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PHOTOS : LEILA RICHOU
DESIGN : HAJJ
MASTERED BY : YAKOV
TRANSFERED BY : LORENZO TARGHETTA

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FELICIA ATKINSON 'Hand In Hand' (Shelter Press SP081)

OUT ON MAY 4TH, 2017 on 2XLP / CD / DL
INFO / ORDER : http://shelter-press.org/felicia-atkinson-hand-in-hand/

Distribution : Boomkat (EU/UK/ROW) — Forced Exposure (USA)
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Félicia Atkinson new full length album, ‘Hand In Hand’ is an expanded development of her musical compositions started with the highly-acclaimed
A Readymade Ceremony released on Shelter Press in 2015, and follows her collaborative effort with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Comme Un Seul Narcisse (Shelter Press, 2016).

Composed over the year of 2016 at EMS during a snow storm and at home in Brittany, Hand in Hand could be considered as the most ambitious body of work recorded by the French musician and artist.

Doubt and Optimism are the two sides of a same coin. Hand in Hand is arid and warm in its whole synchrony and opposition. Days are burning and nights are made of ice. Coyotes are exchanging sounds with rattles snakes while bunnies are hiding. Strident modular sounds are tearing apart minimal beats and drones. The stories told by A Voice to the auditor are no longer fictions and become slowly reality.

Electric waves transmitted by living creatures and machines seem to deliver special sounds and frequencies that only non-human can hear. They grow and vibrate despite of the walls and interdictions. Therefore, the human who is listening to this record might find in it a particular kind of emotion a way to take space in silence, and frame a certain vision of thinking while losing a certain notion of time, acknowledging step by step its universal environment. Plants, galaxies, animals, machines, Hand in Hand.

This record is meant to be a moment of common thinking and listening in its diversity and abstraction. In the same way a sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick or a sculpture by Guy Mees can be percieved: trivial, sensitive and mysterious at the same time.

The opening track, I’m Following You is a bleached romantic ballad for Fender Rhodes that could be the ending title of a Martian love story, whereas Visnaga praises the resources of a desert plant through asmr voices, field recordings and evasive chords. A House A Dance A Poem is a feminist hymn composed as a pyramidal structure, referring in the same time to the A-frame houses, the yoga position of the triangle, the first letter of the roman alphabet and the feminine sex. In the closing song, No Fear But Anticipation, Atkinson offers an open hearted plea about the existentialist necessity of finding desire even when the times seem too dark to think about it. A telepathic and non-scholastic anthem for Don Delillo, Joan Didion and Jean Paul Sartre. The final Buchla sounds that close the record seem to deliver an unspeakable message that only birds and aliens could transcript.

The echo of the 80’s sci-fi anxious aethetics resonates with today’s transparency of digital sounds in the whole record. The cohabitation of simple midi textures and historical Serge and Buchla signals are convoked and confronted together by A Voice. The human instrument appears here as the epicenter of the recordings, giving to the others instruments a gravitational point.

Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley or Delia Derbyshire are the main influences of Atkinson in their own way of inviting fiction, composition and abstraction as the essential materials of composition. For Hand In Hand, Félicia Atkinson used different sources for the lyrics and scores of her tracks: house plant instruction books, Desert Magazine old issues, architecture manuals, JG Ballard and K. Dick’s books, as well as her own poetry.

Félicia Atkinson will premiere Hand In Hand for GRM’s festival Presences Electroniques with a 16 channels diffusion. A 7 hours extended version of the record, conceived as an evironmental audio book will be broadcasted for 2 months at La Criée Center for Contemporary Art from April 1 to May 31 in Rennes (FR).

Hand In Hand

Visnaga

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Visnaga' (SP081)

BELLOWS — Strand (SP080)
→ http://shelter-press.org/bellows-strand-sp080/

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Italian electro-acoustic composers Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti reconvene their unique Bellows collaborative project for a new album on Shelter Press.

Continuously drawing an hypnotic maze with albums on Boomkat Editions, Entr’acte, and Ielasi’s cult Senufo label, Bellows offers their first album on Shelter Press with Strand.
Clocking right under 40 minutes, Strand is direct and desorienting. With eight tactile but distant untitled tracks, the album convokes a complex sound palette between acousmatic sound and fractal beats.

Recorded in Milano at their very own Standards recording studio, Strand marks a shift in Bellows previous recording process, bringing more music gear on the table: tapes, modular synthesizers, effects and samples. Captured live over the course of a four days improvised session, the album floats between ghostly melodies, musique concrète, and analog electronics.

