2021
New signing with Bureau B: 'Wah-Wah Whispers' (full length album - vinyl / CD / download) release March 19th, 2021.
EP out now: The Three Stages of Endurance
Conny Janssen Danst Live @ VPRO Mondo (music: Eyes of the Witness)
2020
Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium: Cahier 2, download (PDF) - video sketch by Steven Elbers / music by Michel Banabila.
Collaboration with Robert Jarvis (trombone): An Agreement Of Sorts (single).
A track with Machinefabriek, 'Cassina', is part of a compilation (Ambient Layers), out on 7K! Records - December 4th, 2020.
Other artists on the compilation include Adam Wiltzie, Herdis Stefánsdóttir, Robert Lippok, Rutger Hoedemaekers, Lisa Morgenstern, and many more.
Translations, featuring piano versions by Jeroen van Vliet, and more.
Commissioned soundtrack for the exhibition Dreaming In Everywhen at the IMPAKT Festival (October 28th till November 1st, 2020)
Oblong Hobnob: on bandcamp (October 13, 2020)
To Yemen With Love: Concertzender special by Cobie Ivens.
With Gareth Davis: States of Consciousness.
Lithium by Alex Haas, including The Woods & The Sun Comes Out, featuring Michel Banabila & Bill Laswell
Listen Zoosemiotics on Bandcamp.
Scripts of the Lagoon, commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut (start of Exploratorium 2020 project).
Various Artists compilation (35 tracks) bandcamp exclusive 'To Yemen With Love'.
Muziek voor NTR doc over Ernst Happel van David Kleijwegt.
Asambe Ekhaya (ZuluBlue) 2013 single with Philisiwe Twijnstra, (now remastered) on Spotify.
Limited edition CD's for All Connected & Live 2015.
A Trace Of Inevitability by Yin Yue / Dragonfly II, available June 22 – 29 online at Front Row Festival, Pennsylvania Ballet.
Kroky - recording with Oene van Geel & Maryana Golovchenko on soundcloud.
Third collaboration with Scanner online: The Spaces You Hold.
Red Tape Sessions 2016 - 2020 - with Jacobus Derwort & Hanyo van Oosterom (download / cassette).
All Connected - 14 track album out now (download / all portals)
In Other Words (Radbound & Bilaa Mix) in Annabelle Lope Ochoa's 'Shibuya Blues' by Tulsa Ballet (streaming May 1)
One Moment In Time, a collaboration with Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren.
Always There (single / download) on bandcamp.
Due to new governmental regulations concerning Covid-19, Krackle #2 - Worm, is cancelled.
Spherics III (EP / download).
Mix for LKS: soundcloud.
Secunde ambient remix.
Spider, Spit and Broken Bells licensed to WMU.
Submission to the Disquiet Junto: 'Disquiet 0419 - Dischoir': Junto Voices.
Second mix for LYL Radio, January 10th.
Movements, music for dance (2LP vinyl album / 2020) via Norman Records and Squidco.
2019
The Ripple Effect with Gareth Davis on USG sampler (compilation CD / 2019).
Banabila & Machinefabriek track for Eilean 100: Sasquatch (compilation CD / 2019).
Winter Sketches ---> bandcamp.
Recording (single) 'The Woods' with Alex Haas & Bill Laswell, now on Spotify.
Ballet score commission from Patrick O' Brian Dance collective, world premiere New York, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, November 14th, 2019.
Ballet score commission from Yin Yue Dance for the Pennsylvania Ballet, world premiere Philadelphia, Merriam Theater, November 7th, 2019.
A Sense Of Place (Nan Wang / 2019) op het Nederlands Film Festival.
Submission to Disquiet Junto: Malka Older - The Divided, part 7/9 - Junto #400.
A Sense Of Place (Nan Wang / 2019) bij Pleinbioscoop 17 Augustus 2019.
Mix for Dublab.de in Laura Not's "Sounds Unsaid" Wednesday 21:00 - 22:00, August 7, 2019.
