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Concerned as much with musicality as spiritual facility, Kalma’s work vibrates aside fellow travelers along the great rainbow in curved air of the 1970s avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAriel Kalma's boundary-blurring electronic music is heard here in radiant detail across a selection of work spanning his early free-jazz and spoken word trips to his infinite modular synthesizer and analogue rhythm machine meditations. Kalma’s story is one of world travel, musical discovery and ego-abandonment. Yet for an artist who often discarded public recognition in favor of the ascetic truths in music making, \u003cem\u003eAn Evolutionary Music\u003c\/em\u003e offers the imprint of an outright auteur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as a technician at \u003cb\u003ePierre Henry's\u003c\/b\u003e legendary \u003cb\u003eInstitut National Audiovisuel, Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM)\u003c\/b\u003e studios - the same music concréte laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members \u003cb\u003eLuc Ferrari\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eIannis Xenakis\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBernard Parmegiani\u003c\/b\u003e. Like his predecessors and colleagues at INA GRM, Kalma's relationship to sound was both formal and non-hierarchical. To Kalma, all music existed as universal patterns, in perfect harmony with the people, places and environments it was created.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKalma’s recorded output of the 1970s culminated in the now scarcely-available \u003cem\u003eLes Temps des Moissons\u003c\/em\u003e (trans. \u003cem\u003eThe Time of Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e) in 1975 and \u003cem\u003eOsmose\u003c\/em\u003e in 1978, a masterpiece of birdsong exploration. \u003cem\u003eOsmose\u003c\/em\u003e is double album featuring sculptor \u003cb\u003eRichard Tinti\u003c\/b\u003e, who had supplied Kalma with hours of field recordings from the rainforests of Borneo. With somber organ textures and wistful sax blended seamlessly into the wild of the forest sounds, \u003cem\u003eOsmose\u003c\/em\u003e avoids simple soundscaping through Kalma's careful arrangements, allowing each life form its own harmonic gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe backdrop of \u003cem\u003eAn Evolutionary Music\u003c\/em\u003e depicts Kalma's adventures as a world traveller on the cosmic path of inner discovery and musical innovation. Coinciding with United States' bicentennial in 1976, Kalma made his way to New York to join the exclusive musical-spiritual collective \u003cstrong\u003eArica\u003c\/strong\u003e, and ended up crashing in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine’s basement. At night, Ariel played the church's organ and ventured out to mix it up with like-minded musicians in the Village. It was here that he met a musical hero, \u003cstrong\u003eDon Cherry\u003c\/strong\u003e, an artist of much consequence and similarity to Kalma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Evolutionary Music\u003c\/em\u003e harvests uncatalogued music made between Kalma's private press records and onward through the many small-batch cassette releases Kalma would tender. With this collection of musical hybridity and distinct genre-corrosion, Ariel Kalma's righteous bucking of both popular music trends and the academic tenets of the avant-garde falls squarely in the spirit of other renegades of sacred new-music such as \u003cstrong\u003eTerry Riley\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eLa Monte Young\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eCharlemagne Palestine\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAriel Kalma’s \u003cem\u003eAn Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 - 1979)\u003c\/em\u003e is available now as double LP and double CD sets and digitally on RVNG Intl. There is a limited edition pastel green vinyl version available in limited quantity (only 100 for the world!). Extensive liner notes and artist interviews were overseen by New York writer \u003cstrong\u003eJesse Jarnow\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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For this installment, RVNG Intl. offers a collection of original compositions by \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Aiki Aubrey Lowe\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAriel Kalma\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, \u003cem\u003eWe Know Each Other Somehow\u003c\/em\u003e pairs two electronic synth voyagers for six extended evocations of environmental ambience and entrancing naturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the four decades since Ariel Kalma’s debut album, the privately pressed \u003cem\u003eLe Temps des Moissons\u003c\/em\u003e, the French-born musician has circulated corners of culture now legend: intrepid excursions as a spiritual explorer through India and New York in the 1970s, a studio staff position at the \u003cb\u003eGroupe de Researches Musicales\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003ePierre Henry's\u003c\/b\u003e famous musique-concrète laboratory at \u003cb\u003eINA\u003c\/b\u003e studios), and training with music \/ mind \/ meditation institute \u003cb\u003eArica\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe genesis of this FRKWYS collaboration was inspired in part by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's first release under his own name, the widely regarded full-length \u003cem\u003eTimon Irnok Manta\u003c\/em\u003e, released for Type in 2012. The album paired two strobing, drone-oriented pieces in an uncategorizable combine of ambient synthesizer-music and pulsing rhythms. Lowe also performs his vocal-based compositions as \u003cb\u003eLichens\u003c\/b\u003e and is a frequent collaborator with \u003cb\u003eOm\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eNurse With Wound\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChance travel landed Lowe and Kalma in San Francisco at the same time shortly after the collaboration idea was seeded. Upon meeting, Kalma was endeared by Lowe's unique set-up, a portable modular synth unit housed in a vintage luggage case. Kalma recalled his own adventures when he traveled with just a Revox tape-delay machine and saxophone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlans were soon settled to record in Kalma’s home studio in Main Arm around Lowe’s serendipitous Australian tour dates with Om. The pastoral life that Kalma had settled into eons earlier vastly informed the character of the recording. 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With its responsive, meditative perspectives and refracted, sun-bleached compositions, Sunshine Soup becomes the visual companion to the transformative musical principles explored throughout the collaborative album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing up his 2014 archival collection \u003cem\u003eAn Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972 - 1979)\u003c\/em\u003e, Kalma found an ideal collaborator in Lowe and an ideal opportunity to innovate in the field of modularly synthesized electronic music which he helped pioneer. 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