The second five song selection by urufixx. Swedish dark ambient & neoclassical composer Peter Bjärgö, The Dead Sea, P.D. Wilder, Voice of the Seven Thunders & Talvihorros. More drone, post-rock, ambient and psychedelia then you can shake a stick at.

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İkinci kez hazırlamış olduğum beş parçalık seçkimde yine birbirinden farklı tarzlar bir arada olacak..

* İlk parçamız İsveç’li dark ambient, neoclassical tarzlarda müzik yapan Peter Bjärgö‘nin son çalışması olan A Wave Of Bitterness albümünden albümle aynı ismi taşıyan parça. Karanlık bir arka plan üzerine; biraz doğu ezgilerinin eklenmesiyle etnik bir havaya bürünmüş. Albüm de genel olarak başarılı..

* The Dead Sea Indie, shoegaze, post rock, drone gibi bir çok değişik müzik türüne göz kırpan yeni ve değişik bir grup. Seçtiğim parça The Devil Bends oldukça akıcı ilerliyor, dinleyiciyi sıkmıyor. Indie ve post rock’a daha yakın sakinleştiren ve rahatlatan hoş bir çalışma olmuş.

* Karanlık ve bunalımlı bir kış akşamında dinlenebilecek en iyi albümlerden biri olan P.D. Wilder‘ın F/M albümü drone, noise tarzına rahatlıkla dahil edebileceğimiz bir çalışma. Albüm 13 parçadan oluşuyor. Bazı parçaların süreleri oldukça kısa; fakat bir parça 28:55 süresiyle albümün en uzun parçası. Benim bu albümden seçmiş olduğum çalışma ise: 06:56 süreye sahip Bismark. Drone severlerin beğeneceğini umuyorum.

* Voice Of The Seven Thunders 70′lerin experimental, psychedelic rock gruplarına benzer bir grup. Gitar kullanımı ve müziğin ilerleyişi 70′leri anımsatıyor. Dinleyince farkedeceksiniz; ben grubu dinlerken biraz Erkin Koray havası sezinledim. Denenmesi gereken bir grup olduğunu söylemek isterim. Albüm için.

* Talvihorros Electro-acoustic, ambient, drone dinleyicilerinin oldukça hoşuna gidecek bir grup. Labradford, Jasper TX, Tim Hecker severlerin beğeneceği albümden açılış parçası: Handwriting (Part I) burada.

Umarım seçtiğim parçalar hoşunuza gider..İyi eğlenceler!

Last week’s Undomondo Radio Show #87 – A tribute to Nursel Kaymaz a friend we lost at the ripe age of 32.

elm – in the shadow of the red rock
bohren & der club of gore – maximum black
jamie saft trio – lelahel… See More
goldmund – ouendake
white magic – very late
aksak maboul – i viaggi formano la gioventu
nya ljudbolaget – immigrantlament
john zorn – forbidden tears
devendra banhart – a sight to behold
barzin – nobody told me
eric malmberg – min kompis anton
ballake sissoko & vincent segal – chamber music
marc ribot’s ceramic dog – when we were young and we were freaks

#86 – Dreamy electronic music + ambient soundscapes from Can.

orla wren – two note winter
pole – inside the dream
black moth super rainbow – sad branch
kria brekkan – solush
mojib – the garden part three
konntinent – pin point
sigur ros – ti ki
aaron martin – scrub pine
julian lynch – rancher
unkle – heaven
seaworthy – installation 3
novisad – kari
color casette – small time smoker
night control – fore
yuma bitsu – untitled

One of the remaining masterpieces from 2009 on the list is La Barca by the master of aural alchemy Thomas Köner. La Barca his first offering in five years, is a matchless soundscapes album; an inimitable blend of field recordings, subtle synths and voices lingering in the back and restless moods. Been guiding me to sleep for the last few months and it’s been one hell of a ride.

For example, without checking, on ‘48º 52′ N 2º 21′ E’ you could be standing in a train station in Azerbaijan, wrapped up in an intangible moment of cinematic bliss, while on ‘31º 46′ N 19º 6′ E’ one feels like a ghost in the midst of a Central American pueblo, or somewhere completely unknown. This is music ripe for the imagination, from an unrivalled mind dedicated to enhanced auditory experience and deserves undivided attention from anyone unafraid to let themselves be taken by it. Boomkat

Out on Fario, sister label to Fear Drop, limited to 600 copies.

