spacemusic
Kalimba Chai : Little Prayers
22/Mar/2009 |
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I made this here mix with the idea of exploring sacred music from Africa, the Middle East and India. I tried to keep a sublime, introspective vibe pulsing through this diverse array of selections, which include field recordings from villages on the Nile River, traditional music from Iran, Armenian chanting, drum circles, world beat fusion from Pakistan and Ethiopia and a survey of Malian masters like Bouboucar Traore, Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabate. The journey begins and ends with hypnotic sounds made on the kalimba, or "thumb piano," opening with a track from Samite and closing with Bobby McFerrin.
I hope this swirling mix of continent-spanning music from the soul inspires your own internal journeys.
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Egg Radio : Bill Frisell, reconstructed
18/Jan/2007 |
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A few years back, back before the dawn of digital music technologies, DJ Fundi threw together a loose mix of Bill Frisell's music and burned it painstakingly to a CD, something he called "The Bill Frisell Mixdown".
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Andy, aka the
NOBLE Tea Troll, loved it. Dancing Dog loved it. The
Marce loved it. I loved it. That was enough to call
it an aural success story.
But here, in the dawn of 2007, times are different. Strange even, and intense. Correspondingly, this episode of the Podcast Cafe ain't your mama's Frisell. No, ma'am. In this postmodern sound reconstruction, DJ Fundi rifles through the major works of Bill Frisell's catalog since 1995 or so -- and a prodigious catalog it is -- and susses his way through a dozen studio albums, 2 ilicit live recordings, a download-only release and a few mystery tracks.
Fundi surprises even hisself with this continuous sound blend, intoxicated with the many moods of Frisell's emotive guitar playing. Deep in the bowels of the mix, Fundi came upon the vision of Frisell's creations as paintings, and he saw his mix efforts as a sonic collage of bits and pieces of Frisell's artwork.
Listen then, preferably with headphones on yer head, to the exquisite expressions of a masterly painter who swirls sounds and colors with his trusty 5-string, and float away on the nearly-cinematic musical journey prepared special for you by the good folks down at Podcast Cafe. Many realms lie ahead.
Bill Frisell photos by moontroll
But here, in the dawn of 2007, times are different. Strange even, and intense. Correspondingly, this episode of the Podcast Cafe ain't your mama's Frisell. No, ma'am. In this postmodern sound reconstruction, DJ Fundi rifles through the major works of Bill Frisell's catalog since 1995 or so -- and a prodigious catalog it is -- and susses his way through a dozen studio albums, 2 ilicit live recordings, a download-only release and a few mystery tracks.
Fundi surprises even hisself with this continuous sound blend, intoxicated with the many moods of Frisell's emotive guitar playing. Deep in the bowels of the mix, Fundi came upon the vision of Frisell's creations as paintings, and he saw his mix efforts as a sonic collage of bits and pieces of Frisell's artwork.
Listen then, preferably with headphones on yer head, to the exquisite expressions of a masterly painter who swirls sounds and colors with his trusty 5-string, and float away on the nearly-cinematic musical journey prepared special for you by the good folks down at Podcast Cafe. Many realms lie ahead.
Bill Frisell photos by moontroll
internationalspacestation
19/Jul/2006 |
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Now that the shuttle Columbia has safely touched back down to Earth, we're free to divulge our Top Level Secret to the masses...
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At the behest
of NASA (and the NSC, FDA and BLM), DJ Fundi was
asked to design recording gear customized for the
International Space Station. Presently, with the
covert spacemikes firmly duct-taped to a side flange
at the base of enormous infrared panels, the Podcast
Cafe is able to monitor, record and remix vast worlds
of sound as gathered by the cosmic collector intake
mechanisms. Not Officially, of course, but we've got
a downlink nonetheless.
And so patient listeners, for the first time ever in the history of humankind, we humbly present for your aural curiousity a digital postcard gathered from the eternal reaches of outer space.
And so patient listeners, for the first time ever in the history of humankind, we humbly present for your aural curiousity a digital postcard gathered from the eternal reaches of outer space.
lullaby
11/Apr/2006 |
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Welcome one and all to the Podcast Cafe world debut!
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Taking the new
Sunnyland Studios integrated soundsystem out for a
test drive, we’ve concocted a 20+ minute groove
sampler to see what she is capable of. With flavors
from Bill Frisell, Jorane, Boards of Canada, Anour
Brahem and DJ Cheb i Sabbah, I think you will be
scintillated by this atmospheric taste test. Hosted
by the ever-mysterious DJ Fundi. Enjoy, and better
yet, subscribe for future journeys.