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Motel Radio - 30.04.20

"[mix for endlessly studying, in follow Moten; ‘I think we were committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice.’ (The Undercommons)]" @zourry

Art by Celeste Stein
https://www.instagram.com/celeste_stein

LXXVI - zourry

played & recorded @ temp. RBW Studio, Rote Fabrik, Zürich - CH
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RBW Summer Residency 2020, Zürich - CH

Rote Fabrik, Zürich

NVST | Statement |  RBW Summer Residency 2020 - 31.07.2020

We met Franck Vigroux for the first time years ago at Berlin's Berghain during a soundcheck. At that time he performed with Mika Vainio, with whom Vigroux often worked together. 

The first track on »Ballades sur lac gelé« dates back to that time. It was created under the impression of this collaboration and friendship with Mika Vainio. This album is dedicated to him. 

Vainio's oeuvre is also significant in connection with the history of raster, so it was only logical and our wish to release this album by Franck Vigroux. 

With the beginning of the corona pandemic, Franck Vigroux took up this early material again, he continued to formulate it and completed the present album »Ballades sur lac gelé«. The title already defines the theme of the ballad, a "song/poem with very minimal structures" (quote Vigroux). 

"Ballade" is also a play on words with the French word "balade", in this sense a ramble, a ramble over a frozen lake. The reduced, cool structures reflect this. But at the same time, under the surface, the (often distorted) sound carpets steadily increase to immense power. Like ice that grows and tectonic forces that have to erupt, glacier-like.

Vigroux is very skilled at creating music in this minimalist setting. The intertwining of very few musical elements creates a kind of soundtrack that is multi-layered and at the same time universally intelligible. 

»Ballades sur lac gelé« will be released on June 26th, 2020 as a digital pre-release exclusively on our sites. The physical formats, i.e. CD and vinyl, can be pre-ordered. The official worldwide release date will be the 30th of October 2020.

Ballades sur lac gelé

Franck Vigroux »Two« taken from »Ballades sur lac gelé«

Part 2 of the conversation with the legend S. English.

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO with S. English (PART.2)

Episode three of the roaming mix series, this time broadcast on Tbilisi's Mutant Radio, featuring a number of Georgian artists alongside other producers from across the globe.

1 Aghnie - Lurk Around the Corner
2 Yaporigami - Glance I Fell
3 Cash from Hash - Offensive Strokes
4 Otik - Four Feet (Metrist Remix)
5 Ploy - Garys
6 Cocktail Party Effect - This is Science
7 Pobvio, Lila Tirando a Violeta, El Plvybxy & Rattlesnakke - Mata Tool
8 Gacha Bakradze - Structure
9 Zesknel - მრგვალი მაგიდის აქცია ფილარმონიასთან
10 Sinfol - Life Off Measure (Newa Remix)
11 Selfhood - Bedtime Means Dreams of Tescos
12 Alan Fitzpatrick - 1992
13 Pasquale Maassen - Selten
14 DYEN - The Aftermath
15 Medulasa - Medulasa
16 Rheum - The Pedestal
17 Gooooose & DJ Scotch Egg - JAC
18 Slikback - Venom
19 Air Max '97 feat. LOFT - Xhrinicibles
20 Hyph11E - Barnacles (Kode9 Remix)
21 El Irreal Veintiuno - Ayer En Tlatelolco
22 Levan Shanidze - Tragic models GmbH

Mixes

Dispatches #003: Tbilisi [Mutant Radio, October 2020]

"This mix is a brief showcasing of music and sound art by friends, colleagues, influences, and artists with whom I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. The music I have made and released to date would not exist in its current form if it were not for some of the artists on this setlist. Whether it be friends/artists that I have directly worked with, interacted with, and collaborated with (J.S. Curley, Tony Panella, Spirituals, Robert Cole Rizzi, Pas Moi, DR, Mark Waldron-Hyden, Vitaly Maklakov, Andy Klingensmith); artists that have been generous in helping me bring my visions to life via the physical and visual mediums (Vitaly Maklakov, Thaniel Ion Lee, J.S. Curley); artists whose work I have had the pleasure and honor of releasing on my humble netlabel Warm Milk Recordings (Andy Klingensmith, Daniel J. Gregory, Tony Panella); or artists whose work has simply inspired me (Uneasy Chairs, Erinome, and every other artist already listed here), your work has helped shape the art that I make. This mix is dedicated to you.  

The mix encompasses a vast variety of experimental styles ranging from electroacoustic sound art, ambient music, field recordings, noise worship, and everything in between. The styles heard on this mix can not only be seen as a list of inspirations but also as a sort of mirror image to the sonic pallet that I present on my upcoming tape on the Enmossed label, "Lignum Muzek." Ever since deciding to start making albums under my given name, my vision has always been to create compositions that enter many different sonic territories, even within the duration of a single piece, and to weave these pallets together in a narrative-like fashion. I was able to take one step closer towards this vision with the creation of Lignum Muzek, especially on longform title track pieces which can almost be seen as miniature mixes of their own. This mix opened a door for me to impose my creative mixing style on artists whose music helped me to form my style to begin with, thus creating an endless loop of interconnected, communal, inspiration and sound that will forever be feeding back on itself, flourishing, and growing. "

Track list:

1.) Vitaly Maklakov - For a distant lands (part 1)
2.) Mark Waldron-Hyden - Heal Always
3.) DR - Lovely Weather For Children
4.) Spirituals - Politics As Usual
5.) Nicholas Maloney - Lignum Muzek 2
6.) Andy Klingensmith - Twombly
7.) J.S. Curley - menuet no. 3
8.) Nicholas Maloney - Lignum Muzek 1
9.) Uneasy Chairs - Planet Sometimes
10.) Andy Klingensmith - Everywhere Is Empty Baseball Diamonds
11.) Nicholas Maloney - Lignum Muzek 2
12.) Erinome - Low Priest I
13.) Nicholas Maloney - Black Forest Sighs
14.) Tony Panella - Nachtmusik for Organ
15.) Thaniel Ion Lee - Wires No. 1
16.) Robert Cole Rizzi - Etude for Fall
17.) Daniel J. Gregory - Trees Reach For The Sun
18.) Pas Moi - fish begging for bread

Nicholas Maloney presents: Among Tangled Branches, Without Ourselves

A soundtrack I produced for a short experimental movie by Antonio Bértolo Vilariño.

Mastered by @felonyflats

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Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube, Facebook and futureintelradio.com every Thursday and Friday — from 20:00 till 23:00.

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