Recently I discovered an incredible documentary called: Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie, and one of the things that I’ve found so appealing about this film was the fact that Evelyn Glennie is deaf since her childhood, but she’s also a remarkable percussionist. Through this documentary you can come to understand her silent life and her perspective on how she, literally, touches the vibrations of sound and how, despite her incompleteness, she has become a renowned musician nowadays. The director Thomas Riedelsheimer made a fantastic filmmaking work showing us her vision of this world in a unique and suggestive way.

She also has made contributions with some other artists in which Evelyn appears to be listening to every note on their performances because she made perfect synergy with them. From the crowded streets of New York City to a relaxing garden in Japan, She travels through, not only an amazing journey around the world, but also a deep journey into herself by which music lovers, like myself, are happily delighted.

Featuring:
Evelyn Glennie & Fred Frith. (this video)
Evelyn Glennie & This.
Evelyn Glennie & Za Ondekoza.
Evelyn Glennie & Roxanne Butterfly.
Evelyn Glennie & Jason “The Fogmaster”.
Evelyn Glennie & Horazio “El Negro” Hernández.
Among others.

More than 100 artists were picked, an MP3 compilation was made and it was distributed among close friends, the idea of a documentary film  was even discussed (but, unfortunately, we all have day-jobs and other things to do). Enclosed in that compilation were acts like Café Tacuba,  Julieta Venegas, Nortec and many others that are not included in our podcast tracklist, simply because on Suite 303 we always focus on the  not-so-obvious artists.

Needless to say that thanks to the Internet, the exposure to greater influences, DIY recording and other  contemporary issues, the quality of the new Mexican talent has recently improved and it is easier to get close to their music.

Please enjoy Mexhibit A, a contemporary Mexican  music podcast!

Tracklist

01 - Intro: Organillo
02 - Shy Genius - Mumerats
03 - People Project - Segundo Piso
04 - Muna Zul - Voto De Silencio
05 - Falcón - I Lobby
06 - Villa Jardín - Misiones
07 - MC Luka - Lupita’s Taco Shop
08 - Sonex (featuring Rubén Albarrán) - La Bamba
09 - Los Músicos De José - Nebulosa
10 - Maple - Pixel
11 - Faca - Nightshot
12 - Jorch Mono - Real e Imaginario
13 - Chikita Violenta - Turnaround
14 - Sub-Division - Blue Boy
15 - Maniquí Lazer - Mrs. Lazer
16 - Titán - Odisea 2001

Spectrum is a podcast that goes from one genre to another without any abrupt jump in music styles, this was made possible by a variety of genre daring artists that are the key to open new musical frontiers. Fortunately the resulting playlist answered our questions: you can go from loud guitar sounds to smooth percussions, or through jazz, hip-hop or rock without any brusque rush as long as you put between those pieces the right ligature of genre-blended music. So we leave it to your appreciation and we hope you can enjoy this little spectrum of styles as much as we did, and maybe you can suggest your own musical spectrum or, why not? you can challenge us on how to go from one genre to another and try to make it smooth.

Tracklist

01 - Ryo Fukui Trio - Early Summer
02 - Digable Planets - Dog It
03 - Akitaka Tohyama & Kenji Ninuma - The Moon And The Prince
04 - Torpedo Boyz - Chickee Pow!
05 - Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now
06 - Álbum - Es Fácil
07 - Cyndi Seui - Micro Bitz Touch Of Lipz
08 - Aïwa - Yiyi
09 - Amadou & Mariam (featuring Manu Chao) - Coulibaly
10 - Antibalas - Indictment
11 - Vern Blair Debate - Ooh Ah Ee
12 - Elizabeth Shepherd - Reversed (Nostalgia 77 Remix)

You can find inside a striking public library that focuses mainly on music with technological equipment, stocking books, a CD library with listening stations, current music magazines and computers with free internet access, subscriptions to music websites, music software and midi controllers, so you can borrow music books and scores, learn and compose using music software, or even find a music tutor in North East England.

