@isabarb & @anton-lambert combine on 'Tombola 37' for the third instalment of @m0ntage's conceptual compilations series 'Referential Irony'.

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Premiere: Inferior Design & Lambert - Tombola 37

usof imbues Contacto's guitar-led, avant-folk arrangement with warm humming thizz.

'ASTRAY' is out May 27th on Deardogs.

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Premiere: Contacto - out of frame (usof Remix) [Deardogs]

New Label | First Release | Split EP
Ltd edition of 120 tapes:
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Tracklist:
A1: Hold Yr Tongue - Susu Laroche
A2: Hours - Susu Laroche
B1: Acid / Answered Prayer - Flora Yin Wong
B2: End - Flora Yin Wong

Susu Laroche / Flora Yin Wong - D001 EP (Clips)

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Stranger
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 134
Release Date: 21 April 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/TheStranger

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve share 'The Stranger', the first single from the upcoming full-length album 'The Sport of Love' out via PAN on May 26th.

On The Sport of Love, seasoned collaborators Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga and Tapiwa Svosve consider the language, competition and contradiction of modern romance: its yearning, incomprehensible vastness and the inevitable darkness and fleeting fragility. For the trio, love is the emotion that propels all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and its expression can be realized in many forms.

Everything comes into sharp focus on the album's lengthy central piece 'The Stranger', that brings in additional instrumentation from harpist Ayha Simone and percussionist Mathieu Edward. The three friends saw this particular composition as a journey within itself, charting the anxiety, harmony and uncertainty of love. Shifting from gooey freeform jazz into gurgling noise and bleak ambient drone, it connects the dots between Dorothy Ashby, Arve Henriksen, Jon Hassell and Hildur Guðnadóttir while voyaging into parts unknown. It's a finale of sorts that wrestles with the complexity of the album's themes, returning to earlier refrains and prolonging their tension.

Mixed by Daniel Pineda
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering
Artwork by Tosh Basco

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Stranger (PAN 134S)

Hard Mag Poison Gas Promotional Film, featuring soundtrack by Lolina https://vimeo.com/288719016

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Full feature: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/a3b4we/dis-fig-purge-why-stream-interview

Dis Fig's (@dis_fig) debut LP, 'PURGE', out March 15, 2019 on PTP cassette and digital editions.

'PURGE' is the debut album by Dis Fig. While the New Jersey born, Berlin-based artist is best known for her relentless and downright brutal DJ sets, this work comes in at a much different trajectory – an exploration of her own vulnerability through varying degrees of noise, vocal migrations, and orchestral composition.

“'PURGE' is about confronting the feelings which you have been avoiding. Consciously or subconsciously. Feelings you want to be feeling or “should” be feeling but you can’t because your body won’t let you. Because maybe it knows it’s not safe for you.

It’s when you reach that moment which makes your brow furrow because your chest is getting hot and something is about to erupt. When the feeling starts crawling up your neck, choking you, and you could try to make it stop but maybe it’s better for you if you don’t. When what comes out is painful - it’s tragic, it’s crippling. But with it comes a sliver of beauty. It’s burning and it’s stunning.

When it’s over, you may learn by staring at the embers.”

Written/Produced: Felicia Chen || Arranged: Felicia Chen & Geng || Co-Production ("Purge" interlude & "I Am The Tree"): Geng || Mixed (tracks #1-8): Joni Juden || Mixed ("I Am The Tree"): Geng || Mastered: Joni Juden || Flute ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "I Am The Tree"): Adam Sinclaire || Trumpet ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "Alive"): Sasha Perera || Trombone ("Drum Fife Bugle" & "Alive"): Thomas Romana

Photography: Alice Z Jones || Artwork & Cassette Design: Jeremiah Carter

PURGE

PURCHASE

Dis Fig - WHY (from 'PURGE' [PTP2013])

Bliss Song

Yangze - Hold Your Horses

Work (CM-009)

