may your own shame hang you

Croatian Amor - LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter

Cititrax is proud to present a 4 song split EP by Silent Servant and Broken English Club. Although the two are geographically very far apart, Silent Servant based in Los Angeles, US and Broken English Club based in London, UK, the two share a similar outlook and musical approach. Both projects have been on the rise lately, and stem from a strongly rooted techno background. Combining their influences of dance music, techno, EBM, industrial and post-punk, Silent Servant and Broken English Club offer a new breed of EBM infused techno wave on the Violence And Divinity EP. They artfully create music that works both on and off the dance floor, infusing a dark atmospheric mood with addictive, pulsating rhythms. Themes of love, death, modernity and automobile crashes appear throughout this EP from the music itself right through to the cover art and one of a kind vinyl pressing. Limited edition vinyl pressing of 999 copies, first 500 copies are pressed on black inside milky clear vinyl, housed in a matte printed sleeve. Vinyl pressing and digital release date: September 30, 2014.

Vinyl: http://minimalwave.com/releases/release/silent-servant-broken-english-club/

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/violence-and-divinity-ep/id917815904


Silent Servant - Speed And Violence

Acronym - River Red Gum

V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

http://p-a-n.org/

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2mQN5AO
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2n9ToSm

mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

13. SKY H1 - Huit (PAN 77)

From 
Damien Dubrovnik "Great Many Arrows" LP 
Posh Isolation 200
out June 30th

Damien Dubrovnik - Arrow 5

The World

New Year

Rafael Anton Irisarri from "The Shameless Years"
Available in LP & Digital
www.umor-rex.org © 2017 Umor Rex Records

Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri makes his Umor Rex debut with bold new album, The Shameless Years. Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri’s most eerily pertinent music to date.

One of Rafael Anton Irisarri’s most thematically and sonically cohesive records to date The Shameless Years came together in a relatively short burst of creativity starting at the end of 2016. Rediscovering some relatively older tools - namely Native Instruments’ Reaktor, Absynth, and Kontakt software - Irisarri combined them with his collection of guitars, pedals, amps, and analogue processing gear, turning his Black Knoll Studio north of NYC into a powerful writing tool. Completed quickly by Irisarri’s standards, let alone during a period of social upheaval in American society, the record faces down several key personal themes. The title, suggests Irisarri, could in fact be seen as a reflection of the era of shamelessness we’re currently living in; a time of fake news and alternative facts.

Two tracks were completely remotely between Irisarri in New York and Umor Rex veteran Siavash Amini from his home in Tehran, Iran. This music came together at the peak of all the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric happening in the USA, not to mention the banning of Iranians from entering the country, explains Irisarri. The diptych with Amini, ‘Karma Krama’ and ‘The Faithless’, seems bathed in additional waves of sorrow and dread. The wash of symphonic stormclouds of synth drones and processed notes on the latter gradually appears and disappears over the course of thirteen mournful minutes.

‘Rh Negative’ marches gigantic guitars through towering valleys of scarred ambient noise dealing with Irisarri’s own heritage, many of his ancestors having come to America to escape poverty and oppression. The refusal of modern America to extend similar sanctuary to refugees escaping turmoil weighs heavily on the composer. Elsewhere an emotional onslaught of notes buried in mounds of greyscale noise on ‘Sky Burial’ aims to deal with Irisarri’s very own mortality – something he was recently confronted with following health scares, an accident, and a near-death experience in 2016. Pushing 40 as this album was being made, the composer is constantly aware that he’s already outlived his own father, who died at the age of 32. Facing down both intolerance and the void, the epic soundscapes of The Shameless Years are a vast cry of emotion from Irisarri. The clock is ticking - gotta make the most out of it while you still can.

All songs written and performed by Rafael Anton Irisarri, except #5 & #6 written and performed with Siavash Amini. Design by Daniel Castrejón, photos by Camilo Christen. Mastered by James Plotkin.

