RELEASES

Josh Reichmann & Consonance - 'Golden Gate of the Ecliptic'

Coming out on April 2nd, 2021

Time in reverse is still time. Emotion backwards is still felt. They came together without much prep but what came out felt whole, totally complete.

Neil Rankin on bass, Sean Dunal on drums, James Harris on keys, Chris Evans on guitar and Josh Reichmann singing his songs with intensity and grace.

Behold, Golden Gate of the Ecliptic, a meeting in rhythm that was unlikely. Somehow, a most resonant musical happening, one night in Toronto, ensued.

These four songs were initially written by Josh for various solo explorations. Cosmic in lyrical content, pulsing and funky in beat yet open and loose enough for a wide array of interpretation. The tunes were indeed reinterpreted by the adjoining musicians who found their usual groove and rhythmic cohesion easily. The songs flower with a jazz-like freedom into realms that straddle garage rock, the grittier end of funk and psychedelia but all the while hold steady to their assertive rhythmic pulse.

The tracks were recorded live off the floor with no ensuing overdubs, subjected to a concise mix by Louie Short through a vintage reel-to-reel tape deck and then mastered by Nick Kozub. What you hear is raw, energetic and more than the sum of its parts.

Vocals & Songwriting by Josh Reichmann
Bass by Neil Rankin
Guitar by Chris Evans
Keys by James Harris
Drums by Sean Dunal
Mixed by Louie Short
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Cosmic Resonance ℗ 2021

Golden Gate Of The Ecliptic

Golden Gate Of The Ecliptic EP - Josh Reichmann & Consonance (Previews)

Bubbling under the bog water comes a murky oneiric vision from an astralopithecus... a primitive psychonaut lost in a realm of their own creation.

The result is a collection of spring peepers to keep you aerated and elated. A miasma of plasmatic echoes prepared with care over many blood moons.

Cydux (@user-952505195), the alter alias of Cosmic Resonance's @hemingway, embodies James' love of rave and reve—music for slumber or sprints. To add that special something, Cosmic Resonance alum Nic Fields aka @innertouch brings their own teamwerk into the mix, adding extra ripples to the pond.

Out next Bandcamp Friday, May 7, 2021
https://cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-puddles

Artwork by Sean Lewis (https://www.seanlewis.ca/)
Mixed & Produced by James Harris
Additional Engineering by Nicolas Field
Remix Produced by Nicolas Field
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Cosmic Resonance Records ℗ 2021

Breathing Puddles EP - Cydux (Previews)

Bubbling under the bog water comes a murky oneiric vision from an astralopithecus... a primitive psychonaut lost in a realm of their own creation.

The result is a collection of spring peepers to keep you aerated and elated. A miasma of plasmatic echoes prepared with care over many blood moons.

Cydux, the alter alias of Cosmic Resonance's Hemingway, embodies James' love of rave and reve—music for slumber or sprints. To add that special something, Cosmic Resonance alum Nic Fields aka Inner Touch brings their own teamwerk into the mix, adding extra ripples to the pond.

'Breathing Puddles' releases May 7, 2021
@user-952505195

Artwork by Sean Lewis
Mixed & Produced by James Harris
Additional Engineering by Nicolas Field
Remix Produced by Nicolas Field
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Cosmic Resonance Records ℗ 2021

Breathing Puddles

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CR-009 - Astralopithecus - Cydux

CR-009 - Breathing Puddles - Cydux

We're excited to announce our latest release 'Muck', a collection of ambient electronic undulations performed live by Canadian artist JFM. These recordings were later heightened by several vocal collaborators. Using a walkman, a speaker, and a recorder, their vocal parts were transplanted and re-amplified in various locations in the rural areas surrounding the barn where the songs were created. The end result is a warm and pastoral vibe that reflects its organic setting.

Muck releases September 30th on Bandcamp. Check out the first single 'HI TIDE' by visiting the link in our bio.

