TR185 - The Modern Institute - 'CROSSCURRENT'

The noise travelled through the empty rooms, one by one rattling the walls with might and power before faintly disappearing onwards into the next. It was a sequential system and as the music echoed and bounced between each space a crowd of wanderers desperately followed trying to keep up and stay within earshot of the magnificent sounds. There was wild drums, racing percussion, a rising tonality and warwhoops which chattered and rattled between the lofty walls. 

Plein Soleil blurs the lines between experimental dub, polyrhythms and beyond on a new mini album for Zèbres, the Lyon based experimental imprint. This release comes highly recommended, sounds built for home listening as much as they'll echo and thunder on a big system.

PREMIERE: Plein Soleil - José [Zèbres]

Velvet Room out on @opal-tapes

https://opaltapes.com/album/velvet-room

Waiting For Too Long

SPECTRAL SHOCK Episode 3 — @lyl_radio

cc manifests as a clandestine force within the realm of maximal minimalist music. Connor Camburn (aka Litüus), the interdisciplinary sketcher behind this sonic entity, builds ethereal matrices from the barest of elements. With a keen focus on automation and repetition, Camburn speaks a textural language deriving inspiration from unorthodox origins, intertwining non-musical constituents with suggestive contextual references.

Within the cryptic domain of Camburn lies private press @chained_library. An homage to the medieval practice of chaining the most valuable manuscripts to their shelves as a safeguard against theft, Chained Library emerged as a treasury of self-published works sourced from the archives and back catalogues of himself, friends, and strangers. Purposefully eschewing the conventional markers of individual identity, these recordings exude their unmistakable acousmatic essence with an ethereal presence, even as they undergo the process of mechanical reproduction. A testament to the beauty of anonymity, Chained Library has unveiled gems from entities such as /\\Aught affiliated Eliza B.C., Xth Réflexion and Thought Broadcast. Camburn’s equally unified visual presentation, like a finely crafted code, is a testament to the library’s elusive nature — shrouded in cryptic allure and through its restrained aesthetics, weaving together a front of symbols, typography, and imagery fostering an aura of intrigue.

With each work emerging from a theoretical null point and stripped of preconceived notions, there’s an unavoidable beckoning to yield to the bottomless pit of listening, interpreting, and overstepping mere auditory reception.

Luke Lund Part 1
KAIJA SAARIAHO - Verblendungen [Finlandia]
HARRGA - Femmes d'Int​é​rieur [Takuroku]
RM FRANCIS - Glob Ops [tokinogake]
ALFRED SCHNITTKE - Steam [Electroshock]
F-DORM - Unconditional [SCRAPES]
SIELWOLF & MICK HARRIS - Spiral Dub [KK]
ESRUK - Eastern Promise [Dendrite Tapes]
SALAC - Muddled Display [no label]
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY - Groove [Atavistic]
REMNANTS - Amplified Strings II [Tailings]
SABIWA - Christal [Phantom Limb]
BLACK WILLIAM - Nauric II [Tailings]
LUKE LUND - Overflow [Unreleased]
LUKE LUND - PEBMAC [Unreleased]
EXIT ELECTRONICS - Every Shade of Grey [Deathbed Tapes]

cc
ROLF ENSTRÖM - Observatory Music [Phono Suecia]
BEATRIZ FERREYRA - l'Orvietan [Recollection GRM]
BENGT EMIL JOHNSON - (Among) II [Revue OU]
JOHN CHOWNING - Phoné [WERGO]
TREVOR WISHART - Globalalia [Flying Swimming]
HAVOHEJ - The Black Mist [Ax/ction]
JONATHAN BRILEY - Corpus Experimentale [Broken Flag]
RELLY TARLO - 3 Architectonical Sound Installations at Apollohuis 1995 [YouTube]
GERALD ECKERT - Nen VII [Neos]
CRAWL UNIT - Chime Vortex A [Banned Production]
OVAL & FRANK METZGER - Heli [Falsch]
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Gesang der Jünglinge [Deustche Grammophon]
BEATRIZ FERREYRA - l’Autre Rive [Room40]
DANIEL LÖWENBRÜCK - Gebet in den Wind [Recordings for the Summer]
ALEX MACKINNON - Piano Coalescence [Wire Magazine]
CURTIS ROADS - Purity [Mode]
GYÖRGY LIGETI - Harmonies [Samuel Cosandey]

Luke Lund Part 2
RNA ORGANISM - African Developent of Mutation [φonon]
BARBARA ZAWADZKA - Greya II [Other People]
DAVID TOOP - Ceremony Viewed Through Iron Slit [Virgin]
DIRK SCHAEFER - Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine [purge.xxx]
CHERYL E. LEONARD - Oceanus Meridiem [Other Minds]
RANDALL MCCLELLAN - Distant Voices [Opus One]
DEAR MASTER, [​.​.​.​] - Oh — Did I Offend it [Chained Library]
JOHN MCCOWEN - Hoskin [Astral Spirit]
MARTIN NEUKOM - 21.5 [Domizil]
AGNES HVIZDALEK & DANIEL LERCHER - Thixotropie [scatterArchive]
JAMES FULKERSON - Co-ordinative Systems No. 10 [Irida]
3.14 - 955,000 [No label]
EXTINCTION ROOM - Babakoto (Indri Indri) [Extinction Room]
BRIAN ENO - There Were Bells [Opal]

2023.06.21 — Spectral Shock: Luke Lund presents cc — LYL Radio

Composed and produced by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone
shabaH project previously known as BedouinGhost

https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/1

shabaH - Track 1

Released 14. Oct 2023

The vinyl contains tracks 1-6 of the digital release. The digital release contains one bonus track (7).

Calligraphy art by Brett Tassenon
Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov

"Thanks to Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka crew"

[mhrk370]

Dawlat Lībiyyā

Dawlat Libiyya

Umm al-Maa      by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone - Dawlat Lībiyyā LP [mhrk370]

Sword Dub

“Skin-grafting — a process of making an opening in the skin, in two places, and holding the wounds together. The supple skin of an inner arm heals to the sore on the cheek or neck, replacing cursed tissues with the untarnished. The difference of texture is visible for life in both places. A kind of scar, but built from the healthy body, a transferal of a wound from one place to the next; healed, at the price of a permanent disfigurement. 

Skin-graft a wry smile onto a laugh bridging mirth and mourning, and you're entering the territory of 𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆. 

2020 the Merciless — its dangers were clocked ahead of time in a sarcastic prelude text to an album which couldn't know the venom of its own truths. 

Chaperone grasped at the future in '19 with fingers bluntened by exhaustion, and God only knows how much was shrewd foresight, how much was heaven-sent premonition, and how much of reality was forged from the sacrilege of looking forward with such a scornful gaze.

Was it the dream of one, or of many? That future was shaped somehow — is collective pessimism to blame for the inevitable and colourless future? 

𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 bears its scars in static. Some seem old, personal, borne on the body, while some seem to be phantoms of pain not yet felt by anyone. "Yet", the inevitable; "yet", the certainly uncertain. "Yet" will come for us all.

[....]"

Excerpt of writing by Freddie Hudson (April 2023). 

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘫-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘗𝘋𝘍 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥 (𝘻𝘪𝘱) 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦.

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats.

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Recorded in Philadelphia, Montesportali, and Richmond by David Coccagna (𝘢𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 written in collaboration with André Altrez) between 2017-2019
Remastered by Glyn Maier in 2023
Artwork by R. Inez
Design and layout by Joe Bastardo

Umm al-Maa by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone - Dawlat Lībiyyā LP [mhrk370]

Abu AMA

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