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Dmitry Evgrafov returns with his fourth career album and third for FatCat’s 130701 imprint. His most accomplished work to date, ‘Surrender’ is a broad and dramatic record that expands the Moscow-based artist’s palette and reaches beyond the usual post-classical range. Revealing an ambitious scope across the twelve-track span, it is bold in conception and beautifully recorded. With Dmitry playing piano, marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, bass guitar and synths and including sessions with an eight-piece string orchestra, a drummer and contributions from several instrumentalist peers, ‘Surrender’ was mixed and mastered by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio in Berlin.

‘Surrender’ encompasses a continually changing musical and emotional spectrum, sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic, taking the listener on a journey through intimate piano, string arrangements, fractured electronica, electro-acoustic ambience, and complex, rhythmically driven constructions. On these, Dmitry forges a kind of hybrid sound where post-rock meets classical composition, at times closer in spirit to Efterklang or Mice Parade in its sense of adventure. Even the sparser, downtempo piano pieces are offset by electronics and a subtle, masterful use of FX that hints towards material like The Caretaker or the bleeding edges of ambient IDM.

Dmitry Evgrafov - 'Surrender'

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New Wavs

Belching corpuscles

Ahead of his much anticipated return to the live scene, Rival Consoles delivers a slice of euphoria with new single Pulses of Information, as premiered by Mary Anne Hobbs on her BBC 6 Music show. Swirling below the skin and echoing through the body, the track connects us through unspoken dialogue.

The coming months will see London producer Ryan Lee West perform at select festivals including Hidden Door in Edinburgh and embark on a UK club tour in October, with support from Bristol-based electronic artist Kayla Painter.

The single is available to stream and download here: https://idol.lnk.to/PulsesInformation

Articulation UK Tour 2021

21.08 Hertfordshire — Warm Up Festival
19.09 Edinburgh — Hidden Door Festival
07.10 Brighton — The Old Market 
08.10 Bristol — Arnolfini (SOLD OUT)
09.10 Norwich — Arts Centre 
10.10 Manchester — RNCM 
15.10 Glasgow — Stereo (SOLD OUT)
16.10 Newcastle — Cluny 2 (SOLD OUT)
20.10 London — Clapham Grand

All live dates: http://www.rivalconsoles.net/tour
More info: www.erasedtapes.com

Cover Photograph by Elliott Franks
Artwork Design by Robert Raths

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Pulses of Information

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Rival Consoles - Pulses of Information

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CLASSICAL MUSIC For Studying #1 STUDY MUSIC Playlist Calming Soothing Calm Classic Piano Study

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A Cerulean State -  In that very moment

Get "twenty one crimes" - out now on all major music platforms
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prod. DeadForest excl.

ft. allan watts






woke up being saved by the bell
and incase you couldn’t tell
i didn’t take it very well
cos this life’s been killing me ever since it begun
and this days not any different from any other one


feels pretty good but it doesnt feel right
theres voices in my head but i just want quiet
i need closure
and every seconds just like the first
I’ve learnt to like and love the hurt
it gets closer


woke up with a rope around my neck
and id rather be dead
than have you wrapped around my head
should’ve listened to that man upon my shoulder
who told me love is pain but pain last longer


feels pretty good but it doesnt feel right
theres voices in my head but i just want quiet
i need closure
and every seconds just like the first
I’ve learnt to like and love the hurt
it gets closer

august

Swank God (prod. $kinny Blvck)

Money Callin' Reprint (prod. Chvp Balmain)

THazy, by Miyagi Sun
Prod. by *wanobi
Released via DUSTY'S SWIVEL SHACK (2019)

*wanobi as in wanobiflamez

THazy w/ Miyagi Sun

THazy w/ Miyagi Sun [Prod. by *wanobi]

Follow my IG: https://www.instagram.com/devinmalek_
My newest project Sunset Pointe is a storyline of 2019.
Filled with stories, shit talk, & playa shit

Pour a glass of wine & play this on repeat.

1. Welcome 2 Sunset Pointe (intro)
2. Return of the mack
3. Really Outside
4. Call you when I Land
5. Rosegold Kush
6. Eastside Legend
7. Lets Talk Money First
8. Sushi Sex
9. Come Holla At Me
10. Sunset Pointe
11. Late Nights in Hollywood ft TRU

DEVIN MALEK - SUNSET POINTE (Full Album)

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AVAILABLE ON ITUNES

prod. jake romano and jed lock

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to the guy that doesn't know

May 28 will see prolific Japanese vibraphonist, multi-percussionist and composer Masayoshi Fujita mark a new sonic direction with his forthcoming album Bird Ambience on Erased Tapes.

The lead single ‘Thunder', which blends mildly abrasive effects on the marimba with a warm feeling of benevolence, was inspired by the poem You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova. It comes with an equally breathtaking video directed and shot by Ryo Noda in the mountainscapes that surround Fujita's new life in Hyogo, rural Japan.

Watch: https://youtu.be/IvqjqrDRALs

Bird Ambience brings several fresh changes for the artist. Until now, Fujita would separate his acoustic solo recordings, the electronic dub made under his El Fog alias, and his experimental improvisations with contemporaries such as Jan Jelinek. The new album sees him unite all these different facets for the first time into one singular vision. He also makes a lateral leap from his signature instrument the vibraphone – on which he created his acclaimed triptych Stories (2012), Apologues (2015) and Book of Life (2018) – to the marimba, which takes centre stage on his new album alongside drums, percussion, synths, effects and tape recorder.
 
“The way of playing the marimba is similar to the vibraphone, so it was kind of a natural development for me and easier to start with, yet it sounds very different”, explains Masayoshi. “The marimba bars are made with wood and it has a wider range than the vibraphone, which gives me a bigger sound palette with more possibilities. I play the instrument with bows and mallets, and sometimes manipulate it with effects.”
 
The record also marks his liberation from fastidious preparation for past solo releases to new endeavours in improvisation. “I prioritised trying to capture the wonder which happens during those occasional magic improv moments. Sometimes the mic-ing and placement of instruments was pretty rough; things weren’t perfect and everything was done quickly, but it turned out as the final recording. Overall when I couldn’t decide between two takes, I told myself to go with the first”, Masayoshi recalls. 

Arranged with a perfect Kanso-like balance, the unhurried pace of Bird Ambience allows each sound and phrase enough time to be mindfully absorbed and savoured. This subtle but affective work carries ethereal remnants of Midori Takada’s minimalism, the static atmospheres of Mika Vainio, To Rococo Rot’s organics and the bucolic electronics of Minotaur Shock. Fujita vaporises contemporary and classical, ambient and dismantled dub, controlled noise and fragments of jazz into an atmospheric, static mist, which he skilfully coerces into new forms.
   
Bird Ambience will be released on Erased Tapes in 2LP, CD and digital formats on May 28.

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Dmitry Evgrafov