Strange #56

TR179 - Tenniscoats - 'Its My Recycle'

“Atmospheres” is one of his most interesting Piero Umiliani's albums, published in a limited edition in the mid-Seventies. A period of musical confusion even though not for him, who had always been eclectic. The charming soundtracks for Luigi Scattini's documentaries were already behind him, as was the great orchestral jazz production: his career had already been long and full of professional satisfactions. The present for the composer consisted of the scores for a number of Italian comedies and, most all, a set of sonorizations. These appeared projected into the future, thanks to their avant-garde attitude and the electronic sounds which seemed to arrive from a parallel universe.

The sixteen tracks of “Atmospheres” belong to this group of works which were not tied to specific cinema projects, where the composer's incredible imprint is at its height. In all this creative freedom it is clear how the titles of several pieces pointed to specific thematic suggestions, so that they could instantly be adopted by producers and documentary film editors. A choice that is not accidental. Just like that of Musica Per Immagini which continues to select hidden treasures from the rich catalog of the maestro to be reprinted for the first time in over forty years, remastering them from the original tapes.

Piero Umiliani - Atmospheres - Snippets Mix

@stanislavtolkachev - To You
Format: 7”
Release date: November 12th 2021
Catalogue: Muscut 21

Stanislav is a well-known techno musician and a passionate analogue photo and synth enthusiast constantly experimenting with his visual and audio outputs. As a result, Stan brought us three timeless electronic pieces wonderfully fitting and at the same time complementing the Muscut soundscape.


Tracklist:
A1 Young Planet
B1 Etude I
B2 Etude II

Cover artwork by Stanislav Tolkachev
Mastered by Flaty
© 2021

To You

Stanislav Tolkachev - Young Planet

Artificial Dance is very happy to announce that we’ve spent a wealth of time going through the archived recordings of Richard Zeilstra, AKA Genetic Factor. Richard was a pivotal figure in the Amsterdam new wave and avant-garde pop music circles. Besides hosting the ever-influential Spleen and Radionome radio shows on the VPRO he also found time to conduct his own audible experiments. As a firm believer of music by non-musicians Richard has made the effort throughout the last decades to keep on recording in a variety of different guises on different parts of the planet. In these different times and places, the genetic factor was always there. We are happy to announce that we will release a limited edition sampler 12” vinyl before the end of the year. The sampler contains 2 songs from a forthcoming 2x12" full-length archival compilation and 2 exclusives. The archival compilation will see the day of light in 2022. Fully endorsed and in collaboration with Richard, compiled by Olf van Elden & Robert Bergman.

Genetic Factor - Sampler 12" (AD015)

TYSHA (Ukrainian for silence) is the second longplayer of Ukrainian-born, Poland-bread and Austria-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Katarina Gryvul. Following her enigmatic song ”In Coma”, which released in 2020 on Standard Deviation, Gryvul delivers an 8-track long album of blooming, emotional and tactile electronica pop ballads, resulting in an intensely personal journey into the artist's inner world at the most silent time of her life.

In an attempt to deal with her decaying perception of reality and the overwhelming sense of isolation caused by the experience of global pandemic, Gryvul finds refuge in silence. She is mesmerized by the all-consuming absence of sound, and the many ways in which silence can be perceived: silky, enveloping, calm, but also caustic, fractured and sharp. TYSHA was written entirely during the pandemic. Gryvul describes that being surrounded by people during that challenging period started feeling like ”a potential threat” and as something unnatural and artificial.” She says: “It made me feel like I was torn between two realities, virtual and real, and did not belong to any of them”.  

TYSHA sounds imminently disturbing, yet soft, with ghostly harmonics, tempis and a wide variety of musical and lyrical influences. The album feeds from ”something that has already vanished” - a feeling of longing in a moment of uncertainty, crystallized in balladic writing and subtle elven-like soundscapes. 

Gryvul, who usually works with classical instruments, now explores a more electronic sound with beats and apparent beatgrid structure, referencing the environment in which what once felt natural and  organic started feeling artificial and synthetic. Varying in tempo, moods and instruments, TYSHAcreates an emotional journey, exploring different forms of silence, representing the tension between the virtual and the real world and reflecting Gryvul’s feelings of hostility and alienation in contrast with her longing for connection.

The album is supported with remixes by London-based artist Flora Yin-Wong, contributing on ”Bezodnya” with an ethereally soft and lyrically poetic rework and Belgian experimentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti reinterpreting ”Tysha” as a gloomy, ecstatic and roaring piece for the dance floor.

TYSHA releases on February 9th 2022.

