SHARKSLEEP

to sing, to be
in counterpoint

to the sky
bicameral

always conscious
of the sea

S H A R K S L E E P

Matt Marble voice/guitar ::  Bob Jones bass
Jim Altieri violin/accordion :: Jessie Marino cello

Jonathan Schenke engineer

BALKANIZED ////////////////////// with NEG-FI

A musical survey of Balkan states of mind. Two views.
East/West mixes via Ryan Walsh & Evelyne Buhler
A psychogeography, with selections by Neg-Fi.

The Balkan Peninsula is an icon of the fractured land
that forms between the tides of empires.
It's history betrayed by the degradations of demagogues.
The map, a many stranded tapestry of folkloric beauty, spiritual corruption and nationalist butchery.

The Balkans witnessed Byzantium's last stand.
Crusader vengeance via The Holy See.
Isolated valleys caught between the Ottoman Empire's Islamic expansions, Habsburg Austrian-Hungarian pretensions and Greek and Russian Orthodoxy.
Tito's national unification and subsequent post-Soviet style break-up and NATO post cold-war disorganization all add to the current mix.
Imperial pressures, collisions of dogma, fear of the other. Revolution and industrialization fed the frictions that frayed the social apart.

Long threads of thought, we follow the wool. Piecing back together the fabric of communities long torn asunder. People and herds mixing, migrating along mountainsides and into valleys. In noisy numbers, bells ring, footsteps and hoof treads trace multiple threads.
Caravans of culture, village to mountain to village. Communities growing into coastal cities connected to the world afar. The mountains multifold with dialects and lineages yet many share a lingua franca.
People trade positions and provisions and improvised songs.
Goat skin bladders, Double reed and drum. Group harmonics for mountain passes.
Greek and Turk, Slav and Romani, German and Jew to name but a few that add to the melody.

History forces us to recognize that new musics now haunt
the hate burnt villages, destroyed factories and blood filled valleys.
Laments for lost shepards and black sheep. Polyester and petrol.
Post-punk units using soundsystems in guerrilla deployment.
Musicians document the recent social transformation. Aesthetics of urgency and insecurity tangle with each other as historians search the tapestry's torn edge. Search parties question this map. Borderlands are repeatably disputed and denied. The location of mass graves leaving a permanent stain upon the land that cannot be forgotten.

How now to challenge the post-atrocity status quo?
How now to heal this fractured land?





side AJVAR

1) Raya Brass Band - Tavs Hrysodaktili [self relase]
2) Goran Alachki - Ratevka - Music from Macedonia 2 [caprice]
3) Orkestar Ace - Djigukino oro - Music from Macedonia 2 [caprice]
4) Synthesis - Goceva - Music from Macedonia 2 [caprice]
5) Boyan Kirilova Georgieva, Nadezhda Kostadinova Doneva, Stanka Krumova Dimcheva {singers} - Planino Prirn, planino dzhanum - In the Shadow of the Mountain/BULGARIAN FOLK MUSIC [nonesuch explorer]
6) Raya Brass Band - Tasos Hasapiko [self release]
7) Muzafer Mahmud - Mirveta - Music from Macedonia 1 [caprice]
8) Bitov Orchestra - Krivo Horo - A harvest, a shepard, a bride : Village Music of Bulgaria [nonesuch explorer]
9) Xan Strajani - Kur do behesh nouse, couco - Music from Macedonia 2 [caprice]
10) Raya Brass Band - Dada Sali [self release]

