"Razen is the Belgian band led by the duo Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour who have been exploring different musical worlds since 2010. For the past decade we witnessed the shape of their own sound without repeating themselves in a truly unique way.
Razen played their very first concert at les ateliers claus and came back a decade later. This concert stands for 10 years of Razen-evolutionary music while revisiting our venue. It took place end September 2019.


Razen has been a constant factor in my own personal musical journey, while working at Kraak - listening to their debut recordings, seeing the first performances and then witnessing them refine the Razen sound without compromising. Not losing their focus, but in the contrary mastering a certain continuity in their layered compositions while carefully choosing the instrumentations. A heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique."

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Brecht Amee / santur & monochord
Kim Delcour / bass recorder, reeds, tambourine & bagpipe
Paul Garriau / hurdy gurdy
David Poltrock / ondes-Marthenot & synth
Pieter Lenaerts / sarangi & 5string double bass
Jean-Philippe Poncin / bass clarinet, chalumeau & tenora

recording & mix by Christophe Albertijn.

LAC019 - Razen [sample]

Sorry, the saxophonist was drunk last nite

DJ Conséquences - Local Bands Suck

NOÉMI BÜCHI - DOES IT STILL MATTER
Cat #: OUS050
Release date: May 24, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The new avant-garde isn’t about creating something that doesn’t yet exist, it’s about abandoning and confusing rigid genres. I want to open up, in order to both abolish and reconstruct the musical past.» — Noémi Büchi @noemibuchi

Noémi Büchi’s album ‘Does It Still Matter’ completes a series of releases whose titles - ‘Matière’, ‘Matter’, and ‘Does It Still Matter’ - place the physicality of music in the center of attention. Büchi’s specific sound structures and aesthetic choices question the state of materiality in a world that is becoming more and more fluid and intangible.

From ‘Matière’ to ‘Matter’, Büchi subtly transferred from a focus on substance to questioning the enigmatic core of
being, passing from a noun to a verb, and from a single word to an inquiry. ‘Does It Still Matter’ weighs in on the importance of questioning. Her pieces juxtapose multi-layered analog synthesizer textures, crystal clear sounds and almost brutalistic noises, while they unfold in compositional structures akin to pop songs. Driven by an orchestra of myriad parts, her music creates transcendent intonations that resonate deeply with the listeners’ bodies. A daring blend of complexity and accessibility are molded into captivating sound sculptures that challenge and intrigue listeners alike.

Deviating from conventional time divisions, ’Does It Still Matter’ immerses listeners in a discordant succession of elements, and guides them towards an eternal present that erases the past with each new revelation, while maintaining it through recurring themes that serve as intimate memories. Büchi’s electronic maximalism questions our linear perception of time, offering a glimpse into a world where the past, present, and future converge into a singular moment. Her avant-garde approach rejects predictability, inviting listeners to immerse themselves fully in the present. Everything starts anew at any given instant. Each musical idea exists for one precise moment, rendering the future unpredictable.

‘Does It Still Matter’ unfolds against a backdrop of collective disaster and biocidal urgency, challenging the very essence of time. Büchi explains: «The world appears to have gone mad. It’s all but impossible to reflect on the meaning of avant-garde in music, considering the future in this sepulchral kind of stability of the human condition.» Her compositions resonate like an infernal machine, questioning the instantaneous dissipation of everything. Finally, echoes and fragments of sounds remain, haunting memories like ghostly companions.

’Does It Still Matter’ is an immersive experience that invites listeners to contemplate the impermanence of our world and the enduring power of sound.



CREDITS
Written and produced by Noémi Büchi 
Mixed & mastered by Manuel Oberholzer, Suoni Speziali (VFBM)
Album cover by Mirko Eremita, Encor Studio
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

Does It Still Matter?

Window Display Of The Year

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Noémi Büchi - 4 - Window Display Of The Year

ᑎEᗯ SᕼOᗯ! Equatorial will take you south to warm up with some velvety afrobeats and juicy reggaetón, carefully cherry-picked by yours truly, Commotion 🌺

EQUATORIAL #1 WITH COMMOTION

"D'affamés nuages hésitent sur l’abîme.
Jadis débonnaire et par un périlleux sentier,
L’homme juste s’acheminait
Le long du vallon de la mort.
Où la ronce croissait on a planté des roses
Et sur la lande aride
Chante la mouche à miel.
lors, le périlleux sentier fut bordé d’arbres,
Et une rivière, et une source 
Coula sur chaque roche et tombeau ;
Et sur les os blanchis
Le limon rouge enfanta."
W.Blake

TrackList :

