Name: Essai: With no horizon, no potential . . . Take 2 by Alex Silver
Duration: 2 min 10 s
Description: This is a new version of my most recent "essai," or attempt, a term borrowed from Paul Cézanne. So far, the rate has been about one a week in 2025. But this is the same set of lyrics as before—the words are improvised only in presentation. See the playlist called "Essais 2025: Most recent to earliest" for my progress since January.

release on 1 October 2021 : https://bit.ly/3mhi3lg
@nebulo

Since 2006, Nebulo has been shaping electronic structures with mobile geometries. In his latest releases for Le Cabanon Records and Conditional, the French composer deepened his work on dynamics by modelling abrupt trajectories where silence clashed with synthetic saturations. For Borders, Nebulo chose to exploit the static temporality of repeated confinements to approach an encompassing musical universe.

Nebulo - Border D

release on 11 March 2022
Dimer are :
Fabian Adams: @fabian-adams-968514271 // Jan-Einar Groh : @mopped

The Leipzig duo Dimer is composed of Fabian Adams on saxophone and Jan-Einar Groh on drums. On this album, each track is built from succinct elements. Whether it is melody, timbre or rhythm, each one is introduced with care and then blossoms in the long run.

Dimer - Setting 2_1

release on 16 September 2022 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/visage-zyg-ne
@roxanem-tayer

Roxane Métayer is a French sound and visual artist now living in Brussels. She composes with the violin, primary wind instruments (ocarina and various flutes), archaic percussion and field recordings, fragmenting and reassembling them with synthetic effects. Nature becomes the backdrop of these wild soundscapes, populated by a phantasmagorical bestiary and an exuberant flora.

Artwork by Coline Llobet
Mastering by Adrien Lambert

Roxane Métayer - Sur Les Ailes, Huit Tâches

release on 28 November 2024 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
@savvasmetaxas

Greek composer Savvas Metaxas is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. His music revolves around field recordings, experimentation and minimalism.

Savvas Metaxas - Folk Tales & the Rain (Side B extract)

release on 28 February 2025 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
@mythudunitearea

MTUA is the moniker of Matthieu Reynaud, a composer and sound artist based in Lyon. He is an enthusiast of long, contemplative forms, he works on the physicality of sound matter, carving out its contours and striving to breathe his own narrative into it.

MTUA - Crown shyness

This is a new version of my most recent "essai," or attempt, a term borrowed from Paul Cézanne. So far, the rate has been about one a week in 2025. But this is the same set of lyrics as before—the words are improvised only in presentation. See the playlist called "Essais 2025: Most recent to earliest" for my progress since January.

Essai: With no horizon, no potential . . . Take 2

Where the Noise Still Hums a Tune (For Ennio)

The Moon

John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." 

Check out John's article here: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/06/01/the-roots-of-bukeles-gulag/

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Deep Background on Bukele's Gulags in El Salvador / John Washington

release on 19 June 2020 : https://bit.ly/2AUmsGY

Following his first two releases on Few Crackles and Groovedge, ssabae returns with more stretched forms, exploring the expression of frequency epiphenomena. Borrowing from the psychology of Gestalt in its research on the perception of forms, fractal archipelago questions our psyche and its capacity to associate images and, more specifically here, sounds, while freeing itself from the production of a stable pattern.

ssabæ - the queen of silence

Alex Silver is a folk experimentalist in the Portland, Maine area. Most of this material is from my "song diary:" https://alexsilvertown.com

Essai: With no horizon, no potential . . . Take 2

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