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Bonjour Satie, Bonjour!

by Erik Satie's Birthday

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1.
Air Du Rat (Song of the Rat) based on Ludions: I. Air Du Rat d r e a m f r a c t u r e freaky hartford based sax and trombone duo
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Valse - Chirp - Ballet based on Valse - Ballet Joe DeGeorge Joe loves the sounds of a new bird and playing saxophone over synthesizers
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Gnossienne No. 1 (Live at B16) Based on Gnossienne No. 1 What Cheer? Brigade The What Cheer? Brigade is a 20-piece brass band from Providence, RI, USA. We prove that great parties need no electricity. Recorded by Agnes Dardana at the Building 16 Final Show on November 23, 2013 in Providence, RI
4.
Erik Bluffs Satie Bluffs 5/16 Night based on Gymnopedie No. 1 Bluffs Bluffs is a hell pop star
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Bonjour Katy, Bonjour! based on Bonjour Biqui, Bonjour Fear Not Ourselves Alone FNOA is the moniker of Jorge Ivan Velez, an artist from Queens, New York interested in the multimodality of songs as texts from which to examine questions of power, privilege and intersections.
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Vexations Sam Miller Sam Miller is an American multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer who has released two full-length studio albums, In One Place at a Time (2019) and You Need To Hear It (2014). This was recorded one voice at a time on my Moog synthesizer. I think the synth fits the composition well.
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les quatre-coins (the four corners) remixes based on Sports et Divertissements: 14. Les Quatre-Coins plankt0n plankt0n is an artist dwelling in their own cave. performance and production 100% by plankt0n. happy birthday erik satie!
8.
Gnostic Roses Filling the Skull and Heart based on Gnossienne No. 1 uncertain uncertain is a music project by artist Florian-Ayala Fauna in 2007 who works with esoteric themes in a post-industrial sound
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wore based on Sports et Divertissements: 19. Le Flirt mourning dove ft. Lady Queen Paradise mourning dove is Elena Botts, creator of multimedia including writings, sound installations, visuals, and moving images, as well as organizer of the unknown sound collective.
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Trois Mélodies: 2. Élégie pervertibles pervertibles (Lucy Wulf) writes and plays music and cries on their fire escape from a tiny apt surrounded by bad dreams, insanity, and death in the u.s. epicenter of the pandemic.
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Vexations (I Went To Classical Music School But They Never Taught Me How To Record In My Bedroom Or Use A Denoiser That Didn't Cost $150) based on Vexations Hanging Out is Spending Money Hanging Out is Spending Money is a project is Evan Raczynski is ? I am doing my best.
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Ludions Bottle Fairy Bottle Fairy is an often collaborative, never boring musical project that I use to kill time and learn about my feelings. Lead guitar and production by Slugqueen bottlefreak.bandcamp.com slugqueen.bandcamp.com
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small spray based on Descriptions Automatiques: 1. Sur un Vaisseau adrian cn berry adrian is a performer and composer / a cancer with an aries moon / loves maple syrup and the color cantaloupe lyrics: Pretty in the waves So slow and light-weight A small spray in the waves A fresh air maritime melancholy Small Spray! La la la la la Oooooooo yeaaaaahhhh A nice new star In a pocket pressed outline I see once more Now bound in a gentle breeze Swing! Swing! Small blade Find me in landscapes faraway Small Spray! (spray!) Small blade Ooooooooo Nice pitch Ooooooooo The captain says, "Very nice trip" The captain says, "Have a very nice trip" It's a small courtesy to dock It's a small courtesy to dock A star on a sneering ship Pretty in the waves So slow and light-weight A small spray in the waves A fresh air maritime melancholy
14.
dig me peony based on Gymnopedie No. 1 asha tamirisa asha makes sounds with machines and lives in portland, ME.
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Je m’appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde This track is composed using an artificial neural network trained on selected recordings of Satie’s piano compositions. Amber Frid-Jimenez Amber Frid-Jimenez is an artist based in Vancouver. Made with Azlen Elza at the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics.
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Gnossienne No. 1 Leandro Kalén Musician and producer from Banfield, Argentina leandrokalen.bandcamp.com
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Afternoon Panthée Leit-motiv du "Panthée" Plasma TV Plasma TV is Sakiko Mori and Jacob Berendes
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noncturnal revurys based on Deux Reveries Nocturnes prawn glum slunkin thru the grust soundcloud.com/prawnjavis
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Le Tango Prepétual 154 Year Old BPM Hard Mix based on Sports et Divertissements: 17. Le Tango (perpétuel) Fungus Fungus works with many materials and media primarily while lying in their bed.
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Bonjour Biqui, Bonjour! visibilities visibilities is a voice and a keyboard. also gay
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Vexed based on Vexations winter sisters they found two dresses in the snow

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from the curator:

Erik Satie, one of my favorite composers of all time, turned 154 on Sunday, May 18, 2020. Three years in a row, starting with his 150th birthday in 2016, I threw my eccentric friend mysterious and slightly silly birthday parties. So many talented members of my musical community volunteered to play along, learning and performing traditional or experimental versions of Satie's compositions in a DIY setting. In between performances we ate white-colored snacks and desserts, in honor of the birthday boy's unique dietary restrictions. These events were really special to me, because they celebrated more than Erik Satie and his delightful absurdities. They were celebrations of friendship, collaboration, and community that made room for everyone's musical voice, regardless of style or classical training or experience.

This year, obviously, it was not possible to throw an in-person birthday bash. In the miserable and lonesome world COVID-19 has thrust us into, we cannot physically gather to celebrate anything. I wanted to find some way to create a collective digital experience that could remind us that, like Satie himself, we eccentric recluses need not be alone. Forsaking the novelty of a Zoom or Instagram Live concert, I decided to put out a call for submissions for a compilation album, hoping for a couple of bites. I was totally overwhelmed with plethora of highly original tracks I received. I'm overjoyed to share the brilliant work of these 21 artists who responded to Satie's music in highly personal ways that reflect their individual musical styles, experiences, and identities. In these isolating times, it brings me hope to see artists from so many places brought together again.

Please, if you have money to spare, consider buying this album. All of the proceeds will go to the AMOR Network (Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance) a crucial coalition of RI-based activists directly affected by the violence that ICE and our fascist government propagate. During the pandemic, AMOR has been instrumental in local mutual aid organizing efforts, safely providing dozens of marginalized families and vulnerable individuals with food, toiletries, medical supplies and more. AMOR also provides community support, including interpretation, transportation, and legal assistance, as well as combatting increasingly widespread anti-Asian racism and working to get undocumented people out of the hazardous health conditions of the Wyatt Detention Center. All the money our musical community will raise will be put into the hands of those doing the most for Rhode Island's most vulnerable populations.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work, thank you to everyone who spread the word about this project, and thank you for listening. Happy Birthday, everyone!

— Noraa Neither Kaplan

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released May 21, 2020

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Erik Satie's birthday comes but once a year. Curated by Noraa Neither Kaplan

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