Katarina Gryvul - Tysha (STDEV009)
Format: Digital

01 Tysha (3:40)
02 Zvuchy (3:59)
03 Vidsutni (4:03)
04 Bezodnya (4:54)
05 Inshi (3:42)
06 Ruyina (3:01)
07 Porozhn’o (3:30)
08 Rozpad (3:01)
09 Bezodnya (Flora Yin Wong Remix) (4:09)
10 Tysha (Maoupa Mazzocchetti Remix) (3:30)

Written and produced by Katarina Gryvul
Remixes by Flora Yin Wong, Maoupa Mazzocchetti
Mixed by Katarina, Flora, Maoupa
Mastered by UTC+16, Odessa
Artwork photography by Sam Clarke
Artwork costume design by Malyuk Sashko
Art Direction and logo design by RAM

Published by Standard Deviation, 2022

Tysha

Preorder via Bandcamp

KATARINA GRYVUL - TYSHA (PREVIEWS)

TTT BANDCAMP

DJ Trystero – 想起

PRE ORDER BGSC2207 - NVST - "Drum in the Bass of Attention" LP
https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/drum-in-the-bass-of-attention

After «Compiled Works 2017-2019» including the famous from underground «Police Star Pablo», NVST makes a stellar comeback on Big Science with her debut album, «Drum in the Bass of Attention». Key player of the Swiss rave and dance music scene, NVST stays true to her nonconformist nature and brings up new dimensions to her sound in her latest work. Going back and forth between hopeful lightness and gritty despair, NVST listens to the world and echoes its confusion throughout ten tracks of fragmented textures and sensitive reflection. 

In this album, she  keeps one foot on the dancefloor and another one on the streets, bringing politics back to dance music via implacable statements and unforgiving basslines. With a very personal language, NVST moves the listener to take a look around. Ask yourself ?

Limited edition pressed on tape format, in a plastic recycled case, complete with a 12p insert with lyrics, designed by Warzou. Two tracks will be released as Single format, including remixes from Jan Loup & Warzou.

BGSC2207 - NVST - Drum In The Bass Of Attention LP (snippets)

система | system is proud to present a compilation of various Ukrainian artists and performers "SESTRO".

"SESTRO" is a compilation of electronic music from the Odesa-based label система | system, designed to bring together musicians from Ukraine who have been released on our label and performed at events we have organized. For many years we strive to cover a wide, diverse, and adventurous spectrum of Ukrainian music. The goal of the compilation is to directly financially support (ГО Сфера) Sphere (@womenspheresolidarity) which is a Kharkiv-based organization that actively helps women and LGBT+ people from eastern Ukraine in territories that are heavily affected by war. NGO Sphere (ГО Сфера) supplies crisis kits for women in frontline areas and also provides financial assistance to vulnerable groups of women, organizes legal and medical consultations, provides psychological assistance, informational campaigns, and activist events.

"We have never had an experience of working with women in conditions of stress, shock, and grief like today. Now we are trying to gather our experience and the experience of our colleagues from other countries to help deal with the terrible consequences of the survivors" - Anna Sharygina, a representative of NGO Sphere (ГО Сфера).

We believe that giving visibility to Ukrainian culture is an important part of our struggle, because Russia's war against Ukraine is imperialistic in nature, and for three centuries the works of Ukrainian authors have been denied and destroyed.
We will never agree to be dominated. We want, as artists, to give all possible support through our work to the brave volunteers now active in Ukraine, who are heroically fighting to save the most vulnerable.
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система | system з гордістю презентує компіляцію різних українських артисток та артистів "SESTRO"

"SESTRO" - це компіляція електронної музики від одеського лейблу система | system, яка покликана об'єднати музикантів_ок з України, що випускалися на нашому лейблі та виступали на організованих нами заходах. Протягом багатьох років ми прагнемо висвітлювати широкий та різноманітний спектр української музики. Мета компіляції — надати пряму матеріальну підтримку організації Сфера (@womenspheresolidarity) з Харкова, що наразі активно допомагає жінкам та ЛГБТ+ людям зі Сходу України на територіях, які сильно страждають від війни. ГО Сфера постачає кризові комплекти для жінок у прифронтових районах, а також надає фінансову допомогу вразливим групам жінок, організовує юридичні та медичні консультацій, надає психологічну допомогу, проводить інформаційні кампанії, активістські заходи.

“В нас ніколи не було досвіду роботи із жінками в умовах такого стресу, шоку і горя. Наразі ми намагаємося зібрати свій досвід і досвід наших подруг з інших країн, щоб допомогти впоратися з жахливими наслідками пережитих подій тим, хто вижив” - Анна Шаригіна, представниця ГО Сфера.

