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Spirits of Tepeyac Under the Silver Rain is a prayer-album inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe as a central cultural icon of Mexico, and by the layered histories and spiritual continuities embedded in her image.
The work draws from a widely acknowledged cultural understanding in which the Virgin of Guadalupe carries a deep connection to Coatlicue, the ancient mother-earth figure. In this context, Coatlicue is the saint, a protective light, while also embodying the primordial force of the land the black anaconda rising from the soil. These dimensions coexist as part of the same symbolic lineage.
Composed of chants and sound environments, the album reflects processes of spiritual and cultural colonization that shaped the Guadalupe icon over time. 
This project is also inspired by a personal childhood experience: an angelic apparition encountered at the age of eight, perceived as a Virgin-like presence that appeared during sleep on the night the my grandfather died. 
The silver rain signifies protection and renewal falling over Tepeyac, the hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared to Juan Diego in 1531. Originally a sacred ceremonial site in pre-Hispanic Mexico, Tepeyac later became a central location for colonial devotion, functioning as a symbolic landscape where indigenous cosmology and colonial religious narratives intersect.

The album will be released on December 12th via Bandcamp and SoundCloud.

Prayer(Rezo): 
Sangre 
que brota de tus piernas
como semillas que besan la tierra,
abre el útero y deja que el agua fría
y fértil riegue el campo.
Tus piernas húmedas,
marcadas 
por la sangre que engendró
a los hombres sombra,
temblorosas y cansadas,
aun así nos envuelven a todos
con calor. Cuidas a tus hijos.
Concédenos ese sabor dulce y amargo,
como el amor de una madre que sabe de penas.
Abre nuestros corazones crudos
con tus manos cálidas,
recuérdanos
que amemos hasta que el dolor,
que me ha hecho pedazos,
se desvanezca en la tierra fértil.
De 
regreso.


Los Espíritus del Tepeyac Bajo la lluvia de Plata

Aparición de la Virgen en el Cuarto de Cristina

A2 - Zeta - Cola Cubes

More rusty and hypnotic sounds are brought by DJ soFa and his newest compilation, Elsewhere LVI. Released on Emotional Response, the 4th compilation of SoFa’s series is meant to move us to the gloomier part of his 12 track travelogue.
Lamusa II and his track Artificiale moves organic sound waves accompanying them with rhythmic shady synth pads, turning our listening journey to somewhat uneasy, yet fascinating trip across the jungle of sleazy and meditative notes.  Elsewhere LVI will come out on Emotional Response.

Lamusa II - Artificiale

Pierre Bastien orchestrates his meccano marionettes on Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle to form the charming imaginative ensemble that he’s been known for since the late 80s. 

Equal parts composer, inventor, mechanic, and performer - Bastien translates his imagination into instruments and compositions that defy any musical categories. Whether it’s preparing instruments like playing a trumpet underwater or through a kazoo, using belt-driven motors and mechanical components to perform cumbersome yet surprisingly musical operations on traditional instruments and household items, or using a fan to hit the strings of a kundi harp with flowing paper - Bastien’s love for tone, rhythm, noise and harmony is poetically reflected across his quite extensive oeuvre. 

Playful and melancholic, the sound sculptures that Bastien invents and plays with are partly inspired by the work of Raymond Roussel, a visionary French author who at the turn of the 20th century wrote a unique form of literature which inspired and guided artists from the surrealist and pataphysical movement and was declared by Michel Foucault as one of structuralism's founding fathers. On that note, the influence of literature and syntax on Bastien’s work cuts all the way through to the palindromes he uses for his track titles - which, much like his machines, infinitely loop. 

True to it’s adorable title, Tinkle Twang ‘n Tootle is a music box of unfolding whimsical structures, half broken rhythms, detuned harmonies, and fantastical sound collages that evoke a childlike sense of wonder and an urge to explore the spaces in between the sounds.

Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle

Pierre Bastien - Pet Step [from Tinkle Twang 'n Tootle]

KH023 - Jean-Luc - Des litres d'essence

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Hailing from different places in western Europe, Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia created this vibrant EP. Their synergy tells a story of creativity, freedom in sound and, above all, playfulness. Serious music while similarly not being to earnest. 
Their venture evolved into a very original blend of cosmic music, utilizing instruments that fit into the neofolk Krautrock domain, vocal experiments into French chanson territory, infused in Berlinian cosmopolitanism. Expect an exciting minimal wave synth punk orgy, punk definitely being the defining trait underneath these layers of sound. 
This is boundless music with attitude, capable of making us drift off and disrupt us in equal measure.

Jean-Luc - 40 Stunden [Knekelhuis]

Canadian producer RAMZi gives us another glimpse into her magical world on her new album Multiquest Niveau 1: Camouflé, recently released on her own FATi Records imprint. In similar fashion to her offerings for 12th Isle and Mood Hut, she paints an extraordinary sound palette of everything from breaks and acid to Balearic and experimental. We've got the official video premiere for 'Attak Mousaillon', check it out below...

"This video represents hope for resistance hidden in the decadence of the zombies world. The main protagonists of the RAMZi world, who are the children and the animals, are as always teaming together to trick, and this time, poison the zombies in their morbidity.

This music video is the continuation of a Federico Lamas’s VJset made for RAMZi 's live show at MUTEK Buenos Aires in 2019. Federico's video-installations, animations and illustrations always works through irony. A funny troy horse full of recycled darkness."

PREMIERE: RAMZi - Attak Mousaillon [FATi Records]

Track is taken from the new Roedelius-album 'Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe'

The first part of Roedelius' Selbstportrait (Self-Portrait) series was originally released under the title 'Sanfte Musik' on Sky Records in 1979. Now, some forty years later, a new instalment has arrived in the form of an album entitled 'Wahre Liebe'.

More info: http://bureau-b.com/roedelius.php

Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe

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Roedelius - Gerne

Another podcast smells of forest and moss. You may hear the noise of tape in the background; perhaps it is a draught that makes dance the shadows on the walls of the cave illuminated by the flickering flame of the candle.

Shakaali is a passionate collector, musician and documentary filmmaker born in Finland, currently living in Brno. He works as part of the AVA collective, where he realizes experimental DJ sets, as well as psychedelic solo live jams with a modular synthesizer. Besides, he forms half of the electroacoustic duo Thistle.

For our podcast, from his eclectic collection, Shakaali has selected electronic music from around the world, focusing on spiritual vibrations and Afghan and Soviet psychedelic rock.

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Lamusa II - Artificiale

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