Electro bodybeatin'

Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -
February 2022 is Longlisten month.
Sometimes tracks are just too long for the usual playlist I put together so I decided to put together bite sized playlists for longer tracks.
Bite sized in number of artists but not scrimping on the length and quality of the listening : )
Take some time and immerse in the sound waves.

As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. They are not meant to be definitive. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next....follow up on "sounds like"....see who's following, many artists follow other artists....

Artists are Leden / Angusdei, Alina Kalancea, Katrine Amsler, Mia Zabelka, Marta De Pascalis, Sophie Delafontaine and Pauline Oliveros.

Feminatronic #190 - Longlisten#8

electropop, technopop, electronic new wave, minimal synth, synth rock

electropop, minimal wave

synth

Atmosfera electronic

Alina kalancea

Trans-X: Original 1983 Recordings

Living On Video

CD available directly from Imprec.com

Highly recommended to fans of Alessandro Cortini, Caterina
Barbieri, Shasta Cults

"A slow building beauty of electronic soundscapes." The Vinyl District

Alina Kalancea is a sonic alchemist who can warp and weave electronic
signals into complex tapestries of synthesized analog timbre. These
transportive environments were recorded using the artist's personal
collection of historic Buchla electronic music instruments including
Allen Strange's expanded Music Easel.
Letters Never Sent, Alina Kalancea's second full length for Imprec
follows 2021's double LP titled Impedance and is being released at the
same time as a new cassette titled Alchemy.
Kalancea's music has the ability to evoke both emotion and image;
feeling and landscape; passion and place. She described recording
Letters Never Sent as being like collecting images that are born in
your mind. Shades of sound, tone, color and feeling shape the
experience of listening to Kalancea's work.
Kalancea's work is made of malleable sonic material that never looks
or sounds the same way twice. Part of the magic of the music, and her
work is similar to ELEH in this way, is that her work leaves room for
the conscious and unconscious emotions of the listener. How you react
is partially a result of how you feel at the time.
Alchemy, Alina Kalancea's subsequent cassette being released
simultaneously, is a limited edition appendix to the album Letters
Never Sent.

Alina Kalancea - Letters Never Sent - Album Mix - CD June 23, 2023

https://linktr.ee/miya_music

MIYA
Kazuo Ogawa
Toru Sakagami

Arrangement・Programming・Mix：MIYA
Recorded at M Studio

Produced by MIYA

Computer Love kraftwerk

WARD023 Spiteful Womb - Veiling
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Spiteful Womb - Mystique Of Helplessness Teaser

Loneliness envelops you like a dark cloak, hiding in the eyes of others, and under the mantle meets your intimacy, slipping up the mood crumpled around itself, full of sadness never sigh ... I can just slimy and cold, as insistently eyes fixed on him, the skin will become even more obscure ash and thoughts assail you until you drown .... under a mantle where there are dark corners never penetrated, smiles ever seen, sweet paths of slight happiness never attained .... And that's when you realize that there's silence around you. Too much silence. You fought so much for the place in the sun so would ensure better tan and a puff of wind to the natural, not you noticed that the noise is annoying in life, and you sneak away, carrying away with it 's they now feel joy, all of a sudden, a mortal need. Mortal. Funny to come so quick to name the unnamable, and you know that you only have to remove the heavy and pretentious cloak and breathe deeply the hungry eyes staring at you her eyes, trying to make sure they are there for you.

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Wonderful strength that you find within you, every time. 
Bowed to this, which leaves subtract the power that lends you anced whenever you are about to fall, to suffocate ... 
Such as crying inside , despite the power conferred , never ceases to feel the background, but that laughter hides performed with skill . 
You love your strength . 
Because in your fall , before you hit the ground, it caresses you and reassures you . 
Is drying your tears and let you enjoy the fall in full , and makes you feel every blow as if you was destined for a long time . 
And once on the ground, came up to you and penetrates you , creeps up to you to pick up at all, and looks at you straight in the eyes , without words , like a lover just met . 
All of a sudden the adrenaline rises and you are back on the feet, as if nothing ever happened.
To the strength of which will never be lacking , this my humble bow. 
Without the fall, there's not arise.

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RUN-THROUGH

Soft Error - Silberblick

'Damages' is the first taste of new material from CUTS - composer and filmmaker Anthony Tombling Jr.

