White on White is an absorbingly dynamic, multi-layered album of improvisations by Primitive World made on the seminal PPG Wave synth, inspired by the work, life and theories of the great, if forgotten, British constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958): a radical, gender-bending British Jewish lesbian and innovator of non-figurative art who was a then-contemporary influence on Piet Mondrian, with whom she worked alongside from the late 1920s as part of the Abstraction-Creation artists association in Paris, until the Nazi’s forced her from mainland Europe back to England, where she settled in the far west of Cornwall.

White On White forms a follow-up of sorts to Willis’ Ascention [2015] tape, and perhaps more aptly, leads on from his and Natalizia’s reworks of Daphne Oram - arguably another overlooked, British female pioneer of her field - which are collected on their Walls album, Sound Houses [2014]. There’s little doubt that this is some of Willis’ strongest solo work, which can be attributed to the fecund inspiration of Moss's work, life and theories, as well as his access to a prized arsenal of rare vintage synths.

Titled after the Moss piece which adorns the LP’s front cover, White On White forms a welcome first introduction for many to Moss's “work, life and theories” thru a combination of visual representations - photographs of the artist and her work - with text by Lucy Howarth, curator of Moss's recent exhibitions at Museum Haus Konstruktiv exhibition (2017), the touring Tate display (2013-15), and of course the music itself, which seeks to describe Moss's mathematically sound geometries and evocative aesthetics thru its lattice of unique, free-floating timbres and spatialized rhythm patterns.

White On White is thus a direct result of the artist immersing himself in Moss's oeuvre, or what is left of it (most of her pre-WWII output was destroyed in the war), with results strongly reflective of the austere clarity and modernist structure of her works, from her syncopated line drawings modelled in the helixes of Double Lines, to the rotating perspectives of her 2D-into-3D metal sculpture manifest in the illusive, Peder Mannerfelt-like designs of Matrix of the Visible, whereas the closing 9 minutes of perilous abstraction recalling Wendy Carlos’ Clockwork Orange OST in Man Guessed at a Spiritual Meaning and Imposed a Moral System both literally and metaphorically serves a sort of unsentimentally elegiac, enigmatic lament for the artist’s neglected status, which even now prompts a scratch of the head by people who should be aware of her work.

Released by:
Ecstatic Recordings

Release date:
08 February 2018

PRIMITIVE WORLD - FRACTIONS OF THE ABSOLUTE [ELP033]

We're very honoured to welcome Paris based DJ & Producer D.K (@d-k-music) into our family ashram.

Some of you may know him via his previous releases on Antinote, Jonny Nash's label 'Melody of Truth' or more recently his split EP via Second Circle.

He's also the melodic mystery man behind those jacking 45 ACP releases via dear brother Ron Morelli. 

Though here on this 38 minute cassette, aptly titled 'The Goddess is Dancing', D.K. delves back into his ancestral Vietnamese past & blesses us all with 6 originally composed tracks that pay homage to the mysterious shamanistic dance of 'Hau Dong'.

As explained by D.K. here....

"This tape is an imaginary interpretation of the music used in Vietnam’s ancestral/spiritual possession rituals called 'Hau Dong'. It’s a ceremony in 5 parts, whereby spirit mediums dance on each song to honor the mystical goddesses of Forest, Water and Heaven. Whilst dancing during these rituals, the Medium's appear to transform themselves into different characters....changing their personalities, as if various spirits have entered their bodies."

'The Goddess is Dancing' is available for pre-order now via the Good Morning Tapes online store, with cassette's shipping mid February.

GMT21 D.K. - The Goddess is Dancing (Preview)

Taken from 'V/A - Music For Dance & Theatre - Volume One' (MFM045)
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Music For Dance & Theatre - Volume One

A1. Gerard Stokkink - Yellow Turtles (5:08)

Various Artist - Ten Years Years of Echotourism 

Ровно 10 лет назад, 12 апреля 2010 года мы начали вести блог на blogspot, играть совместные концерты и выпускать релизы. Мы прошли длинный путь трансформаций вместе, несмотря на все сложности и перемены, и хотим сказать спасибо всем за поддержку и участие!

По случаю юбилея мы выпускаем сборник Ten Years of Echotourism, составленный из треков наших артистов и друзей. Скоро на кассетах и всех доступных цифровых площадках.

Cassettes and Digital

VA - Ten Years of Echotourism

https://flatlandfrequencies.com/2020/05/06/premiere-lee-evans-puss-caterpillar/

Aphasic Forest (HP017 Promo MP3s)

PREMIERE: Lee Evans - Puss Caterpillar

Listen on YT - https://youtu.be/anra3hLbagc

What influence does living in a world without silence have? In human society, experiencing silence has become a rare and special thing. When was it that this happened? All day we are connected to technology and even in the deep of night cannot find silence. Even in the world of music, where is silence? Music is defined as the arrangement of sound and silence, but in today's music where is the silence? We are living in a world devoid of silence.

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Follow Label @ume-records

Contour

Premiere: iu takahashi - Ether

The Changes

A collection of audio vignettes made by Desert Bloom.
This undulating sound piece comes as a welcome release, facilitating a sense of calm as we're once again in a moment where we're being asked to slow down and take space.

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originally aired on CKUT, September 30th, 2020.

Cardmoth - The rays through the clouds

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