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Gus Callahan is a sound designer, recordist, and audio engineer. Most recently, he’s the producer and composer of From Sun to Sound. Callahan employs texture, collage, and space to build worlds of sound. On From Sun to Sound, the next cassette release on Atlantic Rhythms, Gus Callahan sublimely introduces us to the symbiotic sounds of an imaginary geography that balance sonic exploration and minimal pop.

Gus Callahan - "Platesong" (AR-48)

Buy here: https://carlosferreira.bandcamp.com/album/momentary-ghosts

Momentary Ghosts was developed as an improvisational conversation held between two artists in a shared space separated by 6,000 miles. As a means to overcome this distance, an aural space was fabricated, where sounds could coalesce in the most organic manner. In this space, the guitar and piano improvisations are pure and candid— words spoken between friends. Very little post-production and overdubs have been added - just a few field recordings and electronic textures to provide color.

Bu.Re_ & Carlos Ferreira - "Night Sky"

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Shoeb Ahmad conceived of the Breather project during peak lockdown on the Australian continent. Ruminating on a dry season marred by devastating bushfires led Ahmad to start writing the A Body Full Of Tears album. Plunged into isolation and confronting the trauma of environmental degradation and pandemic realities, Ahmad decided to continue exploring and started to create a space for long-form, meditative compositions. That space was also important for processing the new, lockdown realities of working from home and wrangling two homeschooled children.

Ahmad performed these new mediations, the Breather sessions, in the middle of the day and live-streamed them so people could tune in and meditate and reflect along with the music while they had lunch, read a book, or work. As life started to go back to “normal” – the kids were back in school and Ahmad was back in the office – the Breather concept died down for a bit. In late 2020, she was given a grant that covered lost income from live performance in return for creating a body of work with the Breather concept. This time rather than do something durational, Ahmad played with the idea of using simple 10-second videos from her surroundings creating shorter works that could play as infinite loops.

These loops, when collected together, could be randomized to dovetail in and out of a playlist with a sense of endlessness. These works drew on a sound palette recorded for many previous projects over the years but reshaped and contorted into new forms, many unfamiliar with the artists who performed them with Ahmad. It was an exercise in restraint – adhering to an ambient wallpaper aesthetic for continual respite from the uncertainty we currently live within.

Shoeb Ahmad - "2.7"

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Oakland-based artist and musician Zekarias Thompson’s impressive debut collection arrives in the form of Goodnight Shiva, an album with six meditations that formed, first, from an impetus to listen. The album is about isolation and an attempt to reunite with the body. “A body,” Thompson says, “that I have never known how to define nor been of want, yet has been identified for me so frequently. It is about blackness (in the undefinable sense, and in its expositions).” 


Thompson deftly weaves the organic and inorganic on Goodnight Shiva. From emotionally entrancing saxophone to field recordings to drum machine and synth experimentation, Thompson controls a litany of surprises for maximum impact. Goodnight Shiva, as an exploration, is best digested in repeat listens where one can pull at the strands of patience, truth, experience, and poetry. That is, if you listen closely...

Zekarias Thompson - "Alight" (AR-51)

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Eli Wallace, Frank Meadows and Jessica Ackerley are a trio based between New York City and Honolulu. They met through the thriving experimental and improvised music scene in Brooklyn, having come to the city via their respective locations of California, North Carolina and Alberta. With various configurations of professional and musical collaborations between each musician over the past few years, they have honed a unique musical language and chemistry as a collective unit.

The pieces on 'A Maneuver Within,' the debut album by NYC/Honolulu-based trio MAW, are the product of an acutely transitional recording session from October 5, 2020. After years of lively sessions and discussions across the New York improvised music scene; Jessica Ackerley (guitar), Eli Wallace (piano), and Frank Meadows (bass) considered it a requirement to document a convergence before Ackerley’s looming move to Hawaii. Up to that point in the pandemic, collaboration and indoor group improvising had been severely limited, and much remained uncertain. What would have once been an artistic gesture packed within busy schedules felt in context like a glass of water in the desert, an impossibly rare and necessary opportunity. The ambient chaotic energy of that time was sharpened during set-up when the trio and engineer René Pierre Allain received news that Donald Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. The resultant headspace became an unhinged cocktail of joy, nostalgia, caution, absurdity, anxiety, and renewed invigoration. Fiercely kinetic splashes of conceptual frameworks and material exploration emerged in an urgent yet tempered group dynamic that recognized both the weight and the levity of the meeting. The result are recordings that set the tone for a new, unique group identity that has prompted continued collaboration and discussion. MAW seeks to present an aesthetically untethered voice, motivated not only by a love of exploration with “absolute sound," but by a desire to explore elevated modes of preparation and execution.

MAW - "Interphase" (AR-54)

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A Million Questions is the latest full length from DC-based producer Jackson Ryland (Superabundance, Rush Plus, 1432 R). The album’s eight hazy explorations comfortably flow from bliss and hiss ambience to hyped-up and hard charging experimental techno. A gossamer-like film is present through it all — part of the charm and pull of A Million Questions. Ryland’s sensibilities reflect a pathfinding quality — that of a perpetual sound tinkerer diving into the recording process in search of answers.

Jackson Ryland - "Fantasy Life"

Order Evan Zierk's new album, Endless Gesture, here: https://atlanticrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/endless-gesture

Endless Gesture, Evan Zierk's second release on Atlantic Rhythms, expands on the sonic approaches he developed in his 2017 release, Drifting/Bending, using stochasticism as a means of embodying the serendipitous sound-moments that emerge out of soundscape listening. He uses both real and digitally-mimicked acoustic sound combined with relatively subtle digital signal processing as a means of extending sounds into imperfect digital representations of themselves. This idea, in part, serves as a reflection on our commodified digital identities that exist in the eyes of corporations and governments as data-points formed by our online consumption of media and goods, and views these digital identities as transformed and immortalized versions of ourselves; “Hyperobjects''. This consideration works as a means of inspecting ideas relating to consumption, capitalism and digital immortality. Endless Gesture also represents a significant development in Zierk's engagement with Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening practice, as he is currently in the process of obtaining his Deep Listening Teaching certification from the Deep Listening Institute in Troy, NY.

Evan Zierk - "Endless Gesture" (AR-43)

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