#Yara Asmar

[to0thr0t]

Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories

a clip from the first video in this short youtube series by Yara Asmar

[solvetcoagulate]

[jacobwren]

YARA ASMAR | Live at The Ballroom Blitz, Beirut

[daiguit91]

Top 50 discos favoritos del 2023: 20 - 11

Cuarta parte de esta lista.

20.- Yara Asmar - Synth Waltzes and Accordion Laments

Ambient, Electroacoustic Modern Classical, Drone

19.- Geese - 3D Country

Indie Rock, Art Punk Southern Rock, Art Rock, Alt-Country, Roots Rock, Cowpunk

18.- Susanne Sundfør - Blómi 

Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk Chamber Folk, Spoken Word, Electroacoustic, Art Pop, Vocal Jazz, Chamber Jazz

17.- aespa - MY WORLD 

K-Pop, Contemporary R&B Hybrid Trap, Alt-Pop, Trap, Pop Rap, Electropop

16.- Fotbal - Why Is This Happening to You? 

Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock Dream Pop, Noise Rock, Art Punk

15.- NewJeans - Get Up

K-Pop, Contemporary R&B, UK Garage 2-Step, East Coast Club, Dance-Pop, Liquid Drum and Bass, Alternative R&B, Future Garage

14.- Diles Que No Me Maten - Obrigaggi 

Art Rock, Post-Rock Slowcore, Krautrock, Ambient, Jazz-Rock, Poetry

13.- Sampha - Lahai 

Alternative R&B Neo-Soul, UK Bass, Future Garage, Art Pop

12.- Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I & II

Ambient, Electroacoustic Drone, Field Recordings, Ambient Pop

11.- Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

Art Pop, Synthpop Post-Industrial, Darkwave, Kuduro, Electropop

[adornesibley]

ANXIETY, PIRACY, AND MAGGIE: A Newsletter

Reading: The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly, How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

Finished Reading: Nothing this month. Been busy, preoccupied, and possibly burnt out after finishing four books in one month.

Podcast: Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery

Playing: Beat Saber, FitXR, and Pistolwhip (VR workout baby!)

Making: Zines and Doom levels

Writing: Project E

Word Count: 166641

TLDR: Project E milestone achieved! Time anxiety. PIRACY IS IMPORTANT. CY_BORG resistance. Maggie Stiefvater’s Critique Partner Match Up. *Vomits rainbows* ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

NEW THING*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ progress has been made, a short story has been finished, but now it’s being put on the back burner as I’ve started the first full read-through of Project E since completing the first draft. This is such a major milestone. Reading through this mammoth story which has both plagued me and kept me company for so many years has been a really great experience. A lot of the chapters have really landed and felt good. There is always that nagging worry, when writing, that you are just bleeding words and none of it makes sense or it is boring or any number of nasty shit the attic hag (personal schema) wants to say about your hard work. 

I have a couple of fears. One of them is time. It is such a beast, such an eldritch horror. It just keeps tumbling forward, dragging us with it. Sometimes, I feel like I’m running down hill with it, staying upright but mostly just falling forward on purpose. Other times, I feel swept up in it all. As if I’ve been swallowed by a wave and I’m tumbling. Sometimes, it is as though everything is waiting, holding its breath, a gentle monster snoozing. So long is the pause between breaths you fear she may’ve died. Yesterday, I watched Mr Samuel’s Teatime Stories by Yara Asmar. It was unsettling and beautiful and so cosy. I Won’t go into what I think it is about here. Please go watch it.

I want to rant on about something for a bit: I feel very strongly about Piracy when it comes to media and art. I know how devastating it would be to be a small artist, author, game developer, or what have you, and find out that there’s a significant number of folks pirating your media. There will always be people who pirate purely for the thrill of it, but there is a not insignificant number of these people who are too poor to afford much in the way of media. Any media which is pirated for this reason, isn’t lost sales, as the person wouldn’t have been able to support it to begin with. Also, folks who pirate often end up buying media anyway (some using their piracy as a means to test whether something is worth the money) Link to a study from 2015 which discusses this:

The other side of Piracy which I not only understand, but whole-heartedly love is the drive to preserve media. Especially within video games, where a game can be trapped on old hardware that is slowly being lost to bit-rot and failing components. Emulation and things like Archive.org are becoming more and more important as time goes on. As well, we see complete negligence of the art being created the moment it stops making money. Companies abandon their work often in conditions that make it completely impossible to use in the future. 

