Passat Continu

An immersive experience, part music, part hypnosis and meditation.

‘This Feeling is You’ draws on a range of influences; from the history of ambient music to research-based neuroscience to magical thinking. The album consists of seven interlinked tracks, each around eleven minutes long. One by one, they guide the listener on a metaphorical path through different states of thought and meditation. It took one year to write the seven scripts and as part of her research, Boston sought inspiration from a huge number of sources. Whilst her work as a hypnotherapist provided a considerable insight, Boston also further studied a number of different practices such as: metaphor, ancient wisdom, religious ideologies, spiritual teachings, hallucinogenic medicine, principles of shamanism, mentalism, The Kybalion (1908), magic and spells, duality, numerology, rituals, poems, social media and even the basics of hip hop and rap.

These ideas were then aurally interpreted into a meditative ambient suite by Desert. Built on spoken word, controlled tone, rhythmic oscillation and sung vocals, it weaves in phrases of both direct and indirect suggestion and wraps around the words in a way that is gently present.

A complete listening guide can be found here www.thisfeelingisyou.com Listen & buy

- Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3eHaVu9 - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eMWSDd - Apple Music: https://apple.co/3bD1hGM - Boomkat: https://bit.ly/2xN6gpY

Credits

We are delighted to announce our third record, Sheila Chandra’s ABoneCroneDrone. Here some words about the release.

Few albums have treated human voice and drone as a whole entity like ABoneCroneDrone, the third in a trilogy for Real World Records that this record closed back in 1996. In Sheila Chandra's own words “it was about the gateways between vocal techniques from different cultures and how it was possible to cross between them within a single word or phrase.”

Indipop Recordings founder Steve Coe, probably best known for helping to popularise the term World Music in the early eighties, produced and worked with extreme accuracy along with Chandra on all drones and set a new industry standard of what was possible in the treatment of voice. With the help of bagpipes, didgeridoos and guitars, ABoneCroneDrone puts drones under the microscope and encourages listeners to retrain their ears to hear the nuances that musicians have always heard in them. Emitting low, chantlike waves, Chandra sings deep spaced atonal words while haunting chord sounds flow and drones slowly interact with listener.

This is the first vinyl pressing. It includes a fold-out insert with a new Sheila Chandra interview, original sleeve notes edited by Chandra herself and unseen pictures taken from the 1996 sessions. Limited to 500 copies, no digital release this time. Worldwide distro by Cargo UK.

“The artistry of ABoneCroneDrone is in the attention to detail. The album is beautifully performed, mixed and compiled with intelligence and strong sense of structure. It makes good use of a listener's valuable time while issuing a challenge to hear in a fresh way.” John L. Walters, The Wire issue 150

“With this final part of her trilogy, she has produced her bravest, if least commercial, album yet” The Guardian (UK)

“Chandra has created the DIY album, but you can only get out it as much as you’re prepared to put in. Like it or not, it’ll leave you speechless” Mojo (UK)

Licensed from Real World Records, 2019. Cat number PC003.

Lino Capra Vaccina in Barcelona

So here we are, typing our first words on the internet while on the other hand announcing Lino Capra Vaccina’s first solo appearance in Spain in over 40 years. We are so happy to share that the italian composer, born in 1953, will be performing live within our event series at Barcelona’s Nica next may 8th. 

Lino Capra Vaccina is a legendary cult composer and percussionist who created a unique version of North American minimalism. Vaccina began his career in the early seventies with the ensembles Aktuala, a cross-bred etno-ancient combo with avantgarde forms, and Telaio Magnetico, a sort of italian superband. Vacina was also a key member of Franco Batiatto’s band, with whom he recorded and toured several times. With gongs, Tuvan throat singing, and stripped down analogue electronica he composed the revolutionary and meditative album Antico Adagio somewhere deep in the 70’s. His next recording, the equally extraordinary L'Attesa, was released in 1992. After that and for some years, he played as percussionist with Teatro alla Scala Orchestra.

Despite he never stopped playing live, his last year’s appearances were mostly inside Italy until January, when he performed at Dalston’s Cafe OTO.

Vaccina will use the technique of live recomposition in free form for Vibraphone, Piano, Gong and bases recorded and designed by himself. We will be playing some music before and after the show.

Doors 7PM