From February 11th-19th inclusive a intensely creative barrage of events, collectible items and unique experiences will be auctioned live, ON AIR on Resonance104.4FM
Tune in and take part. Browse the items here.
https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/
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The ResonanceFM Auction
From February 11th-19th inclusive a intensely creative barrage of events, collectible items and unique experiences will be auctioned live, ON AIR on Resonance104.4FM
Tune in and take part. Browse the items here.
https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Refunk the Junction, Guest Mix Tony S
Refunk the Junction: London-based producer and DJ Tony S has a broad musical pedigree. A former jazz student and session bass player, Tony S DJd at underground parties and clubs around London prior to his debut EP release on Look Ahead Records in 2011. Originals and amongst many others: Savoir Faire Musique, DeepWit and Ready Mix all contain Tony's signature style of deep, bumping grooves balanced with soulful harmonies and reaching vocals.
PLAYLIST
1. Fractalistic - Tony S
2. Water No Get Enemy - Fela Kuti
3. Matumbana - Belladonna
4. Fame (Duff Disco Edit) - David Bowie
5. P2000 (Original Mix) - Southeastern
6. Lets Do It Again (Disco Bits Edit) - Nightlife Unlimited
7. Games (Original Mix) - Tony S
8. Todd Terje - Ragysh
9. Il Veliero (BonarBradberry Edit) - Chaplin Band
10. Can’t Turn Around (Shino Blakk Edit) - Foreign Exchange
11. Silences (Tony S Remix) - Roberto Pedoto
12. Church of the Fonze - Lee Pennington
13. Shine (Pierre’s Chicago House Mix) - Midi Rain
14. The Dream (Sharam’s Deep Dish Dreamscape) - Deep Dish Presents Prana
BROADCAST TIMES
On DAB and on FM signals, on Resonance 104.4fm
11-midnight Saturday night, UK time,
Repeated Tuesday 4-5am.
Online HERE
On DAB in Brighton and online, on Resonance Extra
Catch Free Lab Radio the following Saturday night midnight-1am.
Podcasts
www.mixcloud.com/Fari
This Week's Free Lab Radio - So You Want a Revolution?
This week on Free Lab Radio an interview with a co-curator of You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Geoffrey Marsh discusses the LSD, album art, pacifism and anti-racism that characterises the era that brought in credit, the decriminalization of homosexuality and abortion, and a general civilising of mainstream society (the birth of feminism, an awareness of environmental concerns).
Artifacts on display range from the hand writing of George Harrison and William Blake to a piece of moon rock and a space suit. Also many albums from John Peel's collection feature with Jimi Hendrix's guitar remnants (after smashing), the exhibition captures the rage, power and utopianism that made the 60s one of the West's most creative and turbulent eras.
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| Installation View of Items Used by The Beatles |
BROADCAST TIMES
On DAB and on FM signals, on Resonance 104.4fm
11-midnight Saturday night, UK time,
Repeated Tuesday 4-5am.
Online HERE
On DAB in Brighton and online, on Resonance Extra
Catch Free Lab Radio the following Saturday night midnight-1am.
Podcasts
www.mixcloud.com/Fari
Free Lab Radio Podcast- New Electronica
This week's mix is by Fari B, a selection of new releases and enduring experimental tracks.Tracks include: Enlacing by Infinite Body, Fighting to Dance by Paul White, High Order Ambisonics by Center of the Universe, We Got This by The Kleenrz, The Main Thing (Ext. Remix) Roxy Music, My Brand by Sole and DJ Pain 1, Middle East by Fuewa, Organic (original mix) Jet Airess, Hum Dard Persian Enlacing by Infinite Body, Souvenir by JazzOil in Tunisia, Million Minds (Original Mix) by VNDMG.
BROADCASTS: Saturdays 11-midnight on 104.4fm
Repeats Tuesdays 4am on Resonance104.4FM On air on digital + online (London).
Repeats: in Brighton, only on digital and online - last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am @ Resonance Extra
Check Free Lab's Facebook page for more
PODCASTS: www.mixcloud.com/Fari
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Let's Have the Windows Open
"I've decided to name the whole show after you track.
Did you hear Zizek has endorsed the change Trump would bring? I'm freaked. I hate the system; Hilary is evil, Washington which she represents is evil...the system of uncapped lobby spending is evil///. Trump could devastate USA in terms of climate change and reverse progress made towards a tolerant society even further than his stupid antics already have. What to do? If the Americans won't wake up and demand, en masse, reform of their system, we can only -
Make a rave! With the windows open!
Make more music!"