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side BUREK

11) Pankrti - Sarajevo 1984 - Rdeci Album [rtv]
12) Sarlo Akrobata - Bes - Bistriji Ili Tuplji Covek Biva Kad
13) Multietnicka Atrakcija - Minijaturna Gradjevena - Multietnicka Atrakcija
14) Repetitor - Slamcica - Sve sto vidim je prvi put
15) Petrol - Progresan Kod - Nezgodno vreme opasni dani
16) Stuttgart Online - Dva Miliona ljudi - Radost Svakom Domacinstvu
17) Sarlo Akrobata - Mali Covek - Bistriji Ili Tuplji Covek Biva Kad
18) Multietnicka Atrakcija - Veliki Grad - Multietnicka Atrakcija
19) Repetitor - Ja - Sve sto vidim je prvi put
20) Petrol - Beirut - Nezgodno vreme opasni dani
21) Stuttgart Online - Superheroi - Nezgodno vreme opasni dani
22) Sarlo Akrobata - Samo Ponekad - Bistriji Ili Tuplji Covek BIva Kad
23) Pankrti - Bandiera Rossa - Rdeci Album (rtv)

Ethan Crenson @ 78rpm : Hazzanut

Artist and curator Ethan Crenson shares amazing platters from his expansive 78rpm collection. Brooklyn blocks echo with these mournful melodies that cry out from open windows. Presenting seven records by Jewish cantors (hazzanim) and one by an actor-singer from the 1920's Yiddish theater.

"One of the earliest recordings here is a memorial to the victims of the Titanic disaster recorded in 1913. Four of the records, all by Mordechai Hershman, are from the years between the World Wars, an era considered the "golden age" of cantorial singing. The songs are powerful, plaintive, soulful, and to me, very mysterious." - E.C.

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[victor 68630] {1923}
Mordechai Hershman - Ato Yazarto - Teil 1 - (Thou hast created thy World pt.1)
Mordechai Hershman - Ato Yazarto - Teil 2 - (Thou hast created thy World pt.2)

[victor 68639] {1923}
Mordechai Hershman - Sand und Sterne (Sand and Stars)
Mordechai Hershman - Mai-do-mashma-lon (Monologue of a Talmudical Student)

[victor 68598] {1922}
Mordechai Hershman - In Cheder'l (In the Hebrew Classroom)
Mordechai Hershman - A Dudele

[victor 68614] {1923}
Mordechai Hershman - Ein Kemechal (There is no one but God)
Mordechai Hershman - Ahavat Rahya:Arabische Lied/Di Frau's Liebe (Ahavat Rahya:Arabian Song/The Wife's Love)

[unknown label, 1952}
Noah Nachbush - Yochenen Hasander
Noah Nachbush - Chassidic Airs

[menorah records E-47] {date unknown}
Cantor Samuel Kligfeld - Shofetim (pt 1)
Cantor Samuel Kligfeld - Shofetim (pt 2)

[polyphon 0211536] {1909}
Oberkantor Zavel Kwartin - Uwinu Malkeinu
Oberkantor Zavel Kwartin - Adom Jesodo Meofor

[victor 35312] {1913}
Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt - Kol Nidre
Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt - El Mole Rachmin (für Titanik)

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Mordechai Hershman (1888–1940) around was a hazzan in Vilna. After serving in World War I, he emigrated to Brooklyn and took the position of hazzan at Temple Beth El.

Noah Nachbush (1885-1970) was an actor of the influential Vilna Group. He emigrated to the US in 1923 where he became a singer-actor in the Yiddish theater.

Samuel Kligfeld was cantor for the Genesis Hebrew Center in Crestwood, New York. He performed on the radio and television in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Zavel Kwartin (1874-1952) was born in Russia. He became Obercantor of the Queen Elizabet Temple in Vienna in 1903. Invited to perform in the US in 1914, his tour was postponed by the outbreak of World War I. He completed the tour in 1920 and decided to stay in the US permanently as hazzan of the Temple Emanuel in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Upon his death he was buried in Israel in 1952.

Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt (1882-1933), a child prodigy from a long line of cantors, was born in Ukraine. His first position was in Hungary at the age of 18 . Later, he served as cantor in Hamburg, followed by a position in Harlem, New York's First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek. He had a singing role in the film the 1923 film 'The Jazz Singer'.

