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Artist: MATT JENCIK
Album: Weird Times

HITD 032 
LP / DL
Limited edition of 300 black vinyls 
 Release date: Winter 2017

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

MATT JENCIK - Dead Comet Flyby

from 'Vivid Flu' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den274
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/michaelvallera]

Michael Vallera is a musician and visual artist currently based out of Chicago. He collaborates with percussionist Steven Hess (Locrian) as "Cleared" (Immune Recordings / Utech) and with artist Joseph Clayton Mills as "Maar" (Umor Rex). His first solo LP Distance was released on Opal Tapes in 2015 after a series of cassettes under the pseudonym COIN.

Vivid Flu is the second full-length solo recording from Michael Vallera, and his first on the Denovali imprint. The record is committed to pushing the electric guitar into new territory among a latticework of samples, piano and machinic stutter. The five tracks operate as a fever dream, filled with confusions of space and the cosmic thrum of post-industrial life. The total image is an obscured perspective on something once familiar.

Vivid Flu was recorded by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois. Further EQ and mixing was done with Benjamin Balcom at MINBAL. The album was mastered by Daniel Rejmer (live sound engineer Ben Frost) for digital and vinyl formats.

Vinyl: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code
Cd: nice digipak packaging

Vivid Flu

Michael Vallera - Drug

Seventeen Words

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Gailes - Surface Variations In The Snowfall

A track from the album 'UV Sea' out 02/13/16 on Constellation Tatsu.

Forest Walker - Desert Lighthouse

Taken from the album 'Nocturnes'. Due for release March 2017.

Tom Scott - On Earth Ocean Bellows

Second track of Danny Clay's & Greg Gorlen's "Birch" C-30. Released February 2017.

Get the cassette here: https://midnightcircles.bandcamp.com/album/birch

Danny Clay & Greg Gorlen – "Birch" C-30 (Sida A: "Birch II")

from the album, 'unseen forces' available 4/21

Unseen Forces

justin walter 'it's not what you think'

Sound excerpt from the installation GENKAI.
http://www.fabioperletta.it/work/genkai

'A Constellation of Moments: Sound Aesthetics in Abruzzo from the 90s to present time' group exhibition, curated by Carla Capodimonti & Leandro Pisano.

Museolaboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo (IT)
Dec 23, 2016 — Feb 12, 2017

Genkai (A Constellation Of Moments)

Pre-order 'Eternal Something' on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/eternal-something

Following the announcement of his new solo debut album 'Eternal Something' due March 24th on Erased Tapes, Daniel Brandt, co-founder of Germany’s electroacoustic ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, shares the incredible second single from his upcoming album.

"I recorded Chaparral Mesa a year ago while I was involved in a recording session for another album in Malibu. We had rented a very beautiful place overlooking hills and the sea and we had a nice basic setup to record in there with a few guitars and a moog synth. I started recording a lot of guitars on top of each other and somehow the song arranged itself. I didn’t really touch it and just went along with naturally had to happen within the song. Later I added the second part, the drumheavy one. This one was based on a session I once had with my friend Bryan Philips from Chile when I was visting him in La Serena. I took the basics from that session and added a lot of new drums later on when I was at a proper studio and then added that part to the new song. In the end Chaparral Mesa was the most quickly made song on the album but has also become the longest." – Daniel Brandt

Brandt also joins The xx at their sold out show at O2 Academy Brixton on March 14th for a support DJ set. Prior to that he will be taking part in Classic Album Sunday's ‘Meet The Composer’ event on March 13th, which takes place at the Erased Tapes Sound Gallery.

What started off as a more simplistic idea soon evolved into something a lot more complex as the London and Berlin based music producer travelled across the world, experimenting with various other artists and different instruments. From his father’s cabin based in the German countryside with access to nothing but cymbals, to being surrounded by guitars in Joshua Tree, his unexpected journey soon progressed into what became his first solo album. 

Daniel played nearly all instruments himself with the only exception being fellow musicians Florian Juncker on trombone, Manu Delago on hang drum and Andreas Voss on cello. Using his Berlin studio as his main base for recording, Brandt created an album that encapsulates the idea that despite setting out with a particular creative vision, external influences and environments will always shift the process, and create an Eternal Something.

Words from Daniel, January 2017:

“The initial idea was to make a cymbal album. I wanted to surround myself with all types of cymbals. I locked myself into my father’s cabin in the woods for three days. That was the moment I realised it was not possible for me to make an album just with cymbals because other ideas and instruments imposed themselves on me. I had a clear sense of what I wanted to do now. The intention was to let the songs evolve by themselves and not edit too much, keep it raw and have an explosion-like energy to them. I wanted to create a different sound, songs that build up like dance tunes but don't feel like club music at all. Travelling around in California for two months gave me the possibility to deeply get into this concept outside my normal environment. Robert Raths, who served as a great motivator throughout the whole process (I guess he had listened to the record more than I ever had) came up with the perfect order for the songs. This record is about failing to make the original plan happen, but then the discovery of something I couldn't even think of before.”

Eternal Something

Daniel Brandt - Chaparral Mesa

All This I Do For Glory

Spindrift

"... it was discovered that it was myself - or, to be more specific: this black exaltation - who was the nameless living interface between worlds that did not touch each other ... "
-
Saul Smaragd
Image: z\w\a\r\t magazine

fragment of a new unreleased work by LHT

interface

THUGWIDOW - Father Figure (Bruised Skies Edit)

by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek 
"Bird, Lake, Objects" (2010 Faitiche)

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