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Crucial new album from our dear friend Josiah Wolfson under his @xorsize alias.

A continuation of his previously released album 'Covert ID', this body of work delves even deeper... Heady, reverberating & ricocheting sonics, craftfully fine tuned by Josiah over the years, along with the beautiful artwork he collaged together throughout the recording process of the album.

A  timeless release that will definitely turn the true heads out. 

Available to purchase now on Vinyl via Boomkat & Aeon Books, and coming soon to all good record stores around the globe.

https://boomkat.com/products/aether-ore

GMV19 X or Size - Aether Ore (Snippets)

@ylia —aka Susana Hernández— had a remarkably productive 2020. In addition to releasing her debut album, Dulce Rendición, on Barcelona’s Paralaxe Editions, she penned compilation tracks for Lapsus Records, Hivern Discs, and Super Utu/Stars on Earth.

But professional success can be deceiving: The following year was, personally speaking, terrible. Her grandfather died. Her father died. Her cat died. And she ended a relationship. “That’s a lot of things all at once, no?” she says.

Her second album, Ame Agaru, is not necessarily a record of that year, but it is, she says, a response to those life events—a record of grief.

The new album is clearly a continuation of the ambient investigations of Ylia’s debut, but it differs in key ways. Where Dulce Rendición was exploratory and faintly cosmic, Ame Agaru—a Japanese phrase meaning, roughly, “the rain lifts”— captures a melancholy sense of stillness. And where her debut was largely electronic, on the new album, Ylia has folded in a number of acoustic elements, even when they are not recognizable as such. Her partner, Alejandro Lévar, lends fingerpicked acoustic guitar to the glowing dronescapes of “Todos los Cuerpos”; multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Tete Leal adds flutes, clarinet, and soprano saxophone to “Ame Agari”—or “after the rain”—which opens the album with a moment of contemplative calm, the kind that follows an extended deluge.

One track, the dub techno-influenced “Flowers in June,” grew out of Ylia’s live sets, but the rest are the fruit of improvisational sessions at home in Málaga, five minutes from the beach—jamming and then refining, searching for the ideal expression of a feeling as it was first captured. Searching for the spontaneity behind the stillness. In places, Ylia even incorporates piano, an instrument she has played since she was 10, yet has never included on one of her recordings before. For the most part on Ame Agaru, she seeks ways to fuse piano with synthesizers and electronic processes. But on the closing track, “El Único Adiós Posible,” she leaves us alone with the instrument in all its stark, unadorned beauty. It is a profoundly moving conclusion to an album defined by its economy of means and purity of expression: a cycle of life counted out in the passage of storm clouds and clearing skies.

Ame Agaru

Ylia - Ame Agaru [BALMAT06]

Mixed and compiled by https://soundcloud.com/slowfoam

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@kita-music
@knekelhuis

The Naarm/Melbourne based producer will unveil meticulously crafted tracks that breathe life, deliver crispness, evoke emotions, and pulsate with energy.

KiTA's music defies easy categorization, blending ambient, dub, and breakbeat with real instruments and orchestral elements. The album "Ceramic" takes us on a mesmerizing journey with its title track, a twelve-minute composition that intertwines groove-laden ambience, deep bass throbs, swirling guitars, enchanting strings, and atmospheric vocals.
The B side of the record embraces a club-oriented soundscape with infectious breaks and captivating hooks, offering a refreshing contrast to the prevailing musical landscape. The final track concludes the album with dub-influenced percussion, creating a captivating dance that evokes both melancholy and beauty, leaving room for personal interpretation and discovery.

BC:https://knekelhuis.bandcamp.com/album/ceramic

pi pi pi premiere: KiTA - Hazel (Knekelhuis)

For the final episode of Shape/Shift season 1, let's dig deep into the discography of Aleksi Perälä. Take a deep breath and dive through the Colundi realm with a one hour mix of eclectic gems from the Finnish producer.

꧁ Colundi everyOne ꧂


Tracklist : https://lyl.live/episode/shape-shift-6

LYL Radio | Shape/Shift w/ Slowglide - ƈօʟʊռɖɨ ֆքɛƈɨǟʟ (18/07/23)

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-180-syntax-erika
https://syntaxerika.bandcamp.com
https://ambientflux.bandcamp.com

GUESTS

GUESTS 180 – Syntax Erika

All the whales will turn into birds

I drift through an endless ether of night. Space stretches out before me. All I remember blurs into a shimmering mist. I am weightless, floating among the stars and galaxies. Eternal silence takes me over and I fall deep into the void… Autumn leaves fill the air. In the distant fog, I walk along green hills and flowering valleys. The sunlight warms tall white towers in the distance. I feel this shine kiss my neck. In the sky, a plane drifts slowly into the abyss. The world becomes a safe place for us. All the whales have turned into birds.

Tracklist & Lyrics:

1. A flower in your hand
2. 光源 (feat. 053)

Lyrics:
All the night she was a broken moon,
Lighting up the ceiling.
All I felt was a nightmare dome,
I strangled you in the morning.

3. Our spaceship crashed; lost among the galaxies, a safe place for us
4. Happy birthday to you, summer rain!
5. If everything suddenly turned into the morning dew
6. I remember you dancing in my backyard; now I see you from space [For Milly]
7. Midway to the blossom valley

Lyrics:
On another autumn day,
Leaves will fall over my hair.
I feel flowing under the trees.

Can they see me walking down
Through the valley full of flowers?
I feel them walking with me.

Bury all my rotten bones.
I see a field of dancing ghosts,
But the valley flowers will remember.

8. White columns fade away; spring sunlight kisses my neck
9. Ocean (feat. dear sora rae...)
10. On the third day of spring a giant bird will take us from here
11. You are not dead, you are just a distant star at the bottom of this deep, deep sky [For Lisa]
12. I lost touch with the world; I see a plane slowly crashing into the abyss; silence forever

Credits:

All songs written and recorded by flying pluto flowers

Additional instrumentation:
Sofia Sasimovich — Vocals on 'Our spaceship crashed; lost among the galaxies, a safe place for us', 'Midway to the blossom valley', 'You are not dead, you are just a distant star at the bottom of this deep, deep sky [For Lisa]', 'I lost touch with the world; I see a plane slowly crashing into the abyss; silence forever'
Kirill Kovalev — Guitar on '光源 (feat. 053)'

Big thanks to dear sora rae... and 053 for collaborating:
dear sora rae... — https://dearsorarae.bandcamp.com
053 — https://000555333.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Alex Terskih — https://www.instagram.com/eternalaeral/
Cover photo by flying pluto flowers

Mixed & Mastered by flying pluto flowers

[WAV, 48 kHz, 32 bit float]

Also on:
bandcamp — https://flyingplutoflowers.bandcamp.com
soundcloud — soundcloud.com/flyingplutoflowers

Release date — 2024.09.19

Thank you for listening

On the third day of spring a giant bird will take us from here

Aglow

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

Ylia - Ame Agaru [BALMAT06]

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