Mixtape #169


Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now based in between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, Violeta García is an extremely talented cellist, composer, improviser and curator. Having first studied classical and popular music on the cello, before delving into contemporary composition and improvisation, she has more recently developed a heavy interest in open sound spaces. Working across many contexts and art forms, including improvisation, music composition, dance, film and visual art, she has collaborated with dozens of contemporary artists and musicians from different genres and has performed at numerous festivals and venues around the world, as a soloist, a collaborator and a member of experimental rock project Blanco Teta. With García's third solo album, IN / OUT, a beautifully haunting, gloomy and emotive record, arriving this week, we could not be more excited to have her put together this enthralling mix journeying through the influences at play in her own music, including a couple of gems from herself. Press play already!

  1. Violeta García & Hora Lunga – I think I Just Died A Lil Bit // Buzz 2 [-OUS]
  2. Piotr Kurek – Klamm [Unsound]
  3. Violeta García – IN II [Bongo Joe]
  4. Aylu – Industrial [Orange Milk Records]
  5. Scatt Jangdan Play – Jangdan DNA
  6. Jurg Frey – Extended Circular Music No.2 [Musiques Suisses]
  7. Kali Malone – Meantone Canon
  8. Perila – mad sh [Paralaxe Editions]
  9. Jamira Estrada – Now will always be feat. Miao Zhao [Czarnagora]
  10. KAVARI – Healing Spring
  11. Arthur Russell – Soon To Be Innocent Fun/Let’s See [Plexifilm]
  12. Catherine Lamb – Divisio Spiralis for string quartet [Kairos]
  13. Fred Again… & Brian Eno – I Saw You [Text Records]
  14. Inuit – Entertaining Song [Sub Rosa]

Mixtape #152

Hailing from Baltimore, and with 3 of its 4 members now based in Berlin, Horse Lords are one of the most exciting bands out there. Formed in 2010, the quartet have a wildly imaginative approach to music, combining polyrhythmic grooves with their command of microtonality. Their music, entrancing, ecstatic and utterly fascinating, is both meticulously structured and vibrantly spontaneous. Last year's masterpiece Comradely Objects was one of our Album Picks of 2022 and we still can't put it down. Witnessing their galvanizing and irresistible live show is a whole encompassing experience we'll be lucky to repeat this week at Out.fest in Portugal. So we could not be more excited to share with you the superb mix they put together for us, opening a window into the disparate influences at play in their own sonic explorations.

  1. François Couperin – 214 VII. Suite in D Minor, No. 36, Allemande
  2. Terry Jennings – Song (1960) (performed by Charles Curtis) [Saltern]
  3. James Tenney – Koan [Hat Hut Records]
  4. Devo – Girl U Want [Warner Bros. Records / Virgin]
  5. Will Guthrie – Lit 1+2 [Black Truffle]
  6. Gianni Gebbia – Heifetz [Rastascan Records]
  7. 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band – I’m Not Trying to Wake Up (Live at Tubby’s) [Grapefruit Records]
  8. Catherine Lamb – divisio spiralis IX (performed by JACK Quartet) [Kairos]