Here's a vintage stash of folk music field recordings made and released in the 1950s and 1960s by one Jean Mazel, a French cinéaste and ethnologue, about whom I can find little information online. Most of his published recordings (and a disambiguation with a namesake) can be found here, and a number of his publications are listed here.
The recordings presented here were originally released on one 10-inch album (33 RPM) four 7-inch EPs (45 RPM). They have been resequenced and made available for streaming/download by the "UK-based one-man trancedental-drone band" Tuluum Shimmering:
"First issue (LP+DL) of this previously unreleased Oriental psych monster from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Third part of Abdou El Omari's Nuits-trilogy. This album contains dazzling instrumentals spiced up with some traditional vocal parts. While playing his fine melodies Abdou switches swiftly from his "Farfisa Professional" mothership to an analog ARP."
Reissue (LP+DL) of the belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds.
"Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim Hafez, shows himself from a more experimental side on his solo albums. Originally released in 1973, ‘The Miracles of the Seven Dances’ is a pure work of genius: hypnotic organ grooves, psychedelic guitars, mystic strings and haunting percussion. Belly dance as good as it gets! "
The Residents - 13th Anniversary Show - Live In The USA
Good to see this remastered and easier to get. It's the Minneapolis show from the '86 tour of which my wife and I both saw - but at different venues. Twenty-nine tracks at 103 minutes. Snakefinger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name-your-price 67-track sampler from the taâlem label: "as last year, we've asked every taâlem (and sublabels) artist to submit a
new and previously unreleased track, created/tweaked/finalized during
2017. the response was even more massive than last year: we have got 67
tracks (there were 52 in 2016). most of the contributing artists were
already present last year, others couldn't unfortunately make it this
year but there are a lot of new names!
please enjoy taâlem's end-of-year present."
Name-your-price 67-track sampler from the taâlem label: "as last year, we've asked every taâlem (and sublabels) artist to submit a
new and previously unreleased track, created/tweaked/finalized during
2017. the response was even more massive than last year: we have got 67
tracks (there were 52 in 2016). most of the contributing artists were
already present last year, others couldn't unfortunately make it this
year but there are a lot of new names!
please enjoy taâlem's end-of-year present."
Thanks for this, it's a bit of a beast and a great bargain. I thought I had last year's comp but couldn't find it. Well it's still available NYOP also. Cheers @burntwoodfactors !
Various artists, including Aaron Martin, Jacaszek, Machinefabriek, offthesky, Antonymes, The Green Kingdom, Pausal, Autistici, Chihei Hitakeyama, and many more.
30 exclusive tracks. About 3 hours of pure illuminations.
All money raised from this compilation will go to 4 Paws for Ability
which enriches the lives of children with disabilities by training and
placing quality, task-trained service dogs.
Recently came across five NYP compilations on Crónica's bandcamp page--they include tracks from Enrico Coniglio, Stephan Mathieu + Piotr Kurek, Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello, Simon Whetham, Francisco López, and Janek Schaefer, among others:
Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of twenty short soundscapes
recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout North America.
Entitled « North American PhoNographic Mornings » this series forms part
of a wider project, « Each Morning of the World », which invites sound
artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific
point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original
composition. Weekly on Sunday morning.
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Just in at BC:
The new King Gizzard and the Lizard album free to download on Bandcamp
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/polygondwanaland
NYOP
Lowercase Noises - The Swiss Illness NYOP till Friday
Don't hear a second of Brazilian percussion in this one.
This weeks Cuneiform $5 goody. I like it (it's already on my hard drive) but you need to be in the mood for some fairly slick jazz fusion.
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-vibration
Nuits de Printemps Avec Abdou El Omari, Abdou El Omari.
"First issue (LP+DL) of this previously unreleased Oriental psych monster from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. Third part of Abdou El Omari's Nuits-trilogy. This album contains dazzling instrumentals spiced up with some traditional vocal parts. While playing his fine melodies Abdou switches swiftly from his "Farfisa Professional" mothership to an analog ARP."
Reissue (LP+DL) of the belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds.
"Hany Mehanna, beloved musician and composer of the greatest artists from the Arab world such as Oum Kalthoum and Abdel Halim Hafez, shows himself from a more experimental side on his solo albums. Originally released in 1973, ‘The Miracles of the Seven Dances’ is a pure work of genius: hypnotic organ grooves, psychedelic guitars, mystic strings and haunting percussion. Belly dance as good as it gets! "
Good to see this remastered and easier to get.
It's the Minneapolis show from the '86 tour of
which my wife and I both saw - but at different
venues. Twenty-nine tracks at 103 minutes.
Snakefinger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(imagine Malcolm Mooney fronting a Danish psych/garage band)
Sub Rosa is posting reissues (or albums from the vault) on an almost daily basis.
- Here's a few from the past week:
"as last year, we've asked every taâlem (and sublabels) artist to submit a new and previously unreleased track, created/tweaked/finalized during 2017. the response was even more massive than last year: we have got 67 tracks (there were 52 in 2016). most of the contributing artists were already present last year, others couldn't unfortunately make it this year but there are a lot of new names!
please enjoy taâlem's end-of-year present."
A full-length taste: asleep, forest, melody, path (for field recording and live performance, 2013)
Illuminations 2 (link corrected)
Various artists, including Aaron Martin, Jacaszek, Machinefabriek, offthesky, Antonymes, The Green Kingdom, Pausal, Autistici, Chihei Hitakeyama, and many more.
thanks!
Crossovers
Loud Listening Murano
Siebzehn bis ∞
Crónica L
Mus*****c
Thanks for the heads-up about Illuminations...sounds fantastic.
The Black Dog - Shards of Light NYOP