三富栄治 : EIJI MITOMI

Eiji Mitomi is a Tokyo based guitarist whose open ears and open tuned strings ring with complex harmonics within deceptively simple forms.

Steel tones chime to record their passage on transcontinental railroads...A chord unfolds to offer columns of sound passed through mountain passes.

Kage Tomoyuki and Warren Ng join in on the drone and add counterpuntal cumulonimbus into the rising system. Together their calling patterns blur the blues to shine silver sodium light.

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Eiji has 3 releases on Nobukazu Takemura's Childisc Recordings

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Eiji Mitomi: solo acoustic

Eiji Mitomi: solo electric

Eiji Mitomi : mountain guitar
Kage Tomoyuki : harmonium
Warren Ng : hexagonal guitar

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www.eijimitomi.com

s h o u t o u t ! ! thanx to Jeremy Slater for connecting the circuit

Ethan Crenson @ 78rpm : O Calypsonian

78rpm enthusiast Ethan Crenson presents a selection of Calypso tracks, all played directly from original shellac pressings.
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"Calypso music arose from the island of Trinidad. The music was topical, competitive and lively. Popular singers of Calypso erected their own thatch-roofed tents during Carnival season and charged admission. When a singer visited his competitor's tent, there was often a "war". Two singers in a cutting contest, extemporizing rhyming couplets often based on the news of the day, the people assembled in the crowd, or on descriptions of the singer's own prowess. "For veteran Calypsonians are known to be, Men who can sing on anything instantaneously", a singer is quoted rhyming in the liner notes to an album of Calypso 78s from the 1940s.

In the 40s Calypso invaded the US, and more to the point, New York City. Calypso performers took stage at the Village Vanguard. Sir Lancelot performed there in his signature tuxedo. Duke of Iron played engagements there for a full 10 months. In December of 1946 Alan Lomax organized 2 "Calypso at Midnight" concerts at New York's Town Hall. And there were recording sessions.

Among the artists, Trinidadians include: Sir Lancelot (Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard), Lord Beginner (Egbert Moore), Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson), Lord Invader (Rupert Westmore Grant), Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts), Macbeth the Great (Patrick McDonald), and The Lion (Hubert Raphael Charles). But Calypso also took hold in other locations. From Bermuda came Sidney Bean and the Talbot Brothers. And from the U.S. a dancer at the Cotton Club, Murial Gaines became a popular Calypso singer. There is also the "Calypso Jazz" amalgam represented here by the little known Jack Sneed.

A final offering is not Calypso at all, but it is island music. The Orchestre De La Boule Blanche played Biguines from the French island of Martinique in the early 1930s."
-E.C.

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1) Sir Lancelot - Atomic Energy [charter 102] {1947}

2) Lord Beginner (Egbert Moore) w/Felix and his Internationals - Norah the War is Over [disc New York 5008] {1946}

3) Duke of Iron et. al. - Jam Session (Duke of Iron, quatro; Victor Pacheco, Violin; Gregory Felix, clarinet; Modesto Calderon, bass) [Stinson 105-2] {?date}

4) Muriel Gaines the Enchantress with Sam Manning's Serenaders - You Got To Have Power [national Records 8001] {1945}

5) Lord Invader (Rupert Grant) Felix and his Internationals - Yankee Dollar - Disc New York 5008 {1946}

6) Lord Kitchener acc. by St. Vincent Street Six - Too Late Kitch [lyragon 720] {1953}

7) Jack Sneed and his Sneezers - West Indian Blues [decca 7566] {1939}

8) Lord Invader (Rupert Grant) Felix and his Internationals - New York Subway - [disc new york 5009] {1946}

9) Sidney Bean and his Trio - Collegian Invasion [bermuda 2003] {?date}

10) Archie Talbot - The Gombey Dance [bermuda talbot brothers T5] {?date}

11) Roy Talbot - The Coronation Story [bermuda talbot brothers T5] {?date}

12) MacBeth the Great with Gerald Clark and his Original Calypsos - Rufus Hold Me Tight - Guild 136 {1945?}

