Hot Rocks – Serpentine (Versions)
Bandcamp / Digital DWNLD / Streaming
Released September 06, 2024
Hot Rocks – Serpentine
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txted – Context Tracer
txted – Context Tracer
Bandcamp / Digital DWNLD / Streaming
Released September 27, 2024
Digital telepathy, wired trees, and circuit-board
seas… txted is the dream of electricity…
Welcome txted, the newest artist to the Boomarm family. Based in the Pacific Northwest, txted is the musical project of Dr. Shawn Trail, a visionary music technologist, percussionist, nomadic scholar, and studio wizard. These recordings stem from experiments with new interfaces inspired by traditional and neo-traditional pitched
percussion instruments. This music reflects years of research conducted as a Fulbright and PhD Fellow, leading to the development of extended digital techniques. These innovations allow pitched percussionists, specifically xylophone and lamellophone (thumb piano) players to ‘dub’ themselves live during performances, using their native instrumental gestures. Using these techniques, txted conjures electro-acoustic pitched percussion, lush soundscapes, pulsing synth waves, propulsive polyrhythms, and cyclic phased melodies dubbed into another dimension. Recorded largely in one-take performances to 1⁄4” tape, CONTEXT TRACER is a sonic telegraph formed from a networked orchestra of
memories, performed in real-time from an ancient future. Let the music breathe, and pulse through your speakers.
LINKS:
txted: www.instagram.com/txtedtxted/
Shawn Trail, PhD: www.shawtrail.studio
credits
Music by: Dr. Shawn Trail
Mastered by: Jesse Munro Johnson
Cover art: www.instagram.com/a_crisp_doc?igsh=cDB2ZGU5amttenMw
Jake Chapman & Gulls – Turn Style
We first encountered Jake Chapman’s incredible playing in 2023 when Gulls was hired to work on the mixes for Chapman’s forthcoming debut album. Instantly captivated by Chapman’s high-energy performance on the Electronic Percussion Keyboard (EPK), an electrified 5-octave marimba, the groundwork for a future collaboration was quickly laid. Months later, Chapman joined Gulls in Troutdale, Oregon, for an inaugural recording session at the newly established Confluence Recording Co.
Leading up to the recording session, Gulls crafted a sonic foundation imbued with the rich textures of dub-infused polyrhythms, motifs, and melodic beds. This was an ideal platform for Chapman to showcase his improvisational prowess, resulting in a series of captivating performances. Chapman and Gulls expanded the horizons of sonic innovation together, maintaining Boomarm Nation’s boundary-pushing collaborative ethos. Their efforts brought us this new music and contributed to ongoing research into the evolution of the EPK as a sound system-ready instrument—a collaborative endeavor championed by Chapman and Confluence Recording owner Shawn Trail. Chapman wields the EPK in fine style, utilizing its capabilities to amplify through multiple outputs and seamlessly integrating real-time effects and stompboxes into his performances.
Chapman is an in-demand instrumentalist within the dynamic LA music community, renowned for his chameleon-like ability to masterfully play across a diverse array of mallet and keyed instruments. He frequently collaborates with various ensembles and contributes to recording projects with esteemed producers such as Linda Perry and Kenny Beats. His hypnotic single, “An Angel Will Be With You Shortly,” released in February 2024, has already amassed over 20 million views and 500,000 plays on Spotify.
With a full EP underway, “Turn Style” is the inaugural offering from the sessions. Chapman’s playing emphasizes the elemental earthiness of the wooden material of his instrument, as soaring hypnotic motifs intertwine with a live-tracked percussion ensemble, rolling sub-bass, and reverb-soaked keys, evoking a sense of timeless exploration. The companion “Dub Version” flips things upside down to focus on a saturated exploration of the percussion, bass, and drums, but not without a hearty dose of gritty fader throws of Marimba into the dub’o-sphere. Mixed in Boomarm Nation’s signature full-spectrum dub style, Gulls’ production rides a wave between the shores of multiple genres, creating a current that feels simultaneously new and timeless. With that, we proudly present “Turn Style.
Jake Chapman: www.instagram.com/chappymilkshake/?hl=en
Gulls: www.instagram.com/gulls_sound/?hl=en
Confluence Recording Co: www.instagram.com/confluencerecording/?hl=en
EPK: www.modemarimba.com/epk/home
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
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 together in various studios across the west. Working in tandem as engineers and producers with the likes of Elite Beat, Mdou Moctar, Sávila, 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 is the first offering from a harvest sown from those weekly gatherings. The sonic palette of Minerals 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 ride an arc of slow-mo mid-tempo glow and a weighty soundsystem embrace. This is a heart felt dose of something fresh for your speakers!
Silvio Astier – Pampa EP
Silvio Astier – Pampa EP
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Oct. 26, 2018
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
Gulls – Possibilities EP
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RELEASED: OCTOBER 2018
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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!!