The text and music for this opening and titular track on Free Lab Radio, is by Birds of Hell - who is a chap called Pete Murdoch - wearing the Trump mask too in the below video which only serves to sharpen the dark isolation the track conjures as we face powerlessly, a personal game play by people with the world in their hands.Also featured this week are Pussy Riot's new protest track against Trump: Straight Outta Vagina (this rocked a recent DJ set we did in East Germany for Radio Revolten) plus new electronic bombasticism by TikandBorrow (released by InFlux Audio also Yorkshire based - is a theme developing here), Peggy Gou, Pional, Mieux, Chrome Sparks, Aaron Jackson Ft. Megan Hamilton, Romare, Jay Daniel, Bopol Mansiamina and Justo Valdez de Son Palenque and Illum Sphere.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday Nov 5th 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, on digital radio signal and online in Brighton.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
Trump this Horror Show - New Release by Birds of Hell
"Played live, Let's Have The Windows Open digresses into semi-improvised lyrics and over the last few months Donald Trump has been the focus of these ad-libs."
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Candoco Dance, Laurie Anderson - Nils Frahm
This week we listen to the music of Nils Frahm and Laurie Anderson to mark the Sadler's Wells re-creation of Set and Reset/Reset, 1983 by the Candoco Dance Company. Candoco dance who include fully-abled and different bodied dancers, restage this landmark contemporary piece called Set and Reset by abstract, improvising choreographer Trisha Brown. This ground-breaking production is performed to a contagious score by renowned multi-media artist Laurie Anderson. Long Time no See originally performed with Richard Landry. Set, costumes and part of the lighting were also by artist Robert Rauschenberg.This is accompanied by a series of dances set to existing tracks by German producer Nils Frahm.
The Set and Reset/Reset project examines the shifting nature of
choreography in relation to underlying structures that anchor a dance to
itself. The process of re-construction (as opposed to replication) is a
negotiation between freedom and limit – an exploration of possibility
as the dancers create a new version of Trisha Brown’s landmark
choreography.Abigail Yager danced with Trisha Brown and her company 1995–2002, while she was also Trisha Brown’s musical assistant. As a reconstructor of Brown’s choreography, Yager has worked with Candoco (London, England), Lyon Opera Ballet (Lyon, France), at La Monnaie National Opera of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium), Le Festival International d’Art Lyrique (Aix-en-Provence, France).
Yager taught the Candoco Dance Company dancers exact sequences from the original choreography and later guided them in an extensive improvisation process whereby they used the same set of instructions that Brown gave to her Company in 1983: keep it simple, act on instinct, stay on the edge, work with visibility and invisibility, and get in line. Set and Reset/Reset is a combination of the 2011 and the current company’s choreography.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Pimpology
An avid selector, Mark uploads a series of mixes decidedly retro 80s sounds especially the vocals and drum beats, laid over with new millennium digital sounds - the grit of dub-step interrupted by a quick scratch on the record decks, off-laid with real dub sounds.
"Taking out, pushing back and bringing up the funk! My aim is, Not to please others. Not world domination, or fame & fortune etc. But to reach good ears."
Often you'll hear a northern accent in the lyrics. Being from Sunderland, of course Mark might be drawn to these kind of sounds, fair play.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Mutant Jukebox
Iranian born Londoner Shervin Shaeri began his career
writing music to picture for artists, directors, and
photographers.
The creative director of the creative audio agency Mutant Jukebox, specialising in bespoke music composition, Mutant Jukebox has created this guest mix for Free Lab Radio.
"On being asked to create my first ever mix for Free Lab Radio I instantly felt a little tinge of nostalgia. In the early days of the station - which at that time resided in a tiny studio in Londons tin pan ally - where I applied for a volunteering program through uni, and was kindly taken on by the team. With a some experience in engineering and audio tech I quickly was able to help out. For me, a time of discovery.My interest in experimental music started a couple of years earlier with a visit from a cousin of mine and her husband who lived out in LA. I clearly remember the day that I felt my 'sonic awareness' open up. Both had gone off for a couple of days and left me with a file of cds, and so i dived in. With hindsight it was a turning point, so the selection is a nod to that time featuring tracks by Alvo Noto and Ryoji Ikeda of Raster-Noton, Warp artists such as Boards of Canada and Plaid and Skam artists such as Bola and Quinoline Yellow."
