Till Hurricane Bisect

Roadmaps on the palms
Braided, fold over
Where the shore meets the ebbing sea
Forever touching, forever adrift

Whispers of the history fade
Where the sea drapes waning waves
Only to retrace echoing trails
Abiding in ceaseless rims

Rooted in the fertile soil of hauntology, Amulet of Tears presents: 'Before We Melt into the Sea' - chimerical shreds of memoir.  Foraying intervals coiled in visceral resonance, which appear as abyssal, ancestral echoes of elusive moments, where the past unfolds in attendance, like a vapor that forbids to fade.  

Phantoms colliding to forge ahead for what’s to come or to drag us back into the shades of what we once were - enshadowed by imprints of past, present, and future, overlapped upon one another.

Before We Melt into the Sea

yolabmi - Styx

“[....]
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.

You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”

- excerpt of essay by Nick Klein, May 2024

Casio, guitars, bass, percussion, no-input mixer, synth, tapes, and voice by Ryan A Martin, recorded at Meadows of Dan & Cathedral II
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Ryan A Martin

Listener's Guide

Secret Boyfriend - Treil (ENMB-16)

Session #9 - Cesins

NEXCYIA - Pond
Ike Zwanikken - days under 
Pendent - 0XI-GKK 
A Visiting Link -  Link 1-8 
Gas - Pop 2
Biosphere - When I leave
Lndrcroy - Gamma Raymond 
MLO - Sleeper 
Khotin - Vacation (Almost Spam Free Mix) 
Ultrafog - Tears in the rain (Live Version)
Ultrafog - Lenexa (Live Version)
Lucas Dupuy - Sep
ASC - Loss

Rinse FM France for Electroménager

RinseFM France for Electroménager

Montalvo - Colle [TRU008]

New York, NY – Colle, the creative alias of experimental musician Maya McGrory, debuts her solo album 'Montalvo' on urtruimage.

Inspired by her childhood memories of Montalvo Rd., this compelling collection of songs offers a profound exploration of McGrory's past, and presents a narrative of multiple lives lived at once. The contrasting landscapes of her life provide a backdrop for her music, allowing her to find solace in the innocence and simplicity of childhood. Emphasising the ephemeral nature of life, she embraces a flow that reflects the worries of her past and the allure of even the harshest conditions.

Her album invites listeners into immersive emotional landscapes; characterised by expansive glacial synths and strings, while trip-hop and shoegaze-inspired beats push her music into an experimental realm of electronic indie-rock, all enhanced by her sincere and captivating vocal delivery.

What began as a return to a specific time in her life evolved into a journey back to traditional songwriting, reimagined into an experimental vision during the production of Montalvo. For Colle, the process is less about distance and more about rediscovery—reclaiming the innocence and wonder that continue to influence her today.

Album Credits -

Mixed by Shane Lavers (Chanel Beads): Silent But For Joy, Green Edge, Day You Told Me, A Real Atone, Winter Garden

Mixed by Issac Eiger (Threshold): Held By You

Mastered by Rob Venning (DJ Pitch) excl. Winter Garden

Mastered by Ben Shirken: Winter Garden

Violin Credits to Zachary Paul: Winter Garden

urtruimage; run by Sophia Mannerfelt, Robert Venning (DJ Pitch)

Plea and Luck

Bride is a Berlin-based experimental noise musician and sound artist, constructing allegories within harsh and dissonant environments to embrace a grating vehemence, often with a focus on controlled feedback. 

This mix is a tapestry of unreleased material recorded over the past year collective in their unison of entropy vs control. With a few other tracks from artists I admire.

Tracklist:
Bride - Prelude
SPK - Invocation (To Secular Heresies) 
Bride - unreleased
Bride - unreleased
Altar of Flies - Under vår livstid
Bride - unreleased
Bride - unreleased
Knurl - Inosine
Bride - unreleased
Exome - A Forest of Nails
Bride - unreleased

BLANK #19 - by Bride

@keyfell
i was thinking about a cowboy (this boy that i like), 
and a ballroom sort of like in beauty and the beast, 
and little flickers of light dancing around a sleeping figure,
many other fairy guests.
spiralling towers of mud made by mud sprites.

Spirit Theatre #56 - mud sprite (umki, December 2024)

no auto 444jett

DEr EXoRZzIsT⛧ - EMerGeNcy

A collection of fantasy inspired ambient soundtracks that set the perfect atmosphere for a post apocalyptic world infested with walking corpses only hungering for human flesh, hear the zombies moan outside as you cower in your safe zone


2 - Phat Phrog Studios - Fantasy Collection -  Zombie Apocalypse Ambience

Moscow based group of music enthusiasts and small radio hub.

Session #9 - Cesins

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