Bright sin of the ether
Blurry in the ambit, like a red shield
With a ray, opens up to the eye
Divided sky in two
Eastern, despicable poison
Gathered in an instant

There are fields ready yet unrecognized sky
Like a felon in broad daylight
Bitterness, hurries down - burns behind the marshes
This fleeing distance of the corners - It throws a weak beam.

Over all these years, going through the motions in busy streets, courts and ballrooms, marching along with the parade, one will see an endless gallery of facades, masks, faux costumes, and contrived personas. Only a sensitive hand can tear down this adhered wallpaper of imitation. Standing under this gleaming sunrise is not an act of defiance, anger, or detachment; it is invitation, albeit a futile one, to see what lies beneath.

Copenhagen-based visual and musical artist øjeRum presents 'Lav Sol', an album of symbolistic landscapes seen through intuition. In his music, Paw Grabowski effortlessly combines traditional, classical themes and motives into contemporary poetic forms. The three long-take recordings of Lav Sol inspire to look for the truth under the surface.

*Vocals by @iunaniva

Lav Sol

øjeRum - Lav Sol

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Whatever part of the world you're in...

It's difficult to talk about sound. When we close our eyes and listen, there are no boundaries and as such, what we feel can often not be described with the words we know. Our feelings are unique & different.
There is no word or genre that unites the artists of the label. Putting a word on a style, in order to classify, takes part of the magic away. Instead, what unites us is our passion for sound, dancing with friends and growing together.

Hoping to see you soon and wishing you much love, music_is

Releases December 25, 2021, Digital & Tape (100 copies)
Pre-order: https://music-is.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-of-music
Mastered by Amandra
Art direction and design: Maison Sagan
Photo Credit: Alex Rodríguez Santibáñez

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Premiere: Yolabmi - Alone [music_is]

Though recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, Oleksandr Demianenko’s 𝐼𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑂𝑓... cassette very much serves as a meditation on the importance of preserving art, culture and roots at a time when war threatens to erase all of them. Dedicated to the memory of the late Olga Fedoseevna Sergeeva (1922-2002), a folk artist whose voice is featured in legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film 𝑁𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑎, Demianenko immerses tape-looped snippets of Sergeeva’s singing - culled from field recordings made in her village - in layers of synthesizers and pedals. The result is an invocational auditory experience that, bridging the worlds of traditional folk music and modern ambient, coaxes Sergeeva’s spirit out of the past and into our tumultuous present. The fact that Demianenko used first-takes exclusively only intensifies the living presence already embedded in this striking music.

At the same time, 𝐼𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑂𝑓... contains deeply personal dimensions for Demianenko. “As a child, I spent a lot of time in my homeland. I often heard the folk singing of my grandmother and her friends,” he says. “To me, [this music] is also a fond memory of my childhood and adolescence in my native village in the forests of Ukraine.” So while the pieces certainly exude the aforementioned somberness, they’re also gently pastoral and heartening reminders of a homeland and Demianenko’s love for Ukraine.

eleases July 26, 2022

Recorded by Oleksandr Demianenko in one take
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Source 120mm photograph for design by Oleksandr Demianenko
Design by RJM Vanderheyden
Text by Justin Farrar

IN MEMORY OF...

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Here the dewdrop clanged like steel on the cold leaves
Descended on the ledge like a cloud
By the stream of a silver harp
Fragrant like air
Inscribed in the brumous sky
Humbled by a stern appearance
Either you sigh or
Our breath settled in a couplet of cold air.

An indelible trance cracked on the obsidian to unfold at the touch of skin. Adamantine, numberless rocks, locked up with both arms wholeheartedly in one shatter of a moment you can open a rift into. Blowing through the shades where the intensity of presence and absence heats up equally, knurling the points where they meet.

KAGAMI Smile comes forth with the album 'Fading in Your Unretainable Grasp' fused with life forms - built on low rumbles, passionate strings and chords which signifies undivided thread of sobs and beams as a whole promise of happenstance.

Fading in Your Unretainble Grasp

KAGAMI Smile - Fading in a Dream

Far from static clouds and close to the moving beam in pursuit as an overflowing blue wave and a star beneath, appearing along with the moon.

Text by FH HF.

Upper Regions

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

Ethereally abounding tunes with silken chords held together. Bouquet of melodiousness assembled by Anasisana for Amulet of Tears.

White heat slowly lifting the curtain to greet the scenery of the mix - elegantly escorted and carried by delicate hands that shapes, rather than grounds - interferes into the porous air. All shades of drizzle from every branch drips and swells skyward.

Anasisana comes into the view with his thick glaze of cordial, soul-stirring music pieces which amass over each other - ardently, solidly, fervently.

Amulet of Tears 029: Anasisana

Music: @anasisana

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 029: Anasisana

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/sinister-flower-w-unmade
https://soundcloud.com/un_made

sinister flower w/unmade

"All things that have form eventually decay."

After last year's tenuous offering "Another Fall," Craig Tattersall (A Humble Bee) returns with a new collaborator in tow, Erik Williamson. Together the duo unveil a body of collaborative work titled 'remnants', showcasing a near hour-long offering of unfaltering melancholy, with each piece engulfing the listener in an abyss of tape-laden hiss, while drifting ever so slightly into aimless reverie.

VAK66 | Abandoned Bees - Monuments

Leaving known terrain

Travelling clairvoyant through space and time