“hi leaves” is the new full-length record from soft tissue, the duo of Glasgow-based artists Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins. Following their self-titled debut for Penultimate Press in 2019, this collection examines microsound by way of extended amplification technique, bone conduction, domestic recordings, and digital feedback. Tracks like “plant pot” and “kettle” appear to disclose their source material, presenting wonderfully tactile environments of highly articulate sound. Wennborg and Weins prove themselves to be masterful arrangers of discrete, organic material, weaving together knotty and immersive compositions from these sharp, prickly sounds. Ultimately, soft tissue inhabits an intoxicating soundworld somewhere in between the patient abstractions of composerly eai music, the haptic indulgences of ASMR, and the diffuse digital pastorals of the 90’s a-musik/Cologne scene.

Written and produced by Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates Mastering

LP/Digital available via studentsofdecay.com and studentsofdecay.bandcamp.com on 3/4/22

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A sudden rapture
An ardent whistle - 
Noise down from the hills 

Murk and dread of the road 
A light leaf
Overhead of the trampled fields 
Thunderbolts shine the merits  

 In one fell swoop 
 Humble you  

The circle makes blare the abyss in trail,
An equal path
The sirens howled with a long plea
  
And then again the calm and the wheeze
Quietude, standing aground:

  I blink, doused with dew of lighthouses 
Though to sweeten my torments 
Whether florets lengthen in the soil
I sleep in the silver stream of fleapit.

Ybalferran - Cities & Names

Originally from Inner Mongolia, Deng Boyu has been active in the Chinese music underground since the late 1990s. His work spans numerous genres, as a drummer, solo electronics artist, improviser and collaborator to many musicians both in and out of China, including Mamer, Lao Dan, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Ribot, Akira Sakata, Theresa Wong and Federico Casagrande. Having hosted two of his releases on our site through the Old Heaven label, we're delighted to present《Inertion》on our in-house OTOroku imprint.

Deng Boyu – 她的眼睛失去了光华 Her Eyes Lost Their Luster

My 1 hour contribution for this podcast for Montez Press Radio, NYC.
Thanks to Eric Schmidt and Lili Schulder.

Ex Continent — Edition Erich Schmid Podcast for Montez Press Radio

Almost The End

VARIOUS ARTISTS 1
(DAWNTAPE001)
50 TAPES

PHOTOS : LEILA RICHOU
DESIGN : HAJJ
MASTERED BY : YAKOV
TRANSFERED BY : LORENZO TARGHETTA

Silvia Kastel - Heart To Tape I

Music inspired by Raaijmakers' electronic music from the 1960s, and his writings on sound composition, particularly "Cahier M: A Brief Morphology of Electric Sound".

TA: Serge Modular feedback & sine/pulse generators, contact microphone.

Two short excerpts from a longer piece.

Please use speakers, not headphones, because of the inner-ear phenomena involved.

Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (excerpt 1)

Mark Fell / Will Guthrie - BERLIN - edit

Extract from 'Empire' EP, out FEB 14, 2019 on Shelter Press
Order: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/empire

SHELTER PRESS / SP107

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Following the release of his album Stadium, out on Shelter Press last October, Eli Keszler returns with a brand new EP, Empire. Recorded between September and December 2018, this three-track EP is about finding stillness, tranquility and beauty in a dystopian landscape. In some ways, it continues the concepts explored on Stadium since it's also an EP inspired by cityscapes, architecture and, as Eli himself notes, "the illusion of order during declines." 

Eli started touring for Stadium at the start of October 2019 with a performance at legendary New York venue, The Kitchen, the day before he orchestrated a five-camera shoot — check out this remarkable concert-length film: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNLdBYvpiJk). 

Eli will continue to tour starting this month with three solo performances as part of Kevin Beasley's exhibition “A View of the Landscape” commissioned by The Whitney Museum in New York on Saturday January 26th at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm. 

He'll also be performing live at Mutek, Phi Center, Montreal on February 23rd, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum on February 28th (in duo with Nate Boyce), Gnration, Braga, Portugal on March 29th and Rewire Festival, Den Hague on March 30th. You can also catch him performing in Oneohtrix Point Never's band at Pitchfork Midwinter 2019, Chicago on February 17th and Myriad, The Roundhouse, London on March 8th. And, he'll be teaching at CAMP in the Pyrenees in April. 

For those new to Eli, his sound lies at the intersection of jazz, improvisation, fusion, modern classical and electronics. Although the music press has often tried to identify his work in terms of specific genres, he remains boldly on his own musical and aesthetic path. 

Stadium received record of the year from Boomkat and placed in countless end of year lists. Since copies of Stadium are sold out, a repress of the album will be released the same day as Empire on February 14th.

Empire

Enter the Bristle Strum

ELI KESZLER 'ENTER THE BRISTLE STRUM' (SP107)

Speaking is a track from  Florian T M Zeisig's — ‘ZZZZZzzzzzz’, his second album until the date. Coming Out September 2019.

‘ZZZZZzzzzzz’ aims to translate spoken word and percussion-based ASMR recordings and performative videos into music. Using these binaural raw audio materials the project utilizes algorithmic synthesis, filtering, and vocoders to transform the material into immersive harmonic structures.

ZZZZZzzzzzz

ANM046 Florian T M Zeisig — Speaking

Artist: Haji K.
Title: A White-Tinted Sky (Black Against An Orange Line)
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 25th of March 2020
Cat no: DPR003
Edition: 200 
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https://daisart.bandcamp.com/album/black-against-an-orange-line

Haji K. — A White-Tinted Sky

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

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