Dark Ages - Breath Of The Black Plague 
Kurotokage - Hungry Ghost
Ain Soph - ΙΑΩ 
Cernunnos Wood - Horned is Hunter
Coil - Algerian Basse
Pillar of Men -  ভʪඋ୭ଏଡ଼ଧ୰
Darken Wood - Kissed By Poison Fire
Hexentanz - Ritual Kiss to Satan
Pillar of Men - ਐѪ〠
Castlesiege - Trees That Call My Name 
Kobold - Face to Face with the Black Priest - ft John Balance interview (1985)
Rosa Crux - In Tenebris
Lamia Vox - Evil Comes From The North
Megaptera - Don't Desecrate The Dead
Vatican Shadow - Destroy Chemical Weapon
Couronne de merde - ﻻ ﻳﻮﺟﺪ ﻣﻮﺕ
Camecrude - A l'Endarrèr çò de Maudit

Sopoorific - Podcast 026

https://soundcloud.com/buena-tarde-203751691 for https://soundcloud.com/amdience

https://www.retreatradio.net/lost-in-transition

Tracklist:
"Chewlie - Slow Love
Vtgnike - Nervnii RnB
Jacks Haupt - Time
Less O - Meditative Walk
Syz - 1e
Ghost Warrior - Kepler438
James Blake - Asking To Break - pt.1 / Endel Chill Soundscape
Notte Infinita - I Lost All My Data
Ichiko Aoba - Chinuhaji 
Boneless - Ouch!
Aagenath - Stack Monoid
Burial - Streetlands
Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
PHANTA -War Within Me (Buena Tarde Remix) [Unreleased]
The Smile - Teleharmonic
Leila - Space, Love
Radioactive Man - Goodnight Morton
Buena Tarde - TikTok"

Lost In Transition #12 w/ Buena Tarde (07/03/24)

Gloom Variations w/ Petteril - 13/03/2024

Colonia Dignidad was the settlement of a German evangelical sect.

After being prosecuted for child abuse in Germany, the group fled to Chile in 1961. Like similar religious sects, it was characterized by the outward appearance of a unified, godly community with well-tempered cultural activities and social welfare, but inwardly and in its environment by oppression, sexual abuse, and exploitation. In the 1970s, it unquestioningly inserted itself into Pinochet's regime of terror, aiding in the imprisonment and torture of political prisoners, weapons production, etc. Since the end of the 1980s, there has been a legal reappraisal of the C.D.'s crimes in Chile.

Its successor organization makes a living from tourism.

The C.D. project uses, on the one hand, a series of documentary recordings of contemporary witnesses, and on the other, a set of melodic improvisations (MIDI files), improvised in the spirit of the impressions of terror, tension, claustrophobia and fear associated with the Colonia. CD 2 (Knochenstückchen) directly reflects this atmosphere. CD 1 (Reue?) on the other hand, is characterized by the contradictory breadth of the statements found after the dissolution of the sect: Denial of atrocities to glorification of the C.D. by leaders who returned to Germany against the professed traumas of formerly abused inmates and exploited community workers.

For this purpose, the eyewitness recordings were sound-modified to a considerable extent. The MIDI files were played back with a variety of virtual instruments (piano, guitar, sax, turntable, lung machine, barrel organ, synths, etc.) in a multitude of modifications (speed, pitches, loops, harmonic and tonal variations), so that the 11 pieces from CD 1 and the 16 pieces from CD 2 each represent a closely interwoven overall composition.

Ralf Wehowsky is one of the most respected practitioners of radical music of our day. He was the founding member of the seminal German group P16.D4 and ran the legendary experimental label Selektion whose ground-breaking releases influenced many working in today's experimental music scene. Previous releases have seen him collaborate with such well known and diverse artists such as Merzbow, Andrew Chalk, Jim O'Rourke, Achim Wollscheid, Lionel Marchetti, Kevin Drumm, Kouhei Matsunaga and Bruce Russell. 

Design - Maja Larsson

RLW - (Knochenstückchen) excerpt

Delivery presents: 'HAAN', live for an hour a month, straight from our LA studio.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/delivery/episodes/delivery-16th-april-2024

Delivery Presents: Haan 160424

Wave Channel is back with a late April Episode featuring Myalo.
 
Diving into different topics ranging from sociology to neuroscience, conscious and unconscious behaviors, Myalo aims to explore the different aspects of what we call mind/soul through his musical experiments. Guided by everydays sound, media malfunctions and aleatoric composition, Myalo’s sound ranges from introspective ambient works constellated by fragmented textures to slow and bassy rhythmic tracks and high pitched digital glitches. 

To further explore the mind, Myalo started MNEMOSYNE, both a label and a memory driven mix series of “sound collages”, where artists can musically describe themselves with all kinds of sound data and influences.

For this episode on Wave Channel he maps out a comprehensive landscape of contemporary electronic music, layering a variety of sounds for a new sonic journey.

Welcome to the Wave.

Wave Channel Ep. 18: Myalo

Patriarchal - the blind leading the blind

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.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

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