archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/teyas

Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London September 27, 2018

Performed by Christoph de Babalon & WIDT
Recorded by Shaun Crook
Mixed and mastered by Owen Pratt
Image by Mila Nowacka / WIDT
Design by Severin Black

www.christophdebabalon.com
www.widt.pl

Christoph de Babalon & WIDT 'Teyas' (Excerpts) [AV005]

https://archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/continuing-a-worn-out-tradition-ii

All proceeds from this compilation will go towards Sistah Space, a non-profit community-based organisation bridging the gap in domestic abuse services for African heritage women and girls.

V/A 'Continuing A Worn Out Tradition II' (Excerpts) [AV006]

Inspired by ancient rituals, pilgrimages, and their new context within the current social climate. A labour of love.

Cassette available /50

Severin Black & Vanessa Bedoret 'First Passage' [AV007]

Kagami Smile 'Accept Reflection' [AV008]

All music by L'vovna
Design by L'vovna and Severin Black
Mastered by Jason Letkiewicz

L'vovna '5Г7ЛИТВ' [AV009]

Archaic Vaults is pleased to present the first vinyl album for the label, cataloguing ten tracks from ten artists spanning the globe. This curation brings together a multiplicity of genres within the label’s ongoing thematic output - durational ambience, field recordings, oversaturated improvisations and spatialised synthetic loops among them. A diverse cohort of familiar and new collaborators alike.

Edition of 300. Design by Severin Black.

https://archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/continuing-a-worn-out-tradition-iii

Continuing A Worn Out Tradition III

B5. Saint Abdullah 'Visit to the Optometrist' [AV011]

B4. Suburban Cracked Collective 'Not Ready for Whistles' [AV011]

B3. Geklaper 'Memory Loss' [AV011]

B2. Severin Black & Zeynep Ağcabay 'Tethered Snakes' [AV011]

B1. Burning Pyre 'Rare Endless Stirring Sun' [AV011]

A5. L'vovna '07182018-02.03.05' [AV011]

A4. Chantal Michelle 'Borghese Gardens September' [AV011]

A3. YL Hooi 'catch' [AV011]

A1. Yeong Die 'Part of the Poetic Talent [AV011]

@mea0u

An interrogation of identity pervades every corner of Zeynep Ağcabay’s ‘Ancestral Ground’, the debut body of work under her birth name. As someone who has formed their practice creating soundscapes for high fashion labels and runway shows, this mini-album represents the artist finally being given full creative license. Although Zeynep’s Turkish ancestry is heard amongst all seven tracks, it is not simply a borrowing or a homage. Very much still connected both geographically and culturally with her ancestral ground, the Turkish ney flute present throughout these recordings evokes a gesture of respect to her father’s fostering of a musical upbringing and an inquisitive gaze into the timbrality of instruments operating within a wholly different embedded culture than those of the West.

A growing community of London-based artists with roots elsewhere are investigating what geographically and culturally mixed identities can mean when translated into sonic offerings (see: Flora Yin-Wong, Nexcyia, Ewa Awe, Susu Laroche, Nkisi). What perhaps sets Zeynep Ağcabay apart is the complex feelings of anguish towards a bureaucratic system which has been the hostile backdrop to their years living in London, unable to move freely around Europe and necessitating an implementation of composition-as-labour to survive an overwhelmingly unlivable city. This is the dissonant shadow-self sibling of mea0u, Zeynep’s deconstructed pop moniker, and from the Portishead trip-hop leanings channelled at the end of ‘Umay Ana’ straight into the nine minute closing track ‘Ak Ana’, these are perfect representations of this shadow-self succeeding in turning malevolence into a euphoric device.

Ancestral Ground

Zeynep Ağcabay 'Ak Ana' [AV010]

Broadcast to those within the beacon's reach.

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Grady Steele 'Jolimont' [AV012]

Ying Li delivers the most meditative mix so far, seamlessly blending beautiful ambient tracks and with field recordings and primitive songwriting. Her output on record is limited and internet presence is modestly low, but has evolved as a live discipline over the years. Managing to not be pigeonholed to one genre, she plans to release material later this year which will no doubt be completely different to what we know already.

AV Mix: Y L Hooi

Severin Black & Owen Pratt 'Honne' [AV001]

All proceeds of this compilation will go towards the NAACP, a civil rights organisation formed to advance justice for African Americans.

Daniel Neumann 'Leaving the Gallery (After Soundcheck)' [AV002]

bookworms 'cognitive dissonance' [AV002]

Severin Black & Owen Pratt 'Untitled II' [AV002]

Florist 'Untitled' [AV002]

Vanessa 'To Listen in Silence' [AV002]

Susu Laroche 'Of Kingdoms' [AV002]

Suburban Cracked Collective 'Song of the One Armed Man' [AV002]

Ljhenka 'Schlüters Hand' [AV002]

Troth 'Valley of Palms (Murmurs)' [AV002]

Flora Yin-Wong 'Ghat' [AV002]

Joseph Johnson 'Failands (Excerpt)' [AV002]

Written and recorded on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land during Winter 2020.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt 'A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk' (Excerpt) [AV003]

Experimental electronic label founded by Severin Black in 2020.

Distributed in UK by Mindseyerecords.xyz
Distributed in US by Fantastique
Distributed in Japan by Tobira Records

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