Taken from @benbondy 's self-titled cassette, out 4/20/2022 on Quiet Time.

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Ben Bondy - The Only Part of You I Ever Really Needed

Slowfoam & Neilll -  Playing With Sublimity

KATELYN CLARK & MITCH RENAUD, Ouroboros, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2406
Ltd. vinyl / digital
Release date: 04.04.2025

On Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud's »Ouroboros,« astronomical and astrological phenomena, concepts and symbols such as the Great Year or the Eternal Return serve as the starting points for sonic explorations and experimentations. Focusing on a uniquely tempered range of frequencies, from low-end drone rumbles to airy pipe swirls, the duo develops a minimalist and highly evocative sonic universe on their debut album for Hallow Ground.

Working as composers, improvisers and curators in Canada's vibrant experimental and early music scenes, Clark and Renaud began developing »Ouroboros« through extensive improvisation with a reduced setup. Clark, who has worked extensively with historical keyboards since her studies in Amsterdam and Siena, played a small pipe organ modeled after a 14th-century instrument while Renaud brought a modular synthesizer and his interest in feedback systems to the collaboration. Later, the duo further refined their artistic dialog and the sonic interactions of the two instruments through the shared space of a two day recording session in Vancouver. Subtle crackling, acoustic beating and other (psycho-)acoustic effects in five pieces document this encounter, giving the music a profound physicality while hinting at the bodily presence of the two collaborators.

Just as the cyclicality of natural phenomena or the repetition of planetary movements is both a scientific fact and of the cultural imaginary, the sound worlds of »Ouroboros« are fundamentally rooted in time and space while transgressing the idea of a »here and now« through their conceptual links to geological and planetary time. The interplay of portative organ and modular synthesizer, which merge fluidly and in ever-changing ways, leads to a kind of circularity, a timelessness, a no-time. At the same time, the movements and subtle changes undermine the idea of repetition in the negative sense. After all, the Eternal Return, as Gilles Deleuze writes in regard to Nietzsche, is not the return of the same but a repetition of repetition. The only constant is change, the production of new intensities, of new forms of life – and of new frequencies.

Credits:
Music by Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud
Recorded and mixed by Aaron Klassen at Monarch Studios in Vancouver
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Artwork by Laurin Huber

Ouroboros

Katelyn Clark & Mitch Renaud - Ouroboros (HG2406)

C.Lavender
"Rupture in the Eternal Realm"
CD ltd 200

On her third full-length album, C. Lavender delves into her
experience with a profoundly impactful Buddhist meditation
centered in the sacrifice of the self as a source of liberation.

“Rupture in The Eternal Realm” is a musical reinterpretation and
compendium to C. Lavender’s experience studying the Tibetan
Buddhist meditation practice known as chöd. The practice
traditionally involves musical instruments including drums
(ḍamaru), trumpets (kangling), bells and chanting. Rather than try
to recreate the practice's musical ritual, C. Lavender used it as a
point of departure for reflecting on her inner connection with the
meditation, one which she continued to dive into throughout the
pandemic. The song titles are taken from lines within the
traditional chöd chant, which is akin to a musical composition and
serves as a visualization guide throughout the meditative process.
“Rupture in The Eternal Realm” creates a new paradigm in the
grand tradition of women electronic music composers such as
Laurie Anderson, Éliane Radigue, and Pauline Oliveros connecting
forward-thinking music with Buddhist principals.

The album features recordings made on Buchla 200 synthesizer,
Haken Continuum, gongs, voice, brainwave modulating tones, EVI
and field recordings from the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
Buddhist temple in Woodstock, NY.

released June 12, 2024

Cover design: Robert Beatty
Mastering: Taylor Deupree

C. Lavender - Melt Into Light

From the album "New Environments & Rhythm Studies" - out on June 27th .
andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/new-en…ythm-studies

Fabulation For K

From A Thousand Strings LP (Discrepant, 2024)

More info at www.discrepant.net

A Thousand Strings

Tiago Sousa - A Thousand Strings (from A Thousand Strings LP, CREP108)

Following a run of chamber recordings, Samuel Reinhard returns with a suite of electroacoustic collages. 

