Abyssal

B3 Silent Escape

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For their second release, 12th Isle proudly fling 'Blubber Tottum' into the waxen sonic abyss for your full listening pleasure. The inaugural LP drubbed from the Glaswegian machines of Cru Servers is perhaps best framed as what it would sound like if early life took its first steps out of the primordial gloop, dragged itself ashore, decided to make dance music and discovered they had a knack for it. It dangles precariously in the fault lines between discordantly melodic rhythm tracks, steadily paced chaos and swamp-soaked bass oddities. Laden with eerily familiar samples yet always in a world of its own. 

"Cru Servers did my head in" - JD Twitch (Optimo)

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Cru Servers - Blubber Tottum LP (ISLE002)

Stockholm-based composer Ellen Arkbro is known for her work as a minimalistic explorer of experimental and ambient territories. Here she has made a mix featuring Japanese and Scandinavian music for acoustic string instruments, rhythmic electronic music, and two works for organ composed by her colleagues and dear friends Isak Edberg and Kali Malone. In her own words: "This is music that inspires me, music that brings clarity to mind. Arranged in this particular order, this collection of music reveals some of the ways in which seemingly distinct kinds of music are ultimately non-different. “

Tracklist: 
Isak Edberg - Lamé [Composed for the Dübenorgan in Stockholm in 2010] 
Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall I [Off The Wall, FMP 1985] 
Gabor Lazar - Crisis of Representation #4 [Crisis Of Representation, Shelter Press 2017] 
Kim Myhr - Sleep Nothing, Eat Nothing [All Your Limbs Singing, Sofa 2014] 
Mark Fell - Multistability 3 [Multistability, Raster-Noton 2010] 
Henry Flynt - Celestial Power [You Are My Everlovin / Celestial Power, Edition Hundertmark 1986] 
Kim Myhr - Harbor me [All Your Limbs Singing, Sofa 2014] 
Mamoru Fujieda - The Third Collection, Pattern IX [Patterns of Plant, Tzadik 1997] 
David Stackenäs - Morioka [Bricks, Clean Feed 2017] 
Kali Malone - Glory Canon III [Organ Dirges 2016-2017]

ARAL MIX.05 by Ellen Arkbro

White on White is an absorbingly dynamic, multi-layered album of improvisations by Primitive World made on the seminal PPG Wave synth, inspired by the work, life and theories of the great, if forgotten, British constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958): a radical, gender-bending British Jewish lesbian and innovator of non-figurative art who was a then-contemporary influence on Piet Mondrian, with whom she worked alongside from the late 1920s as part of the Abstraction-Creation artists association in Paris, until the Nazi’s forced her from mainland Europe back to England, where she settled in the far west of Cornwall.

White On White forms a follow-up of sorts to Willis’ Ascention [2015] tape, and perhaps more aptly, leads on from his and Natalizia’s reworks of Daphne Oram - arguably another overlooked, British female pioneer of her field - which are collected on their Walls album, Sound Houses [2014]. There’s little doubt that this is some of Willis’ strongest solo work, which can be attributed to the fecund inspiration of Moss's work, life and theories, as well as his access to a prized arsenal of rare vintage synths.

Titled after the Moss piece which adorns the LP’s front cover, White On White forms a welcome first introduction for many to Moss's “work, life and theories” thru a combination of visual representations - photographs of the artist and her work - with text by Lucy Howarth, curator of Moss's recent exhibitions at Museum Haus Konstruktiv exhibition (2017), the touring Tate display (2013-15), and of course the music itself, which seeks to describe Moss's mathematically sound geometries and evocative aesthetics thru its lattice of unique, free-floating timbres and spatialized rhythm patterns.

White On White is thus a direct result of the artist immersing himself in Moss's oeuvre, or what is left of it (most of her pre-WWII output was destroyed in the war), with results strongly reflective of the austere clarity and modernist structure of her works, from her syncopated line drawings modelled in the helixes of Double Lines, to the rotating perspectives of her 2D-into-3D metal sculpture manifest in the illusive, Peder Mannerfelt-like designs of Matrix of the Visible, whereas the closing 9 minutes of perilous abstraction recalling Wendy Carlos’ Clockwork Orange OST in Man Guessed at a Spiritual Meaning and Imposed a Moral System both literally and metaphorically serves a sort of unsentimentally elegiac, enigmatic lament for the artist’s neglected status, which even now prompts a scratch of the head by people who should be aware of her work.