Track List:
1. Even Spring - Plaid
2. Nothing Happens In June - Ulrich Schnauss
3. Sphere - Funckarma
4. Tank - Shuttle 358
5. In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - Boards of Canada
6. Mapa - Murcof
7. Plotreturn - Quinoline Yellow
8. Bitstream (Arovane Mix) - Phonem
9. Mdrmx - Brothomstates
10. u_08 - Alvo Noto
11. data_microhelix - Ryoji Ikeda
12. Magnasushi - Bola
13. Talgarth - Quinoline Yellow
14. Monday - Paracetamol - Ulrich Schnauss
15. Between Us and Them - Ulrich Schnauss
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
This Week's Show: Andrulian Guest Mix
Sound Art Dance Music Radio presented by Fari Bradley.
This week: Andrulian's guest mix for Free Lab Radio includes ambient, tech house and a future garage sounds. With tracks created by Andrulian for the Cities and Memory as well as Naviar Haiku by Naviar Records, Netklang Compilation by Fwonk*, the remix of Maya Wolff vocals and more, including an exclusive track for this mix.
An experimental producer, Andrulian has several solo albums online. For this mix he uses field recordings, sampled sounds and various synths and effects over the tracks. Tracklist below.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
TRACKLIST
www.andrulianblog.wordpress.com
This week: Andrulian's guest mix for Free Lab Radio includes ambient, tech house and a future garage sounds. With tracks created by Andrulian for the Cities and Memory as well as Naviar Haiku by Naviar Records, Netklang Compilation by Fwonk*, the remix of Maya Wolff vocals and more, including an exclusive track for this mix.
An experimental producer, Andrulian has several solo albums online. For this mix he uses field recordings, sampled sounds and various synths and effects over the tracks. Tracklist below.
See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts.
BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.
Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM
Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.
TRACKLIST
- Eye of the Storm (Cities and Memory project submission)
- Five Flower Lake (WEATNU Records = Summer 2016 compilation album)
- Eight Sunrays (Fwonk netlabel - Klang compilation album)
- Chasing the Setting Sun (Sunday Constitutional album)
- Echoes from Industry Long Declined (EFC project submission)
- Metamorphic (Tech Explorations album released on WEATNU records)
- Forever is Dead (Andrulian’s Wrong Choices remix of Maya Wolff vocals)
- Korhhisti (The Hesperides Sessions album released on WEATNU records)
- Resonance - exclusive track for this mix
- The Ghosts of the Night (submission for Naviar Haiku #084)
- Assimilation | Four (Assimilation album)
www.andrulianblog.wordpress.com
Autumn Programming: Free Lab Radio Presents Borderless at Battersea Arts Centre
Borderless Festival at Battersea ArtsAfter a month of suspended live programming Resonance104.4FM is back on Saturday nights 11-midnight, repeating Tuesday 4am BST (British Summer Time.)
Battersea Arts Centre host Borderless - a music series August to September in the centre's beautiful 'Council Chamber'. As per its name, the festival brings exciting and fringe
world music to this arts venue. We hear from the albums of August performers: Hackney CollieryBand, Sons Of Kemet, Dele Sosimi, Kate Bloom and forthcoming September
performers: Electric Jalaba, Meta Meta and Francesca Belmonte, Anima.
LISTEN HERE with this handy widget, or facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more information.
Also plays out on digital radio and online streaming on Brighton on Resonance Extra midnight to 1am the following Saturday nights.
http://player.resonancefm.com/
Free Lab Radio Podcast - HiPro, Live Performance for Resonance104.4FM
This podcast is a noise and experimental music mix by Hi Pro, a duo from Brooklyn. Improvising with electronic gear
as part of the small, local music collective International Winners,
HiPro release tapes and organise live events around their musical tastes.
Their bespoke mix of performances and noise tracks for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks, unreleased tracks plus selections from a recent tape release collaboration with Sun Castle. Music also comes from International Winners contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.
For more podcast mixes and original soundscapes, visit facebook.com/FreeLabRadio
Their bespoke mix of performances and noise tracks for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks, unreleased tracks plus selections from a recent tape release collaboration with Sun Castle. Music also comes from International Winners contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.
For more podcast mixes and original soundscapes, visit facebook.com/FreeLabRadio
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Night Vibes Live Mix, Fari B
Sounds come from Suck Fake, Isa GT, Steve Cobby, Tiga (Hey Today! remix) Joy Corporation and more.
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Broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm across London on air, online and on digital:
Saturday July 30th 11-Midnight (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time).
Repeats the following Tuesday:
4am UK time (7am GST)
Free Lab Radio on on Resonance Extra on digital across Brighton and online: following Friday:
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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Epic Vinyl From Brazil, Native Indian
ABOUT THE MIX.
