After 2022’s In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Romance and Dean Hurley return with River of Dreams; continuing their prismatic dissection of the daytime soap genre with an examination into the dark corners of fantasy-based escapism. 

Over the last 60+ years, serialized melodramas have played a critical role in shaping the way we think about, consume, and are affected by media. The daytime televised soap opera has without a doubt laid the fundamental architecture for contemporary dopamine capitalists’ dreams of harvested, monetized attention…and River of Dreams explores the psychological effects on the mind of its viewers. Whereas In Every Dream Home a Heartache spotlighted the external omnipresence of daytime tv’s persistent broadcasts, River of Dreams examines the interior havoc and mental unbalance sewn by obsessive viewership. The same waters that harvest and transport our buoyant dreams often funnel into nightmarish, tumultuous oceans… 

Once again, broadcast television samples by way of vintage, bit-crunched YouTube codecs form the source material here…all artfully inlaid and mosaicked to form tear-stained compositions of troubled romance gone astray.

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Sann Odea proudly presents ‘Ithomiines,’ the first various artist LP and an immersive dive into the realm of experimental electronic music and narrative soundscapes.

Drawing inspiration from the mesmerizing beauty of the Ithomiini butterflies, renowned for their delicate glass-like wings and intricate patterns, this compilation brings together 12 artists. It explores the concept of musical metamorphosis, mirroring the transformative journeys undertaken by these butterflies. Each track on the compilation is meticulously crafted, inviting you to connect with its unfolding story, building tension, and evoking emotions.

The LP features familiar faces such as Modo Mero, Teqmun, and Sann Odea co-founder Kendu Bari, alongside nine new artists including Guenter Råler, Zero Crossing Point, Beatrice M., and co-founder Yb3L, to name a few. Let the mesmerizing melodies take flight, carrying you on a transformative sonic voyage you won’t soon forget.

Tracklist
1. Me Go - Angel Caught On Camera
2. @guenterraler - Every Side
3. @yb3l - Dextrise
4. @zerocrossingpoint - We’ll Go Away
5. @frimout - Los
6. @juicy_chewlie - Evolve
7. @cottonpills - Fixed Karma II
8. @marijnswillens - Natu
9. @teqmun-tijmen-b - Diploria Coral
10. @beatricemasters - HS
11. @kendubari - Turmoil
12. @modomero - Breathing Spell

Credits
Mastered by Jonas Korbl at Audiosculpture.
Cover art by Mal a.k.a. Yb3L.

Cotton Pills - Fixed Karma II

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First release from CAF? with the work of Flammkuch, ARIS 1201, Tissu, FSS, lks, Morizio Lemano, 909 Hz, Mystic V, lks & Tissu.

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Tissu - how many guns do you own

Heith - Tree Stand

Nkisi - Destruction Of Power (CM-008) 
A : Destruction Of Power (16:54)
B : Destruction of Power (Live at Café Oto 03.03.2019) (13:47)

 All tracks by Nkisi
Mastered by Josh Eustis
Designed by Ethan Assouline

Cassette out Octobre 1st, 2019

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Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
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releases August 21, 2020

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Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

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