States Of Matter

Cattle is drinking and swimming while it’s hot in the desert of Arizona, in the area of Arivaca. 

Recorded by a Sound Devices MixPre6
With a ORTF Schoeps Setup CCM4 x 2 in a windscreen by Cinela,
Sound Ref: AZ210816T001
Wave, 96kHz
Recorded on 16th of August 2021
GPS: 31.661166, -111.165792

Cows’ choir around a pound in the desert

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Produced & Mixed by Danny Playamaqui 

Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels

released October 8, 2021

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Cuckoo Roller

This is Nathan McLaughlin’s latest installment of his Echolocation series. Following releases on Digitalis and Gift Tapes, #5 also continues the organic and thoughtful work of his duo Loud & Sad. Focused on tape loops, layers of delay, and some chordal forms, each piece is meticulously and methodically built, with each sonic element given its due. This sense of pacing and care given to every moment is a crucial element of McLaughlin’s work, and it’s deeply attuned here. The pieces reflect the environment in which they were composed, tight-knit and rural; they mass like storm clouds, and then are barely there, leaving just the fluttering of a distant echo. Stretches of silence, and windblown expanses. Rich chords swell into deeply contemplative passages that are gradually stripped away. A gorgeous, hushed set of tape music.

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"Echolocation #5 extends McLaughlin's exploration of the elegiac and the dirge, adding some crunchy, roiling passages as well. Often McLaughlin's loops gather, in small enough increments to avoid overt, ham-fisted drama, a strong sense of the ominous. These tensions, as well as the fine structural drift McLaughlin is patient enough to permit, make the Echolocation series a fluid one, without a start or an end. Echolocation #5 should be heard as an installation in a big-hearted work, issuing from a musician with an immense gift for subtle music. They are sent from a recondite artist who may well disappear before you receive them, so there's no time to waste." - Jesse Goin / Crow With No Mouth

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Mastered by Eric Steiger
Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery and N. McLaughlin

NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation 5 "A1 5.1"

Two sets of music by Chik White, an alias of Darcy Spidle, whose Nova Scotia-based Divorce Records has been slinging LPs of sonic bemusement since 1999. Jaw Works is made up of solo jaw harp performances, wringing mesmerizing detail from variations in rhythm and tempo, while achieving a wide variety of barely believable, almost synthesized-sounding timbres. Behind A Dead Tree On The Shore also features the jaw harp, albeit in concert with the North Atlantic Ocean, which inspired the more minimal, rhythmic pieces performed on the shore. Organic and personal, this is folk music created by a single person in his environment, using the most basic of musical tools.

NTR030 - Chik White "Dreamer's Way"

Recorded live, this album presents Lonberg-Holm in an intimate relationship with his cello, beautifully recorded by Joaquim Montes at Studio Namouche in Lisbon. Using a variety of extended techniques, he conjures a barrage of multiphonics, interwoven timbral excursions, and minuscule textural knots lined along the peripheral architecture of these pieces. Lonberg-Holm alludes to his music having a non-denominational devotional presence in his life, and this relationship is evident in these deeply personal improvisations. This is visceral playing: heavy, dry, honest, and unpretentious. Lonberg-Holm has performed in an exceptional number of free jazz and free improvised ensembles, not to mention with a variety of indie rock bands; one can hear this experience permeating the seasoned playing in these recordings.

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Artist's statement:

"Over the years, I have made a number of solo recordings, some in studios such as the now demolished Airwaves in Chicago and the first ESS location (now gone as well), some in concert halls (e.g., Mills College), some outdoors (my father’s farm in central NY as well as the Florida Everglades), and a few at various homes I have lived in. Location has an obvious impact and my long and affectionate relationship with Lisbon inspired me to want to make a solo document there. I have recorded with a variety of projects at Studio Namouche in the Benfica neighborhood of Lisbon and love it. That was where I wanted to make this solo recording.

