Name: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • Mountains Made Of Steam by Constellation Records in ОСЕНЬ 2016
Duration: 9 min 28 s
Description: CST033:Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Horses In The Sky (2005) TRACK 02

ОСЕНЬ 2016

Me: All vocals over Karaoke version.
Yo: Todas las voces sobre una versión Karaoke.

Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye)

Coral Reef

Golden Apples of the Sun

Time Lapse

~stone worms 
lower themselves 
from darkling 
eaves via self-
shat threads...

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (hiddenreversmx0.1)

Hard Times Furious Dancing

Where’s The Caganer?

About Starlight
Julius Smack engages in a dialogue with a fictional AI assistant to create an album using the prompt, “Make an album that tells the story about the origins of Julius Smack.” Starlight emerges as the imagined response, envisioning a world where beauty and violence intertwine, and memories and dreams are excavated to craft stories.

In a near-future Earth, where artists are among the planet’s last inhabitants, a symbiotic relationship has formed between humans and AI—each relying on the other for nourishment and healing. At the sight of a shooting star, artists mine their memories and dreams with generative AI to produce art, which sustains them but generates toxins that must be expelled upon the next shooting star by creating more art.

To compose Starlight, Julius Smack drew inspiration from all facets of life, with the album’s “dataset” serving as a kind of diary. It weaves together old demos, bookmarked TikTok clips of AI-generated content (such as a deepfake of Biden and Trump singing in Mandarin alongside Kamala Harris’ laughter), 2000s dance music, and ‘90s cyberpunk anime, including Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Everyday experiences also became part of the dataset: learning Yaqui in online classes with fellow diasporic Yaquis, riding the train, walking the dog, and dreaming. These disparate threads coalesce to question AI’s role in creative and labor economies, forming a counterfactual narrative where everything—and nothing—is art.

In 2025, Julius Smack will perform iterations of Starlight across the US, Europe, and Asia. Blending dance, music, theater, and video, the shows center around a painted toilet that acts as an intermediary between ingestion and expulsion.

About Julius Smack
Julius Smack is the musical alias of Peter Hernandez, a Los Angeles-based musician, performer, and director of Practical Records. His work explores intuitive and imaginative landscapes, envisioning new modes of perception and existence. Drawing inspiration from vogue, postmodern dance, Japanese environmental music, and contemporary dance music, he synthesizes these influences into a singular artistic vision rooted in queer and indigenous heritage. With releases on labels such as Leaving Records, Noumenal Loom, Practical Records, and now Constellation Tatsu, Julius Smack’s music resonates across diverse audiences. He has performed at prestigious venues including MOCA Geffen and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Stavanger Kunsthall in Norway, and Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in San Francisco.

Credits
Written, produced, and mixed by Julius Smack between Los Angeles and New York, 2024. Additional vocals on “Waiting For The Daylight” and “Green River Water” by Josephine Shetty. AI assistant vocal performance by Anna Luisa Petrisko on “Waiting For The Daylight” and “Starlight”. Mastered by Salz Mastering. Artwork by Danny Espinoza. Layout by Peter Hernandez.

Julius Smack - Green River Water

UNDERGROUND emerges from the same fertile creative period as "Overground," captured in 1970 at Dirmaphon Studios, Rome. This fascinating instrumental journey into Free Jazz and Psychedelic Library music was released in two volumes (RT 104 and RT 16) within weeks of each other, May and June of that year. These records, alongside "Overground," stand as compelling examples of the era's innovative soundscapes, featuring the exceptional talents of historical RAI TV session musicians.

UNDERGROUND

Sandro Brugnolini - UNDERGROUND

Outtacontroller - “Cheap Pop” 
DVTR - “Né pour flâner” 
AIMING - “Brainiac”
Eden’s Children - “Knocked Out”
The Lewis Express With Chip Wickham - "Run Tell That!”
L.A. Witch - “777”
CDSM - “This is my New Hell” 
Keys - “What Flavour” 
Sly and the Revolutionaries and Jah Thomas - “Marijuana” 
MIEN - “Empty Sun”
Taxidermists - "Does The Wind Know"
Stuart Pearce - “Rope”
Polyrhythmics - “Mayo Con Yayo” 
Nap Eyes - “Ice Grass Underpass”
Leatherette - “Delusional”
Skloss - “Mind Hive”
Prince Buster - “One Step Beyond”
Ted Lucas - “It's So easy (When You Know What You're Doing)”

The Pressure Drop Show 24th February 2025

First single from their album 'Fronte Violeta'.

