Js Donny - focus (folk version)

XENIA REAPER returns to INDEX:Records with ‘Gambling’ – a requiem to noughties trance-euphoria, with a contemporary ambient twist. A collection of nine deep, emotionally-explosive tracks that wrench your heart, as much as your gut.

Exclusive to this edition is a made-to-order transparent 12” LP lathe, cut by Disc Archive in Berlin – super limited though, so get your pre-order in ASAP if you’d like a piece.

Written & Produced by XENIA REAPER
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Lucas Dupuy

Gambling

XENIA REAPER – You Really [INDEX:019]

I'm scared
So afraid to show I care
Will he think me weak
If I tremble when I speak?

So Afraid to Show I Care sees Theo Alexander & Qow assume the role of gleaners and foragers, collecting fragments from over a year of collaboration to produce a palimpsest of sonic layers. Their 30-minute micro-epic is built on an ethic of bricolage, covering tape-recorded ambience, voice note instrumentals, warped acapellas and growling double basses, all of which play out in an uninterrupted narrative.

As unabashedly experimental as it is emotional, the album’s diverse landscape features Egyptian spoken word artist otteswed (formerly known as Aly Talibab) and improvising contrabassist Klára Pudláková. On the leading single, Addictive, Pudláková’s double bass, enters into a melodic dialogue with yearning vocal samples. Towards the end of the album, otteswed delivers an existential soliloquy above waves of organ chords performed by Theo Alexander who sampled church organs from Prague, London and Orford. This album brings together material from a string of high-profile premieres across Europe and the UK featuring a rotating cast of collaborators.

Along with the digital release of the album, comes a limited-edition double cassette tape that includes both the album and selected Live performances from CTM festival ‘25, and PAF festival ‘24 featuring George Cremaschi on Contrabass.

Theo Alexander (London, UK) and Qow (Cairo, Egypt) began working together in 2023, and have respectively been featured in NPR, The Quietus, The Wire, and supported by Shape+, Britten-Pears Arts, and others. 
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Music written and composed by Theo Alexander & Omar El Sadek
Double bass on Tracks 3, 5, and 9 by Klára Pudláková
Double bass on Live Recording tape by George Cremaschi
Vocals on Track 7 by otteswed
Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Torr
Live recording mixed by George Cremaschi
Artwork by Omar El Sadek, design by Niels Wehrspann

Theo Alexander & Qow - 06

RA MIX 060: Suedesake - The weight is lifted

Purelink - First Iota (feat. Angelina Nonaj)
Shinetiac - roku axes ultra
bambinodj - Jus' Pull Up
Dolomea - The Golden Road
Elephant Castle - Marmor
John Beltran - Sub-Surface
Glenn Morrison - Contact
Los Thuthanaka - Parrandita
pastoral - Solo en sus surcos
tibslc x Ludwig Wandinger - little birds~ or how I've folded myself into a tiny letter
Chickenmilk dot com - DJ 2phace, 2dace the day (short version)

OB0563 — rec

https://archive.org/details/trigger-bang-bang-bankruptcy-dub

LILY ALLEN FLIP

TRIGGER BANG BANG (bankruptcy~dub)

Blessed

Aura Qualic - DATA (1011101 Remix)

https://animaplanet.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-of-the-lublin-upland
https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/gttrdmmrng-spirit-of-the-lublin-upland

12” dubplate edition of 30

Sound by @gttrdmmrng
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Design by ogmilan G1

End of a Century

Parish

#Buy , the Full-Thing
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-music

—

Yes, you know how #Feelings work !🚬

sometimes they hit right away, other times they linger in the back of ur head, slowly emerging. this is also how Mifu’s Signature Narration is functioning. while smashing up collage typhoons, Daniele is never using fast travel - it’s a music full of Eerie Spaces, Ancient Stories and stretched in time sentiments.

‘I love MUSIC’ is made of care and gentle touches. that’s why it was kinda impossible for me not to develop some kind of intimate relationship with The Album during the past few months of The Album development.
i can almost physically feel those sweet and harsh memories of Mifu merging, combining, flowing, passing through, coming together, fighting, conjuncting, eating each other.
yeah, I Am Sentimental today.

i am sentimental about impact, i am sentimental about melodies, i am sentimental about harmonies, i am sentimental about botanical soundscapes, i am sentimental about plumping clicks, i am sentimental about The Soft & Silky Smooth guitars, i am sentimental about plucky arpeggios, i am sentimental about bedtime-story-like drops and (as Mifu) i am sentimental about sounds-resource.com (cheers).

…✍🏻

“To make music is to open my Heart🌷”
Daniele Grande

〉music, master and artwork by Mifu (Daniele Grande)
https://soundcloud.com/mifuboi
https://www.instagram.com/daniele_grande/

♫°011

End of a Century

Anima Planet

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