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Cette modeste sélection est moins garnie en nouveautés cette semaine, mais ce n'est probablement qu'une partie remise avant d'être à nouveau ensevelis de sonorités improbables prochainement. Bonne écoute !
www.boulimiquedemusique.net

Parutions | 27 janvier 2017

Holy Mountain Records NEWS 01 2017

The new album 'Spaces' out now on CD/2xLP/Digital via Erased Tapes.

EU order link: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP055
US order link: http://www.midheaven.com/item/spaces-by-frahm-nils-cd

9/10 Drowned In Sound · 9/10 Clash · 4.5/5 Fact · 4.5/5 Resident Advisor · 9/10 Popmatters · 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit · 8.5/10 Under The Radar · 8/10 Exclaim! ★★★★1/2 Music Omh · ★★★★ The Irish Times · ★★★★ Arts Desk

‘Frahm truly excels’ 9/10 Uncut 
‘Frahm works his magic’ ★★★★ Mojo
‘The infinite elasticity of sound’ 7.8 Pitchfork 
‘Improvisatory, wild, heartfelt’ Interview Magazine
‘A fantastic record’ The Guardian Album of the Week 
‘Frahm creates something mesmerising’ ★★★★ The Observer
‘My favourite new piece of music this year’ Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

erasedtapes.com · nilsfrahm.com

Spaces

Says

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Nils Frahm - Says

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Abiogenesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Just_Called_to_Say_I_Love_You

104. Stevie Wonder "I Just Called To Say I Love You" (1984)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(Kenny_G_composition)

109. Kenny G "Songbird" (1986)

Shaded Explorations #002 - Soundscapes For Escape Vol. 2
Limited Double Cassette VA in an handmade cover.
Out 2 march 2015.

A side:
As Patria - Belisama
Antonio Vázquez - Nebenan
Ntogn - Träl

B side:
Shaded Explorer - Förlorat Småstad
Fjäder - Vingar
Gigi Masin - Vienna

C side:
Commodity Place - Tentacle Rape
DiY Project - #01
Deison - Subsurface

D side:
Claudio PRC - Zona D'Ombra
Mørk - Resonant Mutism
Tom Adams - North

© 2015 Shaded Explorations [SE#002]
Mastered at Evasion Room Studio
Photo by Matteo Spangaro

VA - Soundscapes For Escape Vol. 2 [SE#002] Preview

Fund/preorder here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alex-kozobolis-weightless#/

Weightless is an EP of intricate original piano compositions by UK artist Alex Kozobolis. With a series of solo releases over the past few years and collaborations with artists such as Lee Chapman, Harry Edwards, and Anna Rose Carter, Weightless represents Alex's unique approach to composition and melody. 

His touch on the piano is light and fluid; moving between dense sustained runs, which evaporate as soon as they are heard, to spaciously plotted notes. Weightless is the sound of weight itself lifting, of the earthly effect of gravity removed and allowing the listener to be suspended within mid-air, uninterrupted by pressures and restrains of the physical world. Coursing with energy, and running to take flight.

Each of the four tracks have been remixed by Siavash Amini, Tom Adams, Trnspt and Hedia, with very different, but cohesive results, expanding the tone of the EP into new areas.  

Weightless will be available on limited clear vinyl, digipack CD and digital editions.

Tracklist 

Side A
1. Unravel
2. Closure
3. And Find Yourself
4. Weightless

Side B
1. Weightless (Tom Adams Remix)
2. And Find Yourself (Siavash Amini Remix)
3. Closure (Hedia Remix)
4. Unravel (Transept Remix)

Closure by Alex Kozobolis

Excerpt from Taku Sugimoto 'Mada' released in an edition of 100
on caduc.  
Performed by:
Ryoko Akama : Electronics and Piano
Cristián Alvear : Guitar
Cyril Bondi : Harmonium and Percussions
D'incise : Bowed Metals and Electronics

design by: d'incise

more information at www.caduc.org


Taku Sugimoto - Mada (performed by Ryoko Akama, Cristián Alvear, Cyril Bondi, d'incise)

This track is dedicated to my Dad who passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Saturday, October 1st. He was 58.

I had originally meant this as a bonus track to be included in the tape release of Healer, and had named it Sleep Now because that's what the music made me think of. But since Saturday, both the track and the name have taken on a completely different meaning to me.

The photo is a polaroid selfie of him from the late 80's, when he was working the US with the hope of bringing my Mom and I over from Poland to North America.

Rest In Peace Dad

Sleep Now (for Dad)

Object Of Projection from the album Cruel Optimism by Lawrence English. Coming Feb 2017.

Cruel Optimism

Object Of Projection

Lawrence English - Object Of Projection

Vergers is Davachi's third full-length release following Barons Court (2015, Students of Decay) and Dominions (2016, JAZ Records), and her second appearance with Important Records following 2014's August Harp cassette on the Cassauna imprint. 

