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Are you - like us - feeling unsettled when reaching one of these lonely, desolated places with no other purpose than connecting two others? 
Not a single soul init, or only for a short time, just when someone passes-by, as quickly as possible. Out of time - or from another -, yet here forever: The empty mall halls, the school corridors during class hours, or even the underground connections at night.
No close noise neither. Maybe just a distant humming, to remind you that life goes on, somewhere else.
These places, yes! Troubling, for sure, but so fascinating also. Because once you got into one, are you even sure you'll entirely get out? What if, just like after a deadly battle, a striking loss or a huge achievement, some part of you - even a tiny one -, just stayed stuck back there? Would you ever really reach your destination?

Through its 'Liminal Places' compilation, the Parisian label Ōtium and guests explore together the concept of gray-area, starting today with Jeune Galois' sour, nostalgic 'Symony Ochesa' anthem.

Other contributions from Xuri & John Cleworth, Morfine, JS Donny, Thirdworldlabour, Ryong, Lawrence Lek abd Okay Vivian to be unveiled soon.
https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-spaces

@jeunegalois
@otiumrec

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Jeune Galois - Symony Ochesa [Ōtium]

In these grey and rainy autumnal times, how does one manage to get his daily dose of Vitamin D? Have you tried tanning sessions or vial shots every morning along with your coffee? Well, I didn't even consider the first option and the second one wasn't much fulfilling to me. 

While I was in the dark regarding this concerning matter, Baptiste aka transe ar gwez came by chance to me with his next EP, and gave me the key! After a quick browse into the promos, I stumbled across the glowing 'dub ar gwez' track and instantly felt revitalized by this strong tribute to mid90s-early00s electronica influenced trip-hop. A big reminder of the mind-expanding synth-library IDM melodies from Jerry Martin's Sim City 3000 OST, which would have been enhanced by William-Orbit-or-Doris-Norton's heavenly yet powerful breaks.

So, if you wanna join me in my newly adopted sunny-musical-delights routine, just check trance ar gwez's 'infravox' CD release on his own Mercredi Records, to be available on November 10!

https://mercredirecords.bandcamp.com/album/infravox

@transe_ar_gwez
@mercredirecords

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ transe ar gwez - dub ar gwez [Mercredi Records]

I’d been dreaming of it. Almost every night, even during days sometimes. An extreme warmth would wake me up in a sweat and an intense light would blind me, even though my eyes were closed. Though, when I finally managed to open them, only cold and darkness would surround me.
Somehow, I knew it was waiting for me up there. Above my head, hidden from sight behind a padded sea of clouds. Far beyond reach, yet I couldn’t get it out of my mind. 
What could I do, other than hope to finally feel its shiny beams taking me for a relieving rise?

Parisian Slowglide to introduce on Nov. 25 his new Vanishing Point label with his personal 'Mount Apeiron' cassette. A 7-track mesmerizing, mystical release inspired by the reading of René Daumal’s 'Mount Analogue'.

https://slowglide.bandcamp.com/album/mount-apeiron

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Slowglide - Altitude Sickness [Vanishing Point]

Here we are with another delusional moment of our imaginary life. We assume you never much had the opportunity to be a spectator of an ectoplasmic military parade from the Middle-East? Well, we probably have found the soundtrack to it, on the aptly named Ghost Dance label, run by dear Brahim Lumière. An invitation to the Palestinian Beatmaker Asifeh to gather 14 dystopian tracks on a handmade cassette. 
After Sangre Voss' EP, the Saint-Etienne imprint delves now deeper into the vaporous limbo of experimental music, with these dirty, Lo-Fi oriental loops, constantly fluctuating between dark, violent, melancholic, folkloric or occult atmospheres.
A tumultuous exploration of the concept of infiltration which lies behind the 'Tasalul' LP title.

To be released on December 5:

https://ghostdancetapes.bandcamp.com/album/tasalul

Asifeh: @stormtrap
Ghost Dance: @anwaranwar

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Asifeh - Dafsheh [Ghost Dance]

A year after unveiling their inaugural compilation, Reptilian Business Records are back with another batch of mystic downtempo, strong indus and liquid drum & bass. 
Still dreamy from time to time, their second V/A also takes darker paths, while keeping an organic, trance-inducing vibe, as for our premiere with Swiss-duo Los Pashminas.

'Gator Aid' to be digitaly released on Dec. 8, with a tasteful, international line-up featuring Machka, Mawen, Oceya, Jan Loup, Danniel Dhnl, Nour Kara, Da Iguana & Doko Modo, Islyz and Meo.

https://reptilianbusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rbrva02-gator-aid

@lospashminas
@reptilianbusinessrecords

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Los Pashminas - Mind Swamp [Reptilian Business Records]

At last, what do we know about time? An essential indicator of our lives, counted in seconds, officially codified worldwide via the international System of Units. Always running forward, never coming back. An implacable, invisible, impalpable truth, haunting each one of us, as we all expect it to ring the bell sooner or later. 

