the sigh of silver strings (2015)

more beautiful burmese music

wake to a new dawn of another astro era (2016)

new amt because it's so good

two southern dreamscapes

sven libaek's soundtrack to the classic documentary series nature walkabout for that library music vignette vibe, though i think that doesn't quite do justice to the evocative depth n power of these pieces. good for dadydream on the couch.

gondwanaland for that 4th world didgeridoo-and-electric-drum combo that is so hard to do this well. there's a combination of propulsive cohesion and legitimately good songwriting and synth-work here that puts it above and apart from all the others. successfully treading that fine line between sincerity and corny new age doodle

paradise of replica (1989)

really pretty japanese avant-prog. sounds a bit like kate bush.
ironclad mermaid

moon's smile (1996)

if you don't know about francis bebey, you should! he was a singer/guitarist/mbira/synthesizer/many other instrumentalist-ist and composer from cameroon. the breadth of styles his music encompasses is impressive (francafrique chanson, traditional/electronic fusion, classical guitar, some funk) and i think is well represented here. also "the queen of sheba" is a banger

sourire de lune

korean kayagum music - sanjo (1985)

some more kayagum sanjo, this time more modern. the second track is one of those great pieces of improvisational music that's so expansive you can lose yourself within it without even realising

green tea leaf salad - unique flavors of burmese music (2000)

i hear a lot of jon hassell in this. i don't really know what to say though, the variety of music here is stunning and sounds like little else i've heard. leafy greens

three square aussie meals

breakfast

from 2000, their first album after a 12 yr break, the friends of rachel worth is for waking up to. mclennan and forster sound more mellow and mature here but they won't put you back to sleep, because sleater-kinney (!) are backing them. will pep yr step

lunch
the gleaming promise of a new day has been tarnished and sullied by the drudgery and banal bullshit of another midweek morning; the blakeian child of yr soul has been murdered. never fear, for it lives on in no language. as you fill your body with the physical nourishment it requires, so too fill your soul with the sense of wonder and longing contained herein. let caroline no resurrect you.

dinner
the day has ended and you're finally home. at last a space on which you need not strain to impose your will, need not force back a collective mass of others forcing back a collective mass of which you are a part so as to simply even be. home is a space of rest; it harmonises with you, does not impose itself upon you. 69 sounds like home, 69 amplifies the good vibes you emanate. press play and retreat to yr real home, up there.

eclipse (2014)

compilation from finis africae member by emotional rescue (who also put out a bunch of woo releases). lush synths, sublime guitar; balearic vibes. the layers of guitar remind me at times of manuel gottsching (the track tagomago particularly) and his voice always transports me someplace good

songs from nedelino: tradition of the rhodopes (2002)

another killer from the flawless inedit label. entrancing two-part antiphonal folk songs mostly performed by groups of women in a droning style, often accompanied by the native bagpipe.

from the liner notes: "two singers start the song, one singing the first part, the other the second, then another couple continues the song as an echo"

 the way the separate vocal parts move in this really visceral dissonant counterpoint to one another really gets me.

Stop crying, Mother, 

Stop looking for a cure, 

For me the remedy has already been found, 

It is the earth which is calling me.

music from the living room (1983)

oh boy this is a doozy.  4 track jams from the living room which remind me at times of a more austere arthur russell and the minimalism of new york "funk-punk"such as ESG. music from memory pointed out the electro and boogie influences which seem more accurate. healthy doses of musique concréte, great great jams.