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Будет Все

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Iris Forest. "Rise Up" comes off the new EP, 3:40, forthcoming on Berlin's WAAGE Records. The album is a short and clear description of the events taking place in Ukraine starting with the relative beginning - 24.02.2022 - the dark, menacing, spooky start, illustrating people's mood after the first russian bombs caused explosions in some Ukrainian cities. The whole release is a powerful journey through different moods, feelings and atmospheres creating an immersive experience through sound. Below we have included the artist's statement on the release and today we premiere the 4th track, "Rise Up". 

3:40 is out October 26th. Get yours at: https://waage.bandcamp.com/album/3-40

From the artist: 
"This experimental electronic EP of mine had been made after the beginning of a vicious, blood-shedding russian full-scale invasion to my homeland - Ukraine, inspired by both personal and collective national pain caused due to destruction, loss and multiple crimes committed by russia against my people. After fleeing from the city of Kharkiv to Germany in March, I got deeply focused on creating something, which would somewhat depict in a music form the tragic, horrendous things taking place in my motherland. Just as any other Ukrainian, deeply petrified and simultaneously outraged due to the genocide against our nation, I find it my greatest responsibility as an artist to draw people's attention to ferocities and war crimes that keep being committed by those savage perpetrators."

SC: https://soundcloud.com/irisforest
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/irisforest_/
Label Insta: https://www.instagram.com/waage_records/

PREMIERE: Iris Forest - Rise Up [WAAGE]

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'One Of The Receivers’ is an 8-track adaptation of the text, ‘Notes From A Pandemic’, released by August Skipper in 2020, a collection of poetry and abstract musings on the nature of shared delusion and collective psychosis in the face of extraordinary historical events. The music takes the form of heavy, cinematic drones, interspersed with moments of explosive sound design, a shifting base upon which a narrative unfolds that is at once dream-like, bizarre, foreboding and intimate.

In October of 2020 August Skipper released his text “Notes From A Pandemic” in book format. With text sleekly inlaid on a cloth bound cover, black on black, the materiality of the book contextualizes itself within the historically tense environment it came to fruition within. Hand numbered and signed, a limited edition of 200 copies, the gesture of intimacy between writer and reader is reflective. Skipper advertised the book as a reflection on “the psychic implosion resulting from the initial European quarantine”. Two years past the global phenomena that was, and for some still is, COVID-19 Skipper's negotiation of angst, vulnerability, and confusion was a prescient illustration of what would come to be a particularly turbulent world event.

November 12, 2023 sees the release of “One Of The Receivers”, a re-examination of Skipper’s text within an aural framework. Not simply a spoken word recanting of the text, Skipper uses “One Of The Receivers” as a new setting for dramaturgical collaboration and tonal placement of his writings. Skipper enlists fellow artists Cunce, Angelo Harmsworth, Luna Vassarotti, Samuel Savenberg, Wan, and Ireen Amnes to engender the uneasy surreality that is the post-pandemic zeitgeist into hallucinatory auditory landscapes. Skipper’s voice floats with dramatic affect over his collaborators’ sonic palettes, stylistically challenging his utility as both narrator and sound source in the environments that “One Of The Receivers” inhabits.

Skipper’s journal of uncertainty resonates in a new capacity from its initial inception both in time and media format. Curiously, the recycled investigation within his musings give pause for reflection that, in fact, we are perhaps in no further illuminated a space. Sitting amidst an interstitial contemporary reality of dread, boredom, and confusion we collectively yearn for a new kind of catharsis, one that seems, as yet, beyond our immediate grasp.

Release digital and limited edition cassette w/ booklet: November 13, 2023

Final mixdown: August Skipper
Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Mastering

August Skipper & Cunce - The Skin Of Strangers

'One Of The Receivers’ is an 8-track adaptation of the text, ‘Notes From A Pandemic’, released by August Skipper in 2020, a collection of poetry and abstract musings on the nature of shared delusion and collective psychosis in the face of extraordinary historical events. The music takes the form of heavy, cinematic drones, interspersed with moments of explosive sound design, a shifting base upon which a narrative unfolds that is at once dream-like, bizarre, foreboding and intimate.

In October of 2020 August Skipper released his text “Notes From A Pandemic” in book format. With text sleekly inlaid on a cloth bound cover, black on black, the materiality of the book contextualizes itself within the historically tense environment it came to fruition within. Hand numbered and signed, a limited edition of 200 copies, the gesture of intimacy between writer and reader is reflective. Skipper advertised the book as a reflection on “the psychic implosion resulting from the initial European quarantine”. Two years past the global phenomena that was, and for some still is, COVID-19 Skipper's negotiation of angst, vulnerability, and confusion was a prescient illustration of what would come to be a particularly turbulent world event.

November 12, 2023 sees the release of “One Of The Receivers”, a re-examination of Skipper’s text within an aural framework. Not simply a spoken word recanting of the text, Skipper uses “One Of The Receivers” as a new setting for dramaturgical collaboration and tonal placement of his writings. Skipper enlists fellow artists Cunce, Angelo Harmsworth, Luna Vassarotti, Samuel Savenberg, Wan, and Ireen Amnes to engender the uneasy surreality that is the post-pandemic zeitgeist into hallucinatory auditory landscapes. Skipper’s voice floats with dramatic affect over his collaborators’ sonic palettes, stylistically challenging his utility as both narrator and sound source in the environments that “One Of The Receivers” inhabits.

Skipper’s journal of uncertainty resonates in a new capacity from its initial inception both in time and media format. Curiously, the recycled investigation within his musings give pause for reflection that, in fact, we are perhaps in no further illuminated a space. Sitting amidst an interstitial contemporary reality of dread, boredom, and confusion we collectively yearn for a new kind of catharsis, one that seems, as yet, beyond our immediate grasp.

Credits:
Pre-elease: October 18, 2023
Release: November 13, 2023

Final mixdown: August Skipper
Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Mastering

August Skipper & Cunce - Soundtrack To The Following Events

Release: Cyber Lie
Artist: Jardines Sin Explørar
Label: Synthlab Records
Catalog: SLRX0004
Release date: December 15, 2023
Format: Digital
Mastering: Sonido

Tracklist
1. Cyber Lie

Jardines Sin Explørar
@user-319709906
instagram.com/jardinessinexplorar

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