Hey, here’s a theory: couldn’t we distort it sometimes, even just a tiny bit? Because Lyon-based label SousTraitance may have managed to finally alter its course through its last compilation, a year and a half after the inaugural one.
“Looking for MTH” V/A successively stretches and contracts the passing time, or at least how we perceive it. Lose yourself in tempo fluctuations and audio glitches, between the slow, entrancing rites of Jan Loup, Israfil and Sabla, the atmospheric dilatations of Isabassi, Marion Castor and Inhmost, or the high-paced, feverish, raging outbursts of Tera Octe, Loïcc and Tadan.

To be released in limited-edition CD and digital on January 25, 2023: 9 tracks over one hour, that could actually go round the clock or vanish in the blink of an eye, we just can’t tell anymore.
https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com/album/looking-for-mth

@isabassi
@soustraitance

Looking For MTH (SSTR/VA02)

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Isabassi - Cynical [SousTraitance]

Welcome to 2023! HD sounds fill the world wide web, while an infinity of vociferous bangers can fit in a tiny usb-stick. Music on demand, disposable tools to entertain the crowds, perfectly following the trends but never breaking new boundaries. Quickly produced, quickly consumed, quickly forgotten. Though, if consumerism is nowadays’ standard, why not hijack it? 

After 4 solo EPs on vinyl, Lyon-based Dill Dodos Recife label is about to hack the cassette business with its forthcoming compilation: a gathering of high-energized, sharply sound-designed tracks with a dubby taste of the soundsystem culture. Click and collect various audio aesthetics through this 6-track V/A: old-school riddims infused with contemporary psychedelics, stepper-footwork inspired by the concrete music, emo mermaids meeting trap or techno… 
A selecta of digital-friendly tunes, showcasing echoes from the past (and their roster) or forward visions from georg-I, First Epoque & Slowglide & Vina Konda, Jonquera, Keita Sano, PPC and Torei. 

‘Click & Collect’ V/A, to be released on March 1, 2023 in very-limited-edition with its special handmade loot-bag - designed by Lucien Vantey -, to brag about your weird habit of collecting physical stuffs!

@keita_sano
@dilldodosrecife

https://dilldodosrecife.bandcamp.com/

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Keita Sano - A.N.Sunshine [Dill Dodos Recife]

Good friends from Décalé. Records are back with another awesome reissue, this time with "Le Disque De l'Art Gué", a 10-track compilation, highlighting the avant-garde and dreamlike work of Swiss Artist Fizzè. In between medieval ballad, acoustic industrial and psychedelic world music, the reissue includes original tracks from "Kulu Hatha Mamnua" and "Manoeuvres d'Automne" albums released in 1987, along with unreleased materials and remixes by Fizzè.

Out on March 17 in vinyl and digital:
https://decalerecords.bandcamp.com/album/fizz-le-disque-de-lart-gu

Le Disque de l'Art Gué

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Fizzè - Kayannica [Décalé. Records]

René Danger is back with his "Gwerz Boy" EP and transversal project mixing music (indeed), but also a fanzine and a video game on an actual Game Boy cartridge!
With "Enez Eusa", René Danger tells a traditional Breton gwerz (lament) about the loss of loved ones at sea, readapted over minimalist gameboy arpeggios. 
Plot twist and spoilers: it ends in a cathartic gabber apotheosis.

To illiustrate this crazy project which will be released on May 12 on Editentés, here's a videoclip based on the Gwerzboy videogame, developed by René Danger too:
https://youtu.be/oWztqwEF860

All infos on Editentités' Bandcamp:
https://editentites.bandcamp.com/album/gwerz-boy

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ René Danger - Enez Eusa [Éditentités]

After delivering an outstanding compilation of contemporary library music back in 2022, Stéréogramme is back with the second opus of his “Interactive Pictures” series.

Walking the same road as last year, paved with new age, freak folk and leftfield synths, the Paris-based label also ventures to new paths like minimalism, no wave and vocal experimentations. Once again divided in two musical panoramas, this 11-track tape will definitely bring back your happy childhood memories to the surface. First, take a nap with the soothing lullabies of Héron Cendré, Peter Graf York, Les Echos Primitifs, Lamina & Bravo Tounky, only to be interrupted by Ronan Riou’s feverish contribution. 
Then, hear the spooky, harebrained stories of Aymeric de Tapol, Leoni Leoni, Houschyar, Geier aus Stahl, Zad Kokar and Firmaet Forvoksen. In short, another marvelous line-up gathered by head-honcho Rako, who made its specialty of unearthing spontaneous yet skillful compositions. 

