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SPA #38: ssaliva & DJ Brom for NTS Radio

Artist: Sote
Title: Ministry of Tall Tales
Label: SVBKVLT
Cat No: SBKT062
Artwork: Leila Hobooty Fard, Arash Bolouri & Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Format: Limited LP + digital
Release date: 29th February 2024

For our first album release of 2024, we are excited and honored to welcome Sote to the SVBKVLT family with ‘Ministry of Tall Tales’

Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His wide-ranging love of rich sounds and textures is embodied in diverse paths such as hardcore club sounds, collaborations that straddle (traditional) acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and solo experimental electronics – making Ebtekar equally at home in concert halls, galleries, or clubs. Over the last three decades, he has released on labels such as Warp, Sub Rosa, Morphine, Diagonal, and Opal Tapes.

‘Ministry of Tall Tales’ is an electronic music composition that reflects on hyperbolic orchestrations of political and social current affairs.

In this work, notions such as misinformation/disinformation, biased mental states, bigotry, dogma and ultimately corruption are brainchild of the composer in order to achieve a sonic spirit in abstract form.

Ludicrous and distorted human behaviors are told by magnifying musical intervals and entering the spaces in-between, and simultaneously dramatizing subtle microtonal motifs, ultra-fine polyrhythmic, polymetric and polytempic pitched patterns assemble the skeleton of an engine symbolizing various systems.

The configuration and framework of this mechanism represents both harmonious and non-harmonious aspects in society. Rearranging and coloring components of tradition, neglecting moral codes, and separating ingredients of rituals to showcase humankind’s failures and accomplishments.

The composer has been experiencing an immense amount of frustration, anger, confusion, helplessness and fear because of what has been happening in his surroundings and the sociopolitical system. Consequently, the music is contemplations on corruption, oppression and murder.

“Ministry Of Tall Tales” is an all-synthesis based work, dark and melodic with a noise aesthetic.

Ministry of Tall Tales

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SOUNDS4RESISTANCE is a solidarity fundraising project to gather musicians and creatives together for community support where its urgency claims.

All profits of S4R001 are followed to Estafette4Palestine, a militant, volunteer-based collective in Brussels that distributes funds between 50 Gazan families living in Brussels; and @fondation_marius_jacob : a radical, autonomous and collective tool that supports grassroots actions, together with @brusselsagainstgenocide

SOUNDS4RESISTANCE @ Kiosk Radio 15.03.2024

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https://www.retreatradio.net/foil

FOIL #8 w/ Sofftronic (16/03/24)

TRACKLIST
Oliver Oates – One Without
VOCES8 – Pyramid Song 
Manual – 1986
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan 
Eartheater, Leya – Milky Eye 
Kelora – Forget Me Not 
Msylma & Ismael - The Lovers Creed 
Dj Shadows - What Does Your Soul Look Like , Pt. 4
Hysterical Love Project – Ionian Sea
Officium – Sainte Marie des Chazes 
Ayaz – Reprise
Uman – Ménestrel 
Headache – Beggining Of The End

Marouschlass - Dormir debout ~ 20.03.2024

EndgamE’s Precious Metals lines up the latest in the sounds of the underbelly: drill, auto-tune serenades and dancehall. 808 snares rattle like uzis, deep synths sing out like a foghorn through the spray – both grime and hip-hop, tunes for the club and tunes for the car. Lock in. therealendgame@gmail.com 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/preciousmetals/episodes/preciousmetals-27th-march-2024

Precious Metals w/ EndgamE & Blood Of Aza 270324

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OUT NOW: https://wherethetimegoes.bandcamp.com/album/frog-of-earth

What’s it like to be a frog? - a question posed by philosophizers and scienticians alike for nigh on millenia without any definitive progress or resolution to the issue. The sad truth is that Man, in his usual self absorbed way, has only ever attempted to apply his own logical tricks and turns of phrase to describe the totally nonhuman sensual experience of the frog. In his arrogance, Man has failed to even realise the futility of his venture, of superimposing himself onto its self. The frog’s rich experience is its own, and now for possibly the first time in human history Man may, if he allows himself to, glimpse the essence of the frog. But not through word, or through self referential descriptions and calculations; but through self-absolving experience - through the Frog of Earth.

Frog of Earth is the debut album by the Frog of Earth, and is available now to purchase via bandcamp in single disc 12" vinyl LP, and in all digital formats.

Worldwide distribution handled by Rubadub.

Artwork by Mel & Dean.

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