Echoing with the artwork by Amsterdam-based artist Louis Reith, whose collages made of found black and white images are disrupted by bold geometric constructions, the album is disorienting and fascinating,
seating right in between the challenging world of electro-acoustic and a more welcoming beat-oriented territory.

Strand is a fascinating body of work, growing over time and revealing more of its complexity at every listen.

Released on June 8th, 2017 on LP and digital formats. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and cut at D+M, with artwork by  Louis Reith.

Strand

BELLOWS 'Strand #1' (SP080)

@JOHN-CARROLL-KIRBY - TRAVEL LP - OCTOBER 27TH

PRE-ORDER VINYL // DIGITAL - https://johncarrollkirby.bandcamp.com/album/travel

COVER ART BY @LOWLIMIT

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John Carroll Kirby - "Socotra"

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We are honored to announce the latest album from Michel Amato aka The Hacker, ‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’. Michel began making music in 1989 a the age of 17 in Grenoble, France. He grew up listening to New Wave bands like Duran Duran, The Cure and Depeche Mode as well as the darker side of electro Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire and D.A.F. In 1990s he released a series of 12” singles and an album of cold, calculating and relentless techno. In 1997 he teamed up with Caroline Herve aka Miss Kittin and to release landmark singles and albums that effortlessly channeled the carefree spirit of 80s electro pop (of which we released an EP of lost demos back in 2015). Michel’s new live project sees the enigmatic artist go back to his roots, performing a 100% analogue set directly inspired by his first true loves of New Wave and dark, powerful techno.

‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’ features 8 new tracks spread evenly across 2x12”s cut at 45rpm for maximum sound quality and DJ utility. The title comes from a metaphysical journal by French-born Canadian science fiction writer Maurice G Dantec. Passionate about avant-garde techno, The Hacker has taken his influences and crafted a potent homage to the power of the synthesizer. Songs veer from gritty, raw EBM to dark, subterranean electro, effortlessly channeling the strains of the Michel’s musical DNA: Front 242, Jeff Mills, Dopplereffekt, Drexciya. The only vocal track features an appearance by longtime friend and collaborator Miss Kittin, named “Time X” after the French science fiction television series Temps X. All songs have been mastered and lacquer cut by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Cover artwork features a collage by London-based artist Anthony Gerace, and each copy includes a postcard featuring a photo of a young Michel from 1989.

Le Théâtre des Opérations

The Hacker Le Théâtre des Opérations 2xLP (snippets)

Setlist
1 -   Haus Arafna - Jiva
2 -   Animal Bodies - Start the Suffocation
3 -   Maska Genetik - New Perfect World
4 -   Le Chocolat Noir - Pasto Nudo
5 -   Felix Kubin - Japan Japan
6 -   Florence Foster Fan Club - On
7 -   Schwefelgelb - Wasser
8 -   Gel Set - Sex Numerals
9 -   Martial Canterel - Scherzo
10 - Umwelt - Days of Dissent
11 - Blac Kolor - Unwanted Passanger
12 - AS1 - Night Vision
13 - Gesloten Cirkel - Twisted Balloon
14 - Beta Evers - Don't be Afraid
15 - Boy Harsher - Morphine
16 - Chris and Cosey - October Love song

Disease ov Memory III  _ Dj Dimentia Oktober Mix

Boxed at Corsica Tickets - https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1096938

Boxed return to Corsica Studios, London on 19 May taking over two rooms to bring one of the most forward-thinking line-ups the capital will see all year, representing grime, club, 140 and derived musics in their widest and most open forms. 

To celebrate we are sharing some exclusive mixes from some of the artists, starting with this selection from Le Dom & De Grandi of Paradoxe Club

Boxed at Corsica

Boxed Mixtape Vol. 1: Le Dom b2b De Grandi

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Dolo Percussion – Dolo 9

Earth to Mickey - ‘Pleasure Comes, Pleasure Goes’
Riki - ‘Napoleon’ 
Xeno and Oaklander - ‘The Light, the Whisper’ 
CGW - ‘Ballet of Pose’ 
Teenage Cenobite - ‘Smiling Troublemaker’ 
Olivia Neutron-John - ‘Beguine’ 
HTRK - ‘New Year’s Day’ 
Snake Eats the Moon - ‘Chameleon Twist’ 
51717 - ‘Techelet’ 
Clown Car of Intuition - ‘I Want More’ 
Barker - ‘Look How Hard I’ve Tried’ 
Gel Set - ‘Love Problems (Profligate Remix)’ 
Kaade - ‘All the Air’ 
Patience - ‘Moral Damage’ 
UV Rapture - ‘Dreamhaunter’

*Pleasure Comes and Pleasure Goes* December 2019 Mix

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