Lend Me Your Radio - Sept 18

'7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' summarizes Fabio Perletta’s recent works 'Genkai' (in collaboration with sound designer for Pioneer Haruo Okada) and 'Ichinen', both released by LINE imprint, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. As it blends the two albums’ distinctive approaches, it reveals their contrasts in terms of hi dynamic range and aesthetics of hesitation, silence and instability. This live recording marks the end of a cycle of works initiated with 'Kaikō' (collaboration with Haruo Okada, 901 Editions, 2014), which ruminates on notions of presence, limitation, contemplation, patience and humility. 

Like the photograph on the cover, the music explores distance, proximity and the necessity to be emotionally detached to achieve balance. It is impossible to enjoy a flower if it’s viewed too closely, it will appear blurry. Like the photograph, the music doesn’t change, instead it exists in potentially infinite variations through its exposure to each listener unique memories, experiences, and perceptions. '7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' thus asks the questions: is there and where is truth? Are artworks really finished? Do artworks which artists create belong to them? Duality, inconsistency, impermanence, and paradoxes are themes Fabio Perletta is questioning and enjoys his inability or need to solve. 

“The notes fade, but they don’t necessarily stop. They echo into infinity, at once trapped inside the deep trenches of the past and in turn shaping things that have yet to arrive. Harmony and silence are one and the same”. — James Catchpole on Ichinen for A Closer Listen. 

'7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles' was recorded live on June 11, 2017, as part of Fabio Perletta’s VOLUME residency. His appearance was made possible with support from DE.MO./MOVIN’UP, II session 2016. MOVIN’UP II session 2016 was promoted by Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs, General Directorate for Performing Arts and GAI – Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists.

7456. Live at Human Resources, Los Angeles

Fabio Perletta — 7456. Live At Human Resources, Los Angeles (Excerpt)

http://www.recitalprogram.com/saccharine-scores/
Sean McCann - Saccharine Scores
Recital,  R50

Edition of 200,  signed and numbered
132 page book,  6" x 9"
Glass-mastered CD

Purchase

R50 - Sean McCann - "Portraits of Friars (2018)" from Saccharine Scores CD & Book

New album, "14",  by Supersilent. Out Sept 28th via Smalltown Supersound.

Supersilent - 14.7

Preview of the upcoming debut album of Mordançage - the collaborative project of Tobias Hellkvist and Andrew Tasselmyer. To be released in September 2018 on Fluid Audio.

Mordançage

Mordançage Album Sampler 2018

Mordançage is a new project from Tobias Hellkvist and Andrew Tasselmyer...  

The new album is a reference to the photography technique that creates  a degraded appearance in photo prints by physically altering film, a close metaphor for the way the album was created; manipulation of source audio and sound design creating a very different result.

Audio: Tobias Hellkvist / Andrew Tasselmyer
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Artwork: Brittany Nelson
Photography: Craig Tattersall
Design: Daniel Crossley

Release date: 
30.09.18.

Mailing list: 
www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Mordançage

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Mordançage - Now Before Us

Gimu - Entre A Sombra E O Detalhe

Ouvala "Multiperspectivity" is now available for pre-order...

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

Ouvala are Ian Hawgood and Tim Diagram, their first album "Psychology Of Colour" was released on Fluid Audio in 2016.

Ouvala "Multiperspectivity" is the most-recent handiwork and features nine collaborative pieces, thrown back and forth several times. It is a characteristic of sound, short stories and mystical adventures where both musical  perspectives are projected to the listener. 

All songs written, recorded & mixed by Ian Hawgood and Tim Diagram  2016-2018 on location in Japan, Poland and the UK.

Design and packaging, assembled by Handstitched* 
Limited to 70 copies. [HS27]. 
Copyright 2018 Handstitched*

Thanks for listening!

Ouvala - Multiperspectivity [album preview]  [HS27]

from the "Escapism" CS (NNF346)
Not Not Fun / 2018

ESCAPE:
https://htakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/escapism
https://midheaven.com/item/escapism-by-takahashi-h

H Takahashi "Escape"

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

extract from the 3"cd-r/digital to be released on taâlem on 15 september 2018.

kierto

alm 124 - tainnos - kierto (extract)

Meitei is a Japanese artist who started out as a freelance composer, making various kinds of music across genres. Having done it for 8 years, his goal was to eventually release his own original music. 

Living in Kyoto for the past two years has deeply influenced his current sound, which is a focus on musically crafting a “Japanese mood” called Meitei (冥丁) (thus, his name). Rich in history, Meitei wanted to borrow this lost “Japanese mood” and incorporate a contemporary spin on it. This led to the creation of Kwaidan (怪談). 

Kwaidan is a style of Japanese ghost stories. Meitei took it as a challenge of his skill as a musician to transpose the folklore into intricate compositions, capturing this lost “Japanese mood”. 

“The shocking elements in the horror have become a staple. It’s functions as entertainment. But I personally felt the mood and ambience from Kwaidan is starting to wither – while the darkness is scary, the beauty is in the curious spirit” 

Kwaidan was originally released in January 2018. Evening Chants is pleased to be re-issuing this exceptionally crafted piece of work on cassette tape, limited to 100 copies. 

