A2 Greystar - Thenewamen

During the summer of 2021, Delphine Dora was invited for a residency at the church of St Saphorin (Switzerland), on the occasion of the Jolie Vue Festival. Having the opportunity  to fully explore the organ the days before the actual festival, Delphine improvised a long, long series of tracks, of which you’ll find a small selection on ‘hymnes apophatiques’.
She’s definitely full of respect for the organ, at some moments diving deep in the sound traditionally associated with this rich instrument – the one you’ll recognize from the hours spent in church as a kid. However, at many moments throughout the album the sound is more playful than we’re used to. It’s a fearless approach. The fact that she dares to intervene with her voice quite often really makes her recordings stand out from those of many other artists who have been experimenting with a church organ lately: she definitely has a high regards for the tradition of the organ, but refuses to bow. She’s in charge, not the instrument itself. This way, Delphine manages to bend the sound completely her way. 
It’s an enthralling listen, that not only takes you along all the possibilities of the instrument, but also through Delphine’s entire musical path. And that’s quite a journey.

Hymnes Apophatiques****

Delphine Dora - S'extraire De L'abîme

Out now: KOLLAPS 'Until The Day I Die' CD/LP (CSR309CD/LP)

"Until The Day I Die", the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS, is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualisation of the record has been stylised and presented using William S. Burroughs' cut-up method.

A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across KOLLAPS' triptych of releases and lengthy touring history in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

"Until The Day I Die" has had a tectonic shift in production methods compared to its predecessors and was entirely written, recorded, and mixed internally the self-constructed ILoveHeroin Studios built above a sculpture museum in Lugano, Switzerland. All instrumentation was handled by Wade Black except for bass guitar by Andrea Collaro recorded at Hangar 121 in Lenate Pozzollo, Italy on all tracks except "D-IX" and "I Believe In The Closed Fist", handled by Black, and additional sound design and percussion by Giorgio Salmoiraghi. 

Mastered by James Plotkin.
Cover artwork by Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund | Trepaneringsritualen).

CD in 6-panel digipak || LP with full colour matt-laminate sleeve and printed inner lyric sleeve.

Out Now!

Track Listing:

1. Relapse Theatre (3:13)
2. D-IX (3:06)
3. I Believe In The Closed Fist (8:02)
4. Hate Is Forever (4:35)
5. The Hand Of Death (5:55)
6. Until The Day I Die (3:08)
7. Iron Sight Halo (5:35)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309cd
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309lp

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/until-the-day-i-die-csr309cd-lp

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr309cd

Watch the incredible video for 'I Believe In The Closed Fist': https://bit.ly/Kollaps-ClosedFist

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/Kollaps-UTDID

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/kollaps-utdid


KOLLAPS:

https://kollaps-noise.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Kollapsmusic
https://twitter.com/Kollapsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/kollapsmusic
https://coldspring.co.uk/kollaps

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KOLLAPS LIVE 2022

10/12: Laiterie - Strasbourg, FR ᚯ

ᚯ with She Past Away

Until The Day I Die

KOLLAPS Hate Is Forever

Available now via: IMPREC.com

The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes.

If Oliveros had followed a more conventional composer's path she may have, all social obstacles aside, been considered among the major minimalist and contemporary classical composers of her time. However, Oliveros approached composition in a more egalitarian manner. She wrote music for musicians to interact with or, in the composers words, she wished to create "an inclusive and interdependent and unfolding world of relationships."

Oliveros' propensity towards inclusion is part of what makes this work so remarkably distinctive. The Well & The Gentle is carefully crafted, allowing performers to participate in the creation of the work. Players are asked to collaborate, focus, react and make imaginative choices. Only then can the performers "pass through stages of awakening to the possibilities inherent in making music, working together, leading to the essence of what can shape musical impulses and individual freedom simultaneously."

