Dream Weapons present: SPATIAL JAZZ C90

 

Yet another vintage mix of mine that hasn’t been available for years - reuploaded for anyone interested. A fairly strange one. At least if you're not already "into jazz". In many ways it's the The Infinite Streams older, brainier sibling. I work alone in my studio and these are some perfect examples of my typical "working music". Not always, but sometimes. It helps me stay awake, focused and alert. Here's what I wrote about it back in April 2013:

-When I first heard Grachan Moncur III's early to-mid sixties compositions such as Evolution and Esoteric I think I had (and still have) a similar tingling sensation or brain orgasm comparable to what ASMR folks say they get from listening to whispering voices. Or maybe its closer to what mathematicians experience when they get an esthetical delight out of the supreme beauty of math? I'm just guessing. But this is only partly what spatial jazz is about. Its the careful attention to space, and I don't mean outer space but a soundspace - a room. Out To Lunch is probably the most well known example of jazz I know of that that can give you a hint. I ended up with 16 compositions and some of the bigger names in jazz are represented. All of them at their least conventional and most out there - except for Cecil Taylor, who is at his most stuctured. Hope you like it! -Moahaha

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Dream Weapons present: THE INFINITE STREAM C90

 

 

Twelve weirdly wondrous avant-garde/free jazz (and the likes) treasures, 1967-1980. This one's taken me ages to finish as it was vital that every selected tune had a certain crossover appeal + a «whoa I didn’t see that coming!»… whilst listening sensation. A stand out quality.

-Whether that means combining uncompromising jazz with choirs, spoken word, a dance groove, a lovely folk tune, over the top insanity - or a sound space of strangely evocative timbres. An infinite stream of pure, convoluted entertainment. 2x45 minutes packed with virtuosity, insanity and excitement! -Moahaha

1 Jan Garbarek Quartet - Arnold (final part)  5:39
2 Baird Hersey and the Year of the Ear - The Charioteer  3:36
3 Miho Kei & Jazz Eleven - Kokezaru Kumikyoku 1. Mizaru  6:31
4 Charles Sullivan - Genesis  17:36
5 Georg Riedel - Riedaiglia 6  5:14
6 Barry Altschul - Con Alma de Noche  6:10

7 Herbert f. Bairy - Runnin’  7:39
8 Jorge Lopez Ruiz - Love Buenos Aires  9:09
9 New Jazz Trio - Absolute  2:58
10 Barre Phillips - Part VI  11:01
11 Tony Iglio - Yatagan  7:31
12 Melvin Jackson - Dance of the Dervish  6:35

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Dream Weapons present: TREMBLEMENT C90

An almost identical version of this was originally posted elsewhere in 2014. The link has been dead for years and I think it deserves to be available. I had actually lost my own version, so I had to remake it from scratch.

-I just wanted the cover to have a similar feel as some of those strange 1970's films and books that Ben at Toys and Techniques used to present way back when the internet was still young and promising. Tremblement translates into something like tremor or trembling. It felt like the perfect name for a slightly pretentious, long forgotten arthouse obscurtity as well as describing the deep quivering bass-rumbles that dominates this mixtape. Everything from avantgarde, garage-rock, 20th century classical, library-grooves, psychedelic backwards-singing and jazz of all sorts here -Moahaha

1. A. Linstaedt - Pounding City
2. Guido & Mauritzio De Angelis - Salt Lake Feelings
3. Mark Fry - Rethorb Ym No Hcram
4. Kim Kristensen - Klædt i Stillhet
5. Francois Rabbath - L'Odyssee D'Eau (edit)
6. Nico Fidenco - Pastorale #2
7. Victoria De Los Angeles (Maurice Ravel) - L'Enigme Eternelle
8. Guy Pedersen & Raymond Guiot - Indian Pop Bass
9. Peter Thomas - Escape From The Camp
10. Richard Davis - The Rabbi
11. Nils Økland - Straum
12. Ennio Morricone/Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Ritorno All'Inzio
13. Aart Brouwer - He Pssst
14. Byard Lancaster feat. Sonny Sharrock - Satan

