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Limited Edition 10" Record
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110g 10" Vinyl Record, housed in a matte reversed cardboard sleeve with offset printing in an edition of 200 copies. Mastered and edited by Jürgen De Blonde. Vinyl mastered and cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering.
Includes 4 inserts (offset printed): Liner notes with additional artwork by Harry Smith; the poem ‘Colloidal Love’ by Louise Landes Levi (fold out sheet); the poem ‘Jaya Jaya Lakshmi Mother Om’ by Louise Landes Levi (fold out sheet) and a postcard. Design by Jeroen Wille.
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Drukpa is proud to present its first release ‘Colloidal Love’ by Louise Landes Levi, Bart De Paepe and Paul LaBrecque. The recordings are the result of Levi’s residency at The Villa in Antwerp, where she was joined by Paul Labrecque – who also recorded and mixed this album – and Bart De Paepe. I met Louise Landes Levi in 2011 at the Graag Traag Festival in Hasselt, Belgium. Our mutual connection to Rangjung Rigpe Dorje – the 16th Karmapa – made this project possible.
From the beginning Louise Landes Levi worked with the idea that the American folk tradition, Southern Appalachian, ballad, dance and blues – as documented on Harry Smith’s ‘Anthology of American Folk Music’ – would play a vital role in these recordings. Not in the least because of Paul LaBrecque’s presence, whose solo work and group jams with Sunburned Hand of The Man are informed with such influences. Louise intuited a correspondence between the string tradition, especially fiddle and banjo in ‘old weird America’ and the early recordings of sarangi, especially those of Ustad Bundu Khan and his pupil (and her teacher) Ustad Abdul Majid Khan, with relation both to ‘tension’ and ‘intonation.’ The meditative recordings balance on a tight rope between melancholia and a desire for ‘The Pure Land’, with references to Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad and Popol Vuh to name but a few.
From within the poem ‘Colloidal Love’ (an insert in this release), Louise, inspired by mention of Paracelus, envisions the LP cover as a mandala, a ritual symbol, usually circular, which in Hindu & Buddhist tradition serves both to represent and to initiate divinity. Harry Smith had painted some in classical formula but when a friend of hers, organizing the presentation of Robert Frank’s movie ‘Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel’ (2017) sent her an image of the mandala appearing on this recording – a free form mandala by Smith – the link between the American Folk and Indian tradition was now complete.
credits
released November 11, 2018
Sarangi, Flute, Voice, Liner Notes by Louise Landes Levi
Banjo, Recorded By, Mixed By Paul LaBrecque
Bells, Buddha Bowl by Bart De Paepe
Copy Editing by Steve Marreyt
Mastered By, Edited By Jürgen De Blonde
Recorded at The Villa, Antwerp, 2012.
In loving memory of Jack Rose & Ira Cohen.
Special thanks to Raymond Foye and Frances-Marie Uitti.
Artwork frontcover:
Harry Smith, Untitled (Drawing) (detail), October 19, 1951
Pencil, gouache, watercolor and ink on paper, 24 ½ × 18 ¾ inches
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LLL’s sarangi playing gives this release an otherworldy feel, as if one’s despair over the loss of so many beautiful insect lives to humanity’s rapacious greed for land and cruel ignorance takes form on shadowy wings and sheds tears of darkness on every treestump tomb it visits. Yet her spoken words describing the monarchs’ demise, voiced over ominous drums, are even more haunting. Dave Aftandilian
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A fantastic release!
A double CD could be great.
I'm a Lamontist and I obviously love this record, remembering Theatre of the eternal music. fabiaccio77