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Another Month, Another 4 Hour Jazz Mix!

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4Hr Jazz All Vinyl Mix

And we’re back.
Grateful to be invited to play my records every last Monday of the month at Honeycomb Hi-Fi in Dubai. It’s a little getaway treat being based now in Riyadh, which coincidentally is my birthplace that I lived in for my first few months on this planet .. so it’s a full circle after 41 years.
Anyway, I still get my records shipped to the UAE. This means that many of the records I play at the Jazz Kissa night are actually first-time plays.

Next gig is on the 26th of August.
Hope you enjoy the mix!

Here’s the setlist:
The Seatbelts – Cosmos
Nala Sinephro – Space 2
Greg Foat – The Dreaming Jewels
Greg Foat – Lament for Lamont
Greg Foat – Drifting
Matthew Halsall – An Ever Changing View
The Seatbelts – Cat Blues
Okvsho – Between Us
Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Jabore Pt. 3
BADBADNOTGOOD – Structure No. 3
Matthew Halsall – Salute to the Sun
EABS – Pingwin VI
Błoto – Mitomania
ECHT! – Permanent
Portishead – It Could Be Sweet
Àbáse – Home
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Now or Never feat. Nia Andrews
Neue Grafik Ensemble – Step To It (feat. Lord Apex)
BADBADNOTGOOD – Stark’s Reality
BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Arthur Verocai – Love Proceeding
Kamasi Washington & George Clinton & D Smoke – Get Lit
Shabaka Hutchings – Prints Tie
Kamasi Washington – Lines in the Sand
JAUBI – Satanic Nafs
EABS meets Jaubi – Raise Your Hearts, Drop Your Guns
BADBADNOTGOOD – Timid, Intimidating
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – When Will I See You Again?
ILL CONSIDERED – NORTHERN SPIRAL
BADBADNOTGOOD – Sour Soul
Greg Foat – Sapphire Dreams
Yusef Lateef – The Improvisers
EABS – Neo-Project #2
The Sorcerers – Opening Titles
Okvsho – Soulé
Yazz Ahmed – Jamil Jamal
Allysha Joy – Orbit
Okvsho – Cariño (feat. Sreya)
Ronin Arkestra – The Art of Altercation
Yussef Dayes – Turquoise Galaxy
Ezra Collective – Reason in Disguise (feat. Jorja Smith)
Blue Lab Beats – Montara
Jaubi – Mosty
Kokoroko – Tojo
Yusef Lateef – Hellbound
Tony Allen – Moanin’
Tony Allen – Night In Tunisia
Àbáse – Menidaso (My Hope)

Rhythm

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rhythm

(ˈrɪðəm)

n

1. (Music, other)

a. the arrangement of the relative durations of and accents on the notes of a melody, usually laid out into regular groups (bars)of beats, the first beat of each bar carrying the stress
b. any specific arrangement of such groupings; time: quadruple rhythm.
2. (Poetry) (in poetry)

a. the arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables
b. any specific such arrangement; metre
3. (Art Terms) (in painting, sculpture, architecture, etc) a harmonious sequence or pattern of masses alternating with voids, of lightalternating with shade, of alternating colours, etc
4. (Physiology) any sequence of regularly recurring functions or events, such as the regular recurrence of certain physiological functions of the body, as the cardiac rhythm of the heartbeat
There’s no movement without Rhythm
https://youtu.be/lVPLIuBy9CY

Synesthetic Transcription

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“The key to the piece was devising a visual system who’s form and compositional dynamics matched the response to music.”

So basically, this is your brain on Burial’s music :

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/124047433″>What Need Angel</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/petercrnokrak”>Peter Crnokrak</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

Music Matter

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Sound interacting with matter.

You may have seen these experiments in separate videos that I have posted before .. but these guys take it to the next level! The perform as a band dealing with the different elements of matter.

Sick!

What trees sound like!

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Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has custom-built a record player that is able to “play” cross-sectional slices of tree trunks. The result is his art piece “Years,” an audio recording of tree rings being read by a computer and turned into music, much like a record player’s needle reads the grooves on an LP.what

The tree rings are actually being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves. According to Makezine, the custom record player takes in data using a PlayStation Eye Camera and a stepper motor attached to its control arm, and relays the data to a computer. A program called Ableton Live then uses it to generate an eerie piano track. [Listen to the Six Spooky Sounds from the Deep]

Though the record player “interprets” rather than actually “playing” the tree trunk, as Gizmodo notes, the song still varies with each new piece of wood placed on the turntable.

(http://www.livescience.com/33673-tree-rings-sound-record-player.html)