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SÁCCEA, 'Vigilia' (2021). Courtesy nodolabel, Buenos Aires.

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Nakedandafraidandalone - Deft Ponc 3

AI girl is desperate for love, feeling empty without her man around, gets heartbroken, and under all this is very suicidal.

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sup (i love you)

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The 27th release of katharsis is the album “Alien Implants” by the Siberian artist and composer Dmitri Mazurov. Throughout the 9 tracks and 77 minutes of the album, the listener is submerged into a haunting maze of mystifying experimental electro-acoustic sound portraying distant conspiracies of another time and place. This almost paradoxical juxtaposition of classical instruments with elements from contemporary electronic music is quite novel to katharsis, but fits perfectly with our vision of showcasing the multifaceted emotional and expressive properties of music.

The album starts harshly off with a flow of rocks, stones and underwater gurgling on the intro track “Burevo”, before a flooding of more delicate but yet restless sounds on “Mimicry” performed by Kymatic Ensemble, who are also featured on the evocative title track “Alien Implants”. This expressive focus is vivid throughout the whole album, but especially on tracks like “Hauntology” performed with novel techniques on the accordion played by Roman Malyaykin, or on the archetypical crying of a guitar played with a comb on the track “Weeping”. The whole thing is concluded by an alienesque communication on the track “Morphing”, which is premiered with the announcement of the pre-order.

Alien Implants

Morphing

premiere: Dmitri Mazurov - Morphing

Alive in the living room - على قيد الحياة في غرفة القعدة a 27-min sound mass on CD and handwritten hymnbook by Richie Culver.
 
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/alive-in-the-living-room

"With Alive in the living room I wanted to present a sonic landscape that unfolds into three parts that make up aspects of sleep paralysis,
Something I have lived with all of my adult life.
Instead of fighting against it.
Fall deeper into it.
I could never speak or shout for help in moments of paralysis during sleep so I decided to put no vocals onto this body of work.
Letting the improvised music dictate the space that would be the bleak terrain of dead dreams.
After making the music I decided to write a short poem to describe what sleep paralysis is to me.
Pulling off my fingernails, being ridiculed and scabs that won’t heal are a common thread into where my subconscious takes me in my moments of dead sleep.
Facing my obscure fears head-on and waking up to a nothingness that is the sofa in my mother’s living room.
Questioning what just happened?
Who am I?
What am I?"
—Richie Culver
 
"Though the actual act of art-making is not torturous or tedious for Culver, the everyday can be. Life is for agonizing; art is the instantaneous expulsion of the thoughts and urges that emerge from it.
 
Alive in the Living Room is exemplary of that ethos. The Hull-born, mostly London-based artist created the 27-minute “sound mass” in one take, but it was born from a whole adulthood of suffering from sleep paralysis. The piece is a near-immediate response to Culver asking himself, What if I just succumbed to it?”
—Megan Hullander, Document Journal
 
"While this extended soundscape doesn’t feature vocals, it is accompanied by a handwritten hymn book, where close-up photographs of possibly tortured fingernails are accompanied by phrases in both English and Arabic. “Am I really this selfish”, asks Culver, opening a line of self-interrogation and cryptic disaffection which continues throughout its beautiful black and white pages.”
—Spenser Tomson, The Wire
 
Printed and bound in Jordan
Produced by Richie Culver
Mastered by @rashadbecker
 
Special thanks to:
Maan Abu Taleb
Hamada Shahrour
Sawsan Assaf
Yazan El Zubi

Alive in the living room -  على قيد الحياة في غرفة القعدة

Richie Culver - Alive in the living room - على قيد الحياة في غرفة القعدة

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INVICTUS

OBSIDIAN DICTION - 真実 / truth (A2)

City - A Goal is an Image

Available 29 September 2017 on limited translucent 12" vinyl and digital formats.
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I. Provinces
II. Your Stream
III. Pain/Power
IV. End Zone
V. Mutual Life
VI. Inevitable
VII. The Good Soldier
VIII. Of One Kind
IX. Ffaith
X. SAR
XI. Immaculate

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HALC012

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy
Artwork by Lane Stewart & Collin Fletcher for Halcyon Veil

A Goal is an Image

City - Pain/Power (HALC012)

