'Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s - a nameless, faceless somebody’s - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest' - Kafka On The Shore
Music, and specifically jazz, has always featured heavily in the literary imagination of Haruki Murakami. In this radio special, NTS lays down two hours of jazz records as featured throughout Murakami's corpus.
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This month’s Onotesla features recordings and sound experiments made during a residency at Akee Space for Culture in the rural village Aleknaiciai, Lithuania. Here Michael Holland, radio producer Samantha Lippett and filmmaker Rokas Steponavičius spent time with children from the Lyguimai Elementary School to record and sonically explore their environment.
This month’s Onotesla features recordings and sound experiments made during a residency at Akee Space for Culture in the rural village Aleknaiciai, Lithuania. Here Michael Holland, radio producer Samantha Lippett and filmmaker Rokas Steponavičius spent time with children from the Lyguimai Elementary School to record and sonically explore their environment.
Tracklist
ClaustrumClaustrum
Old Helen’s Piano
AleknaičiaiAleknaičiai
Sound Drawings 0132 And 1498
AleknaičiaiAleknaičiai
Destruction Physics
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Rudens LapasRudens Lapas
Silence And Puddles
Laimio Vilknočiaua DainosLaimio Vilknočiaua Dainos