EVEN THE CHIMERA’is the debut album by Wild Terrier Orchestra, a new project by Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, based on interchangeability and open improvisation. A newer, freer incarnation of Papadatos’ creative intent, the projects act more like an open container of dsparate and idiosyncratic contributions from a mutable cast of musicians and artists. Often times not provided according to a pre-planned structure, these contributions are actually more likely to arrive in the form of free improvisations, unconnected musical segments and fragmented splinters of sound. This allowes Papadatos to aggregate all the constituent parts according to an intuitive process that bridges between the detailed craft of electronic music production and surrealist techniques such as the Cadavre Exquis and the Cut-Up. It’s both a harmonization of contrasting tones and a research for commonality within difference, although none of the wild terriers are ever nearly tamed.

Unsurprisingly, the main inspiration for this new chapter came from a pinnacle of from a a pinnacle of avantgarde literature: poet Andreas Embirikos’, considered Greece’s first surrealist and all-out paradoxical figure. Specifically, this release is guided and instigated by his poem OKTANA, in which Embirikos inscribes a manifesto for a hedonistic utopia years ahead of any accelerationist theories, bursting with contradicting presences and mutating identities. Written in the aftermath of the Greek civil war, the poem calls for a time of eternal poetry and spiritual intoxication that can only be reached through a painful process of violent deconstruction.

Thus, EVEN THE CHIMERA was born: a culmination of Papadatos’ decades long research on traditional Greek and Byzantine music, free jazz and free improvisation. Firmly spread between two side-long tracks, the contributions of American singer and musician Cruel Diagonals on vocal duties as well as Greek artist and musician Fotini Korre on ney suggest the existence of a filament that connects the west and the east through the creation of ‘’possible musics’’. This happens in accordance to Papadatos’ practice of a counterfactual approach to the process of what music history dictates. It is also directly shaped by the musician’s frequent dwellings in the isle of Cyprus, a land in which the clash of worlds and culture has often taken both violent and beautiful shapes. The long drones, acoustic ghosts and unbalanced choirs that form the album seem to call from the Mediterrean itself, not only from its history but also from its possibile futures and unreal narrations, invoking it as a nexus of diversity and possibility.

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@tari003 is a Helsinki-based sound artist and music producer whose own work is inspired by the cold, melancholic melodies of the Nordic environment. Soon he will share his debut EP.

For this mix, Tari is sharing songs from friends and the tunes that influence his everyday life, mixing dark ambient with contemporary club music and Brazilian funk.

Tari — Beatriz mix 005

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The music artist and digital designer from Bangkok, @rab_neba, is presenting a track from his upcoming album "(A)Iphoria," which will be released on May 19th on the Imum Coeli label @alldayfreeself. The sound is a mix of electronica, ambient, vaporwave, and dungeon synth, crafted over 2.5 years. The album features futuristic landscapes that weave nostalgia and a mysterious dungeon atmosphere.

Rab Neba has been active in the electronic underground scene since the release of his vaporwave album "チュニック - tunic EP" in 2012 and has also co-founded bands like Goodbye Porsche (shoegaze, ambient trap, established in 2014) and Tomb de Narcisse (post-punk).

Premiere: Rab neba — Lost In The Divine Vision (Imum Coeli)

The music artist and digital designer from Bangkok, @rab_neba, is presenting an album "(A)Iphoria".
The sound is a mix of electronica, ambient, vaporwave, and dungeon synth, crafted over 2.5 years. The album features futuristic landscapes that weave nostalgia and a mysterious dungeon atmosphere.

Rab Neba has been active in the electronic underground scene since the release of his vaporwave album "チュニック - tunic EP" in 2012 and has also co-founded bands like Goodbye Porsche (shoegaze, ambient trap, established in 2014) and Tomb de Narcisse (post-punk).

