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catalog: eR017
artist: Matteo Cantaluppi
release title: More Frantic 2012​-​2022
runtime: 73:47
location: Milan, Italy

More Frantic 2012​-​2022

eR017 Matteo Cantaluppi - Bore

Taken from the forthcoming album "Tubbataha" by Ten Atmospheres.

Pre orders start April 7th 2023 // Release date: April 14th 2023
The album will be available in a limited edition CD with handmade wallets, hand numbered, edition of 35.

shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

Ten Atmospheres - Asian Garden

"Soulcaster" is the third solo record by Brooklyn-based composer/performer Joanna Mattrey. Following Live in Accord and various Notice Recordings-curated performances in the Hudson Valley, this album is a further development in our years-long friendship. With "Soulcaster", Mattrey scrapes, scratches, and wails on viola, prepared viola, and a tromba marina, built by Webb Crawford. Mattrey’s love of unique and unusual sounds has inspired her to alter the pure tone of the viola through preparations with styrofoam, plastic toys, chains, and other objects. But the newest sounds in her arsenal come from the tromba marina, which has one primary playing string and thirteen sympathetic strings. Rather than gently coaxing out the harmonics, as the historical playing style suggests, Mattrey employs a raucous and roaring approach.

The title, "Soulcaster", is borrowed from Brandon Sanderson’s book series, "The Stormlight Archive". In the fantasy series, a soulcaster is an instrument that transforms one object or life form into another. Mattrey’s practice connects heavily to the idea of transformation. She uses preparations and objects not only to create new sounds from her instruments, but to embrace the unknown. No matter how many times the same object has been used, depending on the vibrations on a given day, the preparations might bring out totally different sounds. This randomness creates a joyful challenge for Mattrey, who believes that especially during improvisation, music has its own life that activates and guides the sound forward. Mattrey surrenders to this energetic line of sound over the eleven tracks featured on this tape.

NTR076 - Joanna Mattrey - Soulcaster - [Sing Out]

"Magnet Blues" presents Zhu Wenbo and Zhu Songjie’s unique and utterly bizarre take on American blues, as if filtered through layered variations of darkness. Throughout the recording, we hear barely audible vocals, minimalist, smart, and subtle guitar work, and the folkish atmosphere of what sounds like distant train activity and dying radios. Instrumentation is notable here: Songjie uses the peculiar Casio EG-5 electric guitar, with a built-in cassette deck, while also playing harmonica. Wenbo plays a Fisher-Price toy cassette player, sings, and also plays harmonica. Throughout bursts of noise and rustling midrange timbres, Zhu and Zhu navigate an understated, focused, and dreamlike realm of song and texture.

NTR078 - Zhu Wenbo - Zhu Songjie - Magnet Blues - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"

Untitled (25/08/23)

The artists of our label themselves chose the tracks, which they remixed and reworked. It turned out to be something incredible.

Henrik Meierkord (Sweden)
https://soundbread.se

Dionisaf (USA)
https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com

Toni Dimitrov (Macedonia)
https://soundcloud.com/sound_00

Soloi Sounds (Japan)
https://soundcloud.com/monotone-orchestra

Sebby Kowal (USA)
https://soundcloud.com/sebbykowalmusic

Alessandro Barbanera (Italy)
https://alessandrobarbanera.bandcamp.com

Pagination (USA)
https://pagination.bandcamp.com

KapTep (USA)
https://kaptep.bandcamp.com

.cut (Canada)

Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Photo by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

https://www.chitrarecords.com

Chitra Ambient Remixes

Early In The Morning (Sebby Kowal Remix)

Ain't docile Automatons, Vol​.​2

Iron Lines

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Note

Snowfall Meditation

I use sound as a way to express my healing process, accept reality, and find beauty in life's unpredictability. In its raw and unfiltered form, sound serves as a powerful medium for conveying the complex emotions I experience while navigating life's chaos and uncertainty. By embracing disharmony and unexpected shifts in my music, I am not only accepting reality as it is, but also transforming it into something meaningful and intimate for me. This creates a space where vulnerability and acceptance coexist, allowing me to find love and beauty in the imperfect and even the disturbing.

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Christopher Hanlon