Hyperlink continues its exploration of sounds and emotions with a new chapter of its digital mini compilations. link002 therefore invites you to a dark and deadly sad - but beautiful - trip through the musical interpretation of 6 producers.

Welcome to the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls are sent to live after death.

♥ @m_a_a_y

MAAY - NANA

live set, TiempoReal en Casa Palacio 
07.11.2023 

dos círculos

𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧 (Hybrid Live Set) TiempoReal 7.11.23

The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

Tamarin

Bungalovv - Tamarin

Written, Mixed & Performed: https://soundcloud.com/widityana-ayu-fardhila?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=C4EDAE81BDCB4022BFB1735341CBBC75&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Master: https://soundcloud.com/robodtz
Via: https://soundcloud.com/earflux-records
Artwork: Jacob Olynd / https://www.instagram.com/jacobolynd/

CULT PRIEST

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Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Bite

I THINK THIS WAS MADE WITH STEMS FROM CELYN ???

UNKNOWN

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