So, stay on the lookout until July 7, 2023 and entertain your inner-child’s fertile imagination via “Interactive Pictures Vol. 2” and its limited-batch of 100 cassettes offered in different artwork versions designed by Structure Bâtons.
https://stereogramme.bandcamp.com/album/interactive-pictures-vol-2

@stereogramme

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Peter Graf York - Memory Switch [Stéréogramme]

Milian-based Pampsychia label debuts its dance-oriented 'muta~muta' series, with Ikävä Pii's dotty, frenetic 'Turbo Lento' EP.
The Italian producer drops 4 detailed and abstract tunes to shuffle to, inspired by propagating colonies of fungi, playfully decaying bacterias and shroomy euphoria. 
Hear the paradoxal sound of slowfast, half-double, macromicro music, to be digitally released on Matteo Coffetti and Reptilian Expo's latest whim on July 7!

https://pampsychia.bandcamp.com/album/turbo-lento

@ikavapii
@pampsychia
@matteocoffetti
@reptilianexpo

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Ikävä Pii - Rhizomorph Era [Pampsychia]

While we often mind a comet for its potential collision with our beloved Earth, wouldn't it be just as interesting to learn all about its initial journey? Like, where does it come from? For how long was it lost up there? What if it was actually carrying the vestiges of an ancient, distant lifeform all this time and we just missed it, wishing for it to keep going on, as far from us as possible…Will it come back around someday?

Celestial body or+be lands its ‘Noyau’ debut-EP on Dutch Traumgarten, and we are pleased to host the French duo’s ‘Cîme’ intro. Final impact scheduled for December 13.

https://traumgarten.bandcamp.com/album/noyau

@orplusbe
@traumgarten

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ or+be - Cîme [Traumgarten]

Arriving on Twin System soon, label co-founder Nosewise features on upcoming tape 'Lurched Purple (ii)'. Continuing on from the first installment of the series 'Tendrils Lurched Purple In The Slush', this next chapter showcases an earthier, organic side to the label's output; just like 'Plasticity', which sludge-laden feel and dubbed-out sound design captures the feeling of this latest project. 

Nosewise's errantry in the void will be available amongst Dubplanet X, tobha, Officium, Sabla and Elijah Minnelli's contributions on Dec. 11, on a beautiful limited-edition frosty cassette.

https://twinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/lurched-purple-ii

@flytippa
@twinsystem

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Nosewise - Plasticity [Twin System]

Enter here, get out there. The same deal, for a day, a year, a lifetime. A succession of journeys, through doors opening before then closing after you, their frames revealing new paths to follow. Actually, look around you, doesn't it look just like your starting point? Don't you still feel the same? You didn't forget your childhood heroes, nor the posters hanging on the walls of your teenage room, right?

"The Exit Screen Leads Nowhere", a five-track E.P. by dear Vina Konda, out on February 21st on dear Pho Bho Records. 

https://phobhorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-exit-screen-leads-nowhere

@vinakonda
@phobhorecords

The Exit Screen Leads Nowhere

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Vina Konda - I Built A Shelter Someday IRL [Pho Bho Records]

"SOUNDS4RESISTANCE is a solidarity fundraising project joining efforts between musicians, creatives, and listeners to provide not only regular monetary help to diaspora communities who’ve been violently repressed in the past 5 months but also funds for local collectives in the active front calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Music alone might not save the world but it does bring us together: in the streets, at the dance floor, in communities, in ways of listening to one another, in breaking societal norms.

All profits of S4R001 are followed to Estafette4Palestine, a militant, volunteer-based collective in Brussels that distributes funds between 50 Gazan families living in Brussels; and Fondation Marius Jacob : a radical, autonomous and collective tool that supports grassroots actions, together with BrusselsAgainstGenocide"

Support: https://sounds4resistance.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-s4r001

More infos: 
https://www.instagram.com/fondation_marius_jacob/
https://www.instagram.com/brusselsagainstgenocide/

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Heading - Lost the Book [SOUNDS4RESISTANCE]

Embark on an ethereal journey with Second End Records’ inaugural release, as the new entity unveils today “The Next Kingdom” LP, from label-founder Jonnnah.

As a manifest of SER ethos, the Lyon-based Producer’s second personal album is also a pure merging of his own touch: mesmerizing soundscapes, pulsating rhythms, and enchanting synth melodies. From Jonnnah’s intricate layers of instrumentation and melancholic vocals, arise the fragile yet powerful aesthetic encapsulated in the contemporary electronic scene. Boundaries between genres and emotions dissolve through the prism of digital hybridizations, and each track of this twelve-act offering alternately conceal or lay bare what’s deeply rooted in Jonnnah’s soul.

