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SAMAI OF TREES: The First Single from the 'Finding Home' album

About 'Samai of Trees':

“I always wanted to write a samai, an ancient form of Arabic music that is built on a meditative 10/8 rhythm. I noticed that when I was writing I was either looking at trees or sitting under a tree in my back garden, so I called it ‘Samai of Trees’. It's a tribute to these ancient guardians of the earth who give so much healing and comfort in these challenging times.” 

Video courtesy of Classic FM 

Shirley Smart on cello 

Elizabeth Nott on percussion

Maya Youssef qanun & composition

#youtube #Samai of Trees #Maya Youssef #world music #live music loves #music loves #Finding Home #Classic FM #Shirley Smart #Cello #Elizabeth Nott #Percussion #ganun #ancient music #arabic music #meditative #ancient guardians of the earth #trees #healing #comfort

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A Conversation With Patrick O’Neil

A Conversation With Patrick O’Neil

Gifted writer, Patrick O’Neil makes a well-deserved return to Life Elsewhere to talk about the latest volume of his memoir, Anarchy At The Circle K. An in your face gut-wrenching, and at times humorous, tale of Patrick’s stint as a roadie, road manager, and drug addict during punk’s heyday of the 1980s. Crisscrossing the highways of America, on tour with such influential punk bands as Dead…

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Hi,

I make period drama style gifs. If you use gif packs, please like and reblog them. Most of my projects are already ready, but every day I post no more than 190 gifs. Because that was the reason why my previous account was blocked.

I tried to make gif packs in a format more familiar to you with a link to a separate page. However, unfortunately, I did not succeed because of the large format of high-quality gifs.

I want to explain about color processing. Usually, I improve the contrast, brightness and saturation, but leave the naturalness of the film. I don't make the contours too sharp because I like the aesthetic of it looking like a natural image.

Actors in alphabetical order: part 1(A-D), part 2, part 3

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To do list:

Léa Seydoux - under development (Roses à crédit 2010, Belle Épine 2010, Mistérios de Lisboa 2010, The Beast 2023, Dune: Part Two) Kelly Macdonald - under development (Elizabeth1998, Nanny McPhee 2005, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011, Boardwalk Empire) Emily Mortimer - under development (Elizabeth1998, The Glass Virgin 1995, Leonie 2010)\ Christopher Gorham under development (The Other Side of Heaven 2001) Lena Headey Harry Melling - The Pale Blue Eye 2022 Elle Fanning -The Beguiled, Mary Shelley, The Nutcracker in 3D, Phoebe in Wonderland

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Tad The Lost Explorer and the Crystal of Atlantis characters/ cast

Tad: Trevor white (singing: ZAYN )

Sara: Alex Kelly (singing: Tori Kelly)

Mummy: Joseph Balderrama (singing: Joseph Balderrama)

Tiffany maze: Gemma whelan (singing: Taylor swift)

Ramona: pippa Bennett warner (Bebe wood)

Victoria: Elena Sanz (singing: auli’i Cravalho)

Ramirez: Elena suarel (singing: auli’i Cravalho)

Reena: Olivia Rodrigo (singing: Olivia Rodrigo)

Lukas: Patton oswalt (singing: Justin Bieber)

Amy Jefferson: Eden Riegel

Jasmine Jefferson: Ciara bravo

Princess kida: Jenny slate

Roca: Travis Scott

Wawa: Jenna Ortega

Prya: Anna Kendrick

Luca: James corden

Anne: phillpha Alexander

Queen Rosalina: Christina apple white (singing: Jennifer Lopez )

Shanlina: Nicki Minaj (singing: phillpha soo)

Sarafina: Catherine Keener (singing: Maya Rudolph)

Max: Adam james (singing: Adam Sandler)

Jack: Ramon tikaram (singing: James Arthur)

Pickles: Gary Martin (singing: Andrew rannells)

Tiffany: Sheila Victor (singing: Renee Rapp )