This mix is a 100% vinyl 25-track blend of native Indian music, experimental 1970’s sound, capoeira songs and Afro-Brazilian ritual music and chanting.
The intention with this mix is to enhance the experience of the beautiful and simplistic Indian tribal music by placing it together with contemporary music and (semi) religious Afro-Brazilian styles. The process of the Epic Vinyls From Brazil mixes are a long selection.
It often happens that I discover new tracks or albums I want to buy during the research and mix selection process. Depending on price and availability I might buy these records, but they never make it to the mix, they are used as fuel and inspiration for the coming EVFB projects - thus ensuring an ongoing project that never ends.
Featured artists: Tom Zé, Hermeto Pascoal, Airto Moreira, Djalma Corrêa, Paulo Diniz, Wando, Milton Nascimento, Dorival Caymmi, Camafeu de Oxossi, Elza Soares.
BROADCAST TIMES
On Resonance104.4fm across London, online and on digital Saturday July 9th 11-Midnight on Resonance104.4fm (2-3am GST). Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)
Free Lab Radio also plays out on digital across Brighton and online the following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra
facebook.com/FreeLabRadio
When you live in Brazil as a foreigner, you come to a certain point
where you have to ask yourself what happened to the native Indians? And
where are they?” And as a DJ/researcher you wonder if there exists an
influence on the Brazilian music. My first meeting with native
Brazilians was in a hectic environment in the eviction-targeted old
Indian Museum next to Maracanã Stadium in Rio and then on a Sunday
street market in Porto Alegre, Brazil’s southernmost state capital where
I bought jewellery and figurines off a small group that hardly spoke Portuguese.And then suddenly, a day in november 2014 at a street vendor’s stall in Recife, Pernambuco, appeared before my eyes an album entitled Xingú. Now Xingú is one of the most known tribes/areas in Brazil for those who take interest in the native population, due to the Xingú river and the feature movie of the same name. but I’ve never seen that album before and had to get it. I’d never seen an album dedicated to native Brazilian culture. Only some minor bits and pieces on the bird recordings from the Amazon that I collect. Unfortunately, the street vendor saw the spark in my eyes and pushed me to pay far more than I would ever pay in a street stall. I still don’t regret it now. The Xingú album has some amazing and dreamlike chants and vocal pieces - and was even published on the Philips label. Another album - Kapoor - was found deep in the crates in Botafogo and luckily I was given a huge discount on that one, because these two pieces of rare music culture form a uniting force on this mixtape. It's the glue that keeps the mix together.
On the ABOM-2 mix, I’ve squeezed 25 tracks in on less than an hour. It’s a deep mix. Unlike ABOM-1 it is not destined for bouncing the head or dancing. It is a journey into the depths and sources of Brazilian native music - uniting the three cultures that Brazilians has been taught to make up their identity: Indian, portuguese and african. At the request of the Passive/Aggressive blog, it is also an introductory mix to get aquainted with some off-the-grid names in Brazilian music.
“Every Brazilian, even the light skinned fair haired one carries about him on his soul, when not on soul and body alike, the shadow or at least the birthmark of the aborigine or the negro, in our affections, our excessive mimicry, our Catholicism which so delights the senses, our music, our gait, our speech, our cradlesongs, in everything that is a sincere expression of our lives, we almost all of us bear the mark of that influence.” Gilberto Freyre- Anthropologist - from his epos on Brazilian culture “The Masters and the Slaves”, 1933.
The late 60’s and 70’s spurred massive creativity with sound and rhythm in Brazil, often drawing on regional and historical sound sources and inspiration, hence the tracks in this mix by master musicians Hermeto Pascoal, Tom Zé, Djalma Corrêa, Milton Nascimento and Airto Moreira. I was incrediblylucky to find a 10” record with tracks from Tom and Djalma together. Tom Zé’s albums are rare and very expensive - and of course incredible work!
Another main feature on the PAB-1 mix is the african and afrobrazilian religious tracks - devotions to Umbanda and Candomblé. Both religions are today accepted as a national heritage and I find it is important to showcase this cultural pillar and at the same time the music is compelling and very straightforward. Chanting and choral parts are in abundance!
This mix is an 25-track intense mixture of native indian music, experimental 1970’s sound, capoeira songs and afro Brazilian ritual music and chanting. Some of these elements are present in the three MPB songs that are placed in the mix to balance out the listening experience keeping the mix fresh and the sound evolving.
The intention with this mix is to enhance the experience of the beautiful and simplistic native tribal music by placing it together with contemporary music and religious Afro-Brazilian styles.
