2013

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/high-strangeness-ep

Optimo Music’s connection with South America continues to mushroom with this 4 track EP from Hermetics.

Santiago Niño a.k.a HERMETICS is an accomplished eclectic & conceptual electronic musician originally from Bogota, Colombia but now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has a deep discography of releases across a range of genres. He plans to keep experimenting and exploring new sounds and unique percussive atmospheres. 

We asked Santiago to tell us a bit about The High Strangeness, and he goes deep......

The High Strangeness EP tells a story of the diversity of images, textures and atmospheres that I want to explore with this project, and it is also a tribute to many concepts and topics that interest me.

"High Strangeness" transmits a psychedelic drama, an astral journey through unknown dimensions, a leap into the cosmic, into the extrasensory universe and the dreamlike nature of reality. When I listen to this track I can't help but imagine Terence Mckenna telling his amazing experiences with Psilocybin and DMT. In part, this track is a tribute to the psychedelic counter-culture and its enigmas, Its high strangeness.

"Cobra Negra" is a state that connects me with the archetype of the warrior and his confrontation with his own shadow. There is an internal battle against the forces of nature and its' violent and mysterious fauna. This track takes place in an imaginary jungle where the warrior faces all the beasts, snakes and insects of his psyche.
 
The sound of "Coherence" places me in a pre-dynastic Egypt of high magic. It immerses me in its esoteric mysteries and its advanced spiritual technology. It evokes in me images of strange rites and ceremonies that were in direct communion with the stars and other planes of existence. Egyptian wisdom and enigmas never cease to amaze me, and this track is a tribute to my fascination with this civilisation, which seems to come from other worlds.

"Bon" is a track, that like "Coherence', is a tribute to a tradition, to an ancient shamanic culture, in this case, a tribute to the pre-Buddhist Tibetan 'Bon' tradition. The darkness, the hypnotism and the magnetism of its' mantras are what I wanted to capture in this track, an atmosphere that makes one travel to the strangest abysses of the magical and esoteric practices of an old pagan east.


Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on May 21st

Optimo Music Digital Danceforce 036 - Hermetics - High Strangeness EP

Spun Out Agency COMPILATION, find it on BANDCAMP!

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Benedikt Frey - Delly

Drawing inspiration from the 80's subculture, the moody allure of the Neue Deutsche Welle, the seminal post-punk sounds of Britain, decadentist literature and experimental electronics, among others, Contes Cruels crafts their sound, characterized by minimalist compositions, vintage gear and evocative, cold lyrics. 

Venturing into the realms of hauntology, exploring the pervasive sense in which contemporary culture is haunted by the "lost futures" of modernity—those futures that never materialized or were eclipsed by the tides of postmodernity—the duo embodies this spectral presence in their debut EP, Séance. 

Music, lyrics and production by Contes Cruels 
Mixing and mastering by Stefan Konstantinidis (Fabrika Music Studio) 
Artwork by C.Cruels

Aparición

sneak peak upfront the full release on Friday Feb 21st. "Driving Through A Tunnel That Is Filling From Both Ends" will be available on Tape (Bandcamp exclusive) and digitally.

⍄ https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/kxb-thrush-driving-through-a-tunnel-that-is-filling-from-both-ends

KXB & Thrush - FOR MY SINS [PREMIERE]

Grid Disruption (Wellyington Remix)

Prickle Pear

A man rots from the head first. Miasma remains trapped in ears and annihilates clear hearing. The sound is needed that will break through the barriers. Self-knowledge is needed to catch this sound.

Improvisation is the only way to move downwards, to descend lower where the tones gain a physical dimension. “Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is an expedition.

“Zła krew” ("Evil Blood") is the second album of the kIRk band. A shattered structure, derived from improvisation, where the 20th century music heritage reverberates. The echo of the present manifests in the electronic tones, the vinyl hum and the sound of a trumpet

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Człowiek psuje się od głowy. Miazma zalega między uszami, niwecząc czyste słyszenie. Potrzebny jest dźwięk, który przebije się przez bariery. Potrzebne jest samopoznanie, żeby schwycić ten dźwięk. 

