DOWNLOAD ALBUM

SLIKBACK X JJJACOB - PROTEAN GEM

Glass Top Redux :: https://ericfrye.bandcamp.com/album/glass-top-redux

Glass Top Redux

Dimitry's Promenade

Part of POP 6 SUSURRUS

https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/pop-6-susurrus

Design: Kevin Hytönen

POP 6 SUSURRUS

Main Character (From POP 6 SUSURRUS [MAP032])

but i'm close too

USUSUSESESERERER

++++++++++++++++

GAN fantasy

Musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim follows up ‘The Bent Bow Must Wait to Be Released’  (Takuroku 2021) with their second LP - a deadly serious dismantling of the limits of contemporary computer music, delivered with playful dexterity and a touch of slapstick humour, a la Henry Cow. 

Enlisting General MIDI to create frenetic, vital patterns of dis-organisation made up of gleeful synthetic trumpets, wry orchestral sweeps and brutal key clusters, Sunik Kim explodes a kind of simplistic sound into complex, beautifully uncertain structures. Readers may laugh, but ‘Potential’ is calmer than Kim’s previous offerings. Rather than attempting to overwhelm or stun the listener into subjectivity, ‘Potential’ is ever shifting; regularly breaking form and unfolding, discreetly nibbling at the concept of the Spectacle and un-doing fatally closed systems of cyclic music. 

On first listens we recalled Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures, Stockhausen’s Gruppen, and even those weirdo attempts at making music from inside the world of Animal Crossing, Lil Jürg Frey. The overflowing ideas of Henry Cow (to which Kim dedicated a fantastically blended mix for the Wire in 2021) never drift too far from view, but contemporary counterparts lay few except for Yorkshire's most eminent polyceleratrix, Gretchen Aury, who we asked to write the liners. Gretchen’s words are unsurprisingly as extraordinary as the record itself, so we’ll close out the call to elicit a Media response to possibly the wildest OTOROKU yet with their words:

“Potential reads as a rare honest response to the disaster capitalist era of the apparent nearing end of the anthropocene, a cyborg music which is not hopelessly psychotic like so much contemporary and especially computer-requiring music, but lucidly possessed with rapture, pain, madness, empathy, ecstasy, torment, fragility; all those vital feelings and incentives which our atrociously depressing times seem engineered to quash and bleed out of us. This sound is a blistering Electro Magnetic Pulse wave of revolutionary hope, exclaiming defiantly that History is not over, that the future is not ‘history,’ that there is still a vast multitude of ideas and identities burning brightly and resiliently, despite the fact that they are inconceivable to the tyrannical Hegemonic axis of global capitalist tech-culture. I ask of you, listener, if you truly wish to plunge beyond The Known, give yourself over in full to this record.”

—

Artwork by Sunik Kim
Layout and design by Jeroen Wille 
Liner notes by Vymethoxy Redspiders
Mastered by Anotine Nouel at Sound Love Studios

All music by Sunik Kim
Track 1 edited by John Wall

—

OTOROKU
18-22 Ashwin Street
Dalston, London
2023

OTOROKU is distributed internationally by Cargo. For any further enquiries about this release, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk.

Potential

ROKU035 - Sunik Kim - Potential [sample]

NoCorner

You´ll Always Stay Beautiful (Side A) - NoCorner, 2019

Composed and recorded in Bandung, October 2017
Mixed in Montreal and Milan May 2018.
comes with a photo-zine, available on Haunter Records bandcamp.

https://heith.bandcamp.com/merch/sangkakala-malaikat

Sangkakala Malaikat

Favouring a predominantly digital palette – one that won’t be, at least on the surface, unfamiliar to aficionados of ambient minimalism – ju ca details a collection of scenes, fragments and delicate murmurs, one passage floating into the next. But it is not as if these are static, middling affairs – upon closer listening, one may realise that these snapshots of softened glass, rubberised edges, and hanging reverberations cycle and pivot in ever-changing sequences.

Like a trick of the light, foreground shifts to the back; what was a whisper is revealed as an echo of an impassioned plea; and while it may be hard to tell where an element emerged from, or where it indeed it may go on the plane of the work, everything does in some way seem in its right place.   It’s not as if one is staring at or glimpsing some pastorale of Impressionism from a century ago – no, more appropriately one is to find oneself slipping into the work itself.

Perhaps it is more powerful, more evocative to figure oneself in the nondescript, the semi-abstract when the placement is so deliberate, so lovingly assured – and, specifically concerned with the physical dimension, “but only if one would let it".

Music by ju ca
Mastered by Sean McCann at Recital Program

Includes remixes by ptwiggs (Eternal), Nico Niquo (Orange Milk) and Flora Yin-Wong (PAN)

Artwork is 'Untitled 7' by Lucas Dupuy

℗ & © angoisse 2020

Chasms

Pre-order

ju ca - Micah

"Pulsar Acid" is OUT NOW on SUPERPANG
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-acid
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/HrG6n9Wc3KE

*Playback on stereo speakers is recommended, otherwise single stems might not be audible*

Composed and produced by Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Software by Marcin Pietruszewski
Mixing and mastering by Jung An Tagen
credits
design: Joe Gilmore
released October 10, 2020

Jung/Frye - "Pulsar Acid"

@infaant
The eighth release on katharsis is the EP “Something in Me Does Not Suffer” by the Detroit-based artist Infant. His earlier releases on labels such as Rest Now!, media_rins and WET illustrates the artist’s ethereal style of ambient and experimental music. With the title of this release drawing on the mysticism of the French philosopher Simone Weil, Infant takes us through a selection of astral soundscapes providing us with light for the spirit and nourishment for the soul. 

Throughout the release, the listener is presented with long stretches of celestial pads accompanied by the ambience of nature and whispered words from the artist himself. He states the following about the EP: “It’s a collection of material produced in the midst of a deep quarantine-induced haze. Between working from home, making clothes, and spending lots of time in the woods, I produced these pieces, weaving together poetry, field recordings and mutated synthesis. There’s no conceptual underpinning, only a desire to reconcile myself with the state of things”.

Main Character (From POP 6 SUSURRUS [MAP032])

Atte Elias Kantonen

Recent comments

Alice

LightCone

Related tracks