The process of the EVFB mixes are a long selection process of filing through hundreds of records. Along the way comes ideas for mix tapes - often inspired by two or three songs.The dogma rules are only vinyl owned by EVFB, only Brazilian composed music - or music recorded by Brazilian artists. The mix must be under 1 hour. Effects and scratches are allowed during the recording process. Often hours of work are put aside because the mix does not “stick together” after the initial recording. It often happens that I discover new tracks or albums I want to buy during the research and mix selection process. Depending on price and availability I might buy these records, but they never make it to the mix, they are used as fuel and inspiration for the coming EVFB projects - thus ensuring an ongoing project that never ends.
01.
00:00-01:05
Méné:Uirinã Pui - solo bamboo flute
Album: Kapoor - Cantos e Passarósnão morrem, Unicamp, 1988
I stumbled upon this amazon collectionof flute play and native indian chants while digging in a Rio store in the Botafogo neighborhood. The crate I was looking through was entitled “poetry and theatre” and I was thrilled when I found this album - not being able to find anything online about it. Imanaged to negotiate a reasonable price and here it is - spreading it to the world. The recordings are based on field work by theUniversity of Campinas in São Paulo state. It is clearly stamped“not for sale” and includes a personally signed informationletter. So I guess we are talking 500-1000 units tops. The sound isgreat and the insight into the flute play even better. Enjoy thisrare piece of native music from the heart, where the playing style ismerely “singing into the flute”
02.
01:05-03:46
TomZé: Toc - org. released on “Estudando o Samba” (ScrutinizingSamba), 1976
Composer: Tom Zé
Album: Nova História da MPB:Hermeto Paschoal, Djalma Corrêa, Walter Franco, Tom Zé. AbrilCultural 10”, 1979
Tom Zé is a living legend. And “Toc” isa driving and minimalistic track with a strong sense of rhythm wherethe staccato horns seems to take the role of the samba drums.The“Estudando o Samba” album marked his take on the samba - one ofmany Brazilian music styles but perhaps the most known one. Andamazing and unique album, that is hard to find on vinyl today, thealbum was widely overlooked when it came out in 1976 and features aknown bossa track - “A Felicidade”. It is written by Tom Jobimand immortalized in the 1959 movie “Black Orpheus” by MarcelCamus - a romantic and stunning portrait of Rio in the happy 1950’s.Before that Tom Zé had moved from Bahia to São Paulo andcontributed to the (equally rare) Tropicália album that defined the“brazil psych sound” from the 1960’s and onward. He is veryrespected and completely his own. Still active as an artist andcollabs often with young artists. Unfortunately he cancelled his gigat Danish Roskilde Festival 2015 - I was looking so much forward tohis show.
Full album link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZevnHRcibU
03.
03:46-06:00
Megarontribe members: Canta das Almas (Song of the Souls)
Album: XinguCantos e Ritmos, Philips, 1972
Another rare album with some simplybreathtaking chants. Although almost 1 million Brazilian natives andseveral uncontacted tribes exist in Brazil, the native tribes areunder constant threats from money-making projects - farming,forestation and dam construction. The Megaron tribe are currentlybeing threatened by dam building in Brazil - you can see more in thedoc below.
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61FTg_DwQE#t=139
04.
06:00-08:05
MiltonNascimento: Catavento (Weathercock)
Album: Travessia, Som Livre,1978
Org. released on Ritmos in 1967
I found this wordlesstrack incredibly beautiful and a great contrast to the vocal drivenSong of the Souls that proceeds it. It is from Milton’s debut album- reprinted in 1978 for the first time. The theme is purely Milton -flute and a catchy, light melody that buries itself deep in yourmemory and let you dream away. Milton is a master songwriter and wasbehind the “Clube da Esquina” album and the high pitched “FéCega Faca Amolada” track.
Full album link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqqc0UNxRU
05.
08:05-08:25
Vatapáintro drums
Album: Gal Canta Caymmi, Philips, 1976
Percussion:Bira da Silva + Aladim
This is to this day one of my favoritealbums and the arrangements are by two great heroes of the funkyBrazilian jazz: João Donato and Antonio Adolfo. The sound on thisalbum is absolutely amazing, crisp and loud.
It is a pureafrobrazilian percussion beat that I always play for the EVFB DJ gigsand I’ve wanted to put it in a mix in a while. One day I might doan edit of this.
Full album link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkhvt2go3Dw
06.
