{"id":3615,"date":"2020-12-20T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2021-07-01T23:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T06:34:03","slug":"soundwave-38-harrold-roeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-38-harrold-roeland\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 38 : HARROLD ROELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Harrold Roeland<\/a>. Harrold is a trained composer, a poet, sound designer and performing musician, specializing in the use of environmental sounds and long attention spans. His works try to invoke the timelessness of the world and its landscapes. He sings medieval and renaissance music with Ensemble Vlechtwerk<\/a>, and hosts the radio show Sensenta<\/a>, a musical serial, at the Concertzender<\/a> every Sunday evening that explores many of these themes.<\/p>\n\n

From the beginning, whenever I\u2019ve had a guest deejay on SOUNDWAVE I\u2019ve asked them who they know personally that they think would be interested in participating in the show with a mix of their own. I do this for several reasons. For one, I like the intimacy of the invitation. While I have no problem contacting people I don\u2019t know to be on SOUNDWAVE I prefer this more personal touch. It\u2019s a network built up of likeminded people who actually know each other. Secondly, having guest deejay\u2019s on the show introduces me to wider scope of music. I\u2019d like to think my knowledge of music is fairly deep but I know its really shallow. The guest deejays on SOUNDWAVE open me up to having so much more music in my life. And so many surprises! Today\u2019s show features both Yusef Lateef and<\/em> John Coltrane.<\/p>\n\n

Harrold\u2019s mix has been my soundtrack to many a late night and I\u2019m thrilled to share it with you. Harrold\u2019s will take you by the hand down darkened paths. It\u2019s the kind of mix I love that seamlessly blends each song into the next and takes me on an emotional journey. I recently had the opportunity to listen to Harrold\u2019s mix while driving through a sun-blasted Arizona highway and all it did was make the shadows cast from Harrold\u2019s mix longer<\/p>\n\n

Special thanks to Kirk Markarian<\/a> of Neuro\u2026 No Neuro<\/a> who introduced us to Harrold (listen to Kirk\u2019s mix for SOUNDWAVE here<\/a>). I\u2019m curious to know who Harrold will introduce us to.<\/p>\n\n

Harrold has some word about his mix which you can read below. But first, a few items I wanted to discuss.<\/p>\n\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned many times before, I launched SOUNDWAVE to help me cope with the stress and isolation of being stuck in my house due to the stay at home orders brought about by COVID-19. It was a very lonely time in my life: my wife was away at work and our kids were with their dad\u2019s. It was just me, my dog and my music. Here we are in the second wave of the virus and once my wife has been sent out of town and yesterday I dropped off the kids to be with their dad. The difference this time is that instead of waiting months to be with my wife I\u2019m going to see her today\u2019s and work remotely for the next few days. As a bonus, I\u2019m going to spend the eight or so hours in my car listening to mixes for upcoming editions of SOUNDWAVE.<\/p>\n\n

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Pauline Anne Strom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Finally, last week we lost Harold Budd<\/a> and this week we lost pioneering blind composer and synthesist Pauline Anne Strom<\/a>. Pauline released music in the 1980s under the name Trans-Mellenia Consort and explored the ambient and new age. Pauline\u2019s last album, Angel Tears in Sunlight<\/em>, is her first new album in 30 years and is scheduled to be released in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n

Join me next week when our guest deejay will be Applefish<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

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\"Harrold
Harrold Roeland<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

This mix starts with jazz, an album by Yusuf Lateef<\/a> which has a nicely worn out sound. Biosphere<\/a>\u2019s wonderful impression of breaking ice quickly enters the scene. As far as worn out and slightly off key sounds go, Denmark\u2019s \u00d8jerum<\/a> is an expert on that. His works are often soothing and slightly disturbing at the same time, as are Roly Porter<\/a>\u2019s, entering the mix around the 7 minute mark. We take a step back then for the second third of the mix, combining IA<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMater Lacrimosa\u201d with, again, the percussive side of Biosphere. The last third of the mix is a piling of works, as often happens in my radioshow Sensenta on the Dutch Concertzender. IA meets John Coltrane<\/a> meets Markus Guentner<\/a> meets the genius of Kaija Saariaho<\/a>. And finally, since it\u2019s polite to introduce oneself, the last notes of \u201cGlacier Looming,\u201d is an impression of the weight of the Franz Josef Glacier<\/a> in New Zealand, a work using birdsong and semi-modular synthesis.<\/p>\n\n