Nice series of tracks - enjoyed it very much.

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

f040 - Dovecot - On The Woolly Star

Feb 18th on @laura-lies-in 

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

06. Departure from England

Feb 18th on @laura-lies-in

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

03. Chthonic '97 (K1CVX)

fmvee — Wisteria Fade
pre—order now via s-ss.bandcamp.com/album/wisteria-fade

Ideas of life, death, and the endlessly cyclical nature of these two conditions, loom large on Wisteria Fade, the debut album by Maryland-based artist Matthew J Rogers AKA fmvee. Recording began in spring 2020, and fmvee’s hybrid approach of acoustic and synthetic sounds with human voice captures this unmistakable seasonal shift. But these beguiling compositions, a mix of ambient, mutant jazz, and woozy pop songcraft, channel both the hope and uneasiness of such flux. Together their mass of auditory entanglements yield a strange yet beautiful flower.

Wisteria Fade

fmvee — Monarch In Crepe Myrtle Ash

05. Thylias Moss #2

04. Does Pop Culture Interest You?

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

01. Mutual Aid

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/turbo-sud-settimana-santa-special-14th-april-2022

Turbo Sud - Settimana Santa Special - 140422

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/felisha-ledesma-27th-april-2022

Felisha Ledesma 260422

"I’m curious about prayer/conjuring spaces. So the recordings emerge from out of a meditative set of activities - reading/talking, basic rhythm-making (bells, sticks, bones), repetition & movement."

https://ldsn.bandcamp.com/

LDSN – MAGIC SAND

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com


Bidules w/ Soumaya Phéline @ Kiosk Radio 05.06.2022

a mix I made for my best friend for his birthday back in June <3
--> cover by Ren Schwarz

for matt

https://soundcloud.com/attekantonen for https://soundcloud.com/sand-circles

https://www.retreatradio.net/continuity

Tracklist:
Phylip Lamy - 8-Vydone
Lucy Duncombe - SPRYTE’S FORK
RM Francis - Wie machen ha ha ha
Rainier Lericolais - Introduction aux jupes Satiniènnes
dj bathtime - c angel
windowseeker - wish u
Carteron Charbonnier - N° 1
Kinked - Wesh
coleman mummery - )0( )0(
more eaze - Blank Check
Torus - Like The Night
rec - Kimberly can’t take it anymore
Kunstkammer Hogo ft. Av3ry - Inventare
7038634357 - Overalign
Asio Otus - Dandelion
santebela - editorial upd
NOT399093 - Mostly Survival
Fransesca Heart - Nuova Atlantide
RM Francis - do you Reggae
AGF - Matsu -Taiwanese-
Nico Niquo - My Home In The Storm

Continuity #24 w/ Atte Elias Kantonen (19/02/23)

Mika Oki is a visual artist, Dj and producer born in Paris.


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