Have I been to Amara? Like anyone who has, I’ve no way of knowing for sure. 

I am told she is wrapped in a blue-grey fog that extends like an aura for miles in all directions. As certain kinds of fog have a way of doing, it only makes itself known to you when you are already well within its grasp. At best, the traveller may remember entering and exiting the hazy periphery of this city, but whatever comes to pass within is impossible to recall, and one can only recognize signs in the traces it leaves behind in the mind and body. This may be as subtle as a change in the way you speak, as disquieting as an unaccountable bruise or scrape on the skin, or as drastic as a sudden change in the length of your hair. 

Recently, lovers have told me that my way in bed has somehow changed, that the color of my eyes has grown cooler and softer. Flavors that I once detested are now among my most cherished. Certain objects or images — a marble figurine, a drop of blood hanging from a small cut on my finger, a glass bowl shot through with broken sunlight — have stirred up in me the faintest and most curious ecstasy. It is as though, by some association conjured in these moments, I behold not a memory in itself but the effects it has on everything around it, the lines of sentiment that ripple across the waters of my mind from the invisible impression of an unknown stone.

A city will change you, slowly in time, in ways you may not notice as they set in. But what if the city that changes you is not so much a place as a strange and beautiful void, one that quietly haunts the heart, and from which no memory can escape?

Words: Devon Hansen
Image: Mike Midnight

Invisible Cities II:  ​🇦​​🇲​​🇦​​🇷​​🇦​

NFS guests on this episode of Kiernan Laveaux’s Sweet Abyss, shaping an hour of fogged circuits and low-end weight—shoegaze noise, downtempo throb, post rock arcs and doom ambient. 

https://www.instagram.com/catlauigan
https://www.soundcloud.com/coneshapetop

Sweet Abyss with NFS @ The Lot Radio 12-02-2025

"A hush settles over the winter landscape as shadow and melody intertwine. Field recordings drift in like cold air through a cracked window, grounding each passage in a world both distant and near. Darker currents move beneath the surface, yet something gentle keeps breaking through — small motifs, brief clearings, moments of quiet lift. An abstract, atmospheric journey shaped by contrast, restraint, and a kind of beauty that thrives in low light."

William Selman (@wselman) is a Portland, Oregon-based multi-disciplinary artist whose sound work uses field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and digital processing techniques to explore themes such as place and non-places, embodiment, atmosphere, and the dialectic between the real and the artificial. He co-manages the Critique of Everyday Life label with Chris Miller (Gunnar Haslam) and plays in the improvisational trio Wild Card of Cascadia with Paul Dickow (Strategy) and Marcus Fischer. He has released works on Old Technology, Hausu Mountain, Mysteries of the Deep, Digitalis, and Critique of Everyday Life.

https://williamselman.bandcamp.com
https://critiqueofeverydaylife.bandcamp.com
https://old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-moves-between

Tracklist:
Incantation - Jean-Claude Eloy - Reminiscences (hors territoires)
Cave Calls - Mariolina Zitta - Concert for Bats, Voices and Natural Sounds (Black Sweat)
at eric ericsonhallen - Daniel M Karlsson - Towards a Music for Large Ensemble (fonstret)
Glass Bits - Chloe Alexandra Thompson - They Can Never Burn the Stars (SIGE)
Lyren - Jen Reimer and Max Stein - Sonic Topologies (Institute of Landscape Architecture)
Üzias - Bart De Paepe - Zürahümnah (La Scie Dorée)
Score for Rhythm Clusters with Accents Pt 1 - Chandler and Dickow - Play Fischer (Critique of Everyday Life)
Mount Mansfield - Sam Boston/Shawn O'Sullivan - Mount Mansfield (Critique of Everyday Life)
Sumatra Method - Émile Zener - Sumatra Method (Critique of Everyday Life)
Sanctioned Departures Pt 1 - William Selman - Sanctioned Departures (Critique of Everyday Life)
Passages - Octavian Nemescu - Passages... À Travers Le Temps (Metaphor)
The Willow Bends and So Do I - Magnus Granberg and Skogen - The Willow Bends and So Do I (Another Timbre)
then, silence - Bernhard Günter - then, silence (trente oiseaux)
Errant Ear - Brunhild Ferari - Errant Ear (Persistence of Sound)
I[0] = I[1] - Christophe Charles & Kozo Inada - i[] (Gestalt)
Everything Nice 1 - BJ Nilsen, Ragnar Jónsson, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - Everything Nice (Some)
L'expérience caustique - Elsa Justel - L'ombre du pont (empreintes digitales)
Chant d'ombre - Michèle Bokanowski - Musiques de concert (Sonoris)
The Clear Observatory - Massimo Toniutti - The Clear Observatory (Klang Gallerie)
Katko - Ø - Sysivalo (Sähkö)

HOCast #270 - William Selman

Reflected Themes

Evening Reflection

Malzof at Chillits 2025

Recorded live from within Black Oak(or khotishohol) Ranch in Mendocino County, California - in the historic land of the Northern Pomo, Coastal Pomo/Miwok, Cahto, and Yuki Peoples from 4:10 AM - 5:40 AM PST on Sept 13, 2025 - right after Neonlichter and before Kiernan Laveaux.

