“Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.

Shrine (Still Life With Glass Bottle, Flower and Microphone)

Following on from the 2016 Korea Undok Group compilation LP Penultimate Press is proud to release the follow up, Senescence. Covering material recorded in the last two and a half years, this new cd comprises 50% works previously available on private tiny run cassettes and 50% works made for an abandoned lp. Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures.

Please note there has been zero mastering on this release as we wanted it to sound as shit as possible.

Fixed Ending

Sun Stands Still

From "Phones the Public"
Cassette
$6

http://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/phones-the-public/

Banana Head - Record For You

A1 - SECNA WÄVE
B1 - AMBR FLASHING LIGHT
B2 - X.TENS.BODY
B3 - ENTER.SOURCES

All tracks written & programmed by ESZAID
Mastered by Matt Colton
Mixed by Seuil

Sleeve & Obi by PAN THERA
Labels by Ethan Assouline

Out 25th of January 

© Collapsing Market - 2015

BUY 12" HERE

ESZAID _ €€€ EP (CLPM_R001)

Письмо 

Всё говорило что письмо 
придет. Спустившийся под вечер
паук на тихое окно
и там раскинувший становья,
и птица, снившаяся мне
до первых петушивных пригчей,
и три ромашки, что в подол
я с наговором ощипала...
Но почтальон не приходил
со станции в поселок дачный,
и мне не подали письма,
пропахшего нагретой кожей.

Sous l'orage de roses

from Zaumne - Emo dub
[CZSZ023]

https://czaszka.bandcamp.com/album/emo-dub

out 16th June

Zaumne -- Speak to me

First track of "A une Gorge" the debut album of Orgue Agnès (Sourdure - Clement Vercelletto and Èlg) 
Released by Three:Four Records, Standard In-Fi and A1000P
Recording and mix by Mim
Mastering by Julien Grandjean

Le Désert Est une Nonne - from "A une Gorge" LP

It makes less sense to say that Maths Balance Volumes formed in 2002 than to say that, since that year, they have been collapsing into something, again and again. Just as the three members fell together with no plan or allegiance to any style or genre, each track falls together as the broken pieces of songs and sounds meet to make a temporary and frightening whole. Things make their way into a Maths Balance Volumes song when they don’t or won’t work anymore, when they have escaped their owner, or hidden away where nobody is supposed to find them. When things fall together—when the wooden creaks and radio hisses gather for a minute alongside bass lines and melancholy voice—there is a beauty that sounds like it was made by nobody and for nobody.

The city of Mankato, Minnesota has been the steady gathering point for the band since its beginnings. Mankato had always provided an ominous backdrop: built on stolen Dakota land, the city was the site of the largest mass execution in US history, when 38 Dakota prisoners were hanged on in 1862 in a straightforward act of genocide. But in their music of the past twelve years, Maths Balance Volumes has made music in and of a hometown overshadowed and unsettled by its history, music for a world in which things have never been okay. Traditional American folk genres seep in at times, but never as the incarnation of a living popular culture—only as ghosts or unliving effigies.

A Year Closer tells us already in its title what its theme is: approaching death, time ticking away and getting closer with each track of the record. We are told in the first song that our protective mask isn’t working, warned by the storm clouds and a ticking bedroom clock in “Dark Skies.” We hear fears of death approaching in the sad words exchanged by lovers who see they will run out of time, or already have, as in “We Had Time” or the romantic lament of “When I Drink.” In “Work Last Monday,” all of life passes with cold automatism in an “office apartment,” as a narrator broods over early onset dementia, remembers the details of rituals for respecting the dead, and thinks of how a hole is opening up in reality itself. The singer of “Over the Hill” isn’t apparently afraid of growing older and becoming a “man,” but only leaks a few disjointed details of his plans for disappearing, collapsing, turning into a tree, and finding a home. “Angel of Mercy” tries to resurrect the Christian promise of a life after death, anxiously asking if anyone is up there waiting for us after the oblivion of this world. 

