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@klammklang

Russian label Klammklang in our ethereal labels series. 
Today it turns 8 years old: its curators prepared a mix of released music and also took part in an interview.

Feature: vk.com/@etherealgrooves-ethereal-labels-klammklang

ethereal labels: Klammklang

FURTHERSET - THE INFINITE HOUR
Cat #: OUS043
Release date: October 13, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«I feel a deep sense of loss listening to this music, but at the same time the possibility of going beyond it through sound. It doesn’t want to illustrate anything, but I would like it to be transformative, even of a feeling that sounds like death. It is an elegy.» — @furtherset

'The Infinite Hour' is a shattered elegy synthesized in electronics. Furtherset’s music does not explain, settle or justify, it rather simply manifests the grip of anguish. As a whole, the album’s six compositions resemble the labored breathing of one who mourns a disappearance and fears oblivion. A feeling like having one’s chest weightened by a stone, while still being attentive to one’s breath, and aware of what remains. From this dimension The Infinite Hour arises and transfigures loss into a space that is always extending: the hour is infinite, the melody is circular, and even stasis has its own measure that is exceeded into eternity.

The album was created between 2020 and 2022, in a slow process of writing and continuous refinement parallel to the previous EP, 'Auras'. The compositions found their final form during the mixing process carried out together with Bienoise. They were later named based on references to authors who influenced and are dear to Furtherset: Amelia Rosselli, Vladimir Chlebnikov, Hubert Damisch, Dante Alighieri. Each track, composed with its live rendition in mind, manifests itself to the listener as a possible variant of a path that is never definitive. Their live performance, an increasingly distinctive moment within Furtherset’s work, is a gesture of concentration and extension, where every composition is developed through meticulous variations of each singularity.

'The Infinite Hour' is one possible manifestation of an ever-changing musical landscape, a universe with unmistakable sounds but always on the verge of disintegrating, collapsing, and opening up spaces, times, infinities.

BIO
Furtherset is the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi (1995). His compositions’ distinctive traits are stratifications and recursive shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling, alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. The project is envisaged as formal research that follows a path towards saturation and layering, but is always capable of generating voids in which the listener can take their place and fill them according to their own focus.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Tommaso Pandolfi
Mixed by Alberto Ricca (Bienoise)
Illustrations by Tommaso Pandolfi
Graphic design by Jahn Koutrios
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg

This is OUS043

The Infinite Hour

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Everything but a podcast #4 w/ Rivet (25/06/23)

Lotus Reaction is a Polish live act based in Warsaw. He draws his musical inspirations mainly from rock, pop, electronic music or folk. His aim is to explore as many different genres as possible. He released his podcasts through Kiosk Radio, Fade Radio or 00effort.

IG ACCOUNT:
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SC ACCOUNT: https://soundcloud.com/lotusreaction

| EPISODE 181 | Lotus Reaction LIVE

walking compulsively

Ukrainian Field Notes VA is a fundraising compilation with a difference, music with a backstory that gives a first-hand account of the unfolding events since the full-scale Russian invasion in real time, and presents an overview of the changing face of the Ukrainian music scene dictated by blackouts and curfew restrictions.

What started off as an ongoing series of interviews with Ukrainian artists for the experimental music website A Closer Listen has now become a book comprising all 170 interviews conducted over the course of a year mapping out the electronic and experimental scene in Ukraine.

All musicians involved were asked to submit a track composed after February 24, 2022 to mark its publication. The resulting material reflects the diaristic nature of the book and deals with PTSD, displacement, separation, and loss, and shows at the same time the strength and resilience of Ukrainian artists with a meditative and uplifting reach.

The track listing follows the chronological order of the interviews, switching from ambient and electronic to classical and experimental in a seemingly random fashion, but war is chaotic and shattering, or as Serhii Zhadan writes in Sky Above Kharkiv, “War sharply changes ways of seeing, changes feelings.” Ukrainian Field Notes is a testament to the shifting sonic and human landscape.
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Ukrainian Field Notes VA - це благодійна фандрайзінгова компіляція, що відрізняється від інших, музика з передісторією, яка розповідає з перших вуст про події, що розгортаються з моменту повномасштабного російського вторгнення в режимі реального часу, і представляє огляд зміни обличчя української музичної сцени, продиктованої відключенням електроенергії та обмеженнями комендантської години.

Те, що починалося як серія інтерв'ю з українськими музикантами для сайту експериментальної музики A Closer Listen, тепер перетворилося на книгу, що містить усі 170 інтерв'ю, взятих протягом року, які окреслюють електронну та експериментальну сцену в Україні.

Щоб відзначити її публікацію, всім музикантам, які брали участь в інтерв'ю, було запропоновано надіслати трек, написаний після 24 лютого 2022 року. Отриманий матеріал відображає щоденниковий характер книги і стосується ПТСР, переміщення, розлуки та втрати, а також демонструє силу та стійкість українських митців з медитативним та піднесеним звучанням.

