Celsius Drop
12.19.19
On his weekly Celsius Drop show, dublab co-founder Frosty guides you through an exploration of the vast Future Roots music spectrum.
This week, Frosty was joined by special guests Benedek and Richard Horowitz.
Tracklist:
HOUR 1 – BENEDEK:
Trackstars – Check the Technique
Eric Serra – Synchronized Instant
Seven Grand Housing Authority – Tanya’s Rainforest
Joe Hisaishi – The Winter Requiem
Nodens Ictus – Bouncing in the Important Countryside
Sjunne Ferger – Empty Words
Mikhail Chekalin – Voklaise in Rapide
Jurassic Park SNES score – Mountain (Triceratops Tot)
IAO – Love (Instrumental)
Robbie Ellington – Don’t Cry
Benedek – Unreleased I would say
Tracklist:
HOUR 2 – RICHARD HOROWITZ:
Richard Horowitz – Elephant Dance
Richard Horowitz – Bandit Nrah Master of Rajasthan
Richard Horowitz – Eros Never Stops Dreaming
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz – Desert Equations
Richard Horowitz – Whorlon on the Mount of Moon
Richard Horowitz – Kye Kye (Who Is Who Is)
ABOUT BENEDEK:
Post-disco R&B and the early house music it birthed, along with the progressive funk of Dâm-Funk, are among the influences absorbed by Nicky Benedek. The Los Angeles native made his debut after he sought out Dâm-Funk at a Funkmosphere night in nearby Culver City. Dâm obliged by composing the lyrics for “That’s My Jam!” and also fronting the track, released as the A-side to Benedek’s 7″ 2011 debut for the Proximal label. An untitled full-length for Peoples Potential Unlimited followed two years later. After a handful of 12″ releases, including a collaboration with Martine Syms, were released during 2015 and 2016, Benedek completed the Bene’s World LP, which Leaving issued in 2017. Additional Benedek output has been credited to C.O.O.L. Band and Manzanem, and he has recorded as Rx with Delroy Edwards. (from All Music)
ABOUT RICHARD HOROWITZ:
Richard Horowitz is known for creating a unique sonic language by fusing together his roots in classical, jazz and electronic music with the intensity of the trance music he first experienced in Morocco at the age of nineteen. He plays keyboards, percussion and various woodwinds, including the ney, an obliquely blown reed flute. The ney is one of the oldest human wind instruments. He combines a trance inducing circular breathing technique he learned from trance musicians and snake charmers with classical and folk modes known as maquam. Horowitz’s compositions are inspired by the ritual drama of ancient music. He is interested in the microtonal motifs and overtones produced by instruments and voices from the oldest cultures in the world. His compositions are translations that morph ancient sources into the full spectrum resonance of surround sound. Majoun, his collaboration with Sussan Deyhim released by Sony Classical, is a good example.
RH credits include: Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics awards for The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, based on the novel by Paul Bowles. He performed the film music live on François Mitterrand’s television special Etoile Palace in Paris, Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday (BMI Award), Three Seasons directed by Tony Bui and produced by Harvey Keitel (Sundance Jury and Audience awards), Tobruk (Czech Lion Music Awards), Lakota Woman directed by Frank Pierson and produced by Jane Fonda, Intersections directed by David Marconi and produced by Luc Besson, Return to Rajapur starring Justin Theroux, Lynn Collins and Frank Langalla, Zero and Casanegra (Moroccan submission to the Oscars in 2011) directed by Nour-eddine Lakmari, Death for Sale (Moroccan Submission to the Oscars in 2012) directed by Faouzi Bensaidi, L’Atlantide directed by Bob Swaim, starring Jean Rocheford, Tcheky Karyo, Anna Galiena and Fernando Rey, Les Amants de Mogador directed by Souheil Ben Baraka, starring Max von Sydow, Claude Rich, Marie-Christine Barrault and Fernando Rey. Freedom to Spend recently reissued Horowitz’s high vibration album Eros in Arabia.
