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SHAPE Artists 2020

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In this episode we explore contemporary challenges to rationalism in an age of data, asking what the unique effects of technological mediation are on the culture of spirituality, by inviting artist and founding member of Black Obsidian Sound System Evan Ifekoya for a discussion, along with a mix from multifaceted art platform Most Dismal Swamp.

Jared talks with Evan on topics spanning astrology and digital mediation, ritual practices, and music’s relation to mysticism, as explored in exhibitions such 'Ritual without Belief' at London’s Gasworks, and their work for the major group show 'Transformer: a Rebirth of Wonder' exhibition at London’s 180 The Strand in 2019.

This is followed by 'Night Science (Deep Tissue mix)' by Most Dismal Swamp, a London based interdisciplinary art project and curatorial platform producing exhibitions, online events and music releases. We invited Most Dismal Swamp to contribute a mix on the theme of mysticism and technology, being interested in the way the platform speculates on weirding and reality in our online age.

AQNB's Reversal Agents - Episode 3: Ritual Technology with Evan Ifekoya and Most Dismal Swamp

Track list 

Dip in The Pool -Calling I
Grouper -Close cloak
Petra Echolalia -Th(0)ugh
Nilufer Yanya -Experience?
Jenny Hval -Kingsize
Current 93 -All The Pretty Little Horsies
Claire Tolan -CICADA GAMES
Grouper -Labyrinth
The Lux Radio Theatre -His Girl Friday
Frederic Chopin, Clara Rockmore, Nadia Reisenberg -Nocture in C-Sharp Minor, B.49.(Arr. for the Theremin and Piano
Jenny Hval, Laura jean, Vivian Wang -The Practice of Love
Ana Roxanne -Camille
Pauline Oliveros -Beautiful Soop (1966)

(everything else is made by me)

The Sandman  w/ Charlie Ambery - March 2022

Time for something different - Ben Bertrand is armed with a bass clarinet and backed with sound effects, aiming in the direction of the contemporary classical section of your record collection. Dreamlike compositions that take you to his warm and minimal world.

https://soundcloud.com/ben-bertrand-bxl
https://facebook.com/benbertrand.music/
https://www.facebook.com/ateliersclaus

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PRÉMIÈRE: Ben Bertrand - V380 Orionis [Les Albums Claus]

FILANDANK

Elvin Brandhi - Shelf Life (EP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital, Cassette
Cat.No: CANVAS003

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“
Sickness unto death in an age of commodified well-being: approaching death from the point of view of an actualised virtual eternity. The commodification of daily life and the self, preclude the possibility of reincarnation, we do not identify ourselves as a cycle, a movement, an expression of life itself but as a single product that exists in and for itself.
 
The supermarket social network obliterates the surface of material hybridising, detaining all movement to self enclosed unit reductions, excommunicating mutation. Encapsulated in a fixed identity, packaged and promoted, immune to the infection of outsiders. The social contract of a pre-sealed self, branded with calculated sell by date, sentenced to a shelf life of inter-passive exchange.  
 
Shelf Life compiles this synthetic axis, upon which we bide out time smiling.  
Interrupt user: authorise disk-root conflict[ 
”

Elvin Brandhi is welcomed to the index of C.A.N.V.A.S. releases as the first solo release of 2019 and the third commission since the conversion from events series to label in 2018. As a performance nomad whose very practice is simultaneously about engagement with place and a lack of geographic singularity - there could not be a more fitting accomplice to C.A.N.V.A.S.’ effort as a self-publishing artist group to build a collaborative community despite increasing dispersion. This is the solo project of Welsh artist Freya Edmondes - otherwise known for her role as vocalist in father/daughter duo Yeah You - in which performances mesh a collage of electronic sounds with a disruptive stream of improvised vocals. These tracks are as close to studio versions as this fundamentally live practice gets - roaming recordings, sample blasts, club contortions and the ever present voice alchemically infused. In 25’46” of sound, Elvin’s bio-technological monster appears like a Cronenberg body horror - mouths appearing where they shouldn’t - or a living, breathing post-digital Beckett character narrating their own club induced self-destruction. Yet the future shock is fresh - Shelf Life is as fun to listen to as it is completely disarming.

soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1

Mastered by Ali Najafi
Digital Artwork by Firas Shehadeh
Tape Design by AALTAR
In Collaboration with Olan Monk

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Shelf Life

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Elvin Brandhi - IMBRED WAILE / OCDC

Nuova Musica Ostinata

Non mi è piaciuto

"Surfing on the crest of a whirlwind year, Animistic Beliefs are releasing their 8- track debut album Mindset:Reset on the inimitable Solar One Music. The duo has utilized their bespoke setup and expansive list of influences to create a contemporary electro record”.