08:25-11:05
Gabrielde Souza Carvalho: Tocororô (Spirit call)
Album: Axêxê,Caritas, 1994 reissue
Org. released on Caritas in 1975
The“Caritas” label, taking it’s name from a Vatican charityorganization, was a label putting out candomblé and umbanda in the70s and 80s. In the mid-1990’s they re-issued a whole range ofalbums and I stumbled upon 8 of them an bought them on the spot. Isuspect the Locomotiva record store in São Paulo to be sitting on apart of the re-issue stock. Umbanda and Condomblé is the “voodoo”of Brazil. It is the remnants of the spiritism of the african slavesworked into a semi-catholic context in a beautiful way incorporatingmusic and spirit possession in an elegant way. Contrary to theprejudices often linked to “voodoo”, the rituals are quitestructured and transparent - the religions are also registered and bylaw a national Brazilian heritage. The records are important becausethey document ritual music. The Caritas albums are very different -depending on the spirits and rituals the music is dedicated to. Butmost often chanting and accompanied by swirling drums. As a westerneryou do not necessarily perceive that this is “religious” music -and I don’t really care because the quality and sound isunique.
The Axêxê album is centered around rituals for the deathand departure of a “candomblé” believer. The rituals aredifferent and treating the various aspects such as division of goods,devotion to Egum, spirit travel guidance and so on.
Link tocandomblé background:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candomblé
07.
11:05-12:45
AirtoMoreira: Identity
Composer: Airto Moreira
Album: Identity,Arista, 1975
Airto is one of the great Brazilian percussionistsand jazz drummers - his work is out there and very accessible. Hemoved to USA with Sergio Mendes and launched his career based onstrong US jazz collaborations and as a percussionist with WeatherReport. He is married to the vocalist Flora Purim - and their rangeof albums are impressive. in 2008-2010 Airto recorded and toured withthe great contemporary jazz composer and piano player JacobAnderskov. His range of sound and use of alternative instruments andvoice is incredible and this track sits perfect with the mixincorporating chanting, berimbau and simplistic percussion.
Enjoyan interview and demo in English here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGerPngUGs8
08.
12:45-15:30
DjalmaCorrêa: Tudo Madeira (All Wood)
Album: Nova História da MPB:Hermeto Paschoal, Djalma Corrêa, Walter Franco, Tom Zé. AbrilCultural 10”, 1979
Org. released on the album “Biafro”,1978.
One day in Rio de Janeiro I decided to go digging at therenowned Acarí Street Market far out in Rio’s suburbs. It was arainy day, so there was hardly no vinyl to be found and I settled onthe fact that I had been to another #urbex spot in this huge city.The Acarí Market was made famous in a “baile funk” track by MCBatata in 1990. On my way out I stumbled upon a pile of vinyl andnegotiated a price on a good stack on compilation 10”’s by Abril.These mini album was sold at newsstands in the 70s and 80s and is agreat intro and source of information (there’s 12-16 pages withtext and photo included) for Brazilian music. Luckily this particular10” holds tracks by Hermeto, Tom Zé and Djalma together - greatstuff!! Djalma’s solo work (he’s a famous and much usedpercussionist) was unknown to me. This is the closing track off therare LP MPCB/Baiafro.
Full album link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BoKYY2PEz4
09.
15:30-19:20
Wando:Odoiá (Bless me, Iemanjá)
Composer: Chico De Assis, Wando
Album:Wando, Beverly, 1976
Simply a great minimalistic track by funkyMPB favourite Wando - a devotion to Iemanjá - Goddess of theSea.
10.
19:20-19:50
Caranguére tribe members: Canto doTracajá (Song of the Tortoise)
Album: Xingu Cantos e Ritmos,Philips, 1972
Another energizing chant from the Xingú album. Ipromise to upload the full album before the end of2015.
11.
19:50-22:45
Gabriel Souza Cavalho: AmuráSebiná
Album: Axêxê, Caritas, RE 1994
Org. released onCaritas in 1975
Second death ritual song from the strong voice andchoir of Gabriel.
12.
22:45-26:15
José Ribeiro,Vila Mavangu, Xô Apanevan: Exú
Album: No Reino de Angola,Caritas, 1994 (org. release 1987)
Full group name: José Ribeiro eSeus Filhos de Santo do Terreiro Egún Nita
Chant for Exú. Thespirit (God) of movement, patience, communication, order and decline.Defender of cities and human behavior. Often Exú receives the firstoffering/devotion in a ceremony to make sure that the rest ofschedule with the many different spirits will proceed asplanned.
Here’s a whole hour of Exú music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPTu3SIBtqM
13.