The Shameless Years

Buy LP & DL

Rafael Anton Irisarri — RH Negative

Music composed and produced by Caterina Barbieri between September 2015 and January 2016. Mixed at Elektronmusikstudion in
Stockholm (SE). Composed with an ER-101 Indexed Quad 
Sequencer and a Verbos Harmonic Oscillator. 
Images by Giovanni Brunetto 
Photography by Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
First edition pressing of 500 double LPs packaged in a gatefold jacket. An edition of 200 sets on transparent blue vinyl is available for Important mailorder customers: http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec449
Bandcamp: https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness
"...has an imperial, exacting beauty." (The Wire)
“…few albums have hit us as hard as Caterina Barbieri’s 70-minute opus, Patterns Of Consciousness. On her debut full-length, Barbieri commands tsunami-height waves of arpeggiated analog synths." (Fact Mag)
"Patterns Of Consciousness finds Caterina Barbieri at her best, elegantly moving between melodically pleasant yet twisted sequences and comforting, reassuring sonic spaces. Every piece, while given a singular identity, is part of the bigger picture: a work of art that will push you, pull you, and then eventually leave you with your back against the wall once you get to the last track. " Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails)

SOTRS

Produced and vocals by coucou chloe

Pre-order ERIKA JANE EP (out September 22nd) & buy STAMINA: https://coucouchloe.bandcamp.com/album/erika-jane

Artwork photography by Nhu Xuan Hua
Artwork graphic design by Jase Coop
Mastered by Sean D

Out now on @NUXXE

STAMINA

Track from NE43 The Empire Line – Rave LP

Photography by George Nebieridze

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

"The Empire Line present six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, 'Rave.'

Comprised of Posh Isolation's Christian Stadgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio's marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise.

'Rave' is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, 'Rave' still bears the traces of the group's experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis."

The Empire Line – Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet)

Soho Rezanejad & Frederik Valentin - One Of My Shades
From Various Artists "I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You" 
Posh Isolation 207, January 19, 2018 
Digital only release

Soho Rezanejad & Frederik Valentin - One Of My Shades

Manos

20-03-2017  21-12-2016  06-02-2016

“In Your Arms (Final Fantasy)” appears on Todo Muere Vol.2, Out Now

iTunes- https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-your-arms-final-fantasy/id523219906?i=523219931
CD/LP- http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr075-todo-muere-vol-2

Website:  http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/var
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/varvarvarvarvarvar/


Vår - In Your Arms (Final Fantasy)

oqbqbo "Untitled" CS 

The Russian born, Copenhagen via Tokyo resident Oqbqbo’s first solo release for Posh Isolation comes in the form of an untitled mini album released digitally and as a limited cassette, following a few self released recordings and soundcloud singles, besides her recent contribution to KYO’s remix album of “All The Same Dream”. 
Her Posh Isolation debut consists of six songs of synthetic textures and mangled, wordless voices and paints a beautiful dark portrait of the present. 
Modern melodic heartbreak. Kawaii! 

Posh Isolation 222
100 Copies

oqbqbo - Rei

oqbqbo - All This Waiting

Track from NE65 Vallmo – ruin walls
Out on cassette and digital on May 3rd.

Vallmo is the new solo moniker from Melina Åkerman Kvie (AnnaMelina).

With her first forays into music deftly embracing pop, Melina built a sedate and sombre place for herself that caught mainstream attention. Following her collaborations with Varg across his Nordic Flora Series, their FLORA project came into being, with the pair playing widely across Europe.

Vallmo represents a return to her personal creative platform. The sparse and gentle electronics of 'ruin walls' have been composed privately and candidly. Strictly working from a hardware set-up, these pieces hang together as they were made. They drift in a contemplative mode, the hint of rhythm as soft as a heartbeat.

Recorded by Melina Åkerman Kvie in Gotland and Stockholm 2018-2019
Artwork by David von Bahr

ruin walls

Vallmo – not even memories lasts forever_survivor

Only The Stars Come Out At Night

Faith Alone

Summer Storms

Sperar

22 summer storms, 22 celebrations of music from today. 

Posh Isolation turns 10 this year. 
We celebrated in Copenhagen for three days and three nights - Port Out, Starboard Home. Some people could not 
be there, some forms change — we honour them by celebrating again, digitally. 

Make the day come alive again. 

'Summer Storms' wades through the heat, never quite settling, yet taking in every surrounding. Gather everyone 
together, celebrate a shared motif. 

Come stream with us. 

Clear skies. A raving harbour. The best storms cancel plans. 

Make the day come alive again, 

today. 

Dedicated to Ezra 

Posh Isolation 227