Name: SABLA - DANZAGUIDA by DISK
Duration: 6 min 37 s
Description: Available through the honorable houses of HJ and HW!

Extract from 'Image Langage' (SP140)
Out June, 24th 2022 on 2xLPs, CD, digital download.

Order: https://feliciaatkinson.bandcamp.com/album/image-langage

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Opening the window, I look at the light, it connects me to something more vast.

Felicia Atkinson’s music always puts the listener somewhere in particular. There are two categories of place that are important to Image Language: the house and the landscape. Inside and outside, different ways of orienting a body towards the world. They are in dialogue, insofar as in the places Atkinson made this record—Leman Lake, during a residency at La Becque in Switzerland, and at her home on the wild coast of Normandy—the landscape is what is waiting for you when you leave the house, and vice-versa. Each threatens—or is it offers, kindly, even promises?—to dissolve the other. Recognizing the normalization of home studios these days, she revisited twentieth-century women artists who variously chose, and were chosen by, their homes as a place to work: the desert retreats of Agnes Martin and Georgia O’Keefe, the life and death of Sylvia Plath. Building a record is like building a house: a structure in which one can encounter oneself, each room a song with its own function in the project of everyday life.

At times listening to Image Language is immediate, something like visiting a house by the sea, sharing the same ground, being invited to witness Atkinson’s acts of seeing, hearing, and reading in a sonic double of the places they occurred. In an aching moment of clarity in “The Lake is Speaking,” a pair of voices emerge out of the primordial murk of piano and organ, accompanying the listener to the edge of a reflective pool that makes a mirror of the cosmos. “I open my feet to fresh dirt, and the wet grass. I hold your hand. You hold his hand. In the distance without any distance. The comets, the stars.” At other times, listening to Image Language is more like being in a theater, the composition a tangle of flickering forms and media that illuminate as best they can the darkness from which we experience it. On “Pieces of Sylvia,” a noirish orchestra drones and clatters beneath and around a montage of vocal images, stretching the listener across time, space, subjectivities. Atkinson says that Image Language is like the fake title of a fake Godard film. There is indeed something cinematic about Atkinson’s work—not cinematic in the sense that it sounds like the score for someone else’s film, but cinematic in the sense that it produces its own images and language and narratives, a kind of deliberate, dimensional world-building in sound.

Image Language is built from instruments recorded as if field recordings, sound-images of instruments conjured from a keyboard, instruments Atkinson treats like characters, what she calls “a fantasy of an orchestra that doesn’t exist.” And then, speaking of Godard, there are the monologues, operating as both experimental-cinematic device and a literary style of narration. Voice can be a writerly anchor or a wisp of a textural presence. Atkinson’s capacious and slippery speech plunges into and out of the compositional depths, shifting shapes, channeling the voices of any number of beings, subjectivities, or elements of her surroundings—not unlike her midi keyboard, able to speak as a vast array of instruments.

Image Language is an environmental record, in the vastest sense of the world. It is about getting lost in places imagined and real; it registers, too, the dizzying feeling of moving between such sites. It puts forth a concept of self that is hopelessly entangled with the rest of the world, born of both the ache of distance and the warmth of proximity.

— Thea Ballard, 02.2022

Image Language

Becoming a stone

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Becoming a Stone' (SP140)

STRONGBOW

VARIOUS ARTISTS 1
(DAWNTAPE001)
50 TAPES

PHOTOS : LEILA RICHOU
DESIGN : HAJJ
MASTERED BY : YAKOV
TRANSFERED BY : LORENZO TARGHETTA

Silvia Kastel - Heart To Tape I

Available through the honorable houses of HJ and HW!

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From the LP "Velocity of Sleep" co-released with XKatedral 2017

Kali Malone "1113"

This is track ONE on THE BLACK BOOK which is a 3 LP comp of stuff we love, and compiled to celebrate 20 years of iDEAL, ok? Its here rather soon. But we needed to share this with you tonight. Cover design by Philip Marshall.

JASSS - PARENTAL YOUTH (from "THE BLACK BOOK" IDEAL175 3xLP compilation)

Digital / vinyl available here:

alteredtapedstates.bandcamp.com/album/fro…the-wazir

Taken from AST100: 'From The Bottom Of The Earth To The Top Of The Wazir' 12" compilation.

I released Tarquin’s first solo tape (as Static Cleaner Lost Reward) years ago before he went on to international stardom on the highly coveted Blackest Ever Black roster. In all seriousness, Tarquin is a phenomenal multi-instrumentalist and a rare genuine voice who often goes under-appreciated in Australia. His work with partner, Ying-Li Hooi evokes the dream-like quality of HTRK (a lazy comparison), but maintains their own subtle edges. Ying’s own solo work is similarly difficult to contain and I look forward to seeing where both their paths lead, together and individually.

Tarquin Manek & Ying-Li Hooi - The Smoke In Your Eyes

Music for Serge Modular, inspired by Maryanne Amacher's music and research. 

PLEASE USE SPEAKERS, NOT HEADPHONES.

Perceptual Geography (excerpt)

Taken from Kallista Kult's self-titled debut release. Out August 26, 2019 on A Colourful Storm.

Pre-order vinyl and digital: https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/album/kallista-kult

Kallista Kult

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Nika Son
To Eeyore
LP (E249)

“Esel Und Gespenst”

Cat listening to music
(Chris Marker)

Nika Son is a Hamburg-based artist, owl, 
and veteran Golden Pudeler.

Mastered by Yves De Mey

Co-published with Stellage [stellage.store]

To Eeyore

Nika Son (E249; 2020)

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

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