For more of JFM's music: https://soundcloud.com/j-fm-1

Muck EP - JFM (Previews)

Whittled down from dozens of live recordings made using a micro freak synthesizer, a volca drum, and a volca bass, synced together using basic CV. A handful of those recordings were then sent to long-time friends and collaborators who live across Canada, in hopes of them contributing any type of vocal sound to be incorporated into the recordings. Then using a walkman, a speaker, and a recorder, their vocal parts were transplanted and re-amplified in various locations in the rural areas surrounding the barn where the songs were created.

Though not all of the vocal contributions received ended up on the official release, their efforts were remarkably creative and equally important to the process. Those in order of appearance are; Laura Da Silva, Carol Graham, Kira Daube, Michelle Kissinger, and Victoria Parker. Long time friend and musical counterpoint, Scott Brailey, now located in Germany, was employed with mastering the final mixes. Constellation Records alumni and Toronto musical aficionado, Craig Dunsmuir (Kanada 70) constructed a reduced remix of a song not included on the release, but was the first song recorded using the same basic gear and head space.

JFM has been at it since 2008, using an SP-404 sampler as a live instrument for cutting and pasting tracks together. Releasing tapes and CDs in limited editions on friends' record labels around Canada, and while living and working in downtown Toronto. A debut 12" LP on Halifax's Divorce Records in 2013 marked the first official JFM release and a relocation back to the East Coast. The period following this transition was a productive one; cassette EPs, compact discs of various sizes, a locked groove 7”, and a slew of b-side compilation contributions both digital and physical were being released on labels around the globe. This release on Cosmic Resonance marks an important departure from using any samples or sampler whatsoever and instead focuses on connecting with talented friends who have influenced and inspired the shape and direction of this EP. 

Recorded and mixed live by Jesse F. Matthews, Canada.
Vocals by Laura Da Silva, Carol Graham, Kira Daube, Michelle Kissinger, Victoria Parker
Remix by Kanada 70
Mastered at Bergchemie Klang in by Scott Brailey, Germany.
Artwork by Jesse F. Matthews
Cosmic Resonance Records ℗ 2021

Premiere: JFM - Paragon Pong

WeTurnToRed (a.k.a. Shamanta Chandran - https://on.soundcloud.com/vw1Ny) is a Syrian-born Tamil-Canadian producer/DJ/singer/songwriter and scientist based in Toronto, Canada. Her deep love for electronic music was ignited after her older brother introduced her to the mid-90s Toronto rave scene. Having experimented in the studio for over a decade, delving into melodic nuances of modular and analog synths, it was clear that growling basslines and haunting melodies were the subjects of her affection.

Rogue Planet is about feeling like an "other," like a planet ejected by its host planetary system. It is a personal journey encapsulating Shamanta's South Asian roots and influences. Visuals are by internationally-known artist & muse Rajni Perera, "a painter and sculptor known for exploring how power works through the imagery of science fiction." The album reflects Shamanta's early life experience as a South Asian immigrant who has journeyed from the Middle East to North America, living in several different cities along the way. Adapting spiritual influences of the past, it seeks to preserve cultural relics in a future unknown. It features her 90-year-old aunt's Indian Carnatic vocals along with hers, connecting the generational gap.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Feels Good
A2. Rogue Planet
A3. Deeper High
B1. The Machinist
B2. Nee Moottu Mo

Out on September 15th, 2023
Vinyl Preorder: https://qrates.com/projects/28688-rogue-planet-ep

Rogue Planet

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Rogue Planet EP - WETURNTORED (Previews)

COSRES01 - Blue Notes - Hemingway

Purchase: http://cosmicresonance.space/track/blue-notes

Keys & Production: James Harris
Guitar: Chris Evans

Blue Notes

Blue Notes - Hemingway

Recorded live at Superpoint in Toronto on May 10, 2017. Cosmic Residents are Hemingway & Strange Robotix. This session features Toronto visionaries, MYSTK MARSHALL, STRANGE ROBOTIX & KOREA TOWN ACID

