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The 22nd release of katharsis is the album “Jester” by the Finnish duo Running, coming out on May 16th. The album unfolds an emotional and mythological tale of an imaginary terrain in an alternate time and realm with the Jester as the protagonist. Throughout the eight tracks, the listener is presented with a sonic world of tragic, sadness, beauty and even comedy by the duo’s poignant style of melodious ambient compositions.

Running’s “Jester” follows their last album “For Us By Us”, released on the Finnish label True Aether in 2018. On this release, the group seem to thrive with a conceptual and almost narrative backdrop for their creative outpourings. As Running have earlier been known for their very energetic and experimental live-performances, and as both members have indulged musically in other projects spanning from hardcore punk to contemporary performance art, it will be exciting to see where the duo goes from here.

Jester

Arrowind

Running - Arrowind

SLA10: 'Endchantment' by @cobweaver

From the unstable vessel, a frictionless plateau or runway is witnessed surfacing soon after you piece together the vision, and you begin to slide along it. Wet birds gyre, forming a huge effigy that tells you your new name, sparrowhawk. A chorus and ensemble waver in and out of view as another vast body begins to emerge from below. From the hazy distance, a corps of wind players approach as a series of depth charges detonate, scattering the birds and sky-borne musicians. A purple-clad bombhead throws a sack of apples in your direction, causing you to tumble roll. On resurfacing, the plateau has reorganised itself into a shifting array of cubes and pipes (zadar sea organ mecha). This continues in crescendo, accumulating drumming box jellies, vibrating rubber tubes that straddle the ocean sky barrier, once-distant churches, and -
Cloud cover lowers.you instantly are approaching the lead mines.a fog soaked November.that robin still calls from the hawthorn. . .

June, cumulonimbus warships idle on the horizon, their gun turrets played by a westerly. From along the promenade a miniature wheeled train arrives, hitting a lamppost and, crumpling into the sand digger, becomes a violent mechanic amalgam that methodically untethers the fishing boats, rips up the groins and compacts the beach huts, using telegraph cables and succulent root systems to tie the pieces together into an enormous raft, which it floats out on the waveless channel. As it slowly gondoliers itself away from shore, it performs a plodding series of rotational movements that increase in complexity and variety, the entire form of the amalgam changing at the apex of each movement, and its the central crux eventually dissolving entirely. 5 chinooks arrive from the nearby base, hovering still as officers launch a tirade of artillery at the beast. The heads of selkies bob up between waves, as they attempt to shift the energy through echoing phrases. Eventually the military win, and the beast sinks defeated. The raft continues its journey toward the horizon, sparking intermittently.

Type: EP
Format: Digital / CD
Releasedate: May 13th 2022
Artwork: Yem Gel
Distribution: Kudos Recordings
A&R: Otis Dehaes
Cat. number: SLA010

Buy CD / Digital

Yem Gel — Endchant (4ever Home)

https://myen.bandcamp.com/track/spectertape

SPIRIT SWITCHER

40 Years (feat. jjjacob)

EMIT.8 is Canadian fashion designer and decorated judo champion Josh Reim’s debut full-length.

It’s a brooding, melodic work painstakingly sculpted in the Quebec and New Hampshire countryside. The album brings anguish and relief in equal measure, reconstituting human pain in digitized form—like a disembodied nerve system animating a sinewy mech suit. It’s heartfelt and cold, alien and intimate.

The work builds on Reim’s previous project, 2021’s Circadian Rhythm EP, which found harmony between disparate influences like Joyce Manor, Giant Claw, and Bach. EMIT.8 is built on traditional pop structures, rendering gleaming, cybernetic sonic architecture on its foundations. The songs traverse time, penance, faith and the interaction between them, finding a blissed out state of grace in the quest for redemption.

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Josh Reim: @joshreim
streaming: https://artists.landr.com/692531703354
Bandcamp: https://clubparadiso.bandcamp.com/album/emit-8

Master: @astytekk
Cover design: Club Paradiso
Text: @madjestickasual

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CD + Download

Josh Reim - Invisible Frequency

From @leop4rdi debut EP " a process of learning and understanding"

Stream & download: push.fm/fl/a-process-of-learning-and-understanding

Produced and mixed by @leop4rdi
Artwork by IG: @jonas_reubens
Mask design by IG: @laurenbouden @nico_verhaegen and @julballardt
Mastering by @dj_ghepard

Stream & Download

leop4rdi - it’s like i miss you more each day

Dreams Remix (original by Quench)

Cosmic Rain

am i already dead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8co5uHsz8I

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mystery unboxing of a lost Pandora edit ft. @Yikii haunting @Dasychira's hard drive by @babyxd

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Josh Reim - Invisible Frequency

‎Club Paradiso