P X A

P X A - Kimono

Snow Loop

Grounding through grounding: the debut P X A full-length S P A C E S is a gut level sounding board of the creative thoughts and emotions of Astro Nautico co-founder Paul Jones. 

The P X A project is about regeneration. Over the course of four years, Jones archived intimate experimental recordings he had previously abandoned. By sculpting a web of finished fragments Jones discovered wild tangles of roots forming knots and suggestive patterns. Ghosts emerged through static media, some friendly, some eremitic. Fleeting images of different pasts found harmony in disharmony, beauty in the uncanny. Refracted through a cascade of nostalgia and disorientation, tied only loosely to their origins in space-time, sun-warped auditory holograms appeared and disappeared into nothingness. 

The music of P X A is both absorption and reflection of the World. The petroelectric death hum of global capitalism hangs heavy in the air around 60Hz. Inverted tape-hiss weaves in and out of the highs, a fleeting (impossible?) leap over and under resurfacing realities, the concrete of field recordings and the spirited ephemera of (re)imagined memories/melodies. Moments of profound dissociation linger and fade into the sublime, trading dread for a supreme peace. 

For those seeking time out to feel feelings and think thoughts about permanent impermanence, Astro Nautico is thrilled to release P X A on cassette and digital media. 

Note: In solidarity with those for whom the freedom to explore space has been denied, proceeds from this release will benefit U.S. prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance.

S P A C E S

P X A - Building 7

DEATH TOLL

Afterglow

Stream/download everywhere: https://ffm.to/ax2020
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2T0YqzM
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/atlanticsx

Astro Nautico’s Atlantics X is a compilation celebrating a decade of the label’s existence and fundraising to provide financial assistance for its community members impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A wide range of beloved artists return to the label, including Photay, Time Wharp, Honey Oat, Michael Beharie, Lee Clarke, IGBO, Tatiana Heuman, Persona La Ave & Baraka, Andre Wiken, Basile3, and C. Form. Label co-founders Paul Jones (P X A), Sam O.B., and Kuhn all contribute new music in the tradition of the original Atlantics Vol. 1-3 compilations (’09-’13).

Astro Nautico’s first all-label compilation since 2013’s Atlantics Vol. 3, Atlantics X serves as an index of the artistic and curatorial development of a ten-year exploration of the interstices of genres, moods, and modes of musical creation.

From Photay’s chirping, thunderous dark mechanics on ‘Sea Urchin’ to Time Wharp’s feather light synth meditation ‘12-31-12,’ dynamic curves traverse a terrain of many sounds at many plateaus. Pop experimentalism in Michael Beharie, IGBO, and Sam O.B. sets a heartbeat that cracks, melts, and is resampled in the shattered electronics of Tatiana Heuman and fragmentary lo-fi trap of Kuhn, while Andre Wiken and C. Form differently treat the dancefloor as a space of reverie and intrigue.

Atlantics X is a crowning jewel of the mutual aid fund and fundraising campaign of the same name. Astro Nautico initiated this fundraiser in spring in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. All sales and streams of the Atlantics X compilation support members of the label's community with financial needs due to Covid-19. Since May, the label has published 12 projects, from singles and EPs to albums and contemplative dance videos, in this series. Astro Nautico has distributed $4,262.65 to date to fund recipients, with priority to BIPOC recipients.

More information and donation links for the Atlantics X mutual aid fund are available on GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/atlanticsx  
credits

Mastered by Sam O.B. in Enfield, NH
Artwork by Bennett Kuhn
Graphics by Kewi Bedoyan
Illustrations by Lee Clarke, Manuela Guillén, Michelle Ishikawa, Paul Jones, Bennett Kuhn, Sam O.B., Demi & Parker

P X A - Memory Of A Walk

Brooklyn/Philadelphia-based record label run by Paul Jones, Sam O.B. and Bennett Kuhn.

All releases before Fall '13 available free here or <a href="http://www.astronautico.bandcamp.com">http://www.astronautico.bandcamp.com</a>