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Our new mixtape comes from the Norwegian transcendent artist Kjetil Jerve and producer Stian Balducci with a recording specially crafter for CLOT Mag and getting inspiration from their more recent album.

Tokyo Tapes: Piano Recycle, released on Dugnad Records in April 2021, is an epic archival collection fusing ambient, drone and experimentalist textures. Performed with a live emotion in mind, this aspect of the collection adds to the innovative spontaneity and the duo’s dynamic musicianship.  

Jerve is an artist known for his genre-defying curiosity, adventures transcending dogma and style and has been running the Oslo-based label Dugnad rec since 2016. He has been an important figure in the next wave of Norwegian jazz musicians, and likewise, Balducci, although coming from strictly electronic musicianship, has moved towards extended jazz and improvised genres. The clear jazz influences are felt moving throughout the 18 track album, in which classicism and electricity combine, crafted through fuzzy textures, cinematic soundscapes and hauntingly beautiful melody paintings. 

The album centres around Kjetil’s unique piano musings, it is then moulded by Balducci through creative warping in order to design and sketch new instruments through the initial medium of the piano. The result is a record that feels both archaic and contemporary, clearly drawing inspiration from and acknowledging Alva Noto/Sakamoto and Bugge/Schwarz as predecessors, but at the same time, residing on its own plane of artistry. The artists suggest a promise to provide a euphoric connection: the record asks to be listened to in a place of nature, free of distractions when its power can be felt most vividly.

For this mixtape, they share, they wanted to display a balance between the eclectic and narrow, selecting from a broad spectrum of inspirations and melding it together with a long take of piano improvisation recorded exclusively for CLOT: It sort of sounds like what could be a live DJ set from Stian’s studio with Kjetil’s piano built-in. There are also some gold nuggets from new and upcoming releases happening here in Norway, and it’s always really nice to present our peers’ work in a worldwide context. 

The artists also request their audiences to engage with the listening: Please let us know in the comments how you experienced it, and be sure to check out our socials to take part in our common future.

Tracklist:
Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo (edit)
Burial - Subtemple
Ben Frost - Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water
Robert Turman - Flux 3
Ø - Scene 1
Tortusa - I Know This Place  
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2
Damata - I Say Damata, You Say Matoma
Kim Dürbeck - Tma4ever
Laraaji - Trance Celestial Movement 4
Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 3.2 MIN
Lövgren - Car Crash
Bendik Baksaas, Maria Brinch - Inya Lake II
Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Uoon II
Basic Channel - Mutism
Loscil - Discrete Entropy
Biosphere & Maâlem Mohamed Kouyou - Boiler Room Marrakech
Tortusa, Jo David Meyer Lysne - Jazz Spot Candy
Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo

DUGNAD REC presents Stian Balducci & Kjetil Jerve

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/euandalgarno
Track: Space For A Day
Label: https://soundcloud.com/musiccompanyco
Format: Digital, LP
Release date: 25/11/21
Purchase: https://store.musiccompany.co/

‘ILLIKKIS’ is the latest release from Edinburgh based composer, Euan Dalgarno.
Acoustic instruments and subtle electronics are pieced together, to shape an album that is cinematic from start to finish.
 Using a minimal set-up Euan creates high resolution sonic sculptures free from compression and processing. These raw artefacts get closer to the listeners psyche leaving room for exploration and interpretation.
“This album sees influences from minimal classical composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, to modern composers such as Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw and Nico Muhly.” 
 Recorded in between family and solo trips into the Scottish wilderness. Mountain walks in the highlands. The landscape is that of Munros, Corries, Bealachs, Glens and Lochs, translating into music that is more expansive, meditative and natural than his previous works.

YouTube

PREMIERE | Euan Dalgarno - Space For A Day [Music Company] 2021

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Tape available via IMPREC.com

Brian Thummler’s  Ghost Birds combines piano improvisations and noise to create a uniquely compelling musical duality. These 7 pieces, selected by John Brien, are inspired by a lifetime of experience, art & poetry as well as Cage, Merzbow, Satie, Sun Ra.

Ghost Birds takes flight with experimental simplicity. The interaction of noise and piano, a synergy that also pushes and pulls, creates profound musical dimensions available to the attentive listener. 

Ghost Birds was recorded in a studio and on an enclosed porch where an old, noisy out of tune upright grand piano lives. Traffic sounds seep in and plant themselves in the recording while the human soul empties into the piano. 

Who is Brian Thummler? To quote the poet Lu Yu, he is “the old man who does as he pleases.” 

This first edition of Ghost Birds is packaged in a handmade, letterpresses O card slip sleeve.

Brian Thummler - The Outline Of Nameless Things - Tape - PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE

COLOSSLOTH 'Promethean Meat' CD

Rhythmic industrial noise - grinding and churning, drenched in crushing doom-laden guitars - drapes the sacrificial bones of the new album from esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth.

Building on this trademark sound, pushing and striving for reinvention and renewal, Colossloth has also utilised live instrumentation and ethereal vocals, and black metal blast beats on certain tracks for the first time to enhance the intent behind the music. Digitally-driven soundtracks for transfigured cities and myths born in the wilderness of Albion.

Digipak. Out 19th August 2022.

"An unknown voice deep within the landscape reveals a clandestine location. A place of arcane mechanics, a cathedral of divine engines suspended in primal matter. Turbulence forms amidst amorphous strata, the polarised elements stretch out and then return once more to a singular form, gauging an ecology of discordant time down newly formed vertices. Crystallised dreams spin wild atmospheres into the horizons and fill the localised spaces with the remnants of passive machinations and distant mutterings, the devices allocating into their framework the offerings set forth".

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr315cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/promethean-meat-csr315cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr315cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/Colossloth-Promethean (Video by Abby Helasdottir).

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/colossloth-promethean-meat


COLOSSLOTH:

https://colossloth.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/colossloth
https://soundcloud.com/colossloth
https://twitter.com/colossloth
https://coldspring.co.uk/Colossloth

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

COLOSSLOTH Flowering Discipline

zonedout - WEBCORE INJECTION (prod. phntmzn bR)

From the Myth About Flat World album out at Black Mara label:
https://creation6.bandcamp.com/album/myth-about-flat-world

Mountain Roots

Released 23rd June

https://neotantra.bandcamp.com

https://neotantra.co.uk

Autumn Of Communion - Ayurveda

Anticlines

Edge

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Light Conductor • "Splitting Light (Radio Edit)"

Constellation Records