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Simas Okas, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of natural and synthetic, capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. He becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Chasing down a magical, mystical, non-defined apparition, like a ghost or a shadow, not necessarily evil, but certainly other-worldly. From reeds to smudge, everything's a dream. Much beauty in the swamp, if only you look...

Mastering • Carsten Dämbkes
Drawing • Gvidas Pakarklis
Boogie School Sans/Boogie School Serif • Or Type
Kupole • Studio Cryo
Graphic Design • Rick Shiver

A1 Simas Okas - Mallards

"While making this album I was inspired by the scientific themes and topics expressed by both 1970s magazine "Radical Software" and 1980s magazine "OMNI" for their influence on the video synthesis and broadcasting culture of our present day. Radical Software arrived in 1969 at a time of major social upheaval. The Viet Nam war was raging and the loss of Martin Luther King exacerbated feelings that a war on race war seemed inevitable. The Nixon presidency amplified feelings of despair but compelled many to imagine alternatives to the soulless, murderous culture in they were existing in. The urge to create new cultural structures, developed revolutionary video hardware that would play a pivotal role in accelerating the social change people desired. Authors of the magazine understood that change would only occur by increasing the level of social pressure. Through their reading of Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson and Marshall McLuhan, they realized what needed to be changed was not the machines, but the instructions used to operate them. The social implications proved radical hardware was fine but what was critically needed was "Radical Software". The magazine became a form of social activism. It would be a forum, a video craft how-to-magazine, a rudimentary marketing and distribution system for the burgeoning community, and a journal of philosophical speculation and political opinion for all who shared their vision. The cover of the album is created by CINEMA.AV using LZX video synthesizers."

Purchase Album: https://reservematinee.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-space

Produced by Anderson Chimutu aka Fumbata Phiri
Mastered by Michael Stumpf
Artwork by CINEMA.AV
Released by Reserve Matinee from Chicago IL, US
Release Date : January 17th. 2022
Format - Cassette and Digital

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Premiere - Fumbata Phiri - Liminal Space (Reserve Matinee)

Improvisation from on high, fraternising with elevated explorations of the grid (and momentarily providing a setting for a Derridean meditation on the former).

LYL Radio: Tanzen und Denken 13

Corell - Under The Surface

Drain

Double CD available from Imprec.com 

On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard. 

Included are full in-studio performances of Chry-ptus and the world premiere of parts one and three of Tryptych.

Eliane Radigue Triptych (World Premier) 11 Dec 1980 - Double CD Available Now

1.  Addaraya - Gurza Dreaming
2. Elżbieta Sikora - Aquamarina for Tape (excerpt)
3. Anna Domino - Everyday, I Don’t
4. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain
5. Zoviet France - Spiiltek
6. Orella Myers - The Day My World Fell Through
7. Pedro Santos - Dual
8. Underworld - Moaner
9. Amps for Christ - AFC Tower Song
10. Gunther Valentine - La Fiancée du Camionneur (Radio Interlude) / For Janice (excerpt)
11. Aimee Mann - Save Me

Made a mix to accompany the "Quest for Details" release. Canadian country, Polish electroacoustic, a field recording of me sitting in a cabin, dearly departed Sakamoto, singer-songwriters, some questionably annoying 90s techno, and others are littered throughout this mix. Think it has a melancholic but hopeful vibe. Hopefully there’s room for more content.

Statistically, like most content (or our output), this will be mostly clicked through and skipped - with a small percentage of people who actually listen to it. It will reach more people than if I made a mix tape that I sent to a few friends but arguably will not be listened to as much. Something like 50% of music on Spotify is skipped before it ends (a lot of which happens in the first few seconds), a number that’s estimated to be much higher for independent artists, and certainly (maybe understandably) even higher for experimental and niche sound. Moving forward, it’s important to criticize what the corporate centralization of everything we make and absorb is doing to culture at large. People are aware but want to avoid the cognitive dissonance of hypocrisy. Under American individualism, we’re expected to align our thoughts and practices. In a world in which you don’t have much control, it’s okay to be a hypocrite. It’s more productive to talk shit about things being horrible than to fall for hypocrisy bait and disengage.

In the 80s, a lot of 30/40 somethings creative / “open-minded” people sat back as Reaganomics paved the way for this demonic stage of tech Neo-liberalism we’re entering. I think it’s probably a good time in history to acknowledge what the lack of regulation and data centralization is doing to our cognition and the way we interface with information and content. It’s objectively not offering a better experience and is subverting the way in which we are intentional. I will be taking all A_A off the big streaming services and am reconsidering using Bandcamp. If you know me, you've heard me rant about BC, even before it was owned by a large video game corporation that is union busting. It was inevitably going to be sold because of its increasing intrinsic value. These issues aside, it's a well developed platform. The problem is the platform needing to exist itself. My annoying tirade now over with, I hope you enjoy the mix. 
Background image:  North Shore, Lake Superior by Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven - group of Canadian landscape artists that were into some stuff - https://torontolife.com/culture/lawren-harris-mystic/

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Insect March

Released on Longforms Editions March 2019
The title Stereo'frogi'ic is a play on the word stereophonic – to play with the illusion of multi-directional audible perspective – in this case presenting a quasi-bioacoustic sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects, a recording of an animal scattering in the bushes and other 'vocal' animals wavering about in a stereo field. This piece was recorded and edited in the summer of 2019.

I have used slightly modified animals sounds to create aural illusions, morphing the perception of animal and machine generated sounds or raw recordings and digitally effected sounds. I wanted to create a tempo that would mimic something similar to the meditative sense you can experience from the flow or sound of the wind and other elements, when you are sitting in an open field while recording.

Stereo'frog'ic (Longforms Editions 2019)

Lucrecia Dalt - Cao 

From No era sólida (outtakes)
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