The tenth Amulet is an exception: part hymn, part eulogy, part elegy. Against the harmonious backdrop of her musical selection, the voice of FH HF recites chosen poems, including those of Maya Angelou, Andrei Tarkovsky, Forugh Farrokhzad and of her own writing. The soft-spoken lyrical journey, guided by the novel Georgian artist, conveys a heartfelt search for truth in emotion. "I Saw His Plane Taking Off to the Clouds", the debut album of FH HF, was released under the label @eastern-nurseries in 2019.

Amulet of Tears 010: FH HF

Music: @kunuist

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 010: FH HF

Imposing and monolithic, diverse and fragmented, complex and cold, personal and warm.

UNITEDSTATESOF builds dynamic soundscapes that live in an elusive balance between confusion, nausea, paranoia, anxiousness but also pure bliss. Fragments of free improv, ASMR-like vocal samples, digital squelches and many more intangible sounds are melted together into restless, gaseous, abstract, immersive atmospheres.

In this mix, the artist selects and blends opposite moments from his released and unreleased work for 30 minutes of immersion and musical travelling.

Tired Mix 001 - UNITEDSTATESOF

airplanes, subways, sidewalks, elevators

Moments. An Hour. A day. A Summer

rem sleep

Airlite DMV - Pry On Rinse France / (Soda Gong 2020)

Peasant Blends is a combination of medieval music and uk club sounds, both things very close to my heart. It's a journey through dark winter months, out briefly into the sun, and then to the club. Hopefully a trajectory we will all be on soon xx I hope you enjoy it, it was lots of fun to make.

Kurotage - Hungry Ghost
Man Rei - The Queer That is the Night
Winter Landscapes in the Highlands of Norway with Cold Blowing Storm
Kat Nzingha - Denial
Monastic Choir of the Abbey Notre Dame de Fontgombault - Introit 
Nameless King - Escaping the Undead Asylum
Relaxing Sound of Rain Forest Puddles
Endless Mow - ???
Otik - Amor
E-Talking - Insider
Endless Mow - Clinging to Winters Chill [unreleased]
Birds Sing in the Woods
Miri it is while summer ilast - Anonymous (England, 13th Century)
Endless Mow - outro to PLXZA
blackhaine - Blackpool
Know V.A. - Trauma
Otik - Seasonal FX
matt finnegan - KEEP
Asthyna - nosound
Mosca - The Optics
GILA - Stretch Cord
Know V.A. - Tunnelrave (Schellingwouder)
LUMPEX - kolagito
Little Artist - Cancel Copenhagen
Susumu Hirasawa - Guts Theme

Peasant Blends

Superior mirages materialized over planar ice sheets. Halos of light form luminous disks suspended above calving glacial breaks.

Four tracks at 128 BPM reconstituted for infinite playback.

Artwork by Aaron Graham
aaron-graham.com

© 2020 Schmitt Computations
schmitt.computer

Parhelia I + II

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut album for ENXPL (enmossed x psychic liberation).

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbrel variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissandos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.

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Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. He cut his teeth in the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting his composition processes with numerous live performances as well as releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Jack Callahan

cover artwork :: Autumn Casey

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

a portion of Side A was recorded live at Rhizome (Washington, DC) by Steve Sanford

all proceeds to The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (Philadelphia, PA) :: www.yasproject.com

Set In The Bardo

Patrick Gallagher - Untitled [Set In The Bardo Side B Excerpt] (ENXPL05)

https://blinxhq.bandcamp.com/releases

released February 5, 2021

music produced, recorded, and mixed
summer of 2020 by mos fet & eustress
guitar on track 6 by Cameron Gulley
tapes on track 7 by Tom Lageveen
design by mos fet & eustress
mastered by Pheek

mos fet & eustress - Oology [blinx001] (snippets)

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