A1 - Yourope (0:26)
A2 - Airbnb (0:17)
A3 - FAQ U (0:38)
A4 - Missing (0:36)
A5 - PO (0:50)
A6 - No Monuments To Be Made Today (1:11)
A7 - New Empires, Old Vampires (0:26)
A8 - The Right Word To Write a Wrong (1:23)
A9 - Work (1:13)
A10 - Futurum (0:33)
B1 - A Day In The Studio (7:28)
B2 - Modern Spanking Bolero (3:31)

Released on the 13th of July 2020
Cat. no: CM-009
Format: 12" Vinyl & CD
Written and recorded by Hanne Lippard
Production by Louis McGuire on B2 - "Modern Spanking Bolero"
Guitar by Paul Benham on B2 - "Modern Spanking Bolero"
Mixed by Alban Schelbert
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Designed by Ethan Assouline
Pictures by Felix Brüggemann
Distributed by Boomkat

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Hanne Lippard - Modern Spanking Bolero (CM-009)

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Lutto Lento, 'VERSION Epilogue' (2021). Courtesy Haunter Records, Milan.

* Announcing CANVAS010 *

Alpha Maid - CHUCKLE 

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS010
Release Date: 19th of March 2021

Alpha Maid - SUM1  (VIDEO):
https://thewire.co.uk/video/watch-alpha-maid-sum1

Pre-order available at canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/chuckle

CHUCKLE is the first solo release by Leisha Thomas as Alpha Maid on the C.A.N.V.A.S. label, following a contribution to the recent Apocope compilation LP. The signature Alpha Maid genre prevails—the sincere, strong vocal style, aligned with a UK indignant and iconoclastic artistic lineage, set against dredging, grungy instrumentals reminiscent of North American open plains or urban sprawl. As if desert rock had occurred in mundane and claustrophobic South London rather than the Southern States. Alpha Maid observes and reflects on an urban, smoggy, UK surrounding, although appears to drive through it on an open interstate highway in a really wide car.

Alpha Maid's vocals vacillate between sometimes candid, close and unclouded, then drifting towards fragmentary, cutting and pasting in the manner of unstable media or limited bandwidth.

Opening with a quote—found footage from broadcasted media—‘i knew the figures’, pointing to a setting of British media harassment and scrutiny, WOWOWOW conveys amazement and disbelief, faced with the bare and flagrant injustices of the time and place. Vocals are swallowed by the cavernous reverberation, while slow paced stoner rock-like drifting instrumentals amble underneath.

CHUCKLE follows Alpha Maid's debut EP Spy, released via the ever-transforming collective and label CURL, of which Alpha Maid is a member, alongside the founders Coby Sey, Mica Levi and Brother May. Whilst Spy expressed revulsion in the face of creeping surveillance and the increasingly concealed and deceptive nature of power, CHUCKLE embodies the spirit of internal disorientation and realisations, exacerbated by a backdrop of social crises and injustices reaching levels beyond our grasp or comprehension.

Electronic interventions, eclectic instrumentation and found footage intersperse Alpha Maid's trademark sound. Brief interludes reminiscent of Scandinavian metal themes, undistorted but purveying doom—opening MILD WEATHER and closing NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED—contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of eerie dread. Within that, there is regular respite to be found—NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED feels light, rural, nearly folk, delivered with clarity of mind and of pace amongst the otherwise smoggy and moody overlying theme of the EP. The title of the track, however points to a familiar context of confusion amongst cosmopolitan and globalised socio-political contagion. NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED, in harmony with the nature of the whole release, is fresh, melodically simple, optimistic and yet suspended within a murky atmosphere of cataclysm and wonder.

Lugh O'Neill

Music by Leisha Thomas
Trumpet on 'MILD WEATHER' and 'NEWLY WOKE & THOUGHT PROVOKED' performed by Jovis Lane
Flute on 'DOGGY' performed by Niazy Hazeldine
Drums for 'SUM1' recorded by Ben Vince at Roundhouse, February 2020

Mastered by Chris Pawlusek

Artwork by Fennella McCallum
Graphic Design by Zuzana Pabisova



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