In addition to two earlier collaborative EPs as one half of Solid Void (Realia002) and as a member of Hyter (Realia003), Noumeno’s (Realia/Haunter Records/Portals Editions) first solo contribution to Realia’s catalogue is a track entitled: “Oh, Play This, and I’ll Come to You”. 
Combining the artist’s distinctive forward-thinking production style with more recent sample-based/reggaeton-leanining experimentations, “Oh, Play This, and I’ll Come to You” conveys themes of eschatological hope, natural sublime, simultaneity and corporeality.
In this context, the organising principle of identity is no longer presence vs. absence, but pattern/randomness – namely, the sudden recognition of meaningful information against the backdrop of noise and chaos. The pattern/randomness dialectic reveals a situation where two seemingly antagonistic concepts are mutually constitutive: randomness is not the absence of pattern, but the productive ground from which pattern emerges.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Noumeno.
Artwork by Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli.

Noumeno – Oh, Play This, and I'll Come to You

“Ciudad Sacra” by @aeondelit is the latest single from his upcoming EP out June8th for @insurgentesco.

Pre-order: insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/editing-destiny
Read more: soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-aeondelit-ciudad-sacra

Editing Destiny

[Premiere] Aeondelit – Ciudad Sacra

* Announcing CANVAS010 *

Alpha Maid - CHUCKLE 

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS010
Release Date: 19th of March 2021

Alpha Maid - SUM1  (VIDEO):
https://thewire.co.uk/video/watch-alpha-maid-sum1

Pre-order available at canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/chuckle

CHUCKLE is the first solo release by Leisha Thomas as Alpha Maid on the C.A.N.V.A.S. label, following a contribution to the recent Apocope compilation LP. The signature Alpha Maid genre prevails—the sincere, strong vocal style, aligned with a UK indignant and iconoclastic artistic lineage, set against dredging, grungy instrumentals reminiscent of North American open plains or urban sprawl. As if desert rock had occurred in mundane and claustrophobic South London rather than the Southern States. Alpha Maid observes and reflects on an urban, smoggy, UK surrounding, although appears to drive through it on an open interstate highway in a really wide car.

Alpha Maid's vocals vacillate between sometimes candid, close and unclouded, then drifting towards fragmentary, cutting and pasting in the manner of unstable media or limited bandwidth.

Opening with a quote—found footage from broadcasted media—‘i knew the figures’, pointing to a setting of British media harassment and scrutiny, WOWOWOW conveys amazement and disbelief, faced with the bare and flagrant injustices of the time and place. Vocals are swallowed by the cavernous reverberation, while slow paced stoner rock-like drifting instrumentals amble underneath.

CHUCKLE follows Alpha Maid's debut EP Spy, released via the ever-transforming collective and label CURL, of which Alpha Maid is a member, alongside the founders Coby Sey, Mica Levi and Brother May. Whilst Spy expressed revulsion in the face of creeping surveillance and the increasingly concealed and deceptive nature of power, CHUCKLE embodies the spirit of internal disorientation and realisations, exacerbated by a backdrop of social crises and injustices reaching levels beyond our grasp or comprehension.

Electronic interventions, eclectic instrumentation and found footage intersperse Alpha Maid's trademark sound. Brief interludes reminiscent of Scandinavian metal themes, undistorted but purveying doom—opening MILD WEATHER and closing NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED—contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of eerie dread. Within that, there is regular respite to be found—NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED feels light, rural, nearly folk, delivered with clarity of mind and of pace amongst the otherwise smoggy and moody overlying theme of the EP. The title of the track, however points to a familiar context of confusion amongst cosmopolitan and globalised socio-political contagion. NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED, in harmony with the nature of the whole release, is fresh, melodically simple, optimistic and yet suspended within a murky atmosphere of cataclysm and wonder.

Lugh O'Neill

Music by Leisha Thomas
Trumpet on 'MILD WEATHER' and 'NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED' performed by Jovis Lane
Flute on 'DOGGY' performed by Niazy Hazeldine
Drums for 'SUM1' recorded by Ben Vince at Roundhouse, February 2020

Mastered by Chris Pawlusek

Artwork by Fennella McCallum
Graphic Design by Zuzana Pabisova



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