#laraaji

[bahatitx]

#laraaji

[kickerofelves]

André 3000 Digs Jazz

André 3000 shares his favorite jazz songs

#André 3000 #New Blue Sun #Jazz #i love that there's so much Steve Reich on here #Hiroshi Yoshimura #Laraaji #John Coltrane #Thelonious Monk #Amjad Ali Khan #Lakshmi Shankar #Igor Stravinsky #Steve Reich

[jacobwren]

Shabaka - I’ll Do Whatever You Want (Visualizer) ft. Floating Points, Laraaji

#shabaka #laraaji #floating points #andré 3000

[remainsstreet]

#coral morphalogic #laraaji #robert beatty #miami beach bandshell

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

D. Rothon - The Ghost We Bring (Clay Pipe Music) Glacis - You Are Born (Preserved Sound) Hania Rani - Ghosts - from Pradziady (Gondwana Records) Cass. - Let's Keep Us Close Until We Die (ft. Altars Altars) (Home Normal) Amanda Whiting - Gone (Jazzman) Laraaji - Illusion Of Time (Ahead Of Our Time) Greg Foat - Motherly Love (Strut) Trigg & Gusset - Blue Shades (Preserved Sound) Andrew Wasylyk - Avril Hydrangeas (Clay Pipe Music) ambientsketchbook - Life's Greatest Questions (Self Released) Good Weather For An Airstrike - All Is Lost (ft. Jamie Brett) (Hawkmoon Records) Ezra Feinberg - Letter To My Mind (Related States) Kryshe - Fragile (Serein) José González - Head On (Imperial) Leifur James - Time (Night Time Stories) Phi-Psonics - Mama (Nightnote Records) Slow Meadow - Tethered To The Earth (Self Released) Luke Howard Trio - A Plane Of Becoming (Hobbledehoy) Matthew Halsall - Reflections (Gondwana Records) Penguin Cafe - Protection (Erased Tapes) Portico Quartet - Gateway (Gondwana Records) The Cinematic Orchestra - Wait For Now / Leave The World (Ninja Tune) Thomas Méreur - Left Behind and Irretrievably Lost (Preserved Sound) The Search Party - So Many Things Have Got Me Down (Ole Smokey Instrumental Edit)

Download via [HEARTHIS]

#mixamorphosis #dj mix #soundcloud #ambient #downtempo #electronica #contemporary jazz #D. Rothon #Glacis #Hania Rani #Cass. #Amanda Whiting #Laraaji #Greg Foat #Trigg & Gusset #Andrew Wasylyk #ambientsketchbook #Good Weather For An Airstrike #Ezrs Feinberg #Kryshe #José González #Leifur James #Phi-Psonics #Slow Meadow #Luke Howard Trio #Matthew Halsall #Penguin Cafe #Portico Quartet #The Cinematic Orchestra #Thomas Méreur

[dustedmagazine]

Laraaji — Segue to Infinity (Numero Group)

It was brass, as the artist remembered nearly four decades later, layers of brass harmony that remained somehow static, neither beginning nor ending. It was a pivotal moment for the then Edward Larry Gordon, whose middle and last names were eventually and ceremonially conflated to Laraaji. That moment of sonic vision led, with the inevitability of destiny, to the music in this 4-LP set containing some of his earliest released and recorded works.

While his most celebrated contribution is certainly his Day of Radiance album, an entry in Brian Eno’s Ambient series and produced by him, Laraaji’s discography is daunting, parts of it very difficult to track down. This set is a welcome addition to that catalog, documenting a formative phase of the instrumentalist and meditator’s journey.

As the liner notes attest, somewhere between that revelatory sound experience and these late 1970s sessions, the former comedian walked into a pawn shop and, heeding the intuitive voice he learned increasingly to trust, traded his guitar for an autoharp. Taking the bars out, he moved toward being the musician heard on that Eno collab and on his first album, Celestial Vibration, released in 1978 on the obscure SWN label and still under his birth-name. It’s the first LP in this set.

All of the trademark musical vibes pervade the two 25-minute pieces for electrified zither, peppered with effects and crackling with his trance-inducing rhythmic energy and focus. Even more wonderful is the music’s diversity as it either drives or insinuates a more sedate entity that it would be incomplete, even contradictory, to call motion. The sounds often emerge in cycles, sometimes engendered by the effects, creating a sort of rhythmically contrapuntal state that still avoids the goal-driven aesthetic associated with such conventional notions. These are overlapping and evolving cycles illuminating the path inward. The filtered resonances delineating “All-Pervading” sweep up and down the sound spectrum, invitations to partake in reflection even as the zither thrums with motoric insistence, leaving aside another more percussive sound entering a whole new harmonic area! Then, suddenly, only the complex sweep and rainbow-soft glissandi remain.

While such sounds embody and anticipate descriptors of the “New Age” genre, Laraaji’s music is far too complex for facile pigeonholing. “Bethlehem”’’s edgy opening, replete with scrapings, high-pitched rasps, rhythmic knocking and a few silences that either jar or seduce, defies all categorical felicity. Like the artist performing these vast sonic tone-paintings, the soundscape must be taken on its own terms.

The same is true for the three LPs of material only now seeing complete release. What a luxury it is to float down the titular piece’s flute-and-zither tributaries, each overtone beautifully captured as the flute traverses the stereo spectrum, gently ebbing and flowing through sound and silence until the cradling rhythms ensue. Those effect-driven eddies also permeate the bells and strings dialogue of “Koto,” placing even familiar sounds somehow beyond or just outside themselves. Tremolo, phase and vibrato carry and enhance each plucked timbre, liquifying the icy crystal transient peaks articulating their creation. The complex motions of hands or mallets on wire and wood are as faithfully rendered as the music’s raw power is both palpable and elusive.

