I think she knows (edit)
I always found the ending of Justin’s original to be very fulfilling. May this remix do justice to those vibrations…
This edit is supported by Heimlich Musik.
LIVE @ MAHICO GARDEN FIESTA, BYRON BAY
With gratitude to Josh and his team for running a wonderful event and inviting me to get weird there... Plus the weirdos who hit the d floor first and brought the place to life shall also be acknlowledged <3
Live Versions: (Unreleased until the last 4...)
Though We Dwell Apart
Phantom feat. J Glück
What Follows
Dog Eat Dog
Long Game feat. J Glück
Devil
Cookie
Til Morning Part II feat. Lila Swain
Soma
Ayoca
Surrender
sensorium liveset
A juicy live set of unreleased original music was recorded at home recently...
With a huge "spasiba" to deep house Moscow for supporting this work. For now these tracks are available nowhere else.
There's been so much new Phortah lately... He's definitely back..
new release
1 God. many manifestations
Is this moment less sacred than any other? There's nothing to chase. Drop plans. Dissolve thinking. Be with God.
Artwork by Gusti in Ubud. With gratitude to my Balinese family, Asi, Gusti, Lena, Ngura and Ayu Prapti.
i am empty space
Some available. Some unreleased. All from the divine mystery of the heart.
… Somewhat representative of my live sound for the past few years (2021-23)… But every show is its own ceremony.
With gratitude to anyone who tunes in and allows this sound to move them.
Tracks:
Loki
Hold Space feat. Joe Newton
Tora - Deviate (Phortah Remix)
Til Morning Part II feat. Lila Swain
Soma
Mylo
Iduka (with J Glück)
Weekend
the wild campout
western australia
I was invited by Royal Jelly Productions to perform at the Wild Campout for New Year’s Eve. The set was a combination of classic Phortah tracks and unreleased treasures, combined with improvised contemporary drama/movement pieces.
I tried a “surrender experiment” from there, welcoming guidance in the moment to steer the journey. I was gratefully welcomed to Denmark, Margaret River and Fremantle to connect with humans and country. I created and performed a new dance piece at Ecosystem in Denmark and Bliss Festival in Donnybrook.
agama
luadas ep
nekawa - melbourne / bellingen
This music was made by Finn Rhodes (Ambler, Biomass) and myself in a village in Portugal in 2019.
These pieces are pretty far out, you can hear us coaxing one another into new sonic terrain, guided by our collaborative flow.
Thanks for the inspiration and great friendship Finn. .
mysohi ep
leveldva - moscow
MYlo. SOma. HImu. My love. Somatically. at Home.
Now streaming everywhere.
Produced on Newry Island on Gumbaynggirr country, Australia .
sadaken ep
earthly measures - london
“Phortah shares again his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.
Phortah’s vocal improvisations are being cultivated and appear across Sadaken. Phortah says of its effects "it creates that not-quite-human sound which connects with where I feel a lot of us are at: super digitised organisms, yearning for a way back to our earthly nature”.
That image captures Phortah’s sound and journey well: a repressed, visceral, animal nature reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.
Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.
credits
Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.
released June 25, 2021 on Earthly Measures.
Streaming everywhere.
olua lp
heimlich musik - vienna
Being on the Heimlich radar for some time, never losing track of Australia’s Phortah has resulted in the very first long play release by Heimlich Musik. Phortah’s debut album “Olua” drifts between the vibrant waves of ten tracks founded on a uniquely emotive sound and compositional style. The album courses a transformative evening, punctuated by a myriad of broken beats and straight four to the floor grooves. Organic performances of strings, vocals, flutes and percussion are featured in combination with analogue and digital synthesis and beat design. Phortah’s sound is at once nostalgic and gritty; incorporating also field recordings and noise. Olua journeys between flowing passages contrasted with abrupt and surprising moments.
The album was recorded and produced on Gumbaynggirr country in Bellingen and on Newry Island, New South Wales, Australia. The power of the surrounding rivers, forests and ocean have greatly influenced the music. Phortah acknowledges the traditional custodians of this land, the Gumbaynggirr people. Lila Swain recorded her vocals in Berlin. Given the spectrum of sound aesthetics, the album format appeared to be the only logical way to release this unique piece of art.
credits
released May 4, 2019
Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah - Instrumental performances (guitars, bass guitar, synths, vocals, percussion), composition and production
With deep gratitude to the following contributors:
Evie Bacigalupo - Violins and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I”
Lila Swain - lyrics and vocals on the “‘Til Morning” tracks and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I” Luke Rhodes - Harmonic flute and percussion on “Ayoca”
Changa Gita - vocals on “Oh Girl”
James Ring - vocals on “She Waits”
Millicent Kruger - vocals on “Lexicon”.
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