CalArts Alumni Artists

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Canticles of the Sky: Sky With Four Suns

Dark Wind

Inuksuit: PT.V Excerpt

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Sunken Gamelan (Excerpt) from Ilimaq

from the fourth Natura Morta album, "Environ"

-Frantz Loriot (viola)
-Sean Ali (bass)
-Carlo Costa (drums/percussion)

Released on Neither/Nor Records, 2017.

To purchase, please visit:https://neithernorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/environ

Natura Morta: "Pulvis"

Gary Rouzer - cello, living room sofa.
Photo - drawing for wall hanging by Anni Albers 1925.

My living room sofa provided an accompaniment to cello lines that float above in conversation with an imaginary house guest.

cello recorded and mixed 4/23/17

Cello mit Sofa

Sean Ali & Ben Gerstein (turntable, cassettes, radio, mp3 players, cell phones, speakers, stereo system, digital voice recorder)

Recorded in NYC on 9/21/17.

Samsara: 9/21/17 (first half)

xin "To Shock The Sky And Shake The Earth (SUB025)
Vinyl & digital: https://xxxiiinnn.bandcamp.com/album/to-shock-the-sky-and-shake-the-earth

To Shock the Sky and Shake the Earth is a process of searching. It sees the Berlin-based artist navigating spaces between conventions, cultures, pressures and sounds. This informs their decision to release the EP through Resonate and a handful of independent platforms.

On this decision, xin says:

“I don’t believe that there should be one way to do anything, or in convention for convention’s sake. I’ve been thinking a lot about the ethics of making and releasing music, and trying to find less harmful ways of being in the world.”

This statement points towards growing dissatisfaction around independent music’s reliance on corporate monoliths, from Facebook to Spotify. xin's decision is made as one gesture in a much broader, quickly-evolving discourse.

xin’s particular approach is also evident in their production, which lacks consistent genre signifiers for listeners to grab ahold of. Tracks such as ‘Black Light Blind Fire’ and ‘Sucker’ lean on dance music’s lexicon, while ‘Aedes Splatter’ is comprised of shudders, sputters and hums. 'To Shock the Sky and Shake the Earth' is an unusual synthesis of varied sounds.

http://subtextrecordings.net/

To Shock the Sky and Shake the Earth

Black Light, Blind Fire

Vinyl & digital

xin - Black Light, Blind Fire

Composed and recorded in Bandung, October 2017
Mixed in Montreal and Milan May 2018.
comes with a photo-zine, available on Haunter Records bandcamp.

https://heith.bandcamp.com/merch/sangkakala-malaikat

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