Pre-order link

A Orelha do Mundo

From the forthcoming album "Nuits Sans Nuit", to be released on May 30th.

Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila return with Nuits Sans Nuit, their second collaboration following their Baba Soirée debut from 2023. Recorded as an intuitive exchange between Rotterdam and Valencia, the album emerged from a simple ping-pong process: Banabila sculpted sounds and atmospheres, to which Bastien responded with his distinctive instrumental palette: flute-augmented cornet, mechanised log drum, and more. Mixed by Banabila, the result is a raw yet immersive work that resonates with a somnambulant, wide-awake presence.

Pierre Bastien: "When Michel had finished mixing and editing, I listened to the whole record and sensed a dreamlike quality in it. It reminded me of a book I read years ago: ‘Nuits Sans Nuit Et Quelques Jours Sans Jour’ by Michel Leiris.  Around that same time, some fifty years ago, I was playing in Nu Creative Methods with Bernard Pruvost, a duo that appears on the Nurse With Wound list. Since then, Pruvost has turned to painting, and his work is as dreamlike as our music. We asked him to contribute one of his paintings for the album cover."

Nuits Sans Nuit unfolds through shifting shades of melancholy. "I don't know how to describe the feeling of these crazy times we live in," says Banabila. "Les plus désespérés sont les chants les plus beaux,”  Bastien quotes De Musset. Wordless yet deeply expressive, the album invites listeners into a space of contemplation, where meaning emerges through immersion — like ritual music carrying an unspoken message. Echoes of saudade, blues, fado, and soleá surface in the duo’s playful noise, reimagined through their singular vocabulary.

DL / LP

Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: Le Système Déraille (Pingipung 090, LP / digital)

We're full on this planet; there are two options. Either we kill each other, or we help each other.
An eco-friendly song? Maybe.
A social song? Maybe. A topical piece?
Definitely.

There once was a lady named Charlotte Leclerc, Who sailed on an iceberg from here to afar. "Comme un iceberg," she'd rhythmically chant, While wearing her Moiré dress for a nautical jaunt.

"Delodio!" she'd cry to the curious fish, While balancing teacups on top of her dish. Her iceberg spun 'round like a crystalline top, With nary a reason or purpose to stop.

The porpoises laughed and the sea turtles cheered, As Charlotte's strange vessel completely disappeared. Then popped up again near the Isle of Kazoo, Where nonsensical creatures said, "How do you do?"

Charlotte Leclerc just curtsied and smiled, Her journey, though frosty, was wonderfully wild. "Delodio Moiré!" became her strange call, The most elegant iceberg captain of all!

'Moiré' is the second album by French musician and singer Charlotte Leclerc. Deeply influenced by Reunion Island, where the artist grew up. Steeped in the humid heaviness of the Indian Ocean and caressed by the freshness of the primary forests, Charlotte's songs are nourished by the small details of everyday life that we rediscover when we slow down the pace of our busy days. She uses the sound of her synthesisers and drum machines to create a blend of ambient, electronic music, and pop, and speaks to us about human relationships. Two-person relationships and universal relationships, those that connect us all and allow this planet to function a little better. Remember, "Moire" means "changing."

PREMIERE: Charlotte Leclerc - Comme Un Iceberg [Delodio]

Strasbourg-based photographer, filmmaker, and DJ Hunay Saday blends UK techno with percussive rhythms rooted in memories of Azerbaijani weddings. A former Menthe Poivrée co-founder, she’s played across Europe and featured on Noods Radio, Root Radio, and Knekelhuis. Her Kiosk mix is a heartfelt tribute to her homeland, exploring memory and belonging through ambient textures and traditional sounds.

Hunay Saday @ Kiosk Radio 16.05.2025

CST033:Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Horses In The Sky (2005) TRACK 02

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • Mountains Made Of Steam

Walking In The Air

Teardrops (Womack & Womack)

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A little mix we did, something different.. bit slower hope you like it! 

ignore the space at the start, bypassing soundclouds copyright lol (taken down but now back up!)

Clair De Lune - Flight facilities (srms mix)

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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra • Mountains Made Of Steam

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