A1. Yolabmi - Alone

The immense soundscapes of Arkhad cannot be mistaken for those of another artist's - each work seems to be completely unrestrained, yet an over-arching sense of structure, a feeling of a looming megalithic presence haunts throughout. The rhythms are irregular and strange, yet palpable. The droning calls and textures appear inorganic, yet certainly feel natural; as if rising from beneath the living earth, from beneath deep layers of stone. The artist has been a known and unique presence in Lithuanian experimental art, traversing through drone, noise, post-industrial techno-hybrids, and many other unknown realms of music over the past decade. Such depths are thoroughly explored in the 18th Amulet of Tears mix.

Amulet of Tears 018: Arkhad

Music: @arkhad

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 018: Arkhad

Space Collective 2 Live commemorates Portuguese musician Rafael Toral’s first U.S. tour in several years. Since the 1990s, Toral has been primarily known for his guitar work, but has since been working on the Space Program project, within which he has probed visceral and personal components of electronic music performance, and how they relate to the performer's experience, not to the resultant product.

These recordings, taken from a live set at All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2012, find Toral performing with drummer Afonso Simões, developing sparse, deep textures with triggers and modular oddities. Smartly paced and absolutely blistering at times, this set touches on a variety of surprising tones: flute-like expressions, spacey warbles, and intricately patterned arpeggios that dissolve into drone sections with confrontational sonic palettes.

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Rafael Toral / electronics
Alfonso Simões / drums

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Artwork and layout by E. Lindorff-Ellery
Printed by Fitzgerald Letterpress

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Tracklisting:

1. Part I - 17:23
2. Part II - 13:38

NTR038 - Rafael Toral - Space Collective 2 Live - "Part II"

CSS077 features Mexican new media artist and label owner Syntax Erika. Her sound curations are works in electronic sound patterns, currently exploring the strata of sound, the artifacts of sound that become self-expression experiments. Her work is a hybrid between natural sounds and synthetic noises.

Read and Listen here: https://cultivatedsound.com/077-Syntax-Erika

Cultivated Sound Sessions - CSS077: Syntax Erika [Live Set Spectra]

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apnea in vacuum | selection of drafts, tests, etc ... in progress.
https://soundcloud.com/nike_vomita/sets/apnea-in-vacuum

Jordan's Training (ex.pax_toner)

Artificial Aries

From Am Shhara's Shinsoko, available for pre-order on tape and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/shinsoko

Am Shhara - Mou

V lese jsem viděl takovou věc. Nejdřív jsem říkal, že to nemůže bejt skutečný, ale jsou tady. Mezi náma.

Formless Desire

Chichester

Music and Artwork by Ryan J Raffa
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Shimmering Moods Records 2021
SHM 163

Ryan J Raffa - Lately

a hybrid between a collective and label in Brooklyn, New York, to cultivate music as sound and to introduce new music breaking genres.

submissions and bookings: cultivatedsound@gmail.com