(A​)​Iphoria

rab neba — Eternity In Binary

After releasing "Retain a Breath" last year, @fmsao returns on Imum Coeli with a new full-length album titled "Tales of Severe Damage," which marks his fifth release in his discography. This monumental sonic canvas encompasses a wide spectrum of electronic genres : you can hear elements of ambient and IDM from the 90s and 2000s, passages reminiscent of krautrock from the 70s and 80s, deconstruction, glitch, noise, Soviet electronic music by Eduard Artemyev, video game soundtracks in the spirit of Jesper Kyd and Akira Yamaoka, and much more. FMSAO magically unifies this entire sonic spectrum into a cohesive dramaturgical narrative. We find ourselves in sunlit clearings one moment and in the dimly lit chambers of David Lynch's films the next, while also witnessing something grand and cosmic that defies description. This can be likened to a psychedelic journey with the purpose of healing the soul and addressing profound damages. The album is about the power of overcoming and the strength of the inner light that resides within each of us.

Bandcamp/streaming https://album.link/ic009

FMSAO is the project of Evgeny Shchukin, who also produces as WOLS and in the duo Narcissi. Evgeny is also one of the founders of Fuselab label.

Tales of Severe Damage

FMSAO - Celebration

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There Is a Time for Everything

'sg601_003p / affinity', two expanded pads from 'SWITCHBLADE GRASSLAND'.
celyn june 2015-2018.

sg601_003p / affinity

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Food, sex, glory to God; in which order? Do you first eat, and then pray to thank Them? Or perhaps coupling takes the top spot for you. 

Each of these three fundamentals is about service. What is your way of serving others while you’re in this world? And will we keep doing it ever after? In heaven—if we’ll make it there—will W serve us their mass of resonating frequencies and clipping digital ornaments? 

A new release by W is here to go alongside our feasts, orgies, and other acts of devotion. Yes, it’s suited for all kinds of services. You must try it on fried fish, living bodies, or celestial ones. 

From right to left and back again from left to right; W spins the middle frequencies into a ritual that helps us to forget ourselves. For a while, heaven and earth exist on the horizon, instead of the vertical. 

The sonic horizon reminds us of the beauty of the plain from which nothing arises to compete with God. What's more, the panning offers an exercise in humility: everything is around you, but you’re not the center. 

The distorting of those sweet basslines tells you that what you’re hearing is growth and rot, crop and compost, both at the same instance. The distortion invites you to go medieval—think Ars moriendi, the art of dying. Learn from these sounds by reflecting on how they’re ready—but not willing—to leave this plane at any moment. 

The sounds that make up Maanpinna follow neither a linear understanding of time, nor a hierarchical understanding of bodies, but an instantaneous one of both. You could call it quantum music, but then why would you do so when you can call it a service? 

Of the three acts of services mentioned, sex and God demand the most trust. Can you trust these sounds? You could learn to do so by listening to them on repeat. No: forget the idea of being able to know music, forget beginnings and ends; try living with these sounds forever, always unearthing new aspects. 

Commit to the sounds, because why else would they trust you? Touch the wobbly melodies and feel them touching you like nothing has ever done before. 

Apart from the sea of sine waves, Maanpinna sometimes gives you bursts, pops, and washes of filtered white noise. They are gestures of good faith made by the music itself towards you. If you didn't trust the sounds before, perhaps now you will. 

Those bursts are not pure noise, but cut down to a serving size by W. The modified noise tells you what the dead always tell the living: ‘What I am, you will become.’ The art, in life and audio, is in learning to lose. It’s a lesson that reverberates deep in the bare soundscape of Maanpinna. 

It is music made from very few elements. And while reduction has always formed the basis for aural worship, on the hands of W, sounds are never reduced to the level of blasphemy: there's always the noise and the distortion. 

- Kaino Wennerstrand 

Produced by Eero Pulkkinen (@susiovet). 
Vocals in 'Half-Mast' by Elatu Nessa.
Mastering by Jaakko Viitalähde. 
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza. 
AFN005 - A Flooded Need, 2021.

Maanpinna

W - Half-Mast

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Premiere: Rab neba — Lost In The Divine Vision (Imum Coeli)

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