Cosmic Residents featuring Strange Robotix, Mystk Marshall & Korea Town Acid

Track 2 off of Cosmic Resonance's debut vinyl release: 
CR-001: Memoirs EP - Hemingway

PREORDER:
cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/memoirs

Tracklist:
A1. Ayahuasca
A2. Dream Swagger
A3. Ocean Hues
B1. Love Mirage
B2. Memoirs

Hemingway's debut EP on Cosmic Resonance Records is a musical memoir. The sounds you’ll hear are drawn from projects created as far back as 2011 and as recently as 2017. The music has evolved over the years, from yacht-funk playfulness to the exploration of cosmic jazz. One constant throughout, though, has been a reverence and love for the dance floor and dance music culture. To bring this broad spectrum of musical creativity together, Hemingway enlisted the help of his longtime friend (and now label-mate), Chris Evans, to weave improvised guitar unicorns (guitarnicorns) throughout. The result is an album that fuses jazz, funk, disco, balearica, pysch-rock and Amazonian spirituality into a cosmically resonant vibe.

Releases June 10, 2017

Produced & Composed by James Harris 
Guitar by Chris Evans 
Mastered by Andrew Seok (www.bumpmusiconline.com) 
Vinyl Pressed by Precision Pressing (www.precisionpressing.com)

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Memoirs EP

CR-001

A2. Dream Swagger (Preview)

Track 3 off of Cosmic Resonance's debut vinyl release:
CR-001: Memoirs EP - Hemingway

PREORDER:
cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/memoirs

Tracklist:
A1. Ayahuasca
A2. Dream Swagger
A3. Ocean Hues
B1. Love Mirage
B2. Memoirs

Hemingway's debut EP on Cosmic Resonance Records is a musical memoir. The sounds you’ll hear are drawn from projects created as far back as 2011 and as recently as 2017. The music has evolved over the years, from yacht-funk playfulness to the exploration of cosmic jazz. One constant throughout, though, has been a reverence and love for the dance floor and dance music culture. To bring this broad spectrum of musical creativity together, Hemingway enlisted the help of his longtime friend (and now label-mate), Chris Evans, to weave improvised guitar unicorns (guitarnicorns) throughout. The result is an album that fuses jazz, funk, disco, balearica, pysch-rock and Amazonian spirituality into a cosmically resonant vibe.

Releases June 10, 2017

Produced & Composed by James Harris 
Guitar by Chris Evans 
Mastered by Andrew Seok (www.bumpmusiconline.com) 
Vinyl Pressed by Precision Pressing (www.precisionpressing.com)

Preorder

A3. Ocean Hues (Preview)

Track 4 off of Cosmic Resonance's debut vinyl release:
CR-001: Memoirs EP - Hemingway

PREORDER:
cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/memoirs

Tracklist:
A1. Ayahuasca
A2. Dream Swagger
A3. Ocean Hues
B1. Love Mirage
B2. Memoirs

Hemingway's debut EP on Cosmic Resonance Records is a musical memoir. The sounds you’ll hear are drawn from projects created as far back as 2011 and as recently as 2017. The music has evolved over the years, from yacht-funk playfulness to the exploration of cosmic jazz. One constant throughout, though, has been a reverence and love for the dance floor and dance music culture. To bring this broad spectrum of musical creativity together, Hemingway enlisted the help of his longtime friend (and now label-mate), Chris Evans, to weave improvised guitar unicorns (guitarnicorns) throughout. The result is an album that fuses jazz, funk, disco, balearica, pysch-rock and Amazonian spirituality into a cosmically resonant vibe.