Happy to finally share with you the first glimpse of our first album!!
This track is called Succubi Island. Hope you enjoy it :)
Album cover by Isolde Woudstra.

 Full album out on 24-09-2019.

 Pre-order NOW: https://clone.nl/item57391.html
 
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www.youtube.com/AnimisticBeliefs

Mindset:Reset

PREMIERE: Animistic Beliefs - Succubi Island [Solar One Music]

buy the 2018 vinyl edition: https://boomkat.com/products/time-exercises

"Unexpectedly, the closing "Exercise 5" betrays some rare hints of conventional musicality, as cosmic synth drones glimmer and streak across dark skies as the ruined earth shudders, smolders, and collapses beneath.  It is a fitting end to a truly disturbing album, as it feels like I am getting one last glance from space at the final paroxysm of a world where hell has opened up to drag the living into its fiery depths." - Brainwashed

Cam Deas - Exercise 5 [RAVE022]

Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself

Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian makes his full length album debut The Snake That Eats Itself on Bedouin Records. This record follows his collaborative EPs with Deapmash as 'AQXDM" and is his first solo release since his 2016 experimental mixtape for Quiet Time.

Nearly five years in the making,The Snake That Eats Itself is Aquarian's most complex, diverse and emotive work to date, plunging his trademark UK sound-system / techno hybrids into a self-contained, cinematic universe streaked with heavy influences from industrial, IDM, drone and dark pop music. Written in Brooklyn, New York, in a deeply transitional, yet seemingly endless period preceding his relocation to Berlin,the title of the album refers to the Ouroboros, a mythological serpent symbolizing the cycle of birth and death and infinity itself.

The Snake That Eats Itself pits Aquarian's most abrasive and brutal moments next to his most wistful and introspective. Viscerally thick layers of tape saturation envelop the album as sludgy synths ooze against brittle atmospheres; breakbeats fragment, explode and disintegrate into swarms of delay and noise; scorched, metallic percussion - sampled from a year-long demolition and construction project next to his apartment - forge the rhythmic backbone of the album. These elements, however, seamlessly make way to startlingly crystalline and shimmering ambient passages, offering a sense of reprieve and balance.

Tracklist:
01. End Credits
02. Blood Sugar
03. Sketch 2 (Song for D.O.U.G.)
04. Ouroboros
05. Tarp2
06. New York, An Eternity
07. Hate Is A Strong Word (Part 1)
08. Hate is A Strong Word (Bruxist Part 2) 09. Letting Go At Arm's Length
10. 365 Days And Counting

The Snake That Eats Itself​ is accompanied by art direction and a collaborative live A/V show by acclaimed artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.
Early support from Aphex Twin
Artwork by Sougwen Chung
All tracks written, produced and engineered by Aquarian unless otherwise noted. Tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10 mixed by Dean Grenier
Additional engineering by Dean Grenier on tracks 7 & 8.
Mastered by Goth Trad

'Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1' taken from Aquarian's debut album titled 'The Snake That Eats Itself' that will be released on Bedouin Records on February 14th 2020.

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Aquarian | Hate Is a Strong Word, Pt. 1

Six-channel sound installation for "hibernatemode" by Su Yu Hsin. Fenko Catalysis Chamber, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019

Project Details: aloisyang.com/hibernatemode
Su Yu Hsin: www.suyuhsin.net

“ But the sleep of a hibernate object would instead be a state of perfect sleep, in which an entity would be real but simply without relation.”

