PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL -  OLD PAIN
RELEASES FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Kevin Drumm & Joachim Nordwall have, respectively, spent collective decades carving out new pathways in the realms of electroacoustic, drone, ambient, noise, and improvised experimental music. Their variably multiplied ripple effect across the sonorous waters of disruptive sound cultures are indellibly marked by the touch of these two artists. Neither being strangers to intensive collaborations, the two stalwarts of meditative sonic practice convene to offer Psychic Liberation the eight song album Old Pain. At just under an hour, the pair shine in a complementary fashion across perfectly constructed chapters pulling from their signature tool kits of atmospheric field recordings, tape loops, and pensive oscillations. Cautiously sharing space, the album is at times as brooding as it is transcendent. 

Old Pain is an album nearly two decades in the making. Beginning in 2006, Drumm and Nordwall endeavored to record together in Chicago, a session ultimately abandoned purportedly due to the influence of “Listening to Finnish Black Metal and drinking good brews”. In 2007, Drumm released the cassette Purge on Nordwalls iconic label IDEAL Recordings. Later ,in 2013, Purge was reissued on CD for IDEAL and a subsequent performance together in New York City found the two still in each other's orbit. Later, Kevin would make an appearance in collaboration with Nordwall on his Communication Is The Key Album for Entr’acte in 2019. Whereas previous in-person sessions faltered, Old Pain was the result of the two artists working in their respective winter-heavy geographies of Chicago and Gothenburg, trading files until completion.

Today, Drumm and Nordwall are totems of an era of true advancement in tonal despair. Drumm’s output has been that of mythology, creating some of the most singular works in the canon of experimental music. Nordwall, an equally notable peer as maker, has maintained the global standards and operations of challenging art through his IDEAL Recordings project while performing in solo and collaborative contexts globally. Between the two, it would be a near impossible task to find an iteration of any peer or generation following not touched by the massive cultural imprint they’ve cemented. Finally, with Old Pain, we have a document of two masters of their form able to stretch their legs and pronounce a cohesive gesture of sonic material that will stand to long linger below the surface of comfort.


PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL - 2

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release on 2nd May 2025 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
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Manja Ristić is a Serbian violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. In her work, she sets ecosystems in resonance and translates the human activity that criss-crosses them.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhag41dnNZA

Tracklist:
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Porter Ricks - Blokinetics 2
Actress - Fragments of a Butterfly's Face
Huerco S. - Plucked From the Ground, Towards the Sun
Rezzett - Treacle 
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Various – War Against Society

Label: Praxis Dr. Bearmann – TH-18
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient

Tracklist
A1 Militia (2)–	Etnische Zuivering	4:07
A2 Militia (2)–	New European Order (Live)	0:19
A3 Militia (2)–	Partizan (Live)	4:31
A4 Militia (2)–	Thank You Oh Lord (Live)	1:30
A5 Militia (2)–	Kampfbefehl	3:49
A6 Militia (2)–	Executie	5:03
A7 Militia (2)–	Indoktrinatie	0:13
B The Grey Wolves–	Through Constant Decay	16:17
C1 Victim Kennel–	Short Cut	1:00
C2 Victim Kennel–	Prisoner Of Consciousness	3:06
C3 Victim Kennel–	Secret Society	3:45
C4 Victim Kennel–	In Case Of Aggression	3:19
C5 Victim Kennel–	Eurohate	2:21
C6 Victim Kennel–	Better Off Dead	3:56
C7 Victim Kennel–	All Out	2:28
D1 Con-Dom–	Porn Exchange	2:38
D2 Con-Dom–	Torch	3:16
D3 Con-Dom–	Home Run	4:11
D4 Con-Dom–	Concrete Block	2:48
D5 Con-Dom–	Junk Youth	3:39
D6 Con-Dom–	Moor Rapist	5:33
E1 Law–	Charged Blade	5:39
E2 Law–	Empathy	5:29
E3 Law–	Bloody Smoke	6:37
F1 Streicher–	Intro: Seed Of Europe	1:23
F2 Streicher–	Blood Purge	1:55
F3 Streicher–	Anal Imperial	3:10
F4 Streicher–	Lives Not Worth Living	3:41
F5 Streicher–	Kahlkopf Chaos League	2:38
F6 Streicher–	National Action	4:40
F7 Streicher–	Ideology / Truth	5:08
F8 Streicher–	White Fortress	2:24

Limited edition of 750 copies. Packaged in a fold-over black & white cover with a large 16-page booklet.

Con-Dom: recorded and mixed December 11 & 12, 1995 at Big Feet, Leeds.
Streicher: recorded 1996 at Anal Ripper Studio, Melbourne, Australia. Streicher-10.

The Grey Wolves - Through Constant Decay

the pureness rare

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-8
   "The music from the club, spilled into the alley, thick and low, like the heartbeat of the city. We had danced for hours. Now outside, the sweat shimmered and reflected like halos in the streetlights.

    We walked, As the music echoed behind us.  

We walked by night
 
   Our footsteps sketching a new rhythm on the pavement. The world felt wide and waiting, the kind of night that became our soundtrack.

   We walk by night"

Spoken word by: Green.Washer
https://soundcloud.com/greenwasher

Wanting to explore some different production styles and build elements to blend. With the goal of producing something special for the Color Squad Records compilation. 

Created in multiple Logic project sessions. Sound design and Beat building session - bpm 124. Mix and arrangement session. Final assembly in Mastering session. Midi soft synths (Vital, UA Polymax, Surge XT, Logics Retro Synth). Live percussion elements. Break beats: Dedalus - CT6 & Hilton Felton - Be Bop Boogie. Granular Re-synthesis of melody/lead using "bandlab" Audio stretch app on phone. Sonosaurus PaulXStretch app for textures.

The main lead/melody loop was created many years ago, for a part of a remix of "Kill or be killed" for my indie rock band, at the time. "Further" 
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1765210-Further-4
A track we never released or published.  One of the lyrics in this song was "When we walk by night" (More to do with taking a dark path, rather than going to an after party) 

When the melody/lead was rediscovered while randomly going through files & folders looking/listening for some inspiration. The loop manifested a memory of going to clubs and the night life around 1990 in Sydney. Friends, the sounds, the drinks, the music and the walk/journey home. Ears ringing. Reliving the night. Feeling glorious. Being out in the night with friends. 

Writing a passage with this in mind. Green.Washer was generous with his time, to read through and record the "we walk by night" passage a few times via his phone. With limited info regarding its context or the music. He sent a few versions and they were edited into arrangement session. Thanks Green.Washer!
Tom Sine https://soundcloud.com/tom-sine has a contribution, with some very subtle/barely audible beats. And supporting guidance during the arrangement. When I got lost in the process...
A big thanks also to Spoutnik https://soundcloud.com/spoutnikz And the Squad!


I hope you enjoy

We Walk by Night

We Walk by Night

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C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 8
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