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The album is out now exclusively on #Bandcamp (digital + CD). DSPs like Spotify, Apple Music etc have intentionally been left out.

On the album, archive recordings featuring Ragnar Jónsson on #Halldorophone and Flemming Valmundsson on button #accordion have been ”vesselised”, rearranged and transformed using ”vssl”.

(vessels)1 features 10 tracks that navigate between cut-and-paste #soundcollage , dark #ambient #drone #experimental pop, harsh #noise and minimal #glitch inviting the listener onto a challenging yet rewarding journey through captivating #sounddesign

The project starts from a simple premise: in a distant future, we have lost access to musical instruments and all we have left is a tiny little box. In this box, there is (a collection) of sounds. Sounds that link to specific memories, places in time and space, that no longer exist.

Can these sonic memories be rearranged in order to create new ones? Have we not always been, as humans, limited by the scope of our own knowledge and experience, when we try to create something new?

https://xavierbonfill.bandcamp.com/album/vessels-1

@xavierbonfill 's new album (vessels)1 is out now! 🚢

(vessels)1 is the first installment in the (vessels) series, by Catalan-born, Denmark-based composer Xavier Bonfill. The album is produced (almost) entirely using a custom-made hardware #electronic instrument named ”vssl” which Xavier has been designing, programming and developing since 2023. 🎛️

#newmusic #bandcamp #experimental

(vessels)1, by Xavier Bonfill

10 track album

Xavier Bonfill

Btrinen 2d ago

@AccordionBruce @GPJohnston I missed that somehow. Good news!

http://www.beatlesauction.co.uk/2015/06/an-unusual-ringo-starr-autograph.html 🤩
#Beatles

Checking to see if this image I'd seen for years (pre-AI) was fake

Yeah, I'd pay £100 for an autographed pic of #RingoStarr playing #accordion 🪲🪗

Ari Davidow 2d ago

Jon Kalish writes about cimbalist Joseph Moskowitz, in the news with a new archive at the Library of Congress https://forward.com/culture/music/833363/joseph-moskowitz-archive-jewish-klezmer-cymbalom-library-of-congress/ #klezmer #tsimbl

A klezmer virtuoso, Joseph Moskowitz was a cymbalist of Jewish progress in America

The Moskowitz Archive at the Library of Congress chronicles the triumphs and travails of a musical pioneer

The Forward