great ambience, also killer tape sounding!

GRFTPS009
@carlos-ferreira-sounds & @almanacs - La Deriva
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/la-deriva

video for "Isabel, no llores" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6WMKomMtQ&t=16s

La Deriva

B3. Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - Isabel, No Llores [GRFTPS009]

Original Track by :
https://soundcloud.com/jbot/conformal-cyclic

J-Bot - Conformal Cyclic (Senglar 13th Rmx)

Waves (XI-N)

pak choy fume I-II

mi sonrisa es un rifle

SenSen - X

Colonia Dignidad was the settlement of a German evangelical sect.

After being prosecuted for child abuse in Germany, the group fled to Chile in 1961. Like similar religious sects, it was characterized by the outward appearance of a unified, godly community with well-tempered cultural activities and social welfare, but inwardly and in its environment by oppression, sexual abuse, and exploitation. In the 1970s, it unquestioningly inserted itself into Pinochet's regime of terror, aiding in the imprisonment and torture of political prisoners, weapons production, etc. Since the end of the 1980s, there has been a legal reappraisal of the C.D.'s crimes in Chile.

Its successor organization makes a living from tourism.

The C.D. project uses, on the one hand, a series of documentary recordings of contemporary witnesses, and on the other, a set of melodic improvisations (MIDI files), improvised in the spirit of the impressions of terror, tension, claustrophobia and fear associated with the Colonia. CD 2 (Knochenstückchen) directly reflects this atmosphere. CD 1 (Reue?) on the other hand, is characterized by the contradictory breadth of the statements found after the dissolution of the sect: Denial of atrocities to glorification of the C.D. by leaders who returned to Germany against the professed traumas of formerly abused inmates and exploited community workers.

For this purpose, the eyewitness recordings were sound-modified to a considerable extent. The MIDI files were played back with a variety of virtual instruments (piano, guitar, sax, turntable, lung machine, barrel organ, synths, etc.) in a multitude of modifications (speed, pitches, loops, harmonic and tonal variations), so that the 11 pieces from CD 1 and the 16 pieces from CD 2 each represent a closely interwoven overall composition.

Ralf Wehowsky is one of the most respected practitioners of radical music of our day. He was the founding member of the seminal German group P16.D4 and ran the legendary experimental label Selektion whose ground-breaking releases influenced many working in today's experimental music scene. Previous releases have seen him collaborate with such well known and diverse artists such as Merzbow, Andrew Chalk, Jim O'Rourke, Achim Wollscheid, Lionel Marchetti, Kevin Drumm, Kouhei Matsunaga and Bruce Russell. 

Design - Maja Larsson

RLW - (Knochenstückchen) excerpt

Listen to "Favela" by Maestro, Trombetta, tabache taken from "Erd​ä​pfellaibchen" out on 13th May via Timeless Records

Pre-order: https://timeless-records.bandcamp.com/album/erd-pfellaibchen

Pivetta and Tabache are great friends and met in August 2022 for the last time before Pivetta (Maestro) left Bologna and returned to live in Germany. So they decided to meet in Pivetta’s studio to say goodbye for the last time and do their first jam session.
When tabache arrived he repeatedly pushed the doorbell (track1 “Campanello”), then entered and found in Pivetta’s house also his young brother Trombetta that therefore casually joined in the jam. They played all day till night, stopping just for a pizza (track 2) ordered in the “Favela” (track 3) restaurant under their house.
The EP is nothing more than the documentation of the 3 most intense moments of those hours.

It was all composed with analog instruments, some old organs, one ms-20, some samplers, Elektron RYTM and some weird synths.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/timelessrecords
https://timeless-records.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/timeless__records

Erd​ä​pfellaibchen

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] Maestro, Trombetta, tabache - Favela (Timeless Records)

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

GALME: Obducentens hopplösa sökande
[C60 - Styggelse Tapes - Sweden 2019]

"Galme sets an atmosphere as lifeless as the body stretched out on the autopsy table, anointing the young man in the ecstasys of the trenches. 
A meditative journey between the last visual experience registered  by the eye and the reflection of the eyelids in the fragmentation of self-understanding. 
Electro-naturalism that no casket may hold in the earth." 

Galme is a rather new recruitment to our inner circle. One hour of death-obsessed ghastly tape decompositions channeled through constantly deteriorating layers of magnetism, post-mortem industrial synthesis & spektral elektriks. Carving his way through the countless amounts of bodies in search of the numinous. From reel-to-reel to the empty vessels of flesh and blood on stainless steel. 

C60 in limited numbered edition. Pro-printed inlay card + two inserts in bleak colors. Cold and minimal sounds for those into the Sundsvall school of industrial, Korpses Katatonik, early BDN, Maldoror Tapes etcetera.

Galme: Obducentens hopplösa sökande - extractions [C60 - Styggelse 2019]

off new LP "disappear"
released by Total Black/Berlin
available now

"disappear was born of something that ceased to be, suddenly, unexpectedly, painfully. like two mirrors that reflected too strongly and burst. the shards that were left tell a story. of a trance meeting of an insect and a flower in a self-made paradise and the resulting journey that took them towards new dimensions but was brutally cut short before these could be explored. the sun disappeared. the resulting daze looked back and saw... mirrors don’t reflect what we want to see.

disappear consists of 7 pieces composed alongside a presence. the story linking the pieces unfolds when the presence disappears and the 8th, last piece of the album appears, a cleansing lament disguised as an abomination. marnować means waste in polish. composed between january 2018 and november 2019, a period also known as the berlin daze. mastered by riccardo mazza. edition of 300. released by total black. dedicated to agata."

play loud
music to listen to alone

artwork by brett wagg using photos by dp
mastered by riccardo mazza
thank you daniel, brett, agata

disappear

hope (without) - off disappear LP

Communications: giftnalen@gmail.com

Alfarmania / Kristian Olsson / Styggelse Tapes / Survival Unit and related projects.

Galme: Obducentens hopplösa sökande - extractions [C60 - Styggelse 2019]

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