15. A. Linstaedt - Hell For Leather
16. Long Orme - Arboc
17. Don Gere - Werewolves On Wheels (end theme)
18. The Creepniks - Zombie Stomp
19. Bruno Nicolai - E 444
20. Paul Motian - Tuesday Ends Saturday
21. Stelvio Cipriani - The Run In The Alley
22. Lena Nyman & Rune Andersson - Turandot
23. Gerardo Iacouuci & H. Caige - Revolte
24. Lesiman - Furia
25. Peter Frohmader/Nekropolis - Unendliche Qual
26. M.Nomiized - Enfant Mort
27. Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg - The Dreamshadows
28. J.F Jenny Clark - Ozone

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Dream Weapons present: ACROPODIUM C60

As a curator of mixtapes, this time I decided to invite 17 artists/composers to interpret a sculpture by Brâncuși. Haha no I didn’t. Originally I found a catalogue with an «ugly» (but in a great way) Jean Arp-piece pictured on the front page that I wanted to use as cover art. Naturally I started collecting a bunch of twisted tunes. But as often before I ended up in more beautiful place than where I started. Eventually the selected music didn’t really resemble ‘Ptolemy II’ at all anymore. So at the finishing stages I swapped that in favour of this alluring work of art instead. Finally here’s the equivalence to the exquisite «Mlle Pogany II» in sound. Somewhat -Moahaha.

1 Omoide Hatoba - A Scab Forms Crone
2 Anthony Davis - Prolog (The Days In Space)
3 Remo De Vico - If you disappear, the vacuum...
4 Bill Frisell - Under a Golden Sky
5 Maria Joao - No Dia Em Que As Flores Comeram Os Passaros
6 Egisto Macchi - Un Violoncello Magico
7 Vittorio Gelmetti - Lied Romantico
8 T. Isotani & K. Yoshimatu - Lehte
9 Lalo Schifrin - Acupuncture #1

10 Alabaster DePlume - Pastry
11 Fabio Fabor - Asteroidal
12 Paul Castanier - Pera Geta Elena
13 Эдуард Садоян - Две пьесы для виолончели соло 1. Zargo 2. Allegro
14 Kaija Saariaho - Überzeugung
(performed by The Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Oslo Sinfonietta/Grete Pedersen)
15 Les Fragments de la Nuit - Soleils Noirs pour Lune Blanche
16 Sic - Ella Se Desliza
17 Janko Nilovic - Un Piano Dans L'Espace

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Dream Weapons present: (DIS)COMFORT ZONE C90

A further out and sonically more challenging version of my largely academic or modern classical (Un)Modern-mix. Packed with intriguing soundscapes and strange beauty galore but darker, more twisted and dissonant than its predecessor. All that aside I still tried to include only works that had a seductive or inviting quality to them. Anyone reading this has got to be at least a little bit musically adventurous - so this could be just a walk in the soundpark for some of you -Moahaha

1 Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind - Rocky Mountains
2 Anna Clyne & Colleen Clyne - Beauty (edit)
3 Vyacheslav Artyomov - III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
4 Grupo PIAP - Invocação em defesa da máquina III. Music Humanizes the Machine
5 Ivo Malec/Anne Pérez - Mavena 1/4
6 Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra For New Music - Tonus
7 Andrea Belfi - C
8 Abbey Rader - Four-cast
9 Steve Kimmel - Doll-a-Bye Part 3 (Whispers)
10 Sylvano Bussotti - Variazone Russolo / Slancio D'Angoli
11 Yurodny - Zvuky Znakiv: III - Son (Dream)