Unlike most major composers of the era, Oliveros' work focuses on collaboration and improvisation. Lacking in the rigidity that often defines minimalist work of the era. For Oliveros, the processes involved in making music are as fundamental as the music itself. Oliveros creates, as Arthur Sabatini put it so eloquently in the liner notes,

"A world in which sound and the practices entailed in making music merge; become, at once, source and atmosphere, energy and essence, presence and dynamic."

Pauline Oliveros "The Well & The Gentle" - 2LP - Release Date 3.10.23

400 LONELY THINGS 'Mother Moon' CD

The new album from 400 LONELY THINGS, produced by WILLIAM BASINSKI, is a dark ambient, sample-based séance to the Banning Mill - a real-life decaying "mansion" and haven for artists, freaks and misfits in the backwoods of the American Deep South in the 1970s-1990s - and an extraordinary piece of art that lived there.

An archaeological excursion in found sound - wandering through the art and memory of a real place, "Mother Moon" is an origin story for 400 Lonely Things. In the 90's, Craig Varian was fortunate enough to frequent the Mill in the years before it closed. It was here that he was exposed to the artwork of Richard Scott Hill, whose artwork "Minotauress" graces the album cover. His work both captured and fed into the Mill's sinister yet playful undercurrents of mania and depression. This album, born out of that first visit to the Mill, is an imaginary soundtrack to the many years of solitude the Minotauress spent hanging in the musty, secret winding halls of Banning Mill. 

Since the days of the Mill (and Varian's subsequent purchase of "Minotauress" shortly before the Mill closed), Varian, along with best friend and late musical partner Jonathan McCall, found a thread of music they'd been consistently making yet had previously failed to notice - melancholic instrumentals with weathered sampling at its core - going back to their earliest recordings in the late 1980's. Eventually, this music was called 400 Lonely Things.

Presented in a 6-panel spot-varnished digipak.

Order via Bandcamp to receive a bonus 44-page supplemental digital book.

"Mother Moon is a cypher that saves an important hidden fragment of cultural history from erasure." Ben Ponton, Zoviet France.

"Mother Moon is darkness calling. It will take you to the outer limits and leave you there. Guaranteed to twist your mind." Andrew Hulme, O Yuki Conjugate.

"A wistful, burrowing, beautiful nightmare." Daniel Kraus, NY Times Best Selling Author of The Living Dead with George A. Romero, and The Shape Of Water with Guillermo Del Toro.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr319cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/mother-moon-csr319cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr319cd

Out: 24th March 2023

400 LONELY THINGS Parlor Tricks

Ayline - Pandora's Box Shattered Last Night

Taken from the upcoming album 'Third Law'.
Released January 22nd via Tri Angle Records.
2xLP, CD & Digital.

First single, '4101' is available to buy on iTunes now. Also available as an instant grat with any pre-order of the album; 
itunes.apple.com/us/album/third-l…d1057689581?ls=1

Roly Porter -  Known Space

music/lyrics/vocals/juno/po-12: LB
mix: Georgios Karamanolakis

Underground

62: Entertainment - "Club Red Rose" | https://summerisle.bigcartel.com/

Entertainment - New Vision

[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

A1 – Deluge

off new LP "disappear"
released by Total Black/Berlin
available now

"disappear was born of something that ceased to be, suddenly, unexpectedly, painfully. like two mirrors that reflected too strongly and burst. the shards that were left tell a story. of a trance meeting of an insect and a flower in a self-made paradise and the resulting journey that took them towards new dimensions but was brutally cut short before these could be explored. the sun disappeared. the resulting daze looked back and saw... mirrors don’t reflect what we want to see.

disappear consists of 7 pieces composed alongside a presence. the story linking the pieces unfolds when the presence disappears and the 8th, last piece of the album appears, a cleansing lament disguised as an abomination. marnować means waste in polish. composed between january 2018 and november 2019, a period also known as the berlin daze. mastered by riccardo mazza. edition of 300. released by total black. dedicated to agata."

play loud
music to listen to alone

artwork by brett wagg using photos by dp
mastered by riccardo mazza
thank you daniel, brett, agata

disappear

hope (without) - off disappear LP

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