Great performance. Thank you for sharing and for the input: I've just bought the DL from Cafe Oto

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Three Evocations (2021)- M3g

Additional mix by
Engelr Hashim - Evocation III (Engelr Hashim mix)
Grischa Lichtenberger - 3(Grischa Lichtenberger 3 ēvōˈkāSH(ə)ns mix)

https://dingndents.bandcamp.com/album/three-evocations

Three Evocations - Evocation I / II / III / Engelr Hashim mix / 3 ēvōˈkāSH(ə)ns

building literally and figuratively

DIARY PAGE of Kani Kamil

Here is the text of one of my pieces, Masculine Hanger and also I have attached a few photos, Textiles have played a major role in the interconnections of the social, cultural and economic life of Iraqi Kurdistan. From making clothes to weaving rugs, the production of textiles was mostly executed by invisible and often unpaid labour by women. For instance, for a specific men’s Kurdish expensive Kurdish costume called ‘Shall’, a significant period of time and production is needed in order to prepare the raw material (the animal hair) to weave a ‘Shall’ fabric. The final handprint and selling process, however, belongs to men, superseding the work of women. Reproducing a (300cm x 17cm) shall fabric out of my hair is to articulate the notion of unpaid labourers and mundane jobs of women through a local product.

LISTEN/READ FULL DIARY PAGE: http://radiofantasia.online
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Kani is a visual artist and performer of experimental sound with hair. Born and raised in Iraq, she currently lives and works in London.
Her works signify the relentless and ruthless ongoing social and political systems of abuse in Iraqi Kurdish society, representing and embodying the hidden specific societal issues through her hair and voice to challenge the stereotype. Her interest is around stories that have never been told or heard, and history that has never been recorded, translating and decoding these stories into art and using art as a tool for social critique is the method in her artistic practice with using investigating form to reveal the unrevealed side of the stories, therefore the listening process is a major part of her practice.
She employs human hair as the main material as a tool for the entanglement of many perspectives and politics and converges personal stories through it as a protest against this stigma that never disappears against a specific gender in that society. Producing work through photography, installation, video performance and sound. 

Since 2015, her works have been exhibited in galleries and institutions including the National Museum NOMUS in Gdansk, Poland(2021), (Babylon Cinema as Moviemento, Kreuzberg and FSK Kino) in Berlin, Middle East Institute, Washington
D.C(2019), V&A London, Manchester art gallery the UK, Institute of fine art Iraq, Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland, woman made Gallery (WMG) Chicago.
Kani also holds an MA in [fine art] from Middlesex University, London, with the artist Sonia Boyce as her tutor. She is currently studying for a PhD in [fine art] at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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links/ссылки:
web: https://kanikamil.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kani_kamil_majid/

*Project funded by the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education 2022 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut

Diary page 002 – Kani Kamil

Instructions for listening to this track:
- find field with flowers
- lay down
- cloudgaze
- must be 2pm of a summer day

Decent Colors

Summer 2pm

tcs - ithinkifeverybodywillknownthatthisisthesoundwe'llhearinthelastmoment,nobody'dbeafraidtodeath

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers 

HELM - Body Rushes (PAN 99)

For our third anniversary, @dasha-rush prepares a dreamful ambient mix filled with flexible stretchy surfaces and cinematic soundscapes. 'Skating the Hights and Surfing the Depths' is a solitary journey through the deepest underwater caves, ancient forests, pulsating brainwaves, and forgotten dreams.

Whether it’s her curiosity for neuroscience, astrophysics, extreme natural phenomena, or the deepest human desires, Dasha transforms the powerful forces of nature into many-layered dense electronic music, visual explorations, and performative art. The Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and DJ is known for her collaborative art projects and wild imagination. We spoke to Dasha about her audio-visual performance 'Dark Hearts of Space' in our third issue guest-edited by Jeff Mills.

Distance -Tuomo Vaananen
MS005 EP01 - Makoto Sakamoto 
Coh Plays Cosey - CoH 
One Ten - Human Mesh Dance 
Life On Laputa Regio - Neel 
Ceremonial Dance of the white pygmy - Kead Salva 
Anata Mas -Salva 
Lost negatives - Asc & Sam Kdc 
Down - Faro
Audio recording on Sunday afternoon - Mesak 
No Gravity - Lars Hemmerling 
Legiac - Jefre Tropod 
OID - Points to remember 
Iceblink - Pass into Silence 

Extra layers and samps (n.p.o) Great Circles - we love temple 
ASC & Sam KSD - decayed society 
Monolog - Stalker - Tarkovski (dasha edit) 
Vromb - Sous Hypnose 
Aztecs -Maximinus -Akashic

borshch mix 20 dasha rush

a set of ambient live edits, remixes, field recordings and improvisations, recorded and automated live at my home in shinjuku, spring 2020

tracklist ~

peaceful sound effect (ambient kaizo sequence)
leaf lullaby
sanctuary garden
moonfishing
kagami sequence
a chance to rest
zone
mt. fløya wrong warp (true any%)
pool reflections
spirals heaven wide (live version)

Spa Transmissions

Becs Drums / Meditation

Lucy Railton / cello

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"...What is it about the telling that provides comfort or consolation? Perhaps it's partly in the curative power of naming, an act that can bring our experience into relief and ward off the depressive forces of nothingness, formlessness, and monstrous plasticity. There are also other forms of telling that are not lexical, and our too-easy separation of sound and speech, music and words, belies the existence of something deeply healing and transformational that grounds and unifies them both." - Sofie Fetokaki  

This music was improvised and recorded on April 31st in the quiet bunker-esque venue, Ausland, just 20 doors down from where I live in Berlin. Additional processes and editing were competed on May 2nd 2020. Special thanks to Cafe Oto, Billy Steiger, Petter Eldh and Sophie Fetokaki for their part in the making of this work.

TR014 - Lucy Railton "First Lament"

Second single from @shiwashiwa's debut full-length release "I'm Here," out 24/07/20 on @primordial_void.

Pre-order: https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/album/im-here

I'm Here

PREMIERE: shiwashiwa - New Hometown [PV-08]

2020 NNA Tapes

https://leya.bandcamp.com/track/wave-actress-remix

https://ffm.to/y2onrq1

LEYA -- "Wave (Actress Remix)"

potential well

Shadow Box

Melts All Your Memories

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

TR014 - Lucy Railton "First Lament"

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