Boomarm Family Album 2024

Boomarm Family Album 2024
Bandcamp Exclusive / Digital DWNLD / Streaming
Jan, 01,2024

Peace to the world!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is our first Family Album since 2018! Here’s to the power of our international community, connected through sound. Many thanks to all of the artists involved, this is truly a family affair. Thank you for contributing to this compilation and sharing your art with the world.

This compilation is free to download exclusively on Bandcamp. But, please consider purchasing with a Name-Your-Price Payment Option. 100% of Name-Your-Price Sales will go to Sisters of the Road Cafe. www.sistersoftheroad.org

Sisters of the Road is a long-standing non-profit community organization in Portland, Oregon working to support low-income and houseless individuals through charitable and educational programs, including providing affordable, healthy, and delicious meals in a space that welcomes all to come dine with dignity.

Thank you for listening, supporting, sharing.

Keep bringing the light in any way you can. Music heals.

– Jesse / BN

Artists Involved:


gulls.bandcamp.com
silvioastier.bandcamp.com
hotrocks.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/hirihara
saintabdullah.bandcamp.com
sapleo1.bandcamp.com
www.stinkyjim.com
www.ulrichtroyer.at
soundcloud.com/thenaturalmagic
dreckig.bandcamp.com
northerndraw.bandcamp.com
mltzr.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/wave-fuzz
shawneecamu.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/camu
soundcloud.com/kry_cek
soundcloud.com/gumar
neglectsound.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/txted
strategy.bandcamp.com
tropicalcamel.bandcamp.com

Gulls – Cold Path EP

Gulls
Cold Path EP

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Digital / Bandcamp / streaming
Dec 21, 2023

In honor of the turning of the wheel, the darkest days, and the longest night here in the Northern Hemisphere, Gulls brings forth a new EP of wintery introspection. Happy Solstice to you all!

Vocals, percussion, fujara, shakuhachi, cane flute, synths, electronics, performed, composed, and arranged by Gulls – Jesse Munro Johnson 2023

Gulls – Elements EP

Gulls
Elements EP

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Digital / Bandcamp / streaming
Oct. 06, 2023

Gulls is back with an enthralling new EP that beckons listeners into an otherworldly realm. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, the cosmos, and the profound mysteries of life, this EP runs like a collection of lost dubs from a soundtrack that never was.

Showcasing a fusion of elements—cinematic soundscapes alive with sweeping sound design, heavy-weight percussion, and harmonized passages of live woodwinds and brass. It’s a direct transmission from the inner sanctum of the Boomarm dojo, pulsating with energy and creativity.

Originally composed in 2021 as part of a collaboration with Dr. Danielle Curry each track has undergone a meticulous transformation. In the early days of fall 2023, each piece was reworked and remixed, infusing them with new life and fresh perspective.

For over two decades, Gulls (AKA Boomarm Nation founder, Jesse Munro Johnson) has passionately dedicated themselves to the world of music as a collaborative artist, sound engineer, label owner, and producer. Consistently pushing forward to expand the boundaries of music and sound art as a means of connection and community building. Today, aside from running Boomarm Nation, Gulls works as a specialized audio engineer, focusing on…  more

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released October 6, 2023

Trumpet, Flutes, Percussion, Electronics: Jesse Munro Johnson

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered in the Boomarm Nation Dojo

HOT ROCKS – MINERALS (Versions)

HOT ROCKS
Minerals (Versions)

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Digital / Bandcamp / streaming
Sept. 08, 2023



Hot Rocks is the musical partnership of Jesse Munro Johnson (Gulls), and Mike McKinnon (Natural Magic). Since day one, each has followed their own musical path, but for the past 20 years, their journeys as musicians and engineers have been intertwined in various studios across the West. Working in tandem as engineers and producers with the likes of Elite Beat, Mdou Moctar, and many others, a chemistry of distilled musical enthusiasm and kinship solidified. In 2021, they began gathering weekly in the Boomarm Nation studio, experimenting with the intention of building up a new sound.
Minerals (Versions) is the first offering from a harvest sown from those weekly gatherings. The sonic palette is earthy and cosmic, cool to the touch yet emanating a warmth that travels effortlessly. The woody melodic tones of tuned hand and mallet percussion, resampled brass, and bamboo flutes float in the anti-gravity of shimmering chordal clouds and throws of dubby solar flares. Built from live jams, re-spun, resampled, looped, and reassembled in a live all hands on the board mix. Each of the three versions rides an arc of slow-mo, mid-tempo glow and a weighty soundsystem embrace. This is a heartfelt dose of something fresh for your speakers

Silvio Astier – Pampa EP

Silvio Astier – Pampa EP

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Oct. 26, 2018

Free DL via Bandcamp.

Pampa is a Quechua word (the language of the Incas) which refers to the fertile plains and lowlands of the Río de la Plata, which extend through the central zone of Argentina and Uruguay.
The arrival of slaves in the 1500’s transformed the Pampa into a sonorous territory of rhythms mixed between African percussion and the native song of the Gauchos. However, in the mid-nineteenth century, revolution and war silenced the Pampa.
A silence which led Silvio Astier to look deeply into his own Argentinian roots.