Not to be mixed with Bibio from Warp, Biblo (trinket) is Istanbul’s own wonderwoman Pinar Süt, member of Proudpilot, best upcoming band from Istanbul. Out/Land is full of meanders in soundscape / drone land, voice manipulation, eerie synths and blissful calm. 4 pieces and free download, all her earlier works can also be checked for free via last.fm.

#85 is a solo work by yours truly. It’s darker than our usual sets due perhaps to my turbulent mood. It’ll work good as soundtrack to an urban night drive. Motorik by Beak>, doom jazz by Mini Pops Junior, moody indie rock and even some dubstep at the final. A dark cinematic ride to nowhere. Enjoy!

grouper – hold the way
liars – no barrier fun
celer – listen to the inverted sounds falling
mini pops junior – incantus
worriedaboutsatan – …
julian lynch – mercury
young marble giants – final day
beak> – ears have ears
chicago underground duo – left hand of darkness
areski – le dragon
ganglians – the void
field music – lights up
pit er pat – specimen
gonjasufi – my only friend
bugskull – high steppin II
king midas sound – meltdown
burial – near dark
james blake – air & lack thereof
pierre bastien – visions of shanghai

Undomondo Radio Show #85 by mersenne

5 songs from the parallel world of ambient, noise, drone & doom by our sinister author Urufixx. Enjoy or should I say, suffer?
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Geçtiğimiz hafta dinlemiş olduğum gruplardan bazıları oldukça ilgimi çekti. Beş parça belirledim ve bunları burada paylaşmak istedim. Gruplar genel olarak doom, noise, drone, ambient tarz müzik yapıyor.

Bones Of Seabirds : Drone, noise, ambient tarzlarda değişik ve ilginç bir müzik. Yer yer Lustmord tarzı dark ambient etkiler de hissedilen bir çalışma. Lastfm‘de şimdilik sadece 501 dinleyicileri var. Albümden derin ve düşündürücü etkiye sahip Serpent parçası ilk parçamız..

İkinci parça Infinite Body‘den What They Wanted To Be Was Useless isimli. Carve Out The Face Of My God adlı albümde yer alıyor. 2010 tarihli albüm drone, ambient tarzda ve gayet başarılı..

Marc Broude – Muerte: 1984 doğumlu genç müzisyenin şimdilik son çalışması olan Medicine albümünden değişik bir çalışma..Noise, drone, psychedelic soundlar ağırlık basıyor. Lastfm‘de sadece 95 dinleyicisi var!

Bu kısaca bahsedeceğim grup ise; Ulver grubunun konser turunda, Şubat’ta İngiltere ayağında destekleyeceği gruplardan. Necro Deathmort. Tarzları için çok şey söyleyebilirim. Doom metal, drone, doom, dub, noise, ambient gibi türlerin karışımından oluşmuş etkileyici bir müzikleri var; bu gruba dikkat çekmek isterim! Albümdeki tüm parçaları tam uzunlukta lastfm üzerinden dinleyebilirsiniz..

Son parça, gene beni bu hafta oldukça oyalayan gruplardan, ismiyle de ilgi çeken Yoga. Atmosferik bir yapı, psychedelic müziğin sakinliği, derin ve içten gelen gürültüler, drone, noise, doom ve black metalin mükemmel uyumu. Kesinlikle dinlenmesi gereken bir grup. Örnek vereceğimiz parçanın bulunduğu Megafauna albümüne de lastfm üzerinden erişmeniz mümkün.

Umarım biraz karanlık da olsa, seçtiğim parçaları beğenirsiniz. Haftalık serinin ilgi görmesi ve devam etmesi dileğiyle. Herkese iyi dinlemeler.

For my apologies / frame of mind when making the list – check the mentions post:

Some notes : Hate to sound like a white suburban teenager, but the hazy lo-fi sounds of Matt Mondanile & friends has been the soundtrack to this year. Beware! too much of this will make you think that you live in a two storey prefab with American siding, have a bunch of lazy teenagers in trucker caps as friends and make love to sleazy girls at the beach. Which is quite the contrary to what we get in the urban jungle that is Istanbul. Anyway, kudos to everyone who’s managed to make “new age” a proper genre again. This also includes Mark McGuire and his work in Emeralds.

