Laura Agnusdei is a musician from Bologna (IT) who a few months ago released a beautiful album called Laurisilva. More than a record, an ecosystem to be explored, made of hybrid and fascinating sounds, which mix wind instruments, electronics, experimentation and dreamy atmospheres in a harmonious and never predictable way.
We met a couple of years ago when she payed inside VOLUME, it was the tour of her previous album Night/Lights. That evening we also watched Profondo Rosso. We had planned a presentation of Laurisilva at VOLUME in April but it could not be done and therefore laura packed this ORA D’ARIA keeping in mind what it would have been: a path through the music and the sounds that influenced Laurisilva’s creation.

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Bjork – Virus
Nicolas Gaunin – WhatU
Amadou et Mariam – Je pense a toi
Charles Mingus – Group Dance
Akazéhé par Deaux Jeunes Filles (Burundi Musique Traditionelles recorded by Michel Vuylsteke)
Herbie Hancock – Rain Dance
Laura Agnusdei – Jungle Shuffle
Charles Cohen – Cloud Hands
Roberto Musci – The Ups and Downs of Chewing Gum
Senior Service – Sunny Sidro feat. Kaili
Hibotep – Acid Dairiah
Flying Lotus – Satelllliiiiite
Martin Denny – The Enchanted Sea
Duke Ellington – Didjeridoo
Nuri – 9roov
Daisuke Tanabe – Pinebee
Mario Swagga and DJ Sililia – Party la Uhakika (Epic Party

Our big friend and favourite guitarist Maurizio Abate has compiled a wonderful ORA D’ARIA. These are the words he used to describe it.

To compile this playlist I have drawn exclusively from the Ocora catalog, French label founded in 1957 by musicians Charles Duvelle and Pierre Schaeffer who focuses its research
on sounds and music from the world. I have always been impressed by the technical quality of the recordings on these records and by the care in choosing the tracks. This further selection of mine tries to trace a hypothetical travel itinerary that starts from Italy and reaches the Far East through Europe and Asia. Over time my interest in music from the world turned out to be a search for more common traits
that of formal differences, it always amazes me to find timbres, melodic intervals, rhythmic solutions and similar structures in music from different parts of the planet and from distant times.
The wind and reed instruments, the chordophones, the percussions and the voices that you will hear, can lead us to reflect on the cultural, historical and social contexts that have shaped the forms of
these fascinating music and their social, spiritual and community function, perhaps directing us towards an exoticism that can flatter our ego as western people of Modern times.
Personally I am aware that I was born and raised in that part of the world that has produced colonialism and which made its method of exploration, labeling and hegemonic archiving of human phenomena.
However, at every listening these music, albeit through the mechanism of reproduction technique and separated from the rituals within which they are often generated, offers the
possibility of an ecstatic experience, the archetypal power of Sound, origin of everything, activates us, heals us, leads us to different states of consciousness and reminds us of how the tension to transcendence and the search for communication channels with the Eternal are fundamental components in the Man-Sound relationship, always and forever.
Happy listening.
Maurizio

TRACKLIST:

01. Pasturali – Italie, Musiques populaires (folk music of Sicily)
02. Atje te ura ne lume – Albanie, Pays Labë. Plaintes Et Chants D’Amour
03. Peupliers a3 – Yougoslavie 2, Macédoine – Polyphonies Tosques – Sous Les Peupliers
De Bilisht
04. Sándor csoóri – csárdás from the palóc country – Hongrie, Le Dernier Passage
05. Koledarska pesen- na stopanin (christmas carol) – Bulgaria, Traditional Singing
06. Teke zortlatmasi – Turquie, The Baglama of the Yayla
07. Dashti – Iran, Les Maitres De La Musique Traditionnelle, Vol. 2
08. Luth – qar kokoi baatar – Mongolia, chants kazakh et tradition epique de l’ouest
09. Lalayaran – Java, pays sunda musiques savantes
10. Naghmehe Kashâl en Raga Yemen – Afghanistan. Rubab and Dutar
11. Floating Petals Decorating the Green Leaves – China, Music of the Pipa
12. Drum Beating in Praise of Shenrab – Tibet, Traditions Rituelles Des Bonpos
13. Bailo – Japon_ Gagaku
14. Nho Nang (Thinking of His Beloved) – Vietnam, Poems & Songs

a few days before the lockdown, we were planning a VOLUME presentation of Alberto Boccardi’s new album, CAIRO PRIMO, just released for Oltrarno Recordings. it would not have been a real live but a set in which Alberto would have had to select some music and sounds that inspired the record, alternating with some of his tracks. that never happened but alberto has however released CAIRO PRIMO, which is a great record of electroacoustic beauty and is out now, and has mixed this ORA D’ARIA that will bring you far away and tells a lot about his Egyptian “parallel life”.
You can check, listen and buy CAIRO PRIMO here.

