A brilliant “ethno-cosmic” trip, full of middle eastern sampled psychedelia … fully deserving of the >far out< categorisation.
ch00n!! produced this mix for the wonderful Blowing Up The Workshop series:
“Taking inspiration from the ethno-cosmic music of the 80s and early 90s, Muslimgauze, Fourth-world Japan, Crammed’s ‘Made to Measure’ series, or going back further, other samplers of Middle Eastern and North African sonic traditions including library recordings. I was attracted to the laconic spaciousness and heaviness of some of this music – the rippling dubbed saz loops, desert ambient interludes, complex hand-drum patterns and the samples of arabesque voices and strings – sounds that don’t just feel like exotic add-ons to standardised motifs, but are instead heading off confidently in their own direction, part of their own aesthetic and sonic organisation. A psychedelic mind-meld of East and West.”
Tracklist:
· PAOLO MODUGNO – IL MINARETO/DEUX FILLES – THE SUN ON THE SEA
· CLAUDE LARSON – HYDERABAD
· WILLIAM HOSKINS – SONG: OPEN SKIES
· RENALDO & THE LOAF – KOUS KOUS WESTERN PARTS 2 & 3
· PAUL DRESHER – DELTA CLAVÉ
· STEVEN HALPERN ?- ISLANDS IN TIME
· THE HI-TONES – IBRAHIM
· NEO – THE BHUTAN
· KARL BISCUIT – FABLES PREHISTORIQUES – PTEROGLYPHE
· DAVID SYLVIAN – WORDS WITH THE SHAMAN, PT. 2: INCANTATION
· MUSLIMGAUZE – EMPTY QUARTER (PART I)
· GREGORY TAYLOR – PATHS FROM TREE TO TREE
· SCOTT FRASER – AZAN
· DAVID PARSONS – BENGAL VILLAGE
· NYANTORA – WAVE
· DANIEL SCHELL & KARO – 3 MOUSTIQUAIRES
· LUIS PANIAGUA – AQUI Y AHORA
· MARC BARRECA – IN A FOREIGN LAND
· RAMUNTCHO MATTA – ZOIQUE III
· SHEILA CHANDRA WITH THE GANGES ORCHESTRA – DRONE, DRONE, QUICK, QUICK, DRONE
· TIBOR SZEMZO – GAZA STRIP
· PORT SAID – SAMBA DEL SOL
· ROGER BAUDET ?– REVERIE
· HARUOMI HOSONO – SPINNING SPIRITS
· MICHAEL SENA – FISHERMAN DANCE
· CHI – DANCE
· WALLY BADAROU – DANCE IN THE DUST
· YOICHIRO YOSHIKAWA – TASSILI N’AJJER
· CLAUDE LARSON – RADSCHASTAN
· KEN DAVIS – ARABIC
· RÜDIGER LORENZ – STRANGE FEELING
· MUSLIMGAUZE – ROMANIE ABUSE
More info:
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