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"refractor"

໘̢̱ͣᣄ̷̢̹̈ͧᶋ̷̵̟̱̺͓ͧͭͩ⃧͂̾̓͘͟͜͠ ̶ͥͣ͑͜͏ↅ̸̢͔͑͂́̀́͟ℵ̧̛̣͊̓̆͡≁̨̧̦̫͙̓ͥ̑͜∶̶̫̗̖̾̒ͭ͘͘∶̼̉͝ ̋̋͌̓͏̧̭̤̀͝ ⟪refractor⟫

Artist: NTsKi
Album: Orca
Format: Digital / Vinyl / CD on EM Records Japan
Release: Aug 6, 2021

NTsKi is a Kyoto-based artist, musician. She began making music while living in the UK and began working in earnest in 2017 after returning to Japan. She works seamlessly to create tracks with gentle but somewhat eerie vocals and a mixture of diverse musicality. In 2021, she was selected by Bijutsu Techo as one of the newcomer artists who will open up the 2020s. Her collaboration with 7FO, released through EM Records, was selected as one of the best of the year by Shintaro Sakamoto. In addition to her self-produced works, she has participated in the works of Giant Claw, CVN, Shokuhin Matsuri a.k.a foodman, Dengaryu, KM, etc., and has released through overseas labels including TAR and Orange Milk. Also, she has contributed music to the Japan Pavilion hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at SXSW 2019, where Yoichi Ochiai was the general director, virtual singer te'resa, and an Australian bag brand. On August 6th, 2021, her debut album "Orca" will be released via Orange Milk / EM Records. 

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Orca ~

Music & words by NTsKi, except “Parallelisme” by Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi 

All tracks produced by NTsKi, except track 3, 4, 5, 6 co-produced by Yem Gel, track 2 co-produced by Le Makeup, track 8 co-produced by Dan Shutt, track 10 produced by Giant Claw

Guitars on track 2 by Le Makeup, vocals on track 2 by Dove, vocal editing on track 6 by Hiroto Taniguchi, guitars and bass on track 9 by Yosuke Shimonaka

Track 1, 5, 8, 9 mixed by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi @ RDS Toritsudai 

Mastered by Rick Essig @ REM Sound NYC 

Visual art by Keith Rankin based on a montage by NTsKi

NTsKi - Plate Song

[surf023]

https://soundcloud.com/10u10u
https://www.instagram.com/itisillegaltobepoor/

🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️🏄🏾‍♀️
ⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶⒶ

limits join loulou ~ limits join fire

All songs by Jśa aka Jasia Rabiej @jsajsajsa
"567i" features vocals by Bella Ćwir @bellacwir
"In My Bag" features vocals by Ren G @grayren
"An Open Window" features lyrics and vocals by Billy Morgan
Mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork by Jasia Rabiej

Jśa – What Else

With a background in playing jazz and formative years of playing saxophone in a live band, Prague-based Ursula Sereghy stepped out of the hustle to focus, all while becoming a regular at the local Synth Library. A space where she found the support of the musically and politically like-minded and could nourish her newfound passion for experimenting with machines and exploring the limitless possibilities of sound design. An extensive period of voluntary detachment from everyday life during the pandemic gave rise to the stunningly confident debut album 'OK Box' fabricated by this dark horse of a producer.

Opening 'OK Box' reveals a truly multifarious microcosm. On her very first musical output, besides manipulated field recordings and widely used granular synthesis, Ursula draws wisely from her past musical practice as acoustic or synthesized samples of jazz instruments become the furtive common denominator of the record's sonic narrative. Circulation of the breath among the instruments chambers substitutes the streams of city dwellers flowing through the cramped city environment. With Ursula's entangled compositions, she creates the representation of revealing and embracing the intuitive connections of the experiences and thoughts with their mental and physical surroundings, at times leading the listener to melancholic placements, followed by moments of mischievous clarity and rational sentiment. But essentially, the longplay is a friendly ride following unusual mental maps and broadening the borders of the very cartographical ones, all with inconspicuous sideroad peeks of cheeky little creatures, still surveillance by destiny-bending spirits, and oversaturation of out-there emotional associations. Hang in there, you little civilians and slimy slugs alike. To cut a long story short - 'OK Box' houses a lively collection of warm-hearted and witty jams honoring the nature of reasonable escapism. 

Written & produced by Ursula Sereghy
soundcloud.com/ursulasereghy

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

G&P019 🎷

Ursula Sereghy - Lock Picking

‘1800-PARASOL’ is a collection of MIDI-centric trance pieces, concisely expressing Parasol’s foundational ideas on music-making. Born from a dissatisfaction with music technology tending towards digital or analogue extremes, it situates him within a new school of instrumental trance, alongside Himera, 500, 7038634357, and the “master of disappointment” Lorenzo Senni.

MIDI is Parasol’s obsession, and ‘1800-PARASOL’ is the result of him embracing its compositional potential. Like MIDI, ringtones are a communication protocol that transcend age and complexity, each revealing something transferable and personalisable. Leading by design, there is a feeling with each fragment that more should follow. Parasol has taken this prompt, and revealed a little of the world beyond each snippet.

Parasol strikes a careful balance between technicality and affect, generating interesting sequential variations using the limitations of MIDI and Ableton. Supersaws are juxtaposed with toy pianos, vocal chops, strings and modular synths, in moments of chaos that break away from MIDI’s neatness. Though drumless, the tracks are propelled by ultra-thin transients that punch through and create rhythmic interest.