An interview with Mike Lazarev for Headphone Commute's "in the studio" series.
Muziek voor 'Helden Van Het Máxima', docu van Paul Rigter (Avro Tros TV).
Video by Nan Wang for Breaking Point.
Mix for The Something Something at RedLight Radio.
Five download codes for the (digital) version of Uprooted to give away to Ambientblog readers.
'The Uprooted Orchestra' - disquiet.com - by Marc Weidenbaum.
Uprooted, featuring Gareth Davis, Oene van Geel, Gulli Gudmundsson, Alex Haas, Peter Hollo & Stijn Hüwels.
Eric Giessmann's Sand Wanderer is vimeo's staff pick.
In Other Words (Radbound & Bilaa Mix) in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's 'Shibuya Blues' by Tulsa Ballet.
Pol Derlicht Variscoop 2.3: with Gerco de Ruijter & Nan Wang films.
And We Fall And We Murmur And We Sing; Martin Hoogeboom collaboration project, now on bandcamp.
Article in Romanian blog BadAssDJ by Andrei Egun.
R.I.P Jacobus Derwort (1952 - 2019)
Extended Ambientblog Exclusive 'Sounds for Dissolve' (music for Gerco de Ruijter's 's installation) in lossless formats (for FREE) from Bandcamp.
Pareidolia (Nan Wang) on IFFR 2019.
Banabila & Machinefabriek 5 - Entropia (Eilean Rec).
2018
Texture Syndicate - Michel Banabila & Willem Cramer.
A Sense Of Place: video by Nan Wang.
Extended version Stop Motion: music for videos by Gerco de Ruijter.
Imprints recordings.
VoizNoiz 2LP Ambient Music Guide's Best Reissue 2018.
Six Pillars guest mix on Resonance FM 104.4FM.
Steamin' Soundworks VoizNoiz 2LP vinyl reissue out now.
Transform rework by Machinefabriek: Ambientblog exclusive.
Video with Gerco de Ruijter: Seinpostduin [52° 6'32.29"N / 4°16'34.73"O], on youtube.
Score for 'The Thirsty City Ciudad Mexico' - documentary for World Water Atlas by Alexander Oey - Doxy Films.
In Memoriam of Dmitry Vasilyev: tribute album on Kormdigitaal.
VoizNoiz remix by Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel: out now: bandcamp.
VoizNoiz 2LP vinyl reissue (ltd): order at Norman.
Recordings 2018: Everywhere Else Is Just Right Here now at bandcamp.
Score for 'Beyond Mountains', a War Child trailer by Gábor Deák.
Between Sweet & Salt / #4 Zeelandbrug (video)
Sounds for an upcoming project by Gerco de Ruijter
Exclusive mix for LYL Radio, One Off show
UAV & Guerilla Tactics featured in 'Begin Again', a work by Yin Yue Dance
Dejan Radovanovic video for Our Alien Voice on vimeo
Yin Yue Dance for New Dialect: music by Gareth Davis, Machinefabriek, Michel Banabila, Christopher Gluck, Hildur Gudnadottir
Early Banabila/Saka recordings now available online via Steamin'Soundworks at bandcamp
Grid Corrections (Gerco de Ruijter & Michel Banabila / 2016) at Variscoop 3
Extended digital versions of the 2013 Banabila & Scanner 7" vinyl single in the iTunes stores
San Francisco Balllet Guernica video trailer featuring Jump Cuts
Jump Cuts signed with SF Ballet for upcoming new choreography, Guernica, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Just Above The Surface (bandcamp - download / 2018)
2017
New Land featured on Mid East Tunes blog
Trespassing / Marilli: Rush Hour Amsterdam
Trespassing / Marilli in the iTunes stores
Sound Years limited edition cassette: C020TR
Muziek voor Hollandse Meesters 6 (doc) van David Kleijwegt: portret Pieter Engels.
'Perspectives', a new video by Sibasahabi, with: (music) Travelog by Banabila & Machinefabriek.
New mixes on my mixcloud.
