Lend Me Your Radio - Apr 21

From Jeremy Young - "Amaro" (LP/digital, Thirsty Leaves Music)
Album release: 7 May, 2021

Pre-Order: 
(North America) https://jeremyyoung.bandcamp.com/album/amaro
(Europe/ROW) https://thirstyleavesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/amaro

Jeremy Young, on oscillators, found 1/4" tape, captured radio & EMF signal, amplified surfaces & objects, composition by trial & error, late nights, weird thoughts, glasses of amaro on ice.
Deanna Radford, on word events ("Mythy")

Montreal-based electroacoustic composer Jeremy Young's new record, Amaro, is more like a suite of meaningful multi-disciplinary duets than a new addition to his growing catalog of pure solo material. Yet it centrally documents an iterative, systems-based approach to making music that Young has been developing and refining through live performances and improvisations in his studio for close to 3 years. This sonic "system" is not modular but tactile, performable, and tourable, and includes: 3 individual oscillators (sine, square, triangle) tuned microtonally by hand in real time and filtered, amplified surfaces and objects that make up the pieces' rhythmic foundations, tape loop fragments of found tape, and EMF signal captured and routed across the tonal and textural signal paths.

Amaro includes contributions from artists here in Montreal such as Deanna Radford, Markus Floats, and Ida Toninato, and those based in New York and beyond, like Vito Ricci, Dolphin Midwives, Pauline Kim Harris, Tomonari Nishikawa, and Johannes Bergmark. The album's beautiful cover visuals come courtesy of frequent collaborators, China Marsot-Wood and Thaïla Khampo. It's an experimental suite of sonic material, adventurous, and not over-produced; neither ambient nor noise, synthesized yet performed in real time as if it were an instrumental record.

"Mythy" (with Deanna Radford)

Taken from Burning Pyre (@burningpyre) and Canadian Rifles (@canadian-rifles) album The Snipe & The Clam, out April 30, 2021, via Eastern Nurseries (@eastern-nurseries)

Read: https://bit.ly/2QhOrIa
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3s4RwZy

The first full-length collaboration between Burning Pyre and Canadian Rifles, “The Snipe & The Clam” encapsulates a shared sensibility and vision. Initially seen together on the Vienna Press/Vaagner compilation “A Declaration” in 2019, which was followed up with a second piece last year on Burning Pyre’s Opal Tapes debut, “United Angels”, the two artists cultivate a unique aural world with a singular voice.

Taking a contemporary yet deeply romantic approach to ambient music, “The Snipe & The Clam” showcases a blend of luscious synth melodies and harmonics, set against a heavily organic dynamic backbone. An apt representation of both artists’ methods and modus operandi, opulent glimmering drones flow with a sense of narrative, contributing a magical watercolour-like quality to the album’s eight instrumental pieces. As if lightness met the restraint of a disciplined wrist - every sharp note a pensive flap of wings across its airy background.

“The Snipe & The Clam” often feels like an emotional exercise on the stoppage of time, gliding between loving gestures and precise crescendos, delivering both a flourish of exposition and a reflection on intimate moments. A definitive summit in each respective artists’ discographies until this point, “The Snipe & The Clam” is an elegy to tenderness and finding beauty in minute details.

Photo by Elisa Azevedo

Mastered by John Hannon

Released by Eastern Nurseries

Premiere: Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - The Snipe [Eastern Nurseries]

from upcoming LP on https://lxvlxv.bandcamp.com/ this summer

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Ulla - 'Limitless Frame'
Format: Vinyl / Digital
 Release Date: May 10, 2021
Distribution: Rubadub 
Cover photo: Sasha Zakharenko

Being somewhere, while being somewhere else
A place I look for in other places
A moment on repeat
I made this music as a way to hug myself

All music performed and written by Ulla E. Straus

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus

Pre-order:

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ulla-limitless-frame
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/13471/s/limitless-frame/
https://boomkat.com/products/limitless-frame

MW009: Ulla, 'Limitless Frame'

Bonus track from "_modulus" on Handstitched* [HS38]

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/modulus

Maps and Diagrams - Seam

from 'Daear' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den350
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/lto

Based in Bristol, LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. As a solo producer, LTO has since attracted attention with three albums.

LTO's ambition to create ever more ambiguous and far-reaching sonic environments, whilst retaining something of the familiar and physical, have led him to take inspiration from imagined landscapes of the folklore of his Welsh ancestry and of the planet Mars. Both images of enchanted forests battling enraged giants from the underworld and unimaginably hostile planetary events guide this work of great magnitude.

In 'Daear', LTO explores an expansive sound pallet of swelling synths and noise, ambiguous string instruments, thunderous percussion, unearthly voices and his signature sound the piano, mostly processed beyond recognition. The result is a mysterious and deeply textured journey that could be set in both the distant past and uncertain future, on this planet or beyond.

Praise about LTO:

“haunting and comforting in equal measure. 4/5" – MOJO

“like memory preserved in nostalgic aspic” – The Independent

“a beautiful collection that stands tall alongside the work of his contemporaries” – XLR8R

“Blurring the lines between the organic and machine-made... Takes nebulous sounds and crashes them with the clatter of machine rhythms… Brilliant.”  - Hyponik

“An adventurous blend of hues grey and dark...Staggeringly rich.”  - FACT

"Another great album by a real talent hugely deserving of even more attention. Remarkable. 9/10"  - God is in the TV

Lend Me Your Radio - Apr 21

Julian / LMYE