"Movement", the New York–based composer’s latest offering, is built from notes softly held. In his ongoing investigation of musical duration, perception, and attention, Reinhard deemphasizes progress through an embrace of repetition and negative space, inviting listeners to linger in time. Instrumental recordings are arranged according to a predetermined system, iterating fragments of sound in overlapping intervals of various sizes. Delicately layered snippets of decaying piano are joined by cello (Leila Bordreuil), bass flute (John Also Bennett), double bass (Vincent Yuen Ruiz), baritone sax (Michael Biel), and harp (Shelley Burgon). This breadth of instrumentation, arriving as individual notes stretched and overlapped, is treated not as an opportunity for immersive coalescence, but rather a gentle augmentation of texture, free-floating counterpoint. Notes are accompanied by the traces of the bodies and actions that produce them: a hand pressing a key or an arm keeping a bow aloft; breath filling an instrument’s body or glancing off its surface; a string vibrating and then softening to stillness. In sum, we hear resonance in the process of being sustained, as well as in the release that follows.

Movement is a joint release from Hallow Ground and Präsens Editionen, and follows offerings by Kali Malone, Lawrence English, and FUJI||||||||||TA  on Hallow Ground, and Robert Turman, Magda Drozd, and Anna Homler on Präsens Editionen.

Samuel Reinhard - No. 1

Гільдеґарда

Heinali & Andirana-Yaroslava Saienko - Zelenaia Dubrovonka

Erik M. - Soft Wish (Kora005)

Pre order digital & vinyl: https://erikm1.bandcamp.com/album/soft-wish

W&P: Erik M.
Mastered by: Stephan Matthieu
Art Direction: Simon Børresen
Distributed by: Rubadub

Soft Wish

Erik M. - Soft Wish (Kora005)

ROKU043 - Evan Parker & Bill Nace "Branches" [sample]

@ninjaexoticmachine (@matteocoffetti x @kakofonico)

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 - 𝕄𝕒𝕟𝕒 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕕𝕖 - OUT JUNE 10
Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/mana-verde

_______VAI A CASA, SEI UBRIACO!
Bamboo Shows presents today the fourth and final opus of its 'vai a casa, sei ubriaco!' cassette series focusing on sunitty, an Italian reinterpretation of Fourth World Music through the prism of the world wide web.


_______ NINJA EXOTIC MACHINE – MANA VERDE
Amongst all the Italian encounters Bamboo Shows made over the years, here come Matteo Coffetti and Kakofonico under their moniker Ninja Exotic Machine. The Turinese duo plays a key role in the development of sunitty, both with their different musical projects and the vanguard leftfield bass label Pho Bho Records they run with Tundra & Federico Spini.

With their ‘Mana Verde’ LP, Matteo Coffetti and Kakofonico recount the fanciful ‘legend of the Mana Verde Forest’, thus depicting their porous vision of electronic music. In this enchanted lands, wacky improvisation meets the syncopated rhythms of Riddim and Dancehall, post internet weirdeleria echoes with stretched vocals, and deep bass-lines bring the whole party to a contagious dancing mania.

‘Mana Verde’ is the final installment of the ‘vai a casa, sei ubriaco!’ series, extending this sunitty panorama from psychedelic ambient and folkloric noise to leftfield bass and post internet dancefloor materials. To be further explored in the dedicated mini-zine.


_______ MORE INFOS ABOUT ‘THE LEGEND OF THE MANA VERDE FOREST’
Mana Verde by Ninja Exotic Machine is a sonic folktale rooted in sunitty - a playful practice of microcomposition, digital folklore, and chaotic improvisation. Set in a mythical forest where junky elves, mucky rhythms, and wandering sounds collide, the album traces a surreal journey through ecstatic gatherings, collective metamorphosis, and lysergic communion.
Each track unfolds as a chapter in an ever-mutating mythology where the beat becomes a spell, nonsense reveals unexpected truths, identity dissolves into sound, and the forest itself learns to dance.

Credits :
Music and mastering by Matteo Coffetti & Kakofonico
Art generation by Sleek Fata
Cover and fanzine templates by Romain Guillo
Layout by Loïs Markarian

Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/mana-verde

Bandcamp

Ninja Exotic Machine - Mana Verde(Previews) [BSLP011]

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