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@e-fishpool (efp) provides us with a mix to accompany our first show of the year: 'Without your mother' by Madeline Bishop.

The project was supported by Create NSW

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Without your mother considers the nature of absence within maternal relationships. An absence is a state or condition in which something expected, wanted or looked for is not present. We begin our lives looking for our mothers. Do we ever stop looking for them and do they ever stop looking for us? As we grow, we make attempts to detach ourselves in order to become independent and live adult lives. What remnants of this relationship that defines our early lives remain in the distance of adulthood? Amid absence, our memories morph, the details become duller and distorted over time and we’re left with a summarised version of what might have happened, similar to a photograph. Some edges will blur and some will sharpen until those are the only parts we can remember.

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https://madelinebishop.com/Without-your-mother

efp @ TCS Windows

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Following her debut album, 'I’ll Look for You in Others' (Past Inside the Present), earlier this year, @patriciawolf_music joins Balmat label with 'See-Through', her second album. 'See Through' finds the Portland, Oregon musician and field recordist continuing to develop her signature style of ambient, balancing radiant soundscaping with a carefully expressive sensibility. But the new album is also marked by an important difference. Where 'I’ll Look for You in Others' was largely written in response to the death of a loved one, 'See-Through' represents a kind of rebirth. 

“After a long period of grief, I had been hoping to find my way to a place of lightness, peace, playfulness, curiosity, and sensuality again,” Wolf says. “What I was surprised and pleased to find is that for the most part, I had.”

She wrote and recorded many of the album’s songs quickly, in preparation for an August 2021 broadcast on the online radio platform 9128 Live. Excited for the opportunity to play live after more than a year of the pandemic, Wolf decided to write all new material for the event, working with a lean setup of Octatrack, Roland Synth Plus 10, Make Noise 0-Coast, and Novation Summit. (In fact, Wolf was the first sound designer invited to create patches for the Summit.) She also picked up an acoustic guitar that her brother had loaned her. “I decided to take the surrealist approach of ‘pure psychic automatism’ to see what poured out of me,” she recalls. “Woodland Encounter,” “Under a Glass Bell,” “The Grotto,” “The Mechanical Age,” “The Flaneur,” and “Psychic Sweeping” are all products of those sessions; the through line holding them together is their exploratory spirit and clarity of vision. 

Other songs, like “A Conversation With My Innocence”, “Recalibration” and “Psychic Sweeping”, wrestle with the traumas of the preceding year. Though they may linger on the heaviness of loss, Wolf says, “What I discovered is that a stronger archetype had grown inside me to steer my emotions and thoughts to a better place. “Likewise“, “Wistfulness” and “Upward Swimming Fish”—her first experiments with VST synthesizers—balance the bittersweet embrace of melancholy with the freedom to choose happiness.

“Pacific Coast Highway”, the album’s lone song with drums, might at first seem like an outlier. But it also signals Wolf’s interest in finding a fusion between the introspection of ambient and the togetherness of beat-oriented music. “Experiencing loss and isolation is what drove me into gentler territories of sound,” she says, “but I want to start making more beat-oriented music. After an extended period of loss and isolation, I’m ready to experience more joyous and social things.”

Listeners with keen ears might recognize the album’s closing song, “Springtime in Croatia”: A different mix of the song originally appeared on the 2021 digital compilation 'secondnature & friends Vol. II', from the Seattle label secondnature. This marks its first appearance on vinyl, however, and its spiritual home is undoubtedly here, at the close of 'See-Through'. As the bookending answer to the opening “Woodland Encounter”—another song in which field recordings play a crucial role—it closes the circle of an album that is itself keyed to the steadily turning cycles of life.

See​-​Through

Patricia Wolf - See​-​Through [BALMAT03]

We are pleased to present TSS's new podcast mixed by Chicago based @raw_silk 

His releases are everything between sereen ambient, chilled out trap and experiments of all sorts. We are fans and are delighted to host the Purelink group member's one hour trip. 

