I made this piece during the winter months when I spent most of my days alone, digging into archives, collecting some forgotten scraps from old tape loops together and melting them with what felt present at the time, those soundscapes that vibrate most beautifully in deep silence.

It consists of two parts - one corresponding to the setting process, the other to resetting, it tells story of leaving traces and covering them up.

Trace had its very first premiere on May 6 at Rewire festival.

Trace

Conceived as an ecotonal space where the multiple sonic reinterpretations of the composition can converge, we are pleased to present the first compilation of EKŌ, a platform inspired by the essence of the spatial and acoustic propagation of rhythmic and experimental phenomena. Which seeks to share through this selection different ideas and creative sensibilities around experimental dancefloor. Where it is sought that, through the value of sharing in equitable and diverse ways, it is motivated to generate changing, thinking and sensitive spaces from, to and with what happens in the world and on the dance floor.

EKŌ baste together and puts in dialogue the personal universes of each creator in this compilation, also as a presentation of what EKŌ is and intends to generate, allowing us to access those meeting points that occur beyond the physical.

Enjoy, dance, share love and music.

Vica Pacheco - Obelisco

'MN4 INNER PRAY' LP by Vina Konda on Lyon-based Dill Dodos Recife.
Christian Clavierish new age, just for when you quit acting Jacquouille to leave space to Asterix.

DDR004 OUT ON MAY 18 - TRANSLUCENT-GREEN VINYL:
https://dilldodosrecife.bandcamp.com/album/mn4-inner-pray

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from KR107: SARA PERSICO - Boundary 
EP out on march 10th 2023 as lim. ed. tape / DL

Boundary

SARA PERSICO - Boundary

Rupert Clervaux and HMOT - Zum F/F

@axine-m - 'Prehistoric-Groove-Slip' off of 29 Speedway: Channel Plus

Full compilation featuring trax by Xen Model, tofudj, Dekalb Works, AshTreJinkins, pent, K Wata, Ex Wiish, Special Guest DJ, LXV, Cajm, btw, J. Albert, Windowseeker, Opheliaxz, Axine M, Relaxer, and Ben Bondy

Mastered by @ex-wiish

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Axine M - Prehistoric-Groove-Slip

With 𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶𝒀 𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑰𝑹, we are introduced to Bride's wondrous sonic vocabulary.

Awash with dissociative and hallucinatory layers of pastoral noise and dreamlike ambience, an eerie tone embeds itself in the forefront of your pineal gland. The dramaturgy present in the compositions of 𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶𝒀 𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑰𝑹 assumes a psychedelic modulation of space within the recordings, lodging itself in your mind's eye. Loops of ominous orchestral manipulations create vision trails as they thunder against the collapsing of coastal geologies. Your forearm veins go cold as the muscles in your legs grow shaky and numb, sinking into the blankets, unable to discern any depth of field in the auditory realm. Slowly your body detaches from your skeleton, your nerves and veins lift from the flesh, and your soul leaves your eyes... rising to hover above your bed.

Here, the atomized Self is engulfed by the washes of 𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶𝒀 𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑰𝑹, in both reverie and anguish. Piece by piece, your body re-congeals and you have returned, staring towards the ceiling and feeling the blood coursing back into your arms and legs. White and pink noise whip by you like cold wet air, flitting between somber angelic undertones. You are outside with your shoes off, feeling the cold night grass between your toes.

Bride adds a new marker to their hermetically-hewn environment with 𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑶𝒀 𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑰𝑹, resulting in an unmistakably masterful statement for the artist. 

releases January 25, 2023

Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

ALLOY CHOIR

Bride - CHOIR HEALTH (ENXPL17)

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English)
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.

Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.

An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine
Photography by Rana Ghose
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima's Poplar

Kino - Jeden

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

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Chemical Flowers 

HELM - Leave Them All Behind (PAN 99)

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Tracklist:
01 Pop Msuik
02 Natures bezt
03 Scratch!dvd
04 5thelem

All profits to be donated to www.rainforest-alliance.org

Releases February 1, 2021

Music written & produced by Lawrence Fergus Goodwin
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

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