Ipek Gorgun's Aphelion! / Ceramic TL & Ipek Gorgun's Perfect Lung!

Hi everyone,

Here is more strange & beautiful work by Ipek Gorgun, her first album this time, plus a collaboration she did. Weird & dreamy work that lingers & isn't quite like anything else. Enjoy!

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Ipek Gorgun's Ecce Homo!

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Here's some great thoughts from Pitchfork.com on this great Turkish electronic artist:

In the work of Ipek Gorgun, small moves and grand gestures are equally important. Before she molds her instrumental electronic music into massive shapes, the Turkish sound artist infuses it with precise detail. “I work with milliseconds in the beginning, then I switch to seconds, then to minutes,” she once explained. “At the end, I think about the whole arrangement of the structure... So I zoom in, zoom out, and try to find a way to fit everything in place.” As a result, her compositions connect on the micro level of individual sounds as well as on the macro level of widescreen narrative.

I love her mellow space music. Especially "Reverance." Music to time/mind travel by :)

PeaceNstarZ,
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Celtic Mantra's Moving On / Higher Spirit!

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Well, I don't know much bout this beautiful pair of EPs, save that Celtic Mantra is a Scottish man called Mark Gray. The Moving On EP was written after the death of his brother in Thailand in 2013, helping him deal with this loss. They are beautiful jungly shards, deeply fine. Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
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Afro Celt Sound System's Flight!

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This band keeps coming back again & again with great new music! Their West African & Irish music expands this time in sound and feel. Here's a good description from www.folkradio.co.uk:

Flight is also a departure in that there’s an underlying concept behind the album. That concept references Simon Emmerson’s fascination for all things ornithological and draws parallels between the migratory flight of birds and human flight – from war, poverty and oppression.

Enjoy with me! :)

PeaceNstarZ,

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Oneohtrix Point Never's Age Of & Love in the Time of Lexapro

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Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never is a weirdly charming electronic project, trippy, ghostly, moving underneath it all. This show is devoted to two of his 2018 releases. Here's a good section of Wikipedia's entry on Age Of:

Influences on Age Of included the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and William Strauss's The Fourth Turning, a favorite book of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, which Lopatin described as "insidious, like the voice of a computer insisting on the truth about history without any sensitivity given to how complex and non-linear systems might be"; Lopatin was subsequently inspired to "[use] that sort of taxonomy as a kind of farce to then create these little frameworks for understanding". Other inspirations included the writings of the 1990s multidisciplinary collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit and the works of singer-songwriters such as Bruce Cockburn, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon.

The Love in the Time of Lexapro EP fills out the hour & extends the feel of Age Of nicely :)

PeaceNstarZ,
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Sketches of Brunswick East!

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Catching up with this strange Aussie psych band that put out 5 records in 2017, this one the third of them. Collaboration with the Mild High Club. It's a little more coherent than the others, less completely out of its gourd, & they prove they can do well this too!

Since the band said that Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain was part of their inspiration, this show closes with a couple of great tracks from that album :)

PeaceNstarZ,
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Aphex Twin's Field Day LP & Collapse!

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Catching up with the great, crazed, one of a kind Richard D. James. Field Day LP is from 2017 and the Collapse EP is just released this year. Noisy, melodic, mechanical, weirdly beautiful. Not quite like anything else & the world is better for him & his music! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
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