MEMORA8ILIA
a filing cahinet for 8sided.blog
Tokyo’s Minamo fuse acoustic guitar and electronic manipulations within elegantly improvised sound pieces. Beautiful mind-scapy stuff.
The album above as well as Durée and Shining are available as ‘name your price’ on Bandcamp for the week. Definitely worth grabbing.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/16/minamo-yarn-tokyos-minamo-fuse-acoustic-guitar/
❝ “I decided to take the surrealist approach of ‘pure psychic automatism’ to see what poured out of me,” she recalls. “Woodland Encounter,” “Under a Glass Bell,” “The Grotto,” “The Mechanical Age,” “The Flaneur,” and “Psychic Sweeping” are all products of those sessions; the through line holding them together is their exploratory spirit and clarity of vision. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/16/patricia-wolf-woodland-encounter-i-decided/
A new single song from Pye Corner Audio’s The House In The Woods side-project. Stirring stuff. I particularly love the subtle, muted kick drum, a heartbeat pulse that guides the soundscape.
The House In The Woods’ Bucolica remains one of my favorite full-lengths in the dark-ish ambient realm.
h/t @hissytapes
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/13/the-house-in-the-woods-where-path-becomes-the/
❝ Jajouka is the name of a hidden village in the Jebala foothills of northern Morocco. You won’t find it on any roadmap. But Jajouka is the home of the tribe Ahl Serif, sometimes translated as The Saintly, because they are descended from an Arab healer called Sidi Hamid Sheich, whose shrine the Ahl Serif hold sacred. The tribal musicians’ fame derives from their preservation of music whose origins go back to antiquity. William Burroughs called The Master Musicians of Jaouka “the four thousand year-old rock and roll band.” ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/12/the-master-musicians-of-jajouka-led-by-bachir/
A nice, leisurely house music track that feels like it’s played on a gamelan.
❝ The melody — a bright, expressive yet straightforward synth pattern — dates back to 2014. After seeking the therapy of dance clubs in New York City, the producer dusted it off and revamped the sequence into a pulsing track indebted to that backdrop of ephemeral bliss. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/09/ghostly-international-star-city-the-melody/