The most sublime musical moments this year were devised by Rune Grammofon’s In the Country, I’m shocked to see it neglected consistently on best of lists. Well, too bad.

Inspiration Information is hands down the hottest series around as I announced before, and two installments make it to the top cut. Akwaaba’s compilation of Carlos Lamartine was spectacular. Although the songs date back to the 70s, Benjamin did an amazing job to hunt and issue them for the first time outside Angola. Hopefully more will follow next year.

On the jazz front Steve Lehman and Vijay Iyer continue their roles as standardbearers of a newbreed of contemporary jazz. Haven’t checked enough Tzadik releases this year, but I’d have to have some form of dementia to miss an Ahleuchatistas album. Top class!

In Britain, King Midas Sound’s propagating of dubstep with trip-hop was a sigh of relief from the wonky dancefloor madness, although it definitely has way too much Tricky. Another release that I was going mental about was the Broadcast / The Focus Group collaboration. Like all good hauntologists I was interested more in The Focus Group than Broadcast. Frankly, found it a little bit underwhelming, but it’s still heads and shoulders above many.

Not quite sure about Thee oh Sees & Masha on the top 20 list, they might be more suitable for the mentions list. I’ve already realized that I forgot to put Masada Quintet, Peter Broderick vs Machinefabriek, Thomas Köner, Zomby, Yusef Lateef’s At Cranbrook and Elsewhere, Kreng etc. on either list, but it’s too late and life isn’t perfect.

Happy New Year. Hope to see you around for another year of great music and dismal writing.

Rest in Peace everyone who passed away this year. We suffered a lot of losses, but none hurt as much as the untimely deaths of Dani Baquet-Long of Celer and Jack Rose. Never forget!

Making a best of list has been considerably harder for 2009. First things first, together with Can we’ve dug an immense amount of vintage Brasilian music, lots of easy listening, old soul/funk/disco gems and the quality on most of these records put 2009 music to shame. Face it, you can’t keep up with João Donato, Yma Sumac, Piero Umiliani, Prince Buster etc.

I haven’t listened to Grizzly Bear, Mumford & Sons, Mos Def, Natural Snow Buildings and lots of other stuff seen on mainstream lists.

Try as I might I couldn’t get into Animal Collective, Ben Frost, Converge, Fuck Buttons, Clark, Zu, Moritz von Oswald Trio, Leyland Kirby (although I appreciate bits of each).

I listened to lots of cassettes, CDRs of lo-fi music, drone, experimental stuff, but frankly most were either half baked, too short to be labeled proper releases, had a few good ones but sucked as albums, or too experimental to end up on a end of year list.

I’ve missed a lot stuff on say, mapsadaisical or milk factory’s list like Black to Comm, Hildur Gudnadottir, Symbiosis Orchestra, Elm etc. I’ve given some a chance, and they’re actually quite good, but it would have been lame to put them on without giving them proper airtime.

So, taking all of these into consideration, here are our mentions in random order. The followup to this post will be the top 20. Bibio and John Zorn has two albums written beside them as none of them have been decisive IMHO.

It’s been 10 days since we lost Jack Rose, and we’ve spent a good deal of that time listening to his music and his inspirations. First I was going to share a few songs but then the list grew and I knew I had to try to make a mix. I don’t know if I succeeded in making something coherent but I’m confident the music reflects at least a part of his passion. I also don’t know how it sounds to make a tribute mix and add songs made by him, maybe it’s not the usual way to make a tribute, but in the end I thought those pieces had to be in there. So enjoy the mix and send your blessings to him and his family once again. R.I.P.

image credit Amplitude Photography

bismillah khan – sarang
jozef van wissem – aerumna
lawrence english – stillness in motion
cul de sac – the moon scolds the morning star
steven r. smith – regen volt, soka lesz
alvin curran – gil scariolanti
akira rabelais – premiere gnossienne
brethren of the free spirit – in him is no sin
jack rose – blessed be the name of the lord
sir richard bishop – hadley
robbie basho – khalil gibran
hannu – vanhadrone
john fahey – the portland cement factory at monolith, california
jack rose – kensington blues
xenis emputae travelling band – trisagion