~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

Emma Grace
CRAVINGS OF PEGASUS
The third album, October 2021
A journey between organic and artificial soundscapes,
between verbal and non verbal sounds, with mythological guides and impulsive language. 

“Pegasus is the body that does not follow words, it is the one who doesn’t need to behave, the one who plays hide and seek when you’re not able to fall asleep. It is the urge to speak another language.
It’s there. When you finally trust yourself and the world around you.
It’s that voice that asks you to play in the mud, 
to sing,
and just be. ”

Composed and recorded by Emma Grace
Mastered by Capitano Merletti at Studio Garp
Video by Furio Ganz
Released by Pipapop Records

Album cover by Furio Ganz
Portraits by Alice Malingri
Made in Leccolimoni

Coda

Arturas Bumšteinas
So-called Space
Sloow Tapes- CS 30

Continuum-collage piece by Lithuanian composer Arturas Bumšteinas created in 2015 from incidental music sampled from various Lithuanian radio drama's from the 1950's to 2000's. A strange heady brew which juxtaposes music, sound effects, rudiments of vocal expression and various acoustic instruments among others in a compelling cut-up, reminding at times of People Like Us or Dirk Schaeffer's recent work for Peter Tscherkassky's movies. Edition of 70 copies.

Arturas Bumšteinas

Justine

Stream

Some musings on this album: 

"Hier und Dort" (eng: Here and There) really wasn't written about anything particular or specific. All three tracks were born out of spontaneous "jams" with no set goals in mind. 
When listening back to them, contrasts between the inner and outer world, the inner dialog and outer perceptions come to my mind. For everything beyond that, you are invited to let your own thoughts and interpretations wander. 

As far as the production goes, all tracks, but especially "Hier" (Here) play with tiny snippets of sounds - derived from organic and synthesized meditations on sound, that have been recorded, cut into small pieces and rearranged - somewhat like a puzzle, trying to find interesting rhythms and tonal relationships and to assemble a coherent picture. 

"Dort" (There) opens up the sound world some more, allowing room for reverb - evoking larger spaces. To me, it feels more like a reaction to something that presents itself from the outside, rather than an introspective. It has a sudden change of perspective at about half-way, but emerges back into that external world. 

"Dazwischen" (In-between) was somewhat of a challenge, because it is derived from a somewhat less-than-perfect 4-track recording, so very little editing or volume changes between the instruments and elements of the track was possible. I liked the original, melancholic nature of the improvisation, so I kept that and played with progressively intricate edits of the whole track, as opposed to single elements.. 

As always, I tried to find a balance between detailed, "macro-editing" and a spontaneous flow as well as an element of rawness, as I feel this is what keeps the life in the music, be it electronic or organic. 

In any case, I very much hope you enjoy these pieces. If you want to share your thoughts, you a more than welcome to - I would love to read/ hear what you think. 

Be safe, 
keinseier 

released April 26, 2023 

Everything done by keinseier

04 HIER (REMIX)

this was a nice one to construct and perform. made simply from two loops. one piano line i recorded loaded into the qubit nebulae and another from the op-1 captured into a modcan cv record.

the signals go out to a variety of filters and modulations.. and i let it go for a while....

sept 17, 2014 (two for unknown)

From the album Ocelli available June 21, 2024 on Western Vinyl
pre-order / listen https://lnk.to/ocelli

Ocelli

Blurstem - Frábært Vatn

FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #23
A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.
www.florilegio.org
www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-23/

TRACKLIST:
Yu Ching “You, An Illusion” The Crystal Hum (Night School) 00:02 – 04:52
Heta Bilaletdin “Anaksa” Nauhoi (Kraak) 04:27-9:20
Signe Emeluth “2.2” BANSHEE (Motvind Records) 9:15-10:47
Maria Bertel “Bertel Solo 2” Live in Murmansk (School of the Arts) 10:37-13:52
Yao Chunyang “旁旁 Beside Her” Post-Oblivion 泯默集 (Dusty Ballz) 13:49-18:06
Jiyoung Wi “Swipe Left” Accept All Cookies (Enmossed) 18:05-21:45
Avola “In The Mourning” Psykor (SIGE Records) 21:43-31:11
Martina Berther “Cymbal” Bass Works: As I Venture Into (Kit Records) 31:01-33:01
Ka Baird “Gate IX” Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl) 32:53-38:26
Ma-Beyn & Sabine Salamé “7RK” N7S (Self-released) 38:16-42:49
Hiele Kinsella “The Third Summer of Love” The Third Summer of Love (Stroom) 42:43-49:00
Jessica Sligter “The Finest Hour” (Self-released) 48:39-53:18
Marta De Pascalis “Harmonices Infinity” Sky Flesh (Light-years) 53:09-58:09

FLORILEGIO MIXTAPE #23

Tracklist

01. Masaya Ozaki - Evening Regions
02. Glacis - From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)
03. Seabuckthorn - The Lights All Out
04. Federico Durand, Pablo Picco - Nuevos colores
05. Luis Miehlich - Small Scores June
06. Slow Heart Music - Overflow
07. Braulio Lam - Skylight Filter
08. Waldgrenze + Nikita Vasilenko - Mist

375. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

http://www.recitalprogram.com/dreams-of-india-china/
Limited LP Edition of 500
12-page color booklet with essays and photographs
OUT ON APRIL 19th

Purchase

R59 - Rip Hayman - Dreams of India & China LP excerpt

from 'Miscellany' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den348
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/origamibiro

After an almost 6 year hiatus, and the break up of the audio-visual trio it had evolved into, Origamibiro returns with Miscellany, a body of work amassed during the years since the release of 2014’s Odham’s Standard.

Though the group never officially disbanded, a number of life-changing events meant it simply became impossible to continue together. As such, the project organically reverted back to the solo pursuits of composer Tom Hill. Fellow multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh, however, remains a strong collaborator.

Miscellany comprises a varied mixture of work, ranging from electroacoustic to orchestral chamber music. Drawing upon much of the found-sound style for which Origamibiro became known, the DIY approach to sampling and composing continues to play a central role in the process.

Exploration into the tangible nature of everyday objects and textures - both in and outside of the home - is a theme relished in much of Origamibiro’s work. Forest brambles and plastic toy Easter eggs are examined in surgical detail alongside the debris of demolished piano parts, to be repurposed into whatever sonic potential they offer up.

However, new additions to the instrumental palette - viola da gamba, piano, zither, singing bowl, glockenspiel, drum machines and gongs - contribute to an even broader timbre.

Miscellany will be released on Denovali, March 2021.

Miscellany

Origamibiro - Circle Fifth

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.