Ariel Kalma - Beat No Beat (Remastered) (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Born in France, but rarely in one place for long, Ariel Kalma’s 1970s migrations took flight through the decade’s furthest spaces of musical and spiritual invention. As a hired horn for well-known French groups, the young musician toured as far as India in 1972, a place where Kalma found an antidote to rock n’ roll’s glitz and glamour in sacred music traditions. Kalma would later return to India and learn circular breathing techniques enabling him to sustain notes without pause against tape-looping harmonies configured through his homemade effects units.

Those effects evolved from Kalma’s loyalty to a beloved dual ReVox set-up— two tape machines “chained” together to form a primitive delay unit. Over looped saxophone melodies, Kalma would mix in all shades of polyphonic color, synthesizing fragments of poetry with ambient space or setting modal flute melodies to rippling drum machine patterns and starlit field recordings. The results collapse distinctions between “electro-acoustic”, “biomusicology” and “ambient” categorization.

TRACKLIST

1. Ariel Kalma - Enigmatic Beast 23 (Remastered)
2. Ariel Kalma - Bizarre Drums 84 (Remastered)
3. Ariel Kalma - Wincloud 90 (Remastered)
4. Ariel Kalma - Beat No Beat 74 (Remastered)
5. Ariel Kalma - Pops Drums 93 (Remastered)
6. Ariel Kalma - Drumz Delayz 89 (Remastered)
7. Ariel Kalma - Rays Tantric Track 17 (Remastered)



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