Released by:
Ecstatic Recordings

Release date:
08 February 2018

PRIMITIVE WORLD - FRACTIONS OF THE ABSOLUTE [ELP033]

From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
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Vilar i dina spår

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Mar-llena - Monrepos

Written by Berlin-based producer Linus Nicholson, aka Ausschuss, 'Room1' is a decidedly sci-fi take on electroacoustic experimentation — a grainy exodus into wistful neoclassical compositions and data-moshed found-sounds. At times the EP calls to mind Mica Levi’s Under The Skin soundtrack with its icy and foreboding soundscapes. Opener ‘Drown Later’ begins with caustic splashes of ambience, skittish percussion swaying to and fro lazily. Then there are tracks like ‘Blinding Partner’, a looming and sinister presence full of windswept drones and howling incantations.

With the release due on November 2nd, the Milan-based label generously offered up an exclusive preview of title track, a head-spinning mesh of granulated chimes, undulating low-end and gravelly atmospherics. 

Read more: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-ausschuss-haunter-records

Room1

Premiere: Ausschuss - Room1 [Haunter Records]

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/regno-maggiore-la-danza-di-sabasaa

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Sam Mallet could have pursued a career as a French literature professor in Paris, but decided his true calling was to remain in Australia, dedicate himself to his music and find the plateau; a word he used to describe the sensory worlds residing in music. Under the influence of Eno, Jon Hassell, Arvo Pärt, John Coltrane and Robert Fripp, Sam explored a wide variety of musical styles and put them to service soundtracking the time-based works of his peers. He crafted spatial ambience, somber jazz, and drum computer driven rockers for short films and experimental video works, television shows (including the original Australian Wilfred series), feature films and live theatre. The avant garde Anthill Theatre, known for its departure from conventional staging practices and having a keen eye for talent, enlisted Mallet to provide soundtracks for approximately 40 productions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

Sadly, Sam passed away in 2014. A crucial piece of his legacy is undoubtedly the body of work he produced during his life, and the archive of recorded works is vast and deep. Sam seemingly saved everything, from fragments to finished pieces; and often repurposed previously released tracks by collaging them into new pieces. He self-released a small number of cassettes and CDs from the mid 1980s onward, the contents of which were culled from soundtrack work and original pieces, but the majority of his music was experienced only within the ephemeral live performances.

Wetlands is the product of countless hours spent with this archive by Rowan Mason (Sanpo Disco/Recurring Dream) and Tony Remple (Musique Plastique), offering a dynamic survey of Sam’s work, and housed in a jacket evoking the minimal design and colour palette of his earliest cassette releases. Two selections of Sam Mallet’s music were featured on the compilation Midday Moon (also produced by Rowan), released last year by Bedroom Suck Records. Along with Left Ear Records’ Antipodean Anomalies, Midday Moon has served to highlight outlier musics and scenes from Australia and New Zealand, and Wetlands plunges deeper into the catalog of this obscure yet groundbreaking artist.

Release by Musique Plastique / Recurring Dream

PRE-ORDER HERE: www.seance-centre.com/other-releases…allet-wetlands

For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl
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Release date October 11th 2019

Wetlands

Sam Mallet - Wetlands (MP006/RD01)

Taken from the album 'Molocular Meditation' released as LP and Digital.
Words by Mark E. Smith

Jan St. Werner 'VS Cancelled' (EMEGO 265)

A compilation to celebrate the first year of activity… not an easy task: too young to have a clearly defined personality and too old not to have one.

Lots of thoughts crossed our minds, mainly revolving all around the same question: should we try to do something different? And lots of advice came our way: you should! You must! You need to! Let me show you how things are done!

So, this one is not only a combined action taken in Commando Vanessa style, but also a reaction.

We are not looking to be different, we just want to embrace differences.

That’s why this is what it is: a diverse, colorful, exaggerated, intimate, political, sexy compilation.

Just a flow of different music we like.

LET THEM MANSPLAIN!

PRIMITIVE WORLD - FRACTIONS OF THE ABSOLUTE [ELP033]

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