With the Pampa EP, Silvio Astier presents a musical exploration of the ancestral Latin American landscape of the Pampa.
The journey is led by Slivio’s own Pampean style guitar playing, flutes and hand percussion, set beautifully against the warmth of sub bass, mystical dub FX, vocals, and soundscapes.

Silvio Astier is a multi instrumentalist musician and producer based in Buenos Aires. Mixing the rhythms and ancestral musical landscapes of Latin America with textures and beats of organic electronics. This sound is the product of the search for ancient Latin American music and its African influence, the constant dialogue between reminiscences of the past and the electronic sound of the present. 

Credits:
Music / production / Instruments: Silvio Astier
Cover Artwork: @birdofnothing – Zohar Doron
Mastering: JMJ for Boomarm Nation
*Track1 – Mixed by JMJ in the Boomarm DOJO
Video by: Tropikal Camel

—DWNLD press release—

BOOMARM018 OUT NOW!

 

We are beyond thrilled to see this legendary session between Mdou Moctar and our own Elite Beat come to vinyl!

Act fast, limited copies available from our bandcamp

 

Elite Beat – Casual Rhythms Vol. 3! OUT NOW

Hot on the heels of the stellar collaboration with Mdou Moctar, Elite Beat are back with Volume 3 of the Casual Rhythms series!! 

With an all hands on deck approach to analog, DIY dub mixing, these tracks shine and bubble, patiently revealing layers of cosmic orchestration, and hypnotic repetition. Press play, and the mission is clear once again, another offering of Casual Rhythm is served up, hot for your boombox! 

Recorded live in Portland, Oregon, and mixed in the Boomarm dojo. Cop the limited edition cassette tape while supplies last!! 

BOOMARM017 OUT NOW!

 

Lost & Found Vol. 2 offers up two bubbling and buoyant sides of upfull, dubwise riddims. Crafted in the lab by the SKRS crew as an antidote to counteract all the doom and dreadfull hearts, SKRS remedy the dance! 

Strength in Upfullness! 

A must for these times. 

Limited to 500 copies / NO RE-PRESS! 
Printed Black sleeves 
Art by MYSTERYFORMS 

FOR WHOLESALE / DISTRIBUTION: tad@japanblues.com

 

BOOMARM16 OUT NOW!

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As part of the release of Saint Abdullah’s Ta Tash on Boomarm Nation, we decided to do away with a press release and instead keep things real by simply having a conversation.

I sent Saint Abdullah three questions about the sounds, visuals, and stories behind the project that I was curious to learn more about. The following pages capture our very candid conversation.

Thank you for your support, Jesse

Boomarm016 In conversation, Saint Abdullah x Boomarm Nation

Q1: Peace brothers, I’m listening to Vivid Persian Dreams, the A side of the new 12”, my back door is open here at Boomarm HQ and the sun is shining in from the garden. These sounds are consuming me, as if I am sitting in another place entirely; its warm, like a landscape, its bright and the air is hot. The energy in these sounds, the pulse and howls of distant voices, these hand claps, so shrill and with purpose, like a parade of protest passing by, the colors are twinkling in my ears like a precious stone in the sun.

Yet I hear a heaviness, a longing that keeps pulling at my heart. These sounds. Man, So heavy, the build from a gentle cascade, to a thundering storm, its warm, energizing and mysterious, yet totally visceral and familiar, in the way it all coalesces around the warm drip of the drum. Can you tell me about the sounds I’m hearing?

A1: Greetings, from the corner of Broadway and Madison, tucked in between the neighborhoods of Bedstuy and Bushwick, here in Brooklyn, NY. This sun isn’t shining, nor do I have my back door open. I don’t have a back door – just one door, and it’s at the side of the apartment. It’s definitely closed, although unlocked; A Canadian compromise.

We certainly couldn’t describe them with such detail. These are the moments where the ESL card comes in handy. Nevertheless, let’s give it a try— These sounds are accidents. There was intent only in so far as a simple idea, which is really around bringing together factions and forces in Iranian, Islamic culture, under one roof, to have them play nice together, to co-exist, float as one and to complete each other, in order to tell a story called Ta Tash, which is Farsi for To The End. More on that later.

When you live in the diaspora, you can have lofty dreams and ideals about how your homeland should show up. It’s a curse and a blessing. A blessing because you can dream without the weight of day-to-day reality only presenting you with impossibility. A curse because, well, you’re not in the wrestling ring, making things happen. Just another outsider, another hopeless romantic who dares to dream, but with no capacity to impact the result.

These sounds are accidents. You press record and let it go for a few hours. And you keep messing around, day and night, you toil away with the buttons, with the EQ’ing, you create, introduce sounds and samples in a hundred different ways, and who knows, maybe by chance, you create something that sticks…that hits you.
This is our attempt at that. We’re just humbled you listened. These sounds are repetitive.

We don’t know what it is with repetition that is so attractive. Not any one thing. But maybe an attempt to slow things down. At a time when it feels like we’re moving too fast, and everywhere you look, everyone’s solving for efficiency, getting stuck on four bars, or eight bars, or one bar, and just sitting the fuck back for a minute and taking it in, maybe that’s satisfying.

A largely futile attempt at controlling the uncontrollable. Making music that more accurately matches the rhythm, emotions, and ideals of your reality. Not necessarily the easiest to listen to. That’s okay.

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