Post Midnight Mix
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jazzy_daveA selection for the night people -
Ellen Arkbro – Mountain of Air
Ellen Arkbro - Chords For Organ
Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer and sound artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Working with intervallic harmony in just intonation, she composes for acoustic instruments, as well as for synthesized tone
Eliane Radigue - Elimination of Desires
Performed (Arp synthesizer) and recorded by Eliane Radigue; Robert Ashley, English voice; Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Tibetan voice
A double CD of all 5 of Radigue's songs in tribute to the Tibetan saint and poet from the eleventh century. Two of the tracks date from an 1983 LP (Radigue's first release), two are previously unreleased and the final 62-minute track was previously issued as a sole CD in 1987. The material is performed by Radigue (synthesizer and recording), Robert Ashley (English voice) and Lama Kunga Rinpoche (Tibetan voice). Radigue was born in France and has studied under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry; her musical has an extremely organic and mystical electronics vibe and has been previously documented on Phill Niblock's XI label, as well as Metamkine and Lovely.
Milarepa is a great saint and poet of Tibet who lived in the eleventh century. His autobiography, the Mila Kabum or Namthar, as told to his closest disciple, Rechungpa, has been translated into several Western languages. In this story of Milarepa's life, we can see how, through years dedicated to meditation and related practices in the solitude of the mountains, subjecting himself to the severest form asceticism, Milarepa achieved the highest attainable illumination and the mental power that enabled him to guide innumerable disciples. His ability to present complex teachings in a simple, lucid style is astonishing. He had a fine voice and loved to sing. When his patrons and disciples made a request or asked him a question, he answered in spontaneously composed free-flowing poems or lyric songs. It is said that he composed 100,000 songs to communicate his ideas in his teachings and conversations.
The large collection of stories and songs, the Jetsun Gurbum, was translated first into English by Garma C. C. Chang. There is also a rare, little known collection, Stories and Songs from the Oral Tradition of Jetsun Milarepa, which existed in an oral state longer than the other works. Drinking the Mountain Stream (Lotsawa Publications), from which the songs on this album were taken, is the first English translation of these texts, made by Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo.
Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to record his singing in Tibetan, and Robert Ashley has given his voice to the English translation of these songs.
—Eliane Radigue
Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension
ENJOY
Ellen Arkbro – Mountain of Air
Ellen Arkbro - Chords For Organ
Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer and sound artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Working with intervallic harmony in just intonation, she composes for acoustic instruments, as well as for synthesized tone
Eliane Radigue - Elimination of Desires
Performed (Arp synthesizer) and recorded by Eliane Radigue; Robert Ashley, English voice; Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Tibetan voice
A double CD of all 5 of Radigue's songs in tribute to the Tibetan saint and poet from the eleventh century. Two of the tracks date from an 1983 LP (Radigue's first release), two are previously unreleased and the final 62-minute track was previously issued as a sole CD in 1987. The material is performed by Radigue (synthesizer and recording), Robert Ashley (English voice) and Lama Kunga Rinpoche (Tibetan voice). Radigue was born in France and has studied under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry; her musical has an extremely organic and mystical electronics vibe and has been previously documented on Phill Niblock's XI label, as well as Metamkine and Lovely.
Milarepa is a great saint and poet of Tibet who lived in the eleventh century. His autobiography, the Mila Kabum or Namthar, as told to his closest disciple, Rechungpa, has been translated into several Western languages. In this story of Milarepa's life, we can see how, through years dedicated to meditation and related practices in the solitude of the mountains, subjecting himself to the severest form asceticism, Milarepa achieved the highest attainable illumination and the mental power that enabled him to guide innumerable disciples. His ability to present complex teachings in a simple, lucid style is astonishing. He had a fine voice and loved to sing. When his patrons and disciples made a request or asked him a question, he answered in spontaneously composed free-flowing poems or lyric songs. It is said that he composed 100,000 songs to communicate his ideas in his teachings and conversations.
The large collection of stories and songs, the Jetsun Gurbum, was translated first into English by Garma C. C. Chang. There is also a rare, little known collection, Stories and Songs from the Oral Tradition of Jetsun Milarepa, which existed in an oral state longer than the other works. Drinking the Mountain Stream (Lotsawa Publications), from which the songs on this album were taken, is the first English translation of these texts, made by Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo.
Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to record his singing in Tibetan, and Robert Ashley has given his voice to the English translation of these songs.
—Eliane Radigue
Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension
ENJOY
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