CUTS is set to release music from his experimental film 'EXIST' for the first time. This April's dual release of EPs 'EXIST 1' & 'EXIST 2' on Village Green will precede a debut album on the label. 

Inspired by a poem by H.P. Lovecraft, 'EXIST' explores night terrors and sleep paralysis. The 40-minute film, described by CUTS as a "existential journey into nowhere" features narration from cult graphic novelist Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta, DC Comics, 2000AD). Since the film was premiered at Dark Outside, the unique 24 hour site specific festival in the Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park, in 2015; the music hasn't been made available until now.

"In 2012 I was involved in a car crash and the resulting shock manifested itself in experiencing sleep paralysis for the first time. I was inspired to try and recreate some of those experiences through music and film. It made me view my approach to music in a different way, Exist is a collection of those visions. With all CUTS material I try to take influence from the non-musical, for instance an abandoned space. There is a stillness with places that are in slow decay. I try to imagine what that would sound like? In taking influence from things outside of music I feel my own music becomes less tied to comparison. As a composer working this way has been deeply cathartic."
- Anthony Tombling Jr

CUTS' music has been described as "diving-bell-deep growls to sky-scraping, synthetic peals" by Crack Magazine with The 405 noting "clear influences from the powerful build of Mogwai tracks to the My Bloody Valentine-esque use of distortion and distant vocals". On CUTS 'EP1' released by Invada, The Quietus wrote "the buzz and hum of fed-back electronics get underscored by the undoubtedly sinister-feeling creep of industrial percussive mechanisms". 

"EXIST 2' includes the track 'Bunsen Burner', in original and Redux form, which can be heard on the Ivor Novello winning original soundtrack to Alex Garland's sci fi masterpiece Ex Machina, featuring in the film's memorable climactic final scene. The track also featured in the finale of JJ Abrams cult hit US TV show Person Of Interest. 

CUTS has performed at ATP, Simple Things, Drill Festival and played with Fuck Buttons, James Holden, Haxan Cloak and Wire. CUTS debut album is set for release later this year on Village Green.

CUTS - Damages

Leden and Laura's live performances are based on a real-time processing of saxophone’s sounds, using digital devices designed by Fabris himself to sculpt, mould and generate their own sonorities. Laura's playing involves different extended techniques and the use of the mechanics of her instrument, the only sound source of their live set.Their new repertoire combines the emotional power of melody with experimental ambient soundscapes.

LEDEN / AGNUSDEI live electronics

'Fossils' is the first single taken from Ben Chatwin's upcoming album 'Staccato Signals'.

Pre-order the album here: https://bit.ly/2GEc2s0

Staccato Signals

Ben Chatwin - Fossils

'Bow Shock' is the second taster from forthcoming album, 'Staccato Signals', following 'Fossils'. 

While the latter encapsulated Chatwin's innovative marriage of strings with his arsenal of analogue and modular synths, 'Bow Shock' is the album's most prominent example of Chatwin's use of brass - folded and buried within his industrial electronic template, pushing the palette of sound further into the composer's own unique hybrid of electronic and acoustic.

'Staccato Signals' is available on July 6th. Pre-order here: https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/EzFNEWE

Ben Chatwin - Bow Shock

Based in South Queensferry, Scotland - Ben Chatwin is a producer and musician whom has been naturally drawn towards the abstract, the ethereal and the darkness of ambient soundscapes. This month he will release a new album which is titled "Staccato Signals" - a moody deep rooted collection of tracks which casts a hypnotic spell. He has been releasing music for nine years both under his own name and as Talvihorros - each outing has allowed him to expand upon an intricate lineage of musical development and self exploration. Blending elements of the acoustic with electronic he has asserted himself as a singular connoisseur. Happy Monday!

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Ben Chatwin: The 'Monday Is Okay' Mix

These audio excerpts have been prepared for preview purposes only, so their sound quality is lower than the found on the 8 audio tracks contained in any str013 format.

‘The 5th Apple’ is the debut album of sound artist Alina Kalancea, produced at Störung Studios between 2017 and 2018.

The album is both a deep spoken word within an impressive sound structure whilst also being a multilayered sonic composition complimented by profound introspections. The way string instruments, field recordings, voices and other sources have been intimately utilised to enhance the profundity and power of the spoken word is remarkable. The truths exposed, the fears revealed, the images created with text, all appear more incisive, more definitive, more compelling. On the other hand, the insight and understanding the texts profess provide meaning to the sound sequences. The hypnotic loops receding into the background, the deep and pulsating reverberations, the water dropping frequencies, the disturbing and unsettling string sounds become spaces where what has been conveyed or what it has awoken in ourselves can unfold, or recede into the unknown.

