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A time capsule of magical miniaturisms, body tensors, fluctuating visions,
sensory souvenirs, extended natures and pressurised air illusion.

A multilayer interzone smuggling temporary artifacts and
holographic mirages in space-time decompression.

A clandestine slow-grown paradox.

Quietly ambitious, stubbornly small.

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Ulla - 'Limitless Frame'
Format: Vinyl / Digital
 Release Date: May 10, 2021
Distribution: Rubadub 
Cover photo: Sasha Zakharenko

Being somewhere, while being somewhere else
A place I look for in other places
A moment on repeat
I made this music as a way to hug myself

All music performed and written by Ulla E. Straus

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus

Pre-order:

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ulla-limitless-frame
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/13471/s/limitless-frame/
https://boomkat.com/products/limitless-frame

MW009: Ulla, 'Limitless Frame'

In the work Chronolith, consisting of a complex multi-channel sound composition and stone slab installation, the bioacoustic group Jata C investigates the acoustics and temporal dimensions of stone structures, as well as their sustainability and interdependence with humans. Jata C (beepblip, OR poiesis, Boštjan PEROVŠEK, Bojana ŠALJIĆ PODEŠVA, Brane ZORMAN) poses the questions: How to listen to stone and think in geological time? Is it possible to understand the wider social context of man’s unsustainable exploitation of the environment through the sonority of stones? And if so, can this help with creating a juster and more reciprocal relationship with nature?

The artists obtained the sound material for the composition via field recordings of various locations and quarries. The installation serves as stone instrument, a sensorial extension to the human body, with which the composition and the vibrations of the stones are fed back into the materiality of the slabs with the help of transducers, forming a feedback loop. During the production of the work, the artists collaborated with scientists from the fields of micropaleontology, geology and physics, as well as the supporter of the project, the company Marmor Hotavlje. The work Chronolith is produced by the CONA institute for the program of the Steklenik gallery.

Chronolith

Jata C: Chronolith

https://romeopoirier.bandcamp.com/album/eli-keszler-remix-1

Roméo Poirier adds another track to his last year's album Living Room: "Les encombres" is anything but what the title suggests. A compelling addition to Roméo's mysterious cabinet of curiosities.
Eli Keszler remixes "Statuario" - the album's opening track - and transforms it into an atmospheric setting that seems to have sprung from a magical vaudeville act.

releases January 13, 2023

Written and produced by Roméo Poirier & "Statuario" remixed by Eli Keszler
Artwork by Tim Tetzner
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Copyright Control
faitiche 2023

Roméo Poirier - Les encombres

Water ripples all around, and echoing sounds stretch out into a shady sub aquatic habitat. Its dark corners slowly burst into view as cresting noises reveal fresh caverns teeming with liquid life. This is Sueños Acuáticos, the latest sonic exploration from Lamina, a musical project by French artist, Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle. Built from years of carefully gathered field recordings, the album constructs immersive, detailed soundscapes where watery environments, caves, and forests intertwine with digital manipulations.

Rooted in the myth of the ‘Lamina’, a creature from Basque folklore, the project blends this oral tradition with technology to build a geological myth. The Lamina’s world—a nocturnal ecosystem of water and stone—serves as the foundation for the album’s sound design. Lamina reshapes these natural recordings into something new: stretching, pitching, and layering them to build intricate sound environments that feel simultaneously organic and synthetic. “I transform these sounds much like I would sculpt in ceramics,” explains Calvo-Pinsolle, “by adding, removing material, and imagining landscapes.

Drawing from hydrofeminist and posthuman ideas, particularly those in Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water, the album treats sound like water—shifting, flowing, connecting, and buoying life. Tracks flow into one another without clear boundaries, much like the natural currents they represent. The result is a continuous listening experience, inviting deep focus on texture above melody.

Lamina is exploring the potential of the field recording as a compositional tool. Natural sounds, like trickling water or wind through trees, are processed out of recognition—or cliché. A sense of weightless immersion takes hold as Lamins’a music unfolds, and listeners float freely and choose their own adventure in the Lamina’s home. Less a set of songs than its own evolving environment, Sueños Acuáticos (‘Aquatic Dreams’ in English) is a meticulously constructed work in which we can freely float.

All tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle in Brussels in 2024
With the voice of Hochiwah on Aqualines

www.claricecalvopinsolle.com
lalamina.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/laminalalamina/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Artwork and design by Fen ToucheMoulin
www.instagram.com/touche_moulin/

Words by Tristan Bath
Photography by Michaela Cagáňová

Released by mappa as MAP054 in 2024
licence
mappa.bandcamp.com  
credits
released November 4, 2024

Lamina - Aqualines

「 taken from 'Give up Chanel' 」
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/give-up-channel

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Julek ploski’s ‘Give up Channel’ is on mappa. It’s the follow-up to the Poland-based FL Studio demon’s ‘Hotel *****’, released via Orange Milk in 2023.

It’s an album that wrestles against a shadow self. It’s about shelter from the hailstorm of unwanted memories and guilt pangs and serrated blades of thought. It’s about clinging on to some semblance of hope, knuckles taut and teeth gritted.

The fragmented drift of opener ‘Naysayer’ flows forward like an anxious daydream, pad eddies and piano plinks anchored by Trapaholics drops and bursts of guaracha drums. It’s a mess of mind: the bleakness of ‘Truth’ is punctuated by gun cocking and bullet spray and sudden jester-like blasts of unhinged, schizo-whimsical melody. An internal war without a clear winner.

Shame snakes through this music like venom through an emaciated body. Blue screenlight in a dark bedroom, pulsating temples, lockjaw. ‘Titanic’ hits like the thrashing resistance of a being built for love grappling against the scalding vengefulness it’s forced to contend with, the song’s abstracted rave synths giving way to warped voices and spiralling derangement. ‘Hollywood’ is a scarred battleground, the martial bludgeoning of a tightly wound hardstyle stomp blistering and shredding a delicate piano-and-string arrangement.

This music is about deep solitude, a meditation on simmering, slow-marinating hatred. But it’s ultimately about prevailing. It doesn’t revel in negativity, it roils and twists and writhes against it. Dots of light in oppressive darkness. Clarity and purpose against chaos and filth. It’s a struggle worth waging. 

Composed, recorded and mixed by Julek ploski
julekploski.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/julekploski/

Additional production in Earth Trax / Bartosz Kruczyński
www.instagram.com/earthtraxonline/

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
abdonoval.com

Artwork and design by Julek Ploski

Words by Madjestic Kasual
www.instagram.com/madjestickasual/


Released by mappa as MAP055 in 2025

「Buy」

Titanic

https://kitrecs.bandcamp.com/album/plage-arri-re

French photographer, musician and lifeguard Roméo Poirier (formerly known as Swim Platførm) appears for his debut album, Plage Arrière, a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these seductive scapes, which recall the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller or Sebastian Palomar. 

'Atsipades' is a keepsake from the song's namesake beach, on western Crete. Roméo writes, 'on the back of a boat, leaving an island. We can see a pool, but that is empty and covered by a net. People looking into distance. A man walks across the platform, hand moving towards his mouth. Maybe he is drinking a café frappé. During his time on the island he was drinking it every day. Now, on the journey back home, that café frappé represents a souvenir of the beach. In it there is water (sea), coffee (sand) and ice cubes (rocks).' 

Plage Arrière will be out soon on Kit, in the form of a limited tape, with risograph printed artwork by Roméo.
credits
releases December 9, 2016

Jata C: Chronolith

CONA zavod / institute