This Mixtape is a compilation of tracks produced by the participates of the 'Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb Lyrebird' workshop I lead for Unthinking / Unlearning - an online laboratory and residency, a part of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/21 and collaboration between Klammklang label, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow.

‘The Superb Lyrebird’ is an Australian Native bird, which is capable of mimicking natural and synthetic sounds from its natural environment — Participants created their own music sampling biorhythms and timbres from an animal sound open-access archive.

Track list:
Alexandra Kopelyan - In a Bittern Voice
Isa sO.any - Myai
Alexey Berezhnoy - Flat ES Ecosystem
Anton Anishchanka - Bear Habitat
Ira Afanaseva - Dogs in the yard
Lera Elagina - Kozhuhovo Birds
Masha Alexandrova - Fin 
Ystalost Dimecres - Untitled.

Take it from the bird - creating music inspired by the Superb lyrebird U/U workshop mix tape

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Jerry La Film makes his 80s soul-tinged debut for the label with Tell Me - an M1-heavy heads-down house and synth-funk jacker, as premiered by Parisian duo Les Yeux Orange.

Tell Me is released as part of the Acid Waxa Singles Club series in addition to new releases from Roy of The Ravers, Lady Neptune, Toffo, Mossman and many more!

Singles Club artwork by Calvin Halliday and Connor Clasen.
Mastered by Ruby Burns (@rubyburns_sound)
Written and produced by Jerry La Flim.

TELL ME [Acid Waxa]

Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panoptic prison (The White Dove Prison) in Luleå, Sweden.

Preorder the album now at https://xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/panoptikon

Omnia Citra Mortem

MUSIQUE INFINIE, Earth, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2401, EAN: 0602343041797

Tracklist:
1. Creation (14:25)
2. Destruction (12:53)

Credits:
Composition and production by Musique Infinie
Mixing and mastering by Suoni Speziali
Photos by Jean-Marc Avila
Design by Laurin Huber
Essay by Laurin Huber

Supported by Popkredit Zürich and Kanton Zürich.

Earth

Musique Infinie - Creation (HG2401)

The Breaks

Wave

Do Make Say Think • "End Of Music"

Part of the Naviar Records Haiku-Challenge:

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

the rows of tea bushes-naviarhaiku604

The "bodhisattva"
Takes surfaces, and sees through
To what's underneath

::

Original music & haiku poetry by Bob Weathers

Underneath

LR127 Josiah Steinbrick - Meeting of Waters
leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meeti…g-of-waters

Following the debut release of his minimal-music ensemble BANANA earlier this year, Josiah Steinbrick, the Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer returns with his first collection of solo works titled Meeting Of Waters, available October 27th on LEAVING Records. The album shares some of that ensemble’s concerns, notably in its interest in pattern based music, but here the emphasis is placed on subtle explorations of percussive tones and creating interior or imagined worlds.

The works on Meeting of Waters stem from Steinbrick's childhood fascination with anthropology and travel tales and almost operates like a cartography of some indeterminate landscape. Each piece has a palette of one to five elements that work in harmony together -- with synthesizers, marimbaphones, tuned wood, idiophones, bells, and gongs providing resonant tones that slowly accrete in detail. There's a measured yet thoroughly engaging pace throughout, that, much like Malaysian Temiar Dream Music, seems to "interpret the heart of reality".

As in the work of David Toop, Toshi Tsuchitori, Walter Maioli, or Luis Pérez Ixoneztli (whom Steinbrick recently collaborated with), the pre-historic and hyper-modern are effortlessly intertwined. If - as famed French Structural Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss believed - myths, music, and dreams are "machines for the suppression of time", then "Meeting of Waters" features nine ingeniously and exquisitely crafted examples of that theory in action.
- Michael Klausman 
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Composed and Performed by Josiah Steinbrick 
Produced by Cate Le Bon

DL & LTD CS

4. (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malleted Wood, Two Synthesizers)

Mats Erlandsson – Minnesmärke - LP
Release date - Nov 6th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2008
Format - Vinyl / digital

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1. Vilja 	(19:08)
2. Slakt	(22.03)

Credits:
Hilary Jeffery - Trombone, Tuba
Gaianeh Pilossian - Violin
Yair Elazar Glotman - Double Bass
Mats Erlandsson - Everything Else
Mastering by Andreas Lupo Lubich
Artwork by Marijn Degenaar

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Mats Erlandsson makes his debut on the Swiss label Hallow Ground with »Minnesmärke,« at once a nuanced sonic exploration of the industrial and political history of his native Sweden and a deeply personal album. One of the key figures of the Stockholm drone scene, the prolific composer worked with The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s Hillary Jeffery, violinist and long-time friend Gaianeh Pilossian as well as sound artist and frequent collaborator Yair Elazar Glotman for a two-part composition built around tuned sustained tones performed by electronic and acoustic instruments that were combined with field recordings in order to evoke a psychedelic state of reflection, a dream-like elegy for the acoustic properties of the former iron ore mine Ställbergs Gruva where the music has been conceived and recorded. Following up on releases on labels such as Hallow Ground label mates Kali Malone and Maria W Horn’s XKatedral imprint, »Minnesmärke« is Erlandsson's most accomplished work yet. 
Originally a commissioned work by the Non Existent Center for a month-long artist residency in Ställbergs Gruva last Summer, »Minnesmärke« conceptually picks up on the socio-political and economic history of the Bergslagen region where the mine is situated. After mining operations had been on-going for decades prior, in the Industrial Age iron became one of the country’s largest exports, making the mining industry an integral part of the country’s progression towards a socialdemocratic welfare state in the years after World War II. With the rise of neoliberalism and the simultaneous erosion of the welfare state however, the mines around the region started closing, which resulted in the surrounding community losing its relative prosperity. Erlandsson’s interest in this story though does not exclusively stem from the historical significance of the mine, that has been re-opened in 2012 as a centre for cultural activities and critical thought. In fact, his grandfather was born and raised in the vicinity of it and thus his life - and, by extension, his grandson’s - was inextricably linked to its fate and the ebbs and flows of the industrial development in the area. 
It’s no surprise then that the two parts of »Minnesmärke,« which translates to »memorial« or »monument,« is marked by a sense of dislocation and dissociation. »Working in Ställberg was a somewhat surreal experience from the point of view of a musician some one hundred years later,« says the artist. »Being in that environment makes you view time from the side - since the place remains the same it accentuates the deep chasm that separates my perspective from those of my relatives, while at the same time providing a form of intimacy with them.« This naturally shaped the recording process, which saw Erlandsson create an interaction between the acoustic and the electronic, the human and the machinic as well as the natural environment and the technology that has shaped it as much as it has been shaped by it. A combination of synthetic and recorded sound sources was processed by reamping it in various rooms of the vast mining complex. The resulting hybrid field recordings were transferred to tape and have then been treated extensively. An arrangement for Pilossian’s violin, Jeffery’s tuba and trombone playing as well as Glotman’s parts on double bass were recorded separately and similarly manipulated to create an expanded chamber ensemble with a wider range and an ability to transcend the usual temporal bounds of the instruments.

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