Blair: dove Cameron

Ying: Constance Wu

Andrea: Cristina V

Riña: Brittney spears (singing: Brittney spears)

Ruth: snoop dog

Charlie: Jack Harlow

Ninja: Cathy Ang

Agent nick : Chris pine

Agent Lou: pitbull

Agent Justin: Lukas Gabriel

Zulo: Samuel L Jackson

Zula: china anne McClain

Joya: Becky hill (singing: Becky hill)

Other voices:

Elena: Aimee Carrero

Isabel: Jenna Ortega

Naomi: Jillian rose reed

Mateo: Joseph Haro

Gabe: Jorge Diaz

Felice: Elle fanning

Victor: may wolff

Camille: Maddie Ziegler

Odette: Carly Rae jespen

Eep: Emma stone

Dawn: Kelly Marie Tran

Guy: Ryan Reynolds

Thunk: Clark duke

Princess peach: Anna Taylor joy

Mario and Christopher maverick: Chris Pratt

Sonic: Ben Schwartz

Tails: Colleen o shaughnessy

Knuckles: idris Elba

Claire: Lexi medrano

Sam S: Anna faris

Winnie: Geraldine viswanathan

Alexandra: Aimee Garcia

Jun: Ashley Liao

Asha: Ariana debose

Mavis: Selena Gomez

Tulip: Katie crown

Queen Amaya: Angelique carbal

Dahlia: Jennifer kumiyama

Simon: Evan Peters

Hal: Niko vargas

Gabo: Harvey Guillén

Safi: ramy youssef

Bazeema: Della saba

Dario: Jon rudnitsky

Kenny: Ken jeong

Kevin: Kevin hart

Ryan: Roger Craig smith

Jessie wakins: Tiffany haddish

Flora peace: Ariana grande

Minnie wakanda: Kiki Layne

Snowy Moscow: Taylor swift

Chai Ming Kong: awkafina

Kelsey swells: Ariel winter

Nagham hugh: Beyonce

Song list:

All I want: Olivia Rodrigo (Rini wants to ask Lukas to be her boyfriend)

Watch me work: (joyas villain song ft. Her henchmen; takes place when she steals every singers and rappers talent)

Mount rageous: (joyas villain song 2.0 ft her henchmen)

Better place (family harmony): (Tad’s team frees all the singers and rappers)

Just sing (world tour): (all the singers and rappers freedom)

Marry you: Bruno mars (tad and Sara’s wedding aka epilogue)

Most wanted: (Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus): (end credits)

(All the singers and rappers will be able to be in this film)

#tad the lost explorer #tadeo jones #tadeo jones 5 #tad the lost explorer 5

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On 26 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health released the list of names of Palestinians killed since 7 October. Among them, from the Nofal family, are:

Dr. Amin Mohammed Abdullah (62) and his wife, Dr. Tamam Youssef Khalil (60);

Ayman Ahmed Abdullah (49);

Mahmoud Nasr Mohammed (41) and his son Ayoub Mahmoud Nasr (11);

Saed Nofal Saleh (39) and his children Malak Saed Nofal (17), Abeer Saed Nofal (14), Mohammed Saed Nofal (12), and Amir Saed Nofal (6);

Mohammed Hisham Ratib (38) and his brother Ahmed Hisham Ratib (35);

Hanan Ahmed Salim (35);

Maryam Mohammed Youssef (34), her husband, Moatasem Amin Muhammad, and their children, Ahmed Moatasem Amin (14), Ali Moatasem Amin (11), Fatima Moatasem Amin (1), and Amna Moatasem Amin (6);

Nabila Nasr Mohammed (33) and her children, Tamam Mustafa Amin (4), Mohammed Mustafa Amin (14), Amr Mustafa Amin (12), and Ali Mustafa Amin (less than a year old);

Moamen Amin Mohammed (32), his wife Inas, and their sons, Islam Moamen Amin (6) and Mahmoud Moamen Amin (4);