Трек-лист відповідає хронологічному порядку інтерв'ю, переходячи від ембієнту та електроніки до класики та експериментальної музики у, здавалося б, випадковий спосіб, але війна є хаотичною та руйнівною, або, як пише Сергій Жадан у "Небі над Харковом", "війна різко змінює способи бачення, змінює почуття". "Ukrainian Field Notes VA" - це свідчення мінливого звукового та людського ландшафту.

Credits:
The book "Ukrainian Field Notes" is available on the Bandcamp page of the UFN VA (https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/album/ukrainian-field-notes-va)

Album mastering by Clasps
Album artwork by Dmytro Prutkin
All proceeds go to the charitable foundation Musicians Defend Ukraine (musiciansdefendukraine.com/en)

Ukrainian Field Notes 567 pages book is also available as PDF and ePub.
Spanish translation by Chema Chacón.
ebook PDF version: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hhbt2 
ebook ePub version: https://tinyurl.com/2znsn7rf 

Bonus items on the Bandcamp page for the UFN VA are the PDF & ePub versions of the book "Ukrainian Field Notes".

Ukrainian Field Notes VA

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Subtle soundscapes, unfolding ambient spaces and a wide range of vocal experiments, stretching from psycho-folk to power electronics - the second live recording from the project Astral (Астрал by Vitalina @vitalinair & Misha @user-708275411), taken at the debut “amalgama” party held on December 2, 2023 at the Samoobman, Moscow.


edit & mastering by @ilsur_kasa
recorded & mixed by @alexeyflint

002 • Astral • live at amalgama 2.12.23

Tala Nikitina & Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky have lifted the veil of the mystery of prenatal life at the the recent "Amalgama" - the performance was attended by the one who prepared to appear in this world, while still in the power of uterine localization. (Also today we congratulate young parents on the birth of a child!). Sonar searchings, parts of a body being constructed from the beginning, a humming umbilical cord, guttural outpourings and synthesizers handcrafted by Papa Srapa.

edit & mastering by @ilsur_kasa
recorded & mixed by @alexeyflint

004 • Tala Nikitina & Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky • live at amalgama 2.12.23

The composition of the Cherniye Boyare formation has been continuously mutating and changing, currently setting on four musicians: Katya Kobzar (synths, bass shovel, chains), guitarist of the Novikov Priboy band Zhenya Novikov (synths, guitar), modular wizard Vanya Yakovlev and oriental percussionist  perfectionist Hajime Kojiro, together making up a constantly transforming suspension of sound, the only constant in which remains the depth of the listener’s immersion in the hypnotic. Cherniye Boyare have managed to firmly establish themselves on Russian club scene, constantly attracting new audiences to their mysterious sound: from intimate obscura events in greenhouses to large-scale mysteries at Outline-level festivals.

@blackboyars @hajimekojiro

edit & mastering by @ilsur_kasa
recorded & mixed by @alexeyflint

005 • Black Boyars • live at amalgama 2.12.23

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report we auditory explore the case of Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946), better known as the Torso Killer, the New York Ripper & the Times Square Killer. He was convicted for the murder of 18 young women & girls between 1967-1980.

On 2009 (decades after his 5 convictions) he told a journalist that he at least killed 80 women in various regions of U.S., baptizing those murders as "perfect murders", while he personally claims he has killed as many as 100,  by taking them to a remote location, binding, torturing, gagging & stabbing before killing them by asphyxiation or strangulation.

Cottingham is most famously known for the bizarre crime scenes he'd leave behind, from the mutilated bodies of victims, removal of breasts, severed heads and hands to preventing their identification, to the arson of an apartment (along with a body of a victim in it) as part of his attempt to get rid of evidence.

Murders that received further attention (and led to his arrest & conviction) were those who happened across the area of Times Square, which in the 70s was popular for its peep shows & live sex acts.

M.I.A. was created by Raphael Kervella in 2019 in the filthy streets of Brest, west of France. After a first tape "Multiracial Mess" in 2020, followed a series of tapes and CDs including two splits with Bizarre Uproar and a tape "I Love You" on Phage Tapes. It addresses the madness of modern society, mental illness & more. More recently love or more personal topics have been attached. M.I.A. will always be a vehicle towards the neurosis of its creator.

https://www.instagram.com/mia_noise_/

F.B.I. Pathology Report 012 w/ Morgan Hall & M.I.A. (16.04.24)

a series of events and micro-media about non-trivial culture

curated by @ap0llinaris
art by @alex_zhu

past events:
2.12.23 / Act I / samoobman

005 • Black Boyars • live at amalgama 2.12.23

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