Interview on Trespassing featured on Japanese Post Ambient blog.
New tracks added to Mid East Tunes.
Interview on Trespassing with Brandon Hocura.
Out on Séance Centre: Trespassing (02SC - 2LP vinyl).
Home op gala Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht.
New Land, an album with Mehmet Polat & Eric Vloeimans. (download only).
Live recordings with Radboud Mens (Le Guess Who & Steim Summer Party 2015) now free download at bandcamp.
Music for 'Vanishing Point' by the Yin Yue Dance Company.
New submissions for Disquiet Junto: disquiet 0294 & 0295.
2 tracks for Human TV for Michael Sandel docs.
Stop Motion, music for videos by Gerco de Ruijter, now on bandcamp.
Preparing live sound for an upcoming VR set by Gerco de Ruijter: Tether.
Music for 'Shibuya Blues', a new choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa for Tulsa Ballet.
New video by Marit Shalem for Hephaestus.
Canadian label Séance Centre with new Youtube channel online, featuring a few Marilli tracks:
May 5th - 2017, a concert with Eric Vloeimans, Onderzeeboot Loods Rotterdam:
In production: score for Sand Wanderer, a short animation film by Eric Giessmann.
Music special on Estonian Klassika Raadio by Johanna Mängel, with tracks from Michel Banabila with Salar Asid, Machinefabriek, Oene van Geel, Eric Vloeimans:
Streaming now: a mix for the Solénoïde Radioshow, about my musical influences.
2LP vinyl including Marilli reissue will be available soon for pre order at Rush Hour
Coming up: Trespassing (Séance Centre) / summer 2017)
RA: Invisible City Editions co-founder Brandon Hocura launches new label, Séance Centre
A new mix, commissioned for Six Pillars Org. at Resonance FM
Ambientblog exclusive download: 'Dissolve'
Sound Years now available at the iTunes stores
New submission for Disquiet Junto: Hope [Disquiet Junto 0271- Prison Sky]
You can order the Home CD online at the CJD site
Sound design for Dissolve, a new video installation with Gerco de Ruijter for HAFF 2017
Sell Me Your Secret (Maastd) wint zilveren krekel
Ambientblog on Home & Sound Years
Loek Zonneveld over Home in de Groene Amsterdammer
Resonance FM fundraiser!- go to Resonance FM Auction
AlpenOo fundraiser! - go to chrisdooks.bandcamp.com
Sound Years mix out now on bandcamp (020TR/ 33rpm 12" vinyl LP)
Grid Corrections - Gerco de Ruijter & Michel Banabila - LIMA selection: IFFR 2017 screening (Borderless program)
On tour : HOME - Conny Janssen Danst
(photo Leo Van Velzen)
2016
Second pressing of Tapu Sampler 2016 (digifile version) now at bandcamp
DjBroadcast: Macrocosms on #3 in Top 16 Dutch releases 2016.
Concertzender online: Banabila & Van Geel live at Fluister, October 9, 2016.
13 minutes of Ringdijk / Dike Ring, a continuous loop installation, now online at vimeo
A Closer Listen 2016: Macrocosms in Top Ten Electronic
New video by Davide Bellotta for HOME
Listen: Close To The Moon
Tapu Records now available at Bleep
Drone ambient sound for Air Base - a new video by Gerco de Ruijter.
Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel live at AudioArt, Kraków, 2016 (youtube)
Recordings for an album with Maarten Vos, which will be available exclusively at the dance performances of Home, more tba.
Live rescoring with the Chi for Esteban Sapir's La Antena, commissioned by Cinesonic
In A Language I Can Understand / Big Data Poetry / Mawal for Syria in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Live in Home (CJD): Maarten Vos (cello & modular)
Final and revised version Big Data Poetry: Geert Mul & Michel Banabila live at Trouw Amsterdam (2013) uploaded
Interview: live in Home - Conny Janssen Danst 2017
Blog update: Macrocosms
New video by Marco Douma for Earth Visitor
Voorbereidingen Home - Conny Janssen Danst 2017 met Maarten Vos
Geluid voor Sell Me Your Secret van Floris van Delft (Maas Theater)
Out Now: Macrocosms - Banabila & Machinefabriek (CD + download)
Blog update: Gerco de Ruijter
Blog update: Atonal 2016
New recording with Maryana Golovchenko
New blog now online
Earth Visitor, new album now on iTunes stores:
Music licensed for a new choreography, Bonzi, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa - BalletX.
