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Narciso Yepes 
Concierto de Aranjuez de Joaquín Rodrigo.

“In 1964, Yepes performed the Concierto de Aranjuez with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, premièring the ten-string guitar, which he invented in collaboration with the renowned guitar maker José Ramírez III^[5].” wikipedia 

Lost Property 
Kingbastard 

SeaForth Ocean Parallel by Jeffrey Plaide

and here is Jeffrey’s wonderfully detailed project description:

SeaForth Ocean Parallel is an experimental, electronic and ambient music composition made up of a number of various treated components to create textures of sound and textures of effects. What had started off as an average assemblage of rhythmic lines morphed into a surreal “underwater” mixture supported by the effect of applying dynamic equalisation to the rhythmic loop, then adding synthesizer parts on top, creating a more interesting blend. All sequences were initially clocked to a 120 bpm click track. Four different rhythm sequences were joined at various intervals, created on the ElektroStudio OCET Rhythm Synthesizer and treated to flanger effects. Filtered ring-modulated test tones filled in the rhythm sequences. Added to this was a cymbal sequence created on the Hammerhead Rhythm Station. The Angular Momentum Additive Table Synthesizer provided the choral wash texture featured in the background, and providing an ethereal feel. More springy tones and rhythms fade in and out as the composition progresses, with the OCET Rhythm Synthesizer providing the “bird chirps” featured in the latter part of the composition. The SynFactory 1.15 Modular Software Synthesizer created the metallic primal tones, and the eerie rarified metallic atmospherics heard in the second half of the work. Various kinds of flanged test tones and ring-modulated combinations complete this first mix. This first mix was heavily filtered, dynamic equalisation applied, added reverb, slowed-down and delay-mixed with itself. The result is a curious “underwater”-like mixture totally unlike the original first mix. KX-Synth X16 FM tones add twinkles and metallic-like melody lines. The next track is a SynFactory creation, reversed and multiplied x 4. The Cygnus SF Synthesizer created the eerie metallic-like chords played underneath the rest of the strange mixture. The work was given added creepiness by the Xenharmonic FMTS Synthesizer and subjected to a ringing flanger to create a creepy swirling and pulsating emission of tones. The composiiton was given a final polish of KX-Synth X16 rising and falling space tones. The result is a surreal, watery and underwater work quite unlike anything else previously explored. Using a dynamic EQ can impart filter-like sweeps of the kind synthesizers employ. The visuals were created from a multitude of various electronically-generated textures and weaves overlayed by various coloured modulating forms and moire effects. The textures resemble ocean currents, and the modulating forms create the impression of fish and other swimming marine life - but all created by electronically-generated modulations and moire patterns.

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Jacob Kart solo guitar live at Dreambait, Hungry Brain

yvynyl:

Julia Holter - In The Same Room

mojo magazine:

In the new issue of the magazine, Sonny Baker writes: “[Julia Holter’s Ekstasis] brings to mind out-of body experiences and intense euphoria using disco beats, plucked strings, multi-layered vocals, Middle Eastern drones and, at times, free jazz.”

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Math pattern found in nature also found in music. Daniel Levitin has found, hidden within nearly 2,000 pieces of classical music, a mathematical pattern that not only holds constant over 400 years of musical history, but also corresponds to fluctuations in everything from the human heartbeat to traffic flow on busy highways. - Cape Breton Post

Heard this on NPR this morning. 

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Frog chorus near Stirling Ranges, Western Australia in September 2011.  Pobblebonk Frogs also known as Banjo Frogs Limnodynastes dumerilii. The middle caller’s id is still unclear. The revving undertones could be Motorbike Frogs Litoria moorei. 

Hannu Jannes 

mercerm:

Mountains: “Sewn Two” (Sewn, Apestaartje 2006)

I really wanted to post a clip of “Bay” from this same album by Mountains, but I couldn’t track it down online and I’m too lazy to upload it. In any case, the whole album is really stunning. They went in a more synth/psych direction on their last one which is quite good, but I prefer the really elegant, stark post-rock-meets-folk sound of Sewn.

Skin 
Grimes
Visions 

(Source: youtube.com)