Opened Eye by Michael Klausman

Some things heard over some years, some connections made in your mind. Identity raps, avant-garde smooth jazz, vibrational affirmations, 21st c. protest music, new age pop songs.
Artwork: Herbert Gentry “Opened Eye” Lithograph, 1983

Ihsaan Carter – Baby
Doctor Wize – Getting Tight
Carlyle Williams – Wings To Fly
Otis Houston Jr. – My Name & My Word
Frank Part 2 Mulla – I Can’t Breathe
Onyx Ashanti – Slow Funk On Mars
George Braith – Hoagies & Wings
Virgil Work, Jr. – Baby On Board
Ishmael Akbar, Akbar The Great – Who Am I
David F. Gordon – There Will Be Better Days
Ron Rahsaan Warwell – Feel Free!
LeRoy White – Judah The Hammer (Excerpt)
LeRoy White – Salaam’s Song
Lowell Davidson – Make Sure She’s Well Fed

Gown Control VI by Michael Klausman

Resurrected after a three year absence, Gown Control VI: Loose Threads is a sequel of sorts to the earlier piano focused volume. This edition features a psychic piano player, two choreographer/composers, a soundtrack to dolphins en route to Arcturus, a couple of pastoral harp interludes, special friends and Nederland inspirations.

1/ Aryeh David – Improv (excerpt)
2/ Yul Anderson  – Airottiv
3/ Joel Andrews – Avalokiteshvara (c. Lou Harrrison)
4/ Michael Harrison  – Echo of Time
5/ Boris Goldmund & Alan Lornie – Pastorale
6/ Carolyn Margrete – Mountain Traveller (excerpt)
7/ Gabriele Emde – Wassermann-Musik Für Harfe (c. Hans Otte)
8/ Laura Dean – Song (excerpt)
9/ Paul Warner – Crystals
10/ Nancy Karp – Overlapping Lines & Curves
11/ Count Carnette – Spiritual
12/ Emma Kay – po.po.po

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Hand Games

A non-stop forty minute mix of contemporary Native American HANDGAME music, entirely sourced from live cell phone videos posted to YouTube. Usually featuring just a couple of rattling drums and the occasional chanting from the players & audience, this is music that is both minimal & booming, and which is constantly driving forward. Presented here with as little intervention as possible, only the natural breaks in the action & different aural spaces in which the music was recorded provide relief from the beguiling, relentless intensity of the music. Nearly reminiscent of a House mix, this is utterly banging and joyous music that is simply impossible to not get caught up in. Selected & Sequenced by M.Klausman & P.Prezzano. 100% OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS RELEASE WILL BE DONATED TO THE INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK. A link to the original videos from which this mix has been sourced shall be included with each cassette.

Edition of 50 real-time dubbed cassettes on chrome tape featuring risograph printed j cards on French paper
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All Muir’s Children by Michael Klausman

Our friend Michael Klausman made a mix for Earth Day, fifteen songs, all but one sourced from privately released folk albums & mostly released in the wake of the first Earth Day back in 1970. Features both protest songs & reflections on nature in general. Some recurring themes include; fears of DDT, overdevelopment, the loss & destruction of open space, the proliferation of garbage, to nothing less than the threat of nuclear annihilation.

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Gown Control V (Past) by Michael Klausman

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Fifth & likely final installment of the Gown Control mix series, this edition focuses solely on creative anachronisms; paleolithic sounds, musical archeology, pre-Christian rituals, early pastoral herder’s songs, bone flutes, caverns, ocarinas, three-thousand-year-old Olmec whistles, hymns for ancient Cults & laments for distant Kings.

1/ Walter Ramsby – Vallåt
2/ Graeme Lawson – Lutatia’s Dance
3/ Musica Romana – Mesomedes: Hymn To Nemesis
4/ Kilmer/Crocker/Brown – Hurrian Cult Song
5/ De Organographia – Fragment 3
6/ Synaulia – Pastorale
7/ Ancient Orchestra, Gardzienice – Limenios: Paian
8/ Toshi Tsuchitori – Mammoth March
9/ Hiroshi Tamura – Ancient Japanese Flute (Excerpt)
10/ Cajsa Lund – The Kivik Tomb
11/ Michael Levy – Etude in the Archytas Enharmonic Genus
12/ De Organographia – Hypolydian Excerpt
13/ Antonio Zepeda – El Sueno
14/ Ce Colimotzin – MeJakula
15/ Jorge Reyes – Sazilakab
16/ Walter Maioli/Patricia Meyer/Luce Maioli – La Danza Delle Foglie
17/ Kilmer/Crocker/Brown – Hurrian Cult Song (Reprise)
18/ Dimitris M. Papadakis – Song of Seikilos
19/ Graeme & Wendy Lawson – On the Death of a King