It is open 7 days a week and this year’s upcoming performances will include: Bon Iver, Roots Manuva, Eddi Reader, Brad Mehldau Trio, Elbow, Michelle Shocked and Herbie Hancock. The Ticket Office telephone is: 0191 443 4661.

The odyssey to share with Björk, just a couple of hours was really an ordeal, at the end, through the poor organization and the fact that the “venue” was located on middle of nowhere, the episode culminated as one the most exciting and enjoyable experiences that I have ever had, Björk definitely enlightened the audience… but how is this event related with this podcast?, well, is difficult for me to confess that I’m a little nervous when I’m on a plane, so before I started my trip, I decided to make my flying experience truly comfortable by making a playlist for me in such a way that I would focus my attention entirely on the music instead than on the physics involved in the flight process.

The musical spectrum that I’ve selected here is relaxing but I think at the same time it’s bright and ethereal and, in some tracks, cacophony and abstraction prevails, in fact, I tried to design a concept through which the whole tracklist would reach, in some way, a complete journey of frequencies in order to let the listener enjoy those magnificent landscapes that the windows of an airplane may offer.

If you are going to fly somewhere this podcast could be your perfect companion on your flight, if you are scared to fly …and also if you’re not.

01 - Boards of Canada - Over The Horizon Radar
02 - Sidsel & Bugge - Out Here. In There
03 - Plaid - Ralome
04 - Yanokami - Owari No Kisetsu
05 - Rei Harakami - Come Here Go There
06 - Trentemøler - Snowflake
07 - Nils Petter Molvær - The Beginning (From The Film Edy)
08 - Hiroshi Watanabe - Sui-Sei
09 - Cornelius - Sleep Warm
10 - EKP - Leaving You Wondering

But this time we are going to focus on her uncommon voice, although she had no formal training, neither could she read musical notes, she was able to stagger her voice through 5 octaves, starting from a real low tone, almost like the tones on Barry White’s voice, up to high frecuency tones, just like a bird, in fact, in one interview she claimed that she learned to sing by trying to imitate the sounds made by birds, and certainly her voice, on some of her recordings, sounds like made by something other than a human, she was able of producing such tones, so clean and so deep, that today she continues being a mystical legend.

After listening to all the available Sumac recordings, I got very intrigued about those singers that exceed the standard of 80 Hz to 1100 Hz for men and women altogether that translated on a musical scale means from E2 to C6, this graphic will help you to identify the values between Hertz and a common piano scale, remember, one Hertz is equal to one vibration (one cycle) per second, therefhore for a regular singer it is really challenging to make so many vibrations per second.

According to the Guinness Book of Records these are the current records:

For Females:
Eight octaves, G2 to G10 (25,087 Hz), Georgia Brown, from Brazil. Picture this: how can she made a note so high producing an ultrasound, that she can’t even listen to? maybe she was trying to comunicate with dolphins or trying to see through complete darkness like a bat, anyway, you must watch this video of a TV presentation, some notes are so high and long that we could presume that there is a synthesizer sounding along.

For Males:
Greatest range: Six octaves, Tim Storms, from the USA, watch this video and discover why he is also an internet phenomenon.
and finally the highest male vocal note, a C#8 by Adam Lopez, from Australia.

Nowadays there are so many talented singers that they prefer singing for pleasure and to integrate their vocal spectrum on a fine made recording than competing for a silly world record, nevertheless we think that both options are just fantastic.

Tracklist:

01 - The Mamas And The Papas - Once Was A Time I Thought
02 - Dire Straits - Water Of Love
03 - Blondie - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
04 - The Doors - Unhappy Girl
05 - Paul McCartney - Write Away
06 - The Rolling Stones - Heaven
07 - U2 - Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
08 - Van Halen - Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
09 - Pink Floyd - San Tropez
10 - Elvis Presley - Fever
11 - Fleetwood Mac - Not That Funny
12 - Peter Gabriel - Intruder
13 - The Police - Contact
14 - Iron Butterfly - So-Lo
15 - The Kinks - I Gotta Move

This unexpected success would never mean that we will get stucked in one musical genre and every podcasts will be in that same tone. And a proof of that is that are going to make a drastic change, we’ll jump from the stimulant effect that caused our energetic drink with Caffeine to the next issue that is closer to a relaxing tea. We named our new podcast Avant Bossa, maybe because it is a mix of languages that means the same thing: a new music trend.

