We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

Zibaldone IV of CVX

30 for a

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL \\ L/F/D/M - UU [Dead Channel Records] (2021)

Artist » L/F/D/M - https://soundcloud.com/skukanu

Ep Name »  Intentional Musix 

Label » Dead Channel Records - https://soundcloud.com/dead-channel-records

Louisville, Kentucky

Format: CASSETE + Digital Album

Release date:  August 16, 2021 

BUY HERE  >>>  https://deadchannelrecords.com/album/intentional-musix

London based L/F/D/M debuts on Dead Channel with this sweeping LP. Seven tracks of galactic rhythms traversing crunchy acid, offworld breakbeat, hints of old Detroit, and broken beat chillers. Scattered with metallic percussion, sonar pings, and mystic melodies, Intentional Musix constructs a soaring opus of exotica. With releases on Cititrax, Clan Destine, VOITAX, TRAM Planet, Optimo Trax, and a host of other labels, the expert producer has honed his striking vision, and leaves no stone unturned, spanning his broad palette with this alien classic.

Artwork by Brian Drabant
Mastering by Kevin Frey

DC007 

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Intentional Musix

PREMIERE CDL \\ L/F/D/M - UU [Dead Channel Records] (2021)

DEAD CHANNEL

Feb 18th on @laura-lies-in

Pre-order: https://rupertclervaux.bandcamp.com/album/zibaldone-iv-of-cvx

03. Chthonic '97 (K1CVX)

05. Thylias Moss #2

04. Does Pop Culture Interest You?

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

01. Mutual Aid

Emma Thalia - Métamorphose

After a crush at the Brussels World Fair in 1900, King Leopold II decided, for his own personal pleasure, to have the Japanese Tower and Japanese Gardens built. In order to create this little relocated asian paradise, he had the wood, sculptures, paintings, ornaments, trees, workers and their know-how imported. For a few years he invited his entourage to enjoy it during large banquets and private receptions. He then had the idea of transforming the Japanese Tower into a luxury restaurant, but he died. This magnificent place remains closed to the public except during an annual opening.

A story of a global disease is a short tale about artificial paradises of globalisation, a melancholic walk through the exotic relics of free trade, where whim, appropriation and appearances take precedence over otherness. Here, geishas eat chips, europeans confuse Tokyo and Beijing, and tribal ceremonies begin with samples and drumkits.


Naomie Klaus is a young artist from Marseille based in Brussels. In love with performance, constantly flirting with cinema and acting, Naomie seems to conceive her music as a big playground, a free zone of mischief in which she likes to experiment and interpret different identities, different characters. The result is funambulistic, a hybrid and synthetic form of a thousand influences that we can't really characterize: 90' Techno, loud Trip-hop, languid Pop, nonchalant Post-punk, dracular mass...
Naomie Klaus doesn't know on which foot to dance and invites us to join a zone of in-between, has fun to plunge us in her strange tales for adults, where the princesses we meet are armed, hysterical, nymphos and badly dressed.

All tracks written and produced by Naomie Klaus in October 2020 in Brussels

Initialy recorded for the "ON THE GO" Beursschouwburg project.

Mastered by Rude 66
Artwork by Harrisson

Oryginally releases by Bamboo Shows BLSP003

Buy / Acheter

Naomie Klaus - B4. Walk With Your Romance  [BFE071 / MDT001 / TMR40]

Here is the debut album, as a manifesto from the multi-instrumentist and dedicated to experimentation artist : Alban Mercier. 
Few years of traveling, digging and engraving the materials and influences, Alban is a perpetual-movement, a never-ending quest far from any boundaries, or fences of the genres. 
He drawn and cut the lines of this 8-track album, and recorded them with the help of our beloved Paulie Jan at Agit Prop Studio late summer 2022. 
He also offers the artworks in order to give an object from its own. Very personal and dedicated. 
To be released on Apr, 12th 2023 via Teenage Menopause Records 
Distributed by Kuroneko Media
>  https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/lazybones

Words, Music, Sounds, Arrangement by Alban Mercier 
Additional Voices by Catherine Danger
Recording by Alban Mercier. Aug-Sep 2022
Mix by Alban Mercier & Paulie Jan. Sep 2022
Mastering by Paulie Jan @ Agit Prop Studio. Nov 2022
Cut & Press - Kuroneko Media

Lazybones

Officium - 01 - Lazybones (ft Catherine Danger) [TMR044]

7FO - Forest of Old Cloth

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From Water Falls Into A Blank.

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7FO - Forest of Old Cloth (CMMND002)

half stepper

Album écrit, composé et interprété par JORJE18 entre 2013 et 2016 à Bordeaux, prodit par Dumbhill en 2018.
Mastering: Loïc Lachaize, JORJE18
Visuel: Johan Baggio
Bisous: Leny Bernay, Maison Acid, Autant Josepha, Stéphane Rouet, Dumbhill

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Car Je Vous Déteste

Personal Wastelands is an album rooted in contradiction. Although FOQL and Fischerle are both based in Poland, these two artists—who are working together here for the first time—come from distinctly different backgrounds. FOQL, a former member of the groundbreaking Oramics collective who’s currently a part of SHAPE’s 2020 artist roster, usually operates in the margins between IDM and industrial, while Fischerle, a sonic nomad who heads up the Pawlacz Perski label, is someone whose detailed creations routinely bust through established notions of genre.

Forged over the course of a few sessions in FOQL’s Warsaw studio, the album began with improvisation, as the two artists—armed only with two identical drum machines—gradually discovered some remarkably potent common ground, a nebulous "wasteland" of bleak atmospheres, hypnotic dub and corroded rhythms. There’s a bleakness to the music, yet the album's percolating percussion and robust basslines—which nod toward the more experimental end of the UK hardcore continuum—are downright lively, even when they've been slathered in sludgy reverb. Like many releases on Paralaxe Editions, Personal Wasteland defies easy categorization, but despite its many contradictions, it's a compelling document of what can happen when two exploratory talents join forces and simply let their creativity run free.

Music by FOQL & Fischerle.
Artwork by Oficina de disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.
Mastering by Kris at Linear.ms.
Words by Shawn Reynaldo.

Pre-order here: 
https://paralaxe-editions.bandcamp.com/album/personal-wasteland

Personal Wasteland

Swimming Pool 2.0

Artist: All Trades
Track: Shattered
Label: Shubzin
Format: Digital
Release date: 01/08/20
Purchase: https://shubzin.bandcamp.com/releases

Launched earlier in the year, Shubzin have hit the ground running. Providing the underground with pay what you can compilations, Shubzin aims to flaunt the collective power of the scene and put it to good use by donating profits to local charity causes.
This second release is raising funds for The Nia Project a charity to helping women at risk or subject to domestic or sexual abuse in Hackney and Harringey.

https://soundcloud.com/alltradesuk
https://soundcloud.com/shubzin