Unimaginative Title #2984
By Bobby on Friday 12 February 2010, 12:52 - Permalink
What's been happening lately? I've finally got the final track of my album done, which is great, after not been producing much in the last month, apart from some really sketchy ideas. It's a pure ambient journey that represents what I imagine to be the morning after a Chimbre experience. Chimbre being a spiritual retreat in the Peruvian rainforest. It only has just been established but still has provided some excellent scenery to some heavy psychotheraputic work for many individuals. Check it out at chimbre.com!

So you can have a quick listen (well quick being 15 minutes) to the track on my Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/el-cubist/enuui-chimbre-feat-mauxuam-greg-hunter
This track is a collaborative track with Mauxuam and Greg Hunter, who if you've been reading some of my earlier posts are Cloudcycle. I have a bunch of samples I got off them and have tried making a few tracks, but they just haven't cut it. This one though is more fitting towards a halfway point between my sound and their sound.
Also I am in the process of creating a Sufi-esque Persian piece of ambient drum and bass for the experimental noise/jazz/drumfunk d'n'b label Pinecone Moonshine. Nic TVG, the label boss, has been a good friend for many years back when I was running Exegene, and I'm glad to be now working on something for his wicked label, which has some great artists on like Macc, dgoHn, Fanu, Jiva, Ibunshi, Parallel, Eschaton, and of course Nic TVG himself.
Also looking forward to seeing Hallucinogen live, Shpongle DJ set, and Eat Static live in London in a couple of weeks, as well as seeing the African Soul Rebels tour in Manchester with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Oumou Sangaré, and the Kalahari Surfers.
Comments
I love the spacious ambient soundscape that you've created with Chimbre. The vocals that you mix in toward the end, seated in the bed of drifting synths - amazing. Is that Alan Watts?
You've powerfully conveyed the essence of the kind of shamanic journey I imagine Chimbre to be. Great work!
I've been experimenting with ways to visualize shamanic soundforms. Here's a brief test that I recently completed, which I feel resonates with this piece:
http://vimeo.com/16608370
It's just a beginning...
thankyou shalom, yep that's alan watts sneaking in there.
Like the short video, feel free if you have time to make one for the track if you wish, as i dont really know how.
on my bandcamp http://shop.enuui.org
you can download mareacion for free which contains actual recordings that rob @ chimbre gave to me.