It is an impressive journey, along which sound artists Alex Gámez (Asférico), Julia Kent and Raven Bush have collaborated, producing astonishingly rich sonic environments and venturing into inner abysses, fears and repressed emotions on the way. If we listen close enough we will find an incredibly elaborate and meticulous sound composition with remarkable subtleties, layers and sonic nuances, if we plunge deep enough we may find the prowling fictions which stand in the way of life and could even discover some liberating truths.

Release date: 21/12/18
Format: Deluxe 2x12" Edition, Standard 2x12" Edition and Digipack CD
catalog #: str013
8 tracks with total lenght of about 53 mins of audio
Produced, mixed and mastered at Störung Studios
Artwork by Sergi Ferrando
© & p Störung, 2018

more info: https://storung.com/catalog/label/str013/

The 5th Apple

str013 - Alina Kalancea - The 5th Apple (excerpt)

LOVELESS

Music by Katrine Amsler
Mixed and produced by Katrine Amsler
Additional mix by August Wanngren
Post processing by Martin Stig Andersen
Master by Morten Bue
Artwork by Jan Oksbøl Callesen

A huge thank you to the musicians on this album :

Qarin Wikström , Samuel Hällkvist, Nils Berg, Josef Kallerdahl,
Knut Finsrud,Frederik Hauch, Sture Ericson, Stephan Sieben, Mike Højgaard and a special thanks to all members of the Laslafaria orchestra

This album was made with financial support from the Swedish arts Council

Average Speed

Quitratue

Opening track of str013 release:

‘The 5th Apple’ is the debut album of sound artist Alina Kalancea, produced at Störung Studios between 2017 and 2018.

The album is both a deep spoken word within an impressive sound structure whilst also being a multilayered sonic composition complimented by profound introspections. The way string instruments, field recordings, voices and other sources have been intimately utilised to enhance the profundity and power of the spoken word is remarkable. The truths exposed, the fears revealed, the images created with text, all appear more incisive, more definitive, more compelling. On the other hand, the insight and understanding the texts profess provide meaning to the sound sequences. The hypnotic loops receding into the background, the deep and pulsating reverberations, the water dropping frequencies, the disturbing and unsettling string sounds become spaces where what has been conveyed or what it has awoken in ourselves can unfold, or recede into the unknown.

It is an impressive journey, along which sound artists Alex Gámez (Asférico), Julia Kent and Raven Bush have collaborated, producing astonishingly rich sonic environments and venturing into inner abysses, fears and repressed emotions on the way. If we listen close enough we will find an incredibly elaborate and meticulous sound composition with remarkable subtleties, layers and sonic nuances, if we plunge deep enough we may find the prowling fictions which stand in the way of life and could even discover some liberating truths.

Release date: 21/12/18
Format: Deluxe 2x12" Edition, Standard 2x12" Edition and Digipack CD
catalog #: str013
8 tracks with total lenght of about 53 mins of audio
Produced, mixed and mastered at Störung Studios
Artwork by Sergi Ferrando
© & p Störung, 2018

more info: https://storung.com/catalog/label/str013/

Imbalance

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str013 - Alina Kalancea - Imbalance

Alina Kalancea - Salt

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New Album coming June 7th !

Kleinempfänger

2000年発表「rusty music」に収録。

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Alina Kalancea's Impedance is available on CD and audiophile-quality double vinyl cut by Golden Mastering and pressed at RTI. Both CD and 2LP are packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty tip-on gatefold sleeves printed by Stoughton. 

Highly recommended to fans of Eleh,  Caterina Barbieri, Shasta Cults, Jessica Ekomane, Eliane Radigue and Alessandro Cortini. 

Impedance, an entirely instrumental album spanning 4 sides, contains powerful rhythmic sequences, heart beating frequencies and hypnotic loops that are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted compositions which are full of secret passages and hidden doors. Kalancea's work creates ungraspable sonic experiences, which take us over, immersing us in powerful and mind altering soundscapes. 

There's no quick payoff on Impedance. This is the sound of new, patient electronic music full of depth and substance. 

Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy. She has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cosimi and collaborated with producer Alex Gamez, and artists Julia Kent and Raven Bush.