Lizzie Urquhart w/ Paul Uhlmann (4/11/22)

Morgane [08.12.2022]

Cat: FA019
Label: Fasaan Rec.
Title: CYSP - S/T (LP)

A mysterious musical outfit said to be consisting of two Swedes with affinity for frog-esque sounds and post-trance aesthetics makes out what is CYSP. CYSP is also an acronym of CYbernetic SPatiodynamic, aka the first spatio-dynamic sculpture, having total autonomy of movement as well as axial and eccentric rotation. The sculpture is celebrated as an early work of cybernetic character that made it into the world of art. Now how do these two phenomena relate to each other? I have no clue..

This sounds like it could have been crafted in an eerie barn in the remote countryside, serving as a never-released soundtrack to an occult underground 90's film about urban trolls - it also sounds like it could be glued-together cassette scraps laying around Richard H Kirk's studio.

Laden with an almost grotesque amount of soundscaping, synthesized quirks and sonic riddles that would positively provoke any attentive listener (dancer?), it’s still weirdly danceable in the most head banging sense of the word. While pulling from the past - and meta-versically - the past’s image of the future, this is highly contemporary music - smart and stupid, deep and shallow - physical and cybernetic.

Tracklist

A1 Reverse Autonomy
A2 Schöpfer Dub
A3 Crux Feathers

B1 Kurgan
B2 Swarf
B3 E5 Intelligent Choir

All tracks by CYSP
Mixed by Emanuel Sundin
Mastered by Joakim Lindberg, Studio Sickan
Cover by Oda Haugerud
Distributed by Rush Hour
(C) & (P) Fasaan Rec & CYSP 2023

A2 CYSP - Schöffer Dub

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Phase Group w/ Kulku (7/4/23)

@memotone
@patienceimpatience

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance.

HOW WAS YOUR LIFE?

PREMIERE | MEMOTONE - GLOW IN THE DARK [PATIENCE / IMPATIENCE]

Silk LIVE - Heads Radio 124 :: 10.05.2023

Available as digital download and 12" vinyl on pre order via the Dummy Hand Bandcamp.

Release date: 16/06/23

Tracklist
01 - A.S.V (At Surrey Vaults)
02 - Born Sloppy
03 - TKO
04 - Salaryman
05 - Getaway Scene (Escape From Zoggs)
06 - ---- (Dub Mix)

Grockle Vision

DUMMY002: Yokel — Grockle Vision (CLIPS)

"Join Erevan DJ from Bamboo Shows, here filling the air with the most bittersweet guitar ballads. From the bottomless pit of memories may bubble up prog-rock haunting riffs and medieval-synth whimsical melodies."

Diffusé le 08/06/2023 sur @lyl_radio: lyl.live/episode/herbe-a-chat-15

LYL Radio | Herbe À Chat (08/06/2023) w/ Erevan DJ

A mix of some of my recent tracks which I put together for Robin the Fog’s Fogcast show on Resonance FM ( https://robinthefog.com , https://www.resonancefm.com)

Phase Group w/ Kulku (7/4/23)

Clyde Built Radio