Releases June 10, 2017

Produced & Composed by James Harris 
Guitar by Chris Evans 
Mastered by Andrew Seok (www.bumpmusiconline.com) 
Vinyl Pressed by Precision Pressing (www.precisionpressing.com)

B1. Love Mirage (Preview)

Raf Reza's debut 12 Inch EP 'PROTO' is a modern inflection of the Electro Boogie domain and is the second release from Cosmic Resonance Records. Raf's studio productions mirror the multifaceted nature of his DJ sets, drawing melodic and rhythmic considerations from a broad spectrum of dance music, both old and new, to create contemporary club music with a compositional appeal.
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releases October 1, 2017 

Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Raf Reza 
Mastered by Andrew Seok (www.bumpmusiconline.com) 
Vinyl Pressed by Precision Pressing (www.precisionpressing.com)
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B1. Pineapple Island

Preorder: https://cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/mahogani-forest

KOREA TOWN ACID is unflinching, focused, absorbed and engaged in sound and all vibration. Jessica Cho has been creating buzz in Toronto’s downtown dance music community with her live, improvised electronic music performances and multi-medium DJ sets over the past nine years. A classically trained pianist with an intuition for improvisation and the sonic universe, Jess’ music transcends the dance floor into the astral strata. Her sound palette is vivid and technicolor; cerebral and kinetic; a timeless fusion of raw, fearless creativity and focus. Cho has proven her versatility in dozens of Toronto venues performing solo, and with former live house duo CHOBO. She has released a variety of tracks on labels such as Arachnidiscs, Archi-textures, Toy Tonics from Berlin, Secret Jams from Bulgaria, and her solo EP on Toronto’s Mikita Skyy.

Holed away in Cosmic Resonance’s basement studio/headquarters in Toronto, Jess improvised freely over eight straight early January days in 2018. The result was a free jazz, techno-addled synth orchestra too rich to know its own wealth of nuance. Slowly the layers began to peel away. Glimmers of diamond-encrusted synth rays started peaking out from behind massive bass-lined clouds. Mountains, then valleys, rivers, trees and a full landscape appeared. A world was discovered and it is MAHOGANI FOREST.

CR-003 - MAHOGANI FOREST
Performed & Produced by Jessica Cho
Engineered by James Harris (aka Hemingway)
Tenor Saxophone (Tracks 2 & 5) by Kyle Knapp
Mastered at BUMP Music Toronto by Andrew Seok

Mahogani Forest EP - Korea Town Acid (Preview)

Introducing COSMIC RESIDENTS v. 1, the first in an ongoing compilation series from Cosmic Resonance Records. This series will showcase emerging talent from Toronto’s underground creative electronic music scene. 

This first edition features local favourites and Cosmic Resonance residents Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza), Korea Town Acid and Hemingway along with (and making their vinyl and Cosmic Resonance debut) Body Butter, WeTurnToRed and Smoke & Shadows.

On the A-side, Hemingway kicks things off with Astralnauts, a deep, dubbed out boogie breakbeat burner dedicated to explorers of the astral plane featuring fellow label don Chris Evans on rhythm guitar. Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza) takes us even deeper with the mystical Cid Pit Riddim, a slamming 707 acid bender sure to melt any dance floor. Things get slippery with Body Butter’s debut single ‘Lights In The Hallway’, a timeless operatic pop opus featuring Neil Rankin (aka Burt Sugar), Chris Evans (aka Mr. Bliss) and Hemingway behind the board. On the flip side, things heat up with Shamanta Chandran’s project WeTurnToRed, featuring the progressive modular techno odyssey Warm Winter an escape from Toronto’s long and tumultuous blizzards. Emerging from the Mahogani Forest, Korea Town Acid reinterprets Hemingway’s emotional ode to the jazz aesthetic Blue Notes with her trademark cerebral rhythms and a masterful bassline that elevates the original to new heights. Closing it off, we have an amazing collaboration between Curtis Clark (aka Smoke of Lab.our Music) & Em Zy (member of Nikki Fierce) called Smoke & Shadows with their stellar debut single Convincing Thoughts that features Em Zy’s hazy vocal emanations amidst a backdrop of mystical reverberations and a dark, powerful groove.

