Artist: Neo Geodesia
Album: 2562 Neon Flames
Format: Digital / Tape
Cat.No: CHI030
Master: John Hannon
Artwork: Saphy Vong
Release Date: 11th April 2020

The razor-sharp edge of life, death and rebirth is explored with an almost hallucinatory intensity in Saphy Vong’s new album 2562 Neon Flames, his first under the name Neo Geodesia. The album, which is dedicated to his mother Chun Leng and released two years after her death, revisits her sudden, tragic, shocking loss during the celebration of Khmer New Year 2562. It was made during a particularly trauma and cathartic time.

The compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contemporary meets folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analysis. A matrix of dazzling sequencers, warped vocal samples, synthetic instruments, Khmer Melismatic Smot, Kantoam Ming (Funeral Orchestra), Beksloy, Karaoke DVDs, Abstract electronic and personal archives are arranged into holograms of dreams. Through digital superimposition processes, instruments mutate and take on new forms of articulation. Crystalline organs, mourning voices and insistent Bamboo flutes dance with metal drums and traditional Angkorian percussion as compositional schizophrenia or absurd fusion.

Saphy was due to return to Cambodia in April 2020, a trip which was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in another cycle of bad luck, displacement, missed connection and sickness. This album is for all diaspora who struggle to return to a country, and for all parents like Chun Leng, who balance life between returning and helping relatives and making a new life for herself and her family. It is for everyone who has searched for a country, lost a parent, or found joy and new life in the bitter ashes of grief. Most of all, it is for Chun Leng.

Fanta Rouge addresses Cambodia’s frank, open attitude towards death in accordance with Buddhist values of understanding suffer- ing and impermanence. Its title nods to the Khmer Rouge, the violent regime that executed Chun Lengs father when it seized power in April 1975, then caused their family to flee to Thailand then France when the regime collapsed into chaos four years later. It’s also a reference to red Fanta, the popular blood-red, sickly-sweet soda given as a spirit shrine offering to appease ancestral ghosts as part of Cambodian animist tradition. Cambodian Therevada Buddhism is known to have strong elements from Hindu and animistic traditions.

2562 Neon flames

Fanta Rouge

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Neo Geodesia - Fanta Rouge

FRKTL - 17/03/2021

Out Now: https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/safari-explorer-kent-install

Kent Install is the debut record from Safari Explorer, a solo project by Dilian, musician/producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Safari Explorer is an exploration / exercise in creating pop melodies that pull influence from Cumbia, he often heard growing up in Mexico City, and from Dilian’s worldwide travel.

The album doesn’t function as a concept album, instead focusing more on found meanings in novel combinations and a pop approach. Recorded mostly on 4 tracks and with minimal gear, the album is an emotional tour of Dilian’s interior world + a world where access is immediate and global in the data age.

All songs composed by Safari Explorer (pka Dilian)
Noumenal Loom 2020

Kent Install

New Vibrations

Safari Explorer - New Vibrations

Ringtonez II

Safari Explorer - Ringtonez II

TR038 - aircode - 'tunnel vision' [sample]

From the new LP, Excision After Love Collapses: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/excision-after-love-collapses

Excision After Love Collapses

FRKTL — Haruspex

xr/spool: is a talented italian experimental producer whose purpose is to depict unknown territories in music. After releasing a wonderful tape earlier this year on Comic Sans Records, he pursues his collaboration with the label by delivering a one hour show in which ambient landscapes are crossed by powerfull experimental club music.

TRACKLIST

Comic Sang Chaud #23 - w/ xr/spool: - Lyl Radio

* Announcing CANVAS007 *

Lugh - Re Munus (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS007
Release Date: 23rd of October 2020

Vinyl and Digital pre-order:
canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/re-munus

‘
There is grief, exultation and relief inherent in belonging to community. Re Munus reflects on the tone of deep gravity with which the re munisation of the de munised is unravelling. The generations which dismantled their social contract, achieved immunity, revoked solidarity.

