German-Icelandic electro-acoustic trio Minua’s new EP Simulacra explores just tuning systems and alternate temperaments. Utilising various instruments like woodwinds, a modular synthesizer, a Bavarian zither or electric bass, the trio stretch barely song-like structures to their limits; the four pieces here move with glacial grandeur, their movement barely perceptible. 

The first half of the record revolves around the element of air. The opening “Order of Instants” utilises layered woodwind instruments to create a harmonic space inspired by an 18th century temperament often used by organ tuners. “Final Service” is an ode to overtones and noise, fusing bass clarinets with modular synthesizer and processed electric bass to calming, slowly modulating effect. 

The second half of the record shifts the trio’s focus to plucked instruments, but the pieces retain their slow-moving, monolithic character. “Sixfold Wilted Rose” features a Bavarian zither, unravelling its shimmering beauty on the bedrock of drone sounds like a rose blooming in parched soil, while the closing “Ascension Point” continues in a similar mood, a droning calmness underpinning the gentle electric guitar plucks. 

Inspired by traditional musics, elements of jazz and contemporary drone, Minua have created a body of work that draws parallels between musical worlds. Simulacra is beautiful, patient music.

Released by Warm Winters Ltd. as WW012 

Fabian Willmann – woodwinds 
Kristinn Kristinsson – guitar, electronics 
Luka Aron – guitar, zither, modular synthesizer 

Tracks 1-3 written by Luka Aron 
Track 4 written by Kristinn Kristinsson 

Recorded by Daniel Nentwig at Butterama Recording Center 
Mixed by Luca Aaron and Kristinn Kristinsson 
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk 
Cover artwork by Nat Marcus

Simulacra

Minua - Final Service

I recently moved back home to Slovakia from the UK and I am trying to understand what the concept of home means to me and to others. Sometimes I sense it in the most unlikely places. This mix contains pieces of music that try to piece “home” together for me - either on a cultural, linguistic, or purely sonic level. I hope it does for others too.

Adela Mede (born 1995) is a Slovak-Hungarian artist and composer of experimental electronic music. She creates music that explores intimacy and spiritual growth through minimalist soundscapes and vocal work. Her work creates environments and spaces of reflection and ponder relating to her areas of interest. She tries to incorporate the three languages she speaks (english, slovak, hungarian) to explore the vocal shifts attached to memories that these languages bring up.

~ ｡〰○╰☆ ~ 〰○。:.*.ﾟ ﾟ〰○ ｡.ﾟ〰

«Недавно я вернулась из Великобритании в Словакию, и сейчас я пытаюсь осознать, что является домом – для меня и для других. Иногда я чувствую дом в самых неожиданных местах. Микс включает в себя музыкальные композиции, которые, как мне кажется, собирают “дом” по кусочкам – на культурном, лингвистическом, или на чисто звуковом уровне. Я надеюсь, для кого-то они делают то же самое».

Адела Меде (род. 1995) — словацко-венгерская художница и композиторка экспериментальной электронной музыки. Через минималистичные саундскейпы и вокал в её творчестве исследуется интимность и духовные трансформации — музыкантка создаёт среды и пространства для размышлений о том, что входит в эти области её интереса. Адела инкорпорирует в своё творчество три языка, на которых она говорит (английский, словацкий, венгерский), чтобы исследовать голосовые сдвиги, закреплённые за воспоминаниями, которые вызывают эти языки.

https://www.adelamede.com @adelamede

Tracklist / Треклист:
How did that feel? - Adela Mede - Črepy - Warm Winters ltd. (2021)
Lišajník - Jonáš Gruska - Oscillation : : : Tuned Circuits 1 - umland editions / Q-O2 (2021)
Sing for myself - Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO - mappa (2021)
Támad a szél (The Wind rises) : No. 4. Templom (Church) - István Márta, Amadinda Percussion
Group - Sound In Sound Out - Hungaroton Classic (1998)
Unreleased - Adela Mede
Sinisen ruusun tapaus - Cucina Povera - Lumme - Primordial Void (2021)
Каприччио - Тальник - Глория - self release (2019)
Collected & Compressed - Eamon Foreman - Collected & Compressed - self release (2021)
Fake Feathers (feat. Nikolay Kozlov) - HMOT - This Music Greets Death - Warm Winters ltd.
(2021)
II - Line Gate - Apex - mappa (2020)
Pond - Katya Shirshkova - Pond - CANT (2020)
Unreleased - Adela Mede

002 – Adela Mede

In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes app, and a small satchel of what seemed to be carambola seeds. The note reads: “We were raised in the ashes of time. This is a philosophy of live. Made while sailing the seas of chaos on our humble houseboat, a place you’ll come to know. But do not seek us out. We are gone.”


Unwilling to risk a computer virus, or humor what was maybe a prank, the thumb drive sat on a shelf for a number of weeks. Eventually, label head Nick Klein decided to take it to the Royal Library of the Netherlands and open its contents on a computer there, just in case.