26:15-28:15
Nelson:Atanara
Album: Kapoor - Cantos e Passarós não morrem, Unicamp,1988
Tribal members interpreting their ancestral songs.
Thetitle of the album is “Songs and Birds Never Die”. The Kapoortribe has been recorded solo voice, solo flute or voice and maracas -the shaker also present on many other tracks in this mix. The Kapoortribe hails from the Maranhão state in NorthernBrazil.
14.
28:15-29:35
Renaxi/Peri: Macaco(Monkey)
Album: Kapoor - Cantos e Passarós não morrem, Unicamp,1988
Tribal members interpreting their ancestralsongs.
15.
29:35-31:15
Capoeira group Pernambuco:Ensinamentos (Teachings)
Album; Capoeira nos JEBs: Cantigas, Ed.MEC, 1984
JEB is the annual Brazilian School Games that wasinitiated in the 1970s by the Ministery of Sports. Annual meetingswith youth performing sports and cultural activities. This recordingis from the 1984 edition and perhaps the fact that the games tookplace in Brasília - home of the Ministery - caused this recording tobe made. The young vocalist from Recife in PErnambuca State talksabout the culture of Capoeira and the importance of knowing historyand respecting your master - something totally in line with the themeof this mixtape.
Enjoy some street capoeiristas from Recife inthis link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcDWrDrVsE
16.
31:15-34:10
PauloDiniz: Gósto Aborrecido (Feeling bored/sad)
Composer: P. Diniz +Odibar
Album: …E agora José, Odeon, 1972
Diniz is alsofeatured on the FCOB-2 mix and a favourite for EVFB DJ gigs. This isa melancholic funk song that treats the loss of a loved person. Dinizhas produced a line of great and rare albums.
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Perexi:Puku’y (small part of song on drum break)
Album: Kapoor - Cantose Passarós não morrem, Unicamp, 1988
I blended the voice withthe breakbeat so it enhances the melancholy of the Paulo Dinizsong.
17.
34:10-35:20
Santina Toledo: Pisa na Linha deUmbanda (Step on the Umbanda line)
Album: Oxossi é Rei, Caritas,1985
Enter the ceremony, an opening song for an umbandaceremony.
A decent background story that includes umbanda:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3zQRXzuvY
18.
35:20-38:05
Camafeude Oxossi: Babá Mixorô
Album: Berimbaus da Bahia, Continental,1967
A great capoeira/berimbau album by a cultural lighthouse andcapoeira/berimbau master of Bahia, Camafeu de Oxossi. The album hasliner notes by none other than Jorge Amado - one of Brazil’sgreatest writers.
The album is not overpriced and can be bought onDiscogs, so if you like this song, move quickly. in the 1970’sCamafeu was president of the spectacular Filhos de Ghandi Afoxécarnival group that ruled the Salvador carnival with up to 10.000members playing fro-brazilian rhythms and singing in the Iorubalanguage.
The “how to make a berimbau” video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwhsZ4NyRIo
19.
38:05-38:50
Alcione:Canção de Exílio (Exile Song)
Composer: Ubiratan Souza + SousaNeto
Album: Nosso Nome. Resistência, RCA, 1987
Alcione is aBrazilian pop icon and this is a great intro to a frenetic afoxé -the pre-dominant regional music in the state of Bahia. EVFB normallydon’t deal in late 1980’s pop music, so this is a rare exceptiondue to the realness of the drums.
Full track here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSOOXBkECO8
20.
38:50-42:15
ArlindoPires do Rio: Aguere de Iansã - Odurás (Prayers)
Album: Orikinde Iansã, Caritas, 1994 RE. Recorded at the Xangô Airá AufungêgeTemple
Iansã is the spirit (God) of wind, storm and passion(stormy relations).
21.
42:15-45:00
Dorival Caymmi:Afoxé
Composer: D. Caymmi
Arrangements, percussion DjalmaCorrêa
Album: Tenda dos Milagres, Som Livre, 1985
Dorival, anEVFB favourite, is the marble pillar of traditional Bahian music. This great percussion work, orchestrated by Djalma Corrêa,translates the spirit-invoking power of the ritual drums into acontemporary pop sound.
Link to Dorivals first album from 1954:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjLzz7dho2U
22.
45:00-45:30
Tayaquim:Tukano
Album: Kapoor - Cantos e Passarós não morrem, Unicamp,1988
23.
