minority music as an act of resistance to globalization, state-sanctioned "peasant traditions," and cultural homogeneity, and accordingly spends months living under harsh and dangerous conditions in order to capture impromptu performances in their everyday cultural context. Using this method, Jeanneau has self-produced almost 100 albums preserving threatened musical traditions from some of the most remote regions on earth, in addition to compiling multiple volumes for Sublime Frequencies. This limited edition double LP tip-on gatefold package includes striking photographs by James Stephenson and detailed liner notes by Jeanneau."
*Matt Dunning (Director) - The Stirring of a Thousand Bells DVD $15.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Gamelan is one of the ancient music traditions of the world. In Solo, on the island of Java Indonesia, it's still a part of everyday life and an important cultural custom. A complex wonder of human invention, it comes from a timeless world of aural tradition, contemplation, and relaxed living. These two films by Matt Dunning capture the essence of the gamelan tradition, in the context of the changing modern world. The Stirring of a Thousand Bells, the main attraction of this DVD, is a 35-minute sequence of audio/visual beauty centering around Gamelan Sekaten; a rarely-witnessed event that is performed once yearly at the Sekaten festival which marks the birthday of the prophet Mohamed. Sekaten is Java's most cosmic music festival, where the old world and the new are colliding, creating captivating images and sound. Srimpi Muncar is a form of Javanese classical court dancing held at the Mangkunegaran palace and is the feature of a bonus 15-minute film included on this DVD. This short blends aspects of the dance and its enchanting melodies with a variety of sublime images from throughout the island of Java, allowing the viewer to experience this magnificent island through eyes and ears. Feel what it's like to be lost in a world of history. DVD comes in a digipak with access to an online high-definition version available with proof of purchase."
*V/A - The Travelling Archive - Folk Music from Bengal: Field Recordings from Bangladesh, India and the Bengali Diaspora LP $20.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"The Travelling Archive is a journey through the folk music of Bengal. It is run by Calcutta-based Bengali singer, writer and researcher, Moushumi Bhowmik, and sound recordist and sound designer, Sukanta Majumdar. They have been making field recordings of songs and stories across Bangladesh and eastern India, even the Bengali diaspora in East London, since 2003; documenting and disseminating their research through archives, presentation-performances, art works, and their own independent record label and web site. Moushumi and Sukanta get out there, travel all over, become friends and live with the musicians, record them in their homes and villages, on their rivers, in their tea shops and work fields. Bengal, which includes Calcutta, India, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and more than 250 million people, is an amazingly diverse yet unique region, home to some of the largest cities in the world and plenty of uncategorizable and diverse folk music, including those wandering minstrels, the Bauls. The music and instrumentation presented on this LP features solo voice and chorus vocals, harmonium, dotara (four-string fretless lute), ektara (traditional one-string drone instrument), dugi (small kettle drum), bamboo flute, violin, and even an empty popcorn tub played like a drum. This is a diverse and magnificent sampling of what remains a massive archive of folk music from this region and Sublime Frequencies hopes to continue to release additional volumes in the future. Produced for Sublime Frequencies by Robert Millis, this limited edition LP comes in a tip-on heavy jacket with insert containing liner notes and photos."
*V/A - A Distant Invitation: Street & Ceremonial Recordings from Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand LP $20.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"A hallucinogenic splatter-drift audio meltdown through the streets and back alleys of Southeast Asia recorded and assembled by Seattle-based multi-sword-wielding artist Jesse Paul Miller (Factums/Secret Records/Liver & Bacon/Big Tribal Balls). This limited edition LP includes street and folk music, situational ambience, radio excerpts, and psychedelic atmospheres from Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. "We heard them from a distance, bells in the back alleys of Surakarta ... Then, one day, two weeks later, we walked around a corner and there they were, a troupe of roving gamelan musicians and a monkey with a mask ... If one wanders the streets of Southeast Asia, they will undoubtedly hear a variety of fascinating sounds; those created by street musicians, sellers in markets, horns from temples and mosques, woven with insect songs, birds, dogs, motorcycles. Intended to engage and entertain a host of spirits and gods, festivals and processions are frequent in certain regions. They can be extremely vibrant and overwhelmingly powerful energy situations. In rituals, the use of random multiple layers or instrumental vibrations can be intended to confuse or scare off bad spirits, and this can be very disorienting for the living listener also. Street musicians combine older instruments with electrical delivery systems in the form of genius portable battery-operated-waist-pack mini-horns connected to keyboards, karaoke machines, and folk instruments -- sometimes with effects. These musicians sit roadside; in some places they hop on buses between stops. In markets and along roadsides, sellers manipulate their voices to advertise using delay effects. Food cart proprietors use an incredible array of sonic methods to attract customers. They tap on objects, use steam whistles; sing like birds, use bits of Western jingles (and much more). Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim broadcasts can be heard blasting through loudspeakers. With the addition of amplification, there is usually some form of distortion inherent to the speaker systems, often magically enhancing the voices, mixing in with the urban or rural soundtrack. The sonic tapestry of any space can reveal poetic insights. There is the perspective that all audio events in an environment, regardless of their form, can be heard musically. The vitality and depth of human expression, whether awe-inspiring or minute in all of its multitudinous manifestations, is for now, intact in Southeast Asia, and very much alive." --Jesse Paul Miller; This limited edition LP comes in a full-color tip-on jacket with a two-sided insert including photos by Linda Peschong & detailed liner notes and personal impressions by sound artist & compiler Jesse Paul Miller."
*Omar Khorshid and His Group - Live in Australia 1981 LP $24.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"This is the first live concert recording ever issued of legendary Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid and his group. It features tracks recorded during his 1981 tour of Australia, including live versions of songs that grace his various LPs recorded for Lebanese and Egyptian labels during the 1970s with one phenomenal tune, "Al Rabieh," being exclusive here as never before issued in any form. The sound is surprisingly great for a live cassette recording and the band is as sharp and monumental as ever, with stunning instrumental performances throughout, including an extended improvisational rhythmic exchange between percussionist Ibrahim Tawfiek and Omar's electric guitar on the epic track "Sidi Mansour." This record is loaded with Khorshid's signature microtonal Arabesque surf guitar elegance darting atop the backing band's brilliant accompaniment, and the tones of organist Fouad Rohaiem sound raw and abrasive, as though it were still 1973. The album has even more nostalgic (and tragic) significance as these shows would be his last; a car accident claiming Omar's life within 72 hours of flying back to Cairo from Australia. Mohamed Amine, Khorshid's lifelong friend and member of his group from 1975-1981, recorded these tracks and provided the photographs that embellish the beautiful gatefold jacket that accompanies this LP. Collected and researched by Khorshid historian Hany Zaki in Cairo, this unbelievable treasure is now available for the world to behold. Limited edition LP release in a full-color gatefold jacket with exquisite photos from Mohamed Amine's personal archive and informative liner notes by Hany Zaki."
*V/A - Folk Music of the Sahel Vol. 1: Niger double LP $34.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Folk Music of the Sahel: Niger consists of field recordings collected in the Republic of Niger during the course of six expeditions undertaken by Hisham Mayet between 2004 and 2014. This first volume in Sublime Frequencies' new Folk Music of the Sahel series comprises a subjective but spectacular overview of Hausa, Zarma, Fulani, Songhai and Tuareg music culled from Mayet's rich archives. On this lavish double album, Mayet methodically reveals the dazzling range and power of Nigerian music, from stream-of-consciousness griot performances that serve as a local news broadcast and gossip column to a rare example of ritual music from a private spirit-possession ceremony. Its four sides offer a tantalizing glimpse of this region's unmatched musical riches, including the awe-inspiring courtship dances of the Wodaabe men and a rare duet between the late, great Tuareg guitarist Koudede and the renowned molo master Ousenni. The gorgeous gatefold cover features a 25-page bound-in booklet with extensive and informative liner notes, as well as Mayet's emblematic photographs from towns and villages throughout the region. In addition to preserving an exciting variety of sacred and profane musical performances by known and unknown artists, these recordings capture the music of Niger at a difficult cultural crossroads in which ancient musical and oratory traditions are imperiled both by the demands of modern assimilation and by the reactionary forces that oppose it. As such, the intent of this album is not just to document the fantastic heterogeneity of Sahelian music, but also to bear witness to the changes and challenges faced by Niger's diverse ethnic groups during a decade marked by almost inconceivable political instability and technological upheaval. Coming from an area wracked by disease, food shortages and droughts, as well as by social turmoil, this music reflects the essentially improvisational character of Sahelian life as well as its unfathomable cultural wellsprings. From exuberant a cappella drone chants to the riveting instrumental minimalism of goje possession music, the performances on this album represent a poignant cry to the universe by musicians who hold every note as sacred as the gift of enduring in this exceptionally severe region of the African continent. Housed in one of Sublime Frequencies' most stunning packages, which pays homage to the great European ethno labels of yore, this monumental one-time pressing, limited edition double LP beautifully inaugurates SF's comprehensive musical survey of the Sahel."

