City & i.o - Chaos is God Neighbour [APP005]

01. Desolate Revenant (06:39)
02. Breach (06:27)
03. Omnistack (06:23)
04. Catacomb (05:38) [with Dis Fig]
05. Descendant Cross (05:28)[with x/o]
06. Bleak Chain (05:13) [with x/o]
07. Unkind (04:44) [with Dis Fig]
08. Bomb-blasted Stack (03:52) [with vvilms]
09. Atlatica (03:24)
10. Circling Orc (03:07)
11. Temprorare (02:22)
12. Marrow (02:20)
13. -20+20-20+20-20+20-20 (02:10)
14. Granular Heater (01:34)

Total running time: (59:59)

City & i.o are:
AW — Audio engineering, synth
FC — Vocals, accordion
MP — Drums, guitar, sampler
VX — Vocals, strings
WB — Guitar, synths, piano

Tracks 4 & 7 written by Dis Fig
Track 5 & 6 written by x/o, City & i.o
All lyrics written by the vocalists
Additional production on track 5 by Aaron Wharton
Track 8 features an extensive sample of an untitled piece by vvilms

Artwork by John Blanche
Additional artwork, design, and Tortured Cybernetic Abomination logo by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Sigil by Julian Butterfield
Mastered by Aaron Wharton

City & i.o are from British Columbia, Canada.

Chaos Is God Neighbour

City & i.o - Marrow

Available now: https://displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/map-to-sanctuary-2

An album written over the course of 2021 for the DISPLAY subscription, now made available for everyone :)

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Written, recorded, and mastered by Sangam & Kid Smpl
Recorded in cyberspace throughout the year of 2021
Artwork & design layout by Joey Butler AKA Kid Smpl
Special thanks to all the DISPLAY subscribers

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Sangam & Kid Smpl - Memory Build 02

"HOLO is a differential pattern of becoming. 


Situated in a space only accessible through listening; valuing nonhuman forms of knowing and being. HOLO is a series of cuts, punctures, boundaries enacted after ‘listening’ to the agency of sound - momentarily stabilizing phenomena, performing the world. We are speaking to each other, creating our own patterns of difference. Of course, there is something lost in translation and that's what is produced. The ‘song' is a spine to which both the sound and I are threaded. "
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Tommy Murter - Splitting A Stone In Two

Deliquescent spheres orbiting in a void of golden shimmer
Opening one transfers you to a field of untouched lantanas and amaranths
Watching them makes you dream of a sun rising to its zenith
Tonight there was a fire, which burned like the last remaining stars

Mastered by Joni Juden
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

Murrettumeri - My Fire Is Blue

Young Link - The Halls Of Mandos

Under the moniker Kagami Smile, Ryan Hill has explored a world of recordings, reminiscent of bursting, shoegaze-inspired electronic music. Via string of releases for Opal Tapes, Dream Catalogue and Forgot Imprint, Hill’s bodies of work have formed a cohesive yet sprawling practice of explorative composition, bringing together powerful flashes of broken techno beats colliding with melancholic ambiences.

On their latest album ‘Floating Underneath’, Kagami Smile builds on a foundation laid on their previous releases - amped and roaring drones & distorted kicks, which constitute a wall of sound concurrently hypnotic and deeply affective. Complementing its thematic outlines of romanticism and sentimentality, ‘Floating Underneath’s’ long-form compositional approach is an invitation to dream, sink, ebb and flow.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Ryan Hill
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

Kagami Smile - Dream Sense

"Soulthorns / The Seeker (…)Each of the bramble entities detached itself from the mass and began to plunge their hands into the murky waters all around. The ground shook with the rhythm of their arm movements, creating halos of white embers. Immense plants sprang up from the depths, forming incomprehensible structures. A sort of translucent flow was running through those plants, similar to human veins, giving those structural architecture something mysthical. As passed through the scene, the central mass of light seemed to recede. Ominous lyrical harmonics resonate more clearly through the huge holes surrounding it. As it touched the light, A deep nothingness appeared all around. A deep growing intensifies under the feets until grumbling while everything were still dark.
Appeared then such as a mirror in front, a stream of water. It slowly intensify drop by drop. Suddenly the face of a woman revealing through the water, as if frozen across the centuries. Only her face stood out, slowly revealing the rest of her body was spread out over several meters of intertwined brambles and fir branches, giving an opressive confusion of her real proportion. After a minute as long as a year, her eyes opened, revealing a striking colour. Her gaze darted forward and a root tore through the water with a tremendous roar. The swarm then devoiced and through the torrent of branches an artefact took shape. A dagger of obsidian, ochre black that only the glowing light of those eyes could reveal. Plunging the blade through the water, the woman disappeared in a thousand seconds and with a blink of an eye, blood poured from the hand handling the knife. It only took a second again to see the knife disappearing like ash, flooding the bloody mud of incandescent embers whispering words. This knowledge revealed to be unseekable for any drowsy mind. This unexplored part of the dream remind tormented, like a continuous pyre of memories consuming the roots."

Tustance est fier de vous présenter le troisième album de l'artiste français Holyld ! Un an après son opus précédent intitulé "Lore Synd", Holyld continue de développer son univers unique avec "Soulthorns". 

"Soulthorns" est toujours connecté dans l’univers éthérique des autres albums, avec une nouvelle « localisation » combinant dans une autre réalité, les souvenirs, rêves dark-fantaisistes et médiévals de Holyld. Le tout s’imbriquant dans le même lieu/espace temps.

L'album se développe sur 15 titres ambient et mélancoliques qui nous rappelle les meilleurs œuvres d'heroic fantasy modernes. Avec "Soulthorns", Holyld nous fait explorer des contrées inconnues et mystérieuses tout au long de l'album. Un voyage musical sincère et touchant que nous vous invitons à découvrir.

Tustance is proud to release the third album from french artist Holyld ! One year after his previous project "Lore Synd", Holyld continues to developp his own magic with "Soulthorns". The album contains 15 ambient and experimental tracks tinted with melancholia that reminds some of the best heroic fantasy adventures. With "Soulthorns", Holyld makes us exploring unknown and mystic landscapes trough the album. A sincere and stirring journey that we are proud to release.

Holyld - Idle Grove

Dark Ambience 1

220221 below

For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

FallingForward

@wallermusic & @iamxato

The sixth release of katharsis is the EP, “Collapse” by waller & xato, two electronic musicians based respectively in UK and Greece. In these strange times of quarantining and limited travelling options, the two artists demonstrate on the EP, how we can find unity and peacefulness in music in the midst of the chaos and collapse.

This peacefulness is very vivid in all the tracks of the album, from the feeling of floating on a pink sky of emotional on tracks like “Doubtful Mercy” and “Crie”, to the felling of the autumn sunlight streaming through the colourful leaves of the forest trees on “Komorebi”, or even the cold feeling of the forthcoming winter on “Arctic Wolf”

On the other hand, the unity is demonstrated through the high level of communicative collaboration needed to execute a work like this through the online exchange of ideas and project files, which has been a big theme in 2020. The two artists state the following about Collapse:

“The EP came together slowly and unintentionally over the last year and a half - what started as Waller building from an early xato work-in-progress turned into a stream of ideas being sent back and forth and eventually narrowed down into a 3-track EP. The whole EP was made by raw emotions through the connection between distortion, psychotic euphoric and nostalgic progressions”

Collapse

waller & xato - Crie

DISPLAY is a record label curated by @kidsmpl which aims to showcase long form musical explorations. Guest artists are asked to create original works with a single constraint: a 10 minute+ run time.

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