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About the artist:

Parasol, aka Chuyi Wang (he/him), is an Eora/Sydney-based producer, radio host and MIDI enthusiast. He co-hosts the show Deep Web on FBi Radio with Krishtie Mofazzal, which “zeroes in on the frequencies originating from musical cyberspace, shining a spotlight on labels and releases that come from all corners of the internet." He recently made their debut on the compilation Mutants Mixtape #5: FREE, where his track ‘Jitterbug’ serves as the opening track, amongst contributions from Nicolas Jaar/Against All Logic, Giant Claw, Holly Herndon, Arca, Cecile Believe, and Matmos.

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Credits:

All tracks written, produced and mixed by Parasol.
Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio (www.angelhairaudio.com).
Artwork by Nat King.

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About Midheaven:

Midheaven operates on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands in Eora/Sydney. We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples as rightful owners of these lands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Midheaven Records is devoted to giving a platform to forward-thinking, mutative, compelling music. We will be releasing a slew of new work by emerging soloists, ensembles, and collaborations over the course of 2021, donating 10% of all proceeds from sales to Radio Skid Row, in support of community radio and grassroots organising.

Buy on Bandcamp

Parasol — Get To Heaven

instrumental is Damascus by @michaelenwright the visionary himself:))

further machinations with mikey inbound
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Hesiod
Will you come back again?
Famed you are, historian
Never will I still my pen
Never will I still my pen

Be the reason for its words
The word, the word, the word, the Word
Feel it gently scrape again
Time alone will blunt its edge

Time alone will blunt its edge

Coming to one’s senses
Easier to think than do
Gloria dei
Gloria dei  

I tapped all the biggest sources in the name of you
Longitude, maybe someday I’ll draw closer to truth

Before me the walls of Damascus
Meet my troubles with compassion
Pilgrim ask not what the task is
Meet the highest of the fashions

Keep this moment in your memories
Lest it fade away eventually
Turn your eyes to your contemporaries
We are all the same essentially

Forgive my indulgence baby you can have my spot in heaven
One kiss on your forehead is the price to have your sins forgiven 

I tapped all the biggest sources in the name of you
Longitude, maybe someday I’ll draw closer to truth

Hesiod
Will you come back again?
Famed you are, historian
Never will I still my pen
Never will I still my pen

Be the reason for its words
The word, the word, the word, the Word
Feel it gently scrape again
Time alone will blunt its edge

Time alone will blunt its edge

Thank You - EP

Mikey Enwright - Damascus (Sidelio Rework)

ISKRA DELTA log in. Morning teleport gives way to a rush of high dopamine emails and missed calls. Boardroom sound theme animates the hallways, kick-starting the processes of complex problem solving and multilayered global communication. The hyper-operation continues in the power-dancing zone, a standard procedure of declutterification of the corpo-mind with energetic-pop emotional engineering. The drones power up, and you’re off to the city. Swarming through the neon-lit tubes particles enter their mindful practice cubicles to generate some peace and quiet. Meanwhile, the gravity-elevator takes the authorised ISKRA DELTA care-squad to the top of the 112 floor highrise, a sanctuary for state-of-the-art technological artefacts that keep the brisk tempo of life going. In the simulation the sun rises again and nebula is refracted in the surface of the bio-digital city.

Provider of service: Nimaš Izbire for International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) and the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts.
34.bienale.si/en/
www.instagram.com/nimas_izbire/
www.instagram.com/mglcljubljana/

[Freely downloadable through the Buy button]
https://nimasizbire.bandcamp.com/album/iskra-delta-onboarding-soundscapes

Curated by Gabriele Steffe, Tjaša Pogačar & Dorijan Šiško
www.instagram.com/steffe_gabriele/
www.instagram.com/__tpp__/
Artwork by Dorijan Šiško
www.instagram.com/dorijansisko/
Additional mastering by Toyota Vangelis
www.instagram.com/toyotavangelis/

#iskradelta #34grafičnibienaleljubljana #34thljubljanabiennaleofgraphicarts #mglcljubljana

Tracks contributed by:
Galen Tipton (www.instagram.com/genderlessgenderfulgirl/)
Astrosuka (www.instagram.com/astrosuka/)
Petal Supply (www.instagram.com/petalsupplyco/)
Toyota Vangelis (www.instagram.com/toyotavangelis/)
Digitonica (www.instagram.com/digitonica_/)
Warrego Valles (www.instagram.com/warregovalles/)
Ascyth (www.instagram.com/900ascyth/)
msn gf (www.instagram.com/msn_gf/)
Himera (www.instagram.com/h.imer.a/)
Toiret Status (www.instagram.com/toiret_status/)
umru (www.instagram.com/umru/)
Torus (www.instagram.com/torvs/)
Princess Ketamine (www.instagram.com/princess_ketamine/)
Kristjan Kaluza (www.instagram.com/kristjankaluza/)

Himera - Alert Fall (Sound Schemes)

Parade - Marbre (Janvier 2022)

stream/buy digifae: https://songwhip.com/digifae/digifae
more demos: https://digifae.bandcamp.com/album/digifae-scrapbook-2019-22

Paper Knife diana's demo

The ambient backtrack for Theo Triantafyllidis' piece Genius Loci, originally premiered at an augmented reality takeover of The Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, FR. Full installation includes interaction sound design and ADR for the genius loci spirit by Isabel Watson.

Paper Knife diana's demo

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