And please do check out his new album! https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-people-are-like-water 

Cover design by Rutger Paulusse.

Concave Reflection _ TSS Podcast 005

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-24th-march-2022

SVETLANA MARAŠ - VI
BEKØ - ne felejts
KATARINA GRYVUL - Rozpad
JUNG DJ - Bitcoin
ENDLESSWATERS無限の海  - Warmsand暑い砂
ECO FUTURISM CORPORATION - N-ый мистер
NUEEN - Path Ft Gerard Sun
TIME WHARP - Ingenue
RHUCLE  - Mainspring
SLOWFOAM & PABLO DISERENS - Ice On Ice
YOLABMI  - VIII
SLOWFOAM & NEILLL - Unreleased
SELENE - Selene’s Secret Garden
Z N O - Cybloom
OTHER JOE - Interior Music 08
YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN - Dust
PENT - Annular Proto Sep
PHILIP JECK  - Chime, Chime
ANDREW PEKLER - Los Jardines

@postgeography w/ Slowfoam aired March 24, 2022

Post-Geography w/ Slowfoam on NTS

Variations w/ KMRU  - 9TH May 2022

For his first one on the radio, Mish take us with a selection of tunes that follow no specific theme that epitomises the sorts of styles, hybrids & genres that he has taken great interest in as of late.

One Off w/ Mish (28/07/22)

https://soundcloud.com/sand-circles

https://www.retreatradio.net/continuity

Tracklist:
𝚐𝚊𝚋_𝚒 - dialed e-motion
mu tate - franks hublots
exael - Composure
all options - sesh2
tofudj - Take 2
bswalk - november7 loop
found sounds ”Futako-Tamagawa station”
all options - untitled1
Continuity - Dawn Shifts
heath - painting
mlin patz - Rustling Tires Without A Car
found sounds ”UNUMA AERIAL WALKWAY”
Glint - Full Cavity
Variant - Adrift
Grimescapes - Balance
èvia - downpour
found sounds ”Itabashi to Oji station”
Bryozone - Glowing Sirens
nknwn - Untitled_05
Continuity - ??
Continuity - Chrome haze (version)

Continuity #23 w/ Sand Circles(22/01/23)

WATCH_DOGS OST (Brian Reitzell) - Escape From Chicago

WATCH_DOGS OST (Brian Reitzell) - Computer Underground

Philip Selway - Coming Up For Air

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http://sevensaturdays.bandcamp.com/

The subtle melodic nuances of Jonathan D. Haskell draw musical inspiration from late night drives lost in the Mulholland hills of after hours Los Angeles. In these quiet moments symphonic landscapes emerge to form the headphone-centric Seven Saturdays.

Seven Saturdays makes you feel as if you're on those late night drives, creating music with delicate keyboards and distant vocals that tug at your heart strings. While recorded in Los Angeles, Seven Saturdays strays from your typical indie rock band. The recordings of Seven Saturdays comprise an impressive list of talented musicians including: Morgan Kibby (M83), Mike Garson (David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins), Wesley Precourt (Dave Stewart, Jenny Lewis), and Eric Heywood (The Pretenders, Ray LaMontagne).

In early 2010, Seven Saturdays released a self-titled EP which Stereogum described as "gripping and mellowly epic" and spent 6 weeks on CMJ's Top 200 Radio charts. Now Haskell is releasing the Secret Things remix EP, which includes a reworked track by Sun Airway that Pitchfork described as "sparkling" (other contributers are: Memoryhouse, White Sea, Teen Daze, Houses and Millionyoung), and a collection of ambient recordings entitled Love In The Time Of Anticipated Defeat, out now on Dynamophone Records.

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Balmat is a label with a cloudy outline.

Jointly shepherded by Albert Salinas (@wooky) and Philip Sherburne (@psherburne), two friends living in Cardedeu, Catalonia, and on the Balearic island of Menorca.

Bookings: mario@lapsusagency.com

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