Khôra - Grammars Of Emanation

 

We've had more guest mixes than usual the last 6 months and that is a great thing because it means we all get to hear some amazing music and amazing mixes like this one. 

This new mix comes from Matthew Ramolo, who records as Khôra. There is a new Khôra album that just dropped in April called "Gestures of Perception" and is described this way - "The album weaves ritualized instrumentals with alien textures and resonant melodies, inviting listeners to transcend into uncommon consciousness."

You can find the new album here - https://khora.bandcamp.com/album/gestures-of-perception-3

I was unfamiliar with the music of Khôra, but one listen to the new album and I was all in for a guest set. This mix is so very propulsive, it draws you in and drives you forward with layer upon layer of rhythmic intensity. 

Here's what Matthew says about this mix:

"This assemblage of material was selected primarily on the basis of substantiating the sonic and conceptual universes that my most recent Khôra release is in lineage with. The vast majority of the pieces presented are percussive or propulsive, but also circular in nature and in one respect I was seeking a fundamental rhythmic presence or energy among my troves of collected music that could be traced across various artists and presented as a single typology or modality that tenders itself in various guises through a cast of contemporary and historical voices. Functionally, the mix pursues a particular genealogy of percussive music across various genres, cultures, histories, technologies, and interpretations which initiates a kind of meditative dancing. Within the outline of this non-linear genealogy, ancient ritualistic and tribal tendencies flower within the unconscious regimes of the body even as the mind and body are provoked to find new appreciations and applications for these emboldening forms of musical intelligence which persist through time but are mutated, conditioned, and understood by the nuances of the listener and their temporal circumstances."

Thanks to Matthew for putting together this unique journey. His album is out on the Marionette label and you can find more of their fine releases here - https://marionettelabel.bandcamp.com/

 

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00 Khôra - Flux and Hieroglyph (Gestures Of Perception 2024)
• 06:45 Cyclopean - Fingers (Cyclopean 2013)
• 12:21 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Resinance (Bes 2019)
• 15:12 The Comet Is Coming - Journey Through The Asteroid Belt (Channel The Spirits 2016)
• 20:30 Muslimgauze - Caste the First Stone - (Salaam Alekum, Bastard 2020)
• 24:44 Love-Songs & Ulf Schütte - Dumpfes hämmerndes Dröhnen (Spannende Musik 2021)
• 29:29 Various - Radio Delhi #1 (Radio India: The Eternal Dream Of Sound 2004)
• 32:04 Uwalmassa - Belit (Malar 2022)
• 36:00 Kilchhofer - Karon ( The Book Room 2018)
• 39:28 De Leon - A2 (De Leon 2018)
• 44:44 Khôra - In Petrified Light (Gestures Of Perception 2024)
• 49:50 Joyfultalk - Kill Scene (Plurality Trip 2018)
• 53:42 Jon Iverson Meets Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy & Inre Kretsen Grupp - Drum Steel (Jon Iverson Meets Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy & Inre Kretsen Grupp 2023)
• 58:21 D.K. - Going Into Trance (The Goddess Is Dancing 2019)
• 1:04:15 Antonio Zepeda - Danzando en El Templo Mayor (Templo Mayor 1982)
• 1:07:30 23 Skidoo - Coup De Grace (Urban Gamelan 1984)
• 1:09:07 Holden - Blackpool Late 80s (The Inheritors 2013)
• 1:17:24 Autechre - known (1) (Oversteps 2010)
• 1:22:00 Stephan Micus - Passing Cloud (The Garden Of Mirrors 1997)
• 1:27:07 Tomaga - Idioma (Intimate Immensity 2021)
• 1:31:10 Shabaka - Ital Is Vital (Afrikan Culture 2022)
• 1:35:35 Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R, and Me (The Loa Of Music 1984)
• 1:38:38 Khôra - Golden Femur (Gestures Of Perception 2024)