A selection deeply intertwined with a long, bending, back-road tour amidst kaleidoscopic disorder. Sung from the Baltics to Portugal over 4 months in summer 2021. Including some understated favorites, new forthcoming material, unreleased home recordings, and field recordings of friend's performances along the route.

0- 4:38 : Sholto Dobie - Live at Real No Real, unreleased (2021, LT)

4:19 - 8:00 : People Skills - "Polymer" unreleased (2020, US)

7:43 - 11:48 : Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - "Porkchop Island Debrief" Oh! Carageenan!, cd (BUFMS 2018, US)

11:12 - 14:28 : Jon Collin - Live at the Park 8/23/21, unreleased (2021, SE)

14:12 - 19:18 : Black Phlegm - "Movement Six" Muzak For Abattoirs, lp (Magic-Mushroom 1989, AU)

18:52 - 23:28 : Employees of the Month (Dan Melchior & Jesse Dewlow) - "The Combed Thunderclap" unreleased (2020, US)

23:22 - 25:53 : Thomas Bush - "Flood" excerpt, Live in Gothenburg 8/20/21, unreleased (2021, SE)

25:54 - 28:05 : Jim Shepard - "Cycle of Songs" excerpt, Spirit Dominates Matter, cd comp (not on label, 2018 US)

28:04 - 36:52 : Edward Ka-Spel - "Looping '72" One Last Pose Before the Ruins, lp (Beta-lactam Ring Records 2013, US)

36:00 - 44:13 : Eyes of the Amaryllis - "Malibu (Part 1)" forthcoming lp (Horn of Plenty 2021, UK)

44:10 - 48:43 : Dan Gilmore - Jasmine Rice After Bottle Incident, cd excerpt (not on label 2020, US)

48:16 - 53:48 : Frumpalise - "The Cord" FR another World, cd (Kashual Plastik 2020, DE)

53:48 - 56:58 : People Skills - "Concrète Aegg" unreleased (2021, US)

56:53 - 59:40 : Vox Populi! - "Ney" Half Alive Ganja Music, cd (Cor Ardens, recorded 1990 released 2019, US)

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http://www.heresymuseum.com/

People Skills presents Elek Crossroads / Zenevloed @ Operator Radio

Sanely deforming my remembrance
From which I leap to life again
 I walk into waves, they don't cover me
But I know the sea the same way
 Not knowing the air that smothers
As if the wind only blows for the waves
And the vital fluid smells only like blood.

For the forgetful, insensible onlooker, silence will indicate peace, acceptance, even dullness. The inner truth will not be revealed to this observer. This learned silence has grown watered by absence of compassion - an armor of thorns to protect from a feelingless environment. There is no doubt: one day the truth, enriched by sorrow and ornamented in grace, will burst out of their chest. It is only a question of whether the screams will be heard.

The debut LP of Reece Thomas, formerly known as Alocasia Garden, is a highly personal and bravely revealing story titled 'Dysphoria'. The seven songs candidly express inner forces tearing one apart; a harsh struggle of dissonance and harmony weaves into a beautiful, yet anguished, whole.

Dysphoria

Reece Thomas - Without the fear of proof

Artist: MoL Quartetto
Title: ZURUFE
Format: CD / Digi
Catalogue no: iDEAL216
Design: Philip Marshall

Hans-Joachim Roedelius: grand piano, synthesizers, prepared tapes.
Christopher Chaplin: orchestral and choir samples, synthesizers.
CM von Hausswolff: 12 sine wave oscillators, location recordings (Nepal) and treatments.
Tim Story: sound design, treatments & conceptual.

https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/zurufe

MoL Quartetto - ZURUFE (excerpt)

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.

Lav Sol

øjeRum - Søjlen Med Det Gyldne Hoved

OR OR - Tradilege

Dolor-es 1

Yu Ogu(ex.Øguu), is an artist who improvises music using various hardware and modular synths.This Mix was built using modular synths, monome, and field-recorded water sound

Yu Ogu(ex.Øguu) Beatless Tapes Session [30.03.22]

In the past few years, Clarice Jensen has forged her own path. Recently, her focus has shifted to film scoring, successfully recording work for three feature films between 2020 and 2021. At the same time, Clarice continues to serve as artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, while continually collaborating with an impressive array of musicians, such as Max Richter, Björk and Stars of the Lid, to name a few.

That being said, it was her 2019 tape release on Geographic North, Drone Studies, that initially caught the attention of a wider audience, with the work showcasing a compelling assembly of deeply immersive drones, and elegantly orchestrated compositions, in which neoclassical elements collide with electric density.

Three years later, the work has lost none of its innovative character and appeal. It also documents a turning point in Clarice's career, one where her classically trained background started to converged and overlap with her interests in improvisational electronics and drone music. As a result, the aptly titled Drone Studies shows Clarice at her most exploratory, introspective, and daring, channeling her areas of interest into a collage of richly textured timbers, and cello movements of sublime tension.

Now for the first time, the original album can be experienced through an expanded vinyl reissue, mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari, and carefully adjusted for vinyl by Ian Hawgood. The new reissue also features an additional track by Clarice called Platonic Solids 2, which was originally conceived around the same time as Drone Studies, and which has now been made available exclusively for the vinyl edition and on the Vaagner Bandcamp.

We hope that this new reissue will aid in introducing Clarice's groundbreaking Drone Studies to a new crowd of listeners through this expanded edition.

Purchase: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/drone-studies

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari & adjusted for vinyl by Ian Hawgood
Art and design by O.R
Releases May 6th, 2022

Links:
@vaagner
@clarice-jensen
https://www.instagram.com/vaagner.archive/
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Premiere - Clarice Jensen - Platonic Solids 2 (Vaagner)

Glims

Senyawa’s Alkisah release is an experiment in decentralised music distribution. The duo of Rully Shabara and Wukir Suriyadi held an open call from which they selected 44 music labels disseminated across the world to participate by creating different versions of the work for different regional markets. The connections forged during this monumental project continues today as The Alkisah Network. Ahead of a presentation and panel discussion at CTM, the network has kindly shared a mix of some of the many Alkisah remixes out there. 

Tracklist
1. Senyawa dan Singo - Kekuasaan REMIXED (Arrington De Dionyso)
2. Bing Renang - Wamena II (Jakarta Edition)
3. VISIO - Istana remix (Artetetra & Communion)
4. Dylan Martorell - Live from Don Dossers Magnificent Garden Stay (Silent Army)
5. Stephanie Merchak - Kabau (Ruptured)
6. Telepanico - Istana (IN:EX)
7. Kinlaw & Robin Stewart ft Franco Franco - Menuju Muara (Avatar Remix) (Avon Terror Corps)
8. Bapak - Kiamat (SOFT / BRUTE)
9. 若潭 Ruò Tán & 王子衡 Wang Ziheng - Kabau (WV Sorcerer Productions)
10. Peter Kirn - Menuju Muara (L_KW)
11. Bashar Suleiman - Fasih (Drowned By Locals)
12. Prontaxan - Kekuasaan (Yes No Wave)
13. Sumber Kencono - Kiamat (Kontingen Kalbar)
14. Niño & The Isolitics - Kabau (Gandula & Galleta)
15. Moa Pillar - Kiamat (School of the Arts)
16. Cyclops - Kekuasaan (Chaos Non Musica)

Read more on Alkisah Network here: https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2022/programme/features/alkisah-network

Reece Thomas - Without the fear of proof

Amulet of Tears