psykokarkki · 03.03.2015 22:41

Each month, we are focusing on a record label founded by an active digger. This month, Hisham Mayet, co-founder and co-owner of Sublime Frequencies, a label which, since 2003, has been documenting many obscure scenes, from eastern psyche pop to Sahel post folk, from ancient to more futuristic.
HISHAM MAYET: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES

Alxity · 14.03.2015 19:05

Ootkos psykokarkki tuota Radio Vietnamia vielä testannut? Onko yhtä hyvä kuin sarjan parhaat Radio-julkaisut?

psykokarkki · 15.03.2015 01:05

Alxity wrote:

Ootkos psykokarkki tuota Radio Vietnamia vielä testannut? Onko yhtä hyvä kuin sarjan parhaat Radio-julkaisut?

en oo vielä kuullu, se on vasta varauksessa eclipsellä.

psykokarkki · 07.05.2015 10:28

psykokarkki wrote:

Alxity wrote:
Ootkos psykokarkki tuota Radio Vietnamia vielä testannut? Onko yhtä hyvä kuin sarjan parhaat Radio-julkaisut?
en oo vielä kuullu, se on vasta varauksessa eclipsellä.

arvostelun perusteella vaikuttaa lupaavalta:

Roots World review of SF095 CD Radio Vietnam.
Which brings us to the latest in Sublime Frequencies' confounding, mapless, aural travelogues into the other. Like their other radio series recordings, Radio Vietnam is a jarring stew. Here we have politically charged transistor snippets, news in English, ESL lessons, Vietnamese electric slide street guitar, lo-fi, synth drenched pop not unlike the grooves from neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, and hit-and-run hunks of ethnic minority music that somehow got caught up in the mix. The track titles, as usual, only enhance the confounding collage. Morning Exercise in the Coded Ether, for example, starts with digital beats, but switches abruptly to what sounds like a Martian pronouncing doom over a zither and feedback, only to be interrupted by a young Vietnamese woman speaking about something made esoteric by its lack of context before some of the most gorgeous electric guitar balladry ever copped from radio appears. This then is interrupted again by water chimes, incantations, socialist radio and perhaps what truly is an exercise regimen. And all of this takes about five minutes.
To go through this track by track seems as futile as trying to alleviate US poverty while Republicans have control of government. On and on this collection goes, perhaps useless to Vietnamese in country, but likely a joy to the few expats to hear it. But for the audience this is no doubt aimed at, it's another blunt missive fired at an already media-saturated west from a label whose early novelty has long been replaced by some seriously profound collections. Whether or not this CD-only release finds itself amongst them doesn't really matter. Oh, and Woody Guthrie even appears for a millisecond. - Bruce Miller

toivottavasti saan kesäkuussa kuulolle.

psykokarkki · 17.11.2015 20:31

Eclipse wrote:

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
*Robert Millis - Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent double CD + Book $39.99 (Sublime Frequencies)
"Robert Millis's Indian Talking Machine is a 244-page full-color hardcover book with two CDs containing 46 tracks from shellac discs spanning 1903 to 1949, which Millis collected in India and compiled for their first-ever CD release; the book contains over 300 photographs of 78rpm record collections, collectors, and ephemera, as well as detailed track notes and an essay. Limited-edition one-time pressing of 1000 copies. These photos are true "record porn" (that is, shellac 78rpm record porn) -- photographs of shelves groaning under the weight of unimaginable titles, beautiful label- and sleeve-designs from long-gone eras, wind-up talking machines, crammed antique shops, forgotten artists, and more, all of which somehow survived (often barely) India's archival obstacles -- dust, heat, floods, rebellion, partition, and war. Indian Talking Machine is the result of nearly a year in India photographing record collections, interviewing collectors, and visiting archives and record markets; a personal take on the vast worlds of Indian music and the intricacies of collecting sound. One of the earliest non-Western outposts of the "recording industry," India's first recordings were made in 1902. The country's music is as beautiful as it is complex, as subtle as it is profound, and as divine as it is simple; these recordings offer virtuoso instrumental performances, jaw-dropping vocal renditions, folk music, comedy recordings, and even animal impressions. The 78rpm records were transferred by Jonathan Ward (Excavated Shellac) and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Graves (Analog Africa, Dust-to-Digital, Hank Williams: The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 (2014), and more). Robert Millis is a founding member of Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT, a Fulbright Scholar, a solo artist, and a frequent contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label. He compiled and co-produced Victrola Favorites in 2007 (DTD 011CD), and created both the Burmese Crying Princess (2013) and Korean Scattered Melodies (2013) LPs for Sublime Frequencies, as well as the films This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope (SF 073DVD, 2012) and Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan (2006). In short, he knows what he is doing. You will not be disappointed. Includes performances by Professor Abdul Aziz Khan, Gauhar Jan, Mysore Chaudiah, Musiri Subramania Iyer, Bangalore Nagaratnam, the Vyas Brothers, Talim Hossein, Babu Aughor Nath Chuckerbutty, L.C. Bural, Veena Shanmuga Vadivoo, Professor Barkatullah Khan, and many more."

Uudet housut ja paita · 20.02.2016 17:57

Hain tuon tänään Eroselta. Toi kirja on tosi hieno, paitsi visuaalisesti huikea ni vastoin normaalia SF-käytäntöä tässä on kiinnostavat taustat biiseistä.

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