Severe circumstances foment collectivity, suffering and empathy, interrupting the ethereal dream of social weightlessness. Re Munus sketches sensations and observations during a time of reorientation, rediscovery of lived sensibility on a relational scale. An encounter with sensations which we had said defined us—the tangibility of which we had forgotten, believed to be confined to the past. There is tension between the physical withdrawal and lived intensity which permeates these works.
’ Lugh

Personal drift. There is a multitude of presences guiding you through this record as a listener, not without their own doubts as to where they are leading you. A murky social space. Time-compressed club experiences within layered acoustic dimensions; consolidated, captured and played back into the same space. I am sitting in several rooms simultaneously. Death metal screams in an Animal Crossing world modelled on our own.

The choral rush of ‘Million Dollar Cowboy’ from Lugh’s Hélico EP (2018) re-appears again in ‘Braises’ and ‘Free Fall’, deeper and re-figured. Sometimes the record also haunts itself—each element heard having been through a process so long and many-staged, it’s as though it has already lived.

These compositions hold within them a flawed attempt to communicate on every level. The desire of language as expressed through music—towards shared meaning. Paradoxically voiced and voiceless, it denies textual, verbal description, instead crying out through the cracks in forming its own liquid tongue. Clone choirs simultaneously rehearse in an open space below. A slow walk through this spectacle. It’s an anguished record as much as it is at times tranquil. The movement between voices detached and embodied becomes playful—often warping them far beyond recognisability.

Beautiful artefacts. Stomach churns in the face of a burnt-out horizon. Cantering & sneezing. Air is driven into the corners and creases of a gold-plated, reverberant structure. The neural network claps to keep itself in time. Gutter Synthesis organ lament; tears of the duffing oscillators. There are moments on this release when tensely divergent fragments are barely held together. The prominent human voice mixing with the heavily re-sampled voice—it’s an incredible lift. Superimposed night and day. Sonic creatures living within the material, sharing time and space. Tenderness and together-ness.

Michael Speers and Olan Monk

Music by Lugh O'Neill

Vocals on ‘Vertiginous Leap’ and 'Free Fall' performed by Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork, graphic and product designed by Zuzana Pabisova

Mastered by Ali Najafi

Underwater recordings from Zuzana Pabisova's underwater sports camera feature on 'El Rocio'

The ‘Gutter Synth’ designed by Tom Mudd features on 'Americans', 'Irony, Chastity, Obedience' and 'Index Veri'

@lu_gh

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

Re Munus

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Lugh - Irony, Chastity, Obedience

Show #02: @ecology141
Musician, founder and curator of the Kiiberborea art platform that was inspired by solarpunk ideas and brought together artists all over the world. There are four releases and 6 mixes in the platform catalog and also online concerts series which is held since 2019.
    
Year 2120. The world is experiencing the effects of climate change. Most of the land is flooded, and huge masses of survivors are concentrated in terrible metropolises where the population has become slaves of corporations that control resources. But there are rumors among people about secret settlements on the newly formed islands. 
    After a long search, you arrive at such an island. According to rumors, the local settlers live in harmony with nature and have high technology combined with unique culture. 
    Walking around the island you meet a man who is one of the settlers. He is glad to see you and agrees to lead. On the way, he says that his main interest is finding experimental music records from the past. He search it in private collections and in the abandoned server rooms around the world. Then he takes out device that looks like a speaker to show you fresh artifacts.

A réécouter sur www.olaradio.fr

One For the Lovers • Soleil Rouge invite ecology141 (02.12.20)

* Announcing CANVAS008 *

Various Artists - Apocope (LP)

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS008
Release Date: 12th of February 2021

Vinyl and Digital pre-order:
canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/apocope

Apocope is the second C.A.N.V.A.S. compilation, following Cipher (2019) and featuring another grouping of dispersed artists responding to a call-out under a unifying theme/sky. Where Cipher approached codification, Apocope approaches the cut-off point of a pop operative. An ‘apocope’ is a word truncated—a sound omitted—moulded into a shape that rolls off of the tongue yet carries within it further significance.