But these are just the moments when A Year Closer speaks in words clear and audible enough to be understood. The giddy, agitated voice of “The Price” speaks only to itself in a private language, hidden away in a tin can somewhere. Musically, A Year Closer is a series of pieces that make symphonies out of separate processes of decay and disappearance: unidentified cracking and creaking objects, broken equipment, and lost melodies that seem to have escaped other songs and wandered into the room looking for a place to hide. These are the moments that the listener of Maths Balance Volumes always knows are coming, waits for, and settles in temporarily for a moment of repose. Maybe this is the meaning of A Year Closer: while waiting for the worst, things come together, a “we” with no name but with a rhythm, a tenuous but definite harmony to share as the clock ticks. Even if, when the lights are turned on, it turns out nobody was there. - Paul Buchholz

Taken from PP48 A Year Closer LP coming soon

A Year Closer

Purchase

Maths Balance Volumes - Dark Sky

off-key cover of I`m so tired* by Fugazi

``out here, I can barely breathe,
surrounded by jealousy and greed.
I can`t be reached, only had one call,
trapped underneath, separate from you all.

this time i lost my return,
in spite of what i learned.
I hid my tracks, spit out all my air,
slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares.

I`m so tired. sheep are counting me.
no more struggle, no more energy,
no more patient, you can write that down.
it`s all too crazy. I won`t stick around.``

*with slight lyrics adjustments, because of dyslexia, speech impediment and because why not;


**I was too tired to rerecord so just added another layer that was done with both the volca and vocoder set in slightly different pitches, hence it`s extremely off-key, but kinda fun in a way somehow imh0

my nye mantra (recording of a live performance for my cat from my couch)

AUTRE BROUSSE par Johann Mazé & Jihem Rita

Huit morceaux, huit tentatives d'approcher, parmi d'autres obsessions habituelles, la chanson, la pop, l'emballement rythmique, la danse, et ce qui se situe entre.
Avec les voix et les sons précieux de Cesar Amarante, Lou-Mah Al Abed Ratier, Johann Loiseau, Christophe Ratier, Antoine Souchav et Laszlo Mazé.

Enregistré à Floirac, à Bordeaux, à Marcillac-Vallon, à Lima, à Saint-Laurent-des-Bâtons, à Porspoder, à Bergerac, quelque part entre Tan-Tan et Dakhla, et le plus souvent à la maison.

Joué et assemblé en 2020.

Mixé en décembre 2020 à la Grange Cavale avec Manuel Duval.
Mastering par Fabien Meunier
Conception graphique par P.M Laroche

Merci à Cesar pour son inspiration lumineuse et rapide, à Lou-Mah pour avoir finalement accepté de chanter, à Christophe, à Johann, à Antoine, à Valentin Portron pour le moment “chapelle“, à Manuel, à Johan Mailleret pour la proposition, à Elise Amiet pour le piano, à Anne-Cécile et à Laszlo pour leur patience.

Autre Brousse

Dégauchisseur

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2017 SINGLE ON LEXI DISQUES!
Bird songs for Librado Rivera
http://www.lexidisques.net/

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David Jarrín Zabala (Ecuador) es un compositor, improvisador y radialista radicado en Bruselas. Su obra personal abarca diversos campos de la experiencia sonora, como las grabaciones de campo de baja fidelidad, la creación de complejos paisajes sonoros ficticios producidos con gongs y electrónica y las transfiguraciones orientadas al raga para instrumentos de cuerda. También ha participado en numerosas formaciones musicales  como son Sage Alyte, Éole cristal, Amanita Vulva, Waikiki Walhalla y la curaduría del sello Music City. Actualmente forma parte del equipo de presentadores del programa Mu de Radio Campus Brussels, del dúo de metalófonos Rosa Marga y del trío Frituuur Aconcagua.

Sous l'orage de roses

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