Przez improwizację schodzi się w dół, coraz niżej, tam gdzie tony zyskują fizyczny wymiar. „Zła krew” to ekspedycja.

„Zła krew” to drugi album zespołu kIRk. Wywiedziona z improwizacji, rozklekotana struktura w której pobrzmiewa dźwiękowa spuścizna XX wieku. Realizujący się w elektronicznych tonach, winylowych szumach i wyziewach trąbki oddźwięk teraźniejszości.

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Label: InnerGuN / Oficyna Biedota
Release Date: 01.02.13
Link: www.innergun.com / www.biedota.com

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Tracklist:

1. Do rozpuku
2. Zła krew
3. Dżuma
4. Dzieci Boga
5. Pies zdechł
6. Poza zasięgiem

kIRk - Pies zdechł

Media inquiries: alyssa at teamclermont dot com

http://teamclermont.com

http://www.familytreerecs.com

"Where the Wild Things" premieres at Pitchfork: 
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14654-where-the-wild-things/

Video premieres at Vice: 
http://www.vice.com/read/vice-premiere-cy-dunes-where-the-wild-things-are-video
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To celebrate Cy Dune's upcoming No Recognize EP, cans of spray paint were shot over canvases with handguns in the Arizona desert south of Tucson by a group of local musicians, artists, poets, and pedal makers. Plumes of color exploded into the desert air, and onto the canvases. 

The day resulted in about 22 paintings.  These paintings will be for sale on the Family Tree Records website shortly. As a creative alternative to a limited edition 7", each painting will come with a download code for the EP's lead single, Where the Wild Things, as well as a limited track not available anywhere else. The 12" canvases will be $30, and two sets of large diptychs will be $100 each. (Photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3151.png)

The No Recognize EP will be available digitally on February 4 and on vinyl March 5 on Family Tree Records. A full length is planned for later in the year. (EP Art: http://teamclermont.com/images/3150.png)

Cy Dune photo: http://teamclermont.com/images/3155.jpg

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The Cy Dune story starts with a songbook.  This particular book had a 100 songs written in 20th century American visionary long hand over five years after leaving home and traveling the world in what some might call the contemporary music scene of the early 21st century, recording and performing with his band Akron/Family and collaborating with Rhys Chatham, Michael Gira, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Keiji Haino and Tatsuya Nakatani. The songs were demoed all that same time with new and old friends in big city and small town apartments, parents' garages, horse barns, Maine basements, New Jersey Synagogues, old Pennsylvania factories, molding mid-century moderns, Brooklyn basement studios and across the bridge at the midtown Manhattan Sear studio with the old Abbey Road tape machine and the bass player from the Henry Rollins band.  

In 2010 the 100 songs were finished, written and demoed. In 2011, he moved to the Sonoran desert to record a primitivist American blues story; an old/new weird American anthology of these songs with only an old acoustic guitar and the very same rebuilt 1/4" tube Ampex reel to reel that Alan Lomax used to record field hollers out of his trunk. Months were spent fine tuning the 100 songs, researching tube and tape saturation, Fahey's discovery of Skip James and his mystical open D tuning, early Dylan cryptology,  the notes between the notes of Leadbelly recordings, Michael Hurley's Folkways First Songs and re-tuning all guitars to that self same slightly flat key. 

But the 100 songs wouldn't record. 

2011 ended and the spark of change finally came as a Christmas gift given by his mother. Patti Smith's Just Kids. Re-awed by the transformative powers of Rock 'n' Roll, frustrated, and fed up, he plugged in his guitar and the songs alived and ripped themselves into being, bursting out as sheets of guitar shredding sound like explosions written on the wall. Patti Smith's book begins the year Coltrane died. Cy Dune's story begins again with the simple act of plugging in his guitar, mimicking the thrust of the 20th century.  

