Stay focused with this collection of electronic sounds.

Electronic Concentration

There’s a body of water in the woods near Carrboro. Dappled light on the trail leads you to it. Crunch of leaves underfoot. A river feeds the swimming hole where people plunge, naked and alive. On a chair you sit reminiscing about the future. After a dip, you lay on a big smooth rock - let the sun bake you dry. Then you walk further into the woods.

Like coming upon some keyboardists situated at the mouth of a cave, the entreaties on this record are calming but enigmatic, tinged with melancholy and reflection. Recurring motifs are given room to grow—there’s much space, and the progressions percolate, an auditory mapping of emotional crevices. Sentimentalism given a rougher edge. It lures you in; an orb appears, bright and buzzing. It motions for you to continue. As you do, a fragrance floats through the cave and fills your psyche, like a thousand roses hidden in the dark.

On "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", MARV imbues analog subtractive and FM synthesis with a distinct physicality. Dub studio techniques and rigorously hand-played performances create an 'environmental' keyboard masterpiece strongly connected to the lineage of 1970s-80s private press ambient and electronic recordings-- but elegantly modern sound design and production methods center the album in the present day. A timeless quality pervades "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", allowing for easy repeats, marinating the subconscious ache of loss with a dreamily resolute hope.

keyboards and effects ~ Geoff Schilling and Nathan Taylor
french horn (A2) ~ Aaron Smithers
mixdown assistance ~ Glyn Maier
audio finalization ~ Nathan Taylor
design and layout ~ Joe Bastardo (www.josephbastardo.com)

all proceeds to Carolina Abortion Fund (Durham, NC) ~ www.carolinaabortionfund.org

ALSO WILL BE STOCKED BY:

Tobira Records (JP)
All Day Records (US)
Commend (US)
Boomkat (UK)
Industrial Coast (UK)

LP details ~
black vinyl, printed center labels
lacquer cut ~ Amy Dragon
recycled black paper jackets ~ Middle Press
silkscreened with water/soy-based ink ~ Goatmother Industrial
recycled plantable seed paper insert ~ Greenfield Paper, debossed with Braille text* ~ Middle Press
custom scent ~ Meadow Maker Apothecary (www.instagram.com/_meadowmakers_/)

*may not be readable due to paper thickness and texture

*ALL LPS WILL BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE OF JACKET FOR SAFETY*

Keyboard Suite I

MARV - Stable Mate (ENM10)

Artist: Beispiel
Album: Muster
Label#: faitiche 26
Format: LP/DL
Release: March 18th 2022

Faitiche proudly presents Beispiel (German for example, also suggests playing together), a joint project by Frank Bretschneider and Jan Jelinek. Muster is their first album. Free electronic music, the result of spontaneous improvisations. 

“Meaning” is a concept that is overused in connection with music. Muster does not call for the same kind of air quotes. With its title, German for patterns/exemplars, Beispiel’s album frees itself from the ballast of teleological semantics. There is no overarching theme, no preparation, no reading list, no reason for this music. Just two facts: Frank Bretschneider and Jan Jelinek have known each other a long time and appreciate each other’s work; and they share a love of modular synthesizers and of experimental set-ups designed to capture surprise. 
Bretschneider and Jelinek got together for their first joint session in 2016 and the years that followed brought more such meetings at Jelinek’s studio for open-ended musical dialog – at irregular intervals and with no clear objective. The improvisations were recorded in two stereo tracks: one track for Bretschneider’s audio, one for Jelinek’s. After each session, the recordings were processed separately, the options essentially limited to cutting and altering the frequency range. The nine pieces for Muster were selected from the resulting material. 
This approach reflects an ideal: music is when you play your first note without knowing what the third or fourth will sound like. When your 290th note still sees you leaving the beaten track, and when curiosity grows as the piece unfolds. Duping is part of Beispiel’s practice. Improvisation is about disagreement. It’s a matter of addressing the right issues. What’s happening here? What’s mine, what’s yours? Are “why” and “where next” legitimate questions? 
Muster is an exemplary work. Nine suggestions for what can be. Nine ideas for possibilities of listening.
Arno Raffeiner

written and produced by Frank Bretschneider & Jan Jelinek, G. Guillaume Studio 2016-2020 
Front image by Carlfriedrich Claus „Erwachen am Augenblick / Psych. Feld“, 1991 (© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022) 
18-6-28-FB&JJ-E includes a sample by Cristian Vogel's "Bug 3" 
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design & photo by Tim Tetzner 
Copyright control

