Ana's Flavourites vol.51

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Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Guilt Mode :: https://ericfrye.bandcamp.com/track/guilt-mode

Guilt Mode

Reverendo Veintitres @nonlocalresearch b2b @polonius1
Live recorded at Fondo.luogo, Milano

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Fritto FM

Chill Room with Reverendo Veintitres b2b Polonius 23.04.22

Treatise (Brian Rogers / Mat Dryhurst) - 2 True on KChung Radio 04.15.2015 1

Order 'Feelings' at: https://ghostly.com/products/feelings
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Feelings

Brijean - Day Dreaming

A Trap For Fools

Pre-Order the new album Californian Soil: https://LondonGrammar.lnk.to/CSPresd

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Californian Soil

"Pulsar Acid" is OUT NOW on SUPERPANG
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-acid
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/HrG6n9Wc3KE

*Playback on stereo speakers is recommended, otherwise single stems might not be audible*

Composed and produced by Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Software by Marcin Pietruszewski
Mixing and mastering by Jung An Tagen
credits
design: Joe Gilmore
released October 10, 2020

Jung/Frye - "Pulsar Acid"

Excerpt from the first track of side c

@ikuisuus
IKASUS-083
ikuisuus.bandcamp.com/
LAST TRANSMYTHOLOGICAL ACROBATS SERIES
Released on double-cassette, September 2020
Edition of 70 copies.

Recorded January 2020 in Drogenbos, Belgium
credits
released September 7, 2020

Players: Tony Marie, Ernesto Gonzalez, Jonas Vanhullebusch, Seif Gaber, Tomas Dittborn

( @lotoretina , @bearboneslaylow , @nonlocalresearch )

artwork (sculptures) by Salah Abdel Kerim

POLONIUS (L.T.M.A.S PISCES BAND) - IX (excerpt)

From Hilang Child's upcoming album 'Every Mover' on Bella Union.

www.hilangchildmusic.com

Anthropic (Cold Times)

Tangerine you caught me on a good day
The roses started blooming 
The fuel supply is plenty

Tangerine is this the ending
Forever now or maybe
The conversation empty 

Tangerine I see the color fading 
North is ever-changing
I look away for safety  

Tangerine falling out of reach 
Tangerine in and out of dreams
I saw some things today that I could not explain
I watched you change into a tangerine 

Tangerine for you I’ll never quit
Close my eyes and purse my lips
Relive every moment 

Tangerine falling out of reach 
Tangerine in and out of dreams
I saw some things today that I could not believe 
You were set free
Now you’re a tangerine 

Tangerine you’re in my head
I sleep on your side of the bed

Olan Monk - Fameless

C.A.N.V.A.S.