Release dates for Vinyl & Digi TBA! 

Available soon through Honest Jon's Distribution.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Astralnauts - Hemingway
A2. Cid Pit Riddim - Radiant Aura Faculty
A3. Lights In The Hallway - Body Butter
B1. Warm Winter - WeTurnToRed
B2. Blue Notes (Korea Town Acid Remix) - Hemingway
B3. Convincing Thoughts - Smoke & Shadows

Cosmic Residents Vol. 1 - Various Artists - Preview

Joshua Reichmann (XLEXCIEL) is a multi-disciplinary artist. He relays phantasmagoric and epochal shifting transmission through music and film and offers psychic and Akashic readings.

XLEXCEIL has released multiple recordings which have garnered him national and international attention, among others in Dazed and Confused, Fader, XLR8R, and Pitchfork.

This latest digital single release is a collaboration between Josh and Cosmic Resonance Records' Hemingway and Chris Evans entitled Dharmakaya (Hemingway Dub). The track is a remix from Josh's recently released album, XLEXCIEL ( https://joshreichmann1.bandcamp.com/track/dharmakaya ). This reimagination of XLECIEL's ambient epic weaves jazzed-out space echo-drenched guitar with a pulsing electro boogie groove. Atop the beat foundation soars XLEXCIEL's powerful vocal declarations on death and enlightenment.

Josh describes the track as such...

"Freedom pre-jazz-funk to build your Merkabah Ark. Jamming the frequency from the hexagon on Saturn. Channeling the angelic realms and the galactic assembly. The geometry of love beyond measure, measured.

Ascension building earth song from the light language of hieroglyphic pre-linear thought-forms. Lucid dream tech and dharma music for our degraded age. Powerful Peace."

Releases August 15th at http://cosmicresonance.space/

Dharmakaya (Hemingway Dub) - XLEXCIEL

Inner Touch is the embodiment of Nicolas Field within the electronic music art form. With a storied history informing their most recent work, Inner Touch is a concise vision of transformation and relinquishment. The music is both simple and deceptively deep, best suited to those seeking moments of transcendence on the dancefloor.

Throughout the last decade, Nicolas has toured extensively around the world, mostly with punk bands, galvanizing a thirst for moving and connecting people through music. Along with dozens of musical collaborations and releases, Field has published Farewell Manly Strength: Masculinity and the Politics of Emotion (Furrawn Press 2018), their take on the contemporary state of masculinity and gender identity. There is a wisdom and thoughtfulness that guide Nicolas' art, a calm and focused resolve that renders a delicate intensity.

100% Gone is the debut EP from Inner Touch. A five track exploration of synthetic textures, pulsing beats and polyrhythm that would happily bop in any night club. Yet these tracks hold the listener effortlessly to a place of fulfilled solitude and with a wonder for the natural world. This juxtaposition of solitude and community, nature and synthesis is what makes Inner Touch so special and a joy to listen to.  

Releases October 15th, 2020
https://cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/100-gone
@innertouch

Written & Produced by Nicolas Field
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Cosmic Resonance Records 2020

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100% Gone - Inner Touch (Previews)

Rapidly following the cinematic avant-croon of his 'Executioner' single  from David “Egyptrixx” Psutka’s Halocline Trance label, polymorphous Hamilton, ON producer Aaron Hutchinson returns with his debut LP, Potion Shop.

This concise eight song collection is aptly named, given the eccentric and intoxicating stylistic concoction it serves to unsuspecting listeners. Ostensibly a vehicle for songs by a diverse cast of guests (spanning everything from ethereal folk to esoteric rhymes, from sunburnt soul to lysergic lullabies), Hutchinson’s distinctive and decidedly psychedelic arrangements tie it all together. Crisp wind arrangements crawl forth from thick synth haze; 808 drums rain down on choruses of birds, and muffled
pianos meander past distended, muck-encrusted drum samples.

