Noumenon

@runningtracks
Voc samples: Helena Pulkkinen

The 22nd release of katharsis is the album “Jester” by the Finnish duo Running, coming out on May 16th. The album unfolds an emotional and mythological tale of an imaginary terrain in an alternate time and realm with the Jester as the protagonist. Throughout the eight tracks, the listener is presented with a sonic world of tragic, sadness, beauty and even comedy by the duo’s poignant style of melodious ambient compositions.

Running’s “Jester” follows their last album “For Us By Us”, released on the Finnish label True Aether in 2018. On this release, the group seem to thrive with a conceptual and almost narrative backdrop for their creative outpourings. As Running have earlier been known for their very energetic and experimental live-performances, and as both members have indulged musically in other projects spanning from hardcore punk to contemporary performance art, it will be exciting to see where the duo goes from here.

Jester

Crescentstar

Running - Crescentstar

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Bridget Ferrill & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, 'Metal Slug Sings' (2022). Courtesy Subtext Recordings.

From upcoming "Affixt Enactivist" Box Set.
Coming Out November 8th 2022.

Affixt Conatus

ANM050 Faithful — Fear 4 the worst

Xyal

FROM MAP OF THE MARSH EP FORTHCOMING 2023

COPSE

New Label | First Release | Split EP
Ltd edition of 120 tapes:
https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
A1: Hold Yr Tongue - Susu Laroche
A2: Hours - Susu Laroche
B1: Acid / Answered Prayer - Flora Yin Wong
B2: End - Flora Yin Wong

Susu Laroche / Flora Yin Wong - D001 EP (Clips)

Art by Nick Castonguay
Graphic Design by Kristian Spears
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina at See You Mastering
Curated by Thom Speakman
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Valeda - Promise

DEAR007

"Non Masse" is the new EP from Brussels-based artist and producer Apulati Bien.

After several notable releases on the Parisian label Promesses ("OO:NÉ", "RER TRACKS" & "Azone", jointly released on the Belgian label KRAAK), as well as his latest delivery "Exvivo" on Belgian imprint Cold Moss or via the duo XOLOT he forms with artist Vica Pacheco, navigating in a neo-futuristic aesthetic with glitch and experimental influences mixed with juke, footwork and more broadly bass music heritage, Apulati Bien explores this time new territories, devoid of preconceived forms and leaving more space to each element.

Recorded at the time of the finalization of his album "Azone" released in February 2022, with the will to proceed with a different method, even opposed to the one he knows, "Non Masse" (whose title is equivocal of the approach) is a more aerial object, with unquantified structures and sliding material, reflecting a feeling of "wanting to get out of (his) own mass", according to his words. A feeling certainly shared by many during the troubled period of the last two years, and which echoes a general desire for detachment, for withdrawal combined with a search for discovery in these overloaded times.

"Non Masse" is not however an object apart from Apulati Bien's discography, where we find the main elements of his music : futuristic references, glitch and digital contortions, which should not be approached as a light object but as a complex one, where the subtle details don't aim at diverting the attention, but on the contrary at nourishing a more global speech. The title "Alone Global" of one of the tracks is probably the most accurate definition of this project. 

Produced by @apulati-bien
Mastering by @allpass1
Artwork by @lilvica
Design by @myrtille-vandale & @guigiojiolua

12" LP // DIGI

Apulati Bien - Precog

never esprit

AP/MSM is the forthcoming album by Detroit-based producer Infant. 
Out on April 25 for Rest Now! available on free download and limited edition CD

Produced, mixed and mastered by @infaant
Artwork by Gianluca Lonigro ✶ www.gianlucalonigro.net
Distributed by Rest Now!  ✶ www.takearestnow.com

Recording and sampling are used to recognize and construct patterns from the mass of sonic material and associations present not only in the web’s archives, feeds, and stacks but in memory and personal history. 

Archive Poem was originally intended to be sourced entirely from digital fragments and ephemera found on the Internet Archive. During the development, material from a wide range of sources including social media, voice memos, field recordings, and midi composition has been added. At its core, the piece is an attempt to consciously digest the sonic material of the personal digital life. 

Midwestern sacred music is built from recordings of Catholic masses and contemporary Catholic hymns found primarily through YouTube. Its structure loosely mimics the form of Catholic liturgy. The piece is meant to act as both a critique of contemporary religious spaces and an attempt to transform the sonic material of these spaces into something genuinely personal and meditative.
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Apulati Bien - Precog

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