LISTEN UP: NEW RELEASES OF VARYING DEGREES OF BRILLIANCE (12.7.2021)

 MOHAMMAD MOSTAFA HEYDARIAN - SONGS OF HORAMAN




Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian is a young Kurdish tanbur player from Kermanshah, a city in the mountainous western Iranian region of Horaman (هه‌ورامان). The son of a local instrument builder, he grew up surrounded by the local traditional music styles, studying with a number of well-known master musicians before recently entering university to study Persian classical music. Radio Khiyaban is very proud to be able to present "Songs of Horaman," Heydarian's first record, as a testament to the artist's wonderful talents. 

Recorded in the city of Karaj with the percussive assistance of family friend and long-time collaborator Behzad Varesteh, Heydarian's debut includes a mixture of traditional tasnifs and maqams - thrilling and gorgeous tanbur pieces centered in the two musicians' talent for extended improvisation and feeling. 


INGAR ZACH & MICHELE RABBIA - MUSIQUE POUR DEUX CORPS





In which we bring together the duo Ingar Zach and Michele Rabbia for their second release. The two percussionists present an album full of invention and wonder:  percussion as music using an unlimited and inexhaustible material which only percussion can offer. The skins utilized as surfaces to make different metals, wood and objects for their ability to resonate, and electronics overlaid as sublime sonic backdrop to the foreground of natural sounds. The two instrumentalists share the same instrumental set-up and with their gestures, their intuitions, their willingness to freely experiment, they bring us music truly sui genris.  


MARY LATTIMORE - COLLECTED PIECES 2015-2020




In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album Silver Ladders - a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others - Los Angeles-based harpist and composer Mary Lattimore returns with a culminating counterpart release.  The limited-edition LP sequences selections from her two rarities collections, Collected Pieces I (2017) and Collected Pieces II (2020), bringing archive highlights and fan favorites to vinyl and CD for the first time.  Lattimore has described the process of arranging these releases as akin to “opening a box filled with memories,” and here that box continues to germinate, accessible for both the artist and fans.  Evocative material separated by years, framed as a portrait of an instrumental storyteller who rarely pauses, recording and often sharing music as soon as it strikes her.  Seemingly in constant forward motion for the last five years since her Ghostly debut, Lattimore glances back for a breath, inviting new chances to live in these fleeting moments and emotions and gracing the listener with all the beauty, sorrow, sunshine, and darkness housed within. 


TITO CHICOMA Y SU ORQUESTA - EL RITMO DE MODA





The record production of the Chiclayan trumpeter Roberto Enrique Tito Chicoma Báncer was extensive and traveled through almost all the fashionable genres of the tropical universe.

Based on his admiration for stars such as Ray Anthony, Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller, Chicoma developed a refined technique that would make him the most sensitive and prolific Peruvian trumpeter.

In his 1967 LP El Rhythm of Fashion, he shared a version of Tito Puente's boogaloo, Fat Mama, and Cortijo y su Combo's Ritmo veregua, among other selected local cumbias.


RITES OF PASSAGE - PRECURSOR





Rites of Passage is a solo project by Kirill Stepanov, who’s also a part of a dream-rave trio Elektricheskaya Sobaka and co-founder of Morpheus Radio. His debut LP “Precursor” is a compilation of sonic mediums made of musique concrète principiums, electroacoustic webs and unrhythmic streaming of ambient scapes.  Coming to you by way of Moscow.  That's right, they do cool and visionary things over there as well . . .







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