Lake From The Louvers is a new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford, who has spent the last fifteen years honing his singular approach to composition and performance through solo works and collaborations with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Will Guthrie, Graham Lambkin and Klaus Lang.

Created primarily during a stay at the La Becque, an artist residency on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lake From The Louvers draws inspiration from the play of shadow and light on both the surface of the lake and the window through which Rushford viewed this lacustrine landscape. While the lake is itself at times directly audible in the form of field recordings, the image suggested by the record’s title is less directly represented than translated into sonic structures inspired, as Rushford explains, by ‘the passing of shadow through a fixed space’. The movement of light across these two flat surfaces, lake and window, finds its sonic equivalent in these eleven pieces, in which fragments and particles of sound – highly amplified crunches, synthesized squawks and pings, harp notes – ripple across the length of each track. Fixed sets of elements define each piece, often moulded into ephemeral ensembles in which individual voices consistently fade away and reappear.

Rushford’s performances on various keyboards provide the unstable, wavering foundations of many of these pieces, with microtonal tunings adding a woozy, seasick edge to his stately, often stunningly beautiful playing. Each side of the LP ends with an extended keyboard work: the first for groaning, sighing church organ, the second for a psychedelic cloud of detuned synthesizer tones in which harmonic fragments sink into their own melancholic recollection. Elsewhere the record makes use of elements as varied as microtonal harp, skittering drum machines and synthetic marimba, establishing a sound palette remarkable for its breadth, as well as its sparkling, glittering quality. Where many of Rushford’s solo projects have taken the form of long works with a sombre cast, Lake From The Louvers is strikingly bright and accessible, a series of sonic glimpses in which, like a late Monet, the shimmer of light undoes the distinction between image and reflection, foreground and background, surface and depth.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, cut at D+M. Printed artwork on inner and outer sleeves by Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E).
Design by Bartolomé Sanson. Released in collababoration with La Becque Editions.

JAMES RUSHFORD 'U+25CF' (SP131)

Austrian electro explorers /DL/MS/ assemble an intergalactic all-star crew of sonic scientists, rhythm agitators, and techno bass rebels to take apart and reconstruct their recent 'Calanhi' album.

With @electricindigo_official   @214_electro @mister-bellini @reptant_the_lizard @anniehallmusic @rogertwentythree @r__325__  @shun1music @beatprozessor @gl03 @lo-d @dl-ms on @trust.label 

Electro forever!

"_ R 325 [toulouse] is the project of painter and producer Youl Dirlès, who, if rumors are to be trusted, has set up his studio in room 325 of a shady inner city hotel. his excellent 'Mouvements' EP appeared on brokntoys in 2020, and for his remix he imbues 'Scylla' with crunchy distortion and swirling edits."

https://trust.bandcamp.com/album/calanhi-remixes

Mastered by Keith Tenniswood / @radioactiveman
Art visual by dextro_org

/DL/MS/ - Scylla (R-325 Remix)

@al-den-te
@beamrecords

BC: https://beam-records.bandcamp.com/album/running-and-falling-over

After another long hiatus, BEAM is excited to present the vinyl debut from rising star and nebulous neurocranker, al dente. Over 4 tracks, ‘Running and Falling Over’ captures the stylistic fluidity we have come to know and love from Naarm/Melbourne. Ever present traces of Dozzy refract through millennium-bug tek haus, summoning atmospheres of deep yet ever playful psychedelia. Opening the A-side on ‘Ripple Effect’, pulsating drones and echoes of organic percussion slither through the undergrowth. ‘Soft Steps’ explores fractal resonance amid expansive, evolving textures. Flipping to the B-side, ‘Unfold’ melds paranoiac psy with a wiggly tek swagger. Slow-burner ‘Blue Trial’ closes out the EP – a proggy roller for the eternal sunrise.

pi pi pi premiere: al dente - Unfold (BEAM)

Stream / Download: https://hypeddit.com/tpqnri

Homesick

Stream / Download

String

Release name: Ether Drift
Artist: Solma
Catalog Code: [CRSCNT18]
Mastering: Mattias Fridell
Release Date: 22 Feb

Buy Link: https://crescentlondon.bandcamp.com/album/ether-drift-crscnt18

Solma:
▫️ SC: https://soundcloud.com/solmadj
▫️ IG: https://www.instagram.com/solma.als
▫️ FB: https://www.facebook.com/solmadj

Crescent London:
▫️ https://linktr.ee/crescent.london

Full Tracklist:
1. Solma - Hypocycloid [CRSCNT18]
2. Solma - Microcosmic [CRSCNT18]
3. Solma - Summoning The Wrong Demon [CRSCNT18]
4. Solma - Apoapsis [CRSCNT18]

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(PREVIEWS) Solma - Ether Drift [CRSCNT18]

Roadmaps on the palms
Braided, fold over
Where the shore meets the ebbing sea
Forever touching, forever adrift

Whispers of the history fade
Where the sea drapes waning waves
Only to retrace echoing trails
Abiding in ceaseless rims

Rooted in the fertile soil of hauntology, Amulet of Tears presents: 'Before We Melt into the Sea' - chimerical shreds of memoir.  Foraying intervals coiled in visceral resonance, which appear as abyssal, ancestral echoes of elusive moments, where the past unfolds in attendance, like a vapor that forbids to fade.  

Phantoms colliding to forge ahead for what’s to come or to drag us back into the shades of what we once were - enshadowed by imprints of past, present, and future, overlapped upon one another.

Before We Melt into the Sea

Fortunes Brine - Fanned by Palms of Satin and Chain

Soft Prank (14/10/24)

A piano, synths and subtle percussions piece which evokes both hope and melancholy.

Acheter

Beyond Good and Evil

This is a night time exploration track for Act 1 of Odyssey of the Dragonborn. I attempted to make a more laid back track that explores the complicated past of Balfiera. Hope you enjoy!