Maysarah Amin Mohammed (29), his wife Shaima, and their child Amin Maysarah Amin; and Ibrahim Hisham Ratib (29);

Amin Mohammed Amin (16) and his siblings, Hamza Mohammed Amin (11) and Ahmed Mohammed Amin (less than a year old);

Mahmoud Mustafa Amin (8);

Mayas Moaz Amin (1);

Ghayth Yasir Nabil (less than a year old) and his brother Nabil Yasir Nabil (2);

Randa Nabil Ahmed (8);

Husayn Nidal;

Iman Iyad Nimr;

Hinda Ibrahim Mohammed (23);

Lamis Marwan Suleiman (26);

Rizq Abdullah Mohammed (50);

and Ahmed Nayef (23), who was martyred in Ramallah.

You can read more about the human lives lost in Palestine on the Martyrs of Gaza Twitter account and on my blog.

#palestine #martyrs of palestine

[euriosaparisi]

Soul Fever- Maya Youssef & Friends at the British Museum

Buenas noches

#youtube

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3, 6, 10, 22, 24, 27, 28

3. Any old school favorites (pre-70s)?

A very broad question. To mention some:

"Shanghai Express" dir. Josef von Sternberg

"The House Is Black" dir. Forough Farrokhzad

"Cléo from 5 to 7" dir. Agnès Varda

"The Trial" dir. Orson Welles

"The Hitch-Hiker" dir. Ida Lupino

"The 400 Blows" dir. François Truffaut

"Rocco and His Brothers" dir. Luchino Visconti

"The Red Shoes" dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

"The Third Man" dir. Carol Reed

"Double Indemnity" dir. Billy Wilder

"Ajantrik" dir. Ritwik Ghatak

"Bicycle Thieves" dir. Vittorio De Sica

"Pather Panchali" dir. Satyajit Ray

"Viridiana" dir. Luis Buñuel

"Accattone" dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Black Girl" dir. Ousmane Sembène

"Uski Roti" dir. Mani Kaul

"Black God, White Devil" dir. Glauber Rocha

"I Am Cuba" dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

"The Hand" dir. Jiří Trnka

"The Fireman's Ball" dir. Miloš Forman

"Daisies" dir. Věra Chytilová

"Meditation on Violence" dir. Maya Deren

"The Battle of Algiers" dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

"Andrei Rublev" dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

"Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors" dir. Sergei Parajanov

"Boy" dir. Nagisa Oshima

"Persona" dir. Ingmar Bergman

"Love and Crime" dir. Teruo Ishii

"The Insect Woman" dir. Shōhei Imamura

"La perla" dir. Emilio Fernández

"Cairo Station" dir. Youssef Chahine

"Throne of Blood" dir. Akira Kurosawa

"Touch of Evil" dir. Orson Welles

"Paper Flowers" dir. Guru Dutt

"The Passion of Joan of Arc" dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

"A Page of Madness" dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa

"Tokyo Story" dir. Yasujirō Ozu

"Chikamatsu Monogatari" dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

"Les Enfants du Paradis" dir. Marcel Carné

"La Grande Illusion" dir. Jean Renoir

"Bringing Up Baby" dir. Howard Hawks

"Rome, Open City" dir. Roberto Rossellini

"City Lights" dir. Charlie Chaplin

"Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" dir. Jacques Tati

"Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" dir. Billy Wilder

6. Favorite movie from the 90’s?

Some of them:

"The Apple" dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

"Crows" dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska

"A Moment of Innocence" dir. Mohsen Makhmalba

"And Life Goes On" dir. Abbas Kiarostami

"The Piano" dir. Jane Campion

"Days of Being Wild" dir. Wong Kar-wai

"Irma Vep" dir. Olivier Assayas

"Vive L'Amour" dir. Tsai Ming-liang

"Humanité" dir. Bruno Dumont

"Beau travail" dir. Claire Denis

10. Favorite animated movie?

Already answered this.

