Snowbound

Maths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song as simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent and subsequent Janet’s Song weaves these elements alongside the sound pebbles entering a water. 

This is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation. 

Tonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like Still House Plants if they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do. 

There is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed. 

Released June 30, 2023

Maths Balance Volumes - Stay

f059 - Ex Wiish

a float

From https://mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/przygody
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Przygody

Staś Czekalski — Dim Lounge (feat. uszko) (MONDOJ23)

https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/nightlife-202403-15

nightlife (2024-03-15)

@heleen_twee

On Friday the 16th of March, corecore invited sixteen DJs and artists, all more or less local to Amsterdam’s music scene(s), to share 20 minute mini-mixes and hybrid performances in a six hour listening session in De Sering. 

Sets by 55ever, dj audio (⊥), cdr103, Frog of Earth, he1een, interlude, jp'♡, Mandy Pixel, mary, nefo, Odete, Pharfetchd, sara plusplus, so wet’s water kingdom, tj0ki and umanea.

he1een | y'all don't fw music like i do

some memories and melodies of anybard, who, as always, is attempting to establish connection with ghosts on the channel. chamber music, demos and walkie talkie singing. 
all music by spellcaster / h hartvig

Snowbound

Andy Nicolson

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