“The Next Kingdom” LP, To be released on May 19 in digital and a very-limited vinyls edition:
https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

@jonnnah

The Next Kingdom LP (SER001)

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Jonnnah - Soma's End [Second End Records]

Turinese sunitty lord Matteo Coffetti is back to the Bamboo Shows ℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ program with his next "Cave Kids Exploration" EP. Coming on June 6 on american IW (International Winners), as another great addition to their catalog focusing on the digi-world disruptions into the supertangible audio experience that is noise music, here are a few words about the release from the italian wonderkid:

"In the solace of forgotten caves, where wild shadows dance on the flicker of fires and echoes thread silence, a group of kids found cheer in muziikk.

Drums made of stones and flutes carved from bones made sounds woven with tales of adventure, of daring escapades, of friendships formed.

Will you join them, dance to the beat of the unknown, escape the banal and embrace the magic of their sweet cacophony?"

https://internationalwinners.bandcamp.com/album/cave-kids-exploration

Cave Kids Exploration

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Matteo Coffetti - Hisleria Digisol [IW]

Dear Ɠհօʂէ Ꭰąղçҽ label is back in the haunting game with its fourth imprint, this time from ᑕᗩᖇᗰEᑎTᖇᗩᑎ duo (aka Brahim Lumière & Guillaume Lamorte). 

Previously part of Le Marais eponymous LP on Besoins Premiers (along with green beast Jacques Satre), the long-time friends unveil today their four-tracker, depicting the exuberant and colorful myths rooted in their native Provence. In the heavy fuzz and distortion hide the intoxicating rounds of a carnival, the heady scent of a burning wicker man, the deafening drone of a crowd becoming one in front of the dancing flames.

 to be featured on a very limited handcrafted cassette run and digital, get your ticket for the parade on June 12th.

https://ghostdancetapes.bandcamp.com/album/carmentran

@ghostdancetapes

Carmentran

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Carmentran - Contorsiona Te [Ghost Dance]

Drifting from Lyon yet under the radar as always, Big Science records might smash the speed camera with its 12th release, a mini LP from marino2. To be released in cassette and digital files on June 25, the sometimes-Brest-sometimes-Nantes-based producer (Are u breton or not dude? you got to choose your side at some point!) delivers here his own sci-fi sound-designed blend of industrial reggaeton and schyzophrenic bass-yet-downtempo club burners. No highway shall lead you to such dark places, though swerve right into the ditch by the roadside and you'll reach your destination!

https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/bgsc2412

@marino2dj
@bigscience

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Marino2 - Ddose [Big Science]

Joel Arcane & Addison's Oscilla Sound label to hit with a new series entitled Liminal, debuting with a nine-track compilation featuring Slowfoam, Kincaid, GOD69, Toupaz, XENIA REAPER, usof, Losssy, Joseph Theodor, and Infra.

The essence of Liminal resides in the spaces between, venturing beyond the confines of the dance floor to traverse transitional sonic landscapes. It inhabits the fringes, where echoes of past epochs mingle with murmurs of the future, inviting introspection and an embrace of the unknown. Stirring a sense of yearning and nostalgia, the series embarks on a journey through liminal states, where belonging remains a distant dream.

Out in digital edition on August 2:
https://oscillasound.bandcamp.com/album/lmnl-001-liminal-va-001

LMNL​001 - Liminal VA 001

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ usof - plonplonk [Oscilla Sound]

Label, podcast series and parties to promote audio sophrology, 90's reminiscences, psychedelic atmospheres and exotic breaks.
Run from Lyon by @erevandj - Active since 2018.

Releases:
BSLP007 - Eiger Drums Propaganda - Live Excerpts - 19/09/2024
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/eiger-drums-propaganda-bslp007

BSLP006 - JS Donny - BnN - 29/02/2024
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp006-cmr006-js-donny

BSLP005 - Jonquera - La Croix des Cros - 13/02/2023
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp005-jonquera

BSLP004 - Metra.Vestlud - Coalyqsta - 12/10/2022
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp004-metravestlud-coalyqsta-lp

BST003 - V/A - Vapordub: an introduction to contemporary psychedelic music - vol. 1 - 14/04/2022
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bst003-vapordub

BSLP003 - Naomie Klaus - A Story of a Global Disease - 03/11/2021
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp003-naomie-klaus

BSLP002 - Perse - Exile in H - 08/04/2021
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bslp002-perse-exile-in-h

BSLP001 - Jonquera - DARKOS LP - 10/12/2020
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/bslp001-jonquera-darkos-lp-previews

BST002 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 002 - 09/07/2020
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bamboo-shows-tapes-002

BST001 - V/A - Bamboo Shows Tapes 001 - 12/12/2019
◈ https://soundcloud.com/bambooshows/sets/bamboo-shows-tapes-001

infos, contact, promos, podcasts: bambooastruth@bambooshows.com