Coincidentally this slot time would coincide with 1-year since my dad’s funeral of September 13, 2024. After his passing, I would recover all of the records from his and my mom’s joint collection. Filled with folk music, pretty guitar and instrumentals, classical and comedic sketches, and more. 

To my joyful surprise, one of the records I would encounter in the collection, is one I recognized from my own collection of records: Environments Disc 1: The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore / Optimum Aviary, one of the pinnacle records of the Environments field recordings series. This one presents ocean sounds from Brighton Beach, Coney Island and birds from the Bronx Zoo. Before I left for Chillits, I tossed this record in my tote. I didn’t want to travel with too many records for this trip, but I knew this one had to make the cut.

read more about this mix on my substack: 
https://malzof.substack.com/p/grieving-with-music?r=3f4hsk

Malzof at Chillits 2025

Unstable: Stable 125 episode curated by Jakub Juhás from mappa (https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions).
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This mix is a selection of this year’s releases I put out on mappa. I wove into it a few field recordings I made myself, or together with my partner Michaela. I wanted to speak about a phenomenon that has fascinated me for a long time, and that is becoming more and more present in my life. It’s the way in which the releases I listen to over and over shape my emotional world, and shift the way I hear and perceive the world I move through. How, in certain tracks, I suddenly catch a glimpse of places I know, memories, scents, joys, or forgotten fears.

How the swamp behind my hometown feels different now—ever since I heard Adela Mede’s howling, which sits so close to the local frog choir. The boundaries blur completely, and sometimes I can’t tell what’s just an echo from some album, what’s a real memory of a creek in northern Romania, what’s the bubbling of volcanic mud on one of the Aeolian islands, and what’s the delicate crunchy electronics of Olli Aarni.

And the voices I hear when I wake from a dream at night—are they my neighbors, or have I heard them already in the worlds of Julek ploski, Plume Girl, Richard Hronský or Areliz Ramos? After ten years, I realized this is the driving force behind all this solitary work: this quiet sound-overflow that connects worlds so different from each other, forming unexpected little constellations of meaning.
Thank you for listening, even when you’re sometimes too far away.

Jakub J 
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Tracklist:
Jakub Juhás & Michaela Cagáňová - Gârnic, Romania (2023)
Adam Badí Donoval – ⁠thereby losing the weightless delight of being swept along with it (2025)
Jakub Juhás - Béter, Slovakia (2025)
Olli Aarni - Jäämatkailu (2025)
Julek ploski - 1H Of Shame -Loop , (2025)
Richard Hronský - 6 october 2018 (2025)
Plume Girl - Holy Creek (2025)
claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - thick walls, thin walls (2025)
Michaela Cagáňová & Jakub Juhás - Bârsana, Romania (2023) / Horná Mičiná, Slovakia (2025)
Yoichi Kamimura - Kōri no ryokō (2025)
Kult Masek & Petr Vrba - Fumarola (2025)
Areliz Ramos - B Side (2025)
fraufraulein - secret first thing (2025)
Lénok - xxx-xxx-x (2025)
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links:
Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
Bandcamp – https://mappa.bandcamp.com/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/___mappa/

125 – mappa – Selection of 2025 year’s releases

Beyond / Below 56 by @cahlsel. Received December 2025.
Photo by Jasper Sharp

"This started as an exercise in tone and texture but I ended up adding a patchwork of media clips to give the mix a loose structure. Those were put together in a free association kind of way, stuff that I think the brain can still latch onto without needing concrete themes attached. Shout out to Hi-Vis for the invite (!)"

KiF Productions - Laugharne Estuary to Welcombe Mouth (Excerpt)
Caldera - Feaves
Tetsu Inoue / Jonah Sharp - Macsquid
Fabiano - Saturated Memory Of A Rooftop
Onokio - TL
Special Guest DJ - waiting for the stars to change
990x - Solace
Kareem Lotfy - Chromosome
Unknown Future - JDDSP4000
Ulla Straus - House
The Orb - Passing the Time
Tylervision - The Last Human
Biosphere - The Things I Tell You
CiM - View
Romantic Warrior - Space Shuttle
another fine day - lazy daisy
M-Age - Mindwarp (Casper Pound & Laurence Elliot Potter Mix)
Señor Coconut - La Noche Cool

56. Cahl Sel

Global Weirding 052 - Chuck Johnson

untitled composition (spring, 2004)

asher tuil is an artist living and working in wanskuck, ri. for over fifteen years asher has worked with recorded sounds as his primary medium. location recordings, electronic synthesis, found sounds and a variety of other sources are used in his compositions to create a rich and dynamically varied body of work which examines these materials extensively.

untitled composition (spring, 2004)

asher tuil

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