12 Amanda Stewart - Sound and Sense
13 Awake - Sospensivita
14 Joji Yuasa - Voices Coming (excerpt)
15 Toki Takumi + Takashi Kojima - Mornest
16 Pacific 231 + John Duncan - Untitled
17 Henk Badings - Capriccio, for Violin and Two Sound Tracks
18 William Walton/Edith Sitwell - Façade: Lullaby for Jumbo
19 Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intégrales - Vögel Ohne Specht
20 Egisto Macchi - Kleines Dachauer Requiem
21 Ak Musick - Hava

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Dream weapons present: (UN) MODERN C90

This collection of 20/21th century classical/avantgarde music sounded way more cutting edge at its early stages. But these haunting spine-tinglers of otherworldly beauty kept replacing the more challenging ugliness, until the latter material felt like roadblocks on a musical journey. Melancholic and mournful - at times even sentimental and nostalgic-sounding, but then again even mid-century totalitarian brutalist architecture comes across as sort of cozy in 2017. (un)modern or not mind you - for our 50th mix(!) I still compiled a rather dark and brooding hour and a half.

-Moahaha

1. Alan Hovhaness - Koke No Niwa, Op. 181
-Alan Hovhaness, Elden Bailey, Ruth Negri, Melvin Kaplan & Walter Rosenberger
2. Colin Mcphee - Suite In 6 Movements: III. Seduk Maru
-Robert Aitken & New Music Concerts
3. John Cage - In the Name of the Holocaust: A
-Margaret Leng Tan
4. Dobrinka Tabakova - Spinning a Yarn
-Roman Mints
5. Henry Cowell - Ostinato Pianissimo
-Paul Price
6. Tzenka Dianova/Erik Satie - Socrate : I. Portrait de Socrate
-Tzenka Dianova
7. Miklós Maros - Trifoglio: I. Allegro
-Eva Maros
8. György Kurtág - Játékok, Book 6 (Games): Mihály András Emlékére
-Marino Formenti
9. Lou Harrison - In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
-Just Strings & HMC American Gamelan

10. Alfred Schnittke - Sonata No. 1 for Piano Solo: I. Lento
 -Illya Filshtinskiy
11. Rene Eespere - Evocatio Fuer Gitarre Solo
-Tiil Peterson
12. Lepo Sumera - Schweigende Odaliske (Vaikiv odalisk)
 -Janika Lentsius
13. Alex Clairmon - Trio for Violin, Cello and Harp: II. Adagio, Pt. 1
-Lily Laskine, Roman Charmy & Jules Lemaire
14. Peteris Vasks - Gramata Cellam - II. Pianissimo
 -Sol Gabetta & Amsterdam Sinfonietta
15. Kaija Saariaho - Mirrors
-Wolpe Trio
16. Hannah Kendall - Regina Caeli
-Benjamin Nicholas & Choir of Merton College, Oxford
17. Patrick Godfrey - Another Door
 -Patrick Godfrey
18. Otmar Schoeck - No. 37: Scherzo
-Minguet Quartet

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Dream Weapons present: PHANTOM LIMBS C60

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Possibly influenced by the draining and the quite many uninspiring events 2016 has had to offer, this mix might be slightly more demanding to get trough than my previous efforts. But hang in there and you'll get a sweet reward. As always, a tape made to be listened to as a whole.

-Sadhu Sadhu

A

1. The Entombment of Christ  - Krzysztof Penderecki

2. Aurore - Igor Wakhévitch 

3. Main Title & Walk to Hell - Joe Greene

4. Various Jívaro Artists - Invitation To Kill

5. Dalle Sirene - Fabor Favio

6. Finale - Bernard Herrmann

7. Panic - Kenyon Hopkins

8. Living with the Crocodiles - Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson

9. Shiver - jauniaux & mori

B

1. Seance In The Sixth Fret - Exuma

2. Afrorera - Luis Agudo

3. Yeh Come T'be - Jeanne Lee

4. Spaced Out - Schaltkreis Wassermann

5. Untitled - Tim Story

6. In Just Spring - Addiss & Crofut

7. Shirt Of Lace - Dorothy Carter