Lumisokea

Koenraad and I have a broad music taste. We’re always curious about different musics, since I think you can learn things pretty much everywhere. Nevertheless, I feel most of the music we tend to buy (and make ourselves) has common grounds overall; keywords might be physicality of sound, dark/light contrasts, oscillation and resonance between frequencies, bass warmth, articulated rhythms, alternate tuning systems. To me it feels like taking full immersion trips into different music scenes (we’ve been through jazz, classical/contemporary, dub & dubstep, radical improv, techno, tape experimentalists, electronica in a broad sense) in order to bring all this experience back to our own music in a coherent way. The artists we chose for this playlist are people we greatly admire and despite their apparent distance (time, genres, etc.) they’ve been providing great inspiration.

1. La Monte Young – The Well-Tuned Piano

//www.youtube.com/embed/KB1_YUXgivE

2. Howlround – The Ghosts of Bush

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1753017744/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/t=3/transparent=true/

3. Loefah – Horror Show

//www.youtube.com/embed/VEAf_ZztCP0

4. Pansonic – Kuvaputki

5. Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil

//www.youtube.com/embed/OET8SVAGELA

6. Mika Vainio – Scale

//www.youtube.com/embed/VzKmoIxm3RE

7. Martin Neukom – 18.9

//www.youtube.com/embed/x7GEMGBF0qs

8. Kode9 – Uh

//www.youtube.com/embed/C-82P05vgM0

9. Kahn – Dread

//www.youtube.com/embed/2aPh3ZHFE9M

10. Lee Gamble – Emu

//www.youtube.com/embed/BHFMO2fFXA4?list=ALGLx1orRGw4VDTA1e8_sGog554cE37owz

Lumisokea join Opal Tapes founder Basic House, Karen Gwyer and 1991 at OT301, Amsterdam on 5 February for our Opal Tapes Showcase. The show is free for members. In a few weeks’ time Lumisokea release their new 12″ on via Opal Tapes. Titled Apophenia, it represents their love for polyrhythms and reel-to-reel tape saturation. Visit www.lumisokea.com to get updates.