22. Favorite Disney movie?

"The Lion King"

24. Movie that makes you cry every time?

"Call Me By Your Name"

"Brokeback Mountain"

"Portrait of a Lady on Fire"

"Aimée & Jaguar"

"The Farewell"

"My Sister's Keeper"

among others.

27. Top 5 actors?

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Shahab Hosseini

Marcello Mastroianni

Song Kang-ho

Jean-Louis Trintignant

28. Top 5 actresses?

Cruel question, but I'll go with:

Isabelle Huppert

Setsuko Hara

Smita Patil

Anna Magnani

Hedieh Tehrani

#anon #film meme #meme #personal #cinema #long post

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THE RETRO BIG MIX - JUANUARY 2018

THE RETRO BIG MIX – JUANUARY 2018

THE RETRO BIG MIX – JUANUARY 2018 TRACKLIST 01 – Abelardo Carbonó (feat. Quantic) – La Piña Madura02 – Wayna – Echo03 – The Marion Gaines Singers – You Can’t Stop Me Now04 – Marsha Hunt – Baby John05 – Morgan Heritage – Want Some More feat. Mr. Talkbox06 – Islandman – Agit07 – Maya Youssef and Sebastian Flaig – Hi-Jazz08 – Juicy Lucy – Just One Time09 – Co.fee – Everything Must Go – Panfilo10 –…

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#2022 #Alternative #Alternative Fusion #BIG MIX #Compilation #Dj #DJ WATW #Electro #Free #Full Album #Funk #Hip Hop #Indie #Jazz #JUANUARY 2018 #Mixtape #Music #Reggae #Rock #Soul #stream #Streaming #THE BIG MIX #THE RETRO BIG MIX #Wax Around The World #World #World Music

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BEST OF 2022...English

BEST OF 2022…English

tracklist: Ubuntu by Sona Jobarteh Ta’u Tama by Small Island Big Song ( Vaiteani ) Soul Fever by Maya Youssef Por Que Ou Ka Fe Sa by Fabrice Henri ( GUTS ) Djolof Blues by Alune Wade Llora El Viento by Juan Carmona Phantom Threshold by Steve Dawson Reggae Y Son by Havana Meets Kingston Road To Know by Black Jesus Experience Mbilo by Celine Banza Julu Kuta by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Tria…

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Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, & More Discuss Being Multi-Nominated Emmy Contenders | Entertainment Weekly

Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, & More Discuss Being Multi-Nominated Emmy Contenders | Entertainment Weekly

Angela Bassett, Wanda Sykes, Dan Levy, Maya Rudolph, Giancarlo Esposito, and Ramy Youssef discuss being multi-nominated Emmy contenders. Subscribe to EW ►► http://bit.ly/EWSubscribe Watch interviews with your favorite celebrities from the world of entertainment. What was it like for Brad Pitt to work with Leonardo DiCaprio, what does Scarlett Johansson have to say about Black Widow, and much…

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Stroud Sacred Music Festival set to return to St Laurence Church

The Stroud Sacred Music Festival at St Laurence Church, Stroud, has become an iconic event in the Stroud calendar, bringing a world-class line-up of global musicians year after year since 2015. The theme for 2022 is ‘Music from out of Exile.’ “We are thrilled to welcome back Syrian ‘Queen of the Qanan’ Maya Youssef, and her brilliant sextet, as our headline act in the evening concert on…

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Coupe du Monde 2022 : à la rencontre des capitaines !