There is a possible route where we could at least stop companies from doing this to their games, which doesn’t involve piracy or reverse-engineering source code for online servers. Ross Scott from Accursed Farms (who I’ve watched since their Civil Protection days) is organizing a fight against this particular problem:

Speaking of fighting the good fight, I finally got to play CY_BORG with my TTRPG group for the first time! WHAT A RIDE. I think my favorite part of CY_BORG’s setting is that it is cyberpunk, and as such, is just a hellish reflection of the world as we have it today… Which means, as the GM, you can choose to let your players fight against it. I discussed this before, but the lack of hope in the written material of CY_BORG doesn’t need to be the law of your sessions. CY_BORG points out that all “rules” in the book are there to be broken (Besides the one about not being friends with cops or corps) and as such, I feel injecting the ability to properly fight against, tear down, and burn the ashes of the technocratic capitalist overlords is something I will absolutely be doing in future one-shots. Oh, and speaking of piracy, I’m planning on running Pirate Borg this coming month, so wish me luck!

Make yourself a randomized punk here and fight the good fight:

Maggie Stiefvater, author of The Raven Cycle and many other beauties, has a resource for beta readers and critique partners. I finally bit the bullet and joined. I’ve even already had a bite for a potential critique partner! There are many genres and age ranges, there are writers just starting out all the way to agented authors. You can find the Critique Partner Match Up at:

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Sweet mother of god, it’s June already? You know what that means! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 It’s time for RAMP 2024~!

Also it’s pride month~ Be gay, do crimes!

First time remembering to mention that I have a Patreon where I post art, poetry, short stories, and more (as well as these newsletters). Come check it out here:

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[the-mirror-lied]

This fear that I have been protecting is not mine. Just like it was not my mother's. Or her mother's. Or her mother's. Whose fear is this? That we have been carrying And that I have shrunk my lungs for To make sure it had room to be strewn on my sixth rib.

[yarasmar]

Pitchfork includes Yara Asmar's 'synth waltzes and accordion laments' in The 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023

[artofreviews]

It's one of those albums that give you the sudden urge to water your plants.

https://bit.ly/45Z874V

[fuchsiaswingsong]

Yara Asmar - synth waltzes and accordion laments

https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/synth-waltzes-and-accordion-laments

[thomasmartinnutt]

Chance Encounters #006

https://www.mixcloud.com/thomasmartinnutt/chance-encounters-006/

Sarah Rahman, Robert Creeley, Cosmos, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner, Jana Winderen, Alessandro Bosetti & Annette Krebs, Mathew Herbert and London Contemporary Orchestra feat. Jali Bakary Koneth, Langham Research Centre, David Tudor, Linda Buckley, Laria Ó Lionáird & Crash Ensemble, Benedict Drew, Yara Asmar feat. Majd Chidiac, Lia Kohl, Civilistjävel! feat. Cucina Povera, Flora Yin-Wong, Daniel Bachman, Ernst Karel, Chantal Michelle, Janet Cardiff, Ljerke, Michael Snow, Li Yilei, Gentle Fire, More Eaze, Vladimir Ussachevsky

[portal2myfantasy]

giving the earth back some of its dirt

[twistedsoulmusic]

Album Of The Week: Yara Asmar - Synth Waltzes & Accordion Laments (Hive Mind Records)

Perfecting the craft of conveying raw emotions into musical harmonies and melodies that are nothing short of powerful – Yara Asmar’s latest album brims with striking contrasts.

[snackpointcharlie]

Will the formidable forces of beautiful and challenging music from elsewhere and beyond finally defeat the evil of banality? Only one way to find out: tune in WGXC 90.7 FM for the latest pulse-pounding episode of Snackpoint Charlie! Well ok, you can stream it now at WGXC.org at the link below… and download the podcast, and listen any time on the Wave Farm app. Anyway, Excelsior!

