Bénédicte - When It Binds

@benedictemusic

https://benedicte.xyz/

(BBR020)

When It Binds is a collection of songs composed over the last 3 years, and serves as Bénédicte’s personal exploration of what happens after an emotional connection is established with someone. How does this change who we are? How are our emotional landscapes altered with this new form of inter-subjectivity? Each song on the album is a different and searching sonic interpretation of these questions and a response to ever-changing emotional shifts.

Bénédicte is the musical project of Montreal-based producer and sound artist Maxime Gordon. Bénédicte’s music is a study of restrained feeling, containing soaring synths within a landscape that is strictly minimalist. She distorts field-recordings and vocal samples, splicing the human and familiar with the unnatural.

Released February 26, 2021

Written, produced and mixed by Bénédicte

Production on "Drift" by Bénédicte and @xglare

Vocals on "Fall On Me" by Bénédicte

Artwork by Ginwawa (instagram.com/2fffff7)

Released on Blueberry Records, 2021

© all rights reserved

Bénédicte - When It Binds

Blur

Fly Like A Moth

Neighbours_Stompin_On_Ceiling_~(Summer Club Mix)~

216 - Fonobisa
Still Plated - Duswunder
Mi Cuerpo (Club Instrumental) - Pearson Sound
Tell Me - rrao
Stepper - Anz
GUI Shaap - Enayet
Icky - Color Plus
Zoner (Zoned Mix) - Big Ever
Protection Service Provider - Client_03
Resolute - Pugilist & Tamen 
pewpewpew - xato
Glint - Color Plus
Lokt - BFTT
Loos In Twos (NRG) - Anz

Neighbours_Stompin_On_Ceiling_~(Summer Club Mix)~

taken from "Privacy Angels" by VISIO
out on September 9th 2022

Written and produced by VISIO
Additional production by Heith
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux
Sculpture by Joshua Miller

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@katharsislabel
@jjjacob

Taken from 'Infinite Summer: Ekstase' released on @katharsislabel September 20th

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1. Yem Gel - Origin, Gate's Dawn
2. L3ash – Sleepover
3. dragongirl - everything will b ok
4. Comechelet - Секс під дощем (feat. Katro Zauber)
5. Hedo Hydr8 - Sweet Confusion
6. Renslink - Just Won't Do
7. Quit Life – DLB
8. Lighyer - That Place
9. Jenys – WWWater
10. Beatrice – Attempt
11. Lyra Valenza - Stunt This
12. Mang - Based Halo
13. Ice_Eyes – Hyperbox
14. bela - Diurnal Ar

Lyra Valenza - Stunt This [Katharsis]

@lighyer

https://youtu.be/SrV9izwK5M0

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Unbless Me Now (Patience Pearl Remix)

Featured on the compilation From Ukraine, For Ukraine, out now on Standard Deviation.

Standard Deviation

Tarantel

Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come. 

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

buy / stream

Mt. Fuyu - Close2U

Eyeroll

Supernova - 2

@benedictemusic @blueberry-recordings
Read more: www.pw-magazine.com/2021/premiere-benedicte-fall-on-me/

When It Binds

Premiere: Bénédicte »Fall on Me« [Blueberry Records]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-benedicte-drift-feat-xglare/

A simmering slice of futuristic introspection comes courtesy of Montreal-based sound artist @BenedicteMusic — appearing on the radar last year courtesy of @BlueberryRecordings incredible 'Unbroken Dreams Of Light' compilation, she follows-up with a immense five-tracker on the imprint, entitled 'When It Binds'.

Bénédicte - Drift feat. XGLARE [Blueberry Records]

@benedictemusic - When It Binds

(BBR020)

When It Binds is a collection of songs composed over the last 3 years, and serves as Bénédicte’s personal exploration of what happens after an emotional connection is established with someone. How does this change who we are? How are our emotional landscapes altered with this new form of inter-subjectivity? Each song on the album is a different and searching sonic interpretation of these questions and a response to ever-changing emotional shifts.

Bénédicte is the musical project of Montreal-based producer and sound artist Maxime Gordon. Bénédicte’s music is a study of restrained feeling, containing soaring synths within a landscape that is strictly minimalist. She distorts field-recordings and vocal samples, splicing the human and familiar with the unnatural.
credits
released February 26, 2021

Written, produced and mixed by Bénédicte

Production on "Drift" by Bénédicte and XGLARE

Vocals on "Fall On Me" by Bénédicte

Artwork by Ginwawa (@2fffff7)

Released on Blueberry Records, 2021

© all rights reserved

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