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Papiro (@marcopapiro)
Automare
12" LP (Muscut 7)
Release date: TBA 2017
muscut.org/Papiro-Automare

A 
Rhenus Rebus

B
Automare 
Polmonella* 
Incom 
Latana Supurea

Performed by Marco Papiro with* 
Anthony Glass: Casio vibes 
Markus Stähli: Q-Chord 
Mastered by Alex Buess

From the city that brought you LSD comes a new album by Marco Papiro, a Swiss-Italian musician and graphic designer who has gained some notoriety with his album covers for the likes of Panda Bear and Sun Araw. "Automare" is Papiro's seventh solo album, recorded on 4-track cassette, on hard-disk, in public and in private, entirely self-produced and now released on Nikolaienko's Muscut label.

The five hauntingly evocative tracks offer a variety of atmospheres from surreal to arcane, from celestial to subaqueous. Synthetic sounds (some mature EMS, Moog and Roland) are combined with other assorted instruments (organ, shehnai, electric guitar and bass,) and emulsified through various time-and-space-bending devices. There are no percussions, with one surprisingly groovy exception, in which a drum machine is being generously treated with phaser and envelope filters – think of early Cabaret Voltaire with a North Saharan touch.

Papiro's handcrafted artificial vocals are anything but human, but all the more compelling: out of the fluorescent Plankton of the side-long opening track "Rhenus Rebus" rises a siren's voice, reminiscent of Alide Maria Salvetta in Battiato's "Campane", joined in a final mantra by an oboe borrowed from an inebriated Third Ear Band. Entering a chimeric karaoke bar, the title track "Automare" makes the album even more bizarre by introducing a distinctive pop feel. Back to the abstract world, the following "Polmonella" – a live recording with additional musicians Anthony Glass (aka Antenna Tony Monorail) and Markus Stähli (of Roy & the Devil's Motorcycle) – is a fevery exploration of cosmic territories in the manner of Harmonia, while the alien articulation of "Incom" sounds unlike anything else ever recorded.

Papiro - Automare (12", 2017) Excerpts

Second track on side A of the new Dilloway album "Switches". Released on November 16th 2017.
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The master of twisted noise is adding a new album to his incredible discography. Following his monumental album ‘The Gag File’ on Dais, ‘Switches’ is the next chapter in the evolution of Dilloway's sound. Created on piano and tape ‘Switches’ is a spiralling journey into the rugged mind and soul of one of the most influential figures in radical modern music.

The album is pressed on green 180 g vinyl and housed in a reversed board sleeve illustrated with artwork by Cejero favorite Henri Jacobs. All music mastered by Jason Lescalleet.

Released in edition of 400 copies.

For wholesale, please get in touch at: eks @ cejero . net
US buyers can order directely from Hanson: ://hansonrecords.bigcartel.com/product/aar…p-cejero-dk

Switches

Aaron Dilloway "Switch 17"

BLACK DEER - BASEBALL SHORTS

We release Phil Strucks album NNO on February 23.

Phil is a experimental recording artist, who also works as a photographer, documenting the contemporary, experimental electronic music scene and life around it. His music is based on sampling from odd sound sources, random data streams and the usage of microphones and various synthesizer. Phil ennobles the trivial, honors the silence and creates an experimental collection of raw textural ambiance. It could’ve been a matter of trompe-l’oeil, a mere juxtaposition of audio signs to mimic functionality, but there’s a much more vibrant and fluid quality to his mind-expanding pieces. He is living in Hamburg, Germany.

Text: Baptiste Girou (Inverted Audio)

Phil Struck - Brook

Morning mode

Taken from Keys to the Fields 27: Various Artists "The White Madonna"

Sofia Ozdravovna _ How a City Sings from November to November

Electric Capablanca renders the throes of summer in soft focus with some languid, cinematic and Balearic-tinged ambient.

'Puzzles & Studies' is out September 13th on Kit Records/SWIMS.

Pre-order: https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/puzzles-studies

@kitrecords
@swimsrecords

Premiere: Electric Capablanca - Capablanca Spin [Kit Records/SWIMS]

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-a-shell

Time exposed (VAK17 - Life In A Shell)

LE RENARD s'war uns

Track commissioned for the exhibition ‘Now Accepting Contactless - Design in a Global Pandemic’ V&A Dundee as part of a mix by David Blamey for British Earways to be played on a loop in the gallery.

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A couple of months before lockdown, the housing block where Tom White lives got covered in scaffolding. Residents were left in a building veiled by translucent white netting for months on end. This composition was made in this specific urban lockdown context: the fridge whirs, birds chirp on scaffold poles, electromagnetic activity & tape loops reverberate on the eardrums, within the home and out into the world.

Composed of archive and site specific sounds. 
London Spring 2020

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