Early Works, Things Popping Up From The Past, reissue - Bureau B / Tapete records.
Secunde mix (first two tracks on soundcloud)
3 tracks in Orphax mix : Dutch Electronics
Early Works track in Ambientblog mix
Music for VPRO White Spots stories by Bregtje van der Haak
Marc Weidenbaum's essay on Early Works / Things Popping Up From The Past
Whales Calling - Michel Banabila, Oene van Geel, Keimpe de Jong, Koen Kaptijn
Bureau B vinyls just arrived .. Early Works reissue out in June on CD and LP, now ready for pre-order
Some snippets from the Rewire concert with Oene van Geel now on vimeo and available as a free download on soundcloud
Sound design for a 1 minute clip 'Grid Corrections' by Gerco de Ruijter
Watch and listen to a few snippets from the vinyl release party in Cafe Oto with CHI, now on vimeo
Secunde now available in the iTunes store
Signed with Bureau B for a reissue: "Early Works'
Twee nieuwe recensies in de Gonzo # 132 door Rene van Peer (marilli remixed & tapu sampler 2016)
Sound for Ringdijk, a video installalation by Gerco de Ruijter, for Panorama Continuüm (2016)
Chi The Orginal Recordings reissue by Astral Industries out now, on 2LP vinyl, available at Boomkat
Secunde, music for clarinets, viola, violin, melodica, contrabass, sampler, and saxonett, featuring Oene van Geel, Keimpe de Jong and Ilya Ziblat Shay.
Day dreaming remix for Oscar Roelof Peterse: Une Histoire De Métamorphose - free download at soundcloud
Out now: Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves III
'Wrang' (Aïssani, Banabila, Hoogeboom)
Compilation for MidEast Tunes
Radio Spelonk (Music for viola and electronics II) with Oene van Geel included on Gonzo's 'Mind The Gap' CD #118
2015
Disquiet Junto : 'Rework source audio from Banabila's 1983 album'. [dec 17th, 2015]
Marilli remixed project [dec.14th, 2015]
Tapu sampler, a 15-track compilation in a 3 panel digipak (recordings from 2005 - 2015), limited edition
Vleugels, a recording with Oene van Geel, featured in the I Care If You Listen - Fall 2015 Mixtape
Music for 'What Is Open' - Richard Goodman [Disquiet 0202 - Cost of Freedom]
Out Now: Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves II
Excerpt Oorsprong Curator session online
Interview Concertzender met Maxim Chapochnikov
Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves
Ambientblog's 10th Anniversary Celebration (2 exclusive tracks)
Banabila live at Sonic Circuits 2015
Playground selected for the 17th Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Paris, October 7th-18th.
