Listening Room Series # 9: imaginary territories
P & O - Pop and Oriental: The fascination of the Orient in pop music
Thank you very much for being here with us tonight for the ninth listening room. We are inaugurating a new series. Imaginary lands is the appellation of origin uncontrolled music zones blurred. Tonight we talk back and forth between East and West, pop label.
A mixture of borrowings, homage, under cover of exotic (or looking the other), mapping a kind of non-place: lost in translation as travel within the country ... Other
Thanks to Ingrid for his support and to Francis for his participation in the mix tonight. Unlike last time where our pieces fit together into each other, we wanted to respect the borders (speaking of imaginary lands).
Thanks also to Geoff for hosting us in his place (so mirror the theme of tonight).
P & O: tracklisting
Part of Axel
Yannick Dauby : TW 04-05: Soundscapes Taiwan; underground alleys of Taipei; acoustic traces of over-activity urban soundscapes of places encountered (and speaks the record of this CD released ERE on the label). Asa Chang &
Junray: Toremoro: Asa-Chang is a self-taught master of the tabla. Junray is the name of the hardware it uses. Based in Tokyo, he performs a unique blend of poetry metronomic background sitar. A master of the exotic Leaf signed on the label (see below comments of François). Killer Bong
: TokyoDub: mysterious artist signed to the label PowerShovelAudio presents artists like the future of the Tokyo Underground. The site is fairly terse. TokyoDub pretty much sums up the idea of a territory imagianire.
Riow Arai: Disturbance: An abstract hip hop producer in the heart of Tokyo, influenced by Chicago post-rock and electronica German: the temptation is too great. This artist is trying, too, to blur the line and that's why you hear tonight. Another signature of the Leaf label.
Lippok Robert & Barbara Morgenstern: Kaitisburi: Berlin is the capital of electronic music and Barbara Morgenstern is an ambassador of choice, along with Ellen Alien. Here she joins Robert Lippok for a disk of (al-) chemistry sound. Two pieces of TESRI (the name of the album) are sung by some Mieko ShimizoCe disc was released on Berlin label Monika Enterprise. The whole theme of our evening is condensed in this kind of collaboration. The duo is he looking for a touch of exoticism? Mieko he brought one of his trips to Japan? Many are those who play the game from the East to the east of the East ...
Arovane featuring Kazumi: Pink Lilies: Uwe aka Zhan Arovane is a German artist who offers an electronic music that blends smoothly with the regular rhythm machines. One of the spearheads of the label City Centre Offices. Here he appeals to the charms of voice Kazumi. . The remark made for Lippok / Morgernstern remains valid ...
SPK: With love from China: SPK (for Socialistische Patienten Kollektiv) is an industrial group of the 80s. Led by Graeme Revell (who is now a successful composer of film scores for Hollywood), this group has negotiated a turn pop collaboration by allying to itself the beautiful Sinan (sort of Asian Grace Jones). This song is taken from Machine Age Voodoo whose cover is any impression of modernism post-revolutionary (Graeme and Sinan are dressed by Comme des Garcons). A piece of history in fact appeared on the Elektra label.
Music From China: Jie Xing: Chinese orchestra that is based in New York. What next carry on its traditions when we saw them from afar? China these musicians is it not also an imaginary territory? This piece is from the compilation New York City: Global Beat Of The Boroughs (music from NYC's ethnic & immigrant communities) appeared on the label, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
World Standard: Country Sad Ballad Man: Japanese who pay homage to the music of the banjo in rural America, "that we could be of interest to close this part of the mix. Harry Hosono and Suzuki Sohichiro (see Lowest commentary Francis) lead us in this country that announces a future virtual listening room devoted to another America. This disc is a publication of the label Asphodel.
Part Francis
Sketch Show: Ekot (Cornelius remix): Yukihiro Takahashi and Hosono Haruomi, former members of the famous Yellow Magic Orchestra, weave a delicate combination of folk pop and electronica. Here in a finely crafted version by Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada). Asa Chang &
Junray: To Tsuginepu Ittemita: Japanese percussionist Asa Chang scrambles benchmarks by mixing Indian tabla and Japanese spoken word to create a meditative atmosphere and strange. Takagi
Mesakatsu: Fore: Takagi Mesakatsu manufactures small thumbnails musical form of haiku, made childlike melodies and subtle Japanese electronics hacks.
Air: Alone in Tokyo: Air indulges in reveries of Tokyo, for the soundtrack of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. Kid Koala
: Emperor's Main Course in Cantonese: A master in the audio connections, Kid Koala revisits the theme of The Last Emperor (music by David Byrne signed) by the sprinkling of hip hop beats, and vocals from scratch.
Four Tet: She Moves She: Brewing multiple influences - from classical music to free jazz, Kieran Hebden on combines "She Moves She" rhythmic removed, and Japanese instruments and distorted guitar.
A new way to participate
For the future, I would launch a new mode of participation in the listening room. I am so very close, the titles of three specific labels: Leaf, City Centre-Offices and Staubgold. The idea is to help in the acquisition of these catalogs. For the next room listening, it will be possible to make contact with me and instead of contributing financially, you can order a specific CD. The person enjoys the CD until the evening of the chamber Listening to it brings by way of participation. The advantage is threefold:
You contribute to building a collection,
You learn a hard few weeks, you realize
economy (a CD is cheaper over the internet). About Blog
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rooms listening to come
- # 10 DJ Culture: 5x10 (five DJs ten songs they like to dance) . In Zonneklop, rue de la paix. A nod to the dictatorship of the dancefloor.
- # 11 H2O: qualities Sound of the Blue Gold (Series 4 elements). With a mineral water bar (as in Japan).
- # 12 of the finger: the accordion and harp in the service of pop music (instrument set).
- # 13 Music and Politics: from my village in the world (and back) (series Para / / ELE). With policies to prepare for parliamentary elections next year.
- # 14 Central Station: Trains, sounds and imaginary voyages (Series Items)
- # 15 New Weird America: United States: an imaginary continent Sound (Series imaginary territories)
- # 16 To continue in French, type 1 The phone and deflections in music (Series Items)
If you want to collaborate on these projects or suggest another topic, please come ...
Extensions (to be together or separated)
Later in November, the idea would be to visit all the main exhibition Bozar festival devoted to India: Eternal Energy 1500 years of Indian art.
The 01 or December 2, still at Bozar, the spectacle of the contemporary dancer Padmini Chettur (15 euros, I will get the seats ...)
November 23 at Recyclart in the beautiful series Haunted Folklore concert Leafcutter John (whose latest CD released on the label Staubgold is a marvel)
Before the end of the year, the exhibition ARAKI, life to death at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi .
CD tonight
For reasons beyond our control, the CD is not ready tonight (We did, Francois and I had no time to see us). But the mini-disc to record everything and we will transfer the mix to CD. Finally, we'll do the number of copies you need. Complete the attached heel and I pledge to send to each his copy (and, like any good marketing method, I will use your data only for listening rooms.)
Thanks (those who have not opted for the sushi at 20 euros to ensure discharge of 5 euros TECC (Tax Listen to the Collective Context). The aperitif is offered fully
J Axel
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