The No Recognize EP is a soundtrack to this transformation. His electric guitar story-tellings tap in, steeped with all the mystery of  pre-war weird America holler, African pentatonic shamanism, be-bop underground, and Kerouac's road verse electrified and amplified.  The songs blaze like roads north to Chicago and Detroit, like amps falling off cars, the rattling tubes all saturated, sound color and broken speaker blues,  sounds of a whole century, like Wayne Coyne says,  "touched by the religiousness of Rock 'n' Roll".  No Recognize was recorded loud on a few old microphones in Tucson, AZ and in Brooklyn with the help of drummer Andrew Barker (William Parker, Gold Sparkle) and bassist Shazad Ismaily (Sam Amidon, Bonnie "Prince" Billy),  then doubled back and blasted through a friends broken PA high on a desert mountain. A Rock 'n' Roll Hymnal 100 songs behind and 1000 songs to go.




Cy Dune - "Where The Wild Things"

Iaora Tahiti album by Mouse On Mars was released Mar 10, 1998 on the Too Pure label. Iaora Tahiti, the follow-up to Mouse On Mars’s 1994 debut Vulvaland, finds the band’s multi-textured techno-pop refined to a high art. Iaora Tahiti music CDs The German-based duo takes its cue from its Krautrock forebears, using spacey, insistent beats and grooves as an anchor for its smooth analogue language and digital chittering. Iaora Tahiti songs The first two tracks, “Stereomission” and “Kompod,” are expansive, loping compositions founded on fluid, burbling basslines. “Achunkel” sounds like ghosts playing drums in a cybernetic junkyard Iaora Tahiti album. “Bib” plows a swirling ambient vortex with pulse-quickening techno rhythms. The morphing bubble-scape of “Papa, Antoine” suggests a breeding ground alive with emergent microorganisms. These are dense, abstract sound collages of the first order, cerebral, intriguing, and challenging, without sacrificing rhythmic accessibility or the occasional melodic fragment. It might be said that Iaora Tahiti is one of the finest releases of its kind, were it not so strikingly unique.

Mouse On Mars - Saturday Night Worldcup Fieber /// Too Pure 1995

From the album Impossible Truth, out March 19, 2013 in North America and April 29, 2013 in the UK and Europe on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=898

Impossible Truth

Buy from Merge

William Tyler "Cadillac Desert"

·Y· | TÚ Y YO

Free download available until Jan 2013

Written By Blanck Mass
Recorded and mixed by Blanck Mass
Mastered by The Haxan Cloak

blanckmass.bandcamp.com/
blanckmass@gmail.com

HELLION EARTH

Taken from the Morning Swim EP out February 5, 2013.
Buy:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/morning-swim-single/id596169442

More on Glenn Jackson:
soundcloud.com/glenn-jackson
twitter.com/glenntjackson

Contact: info@ceremonyrecordings.com

Glenn Jackson - Save

This track is from the album Earth History Multiambient and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ohama2

The Drum (1985)

Minimal Wave is honored to present a reissue of Jyl‘s self-titled full-length album from 1984, originally released on Klaus Schulze’s Inteam label. Born and raised in California, Jyl travelled to Europe in her twenties to dance and met several talented and like-minded collaborators along the way. She ended up in Germany, and worked with Ingo Werner, Angela Werner, and Klaus Schulze, on what would become one of the most important and forward thinking electronic albums of the time. Shortly after its release, the song “Computer Love” became a mini-hit along with the album’s opening track “Mechanic Ballerina”. The lyrics of “Silicon Valley” and “Computer Generation” are reflective of the times and have become even more relevant now, 36 years later. The production and song arrangement on the album is immaculate. The synthesizers, drum programming and vocal contributions complement Jyl’s voice perfectly. The album contains an incredible depth beyond a regular dance album likely due to the spirit of the people behind it – the list of contributors add to its significance and near-mythological mystery.

After years of searching to no avail, the master tapes were finally located and we were able to remaster them for the best possible audio result. The record is pressed on black 180 gram vinyl and comes housed in a glossy heavyweight sleeve. The sleeve features an updated version of the original artwork, and is accompanied by a 12 page LP-sized booklet, featuring large scale portraits of Jyl from the time, an interview (thank you, Anders Larsson), and all of Jyl’s previously unpublished lyrics. Release date: September 8th, 2020.

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/jyl/

HELLION EARTH

Blanck Mass

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