Music From Memory’s next missive is a set of mellow, muted electro-acoustic mediations. Groovy group improvisations featuring Ko Ishikawa, Luis Perez Ixoneztil, Laraaji, Carlos Nino, Miles Spilsbury, Mia Doi Todd and  headed up by Maui-based Jesse Peterson. 

The opening number is “Iseo” is a lullaby. A soothing session of loose chimes and rattles, with a warm, welcoming vibe, whose wordless harmonies, in tone, recall Robbie Basho. “Teamotanto” simulates nature stirring. Synthetic drones swirling with field recordings of insects, birds, wildlife calling. Rhythmic and tribal, “Cosmic Feathers” has the feel of a traditional ritual. A prayer, a celebration of song, woodwinds and hand drums. “Sayonara Glendale” is all gongs, reeds and shaken seashells, surfing a rising, rolling sound like crashing surf.

“Medianoche En La Calle” twists seagulls singing around sparse keys, rich with reverb. Its modular emissions merging with waves splashing. Tides turning. Spiritually shimmering like cicadas. Over 15 plus minutes, taking on the air of a psychedelic ceremony and falling into abstract ambience. “El Halcón De Ryujin Onsen” is kinda kosmische, while “Uaoa Stream” introduces itself with angelic sighs, slipping into acoustic guitar picking and new age-ier territory. Completing the digital package, this track gets gifted 2 Carlos Nino remixes, which reveal and make plain the project’s heavy Alice Coltrane influence and jazz roots. 

Turn On The Sunlight’s Iseo can be ordered directly from Music From Memory.