https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/ssiege-12th-december-2022

SSIEGE @ 𝙉𝙏𝙎 Radio - Dec '22

B2 - Sufffdub (Datassette Remix)

Hpolt tool

Aphex Twin - 07 23SÓNsimple-beat-techno.flac

Bot1500 is a solo project of Japanese artist Shinichi Kobayashi.
His unique, warm and slightly melancholic sound is mainly created using analogue synthesizers and old samplers. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/temporal-cove/episodes/temporal-cove-17th-june-2024

Temporal Cove w/ Bot1500 170624

“[....]
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.

You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”

- excerpt of essay by Nick Klein, May 2024

Casio, guitars, bass, percussion, no-input mixer, synth, tapes, and voice by Ryan A Martin, recorded at Meadows of Dan & Cathedral II
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Ryan A Martin

Listener's Guide

Secret Boyfriend - Treil (ENMB-16)

just found this version on a tape in a pencil case the other day :)

euro [earlyv]

Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn[slower]

@polonius1

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀 - 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕢𝕦𝕖 𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕒 𝕍𝕠𝕝. 𝟜: ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕦𝕤 𝟚 [BSLP009] - OUT DEC. 12
Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/antique-fantasia-vol-4-polonius-2

_______VAI A CASA, SEI UBRIACO!
Bamboo Shows presents today the second opus of its 'vai a casa, sei ubriaco!' cassette series focusing on sunitty, an Italian reinterpretation of Fourth World Music through the prism of the world wide web.

_______ POLONIUS - ANTIQUE FANTASIA VOL. 4: POLONIUS 2
After introducing Babau for the inaugural cassette, the second installment of the sunitty focus showcases another contributor of the “Vapordub” V/A, with Egyptian Seif Gaber aka Polonius, dear friend of ArteTetrA, where he released the “Anaxia” and “Shades of Paradise” timeless yet time-bending cassettes (January and March 2019).

For the occasion the Milano-based musician exhumed the fourth opus of his Antique Fantasia series, a saga of six demo-tapes recorded between 2015 and 2018. Here’s the plainly entitled “Polonius 2”, a particularly eccentric segment of the aforementioned series. An album he has reworked and redefined over the years, initially inspired by Cocteau and maybe also a bit by Picasso. A translation of their simple, fresh line drawings and the distinctive flavor of that era through impulsive, offhand and elusive sounds. However, over the years this album became more about “gods, demigods and odd beings frolicking naked on flying checkerboards”, according to Polonius himself.

Delving into fourth-world abstractions and low-fidelity design, freeform creativity delivers here spontaneous exuberance, in Gaber‘s very own mischievous style. The piano checkerboard scrolls voluptuously, its ivory and ebony keys a canvas for his sonic alchemy. Synths soar and flirt with lively rhythms taking from the tribal folklore, creating a soundscape that appears both traditional and fanciful. Polonius' pataphysical tapestry unfurls an unlimited panorama of fantasized, unthought-of realms where the boundaries between genres and cultures dissolve.

Credits :
Music: Seif Gaber
Design: Romain Guillo
Artwork: Victoria Palacios

Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/antique-fantasia-vol-4-polonius-2

Order

Polonius - A1. C'est Parti !

"The aquatic is a concentric point of reflection within the latest release for Enmossed, procured as the split pairing of compositions by Finnish artists Kati Roover and J Koho. Both artists cull medial studies, collaborative processes, field recording, and geographically informed identitarian positionings in the audio works cultivated for cassette. Kati Roover’s aphotic meditations span across one side of the cassette, chiefly mirroring reflections on her Izhorian heritage, hydrofeminism thinking, and whale song captures. For the other side of the cassette, J Koho takes frameworks from Sound Studies paradigms to apply within his processed field recording efforts. Here, both artists service the latest edition of Enmossed’s ENMS catalog with mediated field recordings and sculpted isolatory liquidity formalism. Somewhere inside, the listener can be positioned enveloped in the dewy, aqueous sonorous realm of these two Finnish composers."

- Nick Klein

Kati Roover is a Helsinki-based, multidisciplinary artist. Her practice spans across the mediums of moving image, sound, photography, text and installations, draws upon and addresses a broad range of topics that are connected - from human, place and elemental interactions, mythopoetics, animisms and hydrofeminism, to the natural sciences and ecology.

J. Koho works extensively with sound and acts in many different roles in the field of sound art. Koho’s listening based artistic practice combines the methods, techniques and theories of acoustic, concrete, electronic, electroacoustic music and improvisation and simultaneously looks for meaningful and more sustainable ways to keep on working in this often technology-oriented and resource-intensive field. 

design template by RJM Vanderheyden
audio finalized by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
interview by Rob Goyanes

Split

J. Koho - Sijainteja [Excerpt] (ENMS-05)

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