Potion Shop’s extensive list of collaborators speaks to the wildly varied nature of Hutchinson’s rich musical life. It includes contributions from Hamiltonian vocal protagonist Sarah Good, Benita Whyte of Persons, Doom Squad’s Allie Blumas, pre-eminent MC Emay, celebrated musician and slam poet Ian Keteku, and even Kirk Starkey of classical fusionists Quarteto Gelato. The record will be available on LP, CD, and in digital formats, but visual artist Eccina has also crafted an interactive and thoroughly hallucinatory landscape that can be downloaded to offer listeners complement to the album.

Hutchinson has been a vital contributor to his hometown’s burgeoning underground music community. He co-founded the recently-defunct venue HAVN (Hamilton Audio Visual Node) which was touted by Vice as “the Best DIY Venue in Hamilton” in 2015. He also spearheaded their in-house label whose roster included Eucalyptus whose Kick It Till You Flip It was one of Magnet Magazine’s best Jazz releases of 2019. In addition to winning several local prizes including the Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prize in Music, Jazz Recording of the year from the Hamilton Music Awards, and an Emerging Artist in New Media (Hamilton Arts Awards), he’s a member of several crucial Hamilton outfits. There’s the FX-mangled free-jazz duo Eschaton, whose Arachnidiscs tape Torus sees them collaborating with Matt Tavares and Leland Whitty of Bad Bad Not Good. Meanwhile in the vibrant jazz-fusion/ hip-hop anomalies Haolin Munk, he acts as drummer and producer. Hutchinson also been heard collaborating with everyone from fried dance music denizen JFM to sleek electro-pop songstress Allie X, not to mention the likes of Lea Bertucci, Ellis, Zoon, YlangYlang, and Daniel Romano.

Pop the cork on Potion Shop and drink it down for an all-too-fleeting trip across a musical terrain that’s disorienting but also warmly familiar.

Potion Shop

Potion Shop - A Hutchie (Previews)

Track 5 off of the Potion Shop LP by A Hutchie @hutthebeliever - out now: https://cosmicresonance.bandcamp.com/album/potion-shop

Premiere: A Hutchie - City Of Waterfalls

Music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_Y21p3xi8

Produced by Jordan Nunes (PrettyIggy) & SPAWNKISS

Coming out February 19th on Cosmic Resonance Records.

Sore Sight is a new work from SPAWNKISS, the long-standing producer title for Toronto-based composer, Kvesche A. Bijons. Fellow co-inspirator, Special Costello, from Halifax, joins him for this cosmic, hadopelagic pop anthem. SPAWNKISS’ musical background is versatile, ranging from far-reaching collaborations with Lido Pimienta - earning a Polaris Prize for production on the album La Papessa - as well as production with Mother Tongues’ seminal work Everything You Wanted, sound design installation work in Luminato & beyond all while touring the world in support of various artists. SPAWNKISS dives far into the odd distances of the unlimited and could show up in any shape or form. On the horizon lie landscapes and auras of sonic rhythm unknown to any creature, and to be unraveled with time.

Written by Kvesche A. Bijons
Vocals by SPAWNKISS & Special Costello
Produced by Jordan Nunes (PrettyIggy) & SPAWNKISS
Samples by KIZMET32
Woodwinds by Lief Mosbaugh & Micajah Sturgess
Additional Processing by Louie Short
Mastered by Nik Kozub
Photography & Design by Nate Wolfe
Additional Artwork by Legin Rook
Music Video Directed By Conrad Osei Bonsu & Spawn
Special Thanks Kenneth Antonio

SORESIGHT (Feat. Special Costello & Bésé) PREVIEW

Remix produced by @hemingway
Original by @spawnkiss

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