My philosophy for this year involves forcing myself to release and share my work as often as possible to help me receive critique and feedback from others and to create a headspace in which releasing work is not treated as a seismic event.

This playlist contains 4/6 skeletons of pieces I am working on for an untitled electronic EP. They are all in a pre-production stage and will eventually be workshopped, re-written and produced in a similar manner to "Nascent" and "Syzygy" (though hopefully far better)

2015

la mer sombre où je suis seul

Quarter Tone Prelude for two Harps

Synkro has really delivered the goods on this mix.
It's inspired by his wicked new Apollo EP
https://synkro.bandcamp.com/album/hand-in-hand-ep

Tracklist

Black Narcissus - Till The Rains Break
Desolate - Tyroshi
The Volta Laboratory Associates - 287701_2ndhalf
Synkro - Automatic Response
Com Truise - Isostasy
Paul Blackford - Light Years
Synkro - Vanishing Point
Overlook - Travelling Without Moving
Chromatics - Broken Mirrors
Boards Of Canada - You Could Feel The Sky
Neozaïre - Departed, Gone and Lost
Danny Wolfers - Scenic Highway System
Marenn Sukie - Until Such Time
Mark Isham - Sympathy and Acknowledgement
Synkro - Hand In Hand
Satoshi & Makoto - Chuchotement
Andy Stott - Expecting 
Synkro - Red Sky
Aleksi Perälä - The Field

R&S Records Mix Series

RSMIX015 - Synkro

Secret Chiefs 3 - Holy Vehm - Hypostasis of the Archons

"Finish It" from Car Bomb's 2012 album "w^w^^w^w."  Available on carbomb.bandcamp.com.

Lyrics:
Dose
Kiss them goodbye
Too sick, violently sick
Hospitalized while in pain
Take it again, this is like torture
They look like sadomasochists wide virgin eyes
I stare, on my own
Down the hall they watch
You stare, on your own
Kiss them goodbye
Eye’s signaling
"This is too much, I’m sick of it
Sick of the bullshit"
Hush. Take your medicine
Finish it

Car Bomb - Finish It

From the 2012 album "w^w^^w^w."  Hear the rest of the album for free at carbomb.bandcamp.com.

Lyrics:
Don't quell her flame if her name lies on the blade
Such a shame
Naked, she cries out the name's frozen caress
Take her outside
Lower the blade
Flame in a maze, silent
Lower the blade
Just say its time
Just say its mine
This can't contain inside, this total complete meltdown
Don't quell the flame
Don't freeze the crime
Sickness inside the face covers the temptress of contentment
Wet wrists quell the thirst of dehydrated lonely saddened whores
Safe the violent thoughts for the last cage entrapment
Just let the fate of what's to come take control of your life's past

Car Bomb -  Lower the Blade

from 'Cycle and Reveal' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den319
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon

Denovali is pleased to present Cycle and Reveal, the fourth full length LP of contemporary classical works by acclaimed composer Mario Diaz de Leon. Featuring bold performances by a cast of longtime collaborators, this compilation is an essential chapter in his celebrated series of recordings for acoustic instruments and electronics.
 
The output of Mario Diaz de Leon defies easy categorization, spanning the worlds of contemporary classical composition, experimental electronic music, extreme metal, and creative improvised music. Working extensively with an inner circle of close collaborators (ICE, Talea, and TAK Ensemble, among others) his classical works have been celebrated over the last decade for their “hallucinatory intensity” (New York Times), “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork), “helter-skelter, electronically enhanced cadenzas” (New Yorker Magazine), and coupling of “crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (Wire Magazine). 
 
The A-side features two works written in early 2017, which colorfully embrace hypnotic repetition alongside dynamic contrasts and distinctly embody the electrifying post-minimalism that Diaz de Leon is known for. Opener Sacrament is written for a trio of musicians from Talea Ensemble and features the composer’s shimmering, bass heavy electronic production. This energetic piece, driven by the virtuosity of marimba player and Talea executive director Alex Lipowski, makes use of rapid-fire arpeggiations and heavy rhythmic unisons. These are starkly contrasted with moments of reverberant echo, bursts of noise in the flute and electronics, and ecstatic rhythms. Labrys, written for ICE bassoonist Rebekah Heller, builds on the celebrated legacy of solo + electronic works heard on his 2015 album The Soul is the Arena. Built around virtuosic interplay between bassoon and synthesizer, Labrys features shifting and hypnotic repetition alongside expansive melodies and sub-bass frequencies.
 
The B-side consists of two works composed in July of 2016 which draw from primal, incantatory, and improvisatory sonic landscapes. Irradiance, a collaboration with cellist Mariel Roberts, begins with a series of spacious riffs exploring the extremes of the cello’s register and transforms over time into a climactic frenzy of noise loops. Tuning the cello’s low C down to a growling G, Roberts interpreted the sounds of each pre-recorded loop by ear.  The piece gradually builds from cavernous depths into an ecstatic climax of anarchic noise. Concluding track Mysterium is written for the ICE trio of flutist and ensemble founder Claire Chase, clarinetist and artistic director emeritus Joshua Rubin, and bassoonist and current artistic director Rebekah Heller. Archaic melodies, improvised heterophony, spectral transformations, echoes of Klang-era Stockhausen, and the colorful noise of Moog and Ciat-Lonbarde synthesizers combine to create an expansive and wildly ritualistic atmosphere.
 
Cycle and Reveal was recorded in vivid detail by Marc Urselli (John Zorn, Laurie Anderson) at East Side Sound, Stephen McLaughlin at EMPAC, and mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio. Diaz de Leon invited Melbourne-based visual artist Yuria Okamura to design the cover image and inner sleeve symbols. Sharing Diaz de Leon’s interest in the reinterpretation of spiritual art, Okamura’s cover “maps and reconfigures geometric patterns and symbols that reference esoteric symbolism, occult diagrams, religious architecture and decoration.”

Cycle and Reveal

Mario Diaz de Leon & Talea Ensemble - Sacrament

why don't you just chill
not
just
click
that
play
button
already

freefall

【﻿ｆｒｅｅｆａｌｌ】~ VAPORWAVE JAZZ

Trying here to make a piece that paradoxically expresses such a clear and simple structure that thoughtful listeners may completely deduce the logic, yet that also progresses to the sort dense polyrhythmic textures associated with "new complexity" and "ergodicity" (James Tenney's term).

The Marriage of Simplicity and Complexity, for piano

Dojo-storm

All Submarine Captains Believe in Atlantis

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la mer sombre où je suis seul

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