Together as C.A.N.V.A.S; Lugh, Olan Monk and Elvin Brandhi invited Alpha Maid, Bashar Suleiman, Billy Bultheel, Hulubalang and Nadah El Shazly to join them in excavating ‘POP’—a boundless yet always personal subject, specific to context and forms of co-existence.

The resulting record created by the group is a warped hypogeum of dissonant intimacies, the texture of the post-POPped bubble strewn into unpredictable hymns of prophetic onomatopoeia. Together this collection of tracks sustains tangible reciprocity between those involved, despite the dislocation of the time during which it was made and the physical distance which separated the artists who communicated remotely.

HYPE! As the commercialization of an essentially positive impulse to exert imbalance. We asked ourselves to what extent we are the subject of the conditions we fight against, which contagions inhabit our receptivity. What involuntarily haunts the creative inventory.

Apocope is a compilation of tracks that approach without reaching their referent. The possible drop-off point of the pop lineage. Idols falling. Apo-Cope, understood also as apocalyptic hope. This title recovers the dynamic meaning of Cope (Kolaphos). Cope is not a capacity to contain a situation, it is a strike, a hit—a resistant attack. A de-fence mechanism as a cutting through the protective infrastructure and allowing the skin to breathe. A collective calling up, throwing off our infatuations.

The joy of pop nothingness falls flat of an exuberant call-out. Instead, it’s a burnt out landscape of post-pop memories. Shells of cars with the windows blasted out and the radio playing a skipping CD on infinite loop or tuning into radio stations still echoing from last year, already forgotten. A pandemic induced surge-out, a farewell to arms. The greatest hits of an only half-remembered era of reducing attention spans and blown out pop hedonist nihilism, a NOW compilation for the elongated annulment of our prospects.

Apocope is a somewhat jaded, stranded, and disoriented but defiant and hopeful gesture, striving to redefine the realm of the possible. This is neither a tabula rasa, a clean-cut break from the past, nor is it nostalgic. Apocope remodels the vernacular to create breathing-space for an era gasping for air. It reveals and reflects the trauma of a generation plagued by cultural stasis and strife, letting out some bruised blood.

We sidle with the cut-off point, the Cope, the Hit that POP’s our bubble, revealing the face disguised by flawless elastic. To learn from the affectivity of ideological oppression we join the hit parade assertively walking in the opposite direction.

Directed by C.A.N.V.A.S. and Elvin Brandhi
Design by Gaspar Cohen with artwork by Elvin Brandhi
Mastered by Ali Najafi

We acknowledge the financial support of the Arts Council in making this project possible. [www.artscouncil.ie]

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

@alpha-maid

Apocope

Harry wants to imagine a world without you

Alpha Maid - Harry wants to imagine a world without you

指は暗闇の中で成長しますmixtape by @alleycatss

TRACKLIST:
ゆめにっきYume Nikki OST - graffiti world / hell
ゆめにっきYume Nikki OST - martian underground
ＭＯＯＮ ＢＧＭ黎明(01)
Shintaro Taketani - MY LONDON BOYS
Střed Světa - Pojmenovávání během přemísťování
DreamWeb OST (Matt Seldon) - Time Runs Out But The Clock Runs On
Drome - Alice Effekt
DreamWeb OST (Matt Seldon) - Total HeAd Control
[ONE 輝く季節へ] 永遠
ＭＯＯＮ ＢＧＭ非日常(03)
ZUNTATA - 攻撃的即効性疑似連来（症候群）
菅野由弘 - 天使のたまごメインテーマ (tenshi no tamago main theme)
DreamWeb OST (Matt Seldon) - What Went Wrong?
Ken Ishii - Naiad
ＭＯＯＮ ＢＧＭ閉鎖された空間(08)
Sadsamurai - Hajj
Norken - Southern Soul
Seefeel - time to find me (come inside)
The Kyoto Connection - Kamakura