Honoured to announce that mix 015 in the Inner World series is provided by Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive, and is what i believe to be the first of its kind Defever has put his name to.
As someone who started making and recording music from an improbably young age, a prodigious legend follows Defever around, and it remains a point of fascination both as to how someone could be so capable so early on, and equally, what might have guided and influenced his creativity. Hearing this set of songs sequenced together is an insight of sorts, exploring all sorts of sonic minutiae, from well known classics to less explored corners of folk, ambient, electronic & modern composition++. Defever draws on music that both pre- and post-dates HNIA, so what becomes most clear is his curious nature, an obvious quality to his own music, especially early on, as displayed on the recent home recordings compilations that see him push the limits of youthful imagination and technical ability. Mostly it's a fascinating combination of the familiar and less known, almost dream-like in its fragmented flow, songs drifting into one another, ending suddenly or emerging from a fog halfway through. Very His Name Is Alive, i'd suppose.
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Tracklist
Sung Water - No Need To Worry
Vordb Na R.iidr/Belketre - Zlaèvatanèrgzvayatre
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
Pale Saints - True Coming Dream
Lester Young - Pagin' The Devil
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn - In A Blue Summer Garden
D'Angelo - Africa (acoustic)
Prince - Visions / I Wish U Heaven
Beach Boys - You're So Good To Me
Turtles - Lady-O
Beach Boys - Be Still
Tara Jane O'Neil - A City In The North
Tartit - Houmeissa
Rokia Traoré - Manian
Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band - Murder of Maria Marten
Tangle Eye - Tangle Eye Blues
Nicole Mitchell - Umoja
Tartit - Buloululba
Baka Forest People - Water Drums
Brigitte Fontaine - Je t'aimerai
Aphex Twin - Xtal
HB - Mexico City 1993
Ashra - Sunrain
Joyce - Jóla
Rainer Brüninghaus - Freigeweht
Glenn Branca - Augustus
Nico - You Forgot To Answer
t/ e/ u/ - That Which Is Seen (edit)
Jon Gibson - Melody IV Part 1
Standard Quartette - Keep Movin (1894)
ZONA - Seas Without A Shore
Gimu - Dohi
Moonshake - Gravity
Glenn Branca - The World Upside Down