TRACKLIST:

Lullaby – Wang Chung – To Live and Die in LA – Geffen Rec
Quite Nervousness – Manuel Gottsching – E2-E4 – Inteam GmbH
Kebogiro Glendeng – Will Guthrie – Nist-Nah – Black Truffle Records
Domata 1331 – Land of Kush – Sand Enigma – Constellation Records
Nexus on the Beach – Roberto Musci – Tower of Silence – Music from Memory
I – Alberto Boccardi – CAIRO PRIMO – Oltrarno Recordings
In Girum Imus Nocte – Stefano Pilia – Decay Music n2: In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni – Die Schachtel
Barene – Upperground Orchestra – Euganea – Morphine Records
Superstart – Claudio Rocchi – Suoni di Frontiera – Die Schachtel/repress
Isis – Sam Shalabi – Isis & Osiris – Nashazphone
Egypt Strut – Sun Ra & Salah Ragab – Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt – The Golden Years of New Jazz
Bitter Balls – Karkhana – Al Sal3awa – Unrock
Virtual Feels/Passing Twelve – 1127 – Tqaseem Mqamat El Haram 2016-2019 – Nashazphone
Chaos Controlled – 3Phaz – Three Phase – 100 Copies
VII – Alberto Boccardi – CAIRO PRIMO – Oltrarno Recordings
Al Kanal – Maurizio Abate – The Maadi Sessions – Backward Records
IX – Alberto Boccardi – CAIRO PRIMO – Oltrarno Recordings

this Sunday’s ORA D’ARIA is by VOLUME’s big friend Gio Canedicoda.
like everything he creates, and not only as a musician (ottaven, primorje, fantamatres, tambour doux ..), this mix is ​​also a clear and crystalline expression of his incredible imagination, creativity and ability to imagine and reflects on the need for slow down and listen, now.
slow down yellow card.

http://canedicoda.com/

TRACKLIST:

Burundi >> Sanza Ikembe Avec Voix
Norberto Lobo >> Pen ward
Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland >> 8
James Place >> Sense of an ending
Ritual music of the Kayapò-Xikrin >> Morning twilight: forest and village sounds
Tak Shindo >> Cherry Blossoms
Bellows >> Handcut
Ando Umeko >> Futare chuy
ElpH vs Coil >> Decadent & Symmetrical
Glenn Gould >> Bach: Golderg variations, BWV 988 – Variatio 25 A 2 Clav. Adagio
Giuseppe Ielasi >> 2 (5:14 – untitled 2011)
Michael O’Shea >> Seance of a kondalike (backing)
Piotr Kurek >> Missing Paths
Bola Sete >> Morning rises throught the mist
Giuseppe Ielasi >> 15 tapes
Yasuaki Shimizu >> Umi no ue kara
Songs of the Inuit Iglulik >> Vocal and throat-games “Pirkusirartup”: Nirddlirayartak.
Luc Ferrari >> Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps (extr.)
Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest >> Flute duet
Thomas de Hartmann & G. Gurdjieff >> Borkian Dervish
Gianni Giublena Rosacroce >> Il Sole Della Discordia
Alejandro Jodorowsky >> Burn your money
Spike >> Can you see me

since I know him, rella has changed several times. not out of a spirit of adaptation but, on the contrary, to adapt his surroundings to himself. always in focus, never taken for granted, always with a gaze projected towards a parallel dimension. its latest mutation, which occurred a few years ago (but then there are mutations in mutations which is yet another story), is called Everest Magma. last year he made one of the best records of 2019 entitled Minus Plus Escapism, released for Boring Machines, inspired by the salvia divinorum. this mix opens with a track of Zuvuya feat. Terence McKenna inspired by the DMT. ok, this ORA D’ARIA lasts 40 “real” minutes, but it doesn’t matter. if you close your eyes and let yourself be carried away, time and space will no longer make sense.

TRACKLIST:

Zuvuya feat. Terence Mckenna “Dream Matrix Telemetry” (excerpt)
Takashi Kokubo “海底の中の夢”
Yoshiaki Ochi “Madal Sonic”
Black Dice “Endless Happiness” (excerpt)
Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings “Skybells I”
Roberto Musci “Ghost Train”
Psychic TV “Eleusis”
Moondog “Fujiyama 2”
Blind Uncle Gaspard “Sur Le Bord De L’eau”
Mariah “視線”