I tried to figure out which tracks could represent a new wave, but, I found out that a new trend nowadays doesn’t necessarily mean electronic synthetizers or psychedelic remixes, the true enchantment of bossa nova is the sweet voice and the simple sound that the strings of an acoustic guitar make when they’re been plucked, in fact this genre is considered as a refined version of samba, de-emphasizing the percussive aspect of its rhythm and enriching the melodic and harmonic content, so any variation of the basic structure will loose the true essence of bossa nova and the intention of João Gilberto when he developed this particular style that grew and spread in such way that it created a new genre.

Our selection doesn’t include those popular compositions like the Girl from Ipanema or Desafinado, this selection is, as our repeated goal, a worldwide gamma of artists from Japan, France and obviously Brazil. I have selected these original tunes for the emotive and melancholic sensations that they cause on me, in particular Aeromoça, that song, even though it’s a happy tune, somehow mysteriously drives me to tears, I hope that you share the passion for this music that is on a constant fight to stay alive on an audience that apparently values more the power of volume than the tenderness and sophistication of bossa nova, maybe in a world oriented to the consumption we are loosing our ability to simply listen carefully.

01 - Intro
02 - Pecombo - Respire
03 - Akiko - Chega de Saudade
04 - Tom & Joyce - Un Regard, Un Sourire
05 - Katia B - One More Shot
06 - Les Nubians - Que Le Mot Soit Perle
07 - The Dining Rooms (featuring Rosalia De Souza) - Mais
08 - Nu Braz - Aeromoça
09 - Sabrina Malheiros - Terra De Ninguém (Nicola Conte Rework)
10 - Anvil FX - Sambinha Do Piscapunga
11 - Mosquitos - Boombox
12 - Democustico - Pira

I would specially like to thank Electro Premium Choice, which is a great French blog without whom I wouldn’t have been able to create this fantastic mix. Enjoy!!

Tracklist:

01 - DSL - Invaders (Djedjotronic Remix)
02 - Alex Gopher - Aurora (Riot In Belgium & Knightlife Remix)
03 - Etienne De Crécy - Punk
04 - AutoKratz - 1000 Things
05 - Yelle - A Cause Des Garçons (Tepr Remix)
06 - Digitalism - Jupiter Room
07 - MSTRKRFT - Street Justice
08 - Hostage - Gluttony (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
09 - The Presets - My People
10 - Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (The Phone Lovers Remix)
11 - Justice - Waters Of Nazareth
12 - Goose - Bring It On

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P.S. As a Latinamerican it’s truly a shame that I can’t dance to these rythms, but maybe you can, do it please.

Tracklist:
01 - Esquivel - Esquivel Intro
(Mexico City, Mexico)
02 - S Tone Inc. - Con Mi Sombra
(Milan, Italy)
03 - George Shearing - Caravan
(London, UK)
04 - Orquesta De La Luz - Mambo De La Luz
(Tokyo, Japan)
05 - Quantic Soul Orchestra (featuring J-Live) - She Said What?
(Bogota, Colombia/Worcestershire, UK/New York, USA)
06 - Alex Wilson - Oh Kuri
(London, UK)
07 - EKP - El Salvador
(Stockholm, Sweden)
08 - Mo’ Horizons - Ai Mi Morena (Chocolate Restyle)
(Hannover, Germany)
09 - Ursula 1000 - Got Cha
(New York, USA)
10 - Beatfanatic - Cookin’ (Version)
(Stockholm, Sweden)
11 - Sidestepper - Hoy Tenemos (Boys From Brazil Remix)
(Barranquilla, El Choco, Cali & Medellin, Colombia/London, UK)
12 - Professor Angel Dust - Latino A Go Go
(Barcelona, Spain)
13 - Fania All Stars - Closing Theme
(New York, USA)