Lionel Messi, Luka Modric et Cristiano Ronaldo font partie des superstars qui seront les capitaines de leurs nations lors de la prochaine Coupe du monde de la FIFA 2022 au Qatar, selon Goal. La Coupe du monde 2022 sera la 22e édition du plus grand tournoi international de football depuis sa création en 1930. Le tournoi devrait se dérouler du 21 novembre au 18 décembre au Qatar. La dernière coupe du monde de Messi et Ronaldo ? Le match d'ouverture du tournoi opposera les Pays-Bas au Sénégal dans le groupe A au stade Al Thumama de Doha. La France est l'actuel détenteur de la Coupe du monde. Elle a battu la Croatie 4-2 en finale de la Coupe du monde 2018. Cela lui a permis de remporter son deuxième titre mondial. Il convient de noter qu'il pourrait y avoir un changement de capitaine d'ici au début de la Coupe du monde. Cela pourrait être dû à diverses raisons, dont les blessures. Lionel Messi et Cristiano Ronaldo pourraient très bien disputer leur dernière Coupe du Monde. Ils ont tous deux fait leurs débuts en Coupe du monde en 2006. Depuis, aucune des deux superstars n'a manqué une seule édition du tournoi. Ils participeront également à la Coupe du Monde 2022. Cependant, il est fort possible que Messi et Ronaldo participent à la dernière Coupe du monde de leur carrière respective. Cristiano Ronaldo est actuellement âgé de 37 ans et aura la quarantaine au moment de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA 2026. Lionel Messi, quant à lui, aura 39 ans au moment de la prochaine Coupe du monde. Cette édition se déroulera en Amérique du Nord. Aucune des deux superstars n'a goûté à la gloire de la Coupe du monde au cours de sa carrière. Lionel Messi a été le plus près de remporter le tournoi en 2014, lorsque l'Argentine a perdu en finale contre l'Allemagne. Cristiano Ronaldo, quant à lui, n'a jamais dépassé les demi-finales d'une Coupe du monde. Le Portugal a terminé quatrième de la Coupe du monde de la FIFA 2006, ce qui constitue le meilleur résultat de Ronaldo dans le tournoi. Lire aussi : Coupe du monde 2022 : Le prix des places aux stades du Qatar UEFA : Belgique : Eden Hazard Croatie : Luka Modric Danemark : Simon Kjaer Angleterre : Harry Kane France : Hugo Lloris Allemagne : Manuel Neuer Pays-Bas : Virgil van Dijk Pologne : Robert Lewandowski Portugal : Cristiano Ronaldo Serbie : Dusan Tadic Espagne : Sergio Busquets Suisse : Granit Xhaka Pays de Galles : Gareth Bale CONCACAF : Canada : Atiba Hutchinson Costa Rica : Bryan Ruiz Mexique : Andres Guardado USA : Christian Pulisic CONMEBOL : Argentine : Lionel Messi Brésil : Thiago Silva Équateur : Enner Valencia Uruguay : Diego Godin Lire aussi : Qui va gagner la Coupe du monde 2022 au Qatar ? Voici notre prono ! AFC : Australie : Mathew Ryan Iran : Ehsan Hajsafi Japon : Maya Yoshida Qatar : Hassan Al-Haydos Arabie Saoudite : Salman Al-Faraj Corée du Sud : Son Heung-min CAF : Cameroun : Vincent Aboubakar Ghana : Andre Ayew Maroc : Romain Saiss Sénégal : Kalidou Koulibaly Tunisie : Youssef Msakni Lire aussi : Coupe du Monde 2022 : 1,2 million de billets vendus !   Read the full article

[twistedsoulmusic]

Maya Youssef, hailed as the ‘Queen of the Qanun,’ has built up an awe-inspiring body of work since her debut album in 2017. Her new album Finding Home is every bit as beautiful as any of her previous releases and is one of those rare gems that we instantly fell in love with that will appeal to a broad cross-section of music fans.

#arabic #classical #qanun #Bandcamp

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Listed: Elkhorn

Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner joined forces as Elkhorn in 2013, Sheppard on 12-string and Gardner on 6-string. Together they’ve made a string of gorgeous duet albums on Feeding Tube and now Beyond Beyond Is Beyond records, while supporting the growth and scholarship around American Primitive guitar playing in a variety of ways. Sheppard, in particular, has been active in organizing the 1000 Incarnations of the Rose festival and documenting players including Glenn Jones, Nathan Bowles, Chris Forsyth, Ryley Walker and others in video. Their latest album, The Storm Sessions, comes from a snowed-in session in Brooklyn when a cancelled concert turned into a prolonged and graceful meditation on the possibilities of guitars and guitar-like instruments.  In her review, Jennifer Kelly wrote, “… a tribute to filling in the quiet spaces that have arisen unexpectedly out of chaos and disappointment, but which are, themselves, very peaceful and beautiful.” Drew Gardner contributed this list.

