tear yourself into pieces

tear yourself apart

Q-Dr. Dave Bowman

https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-astronauts-last-polaroid-bc089

Almost 5 years to the day since his Bricolage debut, "Imitation of Faith", the prolific Belial Pelegrim returns with his latest musical escapade, "The Astronaut's Last Polaroid", and t's a very special one indeed.

This album tells the story of Jack Hawthorne. A 68 year old former NASA astronaut that is now grappling with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Once celebrated for his groundbreaking lunar missions, Jack now finds himself lost in the uncharted territory of his fading mind.

Alzheimer's disease is a subject that is no doubt close to the hearts of a lot of people and it's a subject that Belial has carefully mapped out with the utmost respect.

The music itself is 15 tracks of lucid and harmonic experimental soundscapes that set a transient stage for what feels like a dark yet beautiful dream. There's a tinge of anxiety laced throughout as you would expect with such a theme but it never becomes foreboding. It's more like giant swirls of memories and relics of the past that drift in and out of view.

Belial expertly maps out the journey through hypnagogic tones that resonate with the heart and mind. Fleeting glimpses of rhythmic patterns, flashes of brooding strings and sprinkles of melodic dust. Taking us on a trip through not only Jack's consciousness but also our own. The depth and emotion that burrows its way into each track is of grandiose proportions. At times it feels like we're witnessing a one man orchestra as we traverse through various realms of classical, glitch. ambient and electronica. A reverie of sonic tapestry.

"The Astronaut's Last Polaroid" serves as a woozy yet visceral reminder that time is not always on our side when it comes to memory but also that the mind is a beautiful place regardless.

The Astronaut's Last Polaroid (bc089)

Bandcamp

Belial Pelegrim - Astral Cartographer (from "The Astronaut's Last Polaroid" album)

Track from album: Gary Gwadera - "Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite"
POINTLESS GEOMETRY 2024 / POINT#60
Pre-order date: 11.11.2024 / Release date: 21.11.2024

https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com
Limited edition of 100 copies / C-43 cassette
The material is also released in an audio-video version on VHS cassette. The visual side was created by Darek Pietraszewski (Copy Corpo).

Music composed, performed, recorded, edited and mixed by Piotr Gwadera
Recorded in Łódź, August/September 2024
https://www.instagram.com/gary_gwadera
@gary-gwadera

Mastered by Paweł Cieślak (Hasselhoff Studio) 
Artwork and design by Jakub „ Hakobo” Stępień
https://www.instagram.com/hakobo
Conceptual collaboration – Hanna Szczęśniak (Polish Radio Folk Centre)

The publishing partners are:    
KODY Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music
ROZDROŻA Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives
Polish Radio Folk Centre

Media patron:  
Dwójka – Polish Radio
℗ 2024 Polish Radio
© all right reserved

“It’s nothing else but a Chicago-style oberek!’ – that was my first thought when I heard the compilation ‘Bangs & Works’, an album that introduced the footwork style to a global audience. At first I was drawn by the triple, syncopated rhythm, based on the iconic sounds of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. My musical explorations have long been centering around triple rhythms of rural Poland. The clash of this archaic, distinctly Polish form with the freedom of the underground, electronic sound from the Black suburbs of Chicago seemed to aesthetically hit the perfect spot. As an anthropologist - dreamer, I also imagined that the presence of a triple rhythm in Chicago – the largest hub of the Polish diaspora in the USA – was not a coincidence. It was a result of a meeting between our native musical tradition and the musical sensitivity of the Black community in the United States. I must admit that this hypothesis was, and still is, purely my musical dream, unsupported by any scientific evidence. However, regardless of the actual roots of this fascinating phenomenon known as footwork, it is hard not to notice certain correlations between footwork and the Polish oberek tradition. This is in both cases music rather meant for dancing than for listening. It’s supposed to present a certain musical and rhythmic challenge to dancers, who can test themselves in a fun-oriented setting, where competition is an integral part. In Polish villages, these are traditional battles of village bands, while in Chicago, they are footwork battles in underground clubs. Both in the oberek and footwork, the most important are a sense of community, energy, and excitement built around dance, accompanied by a characteristic triple pulse.
Therefore, the footberk suite “Far, far in Chicago”, is intended as an imagined musical journey through time and space, where the Polish oberek and Chicago footwork find a common ground in dynamic, triple rhythms. I aim to show that the syncopated rhythm of the mazurka (or of the oberek) can sound just as contemporary and bold as the beats created for Chicago dancers. The composition is meant to be an auditory tribute to both cultures’ dance spirit and their sense of community. It is an attempt to capture the emotions that accompany both footwork dancers and participants of rural dance parties – spaces where music and dance become tools of self-expression.
To connect these two seemingly distant worlds I use a specially designed rhythmic machine. At its heart lies a rural jaz, with build-on Lem-esque pads packed with samples from the TR-808 and TR-909, as well as other electronic sounds."

Far, far in Chicago. Footberk Suite

Gary Gwadera - II. Battle („kasowanie”) / POINT#60

Csocsó - NEO-GEO

Fuga

LAMENTATION   3

C'est un voeu fait à la déesse de la Seine.


TRACKLIST

Yelzin - Knightmare [00'00]
t0ni - Sbiri [03'30]
Know V.A - Destiny [05'20]
Daysailer - Prelude For The Seasons (xenonyms) [07'28]
Genus Aix - Exceptional Blooming [10'40]
EXTRABLOOD - Última Iluminación [12'50]
Ichiro Tanimoto - Under The Same Sky [14'06]
Glass Can - Seve [16'38]
ascua - Through These Lakes [20'14]
Kenta204 - Prelude Of The Seven [22'40]
Forlate - Failing Better [25'10]
LORN - TIMESINK (edit by Malibu) [30'10]
Quit Life - Usvu [33'38]
innerinnerlife - drēm (feat. Aestum) [38'14]
bdstf - Throught Perfect Glass [43'15]
Maxime Dangles - Presentation (In Between) [45'25]
Mockau - The Waters Edge [47'50]
Tears - Satellite (Tears Last Chance At Life Edit) [50'14]
silviodj - Stars [54'05]
Evian Christ - The Beach [58'00]

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