In this work, she meditates on a single electronic instrument, the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer, while also weaving sparse acoustic elements – her own voice and violin – into a series of three long-form, muted gestures.

Elements of distance and alienation are certainly at play in the textural quality of these compositions, a feeling that is further defined by track titles that reference the spirit world and an album title that calls to mind the solitary tasks of the church orderly.

The record opens with the aptly titled, Gentle So Gentle, a side-long movement that harkens the glacial character of Davachi's previous efforts. Ghosts And All and In Staying suggest a more disjointed path, with the latter culminating in a subtly dissonant dirge that leaves little absolve between the organic, the artificial, and the impermanent.

Vergers

Sarah Davachi - Ghosts And All - from Vergers LP - IMPREC442

Artist: William Basinski
Title: For David Robert Jones (excerpt)
Album: A Shadow In Time
Release Date: January 20, 2017

Pre-Order:  temporaryresidence.com/products/trr278

World-renowned as one of experimental music's most vital and impressionistic composers of the past few decades, William Basinski’s tape loop works have been especially influential, particularly on the historic series, The Disintegration Loops, where distorted, orchestral tape samples burrow deep into the listener's psyche through meditative repetition. On his new album, A Shadow In Time, Basinski plunges deeper than ever for the plaintive, solitary eulogy to David Bowie, aptly titled “For David Robert Jones.” Conversely, the title track, “A Shadow In Time,” is a subtle, celestial escalation of melody and drone. The result is one of the most truly transcendent pieces of music he has ever committed to – or wrung from – tape.

William Basinski – For David Robert Jones (excerpt)

Sangam - Fading

Cemeteries is the solo project of Kyle J. Reigle, whose music blends dream pop with goth rock, a combination that he refers to as goth pop. 

A product of his Buffalo, New York environment, he recorded his debut album over the course of six months in the guest bedroom of his apartment, looking to the music of David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, vintage horror films, and some nearby wooded areas for inspiration. 

A gloomy but visually arresting video by Nolan Wilson Goff was tied to the title track of 2012's The Wilderness, which was appropriately released in late October. 

Visit:
https://speakinghorrors.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Cemeteries-165073953520531/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cemeteries/id551221684

Barrow

Cemeteries - Sodus

Boat horns in the port of Piraeus on 6 january celebrations.

Epiphany (Theophania) - Boat Horns in Piraeus Port, Greece- January 2017

Berghain residents Ben Klock and Marcel Dettmann link back to Ostgut Ton’s label launch in 2006 with their first studio collaboration in ten years and the extended Phantom Studies, on occasion of the one hundredth O-TON 12“ EP release.

With Phantom Studies Dettmann | Klock channel their first joined releases Dawning (2006) and Scenario (2007) from over a decade ago with their first co-production in ten years. On this extended, 40-minute 2x12" EP Marcel Dettmann and Ben Klock parlay their deep personal alliance and musical repertoire through emphasis on new functional Techno as much as hypnotic, melodic and soulful music by thinking outside the box. The seven new, original tracks reflect these attributions by communicating to the needs and expectations of both DJs and home audio listeners, but not neglecting one over the other.

Tracklisting 2x12":
A1. Phantom Studies (8:49)
B1. No One Around (4:34)
B2. The Room (4:48)
C1. Prophet Man (6:47)
C2. Bad Boy (4:02)
D1. The World Tonight (5:55)
D2. The Tenant (4:09)

release date: 27 January 2017

More information:
http://hundert.ostgut.de
&
ostgut.de/label/record/189

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Dettmann | Klock | No One Around

from 'Continental Ruins' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den274
available on all formats at [https://denovali.com/multicastdynamics]

Finland-based Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. Following on from 2014-2016's praised album quadrilogy, Multicast Dynamics releases his new "Continental Ruins" LP on Denovali Records. Inspired by decayed infrastructure, Samuel van Dijk reveals his sound documentary about sunken cities and continents.  A study on storytelling with sound, where electronic music acts as a verb, moved by images and narratives.

„Continental Ruins“ LP is a journey through washed out, blurred particles, gliding across the ungraspable seafog of the atlantic, transforming the visible into sound. The murky and desolated atmosphere throughout the tracks reflects an forgotten utopia of places that were once populated. Unfolding fallen structures, immersing into the elusive, submerged land, searching for signs of life in the lost memories of faded civilizations, Multicast Dynamics explores ultrasonic underwater communication, decodes messages and browses through the archive of the past.

Written and produced with analogue synthesizers, arcane effect units and manipulated field-recordings, finally sequenced with the computer and mixed using temperamental analogue mixers. "Continental Ruins" LP is a slow horizontal panning, gliding through frames of sounds, creating textures and layers with unobtrusive rhythms. Samuel van Dijk delivers a calm and organic sound journey, resting on gloomy swirls and hidden artefacts. Artwork by T. van Dijk.

Multicast Dynamics - Frequency Modulation

Denovali