Ми вважаємо, що надання видимості українській культури є важливою частиною нашої боротьби, адже війна Росії проти України, має імперіалістичний характер і протягом трьох століть твори українських авторів_ок піддавали цензурі та знищували. Ми боремося проти Росії, що прагне нас колонізувати, ми боремося за нашу свободу, ми ніколи не погодимося, щоб над нами панували. Ми хочемо, як художниці_ки, своєю роботою надати всю можливу підтримку хоробрим волонтеркам, які діють зараз в Україні та відважно боряться за порятунок найуразливіших груп населення.
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"SESTRO" VA is supporting our sisters, Ukrainian women in areas affected by the war!
All the funds from this VA will be transferred to the Sphere, Women Association (@spherewa / Non-governmental organization (NGO)).
All transfers will be publicly released by система | system on our social media!
All the tracks are made, composed, recorded by the artists themselves
All the visuals are made by Lesha Mykhailov.

sasha very - шифрунчик

@Monotronique @MYSTICTRAX
https://mystictrax.bandcamp.com/album/hospitallers

Mystictrax pleased to announce the 3rd release, aimed at raising funds for our brave friends. This time 100% of the funds will go to the hospitallers.life - a volunteer organization of paramedics, that, at their own expense, go to hot war spots and take out the wounded.

The release features musicians known to you from previous releases of the label: Roma Khropko with beautiful & scary ambient work, recorded during air-strike in Lviv (yes that siren is real), Monotronique & Clasps with monster tracks which has the infinity power, that makes us strong in this hard reality; Data Molfar with romantic tune, that shows us mystic side of Ukrainian electro, Zagroza released her first techno hit with well-known sample "Good evening, we are from Ukraine" - hit of the nowadays, which will rock Europe this summer, and Dagilis gave us his high-speed intellectual track, dedicated to the first day of the hot phase of the war started by russian fascist invader against brave Ukrainian people.

Stay strong and keep helping Ukrainians in any way you can!

Hospitallers

Monotronique —  Heavy Artillery (Hospitallers, Mystictrax) / PREMIERE

Soundsystem_01 was released on 14 July 2008 through Hope Recordings in the UK and then in the United States on 5 August 2008 through Nettwerk. The album contains remixes of music from artists like Trentemøller, Massive Attack and Andy Page as well as of music by movie composers Harry Gregson-Williams and John Murphy. CD1 revolves around Hybrid's score and ambient tendencies.

Buy from Amazon UK : www.amazon.co.uk/Soundsystem-01-H…id/dp/B001CITR8K
Buy from Amazon US : www.amazon.com/Soundsystem-01-Hybrid/dp/B0019UJYDE
Buy from iTunes US : itunes.apple.com/nz/album/hybrid-…m-01/id282220487
Play in Spotify : play.spotify.com/album/2RykRlFyiEcIakGCfGrL4Q

Soundsystem 01

Ryuichi Sakamoto Featuring David Sylvian - World Citizen

Muddy Magnolias - American Woman (Twin Peaks S03x1 Soundtrack) (David Lynch Remix)

Twin Peaks Diane

Klaus Schulze - Don Quixote (Alexy.Nov remix)

Something caught the musical theme of Klaus Schulze "Don Quixote".
In the end, after several nights of listening, I decided to make a free remix of this interesting composition.

#lossless: http://pdj.cc/fqZmd

#ambient #music

Klaus Schulze  - Don Quixote (Alexy.Nov remix)

https://www.beatport.com/track/dont-take-this-the-wrong-way-original-mix/9539094

Mosca - Don't Take This The Wrong Way

06.0110

Spule 4

Cold Cut -Timber

Debut dungeon synth/ambient/folk album of one-man Ukrainian project Конотопська Відьма. Inspired by native Ukrainian folklore and literature. All music and artwork by Bisavrük.

Купальська Ніч

Album "Front View" out on October 9th, 2020. CD/LP/DL available via https://orcd.co/posedia

"Front View is the album debut of film-maker and musician Helena Ratka, alias Pose Dia. A soundtrack and theatre composer, as well as resident DJ at Hamburg's Golden Pudel Club, Ratka emerged onto the scene as one half of Shari Vari (together with Sophia Kennedy). Now all these pathways or winding roads have converged to create Pose Dia and an impressive album of many facets."

Phrase Paraphrase

Order the Album

Pose Dia - Phrase Paraphrase

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/berk-offset-565-leipzig-rough-cuts-vol2
@toorough4radio
@berk

Strange #56

Маркіян В.