soundscapes / psychoacoustic / ambient

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Carleton - A Verse

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Fatmeh - Etéreo y Alado

Andrew Thomas Huang - Solipsist Soundtrack [YGK020]

1. Intro
2. Limits
3. Stone Meets Stone
4. The Knowing
5. Galaxies In A Straight Line
6. Light Alight And More Light

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 28 April, 2023
Mixed by Andrew Thomas Huang
Cover by Andrew Thomas Huang
Mastered by Soda Plains

Andrew Thomas Huang - The Knowing [YGK020]

Ans M - Bud

Sound Composition for Ultra Poetry Archive ,part of the  spatial Installation by Deandrade and Walla Capelobo at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. 2023

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EARTHSEED PART 2

Recorded during a heatwave in a deconsecrated chapel and composed over a slow and sporadic process, Kepla’s new album In Furnace captures the uncanny feeling of living at the end of the world. Through drawing us into a place of stifling heat against the coolness of stone, with a broken church organ among Jon Davies’ multi-instrumental approach, it reflects on places that have been lost and gathered new meaning.

In July 2021, Jon arranged a weeklong residency at Capel-y-Graig, a chapel-turned-artspace in the Welsh hamlet of Furnace. He went there to experiment with field recordings, experiment with cello and piano, and learn the Suona, a traditional double-reeded musical instrument made popular in China, as well as to gather recordings ready for resampling.

Following the residency it became evident that instead of reprocessing recordings, preserving the unique reverberation of the chapel, its surroundings and the extreme climate would become the album’s focal point. These contested objects - a chapel that no longer functions for organised religion; an instrument unmoored from its ritual function - exist during a time where ecological collapse is no longer in the distant future.

The conception of In Furnace began by obtaining and learning to play the suona soon after seeing Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1989 film A City of Sadness, the first major film to depict the February 28 incident in Taiwan, a 1947 anti-government uprising that was brutally suppressed.

After a recent family trip to Taipei, Jon felt a cultural estrangement from his Hong Kong/Taiwanese heritage, where political suppression is once again a rising concern. The Suona represents a key ceremonial function across the Asian diaspora, although they have been recently banned from funeral rites in rural areas of China due to apparent public disruption.

The production of In Furnace marks a personal departure from Kepla’s debut album Within The Gaze, A Shadhavar, embracing musicality through performance and exploring complex harmony. From the opening of the record’s microtonal melody and spectral frequencies, to the album’s closing piece ‘Sanctifier,’ a one-take improvisation based on one of Olivier Messiaen’s modes of limited transposition, the underlying suspense throughout the record is maintained by its tonal ambiguity. Built on the organ’s wheezing and breathy chord cycles, ‘Time In Furnace’ gives the album its tensest moment, underpinned by a forebodingly glacial Suona counterpoint.

Another inspiration for In Furnace is the filmic sculpting of time and subjectivity, in particular juxtaposing ‘real’ with ‘imagined’ spaces, alluding to a sense of storytelling. ‘Horse Ladder’ is the clearest example, setting the scene of Jon practising cello in the chapel against the distant crackles outside; the piece concludes with dramatic percussion accompanied by creeping strings (featuring Simon Barr from anarchist black metal group Dawn Ray’d) in a totally different sonic environment. Similarly, ‘A Clearing, Spectre In Autumn’ transports the listener from meditative drones to a brittle hum punctuated by synthetic feedback, both atmospheres reciprocating unease to each other.

“I’m trying to give some sort of sensitivity to a lot of stories that I’m tangentially related to, but I feel alienated from them. As an artist with both Chinese and Welsh backgrounds, but having grown up in South London, these cultures are currently estranged,” Jon says. “The suona is (hopefully) an instrument not just for playing music but as an activated artefact to reacquainting myself to something lost. Similarly, the Capel is a space that demands to be activated by sound, with its incredible acoustics, as well as the organ with only one fully functioning lung.” In Furnace pulls the ever more common feelings of cultural and ecological disintegration together into a haunting, textural elegy.

In Furnace

Kepla - Spectre In Summer

sysadmin's second addition to evo-natura's catalog is the captivating two-tracks drone EP "2".

The project features the mesmerizing compositions "Sickly Sweet" and "Enigma," both centered around mournful progressions that gradually evolve over time, where decay becomes an art form, creating a contemplative atmosphere that exudes a soothing aura. Within the gentle embrace of the pieces, themes of forgiveness and awareness intertwine, leaving an open invitation to explore the depths of emotion through sonic exploration.

