FOF10: Light the Pyre

Deru - Light the Pyre

Sine Buyuka has found a perfect remedy for a gloomy Monday. Fireplace videos, her dog and fresh ginger tea feature in the London-based Circassian-Turkish producer's R&R routine, but today it's soundtracked by her own soothing blend of ambient sonics from across the world.

Sine wears many different hats: she's a DJ, label owner of Injazero, ex-music journalist, radio host, Guildhall School of Music and Drama graduate and a producer, the latter of which she's now doing under the moniker Sinemis.

This new project recently came to life with the release of Dua, an album that came at a life-changing time for Sine. Last year she began feeling unwell, but at the time her symptoms weren't diagnosable and gradually they worsened, resulting in her being admitted to A&E whilst visiting her family in Turkey. She eventually had surgery and has been on the road to physical and emotional recovery this year, a period that has had a profound affect on her musical output.

Drawing inspiration from Sufi music - traditional ritualistic music that are used to accompany ancient sema ceremonies native to her home of Turkey - the compositions are meditative and gentle, brought into the contemporary sphere by electronic soundscapes, ambient atmospheres and field recordings. 

To celebrate the release of the record, she offers up a mix of ambient vibrations plucked from Turkey, the Middle East, North and East Africa and the West...

Sinemis: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

ghostworker DJ set at the Erased Tapes 十五 Festival at Printworks London on November 5, 2022

Tracklist:

Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
Kluster - Kluster 1 (Electric Music) und Texte
Rival Consoles - Vision of Self
Ben Lukas Boysen - Clarion (Kiasmos Remix)
Tom Waits - Take It with Me
Tom Waits - What’s He Building?
Randy Newman - I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
Lorenzo Senni - Canone Infinito
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Matmos - Thermoplastic Riot Shield
billy woods - Marlow
The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Mama Koko (ft. Moor Mother)
Bell Orchestre - The Stars in His Head / Bernard 33 – Dark Lights (Colin Stetson Remix)
Crayon - Ithinkso
Patricia - Josephine
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four (Rival Consoles Remix)
Cornelius - Brazil
Daphne Oram - Four Aspects
Skee Mask - Vli
Madvillain - Accordion
Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
Kiasmos - Wrecked
world’s end girlfriend - Helter Skelter Cha-Cha-Cha
Nils Frahm - Peter (Clark Remix)

Photo: Alex Kozobolis

Erased Tapes 十五 Printworks London 5.11.22

ghostworker DJ set - Erased Tapes 十五 Festival at Printworks London 5.11.22

A trip through a planet, unmistakenly colorful but occasionally grey.
'A Flemish weekend' marks for me a new chapter, embracing Ambient music more fiercely, and following visual cues alike. 

watch the visuals on youtube: https://youtu.be/cH-TjU9yDUQ

Hertz#03

A flemish weekend

A Flemish weekend

♪ Produced by Sun Glitters
✎ Lyrics written by Nadine Carina
▩ Artwork by madeByhujo


When you say goodbye
I heard you say
I’ll run away
Far away
Come into my arms
I’ll set you free
And walk away
Far away

Think of me all the time
I want you all the time

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When You Say Goodbye (Single)

When You Say Goodbye

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SG X NC - When You Say Goodbye

Stolen Dog - Burial (Ryan Teague Piano Cover)

just a new radio&fernseh djset, recorded live, vinyl only, 1take, bum!

Tracklist:

jehst - australian

shlohmo - rained the whole time (nicolas jaar remix)

huge pascall - absence march (max cooper remix)

shonky - the minneapolis touch

scuba - dsy chn

el_txef_a - in

benjamin damage & doc daneeka -  halo feat. abigail wyles

pedestrian - hei poa

gang colours  - fancy restaurant (deft remix)

sun glitters - insane

kevin mc phee - your side

jamie xx - bloom (rework part 3)

blawan - getting me down

machine drum - Ddd

ministre x - calling me feat. sana

jack dixon - somebody said

last japan - girl

sbtrkt - living like i do (lil silva remix)

sepalcure - pencil pimp

bwana - it ain't done til it's over

sekuoia - dissapear

without onion by radio&fernseh

Sun Glitters Live at ART AREA ДК  
for the Ukraine Tour 2018 with Arms And Sleepers.
(Recorded by ArtArea DK / Dmitriy Chirik)

Track listing:

01.  From Saturday To Sunday
02. Another Day, Another Time
03. Nothing's The Same (feat. Steffaloo)
04. Unstable Ride (feat. Hindu)
05. What Are We Waiting For
06. Easy Delicacy (feat. Steffaloo)
07. Forever And Ever (feat. Steffaloo)
08. Calling Out (Reprise / feat. TVRQUOISE)
09. Is This Real (feat. TVRQUOISE)

Live at ART AREA ДК (Харькове / Kharkov)

Live at ART AREA ДК

Premiering on the Ransom Note: https://bit.ly/2MyJojX

"An enchanting new album." - The Ransom Note 

Heinali is the alias of self-taught composer and sound-designer Oleg Shpudeiko from Ukraine. Now well established under the name he brings along his latest full length ‘Iridescent’ due for release on October 12th on Injazero Records. 