13) The Lion with Gerald Clark and his Original Calypsos - Excursion [guild 136] {1945?}

14) Sir Lancelot - Old Woman With a Rollin' Pin [charter 102] {1947}

15) Sir Lancelot with Gerald Clark's Caribbean Serenaders - Trinidad is Changing [keynote 549] {?date}

16) Orchestre De La Boule Blanche (sous la Direction de Charlery Banguio) - Maladie D'Amou - [columbia DF 428] {1931}

17) Orchestre De La Boule Blanche (sous la Direction de Charlery Banguio) - C'est Biguine - [columbia DF 428] {1931}


*Note to audophiles: The absurdity of transferring 78rpms to mp3s does not elude us any more than the absurdity of "capturing" an audio moment in flux and presenting it frozen as a rare artifact foreverafter.
We reflect upon both the desire for audiofidelity and presenting the state of these artifacts. The turntable used is a Esoteric Sound Ramses II turntable which appears to be a modified shell of a Technics 1200 though instead of direct drive it employs a belt-driven system.
No noise reduction and only slight EQ adjustments were made in the transfer. Enjoy the surface noise! -r.r.

Ian Epps < mvmnts n a feeld fgraen >

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brkken ltches, xtom ptches
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Ian Epps is a sonic/visual artist whose explorations are invested in how an object speaks, utters, and dissolves itself within its given surroundings. Recent releases can be found on SoftL Music, Grain of Sound, Powershovel Audio, On;(do), Seasonal, and Unframed Recordings.


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brownout : 2 X 3

Lights a-flicker and tracks a-shudder.

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brownout is self described by one Rick Brown as "a caveman with a tambourine and a sinewave generator."

A reinvention of songforms and chain reactions via repurposed electronics, solo vox and inserted hand/street percussion. Through these pared down songs we witness a strong challenge to the media production values of channel G100Z big bad band sound, inc.

Distressing NYC grid structures since V-Effect no wave days, Rick continues to snap switches and such under dim lights with forward thinking projects Rattle, Two Mule Team and Inconvenient Music.

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brownout: Interpretations 3

They Can't Get It {v-effect}

It'll Never Happen Again {hardin}

Mark E. Smith & Brix {manning}


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brownout: Improvisations 3

> tapemachine1

> tapemachine2

> crickets

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Third Thursday Presents:
RATTLE & MEGAN REILLY
JUNE 17, 2010 7pm
City Reliquary

G U R U: Form of Intellect

set *
1) Andy Graydon - ZPE - at bay [winds measure]
2) Wolfram - dust #3 - thinking dust [monotype]
3) Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel - Anvil Vapre [warp]
4) Wolf Eyes - Let the Smoke Rise - Dread [hanson]

set **
5) The Dance - Do Dada - New York Noise [soul jazz]
6) Gang of Four - What We All Want - Solid Gold [wb]
7) Pink & Brown - So Long, Special Treat/Union Bomb [load split 12"]
8) I-Sound - Sweating in the Ages [broklyn beats 7"]
9) Wasteland - Wyatt {reprise} - Amen Fire [transparent 12"]
10) Big Youth - Screaming Target - Screaming Target [trojan]
11) Triston Palma - Time So Hard Dub - Showcase in a Roots Radics Drum & Bass [vista-sounds]
12) Sizzla - Courage - Bobo Ashanti [greensleeves]
13) Bolong Suso, Jewuru Kanuteh, Karnnka Suso, Manjako Suso, Surakata Suso, Lamin Suso, Saiko Suso, Dembo Kanuteh, Bobo Suso, Mahame Camara, Mawudo Suso, Salun Kuyateh, Mahamadou Suso - Hamaba - Ancient Heart: Mandinka and Fulani Music of the Gambia [axiom]

