Anne-F Jacques/Takamitsu Ohta, Oto to Secchi

00:00-01:00
Excerpt from 'Without', performed by Erik Carlson (violin) and Greg Stuart (percussion), composed by Clara de Asís. Released in October 2018 on Elsewhere.

01:00-02:00
Excerpt from 'Comme de loin', 2020. Commande de l’Etat du Ministère de la Culture, France. Produced by GMEA - Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn. Électroacoustique sur support seul. Released on Blank Mind as part of the homonym compilation.

02:00-03:00
Excerpt from 'De ce côté-ci', from the album 'Sans Nom Ni Forme'. Recorded in Berlin, 2019. Released on Pilgrim Talk, 2020.

03:00-04:00
Excerpt from 'double points; reflected', Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane, 2021.

04:00-05:00
Excerpt from 'Present Omission', from the album 'Repetition of the same dream' featuring works by Clara de Asís & Mara Winter. Released on Another Timbre, 2020.

Excerpts 2018-2021

I am Asinun

"II" is the first track we're revealing from "Lachrymorph", a collaborative full-length album by Petar Petkov and Bartosz Borzeszkowski. To be released on tape & digital on November 25 at http://amekcollective.bandcamp.com

To create their first collaborative full-length “Lachrymorph”, guitarist Petar Petkov and drummer Bartosz Borzeszkowski embarked on a journey to the Unknown – both physically and creatively. Having successfully collaborated in the studio (check out “Scape I", released in "Vanishing Standards II"), the artists felt the need to dig deeper in their mutual audial explorations, which curiously enough stem from their quite different musical backgrounds with Petkov coming from the world of classical guitar and Borzeszkowski - from the field of jazz.

In “Lachrymorph”, Petkov and Borzeszkowski don’t hold preliminary discussions to lead the music the desired way, they do not map their explorations but rely on intuition. Creating in a small cottage in the deep forests of Cassubia, Poland, they seem to have not only opened their own worlds to one another's contributions, but have left the door wide open for all that lurked around to further nuance and deepen their sound. Scattered across the pieces are field recordings, captured during the duo’s walks in the surrounding areas, that further flesh out the world surrounding Petkov and Borzeszkowski's creative process.

“Lachrymorph” is a varied listen, more of a collection of musical snapshots than a narrative-driven experience. Some tracks (“I”, “IV”, “VII”) are deep and captivating soundscape works that make you lose a sense of the actual instruments that went into their creation. Others(“V” and “VI”) are more straightforward and act as a sort of wake-up call, not letting you disintegrate entirely in the hazy musical territories of the record. Most of the music, however, inhabits the intriguing zone between these two polarities, neither direct nor surreal, like glimpses from one world to another. 

Music by Petar Petkov and Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Recorded and mixed by Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Mastered by Michał Jan Ciesielski
Design and artwork by Kamil Frąkewicz (@szklanymózg)

Petkov/Borzeszkowski - II

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wall (Wind Harp, Walltown Crags - Peter W remix) - disquiet rework 

This track is a reassembly of original field recordings made by :zoviet*france:, and used in their 2021 composition “Hidden by the Wall”. All of the source material was recorded by :zoviet*france:, and then reworked by Peter W.

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/wind-harp-walltown-crags?in=zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

:zoviet*france: - Hidden By The Wailing Wall (Peter W disquiet rework)

Raw sonic explorations of the tools I am designing at GRM. No external input, live capture with minor editing.

To begin 2023 rather mysteriously, two generative patches overlaid on top of each other, objectively random but subjectively giving the illusion of a dialogue.

GRM Development Diary 8

Grietas

LULL 'Journey Through Underworlds' CD

The classic, genre-defining 1993 album from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS of SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH - is a dark journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell. The listener is left with the impression of a final escape into reality; a return upon waking, with only wispy trace memories and the heavy rush of blood-pumping fear as a keepsake.

With this album, we are plunged back into a dark pit of noise - all escape barred, all hope dashed. The nightmare continues, the journey through underworlds descends deeper. These are soundtracks for Nightmares. Despite there being just three tracks on the album, it lasts just shy of 75 minutes. 

Originally released on Sentrax (the label of the late John Everall / Tactile), the CD suffered the 'disc rot' fate of many PDO pressings from 1988-1993, rendering most of that initial run unplayable. 

Mixed by Justin K Broadrick (GODFLESH). Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios) from the original recordings supplied by Mick Harris.

Matt digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 12th January 2024.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL:

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift", I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that".

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr329cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/journey-through-underworlds-csr329cd

https://orcd.co/csr329cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-journey-through-underworlds

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

LULL Downwards (excerpt)

Forgetting My Life One Day at a Time

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

marble silence

Marble Silence

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk

LULL Downwards (excerpt)

Cold Spring

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