I put this list together with the thought of talking about some music that overlaps with elements of The Storm Sessions. There are several shared elements at play in these records: songs using longer durations that unfold in suites, improvisation, the blending of several genres-sounds-traditions, gradual development, the use of calm/blissful moods, and players who tend toward letting the music guide the playing.

Mary Lattimore —The Withdrawing Room, “You’ll Be Fiiinnne”

The Withdrawing Room, harpist Mary Lattimore’s debut album, unfolds beautifully with delay-soaked harp mixed with bubbly psychedelic electronic textures courtesy of Jeff Zeigler. Lattimore knows how to use patience to build a feeling of calm tranquility and often walks her harp figures beside a stream of contrasting ambient sound. She glides though different sound areas without trying to push the songs around, letting the music be. The results are lovely and dreamy.

Maya Youssef —Syrian Dreams, “Queen of the Night”

Maya Youssef is an expert player of the maqan, a traditional Middle Eastern plucked instrument in the zither family. She grew up in Damascus and now lives in England. Defying the tradition that only men could play it, she has innovated the maqan as a solo instrument beyond its conventional use in larger ensembles. The instrumentation on Syrian Dreams is maqan, percussion, cello and oud, the textures of which blend into sets of suites that seem to tell many stories. This is a record of original compositions of Middle Eastern music that seamlessly incorporate the sounds of flamenco and jazz. Somehow Youssef’s group also reads like a freak folk chamber band. She’s unafraid of the healing power of music, and she connects her compositions with both the ancient and the difficult recent history of Syria.

Sunburned Hand of the Man—Headdress, “Shitless”

Gloriously lo-fi collage-ist space jams, cohesive in their disjointedness. Like GBV, the low fidelity makes it more intimate. As with most of their catalogue this is a head-trip and also a lot of fun. This record puts all the myriad things they’re capable of into perfect balance: uniquely fried “Massachusetts dub,” comical Dadaist prank-chants, slow loose funk grooves with all kind of friendly space debris orbiting around. Each song has at least three different genres melting in and out of it, and it all sounds like a party. They don’t order the tunes around, they let what’s happening happen. There’s plenty of improvisation here, but without a big demand for the guitars to need to get anywhere—what a relief. They’re happy being where they are, floating over the rhythm section and soaking in the cascades of color, relaxed and weird-blissful.

NNCK—Qvaris, “The Doon”

NNCK went to great lengths to secure certain freedoms, especially freedom from fame and freedom from commerce. Those freedoms are put to great use here and the result is a floaty ego-differed collective texture and with a groove and a vibe. It feels like all the players are steering the boat. Everyone is thinking about the total sound and the overall flow. Everyone’s in charge and no one is. They improvise and move from zone to zone, sound world to sound world. There are trippy drones, ritual percussion, and calm, bizarre and soothing textures. The songs sound like they’re improvised in a way that allows them to be self-assembling/self-disassembling ensemble music. It sounds like life forms are evolving. The various combinations of different elements create a lot of variety as the landscape scrolls by. Need some dilating texture-walls shifting into a bonus of damp squishiness? You got it. Need some mescaline-fueled post-rock? You got it. Rustically glowing biomechanical insects morphing into autumnal haze? Yup. Malfunctioning alternate-dimension windchimes into Dada kabuki Muppet theater? Cannabinoidosaurus Rex chill out wedding music into Martian organ grinder swing winding up at third-pot-brownie-surf-rock? You get the idea. There’s something for everyone. All the song/soundscapes flow through these ecosystems with a “how did we get here?” effect. The players find different windows in the soundscape. It never feels crowed. Sonically occupying the space they’re in, they let the music become itself rather than trying to control it.

Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society—Mandatory Reality, “Finite”

I first heard this record last year in the Elkhorn tour vehicle while Jesse and I we were driving from the Milwaukee Psych fest to Chicago. It turns out that being stuck in a car for several hours moving at twenty miles an hour in a white-out is the perfect context for experiencing this music. There was something about the slow speed, the need for concentrated attention, and the monochromatically unfolding landscape that really enhanced the experience of the music. Abrams’ use of slow tempos, repetition, long durations, gradually shifting textures and cycles of chords and melodic figures was perfectly mirrored in the snowy drive. He allows the music to repeat and unfold without needing to rush in contrasting sections or motifs. It’s patient and languid and mesmerizing. Done in real time with no overdubs, it blends several sounds beautifully: minimalism, Gnawa music and modern Chicago free jazz. At times it feels like a radically becalmed Braxton Ghost Trance piece transmuted into something like the spacious Tabla Tarang playing of Pandit Kamalesh Maitra or the straight 8ths of Gamelan music with John Luther Adams-style long tones stretched over it. When we arrived in Chicago the snowstorm had abated after the long drive, and as I stepped out of the car into the slush I felt refreshed rather than exhausted.

Pauline Oliveros with Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis—Deep Listening, “Lear”

Deep Listening was improvised with no overdubs using just-intonation accordion, trombone, didgeridoo and voice in a cistern in Washington State that once held two million gallons of water. This space featured a natural forty-five-second reverb. As dolphins know, reverb is a kind of image—information about space in sound form. On this record the players, the environment and the instruments all combine to become intertwined into one system. I’ll let Oliveros say it: “The Universe is improvising and we have evolution, so improvisation is always happening.”

Cul De Sac—Immortality Lessons, “Blues in E”

Cul De Sac featured Glenn Jones on electric twelve-string guitar before he turned to solo acoustic music. The band played improvised instrumental rock that crossed over several genres: Krautrock, psych-rock, surf-rock and American Primitive. This record was recorded live at a college radio station in one take under less than ideal circumstances and it’s a great example of turning lemons into psychedelic lemonade. This music flows and develops in suites, using various groove/dissolve/solo patterns than unfold with an expansive vibe. Everyone in the band is thinking about the whole arrangement, not just the parts. It’s genre blending, full-band texturing and rewards repeated listening. One can only hope for a reunion one day.

Marisa Anderson—The Golden Hour, “In the Valley of the Sun”

The Golden Hour is a record of solo fingerstyle electric guitar improvisations recorded straight to tape. It sounds like she’s doing variations on open themes and the results feel modern/spontaneous and composed/traditional at the same time. She has a warm, woody guitar tone, often tastefully overdriving the amp in a lush manner, using a nimble rhythmic gait. This works as psychedelic guitar music and at the same time resonates with the old American music traditions she’s connecting with. Her blend of genres is country blues, country and western, and folk, put together in concise songs that always have a coherent flow of ideas with sometimes subtle hints of deconstruction. She’s not afraid of the pleasures of meandering. This is music that sounds like it’s dreaming through guitar history as a kind of meditation.

Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain—Rag Madhuvanti, Rag Misra Tilang, “Rag Misra Tilang”

Shivkumar Sharma plays the Santur, an Indian box zither, not unlike a western hammer dulcimer. Sharma is credited with bringing this folk instrument, normally associated with the Sufi music of Kashmir, into Indian classical music. Indian music involves several of the elements I’ve been discussing in this list: long duration, improvisation, and drone. There’s something about the cascading overtones of Sharma’s Santur playing that reads as especially psychedelic, unfolding in undulating patterns using his knowledge of tabla rhythms. He wasn’t afraid to risk innovation and prove that a folk instrument could be used for high art. This album is mesmerizing, beautiful, and rejuvenating.

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