set ***
14) Gang Starr - Speak Ya Clout/DWYCK - Hard to Earn [chrysalis]
15) Gang Starr - DJ Premier in Deep Concentration - No More Mr. Nice Guy [wild pitch]
16) Gang Starr - Form of Intellect - Enter the Arena [chrysalis]
17) Guiseppe Ielasi from (another)stunt [schoolmap/taiga]
18) Radio Zumbido - Livingston Buzz - Los Últimos Días del AM [palm pictures]

set ****
19) Sonido Aries - Al Calor De La Cumbia - El Rey Del Barrio
20) Conjunto Tipico Vallenato - Cumbia Cienaguera - A Orillas del Magdalena [domino]
21) Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun - Rodrigo y Gabriela [ato]
22) Los Marineros De Apatzingán - La Malagueña [rough guide]
23) Guillermo Velázquez - Que Suene El Son [rough guide]
24) Nino de Fregenal {dos fandangos} Flamencologia v.1
25) Rodrigo y Gabriela - Satori - Rodrigo y Gabriela [ato]
26) Radio Zumbido - 8 Hermanos - Los Últimos Días del AM [palm pictures]
27) Ecos de Borinquen - A mi dulce amada - Jibaro Hasta el Hueso [smithso]

R.I.P. Keith Elam aka GURU July 17, 1961 – April 19, 2010

UNCLE WOODY SULLENDER

Uncle Woody Sullender is reinventing the banjo as we sleep.
Not forsaking fingerpicking, but trading in the clawhammer for wireless tech.
This is not Delta autopilot over the Appalachians. Instead, imagine.
Taking off self-powered, from Kitty Hawk, upwind and further out, to cross the Outer Banks and crossing the Atlantic with a hacked GPS unit.
All the while...fingers and feet spinning...above the waves.

Utilizing custom electronics and reworking the head of the banjo as a loudspeaker, Woody reinvisions sound for the post 8-bit world while preserving the banjo's unique voice and sense of history.

When We Get To Meeting with Seamus Cater now out on Dead CEO

1) Tetsu Inoue + Andrew Deutsch from Field Tracker [anomalous]
2) John Hudak - The House Is Made of Evening Twilight - Wind Rain and Cloud to Human Beings [sound of pig]
3) Eric La Casa / Cedric Peyronnet from La Cruese [herbal]
4) Area C - Outside the Flaming Body - HAUNT [last visible dog]
5) Emeralds from What Happened [no fun]
6) Sean Morriarty - The Brown Thorn [lomax]
7) Ballinakill Ceilide Band - Sack of Potatos / The Maid of Mt Kisco [lomax]
8) Uncle Woody Sullender - Aphelion Counting - Nothing is Certain But Death [dead ceo]
9) Robert Urquhart Brown - The Earle of Seaforth's Salute {canntaireachd} [ubuweb]
10) Alborada de Vigo/ Canto de espadela/ Canto de arreiro {Galician folklorica} [lomax]
11) John Fahey - The Yellow Princess - The Yellow Princess [vanguard]
12) Uncle Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater - While Sails Billow - When We Get to Meeting [dead ceo]

UNCLE WOODY SULLENDER *** live set

13) Uncle Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater - Static Blues - When We Get to Meeting [dead ceo]
14) Christian Fennesz - The Black Sea / The Colour of Three - The Black Sea [touch]
15) Newton - POST ANTI-MATTER HEADACHE [deep fried tapes]
16) Dalot - View from a hill - Flight sessions ep [coo]
17) Reverse Mouth {placenta popeye split 7"}
18) Wolf Eyes & Black Dice - One [fusetron]
19) Set Nourriá - Habitec Oualâche Nghir
20) B'Net Marrakech - Leilaa Lill
21) Tribe al-Serif {festival pt II} Master Musicians of Jajouka

mas diddlage

drawing: Jakup Ferry