#Soundhack spectralcompand Pc
Luka is behind hundreds of tracks for local rappers who queue up for beats outside his small studio a modest set-up including a PC running Cubase, Reason, Fruityloops, plus a keyboard and mic for sampling balafon, djembe and vocals. Seriously this is one of the records we've listened to most for the last couple of months and will surely be right up there among the year's best. Lushest suite of productions from Bamako, Mali’s Luka Productions - a prolific artist with a distinctively melodic, breezy style that sounds like it was produced by Actress circa R.I.P. or American cloud rap instrumentals. Faint Impressions offers a sombre finale, the ringing melodicism of the Berkeley gamelan set to a backdrop of an understandably captivated audience. Ghosts is one of two compositions done solely with the gamelan, Schmidt leading a procession of players using traditional techniques on a detailed 14-minute recording of percussive dexterity and intricacy that highlights the spiritual powers of the instrument.
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The title track sees Schmidt augmenting the mysticism of his Berkeley with the bowed strings of a rebab, another traditional Indonesian instrument, deployed to signify a bird that “calls from far away.” Making use of a primitive sampler borrowed from Pauline Oliveros (RIP), lead track And the Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn pairs a sumptuous looped string arrangement with Schmidt’s delicate caresses of the Berkeley Gamelan which build with quiet melodic complexity into something quite wonderful.
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What’s immediately striking here is how Schmidt deviates from the traditional Javanese style of gamelan composition, instead seeking out the minimalist movement of North America for guidance. ‘In My Arms, Many Flowers’ captures the American Gamelan movement in its nascent state, the result of a personal invitation for Recital boss Sean McCann to rifle through three boxes of Schmidt’s studio and live recordings committed to cassette between the late ’70s and early ‘80s. He’s since gone on to build numerous gamelan instruments, theorise on it’s compositional qualities, collaborate with Lou Harrison, Jody Diamond, and Paul Dresher, and currently teaches at Mills College San Francisco. After studying Javanese gamelan at California Institute of the Arts in the early ‘70s, Schmidt set about creating a West Coast movement based around an aluminium version of the instrument – the Berkeley Gamelan - forged of his own design. Recital dip into the personal archives of Daniel Schmidt, an integral scholar in the development of American Gamelan.
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Wonderful suite of archival gamelan minimalism from Bay Area practitioner Daniel Schmidt.