Beispiel: FB&JJ2017-1

Deluded way in woodlands
Thousands of oaks - grow hushed
Dangling
Fog gobbles stubborn barricades
Empty caves rumble through gaps

Breathing flesh
Burnt banyan

Remember again, who's dreaming?
Who served the night with closed eyes?

Where the waters seethe, traced the echoes running along the ridge. Grown into mounds - speck of dust, above and beneath, bent in their tensile way.

'Perspective' resembles graying daze for the tense lows, that holds subdued gentleness. Belfast based musician - Verge has brought his exalted grandeur to aural fluency in the vein of gauzy, filmy rumbles.

Perspective

Verge - Standing Water

https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/3

being inherently independent, experimental music is bound to deny typical vertical principles of power and censorship that we face today even more than ever, yet it can contain a statement of the opposite nature. as we prepared this compilation the russian invasion of ukraine escalated further, leaving us with less words than ever, but a stronger urge to retain a voice. we believe that music communities are able to offer their own responses to societal changes, no matter how quiet or deafening they may sound. 

Σ3 compilation features 16 tracks by our contributors, friends, and members of the team and we really hope you enjoy them for what they are. but the important thing is that beyond a sensitivity to unconventional sound and commitment to international music communities, all featured artists are defined by a belief in human dignity and solidarity with the victims of war. 

all the proceeds from sales will be split between the evacuation initiative helpingtoleave.org and help-freefilmers.network providing humanitarian aid and power generators for at-risk ukrainians
credits
released November 4, 2022 

mastered by sergei shplv 
artwork by Svyatykh (linktr.ee/svyatykh)

Igor Dyachenko – Saccade

This 7" came free with issue 16 of German fanzine "What's That Noise?", This Autechre track is exclusive to this release.
buy it of you can £££
www.discogs.com/Fall-The--Drome--…ed/release/436038

Autechre -  P.I.O.B

From Yuri Urano's new album "Awawa", available for pre-order on cassette tape and digital now.

muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/awawa

https://soundcloud.com/yuriurano

Yuri Urano - Awa

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/xpone-08-xulio-nada
https://xulionada.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/xpo_ne

Xpone

Xpone 08 – Xulio Nada

Wreckers Ov Civilization w/ Officium (29/12/23)

Occursus w U-R-S, Stéphanie Lotion
and Agustin Spinetto
We embark on a musical epiphany unlike any other, delving into the depths of sonic enlightenment through the lens of U-R-S (an aural delirium by Dana Elfenbaum), where the boundaries of music and the philosophy of wild encounters merge into an electrifying exploration.

But what is this Occursus, you might wonder? It’s the meeting point where the unpredictable converges with the familiar, where musical encounters break free from the conventional. It’s the moment of wild convergence, and today, joining U-R-S on her radical expedition are Stéphanie Lotion : June Loper & Clara Muel. June is an enigmatic sound artist with an innate curiosity and a knack for turning chaos into symphony, and Clara, a visual artist who spends her time playing with both sound and raw materials when she’s not head deep lost into Youtube’s weirdest territories.
Also with us is Agustin Spinetto, whos sonic narratives blur the lines between the organic and the synthesized, inviting you to explore the depths of sound in its purest and most abstract forms.

Occursus w. Stephanie Lotion [19.12.2023]

transmission from the stained carpet floor

soundcloud33

warped dogma: climate engine 01

No. 2

Anna Mae

Sum Clouds

Soft Grains

In Our Deep Sleep

The Bright Spot

Long/Ephemeral

Long

Stratum

Developed in Ableton using samples from Kelly Moran's music and a few hits from an Elektron drum machine. Kelly generously gave permission for me to upload this. Imperfect, preliminary, but building the sounds has been such a useful learning experience.

Anna Mae

christina vantzou

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