Bent Arcana perform live at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda during Le Guess Who? 2021 as part of John Dwyer’s curation at the festival. This performance marked the group’s European live premiere.  

Musicians on stage:
John Dwyer – Vocals & Guitar
Tomas Dolas – Keys
Peter Kerlin – Bass
Ryan Sawyer – Drums 
Kyp Malone - Electronics
Jeff Tobias – Saxophone
Jason Robira – Hand Drums

Recorded by Marc Broer & Vera Kraaijkamp
 Mix by John Dwyer
Photography by Ben Houdijk

Bent Arcana - Live at Le Guess Who? 2021


The album Liebestod from Polish composer Stefan Wesolowski consists of repetitive compositions written for piano, brass instruments, strings and electronics. Featuring a cameo by Michael Jacaszek.
 
The title itself is derived from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" which says a lot about Wesolowski's primary inspirations. Liebestod shows a tremendous amount of respect for classical music but Wesolowski is far from making literal references to it. Wesolowski shows his own unique musical language; rough and radical at some points, yet full of intense nostalgia and beauty. 

Recommended if you like: Arvo Part, Steve Reich, William Basinski, Jacaszek 

Recorded in Old Town Hall, Academy of Music in Gdansk & on the baltic coast and at home in Sopot, 2011/2012.

Realised with the financial support of The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Mayor of Gdansk, Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship and City Culture Institute.


Stefan Wesolowski "Ostinato" from the album Liebestod (IMPREC397) Release date: April 15, 2014

Snippet of Richard Fearless' next single Gamma Ray on Drone

Brand new single from Death In Vegas frontman Richard Fearless on his Drone imprint. Debut single 'Higher Electronic States' premiered on Dummy, Ransom Note and The Drone.  

Welcome to the second aural outpouring from the world of Drone, the London-based label from producer, artist and Death In Vegas guiding light Richard Fearless, now firmly established as an artist in his own right. Earlier this summer Drone laid down its debut mandate in the form of Fearless' own Higher Electronic States, which picked up plaudits from corners far and wide.
 
Discussing the second single Richard says "With Higher Electronic States I wanted to make a record to end my sets with, Gamma Ray is something much deeper. I wanted to create a timeless stark, minimal, desolate landscape of a track."
 
And he's done just that, creating one of those rare things in electronic music, a song with longevity. A piece of finely crafted techno of the highest order; 
 
"I obsessed over Gamma Ray. spending a week on the drum sound alone". 
 
To make matters all the more enticing he's enlisted the supreme talent that is Legowelt to rework the track. Stripping it back further to its core elements this is pure heads music from Danny Wolfers, another extreme audiophile. The depth, texture and atmosphere he injects into the track completes what is an exceptional and significant second release from Drone.  
 
"I feel like I've made the record that is true to this vision." We wouldn't disagree.
 
Having recently taken in part in an RBMA lecture in their Russian headquarters and an appearance at the hallowed turf of Golden Pudel planned for later in the year, the world of Richard Fearless and Drone is in its ascendancy.
 
Dancefloor distortion and other musical explorations, created in the Metal Box, Drone releases oscillations in many forms, further transmissions incoming.

Gamma Ray

Richard Fearless - Gamma Ray

UPDATE (20 Aug 2015): What made the comet sing? Scientists working on Rosetta's RPC instrument have found out why 67P/C-G was singing. Via http://wp.me/p46DHN-1nN
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ORIGINAL Citation (Oct 2014): Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).  Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Li 

Copyright Notice

Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

A Singing Comet

In the depths of the unconscious, the truest voice rings out. Unknowing inhibition. This is the beginning. 

@dungeon-acid 

1.  WILLIAM S BURROUGHS ( NOTHING HERE NOW BUT THE RECORDINGS )
2. ROBERT HAIGH (JULIET OF THE SPIRITS )
3.  BLAINE REININGER ( WINDY OUTSIDE )
4.  CABARET VOLTAIRE ( SLUGGIN FOR JESUS )
5.  THE CURE ( SPLINTERED IN HER HEAD )
6.  DECODER SOUNDTRACK ( MUSIC FOR FROGS )
7.  SPRUNG AUS DEN VOLKEN ( ELECTRICITY BREAK )
8.  BORSIG ( HIROSHIMA )
9.  CRASS ( TIRED )
10. JOHNN CARPENTER ( UP THE WALL /AIRFORCE )
11. NURSE WITH WOUND ( SEVERAL ODD MOMENTS PRIOR TO LUNCH )
12. HUMAN LEAGUE (THE SOUND OF THE CROWD/ADD YOUR VOICE)
13. KITCHEN AND THE PLASTIC SPOONS ( HAPPY FUNERAL)
14. ANNA-LENA K & FREDDIE W ( THE FROZEN ONES )
15. KLAUS SCHULZE ( STARDANCER)
16. THE FLYING LIZARDS (STEAM AWAY)
17. MARTIN REV ( MARI)
18. PASSAGE ( ANIMAL IN ME )
19. CHRIS AND COSEY ( SHIVERS )
20. WILLIAM S BURROUGHS AND GUS VA SANT ( MILLIONS OF IMAGES )
21. NICO ( SAETA)

New Brvtalism No. 011 - Dungeon Acid

lady jane (rolling stones)

MILES BROWN//CASEY MELLIGAN//ZAKK SCOTT//NIC ESCOVEDO

SET ONE ((TWOFOLD))

$UBMARINE $ONAR ((CURRENT SET))

VOCALS: ZEKE
BASS: CAKE
DRUMS: MILLIONS
GUITAR: ALABAMA NIC

LIVE AT THE STORK CLUB//OAKLAND, CA

Over the course of two-and-a-half decades, OSEES (aka Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, OCS, etc.) transformed from a murky and freak-rock lab project (often a duo in their early days) to a demolition unit displaying a heinous arsenal of garage-surf stabs, and ultimately evolving into a collective of motorik-fueled space&time travelers, setting an high-end standard in the global psych scene. 
"Headmaster" John Dwyer (a veteran in the once-defined Providence Scene, now a solid staple in the Golden State psych scene - and beyond) gave us an eclectic and passionate blend of jazz-fusion fugues, disco stomps and proggy leaps towards the unknown. 
It's gonna be a hell of a ride.

OSEES upcoming works, 12" 'Weirdo Hairdo' and LP 'Panther Rotate' are on their way, with the latter coming out December 11th, on Castle Face Records.

lady jane (rolling stones)

egress

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