'Intermission' is the first album ever released by Unsound, comprised of 15 commissioned tracks responding to the pandemic year through sound and music. Meditative, often powerful, affected by periods of anxiety and optimism, this multi-layered album is intended to be more than a compilation.

Featuring work by artists connected to Unsound Festival over the years, 'Intermission' includes music and field recordings by some of today’s most exciting electronic and experimental musicians, with a focus on both well known and emerging names.

Although it can be experienced on its own, the album intersects with a book of essays, poetry and fiction to create a unique interdisciplinary work joining different opinions, narratives, art forms and genres. Together, the audio and texts comprise a kind of urgent atlas, one mapping innumerable paths through the strange new world in which we find ourselves.

Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at scape mastering. 

Released on 5th March, 2021.

www.unsound.pl
www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

V/A - Intermission (UNS001)

POISON TEARS v/a (M.A005) OUT NOW 
To request a CD or digitals dm DJ LOSER on IG or email at:
poisontears21@gmail.com

Cardopusher x DJ LOSER - Elegia Euphoria

deadmau5 & Kaskade - i remember (Speed Services™ Remodel)

https://cease2exist.bandcamp.com/album/c2e-emergency-for-gaza

C2E - Emergency for Gaza

Untitled

M?Y?A:
🎶 https://soundcloud.com/maya-elimelech
👤 https://www.instagram.com/mayamelech/

M?Y?A: guest mix

00:00 djmak @djmak47
30:02 Helena DLX @helenadlx

DJMAK + HELENA DLX Spring Mix 2025

Magic Garden *another version

hidden kingdom

"Tendre Promesse is a direct sequel and opposite to Souvenir Perdu, my first EP that came out exactly one year ago. It is the follow-up and endpoint of a fable I created in my head. 

It's about growth, light, and the neverending fight to keep going on. It's about trying to forgive, and to be a little bit more courageous. 

It has been made to be an uplifting opus. Hopefully it can reach your soul and lift it for a few moments. 

It's a promise of new beginnings." @kuramamusic

Releases November 12, 2018 via Genome 6.66 Mbp and @highheal00

Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta 

Artwork by Sybil Montet de Doria

Tendre Promesse

Kurama - Code-X

@akafetish

Artwork by Sam Clarke
Mastered by Henrik Haraldsen Sveen

Post-Bloom

AKA fetish - Post-Bloom

The Lost Chapters of Hiraeth is a project constituted of debris meant for an aborted project. An epic tale that would've been exploring isolation through a new mythology and the span of a thousand lifetimes; but that will never see the light of day.

Buy on Bandcamp : https://kuramamusic.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Halvor Bodin
www.halvorbodin.com

Arcane Overbreak

'Weavings (Part 1)' is part of the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

The track features Aho Ssan, Angel Bat Dawid, Dirar Kalash, Ellen Fullman, Księżyc, Laraaji, Nicolás Jaar, Pawel Szamburski, Resina, Rolando Hernandez and Wukir Suryadi. 
Created as part of the Unsound 2020 online program, 'Weavings' is a durational improvisation structured in the manner of a long fabric of sound. Conceived and curated with Nicolás Jaar, the performance hosted a number of artists and instrumentalists from around the world who linked up via Zoom, with a plugin used to facilitate real-time high-resolution audio collaboration. ‘Weavings (Part 1)’ is the first section of the piece.

Weavings (Part 1), mixed by Nicolás Jaar

This track is included on the Unsound 'Intermission' album:

https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/

This is the first part of Community of Grieving, commissioned for Unsound 2020, a shared collective listening piece by Zosia Hołubowska and Julia Giertz. Described as ‘an audio ritual to collectively submit into intermission’, the full version of Community of Grieving draws on traditions of vesper and lament and merging formats of sonic meditation, sonic narration, and audio-essay.

Zosia Hołubowska & Julia Giertz - Community Of Grieving - Part 1

'Happy, Healthy, Safe' is part of the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Hildur Guðnadóttir and Sam Slater’s track is based around a recording of their son Kári singing to himself during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in the first part of 2020. ‘He does this when he's happy, and the result is an endless, often wordless improvised melody that floats around the house,’ says Sam. When asked to compose a piece inspired by lockdown, Hildur and Sam's response was to acknowledge that most of this time was purely domestic: homeschooling, playing football outside and keeping the neighbours' kids entertained, all with the consistent backdrop of mild dystopian panic. Kári's voice was the music they most frequently heard throughout the whole period.

Slater, Gudnadottir, Grisey - Happy Healthy Safe

'Aprte' is included in the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Polish trio Bastarda have interpreted Medieval and Renaissance music related to death rituals as well as Hasidic Nigunim songs. Their piece ‘Aperte’, which means ‘opening’ in Latin, was recorded in May 2020. The composition is based on a chant from Valentin Triller’s Silesian Songbook (1555), corresponding with springtime in the Lutheran liturgical calendar. Bastarda’s intention was to find new energy—a metaphoric light in the darkness so many of us have experienced recently.

Bastarda - Aperte

'Unlocked' opens the Unsound 'Intermission' compilation, available via Bandcamp:

www.unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com

Unlocked’ is composed from field recordings made by Chris Watson during lockdown in May 2020. Beginning with the rediscovery of the sunrise soundtrack over his suburban garden in North-East England, the piece concludes on the basalt sea cliffs which form the natural defences of the 14th century Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast. Watson says, ‘The solo song of a blackbird in my garden focussed my attention on the wildness that exists alongside us in our uncertain lives. My eventual escape out to Dunstanburgh on the coast was a timely reminder that the songs and signals of the natural world thrive on our absence.’

Chris Watson - Unlocked

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Unsound Intermission Album

Varg2™ & VTSS, 'VARGTSS2 (Miss Understanding)' (2021). Courtesy Unsound, Kraków

—Published across visual art, music & critical thought from 2012-2022
—Other discrete projects, as and when

An amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform dealing with music, sound, words and related visual arts. Founded in Krakow in 2003, Unsound has taken place in 30 cities around the world.

Varg2™ & VTSS, 'VARGTSS2 (Miss Understanding)' (2021). Courtesy Unsound, Kraków

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