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Rupert Clervaux - After Masterpieces LP
Release Date - 24th May 2019
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/after-masterpieces

On May 24th, experimental musician Rupert Clervaux releases his debut solo album ‘After Masterpieces’ on Whities. 
The record features guest performances from saxophonist and trumpet player Eben Bull, singer Sian Ahern, and renowned experimental artist Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman) whose inimitable voice ushers us into the record’s opening prelude, and out of its redemptive final piece. 

The design by Alex McCullough and Kia Tasbihgou illustrates a 1:1 scale etched steel plate; the industrially machined casing through which an abstract landscape by the late Brian McMinn is visible. The printed sleeve is a reproduction of this steel ‘breach artefact’, bound with custom produced elastic band denoting the tracklist, strapping in place an accompanying poetry chapbook to it’s outer. 

‘After Masterpieces’ sets six recitals of Rupert’s poetry in unique, unpredictable and expansive musical scenery. The enigmatic and densely compacted texts, reworked and gently honed throughout the album’s slow creation, find an aerial perspective from which a lifetime of reading, listening and thinking is carefully re-mapped. The broad thematic scope takes in aesthetics, ancient mythologies, the origins of language and music, epistemology and ecology––to name just a few––all of which remain tightly intertwined, resistant to abstraction, and imbued with a sense of inquisitive ambiguity which treats all certainty with suspicion: the listener is invited to find their own threads, draw their own conclusions and think their own thoughts––as Anna Homler once aptly said of her own work, “…it’s not didactic, it’s poetic.” 

Initially deriving its impetus from the mood and rhythm of the words, the album’s music utilises a wide-array of performance and production techniques. Clervaux draws on his full range of musical interests, creating long-form pieces that at turns support the recitals and then lead the way for the instrumental swathes within and between them. The sounds of ‘After Masterpieces’ revolve through the melodic ambience of ‘Her Fingers of Pink Light’; the dark electronics and multi-layered samples of ‘In Shadowlands of Like and Likeness’; the tentative interplay of piano and voice on ‘Damper and Drum’; and the riff-like patterned percussion and free improvisation of ‘Make Nature Speak.’ As the LP draws to a close, Homler and Bull join Rupert on ‘L’amore che Muove il Sole’—a sprawling anti-hymn, echoing the structure of ‘The Divine Comedy’, which discovers, in place of Dante’s heavenly paradise, a fragile optimism for positive change in the wreckage of failed grand narratives. 

Additional thanks go to Noel Summerville, James Marrs, Laura Lies In and Ju Canon for all their work on this project.

Rupert Clervaux - After Masterpieces LP - WHYT022

Will Alfred (@willalfred) - Falling Frontwards Into Pincers (GCR001)

A1: Falling Frontwards Into Pincers (6:23)
A2: O, As Satan Took Them (7:46)
B1: Grinner (5:14)
B2: Look From Below (5:59)

Written & Produced by Will Alfred
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Max Jedwab
Distribution by Rubadub

Release date: 27/03/2020
Download code included with record.

Available from:

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Digitals on our bandcamp: https://greatcurve.bandcamp.com/releases

Contact: greatcurverecords(at)gmail.com

Falling Frontwards Into Pincers

Will Alfred - Falling Frontwards Into Pincers (GCR001)

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Hoshina Anniversary - 五七五七七 (Go Shichi Go Shichi Go)

01 - Iwa Utsi Nami
02 - Tokyo Geijutsu Sai
03 - Shinobaremu
04 - Oumagatoki
05 - Shinju
06 - Narinuredo
07 - Yomosugara
08 - Ryuushouten
09 - Tororo Soba
10 - Asagiri

Released on CD & Digitally: June 16th, 2020

https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/hoshina-anniversary-go-shichi-go-shichi-shichi-yocd7

Hoshina Anniversary - 五七五七七 (Go Shichi Go Shichi Shichi) - YOCD7

Shakey PF010 EP Snippets

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: https://tinyurl.com/yypfnjm7

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "hlinc", a brand new split from Fourth-Coast-ambient purveyors Chaperone and Glyn Maier. Sand-surfing through oasis mirage our duo makes frequent stops, freediving the microcosms of desert flora and fauna... both real and imagined. Birthed from the search for water in heatstroke mind, "hlinc" inhabits the spaces between, a psychedelic survey presented here for the very first time via limited edition cassette. Exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

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[JGT51] "hlinc" - Chaperone / Glyn Maier (Previews)

Taken from Fé/Vazio [ELP051] out 07/08/20

Properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia from Lisbon’s Serpente who comes back to Ecstatic Recordings pursuing the spirits of Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry via Fourth World gateways and the spiralling broken beat vortices of Anthony Shakir, following on from that killer LinnDrum tribute to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album last summer.

A direct reference to Dischord’s legendary Faith/Void split album, Fé/Vazio draws thrilling, jagged lines between the ground-breaking jazz fusions of the ‘60s-‘70s and the Afro-Futurist pinnacles of ’90 Detroit and UK-based techno and their offshoots; broken beat, jungle, and “IDM”. 

His style broadly collapses the psychedelia of his work as Ondness (Where To Now?, Holuzam, Sucata Tapes) into a more ravishing and arguably vital sound that frames a modern state of mind between dystopian paranoia and utopian freedom.

Like last year’s cultishly acclaimed Parada (Ecstatic Recordings, ELP044), 'Fé / Vazio' comes to restlessly fulfil a physical and spiritual need for this kind of music right now; it sidewinds into chaotic multiples of polymetric rhythms, hypnotic drone and curious folk hooks that somehow gel with a fractious, rhythmelodic coherence that rudely acknowledges all that came before it. 

Track to track Bruno recalls the kaotic harmonies of Derrick May as much as Anthony Shakir’s sleight drum edits in ‘Nível De Fumo’, and the Reinforced cosmic rolige of Colin Lindo (Alpha Omega/Nubian Mindz) or 4Hero - who were no strangers to the promise of spiritual jazz music and the Afro-Latin codes of Brazilian music - in ‘Em Sendo’, while the reticulated hot steppers ‘Visitação’ and ‘Escalpe’ seamlessly bind roots and futurism in a singular, headlong style and the scudding ‘90s techno/IDM tone of ‘Razia’ surely recalls the rhythmic ingenuity and modern blueness of early Autechre. 

It's a record that feels unlocked and cosmically free compared with so much rictus, floor-based music, but with a grit and colour that can’t be denied on (currently imaginary) dance floors.

Buy!

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

"[mix for endlessly studying, in follow Moten; ‘I think we were committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice.’ (The Undercommons)]" @zourry

Art by Celeste Stein
https://www.instagram.com/celeste_stein

LXXVI - zourry

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/inexact-10-laura-not
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Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

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