Onuma Singsiri was born in Khon Kaen, one of the four major cities in Isan, the northeastern region of Thailand bordering Laos. The region shares with Laos a traditional form of music called molam (or mor lam), whose repertoire is stuffed with songs of unrequited love and the harshness of rural life. It seems to be out of this tradition that Onuma Singsiri emerged, lyrically, if not musically.

from the "Laurentian Voyage" CS (NNF386)
Not Not Fun / 2022

VOYAGE:
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Scout Island "Wood-And-Canvas"

Mae Kha Som Tum (Papaya Salad Merchant)- Onuma Singsiri

Bill Orcutt- "O Platitudes!"

Produced slowly and meticulously over the last 12
months, these seven tracks are the closet thing we've
had to a new album from Andy Stott since the release
of his debut full-length Merciless five years ago.
Taking influence from an array of seemingly incoherent
noises, from the indefinable and unforgettable mindtricks
of Arthur Russell to the slowhouse of Kassem
Mosse, from the alternate VHS realities of James
Ferraro and Jamal Moss to the Linn Drum classics of the
vintage Prince era - these seven tracks create their own
pace and agenda, largely shying away from the
dancefloor in favour of something more complex and
hard to define.
Following on from the tribal malfunctions of opening
intro Signature, New Ground heads into a chasm of
layered loops, creating a decimated and re-wired funk
template coloured in with frayed percussion and
dislodged vocal samples. North To South starts off from
similar ground but adds a shuffling vibe at a deceptively
intoxicated 110 bpm.
Intermittent is something altogether different, taking
perfectly formed Boogie templates and screwing with
them until nothing quite fits, brittle elements floating in
and out of time yet somehow keeping it together,
before Dark Details delivers the most dancefloor
compatible six minute stretch of the set, all clanging
stabs and dense percussion, somewhere between
Shackleton and Bam Bam.
Execution and Passed Me By end things off on a slowed
down tip, the former deploying an anaesthetised and
padded 4/4 template sunk deeper into the abyss by
deformed, time-stretched vocals, the latter ending off
proceedings with a more delicate palette, letting go of
all that pent-up emotion with nothing but that rumbling
low-end and some strings for company.

Passed Me By

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/moon-diagrams/
Catalog #: GN27
Blank slate cassette, limited to 300

As Moon Diagrams, Moses Archuleta takes a few comfortable and casual steps away from being Deerhunter’s co-founder and all-around percussive extraordinary to spend some quality time with a few hidden pleasures. 

Sketch for Winter IV: Care Package, Moon Diagrams' debut release, rounds out our winter cassette series in a paced propulsion of braced percussion and muted melody, burning off any residuals from the receding autumnal embers. The slow and steady rhythm of "Scratch the Snow" trots along with steadfast subtlety, ushering along the striated synthesizer chords that chop through the air with Reich-ian precision and Kompakt-esque modernity. As the frost begins to creep in, Archuleta lights a low fire in the form of warm, tonal throbs and doubled over drum loops. Soft shards of sound invert themselves in intersecting, omnidirectional lines. The overall effect is palindromic - gentle waves of headphone electronica, without the tired connotations the tag denotes. The organic, pulsing hum rides its course in an unencumbered drift before dissolving into a heartfelt and heartbroken interpretation of "Sweet Surrender," a modern pop classic that unassumingly carries a formidable baggage all its own. 

Archuleta strips away certain components of the original version, leaving plenty of room for the song's tragically catchy and forlorn melody to smear itself over his canvas. Traces of sound blur into one another as the track plays out with the cues presented earlier on the tape. As the song drives itself into a forlorn bliss, you can't help but fall for the beautiful despair. 

The B-side-long "Elurra Urratu" plays the lushly elusive counterpart, existing in the tonal plane of orchestral, krautish ambient music. Accompanied by a roiling rhythm of gated noise, the chordal display bows it's muted melodrama across the canvas. Think Stars of the Lid remixed by Axel Willner, or Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubard" retooled by Donnacha Costello. 

Archuleta's thawed beauty provides safe haven from winter's retreating cold.

Moon Diagrams - Scratch The Snow (edit)

Mamman Sani - Arman Doley

Boards of Canada - Orange Romeda (plazmatron's 80's version)

The Caliph's Tea Party

Ancestors ((Dreamtime) Mark Pritchard Rmx)

Gonjasufi - Ancestors ((Dreamtime) Mark Pritchard Rmx)

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Dying of Jealousy

HTRK - Summer Rain

Blood Bitch

Untamed Region

"Tezeta" reissue available on LP/CD/Tape/Digital for the first time in decades 4 June. https://linktr.ee/HailuMergia

Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band — "Mestirawi Debdabe"

Fuselage packing all the remaining vinyl and love left in this world. Flying - on fumes. A prayer gets her across... across what and where to?

Mae Kha Som Tum (Papaya Salad Merchant)- Onuma Singsiri

Earnest Corkshell II

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