Track Premiere: 'Ropes to Eternity Lead Nowhere' by @spraelle
Read More: https://paynomindtous.it/ropestoeternity-spraelle/
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Nathan Germain aka Sprælle ([Sprah-lé], he/him) is a 24-yo French musician, producer, and DJ based between Montreal, Canada, and NY City, US. His work collects stimuli from multiple musical and cultural references such as contemporary laptop electronics, ambient and experimental music, as well as mainstream pop and videogame soundtracks. These, in particular, had a role in inspiring his debut EP called CRUSH UP, appeared early last year on the Spanish label xenonyms, which enacted a lively confrontation between lo-fi components and sharp sonic bursts on the foreground of energetic and eventful progressions.

Other than releasing several single tracks from 2019 onward, Sprælle already appeared twice on the Montreal-based platform Audio Bambino, with the tracks Aïsha and Gravel on this 2nd and 7th compilations respectively. Also, the artist hosts monthly residencies on Montreal’s N10.AS and Tunis’ Ma3azef radios, called Bleed In The Underground and Rearranged Existence. On this occasion, we're happy to present you with a one-track single written and produced by Sprælle, a 20-minutes mammoth composition called Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere which has been reportedly designed to take the listener through multifaceted sceneries of abstract realities.

Engaging on the challenge of blurring the boundaries between genres via different compositional solutions and production techniques such as time-stretching, field recording manipulation, and digital saturation, just to name a few, Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere is a challenging, free-form yet well-conducted journey into Sprælle’s take on electronic music, delicate and impassioned at the same time. In the track, a mutable collage of sound and rhythmical components is patched together around a central theme of wonder and discovery, which is declined in distensive moments of relaxation, tense passages of agitation, and abrasive, emotional junctures. All the drives behind Sprælle’s creation process converge into an organic tale of an ever-changing life creature arising from a pond of scattered materials and manifesting itself in its diverse, unseizable shapes, until the final abrupt conclusion. You can stream the track in its entirety from the player below or directly on our SoundCloud channel, have fun!

Sprælle - Ropes To Eternity Lead Nowhere [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere]

Racine - Amitiés
Cat. Nr: DN022
Format: CD / DL
Release Date: January 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Racine

There’s a lived-in quality to the sound of Racine’s Amitiés. Named after the French word for friendship, the Montréal-based Quebecois artist follows an extended time spent indoors to contemplate what it means to be isolated and in one’s own body, while also staying connected. The album is a follow-up of sorts to Quelque chose tombe (“Something Falls”), released in February 2020 and a kind of accidental prophecy for the crisis that was to come.
Amitiés disintegrates before your very eyes. Opening with a roughshod iPhone recording of Racine playing his parent’s harmonium, the creaky acoustics of "Mon amour je ne guéris jamais" slowly degrade into digital simulations of dreadful organic beauty. That track and the rest of the LP gives the feeling of an abandoned building; a sense of frayed, earthiness dusted with the wisdom of time. And yet, it’s almost entirely made from simulations. Clipped Native Instruments violin patches punctuate the churning atmospherics of “Arête coincée dans une amygdale”. The lonely gongs and bells of “Grosso” resonate in a gust of synthesised ambient. Vocal plugins and the very occasional YouTube samples of a recorded voice are sped-up, glitched, pitched and scrambled into indecipherability. These vocal apparitions rise and fall into the sonic ether like individual ghosts of human contact. They’re bold and expressive, deeply melancholy and yet full of the potential for joy and an awareness of life’s beauty.

It’s in this dearth of social interaction—the heady psychosis of too much solitude—that Amitiés’s tone and mood lies. A score for the numb dissociation from internal chaos and alienation, the album’s sense of acute distress is assuaged only by the small network of collaborators and influences it draws from. Long-time friend and peer Justin Leduc-Frenette (aka Keru Not Ever) contributes drum programming to “Mon amour je ne guéris jamais”. A last-minute reworking of the untitled “Sans titre” by German duo Arigto matches the weight and timbre of Racine’s sooty post-classical soundscapes.

Ultimately, Amitiés is a very human response to an inhuman environment. It’s an intimate homage to friends and the mysterious effects of distance, while somehow finding healing in hardship.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, artwork by Niels Wehrspann

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Amitiés

Racine - Arête coincée dans une amygdale

Ł. Salicis - Stumbling

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"Symchthonia" is a word derived from the ancient Greek συμ (together) and χθών (earth/soil). Forged by philosopher Donna J. Haraway it means "the coming together of the earthly ones".

MIRA新伝統 (Honami Higuchi / Raphael Leray): "Since we wanted this short hymn to be rooted in our reality rather than ecstatic escapism or complaisant dystopia the composition is balanced between urban field recordings and synthetic sound design."

Article + Discord invitation link ▶【 https://swinedaily.com/swine-premiere-mira/ 】

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Abyss - Selektivv

taken from "𝓈𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒶²²⁰⁵ (charity compilation for Maciek)":
https://xxxglamourxxx.bandcamp.com/album/charity-compilation-for-maciek

online post-release party:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2638117263136748/

Hi there!

Sorry to bother you & writing about this so late, but the case is really urgent and important . .

We're running a pretty sexy label called glamour.

A few days ago our friend survived a major accident and he ended up being paralyzed from the waist down. He'd been in a coma for two weeks, woke up and doctors said he won’t walk anymore. He created a fundraising page (zrzutka.pl/s33zx9) so we decided to help him raise the money for everything by making a charity compilation that we would release on glamour’s bandcamp.
We wanted to ask, if maybe you (or any befriended musical project you know) would like (and could of course!) to be featured in such a compilation? For now, we have 70 confirmed artists (including galen tipton, John Object, Dmitri Mazurov etc.), many more to come.
All the money from bandcamp would go for Maciek. We thought of you because we admire your music so soooo much, and still want this compilation to be pure quality! <3

(The track must be unreleased yet, but you don’t have to make a new piece especially for the compilation. You can even give us something you’ve created some time ago but never published it.)

Thank you for your time!

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glamour

Maciek:
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artwork by Sam Balfus
www.instagram.com/balfua/

master by Bartek Kujawski
8rolek.bandcamp.com

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John Object - Scream/Scream

As featured on AQNB's 'even my dreams don't go outside' art & music compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2RXX9JY

even my dreams don't go outside

Heith, 'make me wanna stay' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

as appearing in ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS [S1E1] + Dalmata Daniel x EXILES x Farbwechsel compilation
mastered by Erik Bánhalmi

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2016_06_19__21_20_24_Crash

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