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 122 - 2023.09.06 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/tknwwg [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Shark Move – “My Life” from GHEDE CHOKRA'S https://www.discogs.com/release/11043675-Shark-Move-Ghede-Chokras

2) Leon Keïta – “Diarabi Mana” from LEON KEÏTA (ANALOG AFRICA DANCE EDITION NO.16) https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/track/diarabi-mana

3) Pan Ron – “Sneaha (Bang Bang)” from DENGUE FEVER PRESENTS: ELECTRIC CAMBODIA - 14 RARE GEMS FROM CAMBODIA'S PAST https://denguefever.bandcamp.com/album/dengue-fever-presents-electric-cambodia

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “17yrickz”

4) Electro Keyboard Orchestra – “The Soaring Seagull” from TOUCH: THE SUBLIME SOUNDS OF YUJI OHNO https://www.wewantsounds.com/?lightbox=dataItem-llw0m9gz

5) Adeline Hotel – “Hot Fruit” from HOT FRUIT https://adelinehotel.bandcamp.com/album/hot-fruit

6) [mystery artist] - “[mystery song]”

7) VorAigua – “Mina” from BOSCÚRIA https://www.microscopi.cat/product-page/boscuria

8) Orriel Smith – “Tiffany Glass” from FUZZY-FELT FOLK https://www.trunkrecords.com/releases/fuzzy_felt_folk_06/fuzzy_felt_folk.php

9) Connie Converse – “Chanson Innocent” from MUSICKS https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/musicks

10) Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto – “Amor Em Paz” from CASA https://www.discogs.com/master/203494-Morelenbaum%C2%B2-Sakamoto-Casa

11) Yara Asmar – “are these your hands. would you like them back (with Majd Chidiac)” from SYNTH WALTZES & ACCORDION LAMENTS (HOME RECORDINGS VOL. 2) https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/synth-waltzes-and-accordion-laments

12) Emma Sharpe - “Chants (Ai A La O Pele / Ula No Weo / Puu Onioni / E Manono)” from LAHAINA'S FABULOUS EMMA SHARPE https://www.discogs.com/release/4440750-Emma-Sharpe-Lahainas-Fabulous-Emma-Sharpe

13) Gilbert Peramena dit Bera (valiha marovany) – “Hala Narako Rofozina” from TO CATCH A GHOST: FIELD RECORDINGS FROM MADAGASCAR https://sublimefrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/to-catch-a-ghost-field-recordings-from-madagascar

14) Ntebogang – “We Must Give Thanks” from TAA! OUR LANGUAGE MAY BE DYING, BUT OUR VOICES REMAIN https://taa-botswana.bandcamp.com/album/taa-our-language-may-be-dying-but-our-voices-remain

15) Sandra Cross – excerpt from THE MMS BAR RECORDINGS https://www.trunkrecords.com/releases/mm_bar_11/mm.php

16) Leslie Keffer – “In Tongues” from VEILED MATTER https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/veiled-matter

17) Brian Eno & David Byrne – “Lot/Into the Spirit World” from MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS DEMOS https://www.guitars101.com/threads/brian-eno-david-byrne-1980-my-life-in-a-bush-of-ghosts-demos-stu-flac.173562/#post-1145101

18) Girma Yifrashewa – “Hope” from MY STRONG WILL https://girmayifrashewa.bandcamp.com

19) Kenny Graham and his Satellites – “Sunset” from MOONDOG AND SUNCAT SUITES https://www.trunkrecords.com/releases/moondog_10/moondog.php

[13melekradyo]

21 Aralık 2024 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel drone ve ambient kayıtlardan bir seçki // A selection of recent drone and ambient recordings. Download.

01 – Fennesz – Love And The Framed Insects 02 – Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno 03 – Murcof – Fight 04 – Hainbach x Nebula Instruments – Breaking The Pattern 05 – Form Null – 240321 (excerpt) 06 – Yara Asmar – May 07 – Etelin – The Chemistry Of Dirt 08 – Nala Sinephro – Continuum 3 09 – Ocoeur – Calling For Peace 10 – Belong – AM/PM