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Dis Fig's (@dis_fig) debut LP, 'PURGE', out March 15, 2019 on PTP cassette and digital editions.

'PURGE' is the debut album by Dis Fig. While the New Jersey born, Berlin-based artist is best known for her relentless and downright brutal DJ sets, this work comes in at a much different trajectory – an exploration of her own vulnerability through varying degrees of noise, vocal migrations, and orchestral composition.

“'PURGE' is about confronting the feelings which you have been avoiding. Consciously or subconsciously. Feelings you want to be feeling or “should” be feeling but you can’t because your body won’t let you. Because maybe it knows it’s not safe for you.

It’s when you reach that moment which makes your brow furrow because your chest is getting hot and something is about to erupt. When the feeling starts crawling up your neck, choking you, and you could try to make it stop but maybe it’s better for you if you don’t. When what comes out is painful - it’s tragic, it’s crippling. But with it comes a sliver of beauty. It’s burning and it’s stunning.

When it’s over, you may learn by staring at the embers.”

Written/Produced: Felicia Chen || Arranged: Felicia Chen & Geng || Co-Production ("Purge" interlude & "I Am The Tree"): Geng || Mixed (tracks #1-8): Joni Juden || Mixed ("I Am The Tree"): Geng || Mastered: Joni Juden || Flute ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "I Am The Tree"): Adam Sinclaire || Trumpet ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "Alive"): Sasha Perera || Trombone ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "Alive"): Thomas Romana

Photography: Alice Z Jones || Artwork & Cassette Design: Jeremiah Carter

PURGE

PURCHASE

Dis Fig - WHY (from 'PURGE' [PTP2013])

Paul Marmota - Crisalida

from Stylish Wallow
https://axine.bandcamp.com/album/stylish-wallow

Stylish Wallow

Flummox

The debut collaborative album by City (@citymusic33) & i.o (@0rods) out now on PTP cassette and digital editions.

Composed long-distance over several years, '​Spirit Volume'​ finds the musicians combining City’s industrial brutality with i.o’s frenetic, highly technical drumming. Curiously, the meeting of the two results in moments of serenity and calm that are few and far between in both of their solo oeuvres. “Faith,” a rework of a similarly-named piece that appeared on City’s debut Halcyon Veil LP, is the high water mark in terms of intensity, while “Markerlight” is an almost Bohren-esque night drive through i.o’s expansive and gorgeous guitar playing. “YS” features plaintive synth work from fellow Vancouver producer ​x/o​.

City is the alias of guitarist and producer Will Ballantyne, based in Vancouver. City has released records on Halcyon Veil and Ascetic House, and toured extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

i.o is a band consisting of Maxwell Patterson; drummer, guitarist, producer, and visual artist. Maxwell lives and works in Victoria, BC.

Written and produced by City & i.o
Drums and guitar on all tracks by i.o
Synths on YS by x/o

Mastered by Aaron Wharton
Artwork by Loic Le Hécho
Designed by Collin Fletcher

Tracklist:
1. Anxiety object
2. Faith
3. Fatal flower
4. Bitter
5. Churchlight
6. Markerlight
7. Mirage silent
8. YS (with x/o)
9. Forever an image

Spirit Volume

City & i.o - Anxiety Object (from 'Spirit Volume' [PTP2014])

FREE THE LAND

The essential goal of human beings is to transcend, not dominate the biological, with a view toward bringing a new input: consciousness

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ASCETIC HOUSE
2020

Free The Land "The essential goal of human beings is to transcend, not dominate the biological..."

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