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Catalog #: GN65
Apr. 16, 2021
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Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. 

Now, the Chicago-based composer, producer, label owner, and publisher returns with 'The Wind of Things', a personal and pastoral oblation to the wild and wind-blown waters and mountains, both from Sage’s own memory and writ large. Absent are the processed sounds and filters that have come to define Sage's work; the album finds Sage stripping away the synthesized sounds that alchemied his past work into aural gold, instead favoring an entirely acoustic and natural 
palette.

Sage called upon a myriad of long-time collaborators, who together form the aptly-titled Spinnaker Ensemble (featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chaz Pyrmek, Nate Henricks, Chris Jusell, Allison Sheldon, Martin Albertz, David Hirsch, Matt Wenzel, and Ang Wilson) to help realize his vision and further the melodic potential of the living and breathing field recordings that permeate the album. Tapping into an intimate sense of self, these field recordings derive from natural places that are significant to Sage. Lakes, mountains, and rivers he grew up boat-racing on and swimming in; tall fields of grass in rural Nebraska near his family’s birthplaces; wildlife on the pond of his in-laws home in Texas; the harbors and beaches of Lake Michigan that he frequents; all serving as places of occupation for these compositions to live in and blow through.

Opener “Cloud Plexus” is a fog-laden float in a calm lake of unrestrained optimism. The serenity soon glissades into “Harbor Dive”, a shimmering and elegant rift of sloshing harmonies. “Launching Mossing Scow” finds its flourish in the flotsam, tinkering with rusted refrains and oblong melodies. The action quickens with “Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen,” charting a speedy course with only a shoddy sonic sextant as its guide. “Starboard Reach” offers a moment of playful clarity before “Luffing Adrift” and “Sail-Shaped Light,” a murky pool of darkness and light that ripples into the ether.

“Slipping the Mooring/Pond” opens the B-side in an amorphous din of familiar auditory accoutrements that gather into a single, slow-motion blur. “Dazzling Shallow Bay,” “Portside Mark,” and “Tell Tail Tale” play a dreamlike suite of a waterside piano finding its fins and diving below the waves, discovering its blithe buoyancy, and exploring the depths unencumbered by the weight of the world. The hopeful meditation of “Spinnaker on a Southerly” serves as a calm before the (rain)storm that is “Hiked Way Out,” a welcome reflection on past, present, and future maritime melancholia.

The Wind of Things

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One track from the second release in the new SYM CD-series!
ILLUSION OF SAFETY - New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction

buy: https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=20793

info: Chicago's post- / ambient industrial legend is back with a work that combines electronic sounds and field recordings: microscopic audio events, loops, heavily processed material of all kinds form seven multi-layered collages that seem to be full of electro-magnetic static, morphing and transforming like a hallucinogenic object in every second and in all possible directions...in all it's subtleness this is far away from the shock treatment noises of the early IOS times. 
'New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction' is the first release of new IOS compositions since 'Surrender' in 2015. Featuring extensive synthesizer source material as well as other now familiar electro-acoustic techniques, it is conceived as a follow up to the 1995 3” CD release of 'Rules Of The Game', alluding to the social, political, and psychological games humans engage in for validation, survival, or dominance. New Rules, same game, less instruction, harsher penalty. Illusion Of Safety now more than ever.

Mastering: THOMAS DIMUZIO / Artwork: DAN BURKE

Editions of 250 copies / 6 panel digipak with special b/w reverse board printing for the IOS

ILLUSION OF SAFETY - Malicious Intent

04 - Dinner Illusion

Get the whole tape 'Circuit Imprime' here --> https://laboratoiredeherb.bandcamp.com/album/circuit-imprim

* basic part taken from shibuli (herb & Michael Fiedler) Soundperformance recorded @ Map&Fold 7/2021 www.mapandfold.com

https://soundcloud.com/electricshibuli

* Thanks to Michael Fiedler [field recording & loops]
https://soundcloud.com/michaelfiedler

Coverdesign: stáphyrá
www.stephankamp.de

Circuit Imprimé

Vibrations * [Tape Promo]

BOLQUIO 2022 medley

All except the Depeche Mode snippet in this belong to the "sketches by BOLQUIO" collection

http://bolquio.bandcamp.com

BOLQUIO 2022 medley

Mathilde 18 ans nous raconte son parcours d’enfant né sous X.
A travers la lecture du carnet que les infirmières  et les assistantes sociales ont écrit lors de sa naissance,  et de sa passion pour l’escalade, Mathilde nous donne à entendre ses interrogations sur sa quête d’identité.

Prix "petites ondes" -  longueur d'ondes 2024

Mathilde

From my upcoming album, Veiled Matter, coming soon on NO PART OF IT
https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/veiled-matter-unmastered

Veiled Matter

Flourish

Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing? is a sound work built from hydrophone recordings of underwater sound pollution. The recordings were taken over the span of 2 years in the historical town of Korčula and its immediate surroundings.

This 40–minute long radio adaptation / sound installation is an unsettling journey revealing the dystopian realm of Adriatic noise contamination, due to increased water traffic and the insatiable urge for the expansion of industry and tourism. The work consciously exposes a disturbing marine reality in which an inexhaustible amount of mechanical sources are literally grinding the underwater soundscape.

full essay at >>> independent.academia.edu/ManjaRistic

All sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
Text by Manja Ristić
Mastering by La Plant Studio
Archive images — courtesy of a private archive
Special thanks to Vinka Damjanović, Mark Vernon, Goran Simonoski

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Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing?

Sélection Archives de la Parole

Nausicaa Preiss & Antoine Bougeard
Enfermé.es nulle part
53’45, autoproduction (France)

Un documentaire sonore immersif à l’intérieur des zones d’attente au sein des aéroports et des ports où sont enfermées les personnes étrangères en instance de renvoi suite à un refus d’entrée sur le territoire français. Témoignages des personnes enfermées, permanences téléphoniques des bénévoles et composition électroacoustique se mêlent pour une traversée de ces lieux d’enfermement.

Nausicaa Preiss et Antoine Bougeard racontent des histoires sensibles par le son. Entre voix, paysages sonores et compositions musicales, iels fabriquent des documentaires, des installations immersives.

Nausicaa Preiss & Antoine Bougeard_Enfermé.es nulle part

Video clip by Stawa 3000
https://youtu.be/3D_TkE-iaoA

English below

Reymour, aventure psycho-romantique au sein de la trame textuelle d’un duo dans la vie comme sur scène, un cluster originaire de Fribourg-en-Uthonie, relocalisé pas loin de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, en Gaule Belgique. Pour «Sarabande à Deux», c’est un splendide bac de primeurs automnales fait de légumes anciens à la sauce synth-wave qui nous est servi. Pour la cinquième release du label CAF?, haro sur les sonorités 80’s, entre balade synthétique, danse amoureuse et textes bucoliques d’alcooliques !

Reymour is a psycho-romantic adventure of a duo sharing both life, and stage, a  lovely cluster that originated in Fribourg-en-Uthonie, and found a new home in Brussels, the pulsing heart of Europe. “Sarabande à Deux” is a delicious arrangement of autumn flavor and forgotten vegetables cooked with love and understanding in a synth-wave sauce. It is the fifth release of CAF?, ridding on sonorities of the 80’s, running between synthetic balads, romantic dances and bucolic sceneries in an alcoolic fashion.

“Sarabande à Deux” by Reymour is the fifth release on CAF? a swiss-based label.

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Mathilde

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