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please be sure to check out michael levy’s bandcamp page, which features his many recordings/recreations of ancient lyre https://michaellevy.bandcamp.com/

Gown Control IV (Piano) by Michael Klausman

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1/ Fabien Maman – Improvisation on the Greek Modes
2/ Carolyn Margrete – Dorian Mode
3/ Alan Hovhannes – Love Song Vanishing Into Crickets, Op.327
4/ Alain Kremski – Quête
5/ Dominique Lawalrée – Sorry
6/ Richard Collins – The Celestial Wind
7/ Gary Knox – Ocean Cave
8/ Janest Sherbourne & Mark Lockett – Slower Than Molasses
9/ Tom Ehrlich – Gamelan (for Aliah)

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Gown Control III by Michael Klausman

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1/ Christian Buehner & Suzanne Doucet – Shiva’s Dance
2/ David Gilden – Etheric Double
3/ Jon Parmentier – Cycles of Water
4/ Ma Satyam Pratiti – Ocean of Bliss
5/ Sainte Croix – Dance of the Self
6/ Mindia – Gambang
7/ Zendik Farm Band – Ancient In My Eyes
8/ Zon Vern Pyles – The Yeti Trail
9/ Sunpath – Yasimin & the Snowflake Dragon (Excperpt)
10/Paul Church, Jr. – Fish Music 9
11/Warren Simpson – On The Reef

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Gown Control II by Michael Klausman

Gown Control Vol 2

The highly anticipated 2nd Volume of the Gown Control mix series by Michael Klausman. Volumes III and IV to follow.

“Contents include but are not limited to Rajneesh jazz meditators, Shiva transmitting synth percolators, Private hissertronics, Gamelan ethnohotties, Canned drizzle, intimate aquatic moments, Eno & beer enthusiasts, Park Slope kora mini-moogers, Gurdjieff disciples, Tama Do improvisers, Mayan calendar ocarina two-steppers, Bamboo flute crafter blenders, Yeti spatial sound trail mixers, New Mexican bolo-tie making synth gurglers, Megalith tinklers, Occult bookshop proprietors, German-Texan ecological bumper-sticker peddlers, Front Range Himalayn throat singing heart bubblers, Southwest overtone builders & Piano playing Kansan Eck proselytizers.”

1/ Zacciah – Transmutations
2/ Dave Clark & Walter Drake – A Traveler’s Journal Found In The Mountains
3/ Timothy Bishop (Marga Prasanna) – From the Heart (Excerpt)
4/ Russell Thorne – Angelic Solution
5/ Rob Smit – Metaal III

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Black Construction Paper II

 

The long-awaited second installment of Josh Bearman’s ambient black metal mix , 2015

“It should be noted that, as with Volume I, this is a collection of ambient intros, outros, interludes, and instrumentals taken from otherwise extreme metal albums. This is not a harsh ride…”

 

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March of The Hordes–Moontower

X–Sapthuran

Theories To Lift The Gate–Light Shall Prevail

The Ice Desert–Benighted Leams

Interlude I: Daydream–Trancelike Void

Nuclear Girl–Beherit

Untitled–Evoken

Climax–Spektr

II–Sapthuran

The Darkness of The Northern Sky–Old Wainds

Grey-Haired Steppe–Drudkh

Beyond–Marblebog

God of Wisdom and Torture–Krohm

Untitled–Urfaust

Sorcery, Witchcraft and Occult Lore–Gauhaert

Gown Control I by Michael Klausman

 

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Ambient/Obscure New Age  compiled brilliantly  by  Michael Klausman.

1.Priscilla Ermel – Andares
2.David Cosmo – Rainbow Dance
3.Planetary Peace – I Am That I Am
4.Pepe Maina – Spring Song
5.Joanne Forman – Codex
6.Muziekkamer – Terugreis
7.The Bill Desmond Tone Poem – Spirit Nexus
8.Ernest Hood – Night Games

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