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Neil Lord featuring performances from:
Nicolas Nadeau
Maxwell Parrott
JD Paul
Brian Kupillas
Joel Paul
Justin Sweatt
& Scott Squires.

Transitional Spirit Mirror engineered by Ian Rundell.
2-5 engineered and mixed by Brian Kupillas.
additional mixing by Neil Lord.
Mastered by Neil Lord.

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Introducing Black Against An Orange Line, the debut from Haji K. (aka Nico Niquo, Nico Callaghan). Pressed on 12inch black vinyl with Artwork by Emily Bramich. Mixed and Mastered by Ryu Yoshizawa.

Black Against An Orange Line consists of four long-form pieces that hover between classical instrumentation and digital synthesis. The album showcases a new dimension of Nico's work through a hybrid language of hazy, hypnotic Dub-Techno and vivid Drone. In touching on the Ambient and Grime palette of Nico's previous albums, however, Black Against An Orange Line posits itself as a suitable follow-up to his last record on Daisart, and sets the stage for future outings from the artist and label.

From the artist: "This music is deeply influenced by my working process at home: the days I have at home, away from work or study; the ones where I can let the entire day slip away. I work at my computer all day, watching the sun's light drift from one end of the garden through the softly billowing gumtrees onto the other end, over the concrete and the faded brick everywhere in inner-urban Melbourne. I try to stay offline as much as possible. Upon reflection, it seems very hermetic and closed-in. But I like to see it in a somewhat dreamy way. This is "home"-music, background music if you will - but I wouldn't dare say it's relaxing music. This is my own take on the give-and-take between the daydream and the chaos of this process, locked away in quiet, patient ambient spaces. It's all centred on that moment at the end of the day where the sun dips below into the underworld, and the sky appears so black against the orange band of the horizon. I want to make a pilgrimage, a Haj, to that moment. I want to make music to communicate that space over a grander, longer scale you can slip into and disappear."

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In the way that music is a grand tapestry of past, present, and future threads woven together, the Mutual Attraction series explores what happens when an artist meditates deeply on the influential threads of their musical past and reweaves them into the musical present, repeatedly asking the question: “What if?”

Credits:
Rob Granfelt - Drums (@bobbygrooves // @sunkingexperiment)
Rob Homan - Keyboards (@robthesoundbank)
Antoine Martel - Keyboards (@souschefmusic // @sunkingexperiment)
Gehrig Uhles - Guitar
Scott Rixon - Bass
Andrew Morrill - Alto Sax (@DEEMO)
Victory Nguyen - Tenor Sax (@beanieskimask)
Isaac Poole - Trombone
Chris "CD" Littlefield - Trumpet

Sound Engineering and Mixing by Drew Pine ( @profkainalu // kainalusound.com )
Mastered by Adam Straney ( @breakpointadam // breakpointmastering.com )
Lighting by Kevin Blanquies ( @kblanq // kblanq.com )
Live Painting by Eva Wang (@eva_yuewang)
Filmed by Phil Homan, Ben Schauland, Mark McCrae-Hokenson
Video Editing by Phil Homan (@p.h.test)

Other live Videos available here:
Alice: youtu.be/xw33xwxdBkc
Sun Ra: youtu.be/fbnFf4IO8bM

So the latest show for Radio Primavera Sound is now available to stream & it's a freaky selection for freaky times on the whole this week. Dub mutations, post rock, chopped, screwed & psyched global sounds, cosmic folk, deep jazz & a sublime house finale.​

Seekersinternational - KillDemSound (Future Times)
The Heartwood Institute and Panamint Manse - Etching Mirage (Castles In Space)
Bryce Hackford - Holy Mountains (Spring Theory promo)
Irreversible Entanglements - Bread Out of Stone (International Anthem)
Matt Evans - An Infinite Cybernetic Meadow (Whatever's Clever)
MinaeMinae - Nackenwirbel (Marionette)
Beacon Sound - Murur al-Kiram (Bandcamp)
Fazer - Gahu Dub (Squama)
Patricia de Maya - Deep Impressions (Bandcamp)
Mute Forest - Morning Guitar (Lost Tribe Sound)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Wait For Now, Pepe Bradock Rmx (Ninja Tune)

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Spring rain -
under trees
a crystal stream. [Basho]

this is a collection of music made during the week of march 9th - 16th, 2020. i found myself suddenly a part of that stream which flows now separate from the reality we used to know. i want to share these explorations because in my own experience of fear and strangeness, making distant, encouraging, and astral sounds brought me some light through the leaves. it is meant as a soundtrack to these new days, practices, distances, losses, ends, and beginnings. i hope it helps calm find a way.

Credits
Composed and recorded by Emily Sprague
Cover artwork by Emily Sprague
Mastered by Taylor Deupree