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eveningchants.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/user-120270293

Meitei - Kwaidan / 怪談 (Album Excerpt)

Konoyo

tim hecker 'keyed out'

An excerpt from Side A of "Inward," a brand new album available in cassette and digital formats exclusively at west coast tour dates with Benoit Pioulard and Marcus Fischer this October. Bandcamp release will follow, date to be determined.

Tour dates and tickets available here: www.hotelneonmusic.com

Mixed by Matthew Kidd
Mastered by Ian Hawgood

Hotel Neon - Inward - Side A (Excerpt)

The Listening Body is a new collaborative project by sound artists and musicians Steven Mclnerney and Pascal Savy. Together they seek to investigate alternative ways of presenting their drone work and question the relationship between performer and audience in the context of the space in which sound and music are experienced.

The project stems from their respective practices of performing experimental music in traditional and less traditional concert venues, where the divide between stage and audience enforces the expectation of a spectacle that more often that not fails to materialise. With The Listening Body they seek to dissolve the binary nature of the concert space by asking the audience to lie on the floor and cover their eyes with sleep masks, as their sound work will be diffused throughout the room. In doing so they hope the audience can use the entire bodies as resonant sensors and reclaim the here and now of the performance as a space for direct and felt experience.

Steven McInerney will lead a sonic meditation using ancient and contemporary techniques with gongs, singing bowls and other idiophones. The symphony of sounds will allow a sense of deep relaxation which can be effective in reducing stress levels and tensions within the body. Through the process of entrainment, the phenomenon whereby both physical and biological systems synchronise their rhythm through the interaction of an external stimulus, the gong space will affect the individual on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. These meditation instruments will be played intuitively with the highest intent to safely guide the group into the deep states of consciousness.

Pascal Savy will explore the interaction between sound, body and physical space with a new minimal composition at the intersection of drone, ambient and noise music diffused on a large quadraphonic sound system, and will seek to investigate the possibilities of experiencing sound where the entire body can act as an extended listening device triggered by the resonant properties of the room in which the work is presented. He hopes that experiencing sound as a continuum of physical vibrations mediated by the body, rather than the ear alone, will catalyse within participants a sense of physicality that is more perceptual than affective, as a way to make music a fully embodied experience. Ultimately his performance will seek to question why sound more than other experiential mode of investigations can reveal something fundamental about the ephemeral nature of reality.

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The Listening Body [excerpt] (23 September 2018)

TTR010
Chris Ruffoni
'The Slope of Our Directions'
MC/DL
Autumn 2018

Them There welcomes multi-instrumentalist Chris Ruffoni with his debut offering ’The Slope of Our Directions’. Slowly stepping out from hibernation, Chris brings seven tracks of playful, radiophonic psych-folk - rolled in moss and decorated with crispy autumn leaves. There's an antiquity to the pieces; a timeworn sound that seeps into the unconscious mind like a flicker of light through cracked wood. 

Inspired by folk costumes like those photographed by Charles Freger. Chris sketches improvised, hypnagogic collages that explore his fascination with folk rituals and myths. Out of sync loops appear and disappear, shaping faux natural environments. The ambient scenes stagger and sway, resembling creaking, ancient structures, buzzing rainforests and gargling subaquatic worlds.

Sure to be the first of many solo works from Chris, this debut runs through with a hypnotic subtlety; an aleatoric uncertainty and a curious, high-spirited narrative that remains captivating throughout.

Chris Ruffoni - St. Olave’s Granite Labyrinth

From the cassette #4. Released in November 2018.

TETSU MINETA - Nova E.X.P.

Taken from the album 'Hence' released on LP and Download.

Hence

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke with special guest U-zhaan 'Hence One' (excerpt) (EMEGO 249)

LAMINARES out now on Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it now // genot.bandcamp.com/album/laminares
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/lauralunacastillo
Cover by Sam Balfus // http://www.sambalfus.com 
Mastered by Ondřej Ježek @ jáMOR, 2018

LAMINARES by LAURA LUNA CASTILLO is a simultaneous shifting of movements on a wide range of scales. Like a spontaneous conversion from one crystalline arrangement to another one, these tracks evolve like a barely perceptible temperature change driving slowly morphing tessellations from icy needles into brilliant prisms. As if putting a contact mic straight onto the cellular membrane, we become listeners to the slow creation of something new, to growing, moving, to differentiation. This feels like music of the interface, like an emission from a dynamic heterogeneous meeting of strata, a tense, scraping, bumpy sliding of materials. A kind of mapping of the fine material structure results with all of its little cavities, Turing textures and other microscopic geology. Yet at the same time, these small movements suggest something massive, a continental drift that is at once a blooming, a mingling of filaments, fibers and neatly oriented liquid crystals.

Laminares

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Laura Luna Castillo - Moskstraumen (GEN030)

From 'Idea Region' cassette, out soon on Muzan Editions
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/idea-region

IDEA REGION - norm mastered

Lassen

To all - Track 12 of the album Dett by Kevin Verwijmeren. 
Available via Bandcamp and other record stores. 
Pre-order 01/10/2018
Release    23/10/2018

Lend Me Your Radio - Sept 18

Julian / LMYE