Alt-pop experimentalist and Croatian Amor collaborator @altoaria pays tribute to lovelorn souls on their @rhz000 return.

Fitting that a release bearing a title referring to an all-consuming state of infatuation would land on Valentines Day. Striking balance between soft and severe, ‘Limerence’ is a lament to unrequited love; a homage to the heart-broken among us.

Tugging hard on the heartstrings, our pick is no less tender for its restraint. String-fuelled, heart-in-mouth melodrama imbued with a sense of yearning. 

'Limerence' is out February 14th on Rhizome.

Pre-order: rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/limerence

Limerence

Premiere: Alto Aria - Where The Heart Is [Rhizome]

collabo with tysk raider for a dedicated series.

tysk raider logo stamped and numbering stamp numbered (x/85)
light gray vinyl with printed insert, designed by tysk raider
housed in a pvc bag, limited edition of 85 copies

digital version available here:
https://tyskraider.bandcamp.com/album/tysk003

2024 all music, artwork & logo by tysk raider

bandcamp

tysk003 by tysk raider - 12'' snippets

arbitrary21 (10" / DL)
06 September 2024

arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10” vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.

Side A features Heartbeats, a composition Nielsen originally made for a radio soundtrack. The track is derived from loops and granulations of sine waves and pulses from Nielsen’s modular synth, which he later combined with recordings of synthesized bass and layers of organ-like tones.

On side B is a remix by German sound artist and producer Hanno Leichtmann under his Chromacolor moniker. As on the first split 10” (Constellation, 2022), Leichtmann worked with sounds from the original mix, combining it with his Hohner Guitaret, Fender Rhodes and Moog bass. Additional cello tones by Anthea Caddy and vocal contributions from Annie Garlid round out the remix.

Heartbeats written & produced by Mads Emil Nielsen in Copenhagen. Heartbeats / Chromacolor Remix written & produced by Hanno Leichtmann. with: Annie Garlid: voice, Anthea Caddy: cello.
Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin. Artwork by Karel Martens.


10” vinyl (transparent, 45 rpm) + DL
1st edition of 300, CYK + Pantone print, inside-out sleeve, incl. download code

Distributed by Morr Music Distribution 

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www.madsemilnielsen.dk
www.hannoleichtmann.com

Pre-order (BC)

arbitrary21 A - Mads Emil Nielsen - Heartbeats

five excerpts of pieces made on the buchla music easel, summer 2024

Summer Easel (five excerpts)

IMPEDANCE

1tweni( - 8)

https://www.stefanogervasoni.net/index.asp?page=catalogue&id=136&cat=vocal

for: mixed choir
detailed instrumentation: S.A.T.B. (at least 24 singers)
duration: 12'
commission: FIMS Fribourg - Festival International de Musiques Sacrées
first performance: 6.7.2024, Fribourg, Eglise du Collège St-Michel, Nederiands Kamerkoor, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
publisher: Ricordi
catalogue number: 142824

The World Grown Dark (2024) - NKK, Peter Dijkstra - live, FIMS Fribourg 6.7.24

Neige Noire - Convulse EP

https://fxbip.bandcamp.com/album/convulse

Art and music: François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil

Mastering: Jake Fields

Neige Noire 1

Last year in September I released the album ‘Quiet Rooms’ on the British label Whitelabrecs. The tracks on this album were a kind of self-healing process to refocus on home life after a long absence caused by working far away. At that time I was making a lot of improvised music and recording many ideas and sketches. After selecting the tracks for ‘Quiet Rooms’, some ideas, feelings, blurred images and unfinished tracks remained, which later became a solid base for ‘All Our Yesterdays’. Over the course of 2024, more recordings were made and - voilà - a new album was born.

'All Our Yesterdays' is probably a bit more introspective, exploring the spaces between the notes in a much deeper and broader way. So each track is quite transparent in atmosphere and sound, with piano notes, electronic textures and strange sounds drifting in and out. As always, all was recorded mainly at night in dim lighting to focus on what's important to me and my music. ‘All Our Yesterdays’ could be seen as a metaphor for missed moments on the one hand and great moments with the people you love on the other. Deep contemplation with a sense of serenity and balanced stillness - some things don't change...

The cover picture was taken in autumn at a nearby lake, when everything was already prepared and waiting for winter.

Tracklist:
01. All Our Yesterdays / 02. A Change Before A Choice / 03. The Silence Within Us / 04. Until It's Time / 05. There Are Ghosts Around You / 06. Half As Far Out / 07. Beyond Paradise / 08. Anything At All / 09. Before Night / 10. It Takes Confidence (To Let The Music Speak) / 11. The Inner Sea / 12. Fragments Of Love / 13. Never Gonna Let It Go / 14. I Could Sleep For Hundred Years

Written and produced by Polaroid Notes
Recorded between Nov 2023 and Dec 2024

Limited edition CD and digital download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-yesterdays

Release date: 22nd February 2025
Büro für Erdrotation Spin 042

Polaroid Notes - Snippets of All Our Yesterdays (Album)

Label / imprint
Denseland – Code & Melody (arb.20, April 2024)
arbitrary21 (10" / DL) 06 Sept. 2024
https://www.arbitraryproject.com

Updated: https://arbitrary.bandcamp.com

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