Anyone who has been to Namouche knows it is a magical place. A faded version of its once probably grand self, Namouche is a sort of small RCA studio A that somehow survived the tumults of the recording industry; it still has the right proportions and materials on the walls, floor and ceiling. Add in good mics, a mixing desk, and the very capable ears of head engineer Joaquim Montes and it’s about perfect.

I’ve described the cello as a “four string busy box” for many years but only recently did I realize it also acts as a “safe space” for me. Although the outcome of pressing the various levers is more unpredictible on a cello than a busy box, I still feel that if I follow the material where it wants to go, nothing can go wrong. It is an act of faith.

For many years, “religious” music has been a source of entertainment and inspiration for me. In spite (or because?) of my lack of religious identity I find beauty in many types of music for worship. Over the years, at different times, I have been obsessed with Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist musics, sermons and chants. While I sometimes fantasize about making a record of religious music, the only faith I can claim to have any real relationship with is Christianity and a recording of Christian music might be misunderstood so . . . I refrain. Instead, I like to think that my solo cello improvisations are a kind of non-denominational devotional music.

During the period when this was recorded, I was listening a lot to Alfred Reed. He seems to favor a very low A (almost A flat) and I experimented with tuning my cello down as a result. Some of the tracks are at that lower pitch and others are closer to A440.

Namouche has a very fine grand piano and a number of other excellent keyboards. They also have some derelict pianos. Most noticeable are the two in the front vestibule and the one in the live room. The short piano pieces were recorded using only the piano in the live room. Because such wrecks aren't found in most good studios, I couldn’t resist playing it. The juxtaposition of a derelict instrument and an incompetent pianist in a great room with excellent equipment was simply too good to pass up."

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Fred Lonberg-Holm / cello, unprepared piano

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Recorded March 21, 2019 by Joaquim Montes at Namouche Studios, Lisbon

Mastered by Branic Howard, Portland OR

NTR059 - Fred Lonberg - Holm - "Lisbon Solo"

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1. Florian Förster - oho
2. Velum Break - Burning Reels Of Tape
3. Jerohme - Arecibo
4. The Simian - Freeze-Tile
5. Greystar - Distraction
6. Quadrawulf - 👁U👁
7. Danny Playamaqui - Sanitiser
8. Retape - On Stars
9. l̒̒̏oͧ͗ͯv̋̏̔҉̴́͞eͮ̒́ ̈́͐h͊͐̃ȭͪrͮ̀ͮs͗̃̎e̅ͣ̓s̔ͦ̾ - hunky dunky dip
10. lee - Kepler 186f
11. Mause - souj9b (t11c)
12. Dollarstore Keyboard - Invader Rim
13. Tunnel One - PRNK
14. Spoutnik Z - And Beyond
15. Colin Muir - DrumkitEFM
16. Jo Carius - Wall Head
17. Anitta - IZ II ZI
18. utopia cloak - space (ultra quiet rimshot mix)
19. fxbip - Oberheim Eternities (303 mix)
20. Anvil Stereo - Currents (Remix of Purpledaughter - pd|sw 22)

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui
Artwork by Jerohme
Tracklist curation by Purpledaughter

released December 3, 2021

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Invader Rim

When I met the music of this musician! THEN I realized that his thinking is not standard, he sees the world with a different look from a different angle!
I am very pleased to work with such people! In his music there is a whole range of feelings from sadness to sadness to joy and love!

[PCLLP 016] QuBic88 - Hibi [2022] Teaser coming LP

My very late contribution for the open remix project curated by :zoviet*france:, this track has been assembled using audio sources taken from “Hidden by the Wall”, a soundwork by :zoviet*france: commissioned by Green Croft Arts as part of its Collision and Conflict project.

The recordings have been treated and remixed at Timelash 2 Studio, (Trieste), Italy on Saturday, March 26th, 2022.

Photo courtesy of Rea Jubani

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wall open remix (The Wind Between)

One of the best Belgian producers works his magic on this Coburn track. If you don't know him yet , go check his bandcamp or soundcloud. It will be a nice discovery! Promise!

Aggressive Riffage Sk'p Rmx

Lies [insect fast mix]

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NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation 5 "A1 5.1"

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