World Cinema Award for Meet Me In Venice (Woodstock Film Festival NY)
Ian Martin & Michel Banabila : Analog Duo (EP)
Fan drones for drone fans : 'Eyes Closed', now at the iTunes stores
Sunshade Parasol, a new Cloud Ensemble track, available as a free download
Jump Cuts now available in the iTunes stores
Banabila, Mens & Douma live @ Steim
Jump Cuts live, a new video by Marco Douma
Out now : Jump Cuts (EP)
Viewpoint by Banabila, Erker, & Samson
Crowds remix : Anas Maghrebi, Michel Banabila & Geert Mul live
Love and Radio Remixed, Volume 1
The Discreet Charm Of Consumerism by Various Artists (B56 Stuff)
Error Log by Banabila & Machinefabriek
Live jam (excerpt) with Anas Maghrebi @ Yukunkun now on youtube
Big Data Poetry live @ the Global Week For Syria, Beirut
Fluid Radio blog: 'Two Banabila duos'
Both CDs with Oene van Geel featured on Headphone Commute
Music for viola and electronics I + II featured in Ambientblog article
Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel - Music for viola and electronics II
Don Hill's Café Acousmatic / PRX Radio Guests: Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel
Score (with Beppe Costa)) for Meet Me In Venice (Eddy Terstall / 2015)
Crowds video and Playground video selected for IFFR 2015
Music for 'Time and Place, a talk with my mom', Martijn Veldhoen, (Dutch Mountain Movies) , IFFR 2015
2014
Music for viola and electronics - Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel on iTunes and bandcamp
My Mathias Rust Remix for Love+Radio.org
Road movie, a new recording with Mehmet Polat, Oene van Geel & Anton Goudsmit on my soundcloud
Video for Descend (Banabila & Machinefabriek - 2012) by Susie Sie (vimeo staffpick !)
SOS save Ms Stubnitz compilation release on bandcamp
New Ambientblog mix : Tapu 25
Muziek voor docu serie Speeches - VPRO
Muziek voor Tegenlicht aflevering Digitaal Geheugenverlies - VPRO
Geluids-ontwerp voor Het Aards Paradijs - theater Zeelandia
Gorlice 2014 edit on Mixcloud
Sound for new film by Gerco de Ruijter; Playground
Recensies More Research From The Same Dept. & Cloud Ensemble in Gonzo Circus 121
IEM podcast by Dmitry Vasilyev
** Banabila, Mens & Douma live @ Worm now on bandcamp
** Crowds, video by Geert Mul
2013
** Awarded with a stipendium by FPK for the period of 2013 - 2014.
** Between Your Eyes and Mine (7" single) in OEP Best Vinyl of 2013 mix.
** E.T. in mix (Boarding Pass), by Rone, (covermounted CD) for the Tsugi Magazine Sampler 66.
** Hirshhorn podcast now streaming at the Hirshhorn website and iTunes
** Travelog on iTunes
** Crops vertoning met Q & A op het Nederlands Film Festival
** Travelog op de VPRO luisterpaal
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** Travelog (Banabila & Machinefabriek II) , CD, September 12, 2013, at bandcamp.
** Crops (video by Gerco de Ruijter / sounddesign Michel Banabila) opens in the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Gardens Black Box space
** Interference (ZoomWorld) in the Vital Weekly 895 podcast.
** The Trenkel Sessions (Earlabs) , with Banabila, Meelkop, Mens, Simonis, Zuydervelt.
** Banabila & Scanner : 'Between Your Eyes and Mine', 7" vinyl (single).
** Interview & music special VPRO Radio 6.
** 12 inch vinyl Banabila, Erker, Machinefabriek & Zenial
** ZoomWorld, featuring new recordings with Radboud Mens, and more, now on bandcamp.
** 'Eclipse', exclusive track for A compilation CD :'In Progress ; Various Artists, Volume II'.
** 8 minute video compilation of Red Ear 2013 performance now on vimeo.
** Gardening extended : Vital Weekly 879 review & Niki Jumpei added to the Vital Weekly podcast #400.
** Ambientblog reviews.
** '47 Voice Loops', now available on bandcamp.
** Out Now : Gardening Extended.
** A video by Marielle Uiterwijk Winkel for Future Vodka, now on vimeo : 'Circus'.
** New tracks added to 'In Other Words'.
** New recording by Valery Alakhov, Michel Banabila & Svakha ; download on soundcloud.
** Online now : 'Phoneme Transmit', a project for Disquiet Junto #57.
** Out Now : Malpertus - (As contributors) ; Michel Banabila & Philippe Petit (compilation CD / 2013) Antibothis - Thisco.
** Crops premiere at IFFR 2013.
** Interview with Perry Holt ; In the Quiet - PBS radio on Sunday January 20.
** Yarra Valley video added on vimeo for Deep In The Forest.