The thumb drive was titled jd swift. It’s unclear whether this is the artist’s name, the title of the album, or both. The recording opens with an alien spaghetti western: a chopped voice and wobbly single note, signaling that this is a strange place. The percussion is directionless at first, but warbled samples, including the nostalgic clink of getting a coin in Donkey Kong, give way to mutant structure.


Distorted twinkles, dubby hats, and big paranoid kicks occasionally swirl into lo-fi hurricanes, but mostly this music resides in the calm but weirdly charged eye of the storm.


Though little can be assumed about the context of these sonic creations, they seem to be the result of extended jams. The toolbox includes broken arpeggiations and fuzzed bells, air horns and watery pannings. This is twisted globalism, a nexus of serenity and catastrophe, a series of unrecognizable landscapes that read like field recordings though they are intentional creations. The inscrutability of their delivery captures perfectly the sense that artists are no longer individuals or collectives—they are circuits of larger machinery.


Meandering between sounds, these sui generis recordings don’t quite fit the categories of contemporary electronic music. Junk ambient, marginal acid… it’s a struggle to appropriately describe the sounds. Part of this difficulty comes from the artist’s (or artists’) purposefully self-effacing strategy, a circumventing of the systems that edify and circulate art based on identity, practice, and vision. Indeed, this is one of the reasons PL was strangely attracted to these recordings in the first place.


All eight of the individual pieces that make up jd swift are untitled, but are labelled with the time at which they start in the recording. The first track is titled 0:00. Does this hint at new beginnings, or a stance against time itself? If you find yourself on a coast, keep an eye out for a houseboat. Its occupants may know the answer. 
credits
releases October 7, 2021

Mastered by Glyn Maier

Graphic Design and Art by Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

DISTRIBUTED IN THE UNITED STATES BY FANTASTIQUE LLC.

JD SWIFT

PURCHA$E

JD SWIFT -  0:00 (PLIB011)

Sanely deforming my remembrance
From which I leap to life again
 I walk into waves, they don't cover me
But I know the sea the same way
 Not knowing the air that smothers
As if the wind only blows for the waves
And the vital fluid smells only like blood.

For the forgetful, insensible onlooker, silence will indicate peace, acceptance, even dullness. The inner truth will not be revealed to this observer. This learned silence has grown watered by absence of compassion - an armor of thorns to protect from a feelingless environment. There is no doubt: one day the truth, enriched by sorrow and ornamented in grace, will burst out of their chest. It is only a question of whether the screams will be heard.

The debut LP of Reece Thomas, formerly known as Alocasia Garden, is a highly personal and bravely revealing story titled 'Dysphoria'. The seven songs candidly express inner forces tearing one apart; a harsh struggle of dissonance and harmony weaves into a beautiful, yet anguished, whole.

Dysphoria

Reece Thomas - Without the fear of proof

@princestoner invite NTN (dizonord) pour une session bass music munie d'une pédale dub super delay

Prince Stoner présente Nowsound with NTN

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Mashups délicatement noisy et breaks lo-fi, ce mois-ci c'est Peran aka Trrrnctrn , nouveau membre dans la team Carpaccio, qui prend les commandes sur Tikka. Un mix qui sent la casse automobile et la fumée.

Track List:
01 - Carpaccio Cathédrale - Sample Piano a Corde (Intro)
02 - Mordd Imbet - No Orange Juice, No Love (Pater Noster)
03 - Corps Déchiré - Abstraction Informe (Self-Release)
04 - Abbrumer - giungggl (Unrelease)
05 - TBZ - b4 Track 10 (BREW)
06 - Innsyter - Forest Shaman (Contort Yourself)
07 - Trrrnctrn - minisetup boucle 5 (Unrelease)
08 - Orléans Club L.A Source - Maka Way to Luv U (Unrelease)
09 - 13 - Naked ?nake (Self-Release)
10 - DEE-JAY MORGUE - Untilted (Self-Release)
11 - 13 - SCHZPHRNC sample challenge (Self-Release)
12 - Abbrumer - Sad Vrai (Unrelease)
13 - Watching Airplanes - Saboter la Machine (Banlieue Records)
14 - Glauexp84n41 - Un coeur qui chante (Self-Release)
15 - Corps Déchiré - Overdose Sacrée ( Self-Release)
16 - Dj Conséquences - Rest in Chien (Gérard.C) (Unrelease)
17 - A Brutal Game - 5 (Self-Release)
18 - Delia Derbyshire - Air (BBC Radiophonic Music)
19 - Le Matin - Reproductive Organ Replacement (Forthcoming)
20 - Trrrnctrn - Drumtrack (Unrelease)
21 - Mechanical Heaven - La 606 de Phiphi (Self-Release)
22 - Secretlifer 34 - Secretlifer16 (Liga do Vento Divino)
23 - Carpaccio Cathédrale - Sample Chien 2 (Outro)

Carpaccio Cathédrale invite Trrrnctrn ~ 09.03.2022

I want a direct
Taste...no more theories. "I 
Don't believe, I know"*

*Carl Jung, "C.G. Jung Speaking"

::

Original music & haiku poetry by Bob Weathers

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