Artwork, Written & Mixed by Ashland Ristoff.
Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

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sysadmin - Enigma

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from 'Transcorporal Portal', forthcoming on Somewhere Press
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Transcorporeal Portal

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Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm

Jiyoung Wi is a multi-faceted artist from Seoul, Korea currently residing in The Hague, Netherlands. Jiyoung’s work can be situated within fictional literature, improvised music, field recording, with an interest in juxtaposing or disjointing these fields of practice through her sonic and literary methodologies. Jiyoung’s debut album 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔, is a concise body of work that punctuates a beginning point to her work within the 12” LP format. The recording serves as one of the two releases concluding the three year sonic endeavor that is the ENXPL (Enmossed X Psychic Liberation) series.

Having previously released recordings on compilations for labels like Mirae Arts, Eastern Nurseries, and Psychic Liberation, here Jiyoung hones a cinematic-like structure that exemplifies the biome within her craft. While presently Jiyoung is performing the systematic dismantling of a violin in her live improvisations paired with approachable boutique synthesizers, 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a pairing of the inimitable Korg MS-20 and field recordings staged or captured by Jiyoung in Seoul and Busan, South Korea.

With three scenes per side, Jiyoung walks us through different geographical and spatial intimacies. Public spaces and intimate conversations are obscured and reconstructed. Glass elevators, an unknown hotel lobby piano recital, office toilet rants, windowside night bus travels, and multiple languages interplay with staged and unstaged conversations to transmogrify themselves into a world of Jiyoung’s view. Money, sex, relationships, and cultural parameters are at once idiosyncratic as well as disorientingly familiar to the listener.

As an extension of the series coined by Jiyoung as 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, the album feels crisp, pressurized, and at times funny, at other times melancholic. As language, space, and viewing perspective shift, Jiyoung’s succinct album invites the listener to an aural world uniquely of her own viewpoint. While collecting source material relying on the outside world (conversations, elders, the closing track featuring Sungeun Lee), we have a listening experience that deeply illustrates Jiyoung’s perspective. The disjointed experience of someone maneuvering internationally to further develop a practice is encapsulated brilliantly here by Jiyoung with 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔. Alongside Makoto Oshiro’s 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅, it is a perfect bookend to the ENXPL series.

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Jiyoung Wi is a writer and musician based in Seoul and The Hague. She writes fiction in-between institutional and non-institutional contexts, and works with sounds in-between clubs and art museums. Her methodology involves building and breaking sonic narratives by arranging and re-contextualizing disparate sound sources ranging from field recordings to fragmented anonymous dialogue.

She approaches sound and text as invisible experiences and phenomena, and is interested in the narrative symptoms that emerge when both are juxtaposed on the same axis. In a series entitled 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, she explores these symptoms operating within and without the art space. She has been co-organizing an experimental/leftfield listening event 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘚𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘭 since 2019. 

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Voices by Windy Kim, Carl G., Schang09
Piano by Sungeun Lee
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by Dominique S

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Jiyoung Wi - Walking Tumor (ENXPL22)

Oisatsana ~ Past Life

The opening track from Xenia Reaper's new 12", out March 29 on INDEX:Records.

https://indexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/luvaphy

Premiere: XENIA REAPER - Within [INDEX:Records]

Bells And a Saw 2

Dodecanal

Innausea

Nexcyia steps up on Alien Jams with the haunting experimental electronic EP, ‘Crawl’. Hear the shuddering ambience of ‘24dec’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-nexcyia-24dec

Crawl EP

Premiere: Nexcyia ‘24dec’

"Intimate Ghosting", a compilation album featuring nine musicians from Japan and South Korea, is being newly introduced to the roster of the Netherlands/US-based record label Psychic Liberation. Under the curation of novelist and musician Jiyoung Wi, the album contains the works of Arexibo (KR), Arles (KR), bela (KR), Jiyoung Wi (KR), Joyul (KR), Kazumichi Komatsu (JP), Kenji (JP), Ultrafog (JP), and Yeong Die (KR). ‘Intimate Ghosting’ is a lucid invitation to the effervescente sonic field progressing throughout the experimental, left-field, ambient music communities of said regions. The album artwork is from Moon Bae, an artist working in the US and South Korea.

Curation : Jiyoung Wi
Mastered : Elizabeth Davis
Design : Moon Bae

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soundscapes / psychoacoustic / ambient

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