Aiôn is a Hellenistic deity associated with time, ex. season, breath, sleep (dream) etc, even Deleuze describes Cinematic time as aiôn which stretches out to become an intangible past and future, or Chronos (Chr), the ever-present that expresses only the here and now. In Geology, aiôn uses for eternity time which could also refer to four aiôns that make up the earth’s history. Aiôn is defined in Astronomy as Trillion years. Thus, we could say hibernatemode is in aiôn where an entity breaks relation with outside.

Su Yu Hsin composes essay film through philosophical and scientific approach to overlap and juxtaposition image with events, ex. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Australian scientists’ microscopic investigation of antarctic moss reveals atmospheric record of Earth in its layer of cells. She uses found footage, data and facts to visualize relational geographic analysis. Hibernatemode comprised of 2- channel video and six channel sound installation. She collaborates with Sound artist Aloïs Yang to constructed nature in exhibition space.

Hibernatemode(Exhibition Soundscape Excerpt To Stereo)

RIP Chynna

Tracklist:

Caleb Belkin - Water
Christian Löffler - Like Water
Chynna - Asmr
Brent Falyaz - Poison
Anfa Rose - In And Out
Shuhandz ft. High Flown - Deliverance
Kamandi - Goldie
Sugi.wa - Urtha1
Evil Needle - Vibin In Seoul
Sol Rising - Float
Dylan Sitts - Toasted
Ryan Trey  - LV Smoke
Kamandi - Moon
Bearcubs - Unfold
A.CHAL - Gazi
The NorthaZe - DayTwoRescue
Tiara Thomas - Retro 1's
Fitz Suppe ft. Kupla - Mutiny
Ian Erwing ft. Kenny Reichart - Aphlion
Giyo - Strangers
Octavian - Molly Go Down
_91nova - Darko
Dylan Sitts - Plotting
Mike Gao - Heart Of The Continent 
Mount Kimbie - Carbonated
Pascäal - Drowning In You
Persian Empire - Jugo
Kavern - Raver
Nimino - It's Alright
Mt. Wolf - Burgs

Mind&Body

Since its inception in 2019, the Porto based Eastern Nurseries label has released a string of noteworthy titles, yet the first two outings by Canadian Rifles, the solo moniker of label founder Rui P. Andrade, remain defining pillars in the labels discography.

These first two releases, Canadian Rifles ‘Eastern Nurseries’ album and the follow up single ‘Of Course I Still Love You / Geranium’ sprawl with acute emotive clangour and venerable opulence, their soundscapes conjuring visions of windswept cities, blemished technology and inherent tenderness. 

Now these works have been carefully reassembled on one expanded reissue, remastered by Daniele Antezza of Dadub mastering and featuring two new remixes by Dino Spiluttini and Burning Pyre.

https://soundcloud.com/canadian-rifles
https://soundcloud.com/dino-spiluttini
https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

Premiere: Canadian Rifles - All My Life I've Been A Star (Dino Spiluttini Remix) [Vaknar]

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Welcome to the Merkaba Music Online Showcase Series. In times of reclusion and separation, many artists have focused on their productions and have performed online to ensure the spread of good frequencies and the connection between lovers of electronic music. Thus, we are honored to bring together some of our artists in a totally online and exclusive event to provide us with moments of union between the musical and visual arts.

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SONIC SAMADHI :: Merkaba Music Online Showcase #1 (27Jun20)

Know V.A.: Hibernation Remixes (Knives)
Release date: 22nd January, 2021

@uccharlo

Artwork by Nicholas Law & Winston Duke
Mixed by Julian Osti

Know V.A. - Hibernation (UCC Harlo Remix)

Aloïs Yang is a media artist, performer and experimental musician. His work is influenced both by scientific reference and human imperfection of understanding the nature, and investigates the perception of time and space on both “outer” physical world and “inner” metaphysical levels of awareness – as a manifestation of how we contextualise the overlapping realities in between body and mind, objective explanation and subjective projection, analogue and digital, certainty and unknown.

He aims to engage viewer’s sensation and comprehension to the given moment of reality, portrayed by experiential phenomena and existential ideas – as an invitation to an incomplete journey waiting to be explored by active, participatory, intimate interactions that incorporate individual’s consciousness as the piece itself.