45:30-49:45
Hermeto Paschoal: Slaves Mass(Missa dos Escravos)
Arrangements and percussion - including livepigs - by Airto Moreira
Album: Slaves Mass, Warner Bros., 1977
Yes, Hermeto is this crazy albino percussionist evenplaying on animals. That was early 2001 and the first time I heardabout Hermeto. His early works are hard to find in Brazilianpressings and he's unique in the sense that he is from a small townin Alagoas State and started playing in strong instrumental groupsQuarteto Novo and Brazilian Octopus and proceeded to be a Brazilianmusic darling even among great pop names. Brazilian musicians loveHermeto because he's good and original - his nickname is "theSorcerer" and I find his music multi-faceted and culturally deepand rich. He's active and now lives in Curitiba.
Full album link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3q1WNArobw
24.
49:45-51:55
Salveo Povo da Bahia (Salute People of Bahia)
Album: Oxossi é Rei,Caritas, 1985
A repetitive, driving song dedicated to the peopleof Bahia, the centre of African culture inBrazil.
25.
51:55-55:00
Elza Soares: Malandro(Scoundrel)
Composer: Jorge Aragão + Jotabê
Album: Lição deVida, Tapecar, 1976
The breakthrough song of now famous composerand samba vocalist Jorge Aragão performed with great emotion by ElzaSoares. Elza soon turning 80 years (I met her - wohoo), althoughsuffering from great back pains, is still performing amazing liveshows and she has developed an amazing “overdrive” singingstyle.
Enjoy the rare live version with them both together here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9b90idqvX4
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold
On Resonance104.4fm across London, online and on digital Saturday July 9th 11-Midnight on Resonance104.4fm (2-3am GST).
Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)
Free Lab Radio also plays out on digital across Brighton and online the following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra
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New Free Lab Radio Podcast: The Weird, Electronic Brokerage of HiPro, Brooklyn
Their bespoke mix of performances and noise tracks for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks, unreleased tracks plus selections from a recent tape release collaboration with Sun Castle.
Plus music from other International Winners contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.
For more podcast mixes and original soundscapes, visit freelabradio.blogspot.com or facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more music posts and news.
Broadcasts Times:
On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.
Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)
Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)
On digital across Brighton and online:
The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra
This Week's Free Lab Radio - Muqata'a مُقاطعَة (Boycott), Palestine
Hear his latest dark electronica track here, below.
We've featured Muqata'a in the past and last November 2015 we travelled to Abu Dhabi's Noise of the Middle East festival where we played the same stage. With a modest array of sound manipulating gear, Muqata'a had the audience swaying to his mesmeric, unhurried sounds, sat on Persian carpets before the stage.
Broadcasts Times:
On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital on Resonance104.4FM: -
Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)
Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)
http://player.resonancefm.com/
On digital across Brighton and online:
The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time
(10:30-11.30pm GST)
Podcasts:
Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari
This Week's Free Lab Radio: /// HiPro \\\ from Brooklyn, NY
Hi Pro, a duo from Brooklyn, NY improvise with electronic gear as part of the local International Winners Collective, a collegiate releasing tapes and organising live events around their musical tastes. This bespoke mix
for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks,
unreleased tracks and selections from a recent tape release; a collaboration with
Sun Castle.
Music also features from other International Winners Collective contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.
Track list:
Hi Pro - Dough Ground
Dean Blunt - Country
Hi Pro - $7/10
Yves Tumor - Psalm
Slow Roasters - Journey From Limerock
食品まつり a.k.a Foodman - Fire
Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Mona
Eric Copeland - SXIXO
Trabajo - Lucky Dollar City
12000 Trees - Fukai
Gobby - Taajeloc 11
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Gábor Lázár - EP1
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Amnesia Scanner - Baltic Rim/Confission
Dilian - Quasi Medium World
Hype Williams -The Attitude Era
Arca - Sad Bitch
Hi Pro + Sun Castle - Jáal ja’
Mysterious House - Beveled Glass Window and Door
Kev Brown - Language Barrier
Bill Nelson - Opium
Li Xiangting - Changmen Yuan (Resentment In Changmen Palace)
Conrad Schnitzler & Gregory Schnitzler - Contra 4
Cities Aviv - ( View 180) Picture Me Gone
Black Dice - Treetops
R. MEXICO - Scrap That (2011 Refix)
Menopausal Hound Dog - Occhi Verso Misteriosi
Milkteeth (Heidi Sabertooth) - Drift On
12000 Trees - Gravitate
Safari Explorer - Ringtonez II
The People Of Burundi - Ubuhuha
Broadcasts Times:
On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.
Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)
Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)
http://player.resonancefm.com/
On digital across Brighton and online:
The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra
Podcasts:
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