Having garnered rapturous responses to his earlier output and last year’s ‘Anthem’ Oleg continues to push the boundaries and experiment with altering mood and atmospheres of any space - with abstract yet deeply personal transmissions of ambient synthesiser work and subaqueous, minimal techno contortions. 

‘Iridescent’ consists of fragments of studio improvisation sessions recorded in 2016 and 2017, some of them recorded in one unedited take on a modular system and some layered and later morphed into compositions. As the title suggests Heinali crafts shimmering, incandescent portraits, rich in his unique characteristics and compositional liberty. 

Apart from the “musical sculptures,” that represent the bulk of this LP, Oleg was interested in the exploration of polyphonic capabilities of the modular system. ‘Rainbow Folding’, a loose homage to Terry Riley’s 'A Rainbow In Curved Air,' features an interplay of several independent, but distinct voices and their processed shadows — ‘ghost voices’. In 'Shadow Invention’ eerie atmospherics steal the spotlight and dominate the composition, ending in a cacophony of the ‘ghost voices’. 

Oleg says of the album, “it’s a kind of studio dairy. A reflection on the development of my relations with the hardware instruments and exploration of them as channelling vessels for my experiences and ideas.” 

“One can think of Iridescent’ as ‘musical sculpture’ analogy — when the body of music stays the same, but its surface is flickering with various colours over time — sometimes in a subtle manner, sometimes loud and clear. Or it can be understood in the context of various colours of polyphony, or as a liminal condition of the colour as if it’s being ‘stuck’ in the mist of twilight zone between neighbouring colour-states, so it can’t become a particular colour and is in a flickering kaleidoscopic state.” 

‘Iridescent’ bares Oleg’s style of sonic storytelling and austere, otherworldly textural embellishments that bring to mind Ben Frost, Akira Yamaoka, and Oneohtrix Point Never but also plants the seed for much more club ready electro. ‘Starling Reprise I’ is a scorching piece of ambient techno that conjures Four Tet, LTO and Susumu Yokota’s blissful, kaleidoscopic synth work whilst ‘Starling Reprise II’ retains the frosty, steely ambience that has become Heinali’s calling card. 

Cover artwork by Olga Gaidash.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.

Pre-order

Heinali - Rainbow Folding

album: "Darkly"
label: Project Mooncircle
date: 2.11.2018

Vinyl/Digital: https://longarm.lnk.to/Darkly

Lullaby

'Fear Of Floating' is the second single from Australian-born, Liverpool-based composer, saxophonist and founder of Immix Ensemble, Daniel Thorne. The track, taken from Daniel's solo debut 'Lines of Sight', is a grand, transposing soundscape that places Daniel’s saxophone front-and-centre, allowing the abstract beauty of his meandering and contorting melody to breathe, amongst the chaotic backdrop of spiralling undulating effects. 'Fear Of Floating' perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of the record; equal parts magnificent, unnerving, mind-bending and deeply satisfying.     
 
"Although the album wasn't written to follow a specific narrative, I felt it should have the feeling of a journey, leaving a place of chaos and noise and arriving somewhere both serene and unfamiliar. As the final track on the album, I wanted 'Fear of Floating' to be to be the opposite of the album’s beginning ('From Inside, Looking Out') by being much sparser, eschewing large dense textures and instead focusing on a single melodic 'voice' that gets bashed about by its surroundings, before finally washing up somewhere peaceful and alone." — Daniel Thorne
 
Praise for Lines Of Sight, out March 15th on Erased Tapes:
 
“Dizzying compositions that thrive on chaos and control.” Self-titled  

“Analogue and digital, improvisatory and programmed, tactile and gaseous, this ripples between worlds.” DJ Mag
 
Deeply moving, full of otherworldly beauty and rapture, the album is alive, throbbing like a circulatory system, colourful and glowing. It literally dazzles – effectively capturing what the birth (or death) of a planet might sound like.

Every strand is fresh, vital and purposeful. The description ‘seamless’ might suggest a smooth, bland fusion, but here elements overlap in intermittent, undulating layers of mesh. Avant-garde, noise, electronics, ecclesiastical, classical and a touch of jazz come together, each occupying their own space while acquiescing with the whole.

Pre-order 'Lines of Sight' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/LinesOfSight

Lines of Sight

Fear Of Floating

Daniel Thorne - Fear Of Floating

Neither fully human nor machine but wriggling things synthesized.
experimental music + visuals

A Flemish weekend

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