By “Kalimba 4”’s hypnotic conclusion, during which the overtonally rich thumb piano articulations ultimately dissolve into a quietly salutary exhortation, a vast sense of completion is palpable. It is as if each of these eight excursions presents one facet of that harmonic revelation that put Laraaji on the path, each microcosmic repetition speaking to a stage in a development spiraling toward the unity at the music’s heart. This is now the most comprehensive collection of Laraaji’s work from this formative period, and the liner notes, including a wonderfully perceptive essay by Vernon Reid, give verbal voice to the celebration warranted by such a comprehensive package. 

Marc Medwin

#laraaji #segue to infinity #numero group #marc medwin #albumreview #dusted magazine #box set #electric zither #flute #kalimba #new age #brian eno #new york city

[nativetrio]

Laraaji in the park

#Laraaji #music #meditate

[coralmorphologic]

We and Rhythm Foundation are proud to announce ‘Aqua Garden Flow,’ a special live audiovisual performance from legendary ambient musician Laraaji accompanied by Coral Morphologic films with animations by Robert Beatty, on Sunday, May 21st, 2023 at the Miami Beach Bandshell. Laraaji, joined by Arji OceAnanda, will perform ‘Aqua Garden Flow,’ a new piece of music composed to the films of Coral Morphologic. This landmark performance is the inaugural installment in a new series of live audiovisual ambient collaborations from the Miami Beach Bandshell and Coral Morphologic as part of the Bandshell Laboratories initiative. Join us this May for an unforgettable, transcendent experience of healing music and film.

Purchase tickets to ‘Aqua Garden Flow’ @ https://link.dice.fm/ka349b2f5bbf

#Laraaji #Coral Morphologic #coralmorphologic #Aqua Garden Flow #Miami Beach Bandshell #robert beatty #Rhythm Foundation #Miami Beach

[horizontalhold]

Calm Down Vol. IV 

Vol. IV here, and possibly the last one in the series. The last one for a while at least. This is the very calmest of the calm volumes. Suitable for all aforementioned activities, this one is also actually recommended for falling asleep to.

I've been saving these tracks for this volume specifically. Nothing too trebly or doomy, or remotely soundtrack-y over-dramatic. The first few tracks are the "busiest" here, with their slow-motion, intermittent flourishes and rhythms. From there on, the barely-there rhythms disappear and things get drone-y and dreamy. Enjoy...

Laraaji - Bethlehem [excerpt] Curd Duca - Gone Harold Budd / Brian Eno - A Stream with Bright Fish Pontiac Streator - Sequin Pelican Daughters - Saxophone & Chalk Piano Ulla Straus - Kids La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - Drift Study… [excerpt] Bellows - 03 Exael - Room of Veiled Lights (2020 mix) Keith Fullerton Whitman - Fleetwood Mac; "Albatross" (1968) Tom Recchion - The First Thing to Crawl on Land Laraaji - Deep Celestial Ulla Straus - Sleeping Perila - kid7 mountain birbz

#Ambient #Laraaji #Harold Budd #Brian Eno #Pontiac Streator #Pelican Daughters #Ulla Straus #Ulla #La Monte Young #Marian Zazeela #Exael #Keith Fullerton Whitman #Tom Recchion #Perila

[paintgroove]

Paint Groove #112 “Reflection Of A String Waves”

1. Barcelone - Dominique Lawalrée

2. Stikhbars Moual - Mustapha Skandrani

3. Ballad of the Spirits - Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

4. Happiness - Molly Drake

5. Windy Shores - Go Hirano

6. Amores: I. Solo for Prepared - Composer John Cage - Kocsis Zoltán & Amadinda Percussion Group

7. Prana Light - Composer Edward Larry Gordon - Laraaji

8. Ave Maria - Alessandro Moreschi

#paintgroove #spotify #applemusic #Dominique Lawalrée #Mustapha Skandrani #Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou #Molly Drake #Go Hirano #John Cage #Kocsis Zoltán #Amadinda Percussion Group #Edward Larry Gordon #Laraaji #Alessandro Moreschi

[kaeelom4now]

#laraaji #laughter #meditation #Spotify

[adventuresinandyland]

Yesterday a few braved the day and were blessed to be a part of a laughter meditation and celestial sounds session offered by none other than the radiant Laraaji. It was held in the mini-planetarium at the LES Girls Club (which is a wonderful space and community initiative) where we were immersed in marbled colors projected overhead and reacquainted with our "liquid bodies". It was sublime. We laughed and breathed, some danced, some hummed, some sang, some absorbed, some resonated, some accepted, some surrendered, we listened and shone. We learned that our laughter vibrates and tickles the cosmic energy around us, that laughter is a warm loving mother of a place, and that we ARE laughter. "Instead of going towards the light, go as the light". I encountered him by the refreshments afterwards and was taken by the kindness in his face. "By the way, thank you so much for this," I said to him. Wise and gentle, he replied, "How did you know my last name?" Surprised and a little off-guard, I blinked my confusion. "My last name is 'Bytheway'," and a grin appeared on his face, playful and jovial, followed by a rolling laughter so infectious and disarming that it caused several of us to giggle along. "That was bliss, thank you," I offered, and in turn he offered his message, his lesson, his transmission, his mantra "Be As Thou Are".

#laraaji #laughter #meditation #lower east side girls club

[kickerofelves]

Dawn of New Day — John Carroll Kirby ft. Laraaji

#John Carroll Kirby #Dance Ancestral #laraaji

[guy60660]

Laraaji | Nowness

#laraaji #nowness

[songuserbox]

#laraaji #userbox

[the-flying-tora]

#meditation #pt.1 #laraaji #eno #Spotify