POMP IS POMP AND POMP IS NOT DEAD. Follow the adventure of why Ambient screws with your stomach by listening to the 17th episode of the sound scenario series POMP.

https://soundcloud.com/nznnsmmnr

https://www.retreatradio.net/pomp

POMP #17 (06/03/21)

https://soundcloud.com/bengerhardt

https://www.retreatradio.net/rips-in-peace

Rips in Peace #2 w/ DJ Gerhardt (04/05/21)

Available via Imprec.com 

Tekanan is the full-length debut of Melbourne-based Indonesian-Australian drummer and sound artist, Rama Parwata. A thorough exploration of rhythmic capabilities and percussive improvisation under ever-shifting timbral and stylistic environments, Tekanan is Parwata’s examination and documentation of his vast musical influences in electro-acoustic improvisation, Indonesian gamelan music, free jazz, electronic music, R&B, and noise music, whilst still maintaining an entirely unique non-idiomatic musical voice. Tekanan sees Parwata experimenting with not only the drum kit, but additionally implementing no-input mixing boards, musique-concréte sampling techniques, junk percussion, electric guitar, and computer music production to create a relentlessly metamorphosing soundscape that abruptly, yet seamlessly oscillates between ethereal ambiances to turbulent barrages of rhythm and noise through five unique movements.

Aptly named after the Indonesian word for pressure and stress, Tekanan was composed by Parwata with the intent of it being a listening experience which would pressure the listener to have no clear indication of the direction of the music and where it will ultimately settle, leading the listener on a sinuous, yet intriguing aural journey. This title additionally applies to the pressure of the challenging nature of the music, in a performative sense, which pushed Parwata to his physical and mental limits to perform and compose.

“As cliche or banal this might sound, I tried to make a record that was purposely made to be hard to put into a box. I didn’t want to make a “drumming” record or a noise record or anything of the type, but a record that just contained "good” music (or what I constitute as being good). Many aspects of my musical life were injected into this release: gamelan music (the first music I was exposed to), noise, hip-hop, free-improvisation, Xenakis, jazz, electronic music. Ultimately this record is a homage to those musical influences.” - Rama Parwata

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An active figure in Australia’s experimental music and art scenes, Parwata has worked with the likes of Marco Fusinato, Robin Fox, and Robbie Avenaim, and choreographers Stephanie Lake, Juliet Burnett, and Melanie Lane. He is also a member of seminal long-running Melbourne Doom Metal band, Whitehorse.

As of 2019, Parwata has been a co-curator and committee member of Melbourne’s legendary concert series, Make It Up Club, which has been presenting weekly avant-garde improvised performances since 1998.

ramaparwata.com

Tekanan

Rama Parwata - I - from Tekanan Cassette - Pre-Order Available Now

🍃 14:00 Approximative But Fair w/ Hervé Loncan 🍃

sur www.stationstation.fr

"Tout en dansant, 
Il remonta au long des jours vers sa 
jeunesse
Et piqua vers le tourbillon."
T.S. Eliot

Tracklist : 
JJulius - Följ inte efter (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, 2021)
Great Area - Over Again (Left Alone, 2021)
Psyclones - Neon People (Clone Tone, 1982 / Notte Brigante, 2021)
Gilb'r - Я не хочу знать (feat. Cosmic Neman) (Versatile, 2021)
Black Merlin - Scape One (Gordon Pohl Remix II) (Artificial Dance, 2021)
Omar S - Trac 45 (FXHE, 2021)
Psychedelic Digestion Therapy - Palmtree Calling (Strangelove, 2021)
Tapes - Sauna Research (Research, 2021)
Microphase - Twinkle (Flambient, 2013 / Libreville, 2021)
Organizatsiya - Dernière larme du passé (Bamboo Shows, 2019)
Il Est Vilaine - Sailing (Dialect, 2021)
Clan Caimán - Serendipia (EM, 2021)
Wendy Lavone - Serenity (An1ma, 2021)

Approximative But Fair #30 w/ Hervé Loncan

This record is an extension of a foray into trance ritual music.
It's structured as a companion for film, meditation, vision seeking & sound rest.

It's by nature a nature worship record, combing acoustic percussive improvisation, sensory foley, vocalized staccatos, and a specific brew of physical/metaphysical sound relations....mind hush/thought flush/spirit rush/sun rise.

Inspired by an initiation ceremony of the Bwiti/Fang people of Gabon. This collection relays a fragmented branch of timings of this ceremony. Plus proposes alter paths for the sacred (Mougongo) instrument.

Recoded + Restructured + Reflected as a time capsule.

With fullest respect/blessings to breeze the Bwiti understandings through current climate.

Proceeds of this record will be donated to Tata-Yo (Nganga), Ebando.

http://ebando.org/fr/presentation.htm

Words & Music - Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi 
("All the Healing Green Leaves of the Forest")

A1 - Awating (11:02)
B2 - Bwicoming (19:28)

Our inaugural 12" coming soon with distribution via Honest Jons Records.

Big shout out to Will @the-trilogy-tapes for the support.

Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi - D Ebando (GMV01 ) - Snippets

a mix of aus house, techno and indie electronics from 1998 - 2008, sourced from the FBi radio CD library as a farewell 2 simon caldwell's monday sunset show.

big thanks to luke from couchblip! lars from ollo and bre + the FBi library team for their generous help with research. shouts to clan analogue, kooky, dumphuck + so many more in Eora who have made amazing work.

recorded live on FBi radio 03/02/20 tracklist here >>>
https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/sunset-with-simon-caldwell/2020-02-03/ 

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ ➫ ⚛☆❒🌀◐⚐✿⌇╀▒✼⎌⁌💿⁍☁

Stolen From FBi - Karma

https://soundcloud.com/katatonicsilentio
Tracklist and info at lyl.live/show/pussy-nightmare/

Katatonic Silentio & OKO DJ  (7.04.2020) ~ LYL Radio

Swedish-Finnish composer/sound artist Marja Ahti and Australian cellist/composer Judith Hamann developed Portals collaboratively from their respective lockdown spaces in Finland, sending recordings back and forth across the eastern most arm of the Baltic sea from Turku to Suomenlinna. Their lines of acoustic & electronic sound pull each other through different composite terrains, revealing imaginary scenery and creating a palimpsest of geographies and time. Akin to film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's focus “on the pressure of time", Marja and Judith give weight to each frame of sound’s internal narrative, letting each move slowly from land to island, sea to forest, mundane to remarkable, domestic to public, as if caught in dream motion. As the title suggests, the release offers frames, or windows into Marja and Judith's combined hearing, into spaces they've created together during this time: simultaneously near and distanced.

Luke Fowler - Everything Is Permitted(5/3/21)

Clyde Built Radio

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