Cor Ardens 06 "Der Schimmel" Kostas Kefalianos released April 2021

“Der Schimmel” lays out a hermetic and gem-like study in voice, tape and electronics across two side long compositions. Poem-fragments mold and gather into a sonorous mesh. The compositions echo in organic repetition while some integral part of its inferred world refrains from emerging in full. Recorded as the artist was adjusting to a recent move to a new country, and learning a new language. Der Schimmel, exhibits the amplifying fruits of immersion; a stage precariously revealed in it's pull between the familiarity of home and the grafting of new roots.

more info Corardens.net

Kostas Kefalianos "Zuhause ist wo sie schläft während des Blumentodes"

track 5 from 'a sanguine twilight'. out now

https://photiczone.bandcamp.com/album/a-sanguine-twilight

elegiac

“Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.

LP/Digital available 10/7/21

In Ictu Oculi

“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

misc 2

On Hyperdelia’s first release »Erster Teil - Zweiter Teil - Dritter Teil« the recording studio takes eight musicians on astral travelling. The Serenus Zeitblom Oktett’s album is the beautiful result of a complexly processed abstraction of a live acoustic jazz ensemble becoming a hyperdelic space tentacle, reaching into bass depths and pop dimensions: one moment zooming into microscopic miniature sounds only to branch out into free floating airy planes in the next.

»Erster Teil - Zweiter Teil - Dritter Teil« is the debut LP of the Berlin based ensemble Serenus Zeitblom Oktett. The Oktett from Berlin consists of musicians with a broad pop, free jazz and contemporary music background. All eight musicians have worked in various formations and with various musicians, ranging from Efterklang’s Martyn Heyne (who also did post-production on the record) and Matthew Herbert to Ingrid Laubrock, Stargaze, Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and many more. These diverse backgrounds inform the Oktett’s artificial but organic live sound-production aesthetic.

The ensemble is accompanied by a ninth member, the Klanggestalter. Both in the studio as well as live every instrument is being amplified and processed by filters and live algorithms, neutralising the difference of acoustic and electric instruments.

The LP comes with a special video documentary by Roman Hagenbrock (i am just a video girl). The video adds another poetic layer of abstraction: confusing sound, action and image.

HEX 001 "Erster Teil" - Serenus Zeitblom Oktett

02 Frescobaldi - Toccata Decima

Released September 19th, 2022

Lorenzo Abattoir, Angelo Bignamini, Andrea Borghi, Devid Ciampalini, Marco Ferrazza, Nicola Fumo Frattegiani, Giovanni Lami, Fabio Perletta, Nàresh Ran, Gaspare Sammartano, Dominique Vaccaro

11 schegge

From KR046 Qoa - Asteroide
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/asteroide
Qoa is Nina Corti's symbiot through which readings of alien flora, fauna and fable are relayed through swirling layers of texture and melodies. The lore of life on asteroids is mysterious, symbolic and playfully transcendental ~ through music, the rocks tell their story, charmingly and ineffably so.
Artwork by Ernesto Gonzalez
Released November 24, 2021

Qoa - Flora

"Spectral is a collection of tracks using either the Buchla 296 or 296e
Spectral Processor. It was fun taking it into different sonic universes to see 
what it would reveal. Enjoy!" - Todd Barton, 2022

TODD BARTON - SPECTRAL ( excerpt)

polvo

Released on Enmossed 31 march 2020
Recorded in 2018-2019 :: 43°20'10.3"N 1°08'36.1"E
Mathilde Vrech :: Viola, Violin
Marylou Mayniel :: Cello
Nicolas Rode :: Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
Léo Hoffsaes :: Guitar, Bass, Piano
Tony Marie (Loto Retina) :: Organ on ''Il fait nuit depuis une heure maintenant - je m’avance dans la forêt"

all proceeds to Peace Ridge Sanctuary :: peaceridgesanctuary.org

buy :: enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/j-ai-pou…ne-faiblit-pas

J’ai pour eux cet amour qui ne passe jamais, qui ne faiblit pas-FullRecordSeamlessVersion [Enmossed]

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HEX 001 "Erster Teil" - Serenus Zeitblom Oktett

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