VAK50B | Theodore Cale Schafer - Slacker

Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn meet as Dufwa in heavy synthesis wielding insect field recordings sourced from the catalonian countryside.  Dufwa’s debut release, Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre (Field recordings from Terres de I’Ebre), defies the standard conception one might have about field recording music. By means of intricate digital processing, Dufwa scrapes the natural source-bonding from their collected insectoid recording and sonically stretches them on a continuum between drone, noise and generative music.

Dufwa - Atypi

Skin/Glove is the second LP by Belgian musician Mathieu Serruys, following the release of his B.A.A.D.M. debut On Germaine Dulac back in 2014. Compiled over the course of a fortnight, the record features material recorded over the past five years: creaks of ice buckling under heat, thick hums like nauseating headaches, plumes of evaporated organ hymns, frostbitten crackles of dying tape loops. These disparate sources are unified by the pervasive corrosion of pain and time, which presses into the surface of every sonic object. Melodies splinter under the strain of being pulled apart; drones tremble under the gathering gravity of fatigue; dissonances flicker like candles on the brink of extinguishment. Yet despite the emotional density of the material itself, the process of composition provides a route toward comprehending how these sounds and experiences are connected. Skin/Glove reads as a constellatory map of adversity and grief, beautifully coalesced through the cathartic distance of retrospect, haunted by the sibilant whispers of distinct memories in dialogue, latticed by lesions that fatefully and poignantly intersect.

More info: https://baadm.org/releases/mathieu-serruys-skin-glove/

Mathieu Serruys – Les Temps Blancs

Ron Morelli L.I.E.S. Records NTS Radio show #4 May 2019

Ron Morelli-L.I.E.S. Records NTS show # 4 May 2019

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 9th July, 2019.

Unknown - Unknown
Felicia Atkinson - Lush (Shelter Press, 2019)
La Fondation - Impressions (Tago Mago/Tunnel Vision, 1983/2017)
Frank Hurricane - I Love the Rain (Ultra Eczema, 2019)
Boli Group - Garden Picture (Posh Isolation, 2018)
TRjj - Phob (Stroom, 2019)
Noor -  Synapse Fusion Refusal (Ultra Eczema, 2019)
Monokultur - Daliga Nyheter (Ever/Never/ Förlag För Fri Musik, 2019)
Malvern Brume - Circling (Infant Tree, 2019)
The Spies - Egyptian Bird Song (Siltbreeze, 2014)
The Fulmars - Fish On(Blackest Ever Black, forthcoming)
Speleocombo - Daar Gaat Zijn (Ultra Eczema, 2019)
Naked Spots Dance - Blank (NSD, 1983)
Ian Martin - Missing Realism (Blackest Ever Black, forthcoming) 
Kassel Jaeger - Prismatic Haze (Latency, 2019)
Unknown - Unknown

NTS Radio - July 2019

Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet (Angelo Harmsworth's and Dis Fig's Reworks)

J. Carter, 'One Another’s Geography (Dis Fig Terminal D Remix)' (2020). Courtesy VAKNAR, Berlin.

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/solitary-hymns

Solitary Hymns is an assemblage of ambient compositions which have been sourced and compiled by the label over the last 7 days. 

Each artist on this compilation originates from a different part of the globe, and while some of the featured works are direct, sonic responses to the occurrences of the past days, others are unreleased recordings, that take on an entirely new context in the current, unprecedented situation we all see ourselves in.

‘Solitary Hymns’ is for free, and while every donation is deeply appreciated, it is our intention that the work is accessible to anyone who might currently be looking for a brief escape from feelings of uncertainty, lonesomeness or anxiety.


Tracklist:
Theodore Cale Schafer - Mansfield
Anthéne – Light Years
Benoît Pioulard – Careworn
øjeRum - Your Chest, Your Hands, Your Mouth
Stijn Hüwels – Magnolia III
Forest Management – Fill in the Blank
Hakubone - March 28th
Zen Zsigo - (Windowpane) Nowhere Nearer
Oberlin – Remaining Embers

VAK29 | VA - Solitary Hymns

A film by Florian Geyer
Les Films du Balibari - 2020

La Cure - Original Soundtrack - MainTheme -

Taken from album 'Forma' released as LP and Digital

Lucy Railton 'Forma' (excerpt) (SPGRM 002)

From A Year Closer by Maths Balance Volumes

A Year Closer

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Maths Balance Volumes - We Had Time

B.A.A.D.M. explores music as a medium to evoke extramusical meanings, references, obsessions or strategies that can lay hidden behind sound. We invite experimental musicians to a 'conceptual residency', devising an interaction between artist modus operandi and an environment of alternate worldview. Each release is a means of mapping the intersection between the artist’s pathways of thought and B.A.A.D.M.'s aesthetical universe.

Mathieu Serruys – Les Temps Blancs

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