Elena Rykova: electric guitar, electronics
Etienne Nillesen: extended snare drum

7 fish in a desert is the first piece in our album, which is going to be released very soon. Stay tuned!

More info on the artists:
https://etiennenillesen.com/​ 
https://www.elenarykova.rocks/

Elena Rykova & Etienne Nillesen - 7 Fish In A Desert

Bonus track from "_modulus" on Handstitched* [HS38]

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/modulus

Maps and Diagrams - Seam

[ snow/damage ]

...

cycle # 17

part of an ongoing secret series of sound experimentation combining elements of field recordings, minimalism & repetition, texture & glitches.

[ 17 ]

Nightfall

Sævar Jóhannsson is an award-winning pianist and composer based in Reykjavík, Iceland. His music explores the full spectrum of human emotion and experience; at times melancholic, but also playful and warm. Through his composition he ponders questions such as, ‘Do our places of origin matter—and what is our relationship with them?’ There’s a well-known German saying ‘Ich bin Weltbürger: überall zu Hause, überall fremd’ which roughly translates to ‘I’m a world citizen: I am everywhere at home and everywhere a stranger’. Sævar believes this is a phrase which describes him well; London his birthplace, being partly raised in Germany and now residing in Iceland. Jóhannsson has released four albums to date, including work as S.hel on Whitelabrecs with 2020’s ‘Disconnect’ and ‘RAMMI’ in 2021, in which he collaborated with Mikael Lind. His most recent album ‘Whenever You’re Ready’ was the first album under his own name and was distributed by Sony, winning the 'you should have heard this' award from the Reykjavík Grapevine Music Awards in 2023. 

With each album Sævar builds and expands on the last, exploring new styles such as ambient electronics, prepared piano techniques, complex rhythms inspired by his jazz background, and lush string arrangements. Alongside his solo work, Sævar has composed and produced original music and accompanying soundscapes for three major theatre productions. He also created the score for the documentary 'Ég Sé Þig' by Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdóttir.

‘Where the light enters’ is a collection of 12 solo piano pieces, inspired by thoughts of how our wounds affect us and are themselves unique storytellers. There’s a Japanese pottery repairing technique called kintsugi where broken things are glued back together using gold, silver or other similar materials, the idea being that the cracks make the object beautiful and unique and should therefore be visible. However, Sævar also contemplates the wounds we do not see. In Jóhannsson's mind the decision to have just solo piano reflects self-care, or simply put, giving yourself time with yourself and your thoughts or problems and rather than try to solve or interact with them, let them gently pass you by. The album, although following a structured framework, is also partly improvised, letting things unfold as they are without prejudice or expectations.

Where the Light Enters

wlr140 Sævar Jóhansson - Where The Light Enters

Glacis is London-based Scottish composer Euan Millar-McMeeken, who some may recall from his previous collaboration work on Whitelabrecs including ‘Nothing Hurts Forever’ with Gavin Miller and as one half of Dead Bell, alongside The Green Kingdom. Euan also records as Civic Hall with Craig Tattersall and as Gallowglas alongside Johan G Winther. His most recent work 'Distances' with Adrian Lane was released on vinyl via Oscarson.

As a frequent collaborator, it is fitting that Euan’s debut for Whitelabrecs is in fact further partnered music in the form of ‘Interpretations’. He invited 11 artists to adapt, distort and deconstruct a collection of his original compositions, realising these into an album in its own right. Interpretations are not simply remixes. Euan explains that he’s never really liked the term ‘remix’ as it simplifies the process of working with original material. He never intended for this record to be a remix record and now it is complete, this feeling remains.

Euan aimed high in curating his artists, enlisting the likes of Tape Loop Orchestra, the Humble Bee, C.Diab and Satomimage and placing them alongside friends and regular collaborators including The Green Kingdom, Simon McCorry and Adrian Lane.

The tracks contained on Interpretations are all careful sonic studies of the original work that respond and react in different ways. Some of the pieces contain moments of the original pieces, some are unrecognisable, all are fascinating examinations. A rebirth, of a kind, from the original idea. Through these interpretations, the tracks are given new meaning and new life. Remarkably, this hour of music stands together as an album experience, despite the variety of the line-up and each artist’s approach to composition.

interpretations

wlr142 glacis - interpretations

This is a snippet from the electro-acoustic "soundtrack" to the glitch novel by cult Japanese writer, Kenji Siratori. The music is by Canadian duo, Wormwood. Each copy of the AI infused novel comes with an accompanying CD.

Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori  - Clip 3

https://christineott.bandcamp.com/album/eclats-piano-works

Two years after Time to Die, French composer Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records with her fifth album, Éclats (Piano Works), a collection of twelve pieces for solo piano, twelve impressionistic miniatures, instrumental and cinematic fractals celebrating the beauty of life.

Éclats (Piano Works) is a kind of mirror image to Chimères (for Ondes Martenot) (2020, Nahal Recordings), which showcased her other favourite instrument, and for which Christine Ott is particularly renowned - as she is through her past collaborations with Yann Tiersen, Tindersticks, and this year with Chilly Gonzales. But here, there's no vintage electronics: the musician unfurls acoustic landscapes in black and white, alone at the piano, behind a Steinway, a Fazioli or her father's old Prestel. The album opens with Pluie d'arbres, a powerful yet delicate allegory of deforestation. This duality runs through the album, whose energy is sometimes melancholy, sometimes hopeful, but always generous and full of empathy.

Sometimes nourished by revealing improvised gestures and crystallised during live performances, these new pieces by Christine Ott also make the link with various projects by the artist, both on stage and in film. Die Jagd nach dem Glück (The Pursuit of Happiness) is an extract from her original composition for Lotte, mon amour, a film-concert created in 2014 based on 4 short films by Lotte Reiniger, a German director from the first half of the 20th century. Lotte Reiniger was a true pioneer of animated film, and her films are still incredibly modern and human. Originally composed for piano, Martenot ondes and viola, this highly romantic piece is presented here in its simplest orchestration. Éruption Volcanique also foreshadows another film-concert work by Christine Ott, to come in 2024, for Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran. Set on a storm-swept island off the coast of Ireland, the film depicts the daily life of a fishing family in the 1930s. In a film-concert with an ambitious, physical and immersive score, the musician pays tribute to the courage of these inhabitants, united by a strong sense of solidarity, in constant battle with the elements.

Éclats (Piano Works) presents works recorded over a long period of time; a clear homage to Hitchcock, the writing of Vertigo undoubtedly has its origins in the composer's youth. Some pieces, such as Étreintes and Amours étoilés, were recorded during the sessions for Only Silence Remains (2016), and Christine Ott has regularly performed Golden Valley on stage since its creation in 2018 - whether as solo piano or rearranged in groups as part of her parallel projects (Snowdrops, Theodore Wild Ride...). Other compositions, such as Clouds of Dreams, are much more recent. So it's a real gift to finally discover on record the variety and richness of these twelve original compositions, which have long remained in the shadows.

And to bring these melodic bursts to life, Christine Ott called on the services of visual artist Léa Barbazanges, who creates sculptures and installations using assemblages of plant, mineral and animal materials. The works that adorn the album cover come from her Optiques series; 12 photographs of crystals seen through a lens, like a poetic prism that brings us closer to living things, their textures and ramifications, as obvious as they are complex, and that give a formidable visual echo to the 12 compositions on the album.

Étreintes

This previously unreleased track can be found on the Side B CD that comes with the book, "Time Released Sound: A Decade Of Handmade Music Packaging”. Pre-orders start on November 18th, 2023.

Time Released Sound: A Decade Of Handmade Music Packaging (CD 2)

Hoshiko Yamane "The Distance Between You, The Difference In Time"

Original Improvisation F#m, 164bpm, piano, 20240517 - 4

my remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad

Soledad

Pepo Galán - Tristeza (furnish remix)

Singing Waves www.christineott.fr
• Nov 2023 Éclats (Piano Works)
• Nov 2023 @thecrytrio
• Nov 2022 @snowdrops_music @injazerorecords
• Nov 2021 Inner Fires @forwind
• Oct 2021 @theodorewildride @icarusfm @consouling-sounds
• Mar 2021 Time to Die @gizeh
• Oct 2020 @snowdrops_music "Volutes"
• May 2020 "Chimères" @nahalrecordings
• Oct 2019 "Nanook" @gizeh
• Mar 2019 "Manta Ray" soundtrack @gizeh
• Jun 2017 "Minute Bodies" w/ @tindersticks
• Dec 2016 "TABU" @gizeh
• Mar 2016 "Only Silence Remains" @gizeh
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Étreintes

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