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But, You Are: Vol. 2

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hearthealer 🍂 "Life Balm" but you're holding the one you love for the last time

Following stellar tracks on Eastern Nurseries' 2022 compilation 'Wild Love to Grow' and 'Songs For Sirens' earlier this year, Mirror Organs' label debut "Sunless" sees the London-based producer deliver a strident selection of compositions that shimmer on new horizons of what contemporary ambient music can be.

Known for his previous work on his own imprint Steep Incline, Mirror Organs' second album sees the artist in a moment of transition. Sculpted granular harmonics and glitched-out drum programming encircle one another while spectral disembodied vocals cut through with an uncanny valley sensibility. Sonic blasts and ghostly drones offer dynamic richness throughout the album's opening oeuvre, while the tail-end of "Sunless" conjures an altogether headier atmosphere driven by its dancefloor aesthetic impulses. Cut-up breakbeats introduce a readiness to embrace a stroboscopic point of view, set against a glorious backdrop of youthful, post-rave nostalgia. Playful by design, 'Sunless' markedly bears influence from the UK's rich history of dance music innovation as much as it does from recent European ambient movements - a returnal moment driven by Pooley's first experiences with electronic music in the late '00s.

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Mirror Organs is Bene Pooley
Recorded 2021-2023

Cover image by Bene Pooley
Mastered by Owen Pratt

Sunless

Mirror Organs - Sunless

Taken from "The Last Londoner" on SELN Recordings
Out 28th July 2023.

Pre-order here: https://selnrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-londoner

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shimmer w/ didi - 29/11/2023

wish it could go on and on and on and on

lilos 1st song

Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Bite

"Since this is my final year living in the country i was raised in-- the mix is mainly to highlight some Canadian lables and recordings, many of which are my own! My own field recordings come from places like Mission, Dewdney, Chilliwack, Vancouver, Abbotsford, and Kamloops."
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𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐌 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐋 300ofu164637
(he/him) Vancouver
is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚔𝚎𝚢 w/ @obinr – mix series on HKCR + live event series and student attending UFV School of Creative Arts exploring elements of storytelling, cosmology, religion, and personal recollections expressed through dark, poetic narrative.

Preferred mediums consist mainly of found object sculpture installation, and experimental video & audio recordings. Drawing from both real life experience and fictional literature, his work recontextualizes themes of lovecraftian horror and ritualistic iconography. His work is meant to deliver an immersive, personalised mythology relative to his unique style of world-building.

He has since worked on independent sculptures working with artists 𝚇𝚊𝚏𝚢𝚊, 𝚂𝚊𝚖 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜 and has had work shown in sculptural group shows in Vancouver, BC, Zurich, SZ and Abbotsford, BC.

Since founding experimental collective and label Passkey alongside Oeane Robinson, he’s worked on stage design for a collaborative event with Sarahsson hosted by One Winged Angel. Other stage design installation includes 2 events hosted by 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚔𝚎𝚢, one for the release of nsc’s album ‘𝙿𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕’ and one for a show performed at VIVO Media Arts Centre.

He has recordings available on formforum’s ‘͠D͠e͠a͠c͠c͠e͠s͠s͠i͠o͠n͠ ͠F͠o͠r͠m͠s͠’͠ compilation. Other musical performances include radio appearances on Hong Kong Community Radio, and Vancouver’s CiTR 101.9, and live events with frequent collaborator x/o as well as Swan Meat, Estoc, Umru, Endgame, and a duo act with Swiss artist Xafya known as Sintering for Endless BazaarLucerne.
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Web – https://adamnickel.site/
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Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/wounded-deer
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090 – 300ofu164637 – Adam Nickel

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Born from Steel is a slow march into nothingness.
Rain and silence cover the ruins, between barbed wire and broken structures.
An eclipse looms, bringing no light, no redemption.
Voices blend with the fog, cold and obedient.
There is no glory. Only iron, memory, and order.
What was forged in steel never stops. Not even after the collapse.

Born From Steel

www.eastern-nurseries.net
https://eastern-nurseries.bandcamp.com
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